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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
October 19, 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/32n2
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
Sam Ruby
Mark Thomas
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Rich Bowen - joined at 10:48
Ross Gardler
Executive Officers Absent:
Craig L Russell
Ulrich Stärk
Guests:
Christopher Douglas
Daniel Gruno
David Nalley - joined at 10:39
Hadrian Zbarcea
Henri Yandell
Marcus Lange
Sean Kelly
Tom Pappas
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of August 17, 2016
See: board_minutes_2016_08_17.txt
Approved by General Consent.
B. The meeting of September 21, 2016
See: board_minutes_2016_09_21.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
The board continues to discuss the possible appointments for officer
roles, particularly in light of Ross' resignation as President as he
conveys in the following report.
On behalf of the board, many thanks to Ross for his service in the
role over the last 3 years, committing significant time as a volunteer
to the smooth operation of the Foundation.
B. President [Ross]
On 28 September 2016 I notified the board of my resignation, full
resignation email posted at the end of this report. The summary is
that it's time for a change, we need new energy and new ideas on the
operations side of the house and I need to go back to the community
side of the house.
While I gave the board 3 months to find my replacement this may well
be my last report and therefore I want to take this opportunity to
thank the current and previous boards for the opportunity to serve as
the foundations President. It has been an honor and a privilege to
serve the foundation, its members and its projects. The ASF stands
proud among open source foundations and, I am sure, will continue to
do so for many years to come. While I'm stepping down as President I
have no intention of moving too far from the foundation.
And so, to my report...
Executive Assistant
===============
Mostly "business as usual". One item of note: TAC process is
progressing well. 14 applications were approved from the 27 received.
Brand Management
===============
No report at the time of writing. I'm not aware of any major issues.
There has been a steady flow of requests, but for the most part they
are being handled in the normal process. There are a couple of more
complex potential breaches being explored, in at least one case the
PMC is seeking guidance from VP Brand Management.
Fundraising
=========
There was a discussion on a Google SEO forum that highlighted the
ability to "buy" a link from apache.org for the price of a Bronze
Sponsorship. This thread has since been deleted but there is
discussion on at least one other SEO focused site. This prompted
further discussion around the current no-follow policy for Bronze
sponsors. As a result VP Fundraising has indicated that he will
reverse the decision to provide follow links to Bronze level sponsors.
Marketing and Publicity
==================
With some significant effort to obtain content from all parties Sally
has published our Q1 FY2017 report. Thanks to everyone involved.
Sally continues to work with VP Fundraising to help with
communication/engagement.
Snoot analytics is now available to all PMCs.
Sally is proactively engaging with new podlings to help with early
community building efforts through.
Media trainings will be available at ApacheCon EU.
Infrastructure
==========
A second round of interviews was carried out with the assistance of EA
and Infra Admin. Consequently a hire decision was made and an offer
has been extended. A second hire is being explored.
Travel Assistance Committee
======================
No report submitted. See EA report for details
(EA remains acting VP given the ongoing absence of the current VP TAC)
My resignation email
================
(posted to board@apache.org on Sept 28 2016)
I have decided that it is time for me to step down as President of the
foundation. I notified the board of my intention a few days ago and
with this email I make it official. I will remain in service for up to
three months while a replacement is found and we work to ensure a
smooth transition. That said, I encourage the board to appoint my
replacement as soon as possible.
There are many reasons behind this very difficult decision. I will
enumerate the key points here for the record. I am happy to expand on
these points, but encourage discussion of my opinions and reasoning to
be restricted to separate threads covering individual topics. This
thread should stay focused on my resignation and the process of
replacing me.
At a high level my reasons for resigning are:
1) Personal: my day job role has changed in recent times. I am more
directly engaged with engineers than I have been for years. Since I
started my IT career as an engineer I am truly enjoying this change,
even more so since many of the projects I work with are here at
Apache. I want to return to my roots and become active in the Apache
projects that are important to the engineering side of my life.
Resigning as President gives me more time to do that. This is not to
say that I will be moving away from the operational aspects of the
foundation completely, more on this below.
2) Workload: the role of the president is to ensure the smooth running
of the Foundation from an operations perspective. The role is ably
supported by a number of VPs and other volunteers. Most of those
individuals do as much as they can, but most are volunteers and as
such cannot be available at all times. Unlike our code projects the
majority of things on the operations side are time dependent.
Furthermore, the timing is largely dictated by our code projects, not
by the operations teams themselves. For example, a project needs an
infra change before it can proceed with its work. A reporter needs a
response before they can publish. A company needs a trademark approval
before they can launch. A sponsor needs a PO before they can raise an
invoice and pay. Contracts with event producers need to be signed
before the venue booking expires. Travel for TAC needs to be booked
before flights become prohibitively expensive. Project materials need
to be shipped before an event starts Etc. Etc. Wherever possible we
delegate this work to the PMCs, however, not all aspects can be
delegated and not all PMCs are equipped to make progress. Generally
our operations teams run quite well, but when they don’t the buck
stops with the President, who is also a volunteer. Once things
escalate to the President there is usually significant history to wade
through before one can make progress. Even then there is likely to be
conflict which needs to be resolved. I find I no longer have that time
and/or energy to address these items as they escalate (see above).
