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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
April 20, 2016
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:33
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2zkh
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:
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Isabel Drost-Fromm
Marvin Humphrey
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Greg Stein
Mark Thomas
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Rich Bowen
Ross Gardler
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
Kevin A. McGrail
Guests:
Bruce Snyder
Daniel Gruno
Dennis E. Hamilton
Gavin McDonald
Hadrian Zbarcea
Henri Yandell
John D. Ament
Sam Ruby
Sean Kelly - left at 11:17
Sravya Tirukkovalur
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of March 16, 2016
See: board_minutes_2016_03_16.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
Welcome to the new board, elected by the members last month! I’d like
to particularly welcome Isabel, Marvin and Mark, each serving as a
director for the first time.
Our gratitude goes to the outgoing directors Rich, David and Sam for
all that they did during their term.
Everything went well during the meeting. We elected 58 new members,
and will announce them next month after the final paperwork has been
received. We also passed a resolution to convert a number of inactive
members to emeritus status, but would certainly welcome them back again
in the future! Thanks to the STeVe project for their work on a new
voting front-end that was used at the meeting.
I’ve included my report from the Annual Members Meeting below.
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It has been another outstanding year for the Apache Software
Foundation, marked by continued growth and success of our top-level
project communities, and the steady addition of new top-level
projects.
Since the 2015 Annual Members Meeting, we have added 15 new projects:
Parquet, Orc, Whimsy, NiFi, Lens, Ignite, Usergrid, Serf, Yetus,
Brooklyn, Calcite, Kylin, Groovy, REEF and Arrow; while 6 existing
projects have retired to the Attic: Lenya, DirectMemory, Deltacloud,
Shindig, Onami and Rave. Overall we find ourselves with 171 top-level
projects, with 45 additional projects under incubation.
At the last meeting, we easily met quorum after the challenges the
prior year. This is something we will continue to monitor and address
through encouraging proxies, and reaching out to inactive members who
may be considering emeritus status. Nevertheless, with over 200
members joining it is extremely encouraging to to have such a large
number of our members participating in the governance of the
Foundation.
In 2015, we elected 108 new Members, expanding our representation
across the various project communities to a total of 603 members as of
February 20. We also elected a new board, with Shane Curcuru returning
to the board, and David Nalley joining for the first time. I thank all
the directors for their service to the Foundation over the last 12
months!
The board has functioned well, bringing diverse opinions but making
clear decisions. The board has balanced discussion of Foundation
issues with a focus on projects and their reports. We’ve continued to
improve tooling in several areas, and formed the Whimsy PMC, in
addition to the existing Steve PMC, to build tools that help the
Foundation run smoothly.
We have seen continued success from our operations, as detailed in the
President’s report, and inline with budget. We have made a transition
to new staffing arrangements that have increased costs, which will
need to be addressed in the budget over the next couple of years.
For the first time, the ASF released an Annual Report, a significant
effort that helped share specific details of the ASF’s impact with our
sponsors and the public.
Thank you to the President, EVP, VPs and the committees they work
with, many of which expended significant time as volunteers, to keep
the Foundation ticking day to day. We also thank Chris Mattmann for
his service as Treasurer, as he prepares to transition the role to a
new volunteer in the next board year.
Through these Foundation-level developments, we support the
communities that make up our top-level projects. I can report that the
Apache Way continues to show the benefit of community-led development
throughout our existing projects, and an attractive reason for other
projects to join through the Incubator.
I’m pleased that in the last year we have managed to initiate some
changes that have a potentially significant cultural impact, while
carefully ensuring that we retain the unique Apache DNA. We have had
additional projects take advantage of proposing TLPs directly to the
board where incubation was not deemed necessary. We have also expanded
support for GitHub use by ASF projects, and began experiments through
the Whimsy project to assess some of the technical (and later
cultural) impact.
One of the Foundation’s strengths is that by building communities, we
not only build software but also build relationships that extend
beyond that development. Therefore, we acutely feel the loss of valued
members of the community. It is with great sadness that we saw the
passing of Ian Lynch, Nóirín Plunkett, and Adrian Crum in the last
year. Their memory, and their contributions, will carry on through our
communities, and our thoughts remain with their families and friends.
Thank you to the entire ASF community for making it such a wonderful
place to contribute, and for the privilege it has been to serve as
Chairman.
B. President [Ross]
Executive Assistant continues to keep critical activities moving in
support of our volunteers. Primary focus in the last month has been
TAC and ApacheCon.
Trademarks has seen a few complex issues in the last month. Shane is
working on documentation to assist PMCs seeking to "self-serve". See
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/templates/ and
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/guide. Shane is explicitly
calling for member feedback, in addition to assistance on clarifying
key point sin the existing policy docs (specifically domain name and
event branding policies).
Fundraising, for the last few months we've been reporting that
fundraising was lagging behind budget, but that this was a result of
last years budget being averaged across the year, rather than showing
actual renewal dates. This month we are ahead of budget since a number
of renewals have now been completed. Moving into next year the budget
reflects renewal dates rather than an averaged income. The fundraising
team will be meeting at ApacheCon to discuss additional improvements
to the overall fundraising activities.
Marketing and Publicity: Contract renewed with Halo (no increase in
fees).
Infrastructure: We remain understaffed and it seems that the search
committee has made insufficient progress on advertising for a new lead
role. I submitted an outline proposal for discussion on 4/1. This
involves a significant spend on a lead role for infrastructure. One
member of the committee supported the idea in principle (the current
VP Infra), one opposed it for lack of detail. Others did not comment,
awaiting more detail. This was provided on 4/3, resulting in one more
member of the committee explicitly supporting the proposal. We do not
yet have consensus and therefore further discussion is required.
There are two candidates for backfilling the existing team. I've
reached out to David to ask if we ought to seek to back-fill while we
look to a longer term plan as a search committee.
The board approved the inclusion of 2 new projects in the GitHub
enablement experiment. This work is ongoing with Sam Ruby stepping up
to help ensure self-service is addressed within the project. Traffic
Server has been onboarded and, at the time of writing, no incidents
have been raised.
Budget: Budget is behind schedule. First lets roll up the previous
budget, the forecasted net loss for 2016 was $-160K, with March
numbers in the estimated deficit is now $-1.1K.
For the forthcoming year I provided proposed budget to all VPs on 4/1
and have received feedback from Marketing, Brand Management,
Infrastructure and TAC. There are some outstanding items I need to
address, but we are in good shape except that I've been holding off on
the final budget while the Infra Lead search committee discuss the
proposed budget for this role. However, as noted above this is not
moving as quickly as I would like. Therefore, I have submitted a
proposed budget without the infrastructure staffing changes included.
I ask that the board consider this and approve it
(with necessary modifications), by email, ahead of the next board
meeting. I will answer questions both in the meeting and by email.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
Marvin: Are we up against a deadline for replacing VP Infra?
Ross: No concerns presently.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
Wells Fargo is officially closed and the money has been moved to
our new account at Citizens. In doing so, we have went through the
following checklist of items to shut down:
1. Corporate Credit Cards
2. Direct Pay
3. Wire Transfer
4. Lockbox
5. Safebox
This has been a lengthy process and to our knowledge the only remaining
service is a corporate credit card of a former Treasurer that is
only still open as we are transferring the hefty amount of rewards
points off of it into some tangible form before shutting it down.
Virtual is assisting with the process.
The Treasurer is working with ASF infra to make sure treasurer@ and
accounting@ are archived, web-accessible (via mail-search) archives.
Chris Mattmann remains the Treasurer until a new Treasurer can be
appointed by the Board during Executive Session.
Income and Expenses for March 2016 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Mar 2016
Citizens Checking $562,270
Citizens Money Market $1,200,450
Amazon- ASF Payments $-
Paypal - ASF $81,913
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $-
Wells Fargo Savings $-
Total Checking/Savings $1,844,632
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue $7,167
Public Donations $3,370
Sponsorship Program $308,000
Programs Income $-
Interest Income $313
Total Income $318,850
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense $7,167
Infrastructure $48,714
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $5,455
Brand Management $-
Conferences $2,009
Travel Assistance Committee $199
Tax and Audit $4,500
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $8,530
Total Expense $79,674
Net Income $239,176
D. Secretary [Craig]
The project to replace missing ICLAs is progressing. 27 entries in
iclas.txt with no active account and no ICLA on file were removed.
There were two responses to the request to file replacement ICLAs for
existing committers, included in the numbers below.
In March, 84 iclas, five cclas, 4 grants, and 40 membership
applications were received and filed. As of April 20, all invited
members from the March member meeting have been accepted as new
members.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
With ApacheCon 3 weeks out, I have been spending all of my ASF
time promoting that event. This has included a series of podcasts
on feathercast.org promoting our speakers, their talks, their
projects, and ApacheCon itself.
Registration numbers follow (as of Monday, April 18):
Apache: Big Data 336
ApacheCon 2016: 265
BarCampApache: 40
Last month I promised an update on ApacheCon Europe. The update is
that we're going to have one, but that it will be as lean as
possible. This means things like not providing an on-site lunch,
not having an off-site reception, and not doing recordings of
talks. This is a great opportunity for sponsors to step up to
cover these things, if desired. However, I have opted to have an
event under these conditions rather than to not have an event at
all. We should have some idea of venue soon, and will hopefully be
able to announce this at ApacheCon in Vancouver.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Nothing to report this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Brett]
See Attachment 9
@Jim: follow up with APR
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# ACE [bp]
# ActiveMQ [mh]
# Archiva [mt]
# Axis [bp]
# Celix [bp]
# Continuum [bp]
# Geronimo [bp]
# MINA [mh]
# OpenMeetings [mt]
# SpamAssassin [bp]
# Struts [mt]
# Synapse [bp]
# Tuscany [bp]
# Web Services [mt]
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Shane]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Chris]
No report was submitted.
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Bertrand]
See Attachment C
@Bruce: Prepare new report for next month with more
information on the health of the project.
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Mark]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Marvin]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Jim]
See Attachment F
@Jim: Resubmit next month
G. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Greg]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Shane]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Brett]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Avro Project [Ryan Blue / Mark]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Marvin]
No report was submitted.
L. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Chris]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Calcite Project [Julian Hyde / Isabel]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Bertrand]
See Attachment N
@Bertrand: (Lack of) activity on dev list is a concern.
O. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Jim]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Greg]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: Put an Attic resolution on next month's agenda.
Q. Apache Crunch Project [Micah Whitacre / Greg]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Isabel]
See Attachment R
S. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Chris]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Bertrand]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for Geronimo for next month. Is the
project still viable, or is another chair needed?
V. Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas / Marvin]
See Attachment V
W. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / Mark]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Jim]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Shane]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Chris]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Brett]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache jclouds Project [Ignasi Barrera / Greg]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Jim]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Marvin]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Mark]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Mahout Project [Suneel Marthi / Shane]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Bertrand]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Shane]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Mark]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Jim]
No report was submitted.
AM. Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger / Isabel]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Chris]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Brett]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Greg]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Marvin]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton / Jim]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley / Greg]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / Bertrand]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Marvin]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Brett]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Sentry Project [Sravya Tirukkovalur / Isabel]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Mark]
No report was submitted.
@Mark: pursue a report for SpamAssassin
AZ. Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho / Chris]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno / Shane]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Shane]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: help Synapse in its move to the Attic.
BD. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Jim]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo / Marvin]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Greg]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Tez Project [Siddharth Seth / Isabel]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Mark]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Chris]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Bertrand]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Bertrand]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Shane]
No report was submitted.
@Shane: help Tuscany in its move to the Attic
BM. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Brett]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Greg]
See Attachment BN
@Greg: The report continues to be unacceptable. Time for a new
chair?
BO. Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby / Isabel]
See Attachment BO
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Terminate the Apache MRUnit Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache MRUnit
project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the
Attic; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache MRUnit project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache MRUnit
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache MRUnit
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache MRUnit" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache MRUnit PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7A, Terminate the Apache MRUnit Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Labs Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jan Iversen
(jani) to the office of Vice President, Apache Labs, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Jan Iversen from the office of Vice President, Apache Labs, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Labs project
has chosen by vote to recommend Danny Angus (danny) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jan Iversen is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Labs, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Danny Angus be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Labs, 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 Labs Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache TinkerPop Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to a graph computing framework for graph databases
and graph analytic systems
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache TinkerPop Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache TinkerPop Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a
graph computing framework for graph databases and graph analytic
systems; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache TinkerPop" be and
hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache
TinkerPop Project, and to have primary responsibility for management
of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache
TinkerPop Project; and be it further
RESOLVED,that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache TinkerPop
Project Management Committee:
* Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org>
* Daniel Kuppitz <dkuppitz@apache.org>
* James Thornton <espeed@apache.org>
* Hadrian Zbarcea <hadrian@apache.org>
* Marko Rodriguez <okram@apache.org>
* Stephen Mallette <spmallette@apache.org>
* Ted Wilmes <twilmes@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Stephen Mallette
(spmallette) be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
TinkerPop, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of
the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a
successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache TinkerPop PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the Apache TinkerPop
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache TinkerPop Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
TinkerPop podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
TinkerPop podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache TinkerPop Project,
tabled
@Jim: discuss board's concerns with the TinkerPop community.
D. Establish the Apache Apex Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to distributed, large-scale, high
throughput, low-latency, fault tolerant, unified stream
and batch processing platform for Apache Hadoop.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Apex Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Apex Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to distributed, large-scale, high throughput,
low-latency, fault tolerant, unified stream and batch
processing platform for Apache Hadoop; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Apex" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
of the Apache Apex Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Apex Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Apex Project:
* Ilya Ganelin <ilganeli@apache.org>
* P. Taylor Goetz <ptgoetz@apache.org>
* Gaurav Gupta <gauravgopi123@apache.org>
* Pramod Immaneni <pramod@apache.org>
* Amol Kekre <akekre@apache.org>
* Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org>
* Chetan Narsude <chetan@apache.org>
* Chris Nauroth <cnauroth@apache.org>
* Vlad Rozov <vrozov@apache.org>
* Hitesh Shah <hitesh@apache.org>
* Thomas Weise <thw@apache.org>
* David Yan <davidyan@apache.org>
* Brennon York <boyork@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Thomas Weise (thw)
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Apex, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Apex PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Apex Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Apex Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Apex podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Apex podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Apex Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Establish the Apache Johnzon Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to JSR-353 compliant JSON parsing and a set of
useful modules to help with the usage of JSR-353 as well as JSR
successors (like JSR-374) or related JSRs (like JSR-367).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Johnzon Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Johnzon Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to JSR-353
compliant JSON parsing and a set of useful modules to help with the
usage of JSR-353 as well as JSR successors (like JSR-374) or related
JSRs (like JSR-367); and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Johnzon" be and
hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Johnzon
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Johnzon
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Johnzon
Project:
* Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org>
* Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibucau@apache.org>
* Jean-Louis Monteiro <jlmonteiro@apache.org>
* Mark Struberg <struberg@apache.org>
* Hendrik Saly <salyh@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hendrik Saly (salyh) be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Johnzon, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Johnzon PMC be and hereby is tasked
with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the Apache Johnzon Project;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Johnzon Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Johnzon
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Johnzon podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache Johnzon Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Establish AsterixDB
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to parallel distributed data management
technologies for semi-structured data,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache AsterixDB Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache AsterixDB Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to
parallel distributed data management technologies for semi-structured
data; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache AsterixDB" be and
hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache
AsterixDB Project, and to have primary responsibility for management
of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache
AsterixDB Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache AsterixDB
Project:
* Abdullah Alamoudi <amoudi@apache.org>
* Ate Douma <ate@apache.org>
* Cameron Samak <csamak@apache.org>
* Chen Li <chenli@apache.org>
* Chris Hillery <ceej@apache.org>
* Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
* Heri Ramampiaro <heri@apache.org>
* Ian Maxon <imaxon@apache.org>
* Ildar Absalyamov <ildar@apache.org>
* Jianfeng Jia <jianfeng@apache.org>
* Jochen Wiedmann <jochen@apache.org>
* Keren Ouaknine <kereno@apache.org>
* Michael Blow <mblow@apache.org>
* Michael J. Carey <dtabass@apache.org>
* Murtadha Hubail <mhubail@apache.org>
* Pouria Pirzadeh <pouria@apache.org>
* Preston Carman <prestonc@apache.org>
* Raman Grover <raman@apache.org>
* Sattam Alsubaiee <salsubaiee@apache.org>
* Steven Jacobs <sjaco002@apache.org>
* Taewoo Kim <wangsaeu@apache.org>
* Ted Dunning <tdunning@apache.org>
* Till Westmann <tillw@apache.org>
* Vassilis Tsotras <tsotras@apache.org>
* Vinayak Borkar <vinayakb@apache.org>
* Yingyi Bu <buyingyi@apache.org>
* Young-Seok Kim <kisskys@apache.org>
* Zach Heilbron <zheilbron@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Till Westmann (tillw) be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache AsterixDB, to serve
in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation,
retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is
appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache AsterixDB PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the Apache AsterixDB
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache AsterixDB Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
AsterixDB podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
AsterixDB podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7F, Establish AsterixDB, was approved by
Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Change the Apache OpenJPA Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Pinaki Poddar (ppoddar)
to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenJPA, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Pinaki Poddar from the office of Vice President, Apache OpenJPA,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OpenJPA
project has chosen by vote to recommend Mark Struberg (struberg) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Pinaki Poddar is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache OpenJPA, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mark Struberg be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenJPA, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7G, Change the Apache OpenJPA Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
H. Change the Apache Mahout Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Suneel
Marthi (smarthi) to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Suneel Marthi from the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Mahout
project has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Palumbo (apalumbo) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Suneel Marthi is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Palumbo be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7H, Change the Apache Mahout Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
I. Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Micah Whitacre
(mkwhit) to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Micah Whitacre from the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Crunch project
has chosen by vote to recommend Josh Wills (jwills) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Micah Whitacre is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Crunch, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Josh Wills be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, to serve in accordance
with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7I, Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
J. Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrew Purtell
(apurtell) to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Andrew Purtell from the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Bigtop
project has chosen by vote to recommend Olaf Flebbe (oflebbe) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrew Purtell is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of
Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Olaf Flebbe be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation,
retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is
appointed.
Special Order 7J, Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Timing of Executive Officer Appointments
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* David: follow up with last PMC and committer additions.
[ Santuario 2015-05-20 ]
Status:
* David: Finalise move to the Attic
[ Tuscany 2015-06-17 ]
Status: No emails on private@, dev@, user@ even after announcement
they were likely moving to Attic. +1 to move to Attic -sc
* Brett: pursue a report for Continuum
[ Continuum 2015-12-16 ]
Status: didn't get to this last month - will propose the Attic for May
* Ross: Notify PMC that tools are available to aid in the Apache Extras
[ Pivot 2015-12-16 ]
Status:
* Shane: Contact PMC to get a better report next month; make sure to read the
guidelines
[ Web Services 2016-02-17 ]
Status: Email sent; private@ list shows slight activity (voted in new
PMC member recently); dev@ lists are definitely active. -sc
* Brett: Add another reminder to tardy projects the Monday before the meeting
[ Discussion Items 2016-02-17 ]
Status: will send again, but didn't get a chance to add to Whimsy
* Brett: pursue a report for Ant
[ Ant 2016-03-16 ]
Status: present this month
* Shane: pursue a report for Bloodhound
[ Bloodhound 2016-03-16 ]
Status: Bloodhound will submit a report saying they're likely to vote
for Attic for May board meeting. -sc
* Bertrand: Work with PMC to get a better report for next quarter
[ Groovy 2016-03-16 ]
Status:
* Rich: Work with PMC to get a better report next quarter
[ Hive 2016-03-16 ]
Status:
* Rich: Communicate to the PMC that the competitive analysis vs.
vs. hazelcast is inappropriate
[ Ignite 2016-03-16 ]
Status: complete per RB
* Sam: Get more (actionable) information on github fork
[ CloudStack 2016-03-16 ]
Status: I saw no evidence of an intent to fork externally; this was
confirmed retroactively with a vote thread. What I did see was
an intent to find a solution to an infrastructure issue (auth
granularity) which affects their ability to set up, configure,
and maintain travis.
* Shane: Suggest ways to improve the board report; especially the
the "Health" section
[ Tiles 2016-03-16 ]
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 12:26 p.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
ApacheCon and TAC:
TAC:
* After receiving a record-breaking number of applications (48), 19 were
accepted (this includes the folks that were accepted after the Board agreed
to increase the budget, as well as the LF-funded folks [3]). One applicant
dropped out of the LF-funding due to indecision; we’ve advised the LF re
this since he is a speaker.
* All flights have been secured and sent to the applicants
* All rooms have been secured and confirmation numbers sent to the applicants
* All visa invitation letters have been sent to the applicants
* I continue to field and respond to the applicants’ queries
* Hotel invoice and flights reimbursement have been submitted to svn and
accounting@ is doing an out-of-cycle payment for this and the flights –
thank you, Accounting Team!!
ApacheCon:
* Made hotel reservations, conference registrations, and in one case, made
flight arrangements for the Infra folks
* Collaborating with the LF personnel re booth logistics, shipping logistics,
etc.
* Order placed for the giveaways
Fundraising:
* Hope to meet up with the VPs of Fundraising at ACNA’16 to discuss the
problems w/in the fundraising system
Trademarks:
* Due to my time commitment to TAC, Trademarks have fallen behind on my end,
but luckily, Shane has been staying on top of the issues.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Several significant brand issues reported this month which unfortunately show
that PMC awareness and capability to deal with trademark problems varies
widely. In particular, the lack of timely response and thoughtful analysis in
two situations is disappointing, where issues that should have either been
dealt with, or at least attracted attention from the PMC still aren't
resolved.
One of these involved a third party showing clear confusion as to the source
of our software product; instead of contacting the Apache project directly,
they had been contacting another software vendor with questions about our
software. This specific case is not the real issue; the real issue is
ensuring that PMCs as a whole can consistently and fairly act to police their
brands, especially when PMC members work for the vendors potentially causing
issues.
To help ensure guidelines are sufficiently clear, I'm working on much more
detailed explanations as well as asking for reviews and feedback on
documentation on trademarks@. In the spirit of self-service, proposed
template(s) for contacting third parties and guidelines for how to properly
refer to Apache project names are now published:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/templates/
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/guide (draft)
I would love to see more Member feedback on these over on trademarks@, as well
as thoughtful and specific suggestions for clarifying the Domain Name and
Event Name branding policies to ensure that PMCs can apply them more easily
and consistently. To help test these guidelines, I will be using them to
contact a number of companies misusing our Hadoop brand in their software
products shortly.
Met with DLAPiper counsel to ensure they are addressing a number of
outstanding applications and legal questions, including a review of the
OpenOffice PMC's proposed repackaging license
Submitted formal trademark complaints to the Microsoft store in relation to
third party software using our OpenOffice registered trademarks.
At the request of PMCs: Renewed OPENOFFICE.ORG US registration; TOMCAT US
application was finalized; provided responses to USPTO office actions for
FLINK and PDFBOX applications. Several US and international registrations are
preparing for applications.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
Fundraising continues with no significant issues or challenges.
As I mentioned in the past reports and shown in Tom's (Virtual) report, most
of the sponsorships get renewed in the spring. As of now we beat the street
estimates and are ahead of the plan in the last month of the fiscal year.
This is due as mentioned in the other report to one payment ahead of a
Platinum sponsor, but is also in spite of loosing a few sponsors this year. I
am now working on being more persistent with companies that indicated that are
considering becoming sponsors so that we avoid loosing some ground next year.
For that Melissa planned to meet with me and Jim in Vancouver next month. I
hope to have a few conversations with Ross as well.
I also have a call scheduled with Tom and Lynsey (Virtual) for Wednesday
(after the Board meeting) to go over the process and see what works well and
what would need improvement.
All in all, this was a good fiscal year for Fundraising and I would like to
thank the many ASF members who helped out.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: as we close out the fiscal year, we remain within budget,
with no outstanding invoices due at this time. The FY2017 Marketing &
Publicity budget was submitted to President Ross Gardler, who has
authorized the contract renewal with HALO Worldwide for ASF's
communication services.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing/ComDev liaison: Sally Khudairi is
beginning to plan the second ASF Annual Report, which will be issued
the last week of May. The tasklist for the ongoing rollout of the new
ASF logo continues to grow; the aim is to complete as much as possible
in time for the upcoming ApacheCon. Sally is also working on
fulfillment of a corporate order for various Apache project stickers,
which will be paid for by the requesting organization.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via
the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org
during this timeframe:
- 21 March 2016 --The Apache® Software Foundation announces Apache
PDFBox™ v2.0
IV. Informal Announcements: 9 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog, including a post co-authored by Sally and ASF
Chairman Brett Porter in celebration of the ASF's 17th Anniversary. 22
items were Tweeted on @TheASF. 5 Apache News Round-ups were issued,
with a total of 85 weekly summaries published to date. No new videos
have been added to the ASF YouTube channel; we will see if the will be
the opportunity to showcase anything from next month's Apache: Big
Data and ApacheCon events.
V. Future Announcements: one announcement is actively in development,
with two on hold as their respective PMCs are preparing for new
version releases. 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: Sally continues to counsel several vendors
regarding their involvement with various Apache projects. She has
invited ASF Members, Apache Committers, and PMCs to attend the
media/analyst trainings that will be offered free-of-charge during
ApacheCon. Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk will serve as our analyst during
the trainings. As of this writing, the sessions are close to reaching
capacity. Over the past month, the ASF received 662 press clips vs.
last month's clip count of 1,095.
VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 20 reports by Gartner,
13 reports by Forrester, 11 reports by 451 Research, and 17 reports by
IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally continues to help promote ApacheCon and
Apache: Big Data in partnership with the Linux Foundation, and is
working with Melissa Warnkin regarding orders for promotional items.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: aside from
advising projects and organizations on providing the proper ASF
attribution, no formal activities are taking place at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 45 pre-paid press releases remaining
with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2017.
# # #
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
Short Term Priorities:
======================
- Ensuring/monitoring that the dual git repository setup works as
intended.
- 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.
- Looking at deploying Apache Traffic Server to help alleviate the
troubled BugZilla instances and possibly JIRA.
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:
=================
- git-dual has been fully puppetized and is ready for more extensive
testing.
- Traffic Server has joined the git-dual experiment, so far without
incident.
- Due to severe abuse, we had to take our European archive server
offline and make extensive restrictions on our US archive. We also had
to put the US archive in maintenance mode for a few days in order to
relocate it to a new machine that can better handle the load (and
isn't 5 years old).
- Following concerns raised on infrastructure@ about the loss of history
due to the migration of people.a.o to a new host not including the
contents of committer's public_html directories, an infrastructure
volunteer stepped forward to automate the copying of this data. Of the
original ~500GB, around 80% was inappropriate (RCs, Maven repos,
nightly builds) and was filtered out. There have been no further
concerns raised since the copy of the remaining ~110GB was completed.
Ticket Response and Resolution Targets:
=======================================
Stats for the current reporting cycle can be found at
https://status.apache.org/sla/jira/?cycle=2016-04
The tentative goal of having 90% of all tickets fully resolved in time
is still being used. Compared to March, we have had slightly more
tickets opened, and the percentage of tickets that hit our SLA is
lower, as we are essentially 2 full time staffers fewer than we were in
March.
Quick April reporting cycle summary:
- 230 tickets opened
- 228 tickets resolved
- 248 tickets applied towards our SLA
- Average time till first response: 13 hours (up from 6h in Feb-Mar)
- Average time till resolution: 44 hours (up from 23h in Feb-Mar)
- Tickets fully handled in time: 90% (204/227)
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Uptime is not pretty this month, but this is primarily an aesthetic
issue. The biggest failure here has been keeping LDAP servers in sync,
as we have a specific LDAP server in PNAP that keeps going 10 minutes
out of sync with the rest. We are looking into why this happens, but
so far we have not been able to determine the true cause. Nonetheless,
this does not mean LDAP has been down or unresponsive, merely out of
sync on one node.
As mentioned earlier, we also had to pull the EU archive due to
massive abuse, primarily from some EC2 instances and other external
datacenters. We are working with the data centers in question to
resolve the issue, and have also imposed a new 5GB daily download
limit per IP on the new archive machine. Preliminary data suggests
this new limit has reduced the traffic from archive.apache.org by as
much as 65% (going from around 3TB/day to 1.1TB/day), further
suggesting that the bulk of traffic from that service is to poorly
configured VMs or other CI systems that should never have been using
the archive in the first place. As the machine that hosted the archive
also hosts the moin wiki and mail archives, we believe that these
services will now perform better, in lieu of archives.a.o moving.
For detailed statistics, see http://status.apache.org/sla/
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Nick Burch]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Noting to report for this month or last month.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
JIRA issues continue to be addressed with support from the
entire team. I have had some emails related to questions about
our iCLAs and CCLAs regarding clarification of intent. Have had
issues related to scheduling for one specific entity
to address their questions and concerns.
No issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
A little progress has been made reviewing historical reports. We have now
gone back as far as mid-March 2015. The current intention is to continue
back into 2014 but how far back will be determined by the rate at which
overlooked issues are uncovered.