This is not good for the foundation. As the foundation continues to
grow we will see this problem becoming more acute while we rely on
volunteers at every level, which brings me to the next point.
3) Frustration: I have long felt that the foundation needs to plan for
growth. I’ve stood for and been elected to the board on this point.
When I was invited to become President I did not stand for board the
following year. I felt it was important to separate community focused
activities of the board from Presidential duties overseeing the
management and growth of oyr operations. This was a natural next step
in moving operations activities under the President as originally
actioned by Jim as the President prior to myself. For the most part
this been successful. However, I now feel it is time for the next step
on this evolutionary path. We need to have a paid individual
responsible for ensuring routine activities are adequately covered.
This would free our volunteers to focus on escalations and growth
planning. This discussion and the effort to find a solution that both
alleviates the operational burden on our volunteers and preserves the
Apache Way has proven to be unexpectedly frustrating (which has
undoubtedly contributed to point 1). I feel that the current (and
previous) board are paralyzed by the complexities of this issue. This
is a symptom of being driven by consensus and having 9 board members,
it is not a symptom of ineffective directors. This is a deliberate
design of the foundation – a design that prevents undue influence from
a single source. I do not propose changing this design, which has
served us very well for many years. However, we can't continue without
managed and controlled change in the way we handle operations within
the foundation. I reject the assertion that paid operational support
will lead to an undermining of the Apache Way, but have so far been
unable to deliver a proposal that satisfies even a majority of the
board, let alone reached consensus. This is the root of my
frustration. In a private mail to the directors on this topic (most of
which appears in my August board report) I said something to the
effect of “don’t insult me by asking me, again, to throw more
volunteers at this problem” (where the problem is identified is
excessive workload, point 2 above). Unfortunately, this is exactly
what the board have been forced to ask me to do since we do not have
consensus on an alternative that adequately addresses the
cross-foundation workload.
4) Need for change: It is clear to me that my style within the
Presidents role has reached its limit. I can choose to change my
style, or I can choose to step aside. I have considered both
approaches and have concluded that a change in President is better for
me personally and likely better for the foundation as a whole.
I am very proud of what we, as a Foundation, have done to build out
our operations capacity as we have grown. Just a few examples of this
include: We have audited our finances for the first time (long
overdue). We have moved our staff and contractors to a formal
engagement through a Professional Employment Organization. We have
successfully outsourced our conferences, resulting in multiple
successful conferences across our many projects. We have modernized
our infrastructure thus improving service uptime. Many of our
trademarks are now protectable. We’ve made significant strides in
improving our sponsor relations. And much more. Each of these sound
trivial when written as a single sentence, but I can assure everyone
that many, many hours from multiple volunteers have gone into, and
continue to go into, each of these items.
The foundation is in very good shape. We have finances to last many
years, even at the deficit we are currently running. Our communities
continue to grow. Our projects continue to drive IT innovation. For
the most part our operations continue to function well. I am very
happy to be handing the foundation over to a new President with new
ideas, new energy and a new approach to building capacity for many
years to come.
I want to close by thanking all operations volunteers within the ASF.
Their work is usually only in focus when someone is not happy. Few of
our Members, most of our committers and probably none of our
contributors and users are aware of the hard work our operations teams
do. Operations work does not produce code, yet without it the
foundation would not exist. I am proud of my part in this work, but as
I write this email I find myself looking forward to more time to spend
on code projects. I only hope that this does not mean that I start to
be underappreciate the operations teams when something is blocking me.
I encourage people to quote this paragraph back to me when I am guilty
of such misconduct.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Ulrich]
Apologies for failing to submit a report on time for the last board
meeting. The past two months have been relatively uneventful except
for some out-of-cycle payments. We are currently working on a spending
policy for credit card holders, a first draft has been circulated and
is waiting for comments. A request from the membership has been made
to find out whether a company claiming to donate to the ASF for every
survey response they receive actually even donated.
Income and Expenses for August 2016 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
August 2016
Citizens Checking $459,120
Citizens Money Market $1,202,961
Amazon- ASF Payments $-
Paypal - ASF $92,254
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $-
Wells Fargo Savings $-
Total Checking/Savings $1,754,334
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue $6,163
Public Donations $7,042
Sponsorship Program $66,003
Programs Income $-
Other Income $-
Interest Income $509
Total Income $79,718
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense $7,167
Infrastructure $47,110
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $6,091
Brand Management $4,990
Conferences $528
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Tax and Audit $-
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $10,090
Total Expense $79,076
Net Income $642
Income and Expenses for September 2016 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
September 2016
Citizens Checking $490,751
Citizens Money Market $1,203,454
Amazon- ASF Payments $-
Paypal - ASF $92,733
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $-
Wells Fargo Savings $-
Total Checking/Savings $1,786,937
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue $6,163
Public Donations $824
Sponsorship Program $71,003
Programs Income $-
Other Income $-
Interest Income $493
Total Income $78,484
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense $7,167
Infrastructure $76,508
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $8,337
Brand Management $4,976
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $11,000
Tax and Audit $-
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $8,186
Total Expense $119,274
Net Income $(40,790)
D. Secretary [Craig]
This month, Secretary transitioned from using Whimsy Secretary
Workbench to Whimsy Secretary Mail. There were no significant changes
to workflow and documents have been filed timely.