The security team has been evaluating https://srcclr.com/. While it is an
improvement on similar tools and has enabled a handful of projects to
indentify vulnerable dependencies, it currently lacks the features required
for it to be useful without being overly burdensome at the ASF. These
features are expected to be made available shortly at which point the
security team will re-evaluate.
The security team is currently tracking 72 open issues. Not all of these
have been confirmed as valid and it is likely some will be rejected.
Some TLPs have failed to respond to vulnerability reports and/or
requests from the security team for updates.
Stats for Mar 2016:
15 CVEs issued to projects (some may not be public yet).
Just over 1000 e-mails to security@
2 Support questions
6 Questions about published security vulnerabilities
3 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or
Confused user due to Android licenses
11 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org
1 [activemq]
1 [cocoon]
1 [commons]
1 [httpd]
1 [jspwiki]
1 [mina]
1 [openmeetings]
1 [qpid]
1 [shiro]
1 [tomcat]
1 [tomee]
14 Vulnerabilities reported to projects
1 [apex]
1 [cloudstack]
1 [hadoop]
5 [httpd]
5 [struts]
1 [trafficserver]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi]
The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,
scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based
access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on
Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop,
Zookeeper, and Thrift.
Summary
The project is active and there are no Board-level issues at this time.
We have added one new committer / PMC member and made two new
releases since the previous report. We have had some discussion about
whether the community is stagnating and how we could attract the
interest of new developers.
Releases
Version 1.7.1 was released on 2/26/2016.
Version 1.6.5 was released on 2/17/2016.
Activity
The number of subscribers to the user and dev lists have both increased
slightly and mailing lists remain active.
In the past 3 months, there have been 155 commits to the master branch
from 12 authors, 5 of whom are not yet committers.
Versions 1.7.1 and 1.6.5 have been released and we have not yet begun
planning for the next major release.
The PMC has approved the use of the Apache Accumulo mark for the
next Accumulo Summit, to be held in October 2016.
Community
Michael Wall was added as a committer and PMC member on 4/11/2016.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
## Description:
- Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many cross language
clients and protocols, comes with easy to use enterprise integration patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting
JMS 1.1, J2EE 1.4, AMQP 1.0.
## Issues:
- No issues
## Activity:
- Apache ActiveMQ Artemis has been working towards adding ActiveMQ 5.x equivalent features and client compatibility improvements:
- The OpenWire protocol module has been completely refactored, improvements include:
- Improved message encoding support with increased performance
- Cluster connections can now be configured using ActiveMQ 5.x style URI
- Equivalent implementations of all ActiveMQ 5.x JAAS modules are now available in Artemis
- Artemis has initial support for database backed Journal.
- Various improvements and bug fixes to:
- HA Replication, STOMP protocol module, File Journal Storage
## Health report:
- No issues
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 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
- John Robert Sisson was added as a committer on Thu Jan 28 2016
## Releases:
- 5.13.1 was released on Thu Feb 04 2016
- 5.13.2 was released on Thu Mar 03 2016
- ActiveMQ-CPP v3.9.3 was released on Wed Mar 30 2016
- Activemq-CPP v3.9.2 was released on Sun Feb 07 2016
- Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ v1.7.2 was released on Wed Apr 06 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@activemq.apache.org:
- 727 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 930 emails sent to list (770 in previous quarter)
- dev@activemq.apache.org:
- 352 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 666 emails sent to list (717 in previous quarter)
- announce@activemq.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- issues@activemq.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1910 emails sent to list (1780 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 276 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 240 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Marvin: Please elaborate about the health of the community, particularly with
regards to the direction taken after the architectural debates.
@Bruce: No significant turmoil over the last year after settling the
architecural issues. No recent departures of any community members.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
Apache Airavata is a distributed system software framework to manage
simple to composite applications with complex execution and workflow
patterns on diverse computational resources.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The community has been active. There are designed floating around for
a face lift of the website and logo to align with new ASF logo. We
hope to roll this out by the time of ApacheCon.
## Health report:
As with previous years Airavata has attracted around 10 GSoC applications.
We had enough mentors to mentor all these projects but tried to restrict to
3 or 4 to pave way for other PMC’s to take advantage of new contributors.
Following previous years students, we are hoping a fraction of the
contributors will stick around beyond GSOC and eventually become part
of the PMC.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Supun Nakandala on Mon May 18 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Hasini Gunasinghe at Mon Aug 10 2015
## Releases:
The last release of Apache Airavata 0.15 was made in previous quarter. We
prepared for Airavata 0.16 release this quarter and expecting it to be
out in the next few weeks.
- 0.15 was released on Fri Dec 04 2015
## Mailing list activity:
The communication on the mailing lists remain high.
The high increase in dev list communication is largely attributed to GSOC
student applications.
- users@airavata.apache.org:
- 101 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 50 emails sent to list (80 in previous quarter)
- dev@airavata.apache.org:
- 143 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 366 emails sent to list (106 in previous quarter)
- architecture@airavata.apache.org:
- 72 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@airavata.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 482 emails sent to list (201 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 64 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 73 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
My apologies for missing the regular reporting schedule.
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It consists
of 4 main projects:
- Ant core and libraries (Antlibs)
- Ivy - Ant based dependency manager
- IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse
- EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes
o Release Status
- Ant 1.9.6 followed on July 3, 2015 and is the current release
- Ivy 2.4.0 was released on December 26, 2014
- Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013
- EasyAnt The current release is still from the Incubator 0.9-Incubating.
o Committers and PMC
Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013
Stephen Haberman was made a committer on October 12th, 2015
o Community
We have decided to have future Ant releases require Java 8. Ant 1.10.0
will be the first such release. Any further Ant 1.9.x releases will continue
to require Java 5. An Ant 1.9.7 is being discussed presently. I would expect
an Ant 1.10.0 tofollow, albeit after some time.
Our addition of a new committer, Stephen Haberman, for improved Ivy response
has not been that effective. Some of that is due to some difficulties in
getting Stephen’s existing Apache account reactivated as all his old email
addresses are no longer active. For now, we will continue to monitor the Ivy
situation.
Jan Materne ran the reporter tool which I have not used to date but I thought
the mailing list stats were interesting
- dev@ant.apache.org:
- 300 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 90 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter)
- ivy-user@ant.apache.org:
- 365 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
- notifications@ant.apache.org:
- 63 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 179 emails sent to list (132 in previous quarter)
- user@ant.apache.org:
- 718 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 30 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
I will have a look at this in future reports to see if there are any obvious
trends which are noteworthy. The project is obviously quiet.
reporter.a.o suggested that maybe hedgehogs took over the project which
I couldn’t discount.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
## Description:
Apache Archiva software is an extensible repository management tool that
helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Small number of bug fixed
## Health report:
- Low activity at the moment
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofre on Fri Jul 11 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sascha Vogt at Mon Jul 14 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.2.0 on Mon Mar 02 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@archiva.apache.org:
- 233 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter)
- dev@archiva.apache.org:
- 104 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter)
- issues@archiva.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 108 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)
- notifications@archiva.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 61 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
# Description:
Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- New module: Aries Remote Service Admin seeded from Apache CXF DOSGi for
providing an implementation of the OSGi Remote Service Admin
specification with pluggable transports.
http://aries.apache.org/modules/rsa.html
- New module: Aries Transaction Control Service. An implementation of the
in development RFC221 at the OSGi Alliance.
- 8 releases since the last report in January
## Health report:
- Mailing list discussion and project contributions continue to be
healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 37 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Fri Apr 10 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 49 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sam Bratton at Mon Dec 21 2015
## Releases:
- Aries JPA container (jpa-container) 1.0.4 2016-03-08
- Apache Aries Proxy Service (proxy-impl) 1.0.5 2016-03-25
- Apache Aries JMX Core (jmx-core) 1.1.6 2016-03-25
- Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.6.0 2016-03-25
- Aries Blueprint Spring Support (blueprint-spring) 0.2.0 2016-03-25
- Aries Blueprint Spring Extender Support (blueprint-spring-extender)
0.2.0 2016-03-25
- Aries Blueprint no-OSGI (blueprint-noosgi) 1.1.2 2016-03-25
- Aries Blueprint CM (blueprint-cm) 1.0.8 2016-03-25
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@aries.apache.org:
- 131 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 488 emails sent to list (527 in previous quarter)
- user@aries.apache.org:
- 236 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 37 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 44 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 50 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment H: 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:
- A number of public presentations have been done about Arrow including at
Strata SJ, Hadoop Summit Europe and various meetups. Response at each was
strong and we saw subsequent increased interaction on the mailing list.
- We've seen a great new project Feather, a collaboration between the Python
and R communities build on top of Arrow to provide an ephemeral cross system
format that performs faster and has better typing than the traditionally
used CSV format.
- A number of interested organizations have posted blogs about their interest
in and support for Arrow.
## Health report:
- We continue to see new community members engage.
- Public discussions and contributions from both committers and casual
contributors continue to improve the Arrow specification.
- We're working with the incubating Mnemonic community to support alternatives
to ephemeral memory for storing Arrow vectors. This will likely first appear
as an optional extension module of the Java api.
- We're still negotiating the final Arrow switch over in the Drill community.
The goal is to do it as part of the 2.0 branch to avoid any disruption to
the active stable branch (master).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- Most recently added committers:
- Ippokratis Pandis was added as a committer on Thu Feb 18 2016
- David Alves was added as a committer on Wed Feb 17 2016
- Wes McKinney was added as a committer on Mon Feb 01 2016
## Releases:
- No releases yet.
## JIRA activity:
- 100 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 67 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
## Description:
- The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Onami, Rave and Wookie were all moved to the Attic in this quarter,
along with some website fixes. There are no open issues to retire
projects currently.
## Health report:
- We're retiring what needs retiring with little on the backlog. The
project is as healthy as needed.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Herve Boutemy on Sat Jul 18 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Herve Boutemy was added as a committer on Wed Jan 27 2016
- Henk P. Penning was added as a committer on Wed Jan 27 2016
- Sebastian Bazley was added as a committer on Wed Jan 27 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Ryan Blue]
## Description:
- Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- 1.8.0 released on 29 January 2016.
- The latest release brings the project's licensing documentation
up-to-date, which was a major blocker.
- 1.8.0 includes a new JavaScript implementation
## Health report:
- Avro's last release, 1.7.7, was 23 July 2014. More than a year
between releases is not a healthy cadence.
- Avro needs to increase engagement with potential contributors.
- Some bug reports, reviews are not getting attention.
- Some language implementations are unmaintained.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Sean Busbey was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 14 2016
- Martin Kleppmann was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 14 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- Matthieu Monsch was added as a committer on Mon Jan 18 2016
## Releases:
- Last release: 1.8.0 on 29 January 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@avro.apache.org:
- 273 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 635 emails sent to list (541 in previous quarter)
- user@avro.apache.org:
- 605 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 107 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 45 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 26 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing
Issues
======
The board should be aware that the Bloodhound PMC is discussing moving
the project to the attic as discussed below.
Releases
========
There have been no releases over the last three months. The last release
was in fact towards the end of last year:
* apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014)
PMC/Committer Changes
=====================
There are currently 15 PMC members on the project with the last additions
in January 2014.
The last new committers were added in May 2014.
Community & Development
=======================
Committer activity has remained stubbornly low with very little activity
on the development mailing list.
The continued lack of activity led the PMC to discuss whether there are
enough active members of the PMC who have the time, interest and necessary
skills to keep the project going. At this point, only one member of the
PMC has stated that they would be prepared to continue. Three others have
indicated that they are in favour of moving to the attic.
An alternative suggestion for further development to continue by moving
away from Trac as the basis for the project was raised. This was suggested
to be a radical departure from the work of Bloodhound that, if there was
interest in that direction, it could be done outside of the ASF.
Discussion having died down on the above topic, there will shortly be a
formal vote on the motion to move to the attic which will take place on
the private mailing list.
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Calcite Project [Julian Hyde]
## Description
Apache Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and
planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows
database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced
query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database.
Calcite graduated from the Apache Incubator on October 21, 2015.
Avatica is a sub-module within Calcite, and provides a framework for
building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Since March
2016, Avatica has an independent release schedule.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Avatica split
Avatica became an independently released module. Previously the 4
Avatica artifacts were released as part of Calcite, but now releases
and release numbers are decoupled from Calcite releases. Avatica has
its own section of the web site, http://calcite.apache.org/avatica/.
Our motivation is that other projects (e.g. Apache Phoenix's Query
Server) depend only on Avatica, and are likely to require
maintenance releases. Also, Avatica does not depend on Calcite, and
the perception that it has few dependencies will improve adoption.
Avatica is still governed by the Calcite PMC, and developed using
the same git repo and dev list. Communities are diverging slightly,
but there is still significant overlap.
- A new adapter for Apache Cassandra
- Talks
* Julian Hyde spoke about Streaming SQL & Calcite at an Apache Samza
meetup (Mountain View) on Feb 17.
* Julian Hyde and James Taylor presented a Developer Showcase at
Strata conference (San Jose) on Mar 30.
* Upcoming talks at ApacheCon BigData (Vancouver), Hadoop Summit
(Dublin), Kafka Summit (San Francisco), XLDB (Palo Alto),
Hortonworks User Group (Herndon, VA).
## Health report:
- Mailing lists are a little above typical levels (585 emails on dev)
- JIRA at typical levels (141 created, 116 closed)
- The community wants to try to keep the volume on the dev list at
reasonable levels. During this quarter, we decided to post each
created JIRA case to the dev list in the hope that this would drive
discussions from dev onto JIRA cases, and thereby reduce dev volume.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Josh Elser was added to the PMC on Wed Feb 17 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- Wei (Maryann) Xue was added as a committer on Sun Nov 08 2015
## Releases:
- 1.6.0 was released on Fri Jan 22 2016
- 1.7.0 was released on Tue Mar 22 2016
- avatica-1.7.0 was released on Sun Mar 13 2016
- avatica-1.7.1 was released on Wed Mar 16 2016
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
## Description:
- OSGi framework implementation in C.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The activity for Celix is low at the moment.
- A considerable amount of work has been done on the project, but not
much communication in the mailing list.
## Health report:
- Number of commits on the project is healty considering it's size.
- The project needs to make a new release. This is long overdue.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alexander Broekhuis on Wed Jul 16 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 7 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Bjoern Petri at Fri Jul 18 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.0.0-incubating on Tue Feb 25 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@celix.apache.org:
- 55 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 13 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
Report from the Apache Chukwa project [Eric Yang]
## Description:
Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring
large distributed systems.
## Activity:
- Jsoup dependency security vulnerability reported to Chukwa community
- Community reported compatibility problem in Hadoop + HBase
- Some bug fix activities
- Getting ready for 0.8.0 release as a minor patch release
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
- Latest PMC addition: Sun Dec 01 2013 (Grace Huang)
- No new committers in the last 3 months.
- Latest committer addition: Mon Mar 16 2015 (Sreepathi Prasanna)
- Currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members.
## Releases:
- Latest Chukwa 0.7.0 released on Dec 21 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers (down 0 in the last 3 months):
- 69 emails sent to list (135 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 160 subscribers (0 emails sent in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Micah Whitacre]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
Project Status
--------------
The project has been moving at a slightly slower pace to the previous
quarter, with13 new JIRAs being created since the previous board report
with 11 (10 new + 1 old) issues being resolved in that time. The majority of
the work on the project continues to focus on maintenance such as bug
fixes but improvements to the Java 8 Lambda support and HBase efficiencies.
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Community
---------
Community activity slowed but remained steady.
The user mailing list activity has reduced to a question (1 every 3 days).
Over the last reporting period the activity on the developer mailing list
has remained steady (2 per day).
David Whiting was added as a committer on Dec 2nd, 2015.
Josh Wills was re-elected to the PMC Chair on April 10, 2016 and resolution
sent to the board.
Releases
--------
* Apache Crunch 0.13.0 was released August 5, 2015
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
## Description:
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS.
These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP,
RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP,
JMS or JBI. There are also two sub-projects that leverage CXF:
Fediz - Fediz helps you to secure your web applications via the standard
WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile.
DOSGi - is the reference implementation of the Distribution Provider
component of the OSGi Remote Services Specification
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
##Releases
- 3.0.8 was released on Sun Feb 07 2016
- 3.0.9 was released on Sun Mar 27 2016
- 3.1.5 was released on Sun Feb 07 2016
- 3.1.6 was released on Sun Mar 27 2016
- Apache CXF Fediz 1.2.2 was released on Mon Feb 15 2016
- Apache CXF Fediz 1.3.0 was released on Tue Mar 29 2016
- Apache CXF DOSGi 1.8.0 was released on Mon Apr 4 2016
## Activity:
This quarter was a busy quarter creating a bunch of releases. In the CXF
core code, there were a lot of bug fixes and enhancements, many to support
the releases of Fediz and DOSGi.
Fediz 1.3.0 adds a new OpenId Connect
based IdP, support for bridging between the WS-Federation and OpenId
Connect protocols, and support for SAML SSO in the Fediz IdP.
DOSGi 1.8.0 is a result of splitting the DOSGi 1.7.0 release into two parts:
a) The OSGi specific and implementation independent interfaces and objects.
These were split out of DOSGi and moved to a new sub-project in Apache Aries.
b) The CXF specific implementation of the above interfaces which is now the
CXF DOSGi sub-project.
While helping the Security team evaluate the SRCCLR tool, we did find a few
minor dependency updates that were also incorporated in the releases.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andriy Redko on Tue Sep 09 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francesco Chicchiricco at Mon Nov 30 2015
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton]
## Description:
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with
Database Definition (DDL) files.
o Derby : a relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Two students have submitted applications for the Google Summer of Code 2016
opening in the Derby project.
Nominated and seconded by Apache DB community members, I am now
a Member of the Apache Software Foundation. Thanks!
## Health report:
Activity in the Apache DB community remains low, but steady.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 43 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Matthew Adams on Sun Jan 19 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 42 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was Derby-10.12.1.1 on Sun Oct 11 2015
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]
Current Activity and Status
---------------------------
In the last quarter two new committers were added and new versions
of two sub-projects were released.
A major refactoring work is happening in the ApacheDS project at the
moment and Fortress sub-project is being prepared for a general release.
There is very little activity in the remaining sub-projects.
------------------------- Detailed Information ------------------
-- Community --
* Two new committers (last addition: Aug 2015)
* Chris Pike
* Jan Sindberg
* No new PMC members (last addition: November 2015)
* Mailing lists:
* Users mailing list: 302 subscribers (+1)
* Development mailing list: 175 subscribers (+2)
* API mailing list: 73 subscribers (+2)
* Fortress mailing list: 28 subscribers (+1)
* Kerby mailing list: 25 subscribers (+2)
-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* No new releases.
* Low activity
* Mainly bug fixes.
* Apache Mavibot:
* No new releases.
* Low activity
* ApacheDS:
* No new release.
* High activity.
* Apache Directory Studio:
* One new release.
* Low activity.
* Apache eSCIMo:
* Nil activity.
* No releases yet.
* Fortress:
* One new releases.
* Good activity.
* Apache Kerby:
* One new releases.
* Good activity.
-- Releases --
* One new releases for Apache Directory Fortress
* 1.0-RC42 (March 24th, 2016)
* One new releases for Apache Kerby
* 1.0.0-RC2 (March 13th, 2016)
* No releases for Apache Directory LDAP API, Server, Studio, Mavibot and
eSCIMo
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas]
Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing
distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.
YARN development yielded improvements in preemption, hardening of the timeline
server, and a new web UI. Designs for resource-aware scheduling and
long-running services are being shaped in JIRA.
HDFS erasure coding, native client, object store (Ozone), and intra-datanode
rebalancing are significant areas under development.
MapReduce continues to receive bug fixes, but even maintenance has slowed.
Trademark enforcement continues to be a challenge. While most vendors have
engaged quickly and positively, slow (non-)compliance falls off the radar. We
are working with trademarks@ to amortize the costs of engagement with
templates and will track these incidents in the BRAND JIRA as appropriate, to
track followup.
RELEASES
- 2.6.4 was released on Feb 10 2016
- 2.7.2 was released on Jan 26 2016
COMMUNITY
(+ PMC Yongjun Zhang 2016-02-18)
(+ PMC Sangjin Lee 2016-04-12)
(+ committer Masatake Iwasaki 2016-01-20)
(+ committer Eric Payne 2016-02-08)
(+ committer Li Lu 2016-02-21)
(+ committer Naganarasimha Garla 2016-03-29)
(+ committer Kai Zheng 2016-04-07)
(+ committer Larry McCay 2016-04-08)
(+ branch-HDFS-1312 Anu Engineer 2016-03-03)
(+ branch-HDFS-8707 Bob Hansen 2016-01-13)
(+ branch-YARN-1011 Iñigo Goiri 2016-01-29)
auth: 138 committers (including branch), 66 PMC members
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell]
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop
Common and Hadoop HDFS.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION
None at this time.
RELEASES
We made two releases from our 0.98 code line: 0.98.17 was released on
January 21 2016 and 0.98.18 was released on March 25 2016.
We made one release from our 1.0 code line, expected to be the last
one: 1.0.3 was released on January 27 2016.
We made two releases from our 1.1 code line: 1.1.3 was released on
January 24 2016 and 1.1.4 was released on March 26 2016.
We made the first release from our new 1.2 code line: 1.2.0 was
released on February 21 2016.
ACTIVITY
The last PMC addition was Sean Busbey (busbey) on March 24, 2015.
We added three committers in this reporting period. Yu Li was added
on March 16 2016. Francis Liu was added on March 21 2016. Ashish
Singhi was added on March 29 2016.
HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the HBase community, will happen
again in 2016, and has been scheduled for Tuesday May 24 2016 at The
Village on Market St. in San Francisco.
STATS
We have seen a notable increase in subscriptions to our user
mailing list.
50 committers
27 PMC
1059 subscribers to the dev list (no change in the last 3 months)
2327 subscribers to the user list (up 23 in the last 3 months)
514 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
374 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
## Description:
- A cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed
resources
## Issues:
- None
## Activity:
- Low.
## Health report:
- Project is stable and mature. We continue to see increase in adoption but
no new feature requests from users. There is a plan to re-write the api's
but there is no pressing need for that.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Terence Yim on Tue Dec 17 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Greg Brandt at Mon Jul 06 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.6.5 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@helix.apache.org:
- 63 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 73 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter)
- user@helix.apache.org:
- 92 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 39 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]
Incubator PMC report for April 2016
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 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have four
podlings planning to graduate this month and added six podlings to
the roster. As is typical in the months following the annual members
meeting, we have seen a jump in the number of IPMC members join.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Marvin Humphrey
- Suneel Marthi
- Uma Gangumalla
- Henri Yandell
People who left the IPMC:
- Jukka Zitting
* New Podlings
- Airflow
- Gearpump
- Mnemonic
- Omid
- Tephra
- Quickstep
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
- TinkerPop
- AsterixDB
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
March:
2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating
* IP Clearance
- Apache Sling Dynamic Includes
* Infrastructure
We continue to struggle with podling report reminders.
A suite of manual reminders were sent, some were received
by the podlings and some were not.
* Miscellaneous
Based on group understanding, it appears that the Concerted podling
will retire soon. Same is likely for OpenAz.
* Credits
- Report Manager: John D. Ament
------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Gearpump
- iota
- Joshua
- Metron
- Milagro
- Mnemonic
- Quarks
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Hawq
- Horn
- Impala
- Rya
- Toree
Community growth:
- Fineract
- Geode
- MADlib
- Ranger
- Wave
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
- TinkerPop
- AsterixDB
* Did not report, expected next month
- Concerted
- OpenAz (missed 4 months)
- Tephra
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Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Concerted
DataFu
Fineract
FreeMarker
Gearpump
Geode
HAWQ
HORN
HTrace
Impala
iota
Johnzon
Joshua
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mnemonic
Mynewt
ODF Toolkit
Quarks
Ranger
Rya
Sirona
Toree
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Apex
Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
unifies stream processing and batch processing.
Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
None. Incubator graduation VOTE passed: https://s.apache.org/qhTf
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Resolution to establish Apache Apex as TLP submitted to board.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community is very engaged with the development of the project. We see
continious uptick in mailing list participaton (2180 messages on dev@ for
March, 122+ subscribers).
The community discussed graduation, addressed outstanding issues and
completed VOTE.
The community has been active building additional meetup groups:
http://s.apache.org/jKT
Many presentations and uptick in engagement.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Release 3.3.1-icubating of Malhar on 2016-03-02
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Metric | Core | Malhar |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 52 | 22 |
| Contributors | 10 | 11 |
| Jira New Issues | 40 | 31 |
| Resolved Issues | 43 | 20 |
| Pull Requests merged | 33 | 12 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 2 | 11 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
We are anticipating patch release 3.2.1 in April.
Date of last release:
2016-03-02 Apex (Malhar) 3.3.1-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2 PPMC members and 1 committer were added since December.
PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
Signed-off-by:
[X](apex) Chris Nauroth
[ ](apex) Alan Gates
[X](apex) Hitesh Shah
[X](apex) Justin Mclean
[ ](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
[X](apex) Ted Dunning
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BatchEE
Apache BatchEE aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
The PPMC feels that the project is ready to graduate soon.
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?
Bugfixing continues in BatchEE and we are actively working with the
JBatch community towards a new JBatch specification
How has the project developed since the last report?
BatchEE contributes to the JBatch specification to make the
project moving forward in the right direction.
Date of last release:
2015-12-08
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-12-11
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
It seems that the community posted one report, but then a mentor posted
a largely reworded report. No evidence of a discussion seems to have
been done on public mailing lists for either report.
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Concerted
Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
engines.
Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
No report, despite prodding from Chris, and no activity on lists.
I think this one's dead.
Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
No activity so far in 2016.
Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
There has been no activity on the project for several months, and we
don't see a viable way to salvage it. We are discussing closing it down.
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DataFu
DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher
level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions
for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs
for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow user and contributor base
2. Increased committer activity
3. Continued releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* A new contributor opened several JIRAs regarding improvements and
contributed patches. Two have been committed so far.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Improved instructions on loading projects in Eclipse based on discussion
in JIRA.
* Added checks in build system to catch issues using wrong JDK version.
* Some UDFs were improved to be more efficient.
* A new UDF is pending review.
Date of last release:
2015-11-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected
November 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](datafu) Ted Dunning
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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. Finalising the initial release
2. Improve the communication around the differences between the previous
MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the MifosX
community, website etc.
3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
collaboration within the community.
4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
consensus.
5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of traffic
on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
(see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
interaction.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a great
meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community members
and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
interest in Fineract.
We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout Africa -
we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Individual members of the leading partner organizations building solutions
using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and enhancements
they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
setting a good example that other individuals from our partner community
should follow.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
FreeMarker
FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.
FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finding more active contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
There were no changes
How has the project developed since the last report?
FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users can
test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes, we
have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
(switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
Java conventions).
The legal/policy issue with the web site domain (INFRA-10787) was settled,
and we are using our historical domain again (freemarker.org) until
graduation.
Date of last release:
2016-03-28
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[X](freemarker) David E. Jones
[X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
--------------------
Gearpump
Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service
Actor model.
Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make initial Apache branded release
2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
following Apache policies
3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
contributor and end-user friendly.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
import.
How has the community developed since the last report?
All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
Apache JIRA accounts.
Discussion among developers has started on
dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
How has the project developed since the last report?
The JIRA for the podling is active at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
[ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
[ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
[ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
[ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
--------------------
Geode
Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
architectures.
Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename packages to org.apache
2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
of Pivotal.
3. Establish a release cadence.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We have been able to address the “Three most important issues to move
towards graduation” from the previous report
1. We had our first public release
2. We Added 4 new committers, one of which is outside Pivotal
3. We are about to have a second release, establishing a regular release
cadence
- We had a GeodeSummit http://geodesummit.com/
- 22 sessions (including Keynote)
- Sessions included current use cases as well as integrations with other
Apache projects
- Over 100 attendees
- Received project proposal after the summit.
- The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering a walk through the
different approaches for caching data in a Spring based application with
Apache Geode by Luke Shannon
- The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
Q1 / 2016 - 438 created, 362 resolved.
Q2 / 2016 - 8 created, 12 resolved (As of Apr 4th)
- There was a total of 123 pull requests on GitHub with 6 still open.
- The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for January, Feb, March of
2016:
org.apache.geode.issues 4300
org.apache.geode.commits 3731
org.apache.geode.dev 2154
org.apache.geode.user 294
- There are now 153 subscribers on the dev and 145 on the user mailing
lists.
- Community events:
- January 2016:
- FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
- Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
(incubating)
- Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time transactional
and analytics solution
- February 2016:
- Seattle Java User’s Group (Talk about Introduction to Apache Geode)
- March 2016:
- Geode Summit in Palo Alto, California
- Geode meetup in Palo Alto
(http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Open-Source-Hub/events/228983898/)
- Apache Apex (incubating) meetup featuring Geode integration
(http://www.meetup.com/Apex-Bay-Area-Chapter/events/228593080/)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Had first release, close to the second release (with 134 out of 138
issues resolved)
- We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated that
responsibility for the second release
- Had a discussion about how to number the releases
- Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second
release candidate was voted as the final release
- The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and
learned the correct way of nominating new committers.
- JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list.
- Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing
list.
- Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing
list.
- Each commit and pull request is run through CI using Travis CI
- Removed @author tags
- First release published to maven central
- Javadocs hosted on the project website.
Date of last release:
2016-02-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Jinmei Liao (2016-01-26)
- Sai Boorlagadda (2016-02-19)
- Nitin Lamba (2016-03-08)
- Dave Barnes (2016-03-30)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[X](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
HAWQ
Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete,
standards compliant SQL interface.
HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce our first Apache Release
2. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on making
sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
public dev mailing list
3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: GPORCA: Query Optimization as a
Service) Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest0223yt
2. The community shows pretty high activities. In Dev, there have been 816
messages on dev@/user@ in March 2016.
3. Got around 29 pull requests from contributors that are not in the
initial committer team.
4. GSoC 2016: 6 topics created for it.
5. FOSDEM 2016 event:
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/hpc_bigdata_hadoopsql/
https://s.apache.org/BYMR
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Main features/improvements added include:
a) Hawq-473 Add fault reason and history into hawq catalog
b) HAWQ-404 Add sort during INSERT of append only row oriented
partition tables
c) HAWQ-558 Improve performance of truncate on small tables
d) HAWQ-532 HAWQ-580 HAWQ-587 Enhance the virtual segment number
selection method
e) HAWQ-551 Enhance explain analyze with more information on data
locality and resource manager
f) HAWQ-546 Enhance \d for HCatalog tables
g) HAWQ-144 Support HAWQ build on MAC
h) HAWQ-597 Add Travis CI(OSX) for MAC
i) Critical bug fixes.
2. 135 new JIRAs filed, 116 resolved (In Mar 2016)
3. 134 code commits (In Mar 2016)
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers/members from initial.
Signed-off-by:
[](hawq) Alan Gates
[](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[](hawq) Thejas Nair
[X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean (jmclean):
A couple on minor issues around communication on list and releases but
mentors are on top on it.
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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. Increase development velocity
2. Make a 0.1 release
3. Refocus the direction we want to take this project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Number of subscribers has increased slightly, development has however been
slow.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have decided that we need to refocus on what we want HORN to look like
Date of last release:
None yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
October
Signed-off-by:
[ ](horn) Luciano Resende
[ ](horn) Robin Anil
[x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
--------------------
HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.
HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
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?
* YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
* Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being planned.
There are proposals such as
* distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
* Kudu span receiver
* integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
* HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch
How has the project developed since the last report?
* +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
* Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
* Added Docker support for development
* Added Documentation for developers
Date of last release:
* htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
Signed-off-by:
[X](htrace) Jake Farrell
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
[X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
[X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](htrace) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
This podling's come pretty far. Maybe time to graduate soon?
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Impala
Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
2. Initial release as incubating project.
3. Community growth
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
incubation began. We continue to see an uptick in external contributions,
with two patches from new contributors this month. One contributor
pleasingly reported it was "great to work closely with Impala community".
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have put together a list of tasks required to move development of
Impala from Cloudera's infrastructure to the ASF. Since Impala was already
a well-established project before the Incubator proposal, there is perhaps
more decoupling required than for more nascent projects. The list is at
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221, and is being actively
worked on. Note that this doesn't cover the standard podling tasks (like
name search, etc).
Date of last release:
None since entering incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since entering incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](impala) Tom White
[ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
[ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
[ ](impala) Brock Noland
--------------------
iota
Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted to
upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than upload
an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements a
significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for our
APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository. This
will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose business
runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the backend
using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
scalable.
2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache iota
website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
source code as quickly as we can.
3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are planning
to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott Noteboom
(Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con in
May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release as
an Apache incubator project
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?
* This is the first submitted report
How has the project developed since the last report?
* This is the first submitted report
Date of last release:
* None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None yet, just getting started.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
[ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
[X](iota) Justin Mclean
[X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament);
Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a non-ASF
way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be better to
start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
Justin Mclean (jmclean):
I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have assurances
that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on monthly
reports for a few more months.
Drew Farris (drew):
2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity as
the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping podling on
monthly reports.
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Johnzon
Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Currently graduation, so nothing but issues necessary for graduation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Currently graduating to a TLP
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 20 msgs (on
average) messages per month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its 10th incubator release. During the last three month 9
jira issues were reported and 6 of them fixed. Project has also started
to implement the upcoming JSR-374 and JSR-367 specification. The project
has also voted for a logo.
Date of last release:
2016-FEB-17 (0.9.3-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, last PMC member was elected
2015-04-09 (Hendrik Saly)
Signed-off-by:
[X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
[ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
Podling is planning to graduate, but sign off received from only one
mentor.
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Joshua
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure (nearly
complete)
2. Building up community and attracting developers
3. Putting out regular Joshua releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
things are proceeding nicely.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
extended to them.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due to
caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.
Date of last release:
2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
- Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
[ ](joshua) Tom Barber
[ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
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MADlib
Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
contributors.
3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required
by the "Apache Way”.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Held three community calls in Q1 2016. Each call featured a different
member of the Apache MADlib community presenting on a topic of interest
to them:
* Jan 15th - Bayesian Analysis of Binomial Response Models on MPP
Databases (Gautam Muralidhar)
* Feb 16th - An Overview of GWR Analysis of Spatial Data (Chenliang
Wang)
* Mar 16th - MADlib on PostgreSQL and PGXN (AJ Welch)
2. One new committer has been added to the project (Xiaocheng Tang)
3. Presentation of Apache MADlib at FOSDEM’16 in Brussels (Frank
McQuillan)
4. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs (e.g., 111 emails on dev@ mailing list in Feb)
5. Several Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates have expressed interest
in working on MADlib projects via dev@ mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 1st ASF release MADlib v1.9alpha on 3/11/16 which was intended to clear
all potential IP issues in the code base and make it legally ready to
be adopted by the community.
2. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 is currently in IPMC voting as of this
writing on 4/6/16. The goal of this 2nd release is general
availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use.
3. Some features in the latest release: path functions, support vector
machines, advanced matrix operations, covariance matrix, proportion of
variance for PCA, support for Apache HAWQ (incubating) 2.0.
4. 15 JIRAs created and 27 resolved in last 30 days.
Date of last release:
Apache MADlib (incubating) v1.9alpha on 3/11/16.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](madlib) Ted Dunning
[X](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
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 2015-12-06.
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
* How has the community developed since the last report
- We added one additional committer, David Lyle
- We accepted 2 separate contributions from non-committers interested
in Metron
- We saw an uptick in interest from the community on the dev boards which
corresponds to people trying the product prior to an official release,
which is a good sign.
* How has the project developed since the last report
- We closed 20 more Jiras and are in the latest stages of releasing an
Apache release.
- We added deployment automation for EC2 so trying out Metron in a
multi-node environment is even easier
- We integrated the CI environment that infra set up for us at our request
so that unit tests and apache rat license checks are run on every pull
request submitted
- We added support for indexing enriched sensor capture data into Apache
Solr indexing as well as Elasticsearch
Date of last release:
--
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
David Lyle on 22 March 2016
Signed-off-by:
[X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[X](metron) Owen O'Malley
[ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
--------------------
Milagro
Distributed Cryptography;
M-Pin and other pairing protocols 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: The source code is already prepared and placed in
repositories on GitHub – soon to be imported to Apache repositories.
This includes a full Milagro MFA implementation.
2. Awareness among developers: Milagro announcement – during ApacheCon
North America – May 2016
3. General Awareness
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?
No substantial developments to report. The project is targeting community
development following Apachecon presentations.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project members are preparing to present the project at ApacheCon with a
view to connecting with the wider Apache community and finding synergies
with other projects.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February, as reported.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[x](milagro) Nick Kew
--------------------
Mnemonic
Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place structured
data processing and computing.
Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+--------------------------------------------+
| Metric | counts |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 82 |
| Contributors | 10 |
| Jira New Issues | 13 |
| Resolved Issues | 4 |
| Pull Requests merged | 8 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 8 |
+--------------------------------------------+
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release
2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions,
adding new contributors
3. Develop new features
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project is in early stage in setting up the infra. In addition to
contributors listed in Mnemonic proposal, we had one new contributor
joined us. We are actively discuss with Arrow community in dev list for
the idea on integration. Apache Arrow community is very interested in
Mnemonic integration for extending Arrow into persistent memory and
storage.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We ported source code in Apache on 3/24 after SGA was filed on 3/23. We
are doing several refactorings and defining coding guidelines to fit
Apache project standard.
We are working on enabling Apache Arrow to use Mnemonic as underlying
pooling mechanism.
We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native
computing interface code.
Bug tracking JIRA setup was done, 13 issues were filed. 4 issues were
solved.
Mailing list discussions are happening actively related to infrastructure,
code standard, features for the project.
Date of last release:
No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No election, since the project is just starting. As part of incubation
process, initial committers and contributors were proposed and added.
Signed-off-by:
[X](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
[X](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
[X](mnemonic) James Taylor
[X](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
--------------------
Mynewt
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make further releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity. Do
subsequent releases to indicate thorough understanding, repeatability,
and maturity of process.
2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
contributors to achieve self-governance
3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
committer base
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Healthy, active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers
2. Continual outside interest by 3rd parties. Outreach via conferences,
exhibits, one on one meetings, beta testers, GSoC participation.
3. Vigorous discussions and implementation decisions via proposals and
voting on @dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Releases: Two releases so far - first on 22nd Feb, next on 18th March
- Identified and fixed license issues, regular process established to
check for license issues esp. with third party software
- Tagging process and release candidate naming process tested and used
- Voting process and timelines established and used
2. Documentation support: Several committers added documentation either
through direct git pushes or pull requests on github mirror.
3. Effort towards self governance:
- Two releases completed successfully.
- Two committer candidates going through voting for committer status
after meeting threshold of patch submissions.
Date of last release:
2016-03-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At the start
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
[ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
--------------------
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. Attract more developers
2. Have frequent releases
3. Decide on possible ways to graduate
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Not many developers are active currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues have
been reported.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned.
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):
Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd
suggest we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before
deciding on what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for
ever isn't an option!)
--------------------
Quarks
Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that can
be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all kinds
(for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
around Quarks project
2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc is
still on Github).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing jumps to mind.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the mailing
list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of independent
contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of independent
contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project and
we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The project has successfully migrated from Github-based development to
using the Apache git repo, Jira, and the mailing lists.
Date of last release:
Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No changes from the initial committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
[ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
[X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
[X](quarks) Justin Mclean
--------------------
Ranger
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
contributors.
3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Added new contributors:
(Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
Total Contributor Count: 23
2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to Mar-31-2016):
@dev 1534
@user 153
@commit 345
3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
before Mar-31-2016):
Created: 153
Resolved: 140
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released two minor releases :
0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache Ranger
KMS.
b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and Row-level-filtering
support for data security
c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies
Date of last release:
Feb-29-2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ranger) Alan Gates
[ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
[ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
[X](ranger) Jakob Homan
[X](ranger) Owen O'Malley
--------------------
Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
community.
3. Add new committers to the project.
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 a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a working
solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask questions,
receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes are
sent to the dev@ list.
* We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
submit PRs and become committers.
* There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
* Created a website for the project.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo indexing
for MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB backed
Rya
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[x](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[x](rya) Sean Busbey
[x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Sean Busbey (busbey):
Project activity was a little slow, due to other time commitments for
the dev community, but folks had a great discussion around next steps
when it came time for a draft report.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the community
2. do more releases
3. make the community more active
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change but some more user feedbacks.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
Date of last release:
2015-11-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
[X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
--------------------
Toree
Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
Python, R or SQL.
Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
with AL2.
2. Make a release: nearing completion
3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three independent
contributors)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
Toree.
3. First external contribution made by user @dongjoon-hyun
4. Apache Toree was featured at SF Data Science meetup
https://github.com/asimjalis/apache-toree-quickstart
Date of last release:
None since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new additions since incubation
Signed-off-by:
[ ](toree) Luciano Resende
[ ](toree) Reynold Xin
[X](toree) Hitesh Shah
[ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
--------------------
Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Growing community
2. Improving code base.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We made our first release.
- Elected new committer.
- Previously private fork (wiab.pro) opened the source code that includes
many improvements that can be integrated back into main project.
- Also, there's an active development in additional open source fork
(swellrt) that potentially allows us to integrate back important
features.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Replaced the old ANT build system with a new Gradle one.
- Fixed a few bugs
- Made a few code improvements
Date of last release:
March 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February 2016
Signed-off-by:
[x](wave) Upayavira
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
## Description:
Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven apps in Java.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Since the last report we have made two releases, a bug fix v1.11.1 [1] and
a much larger release 1.12.0 with some substantial new features [2].
One technical talk and two conference sessions have been accepted (on the
topic of Apache Isis); all are in June and in the UK (London, Cambridge and
London again).
## Health report:
Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are healthy, with the
v1.12.0 release incorporating substantial new features.
Documentation has been improved; we now generate PDFs of all our user guides
(previously only HTML was available).
In addition a whole new slew of screencasts have been recorded [3], hopefully
will attract new users to the framework.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Martin Grigorov on Tue Dec 23 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Thu Dec 11 2014
## Releases:
- 1.11.1 was released on Sun Jan 17 2016
- 1.12.0 was released on Tue Mar 29 2016
## Mailing list activity:
The mailing list activity has declined somewhat, but we continue to see
new voices asking questions. In previous quarters we have always seen
a handful of new subscribers; this is the first one where there has
been no substantive change. We are not unduly worried about this at
this time.
- users@isis.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 286 emails sent to list (532 in previous quarter)
- dev@isis.apache.org:
- 74 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 791 emails sent to list (836 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 68 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 58 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.11.1
[2] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.12.0
[3] http://isis.apache.org/screencasts.html
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AA: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
## Description:
- The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an
advanced enterprise mail server.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Focus has been on updating and enrolling jsieve (server side mail
filtering) into the server code base.
- Mailbox API as Elasticsearch and Cassandra implementations
## Health report:
- Due to the unavailibity of a final james server 3 release, users tend to
fallback to version 2. Discussions will be started to have a plan for this
first final version 3.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Antoine Duprat was added to the PMC on Fri Mar 11 2016
- Benoit Tellier was added to the PMC on Fri Mar 11 2016
- Matthieu Baechler was added to the PMC on Fri Mar 11 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 36 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Antoine Duprat at Tue Oct 06 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was SERVER-2.3.2.1 on Sat Sep 26 2015
## JIRA activity:
- 72 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 73 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Ignasi Barrera]
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.
PROJECT STATUS
We are preparing for the 2.0 release. Since the last release (1.9.2), activity
has slowed down a bit in terms of code contributions, but we've been
successful at engaging ProfitBricks in the project. They are contributing
resources to create the provider for their new REST API, and have also donated
testing account for jclouds.
We have received several GSoC 2016 proposals, and have a couple of mentors on
the PMC. We're now in the project evaluation phase and are waiting to see if
the proposals are accepted.
COMMUNITY
Community activity has increased a bit on the dev and user mailing lists, and
we've had several approaches from students interested in working on our
proposed GSoC projects.
Alongside the welcome engagement for ProfitBricks, we've also had a recent
contribution for a new Azure compute provider from the Open Source team at
Microsoft. They have allocated resources to contribute to the project and are
leading the development of an updated provider based on the new Azure ARM
API.
We've also received and merged several pull requests from new contributors.
This is a welcome sign, as the nature of the jclouds codebase can make
first-time contributions quite intimidating at first glance. In addtion, two
jclouds talks have been accepted for ApacheCon NA, so we will be there and
look forward to engaging with the community and interacting with downstream
projects.
There are currently 11 PMC members and 23 committers.
Last committer: 2016-02-05 (Reijhanniel Jearl Campos)
Last PMC member: 2015-09-20 (Zack Shoylev)
COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES
* Finally determine the scope and complete the feature set for jclouds 2.0, to
include completion of support for Azure ARM, as well as promotion of the
Docker and ProfitBricks REST APIs from jclouds-labs
* Encourage and supervise, where necessary, new contributors to grow the
committer base.
RELEASES
The last jclouds release, 1.9.2, took place on 2016-01-16.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
## Description:
Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for
RDF and SPARQL.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Most activity in the project has been responding to feedback and
some internal restructuring to improve some of the core code.
The new components in the January release have gone well.
## Health report:
Activity levels on dev@, JIRA and users@ are at normal levels.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Osma Suominen on Fri Jun 26 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Osma Suominen at Thu Jun 25 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Mon Dec 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
The mailing list activity level is normal.
- users@jena.apache.org:
- 622 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 552 emails sent to list (476 in previous quarter)
- dev@jena.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 958 emails sent to list (1360 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
The JIRA activity level is normal.
- 52 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 56 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The project continues to work on improving the product.
As part of this, a new logo was created incorporating the new ASF
feather. This will be included in the site refresh for 3.0
As can be seen from the mailing list stats there has been
quite an increase of activity on the dev and issues lists
as the next release becomes closer.
The JMeter Twitter account has 2582 followers as of 12th Apr 2016.
This is about 245 more than at the time of the previous report (January)
We are seeing an increase in Github PRs (183 at the last count)
The project has been set up on TravisCI
## Health report:
There is steady progress on fixing bugs and implementing enhancements.
We are just about to release 3.0; due to start voting in the next week.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Felix Schumacher on Tue Feb 03 2015
We voted on adding a new PMC member, but they declined.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- Vladimir Sitnikov was added as a committer on Sat Mar 12 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.13 on Sat Mar 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@jmeter.apache.org:
- 141 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 1241 emails sent to list (517 in previous quarter)
- issues@jmeter.apache.org:
- 38 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1129 emails sent to list (415 in previous quarter)
- user@jmeter.apache.org:
- 821 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 346 emails sent to list (210 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
Bugzilla tickets are being handled OK:
- 173 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 171 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
## Description:
A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard
JEE components (Java, servlets, JSP).
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- user@j.a.o held a thread named "Open Discussion - How to increasing
JSPWiki publicity". As a result of that we know have one more PMC &
committer, who is taking care of both project's Facebook and Twitter
accounts.
- A faculty member from Massachusetts approached dev@j.a.o asking for
some tasks to be done, which could be used on a computer science senior
seminar course.
- 2.10.2 was finally released, which resulted into an increase of activity
- Development after 2.10.2 has been focused mostly on improving JSPWiki's
default template.
- There were commits by three different people on this period.
- We had one security vulnerability report, but it was dismissed.
## Health report:
- Overall, the project is healthy, but with a slow pace of development.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Dave Koelmeyer was added to the PMC on Wed Apr 06 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- Dave Koelmeyer was added as a committer on Wed Apr 06 2016
## Releases:
- 2.10.2 was released on Sat Feb 20 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Increase of traffic on both lists, on user due to the aforamentioned thread
plus FB and Twitter accounts, and on dev because of 2.10.2 + JIRA activity.
- dev@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 88 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 131 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)
- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 180 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 74 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
We continue to yo-yo in community involvement. In our December report we saw
an uptick in community involvement, followed by a lull, followed by some very
active community engagement end of march to present.
We are looking at updating Lucene.Net 4.8.0 (which is nearly complete) to
work on .NET Core (to work across various OS's).
== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0
== Statistics ==
Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
Two committers added Jan '15 -Laimonas, Feb '15 - Wyatt
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 278,843 (up from 217,779)
Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 75,128 (up from 59,022)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 9,221 (up from 8,060)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1,749 (up from 1,523)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
## Description:
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for
dynamic programming languages.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Version 0.5.0 of the Lucy search engine library and the Clownfish symbiotic
object system have both been released. Clownfish's public surface area has
been increased substantially, with much greater documentation of both the
compiler and runtime, and partial/experimental Go and Python bindings.
Some pernicious portability bugs have also been squashed, restoring the
cross-platform compatibility of Lucy and Clownfish.
The gap betwen 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 was uncharacteristically long. We hope that
there will be less time before 0.6.0.
## Health report:
The project continues to be developed actively by two main contributors.
Though there have not been any new contributors for a while, there are
several reliable long-standing PMC members who participate occasionally and
vote on releases.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Timothy Wilkens on Sun Sep 14 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tim Wilkens at Fri Sep 26 2014
## Releases:
- 0.4.4 was released on Sat Jan 30 2016
- 0.5.0 was released on Thu Mar 03 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Development mailing lists (dev, commits, issues) were above average this
quarter. The user mailing list was as usual: low traffic, but all
inquiries answered quickly and thoroughly.
## JIRA activity:
In the first quarter:
- 29 JIRA tickets created
- 30 JIRA tickets closed/resolved
Previous reports mistakenly excluded Clownfish tickets.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Suneel Marthi]
The goal of Apache Mahout project is to build an environment for quickly
creating scalable performant machine learning applications.
Activity:
- New Apache Mahout book - “Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce” authored by
Mahout committers - Dmitriy Lyubimov and Andrew Palumbo, published by
Createspace on February 18, 2016 (1)
- Apache Mahout 0.11.2 was released on March 11, 2016, this release
introduced major performance enhancements for linear algebra computations
and also supports Apache Spark 1.5.2.
- Apache Mahout 0.12.0 was released on April 11, 2016.
This release adds Apache Flink as an execution engine to Mahout Samsara.
With the milestone 0.12.0 release, Mahout now supports Spark, Flink and
H2O.
- Suneel Marthi will be doing a talk on the new Mahout Distributed Linear
Algebra at Apache Big Data, Vancouver on May 11, 2016 (2)
PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Stevo Slavić on Tue Apr 21 2015
Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Anand Avati on Thu Apr 23 2015
Releases:
- Mahout 0.11.2 was released on Fri Mar 11 2016
- Mahout 0.12.0 was released on Mon Apr 11 2016
Issues:
None
JIRA activity:
- 34 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 71 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Mailing list activity:
- dev@mahout.apache.org:
- 947 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 587 emails sent to list (434 in previous quarter)
- user@mahout.apache.org:
- 1878 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months):
- 141 emails sent to list (114 in previous quarter)
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Apache-Mahout-MapReduce-Dmitriy-Lyubimov/dp/1523775785
[2] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/schedule
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy]
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* Issues
* Activity
* As announced previously, we continue to release 3.x.x line of plugins
with Maven 3 and Java 6 minimum requirements (no more compatible with
Maven 2.2.1 and Java 5): 2 new plugins were upgraded (ACR and Source),
we are now at 6 plugins upgraded on 48.
Current daily generated full status is available at
https://s.apache.org/maven-plugins-prerequisites
* Prepations for adopting JDK9 Jigsaw continue. There are various talks
given on the topic in conferences: FOSDEM, DevoxxFR. We started a Wiki
page to track the general advancement:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+9+-+Jigsaw
* Health Report
The project continues to be developed actively by a few contributors on
misc different fronts. Activity on users and dev mailing lists stays at
a good level.
* Community
* PMC changes
- Currently 25 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andreas Gudian on Sun Nov 22 2015
* Committers changes
- Currently 57 committers.
- Andreas Dangel was added on 2016-02-02
* Mailing List activity
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1764 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 321 emails sent to list (477 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 647 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 466 emails sent to list (1305 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 687 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (24 in previous quarter)
* JIRA activity:
- 277 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 273 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
* Releases
Plugins
* Maven Compiler Plugin 3.5 (2016-01-20)
* Maven ACR Plugin 3.0.0 (2016-01-24)
* Maven Compiler Plugin 3.5.1 (2016-02-09)
* Maven Source Plugin 3.0.0 (2016-02-10)
* Maven Site Plugin 3.5 (2016-02-19)
* Maven Changes Plugin 2.12 (2016-03-31)
* Maven Site Plugin 3.5.1 (2016-04-15)
Other
* Doxia 1.7 (2016-02-09)
* Doxia Sitetools 1.7 (2016-02-16)
* Maven Fluido Skin 1.5 (2016-02-23)
* Maven Default Skin 1.2 (2016-02-23)
* Maven Project Info Reports 2.9 (2016-03-01)
* Doxia Sitetools 1.7.1 (2016-04-06)
* Maven Archiver 3.0.1 (2016-04-10)
* Maven Filtering 3.1.0 (2016-04-12)
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Description:
Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute
resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and
run effectively.
## General ##
The project and the ecosystem around it continues to be healthy. The
project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features, reviews
and releases. The mailing list and IRC channel are also very much
active with healthy discussions. We've made numerous releases lately
due to an increased release schedule. We are gearing up for a 1.0
release and we plan to cut back on the number of releases after that.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.27.0 (2016-01-31)
* Apache Mesos 0.27.1 (2016-02-22)
* Apache Mesos 0.27.2 (2016-03-07)
* Apache Mesos 0.28.0 (2016-03-17)
* Apache Mesos 0.24.2 (2016-04-12)
* Apache Mesos 0.25.1 (2016-04-12)
* Apache Mesos 0.26.1 (2016-04-12)
* Apache Mesos 0.28.1 (2016-04-15)
## Community ##
* MesosCon Denver is planned for June 1st-2nd. We have seen
tremendous amount of interest from the community in participating
in the conference. The program schedule (voted on by the community)
was announced last week.
* Mesos project is gearing up to a 1.0 release. This release
introduces new sets of APIs for frameworks and operators to
interact with Mesos. The tentative plan is to get this ready for
MesosCon.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AK: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury]
## Description:
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
## Activity:
MINA 2.0.11, 2.0.12 and 2.0.13 were released to fix loop and deadlock in the
SSL/TLS handler.
## Health report:
Project activitity is broadly the same as previous quarters, in all the
various categories (commits, JIRA tickets, mails).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Jeff Genender was added to the PMC on Tue Apr 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Lyor Goldstein at Thu Apr 30 2015
## Releases:
- Apache MINA 2.0.11 was released on Tue Jan 26 2016
- Apache MINA 2.0.12 was released on Sun Feb 07 2016
- Apache MINA 2.0.13 was released on Tue Feb 16 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@mina.apache.org:
- 500 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 86 emails sent to list (83 in previous quarter)
- dev@mina.apache.org:
- 360 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 627 emails sent to list (549 in previous quarter)
- ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org:
- 134 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 52 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 53 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AL: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AM: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger]
## Description: The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the
Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF)
technology.
## Activity and health:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy and in maintenance mode.
UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad continues to have issues opened and interest expressed by
end-users. Leonardo Uribe proposed a release candidate in February, but
the release has yet to receive any votes. I'm one of those guilty of not
finishing my release review yet. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was
January 2015.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode and has had very little activity
this quarter. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was April 2015.
Add-ons and Extensions:
- Apache MyFaces Portlet Bridge is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit
was Jan 2014. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2015.
- Apache MyFaces CODI is in maintenance mode. CODI was replaced by Apache
DeltaSpike so new development happens there. Last commit March 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Orchestra is in maintenance mode. New projects use CDI and
DeltaSpike instead. Last commit December 2014.
- Apache MyFaces ExtVal is in maintenance mode. Last commit June 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Commons is in maintenance mode. Last commit August 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Ext-Scripting is in maintenance mode. Last commit Dec 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core). Last
commit June 2014.
## Community changes:
- Currently 76 committers and 42 PMC members.
- Last committer addition was Thomas Andraschko at Thu Jul 02 2015
- Last PMC additions were Bill Lucy and Thomas Andraschko on Fri Jan 15 2016
## Releases:
- Apache Tobago 2.0.9 was released on Sun Jan 31 2016
- Apache Myfaces Core 2.0.24 was released on Wed Mar 30 2016
- Apache Myfaces Core 2.1.18 was released on Wed Mar 30 2016
- Apache Myfaces Core 2.2.10 was released on Mon Apr 11 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 47 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 54 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AN: Report from the Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt]
## Description:
- Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process
and distribute data.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Released NiFi 0.5 with considerable new core features and extensions.
- Released NiFi 0.6 adding features to set stage for 1.0 release.
- Key features and milestones for 1.0 release have been put together by the
community in a public roadmap and are in active development. Our default
version control branch (master) is now dedicated to 1.0 development.
- The community has put together a plan and guidelines for
contributors to develop features for both 1.0 and 0.X lines concurrently
- Meetups featuring NiFi talks have occurred in the reporting period in
Santa Clara, Chicago, WashingtonDC, New York City, Baltimore, Seattle,
Toronto, Dublin, Denmark, Montreal
- Established child project known as 'MiNiFi' to provide an
alternative command and control and implementation model tailored
toward the first mile challenges of data acquisition. JIRA and Git
infrastructure setup and contributions underway.
## Health report:
- Activity on mailing lists, JIRA, Git continues trending well.
- During the last review cycle several new committers have joined.
- Based on growth of active committers the pipeline for
PMC progression is strong. We need to better formulate how to progress
to PMC.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members in the last three months.
- Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on Wed Nov 25 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Andy LoPresto was added as a committer on Sat Apr 02 2016
- Oleg Zhurakousky was added as a committer on Wed Mar 16 2016
- Matt Burgess was added as a committer on Fri Mar 04 2016
- Joe Skora was added as a committer on Mon Feb 15 2016
## Releases:
- nifi-0.6.0 was released on Fri Mar 26 2016
- nifi-0.5.1 was released on Thu Feb 25 2016
- nifi-0.5.0 was released on Mon Feb 15 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 262 subscribers (up 56 in the last 3 months):
- 832 emails sent to list (709 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 231 subscribers (up 23 in the last 3 months):
- 2610 emails sent to list (1389 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 388 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 237 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel]
Apache Nutch™ is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene®, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop®
data structures and Apache Gora™ for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
Nutch 2.3.1 was released on Wed Jan 20 2016,
the last release on the 1.x branch dates to
Dec 06 2015.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The version control was moved from svn to git
in February.
Issues
- 54 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 42 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
COMMUNITY
No new committers and PMC members in the last 3 months.
Last committer addition was on Nov 08 2015.
We hope to participate in Google Summer of Code 2016
and have two student applications.
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level:
- dev@nutch.apache.org:
- 547 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 935 emails sent to list (787 in previous quarter)
- user@nutch.apache.org:
- 1105 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 331 emails sent to list (245 in previous quarter)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AP: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Like in the previous reporting period, we've made progress with preparing
the next release, migrated some fixes from the development branch to the
release branch. We started improving the SQL schema generation and want to
include it in the next release. We're feature complete with the current
release and release preparation is in progress.
## Health Report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in
maintenance mode. We're ironing out technical debt and making sure
that our codebase campground is clean, supporting our users with answers
and fixes.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 75 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 227 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 11 emails sent to list (33 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AQ: 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.
Sadly no news on the EE7 TCK issue which prevents us
from verifying compatility with JPA-2.1.
## Activity:
Moderate activity. Some community feedback on the users list
and a few internal discussions. We also reworked our page
build bots and added documentation.
Mark Struberg got appointed as new PMC chair and we like to thank
Pinaki Poddar for his service over the last few years!
## 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 are openly looking for fresh blood which is open enough to
take up the challenge while being sensible enough to not trash
existing functionality.
## 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:
- 2.4.1 was released on Sun Feb 21 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Traffic on the mailing lists is low but steady.
We might need to focus on working on fresh bugs which come in.
There are currently more new bugs than we resolve, which is not
a good thing.
- users@openjpa.apache.org:
- 258 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 63 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter)
- dev@openjpa.apache.org:
- 132 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 133 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AR: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik]
## Description:
- Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board
, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API
functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
## Issues:
- We were unable to sign our recent releases 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 due to
Insufficient signing events
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11384)
Unfortunately there is no ETA when it going to be resolved.
## Activity:
- We performed 2 releases: 3.1.0, 3.1.1
- 3.1.0 is big step forward comparing to 3.0.7.
- 3.1.1 is security fix release.
- 3.1.0 + 3.1.1 were not made public for 3 weeks because of code
signing issue (INFRA-11384). Finally were released without signing.
- We are hoping to participate in GSOC2016 this year. Currently reviewing
2 proposals
## Health report:
- I believe project is healthy: additional PMC was recently added,
constant activity
in mailing lists, new releases.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members.
- Susheel Jalali was added to the PMC on Fri Mar 04 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- Susheel Jalali was added as a committer on Mon Feb 29 2016
## Releases:
- 3.1.0 was released on Sun Mar 06 2016
- 3.1.1 was released on Fri Mar 25 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 145 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 283 emails sent to list (158 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 331 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 313 emails sent to list (262 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 60 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 27 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 44 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 53 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 55 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton]
DESCRIPTION
===========
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office-document productivity
suite. There are six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). With limited support for other formats,
OpenOffice ships for several platforms and in dozens of
languages.
STATUS
======
The project is warming up for its next release, Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0.
There is growing attention to security of dependencies and also ways to
improve release engineering.
Limitations of capacity and coordinating the project's moving parts are
concerns.
ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
==========================
Concerns and warning signs for Board attention are in the Issues section,
below.
RELEASES
========
There is no Apache OpenOffice release in this quarter.
Complete Release History
2015-10-28 4.1.2
2014-08-21 4.1.1
2014-04-29 4.1
2013-10-01 4.0.1
2013-07-17 4
2013-01-30 3.4.1 refresh (8 more languages)
2012-08-21 3.4.1 incubating
2012-05-08 3.4 incubating
PMC/COMMITTERS
==============
PMC
---
The recognition and invitation of potential PMC members is improving and
expected to continue. Complete PMC membership history is available in PDF at
<http://s.apache.org/vji>.
The AOO PMC consists of 28 individuals as of 2016-03-31. Eleven have
registered PGP keys.
17 have remained continuously out of the
23 from TLP formation in October, 2012.
11 are new or returned PMC members
9 of the current PMC are Apache Software Foundation
Members, including the original and current Chairs
2016-03-05 Keith N. McNamara (knmc) joined the PMC
2016-02-29 Patricia Shanahan (pats) joined the PMC
2016-02-14 Carl Marcum (cmarcum) joined the PMC
The last preceding addition was on 2015-10-18
2016-01-28 Louis Suarez-Potts (louis) retired
2016-01-20 Rob Weir (robweir) retired
The last preceding retirement was on 2015-10-18
In this quarter, 87% of the 540 private@ posts were by PMC members. Of those
posts, 97% were by 10 members and 9 did not post at all.
Committers
----------
There are 139 committers as of 2016-03-31. Twenty-one have registered PGP
keys. The recognition and invitation of potential committers is improving
and expected to continue.
2016-02-25 Jon Peli Oleaga added
2016-02-23 Patricia Shanahan added
Last previous committer addition was on 2015-12-04
2016-01-28 Louis Suarez-Potts withdrew
2016-01-22 Jean Hollis Weber withdrew
2016-01-20 Rob Weir withdrew
Last previous committer withdrawal was on 2015-09-23
ACTIVITY
========
Moving parts of the Apache OpenOffice project span three inter-connected
layers.
* Development, Release Engineering, and Deployment:
development, testing, internationalization, QA, documentation, deployment,
and branding
* Project Community Lists and Archives:
development topics, user-facing information, user reports,
trouble-shooting, and feedback
* Public Project-Community Interfaces
tying together development, users, and support areas:
Bugzilla, wiki (two flavors), web site (two flavors), and Community
Forums
Development and Release Engineering
-----------------------------------
Separate source-only release of UNO Tools for independent usage is
progressing.
Maintainors of some writing aids (e.g., spelling checkers) provide regular
updates for eventual release inclusion.
Fixes for issues deferred from the 4.1.2 release are now retargeted for
4.2.0. Issues and fixes are flagged as part of warming-up for 4.2.0. There
is no projected release date. SVN preparations for release-candidate
staging of 4.2.0 have not begun.
Significant change to the build system are staged. Updates to third-party
components incorporate their latest security fixes.
A documented walkthrough of the Windows build process needs review. Changing
the build system requires updated documentation.
Occasional newcomers want to work on the project. The learning curve is
still steep, especially for Windows. It is not unusual for new volunteers
to disappear after a short time.
Deployment and Take-Up
----------------------
For the five months since release of AOO 4.1.2 through 2016-03-31,
there are 19.9 million downloads, roughly 4.0 million per month
at a rate of 800,000 per week.
87.9% for Windows,
7.8% for Macintosh, and
4.3% for all other distributions
Although US destinations have the greatest number of downloads by
nationality, that represents only 15% of the total for this
highly-international project.
For comparison, release 4.1.1 binaries had been downloaded 48.1 million times
over the 16 months of that release, roughly 4.3 million monthly at a rate of
1 million per week.
There is new management at SourceForge, the provider of Apache OpenOffice
download mirrors, Extras archives, and third-party extensions and templates
downloads. There appears to be no impact. There is serious improvement
how advertising is separated on the download-starting page, reducing
confusion about whether the download has been requested and will start
without any more clicking.
Branding
--------
Trademark registration/renewal activity, coordinated with trademarks@,
is underway.
The project is not making any changes involving the new feather logo and
powered-by graphics.
There is typically one request for use of the marks each month, including a
request this quarter for display of Apache OpenOffice as a prop in a
French action-adventure television series.
One misuse of Apache OpenOffice marks has been addressed with a publisher
and acceptable remedies are in place.
Major abuse of "OpenOffice" by an anonymous imposter is difficult to thwart.
Effort is continuing with assistance of trademarks@.
Community Lists and Archives
----------------------------
The tabulation below summarizes the average rate of mailing list usage for all
of the public lists since Apache OpenOffice became a top-level project in
November 2012. The complete compilation of the data is in PDF at
<https://s.apache.org/OHfh>. The list is in decreasing order by 2015
activity.
LIST AVERAGE MONTHLY ACTIVITY
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016Q1
dev@ 1266 1124 552 340 305
users@ 235 198 328 219 231
users-de@ 38 167 147 94 111
utenti-it@ 29 40 30 37 27
i10n@ 211 225 119 34 22
qa@ 150 127 71 16 25
api@ 30 35 20 15 2
doc@ 7 41 25 12 36
dev-de@ 0 0 42 6 12
general-es@ 34 24 9 4 5
marketing@ 63 87 18 3 5
progetto-it@ 12 17 8 2 0
users-fr@ 1 4 6 0 0
geral-ptbr@ 21 5 1 0 0
general-ja@ 3 2 0 0 0
Bugzilla and Issue Tracking
---------------------------
Tabulation of Bugzilla issue growth extends to the end of 2016Q1. The rate
of unresolved issues continues to be in excess of 40%. The complete
tabulation is at <http://s.apache.org/YFT>. Qualitative analysis at
<http://s.apache.org/SNg> applies.
Wiki and Documentation
----------------------
In 2013Q1, a new documentation effort for an end-users manual was started on
the OpenOffice MediaWiki. That is the only user-documentation effort.
Material from an "OpenOffice for Students" was being incorporated. As
reported in 2015Q1, documentation efffort stalled.
New volunteers arrive regularly although concerted, sustained effort is
absent.
There is much outdated material on the MediaWiki and changes in the product
are not accompanied by coordinated documentation.
ISSUES
======
Continued identification of risks and issues of capacity and
capability is brought to public lists for discussion
on the state of the project in the community.
Overall
-------
Newcomers to the developer, QA, and docs lists seek assignments the project
lacks capacity to provide and mentor. Newcomers appear eager though lacking
project and product knowledge.
Release Engineering
-------------------
Providing a faster maintenance-release cadence to pick up important
fixes has no support.
The buildbot for Windows binaries has not been successful since 2015-07-28.
This impairs QA testing and patch testing. There is risk of regressions from
changes that are developed and successfully applied to Linux and FreeBSD, the
primary tools of the few active developers.
The 4.1.2 release manager is going to work with one or more "interns" to
cultivate additional committers with experience at producing Apache
OpenOffice builds for the extensive set of binaries that are produced. The
4.2.0 release candidates will be the laboratory.
The project is vulnerable to inability to prepare candidates if release-
engineering capacity deteriorates.
Having enough PMC members to confirm builds from source to cover the different
platform distributions is a concern. Current CTR commits receive little if
any visible indications of "R". Requests for review can go unanswered. One
committer has refused to create Bugzilla issues to account for SVN changes.
Deployment
----------
Proof of concept for digital signing of Windows builds was achieved in 2014.
Signing is not in production.
Digital signing is crucial. It allows the platform to verify that the binary
installer is an unmodified authentic build from the project. It assists
detection of counterfeits that drop adware and malware.
NEXT STEPS: Explore prospects for changing to signed .msi Windows installers
for 4.2.0 despite the compounding of changes and possible delays for
a feature release. Seek ways to accomplish this in controlled steps.
Branding
--------
Investigation of inappropriate use of Apache brands for OpenOffice occurs
when brought to the attention of the PMC. There are two cases this quarter.
There are difficulties in going farther.
1. The distributors of misleading products make it difficult to
remove offenders that are casually allowed to make misleading offers.
2. The project is not pro-active in finding offenders and requesting
compliance with Apache brand usage. In particular, "Open Office" is
heavily used and search services treat it as a synonym for "OpenOffice."
There appear to be over 100 AOO download/disc offers that claim the
need for advertising to support the "product" effort.
3. Where paid advertisements accompany search results, these can have more
prominence than "Apache OpenOffice" results which otherwise rank highest.
4. When contact is achieved, it can take considerable effort and
communication to have the producer honor Apache brands.
NEXT STEPS: Find better templates for engaging producers of products that
invite confusion with Apache OpenOffice. Find ways to pursue such cases that
do not overwhelm the capacity of the Project Management Committee to manage.
Simplify the engagement of trademarks@, especially where distributors of
third-party software impose friction in the acceptance of trademark
violation complaints.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AT: Report from the Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley]
## Description:
A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
## Activity:
- After the last board report, it was suggested that we go ahead and make
a release of the C++ code without waiting for the Java to be separated
out of Hive. We went ahead and did that and released 1.0.0.
- We're about to create a first pull request for ORC-1, which is the import
of the Java code from Hive. We plan to make a 1.1 release soon after the
code is pulled in to ORC.
## Health report:
- The project has been relatively quiet. Getting the Java reader and writer
released will enable projects such as Spark to import a much smaller set
of dependencies when they use ORC.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aliaksei Sandryhaila on Wed Nov 18 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was in April 2015.
## Releases:
- 1.0.0 was released on Mon Jan 25 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- The mailing lists have been relatively quiet during this quarter.
- dev@orc.apache.org:
- 23 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 64 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter)
- issues@orc.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 72 emails sent to list (68 in previous quarter)
- user@orc.apache.org:
- 26 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (33 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem]
## Description:
Parquet is a standard and interoperable columnar file format for
efficient analytics.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
There is a surge of activity related to the development of the Parquet-cpp
library.
Initially Parquet had a java implementation as well as reference
implementations for some encodings in C++. The C++ version is now being
fully implemented. A new committer has been recently invited based on that
work.
## Health report:
The project is healthy. We have new contributors. Communication happens
on the mailing list and on regular public hangout sync ups for which
notes are published on the mailing list.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alex Levenson on Tue Apr 21 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- Wes McKinney was added as a committer on Thu Mar 03 2016
## Releases:
- Format 2.3.1 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015
## Mailing list activity:
A surge of emails related to the development of parquet-cpp
- dev@parquet.apache.org:
- 152 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 940 emails sent to list (361 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 158 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 109 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AV: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
## Description:
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- after releasing three RCs we finally got our long awaited major release
2.0.0 out of the door
- Sally helped us to spread the word about the new release:
- https://s.apache.org/Ly9B
- https://s.apache.org/CErv
- https://s.apache.org/NK05
- first discussions about possible fields to be included in 2.1.x/3.0.x just
started
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the
mailing lists
- the core team consists of 4 - 5 active developers
- due to the new release there were a significant increase of messages on
users@
- due to the new release there were a significant decrease of messages on dev@
as we limited our development activities to bugfixes
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was John Hewson on Thu Feb 06 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014
## Releases:
- 1.8.11 was released on Mon Jan 18 2016
- 2.0.0 was released on Fri Mar 18 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 551 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 644 emails sent to list (447 in previous quarter)
- dev@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1907 emails sent to list (3158 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 126 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 120 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
## Description:
Apache Samza is a stream processing system built atop Apache Hadoop YARN and
Apache Kakfa.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Presentations at Strata + Hadoop World included several talks about Apache
Samza.
- Released Apache Samza 0.10 in late December.
- Meetup in London discussing Apache Samza.
## Health report:
The project remains healthy. There is a reasonable amount of mailing list
traffic. We just had an 0.10 release in December of 2015.
## 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:
- Last release was 0.10.0 on Fri Dec 18 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 307 subscribers (up 16 in the last 3 months):
- 587 emails sent to list (444 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 76 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 34 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Sentry Project [Sravya Tirukkovalur]
## Description:
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based
authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop Cluster.
## Issues:
Waiting for Infra to give committers/PMCs website permissions
## Activity:
Community is doing post graduation activities: Moved most of the
infrastructure. Roster, LDAP and board documents are upto date. New PMCs are
subscribing to private@. Final website/wiki edits pending.
Conferences/ BlogPosts: Community was part of the Hadoop security tutorial at
Strata covering Authorization in Hadoop. We also did a blogpost on Apache
post graduation summarizing the community and project developments.
Development: Following are the major buckets of work going on in the
community:
- Kafka integration
- Improvements to HDFS Sentry sync
- Hive Auth V2
- Solr Integration improvements
- Refactoring to make integrations easy and quick.
- Quality improvements: Bug fixes, test improvements.
## Health report:
There has been an increase in overall activity: Subscribers, Email traffic,
Jiras.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 31 PMC members.
- 9 committers have joined PMC during graduation last month along with 22
PPMCs.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No changes (the PMC was established in the last 3 months)
## Releases:
1.6.0 incubating release was made on Sep 21, 2015
Community is preparing for 1.7.0 release with a new RM.
## Mailing list activity:
New mailing list issues@ has been created for jira traffic.
- dev@sentry.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 651 emails sent to list (407 in previous quarter)
- issues@sentry.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 100 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 179 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 113 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AY: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho]
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.
RELEASES
* The last releases of Apache Sqoop
** Version 1.4.6, released on May 10, 2015 from trunk branch.
** Version 1.99.6, released on May 5, 2015 from the sqoop2 branch.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity is primarily on sqoop2 branches, but there is still
considerable number of bugfixes on trunk branch
* A total of 102 issues have been resolved last 3 months
* In the past three months, a total of 110 messages were exchanged on the user
list and a total of 1782 messages were exchanged on the dev list.
COMMUNITY
* The last addition of a new committer was done in March 2016.
* The last appointment to the PMC was done in March 2015.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 493 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 182 subscribers to the dev list
- Total of 27 committers
- Total of 15 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
REFERENCES
None.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno]
## Description:
Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses
to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Test elections were held in preparation for the annual ASF Members Meeting.
Feedback from these tests (including some UI and form data parsing bugs)
were incorporated into the STeVe software.
- The Annual ASF Members Meeting was held and used STeVe as the voting
platform. On the whole, things went very smooth, with only very few nits.
Issues such as screen reader friendliness has been taken into consideration
for future development.
- Several issues were raised about some design decisions in STeVe, and while
not serious or bad (merely opinions on how it should operate), we do need to
discuss these characteristics and see if we can provide either a changed
backend design or alternately optional features for STeVe.
## Health report:
- STeVe is healthy in the sense that we have >= 3 PMC members active at all
times. We have also seen an uptick in both tickets being filed as well as
people volunteering to help out with further development of STeVe. It is my
sincere hope that these volunteers will stick with us and won't be drive-by
patch submitters.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015
- Chris Mattman has chosen to resign from the STeVe PMC.
We thank Chris for his contributions and would of course welcome him back,
should he wish to rejoin.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015
## Releases:
- While no releases have been made yet, STeVe has been used for
several elections. We are hoping to get a release out once the
dust from the last members meeting settles and the kinks have
been ironed out.
## Mailing list activity:
Activity has been relatively low. There was an uptick in mails to the issues@
list due to JIRA tickets being created as a result of users' experience with
the ASF members meeting. User@ has seen virtually no activity, but that is to
be expected when we don't have an official release yet.
- dev@steve.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 19 emails sent to list (47 in previous quarter)
- issues@steve.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 34 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
JIRA has seen an uptick in issues after the ASF members meeting.
This is generally a very good sign that people are getting involved.
- 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Struts Project [René Gielen]
The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant
and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over
configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with
plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON.
The Struts team made two release in the last quarter.
* Struts 2.5-BETA-3 - Struts 2.5 beta release (2016-01-22)
* Struts 2.3.28 - full GA release including bug fixes, feature
enhancements and security fixes (2016-03-22)
In the beginning of the reporting period we released Struts 2.5 Beta 3.
Struts 2.5 includes new features, consolidations and dependency upgrades
along with dropping support for already deprecated APIs and framework
parts. It is considered a milestone release towards Struts 3, which is
supposed to include major new features as well as breaking changes.
In the remainder of the last quarter development focus shifted back to
the Struts 2.3 release line, since it became clear that we would need at
least one intermediate release in the stable branch including bug fixes
and feature enhancements before we can move on towards a possible Struts
2.5 GA release. We released three new security
bulletins with the advent of Struts 2.3.28 [1].
No new committer was added in the last quarter. The last committership
addition was on 2015-10-23 (Aleksandr Mashchenko). Greg Huber (ghuber)
accepted our invitation to join the PMC in the last quarter (2016-02-28).
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
[1] https://struts.apache.org/docs/security-bulletins.html
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
## Description:
Tajo is an open source big data warehouse system in Hadoop for
processing web-scale data sets.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Recently, we released two minor releases, including usually bug fixes,
trivial improvements. We are working on the next major release which will
include some significant features, such as Tajo on Yarn/Mesos and array/map
data types.
## Health report:
Tajo is healthy because more than 5 PMC members are very active. We
quickly response questions in mailing lists. We resolve bugs reported by
users in time. As a result, we released two minor bug fix releases recently.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hyoung Jun Kim on Mon Dec 08 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 19 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was DaeMyung Kang at Fri Sep 18 2015
## Releases:
- 0.11.1 was released on Wed Feb 03 2016
- 0.11.2 was released on Thu Apr 07 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean
for the project. If there is nothing significant in the figures, omit this
section.
- dev@tajo.apache.org:
- 100 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 46 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
- issues@tajo.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1326 emails sent to list (2559 in previous quarter)
- user@tajo.apache.org:
- 47 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (82 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 66 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 59 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo]
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?
Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo replaces Howard Lewis Ship as the
project's PMC chair.
When did the project last make any releases?
Tapestry 5.4.1 was released on 16 Mar 2016.
Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Activity on the user mailing list is slow, but improving when compared to
last quarter. 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, with the occasional
question about earlier versions. 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.
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
Description:
Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts.
Currently Apache Tcl has Apache Rivet as only active subproject.
Activity and known issues:
There are no issues requiring board's attention. We released
Rivet 2.3.0 on March 27th and we are slowly working on the code in
trunk which is reaching a good maturity level.
There is little activity on the rivet-dev mailing list and
the number of subscribers hasn't changed (48 subscribers)
PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Brice Hamon De Crevecoer on Tue Nov 25 2014
Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brice B. Hamon at Tue Nov 25 2014
Releases:
- As already stated rivet-2.3.0 was released on March 27 2016
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Siddharth Seth]
## Description:
Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can
be used to process arbitrarily complex directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs) of
data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives
which can be used by other projects.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Development activity continues with a focus on stability fixes on the 0.7
line, and enhancements on the 0.8 line.
- The branch which was used to work on the next version of the UI was merged
into master.
- A release from the 0.8 line is in progress, and there have been discussions
around making a release from the 0.7 line soon.
## Health report:
Development activity continues at a good rate, with over a 100 jiras resolved
in the last 3 months. Branches related to binary releases and UI enhancement
were merged into master. The user mailing list continues to see activity, with
prompt responses in most cases.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 32 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jeff Zhang on Sat May 30 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sreenath at Wed May 13 2015
## Releases:
- 0.8.2 was released on Tue Jan 19 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@tez.apache.org:
- 141 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 445 emails sent to list (302 in previous quarter)
- issues@tez.apache.org:
- 50 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 2117 emails sent to list (1965 in previous quarter)
- user@tez.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 136 emails sent to list (98 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 175 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 135 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
Apache Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and
serialization.
Project Status
---------
The Apache Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with
submissions from new contributors for bug fixes and client library
improvements. There have been a number of stability enhancements to
our C++, Go, Node and Python client libraries. We are close to cutting
our 0.10.0 release candidate and have spent time focusing on getting
our CI pipeline back in order after experiencing a lapse in successful
passing builds.
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Nobuaki Sukegawa, 1.25.2016
* Contributor addition: Simon South, 2.1.2016
Mark Erickson, 2.15.2016
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 233
* Resolved: 324
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 3320 messages
* @user 82 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.3, Release Date: Oct 6, 2015
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
=== Apache Tika Status Report : April 2016 ===
What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content
detection, analysis, and extraction. It allows a user to understand, and
leverage information from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types
including most of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text,
Images, Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other
standards bodies.
Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.
Releases
=========================
The 1.12 release of Tika was made in February
2016[1], including various fixes and a new NamedEntityParser using Apache
OpenNLP. A 1.13 release is imminent with work well underway on the 2.X stream.
Community
=========================
Along with Apache Solr, Tika was part of stack that
powered[1] the analysis of the Panama Papers leak.
A Twitter account, @ApacheTika, has been setup for the project to help aid
announcements and engage with the community.
The Tika PMC added Bob Paulin as a committer and PMC member in September 2015.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 463, 423 and 259 messages in Feb, Mar and
Apr 2016, respectively. user@ was at 85, 10 and 21 messages, during the same
timeframe.
[1] https://s.apache.org/6A7M
[2] https://s.apache.org/QMJ3
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based
on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java
Enterprise Edition Specifications.
Work on addressing ZDI-15-638 completed and fixes released for both the TomEE
1.7.x and 7.0.x code lines. The fix involves a new feature that limits the
classes that can be used in a serialization context. Documentation for the
fix was contributed by a mix of committers and contributors through the old
perl/svn/markdown system Joe Schaefer wrote. Some discussion has started
about possibly newer alternatives for accepting documentation contributions,
including github pull requests.
Major initiatives requiring community attention.
Lack of resources remains an issue for the community which needs
improvement. Work on TomEE 7 remains in milestone form primarily due to lack
of Java EE 7 TCK. Despite the lack of a Java EE 7 TCK, there are users who
do not care about certification and simply need a stable release. Some
decision will need to be made here as it doesn’t appear likely the community
will ever get a TCK. Additionally, OpenJPA’s lack of progress affects TomEE
indirectly as it is the default JPA implementation.
The user list, however, continues to be active with most queries resolved
quickly.
User mailing list traffic:
- 179 messages / January
- 129 messages / February
- 174 messages / March
Average dev mailing list traffic:
- 35 messages / January
- 38 messages / February
- 52 messages / March
Last releases are:
- 1.7.4 on March 4th
- 7.0.0.M2 on Feb 28th
- 7.0.0.M2 on March 6th
Last release was 1.7.4 on 2016-03-04 and 7.0.0-M3 on 2016-03-06. Last
committer was added November 2015. Last PMC addition, 4 new members on
2015-08-11.
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
## Description:
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Planning for the 2016 Spring Summit has begun, and we're finalizing our
agenda. Details are on
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2016+Summit
- The ATS project is as of 4/10/2016 enabled to use the Git-Dual system
provided by Infra! This is very exciting, and we think this will continue
increasing community participation and growth. It also really simplifies the
work done by committers dealing with an increase in Pull Requests (we've had
over 500 github PRs, total).
Many thanks to the entire Infra team for making this happen! Special thanks
to Daniel Gruno for for going above and beyond his duty, making the
migration seemless and painless (so far :).
## Health report:
- Activity in the community is healthy, with pretty significant increase in
mailing list activity and community participation. We continue adding new
committers this quarter as well.
- ATS v6.2.0 is being prepared as we speak, and we expect this LTS release to
be ready for the planned 05/15/2016 release schedule.
- ATS is becoming recognized as a leader in the HTTP/2 server space, and the
team developing this is continuing making significant improvements with every
release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 38 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- John Rushford was added to the PMC on Sat Feb 20 2016
- Jon Sime was added to the PMC on Thu Feb 11 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- New commmitters:
- John Rushford was added as a committer on Thu Feb 18 2016
- Jon Sime was added as a committer on Thu Feb 04 2016
## Releases:
- 6.1.0 was released on Wed Jan 27 2016
- 6.1.1 was released on Fri Feb 05 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 477 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 372 emails sent to list (120 in previous quarter)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 316 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 954 emails sent to list (616 in previous quarter)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 35 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 3192 emails sent to list (2290 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 215 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 165 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
Activity:
- Increased interest and activity around Google Summer of Code.
- Specifically a lot of interest around the implementation of JSONiq, a JSON
extension for XQuery.
- Still a lot of activity by some VXQuery committers on the Hyracks and
Algebricks frameworks (developed in the AsterixDB podling) that are the
foundation of VXQuery.
- A new release is due - the last one is more than a year old.
Issues:
- There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project.
- Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014
- Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014
Releases:
- Last release was 0.5 on Thu Mar 05 2015
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Web Services Report for April 2016
Releases within this quarter:
* Axiom 1.2.18
* WSS4J 2.0.7
* WSS4J 2.1.5
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 March 2016
Development
* WSS4J - 140 commits by 2 committer.
* Axiom - 59 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
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Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby]
## Description:
Tools that help automate various administrative tasks or information lookup
activities
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
With the plan to add a second project to the GitHub experiment; should
Whimsy go back to reporting quarterly? Or should both report monthly?
## GitHub experiment:
- One minor glitch (entire PMC briefly removed from GitHub) which was
promptly addressed and caused no issues
- Pleased to see the git-dual and matt code added to the repository and
puppetized.
## Activity:
- New tools under development: moderationhelper and mirror_check.
- Improvements to monitoring; e.g., now checks for puppet agent being down
Notices now sent to a separate email list.
- Roster tool can now be used to update members.txt, iclas.txt, LDAP,
and committee-info.txt. Plan is to make this a one stop shop for updating
foundation records.
- Board agenda tool now show prior month's comments
- VM upgraded from 2 CPUs w/ 4 GB RAM to 4 CPUs w/ 8 GB RAM
## Health report:
- Project continues to make progress converting what was primarily a
single developer effort into a community. 5 separate individuals
committed changes this month; another indicated an intent to become
active next month.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- One PMC member left last month.
- Last PMC addition was Craig L Russell on Sun Dec 13 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Craig L Russell at Mon Dec 14 2015
## Releases:
- Code development is operating under a continuous deployment model
## Mailing list activity:
Traffic continues to grow; mostly related to technical questions,
suggestions and plans. In addition to posts by subscribers, pony-poc
has been used.
- dev@whimsical.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 770 emails sent to list (267 in previous quarter)
- notifications@whimsical.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 137 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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