In September, 72 iclas, three cclas, and five grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
Since the last meeting, we have published the schedule for our
ApacheCon Europe events (see http://apachecon.com/) and are in
the process of promoting that event, and doing last minute
planning.
We will once again have a Media and Analyst Training. See Sally
for details.
Please continue to promote the event to your project
communities. I hope to see you in Seville.
F. Vice Chairman [Chris]
Nothing to report. Just booting up in the role.
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
Jim confirms that he plans to continue on in the Legal Affairs
role.
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Chris]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Chukwa [sr]
# Hadoop [mt]
# MINA [bp]
# Stanbol [bp]
# Synapse [bp]
# Tapestry [bp]
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Marvin]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Bertrand]
See Attachment C
D. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Brett]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Mark]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise / Sam]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Shane]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Chris]
See Attachment H
I. Apache AsterixDB Project [Till Westmann / Mark]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Sam]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Avro Project [Ryan Blue / Jim]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Calcite Project [Julian Hyde / Marvin]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Shane]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Brett]
See Attachment N
Report was not accepted; Chuckwa will be asked to report again
next month. Brett will continue to follow up on his existing
action item.
O. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Isabel]
See Attachment O
P. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Bertrand]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Shane]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Jim]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Isabel]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas / Brett]
See Attachment T
There was a discussion concerning who is responsible for
trademark enforcement, and a general consensus that it isn't
currently working. Shane and Chris Douglas to continue this
discussion offline.
@shane report back on resolving the hadoop trademark
enforcement issues.
U. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / Sam]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Bertrand]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Marvin]
See Attachment W
X. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Mark]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache jclouds Project [Ignasi Barrera / Chris]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Jim]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly / Shane]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Sam]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon / Isabel]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Palumbo / Marvin]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Chris]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Mark]
No report was submitted.
Draft being prepared on the private list, we expect a report
next month.
AJ. Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger / Chris]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Mark]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Jim]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache ODE Project [Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar / Marvin]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg / Isabel]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Bertrand]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache OpenOffice Project [Marcus Lange / Brett]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley / Shane]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / Sam]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Chris]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Brett]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho / Isabel]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Shane]
No report was submitted.
@Shane: pursue a report for Stanbol; check on the status of
the new chair discussions
AW. Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno / Marvin]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Jim]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Mark]
No report was submitted.
minimal activity; if this doesn't change (in particular, the
board is looking for a new chair) attic will be the next step.
@Mark: pursue a report for Synapse and request for a new chair
AZ. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Sam]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
BB. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Bertrand]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Tez Project [Siddharth Seth / Jim]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Brett]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Isabel]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache TinkerPop Project [Stephen Mallette / Shane]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Sam]
No report was submitted.
BH. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Marvin]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Mark]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Chris]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Marvin]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo / Isabel]
See Attachment BL
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Traffic Server Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Leif Hedstrom
(zwoop) to the office of Vice President, Apache Traffic Server, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Leif Hedstrom from the office of Vice President, Apache Traffic
Server, and
WHEREAS, the Community of the Apache Traffic Server project has chosen
to recommend Bryan Call (bcall) as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Leif Hedstrom is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Traffic Server, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bryan Call be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Traffic Server, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors.
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Traffic Server Project
Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
B. Change the Apache Calcite Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Julian Hyde
(jhyde) to the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Julian Hyde from the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite,
and
WHEREAS, the Community of the Apache Calcite project has chosen
to recommend Jesús Camacho Rodríguez (jcamacho) as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Julian Hyde is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of
Vice President, Apache Calcite, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jesús Camacho Rodríguez be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
Calcite, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction
of the Board of Directors. and the Bylaws of the Foundation
until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Calcite Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Change the Apache Cayenne Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrus Adamchik
(aadamchik) to the office of Vice President, Apache Cayenne, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Andrus Adamchik from the office of Vice President, Apache Cayenne, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Cayenne project
has chosen by vote to recommend Michael Gentry (mgentry) as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrus Adamchik is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Cayenne, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Gentry be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Cayenne, 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 7C, Change the Apache Cayenne Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache jclouds Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Ignasi Barrera to
the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Ignasi Barrera from the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache jclouds
project has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Gaul as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Ignasi Barrera is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache jclouds, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Gaul be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, to serve in accordance
with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache jclouds Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Executive Officer Appointments
Sam appointed as President, replacing Ross.
Ross appointed as EVP, replacing Rich.
Sam steps down as Director. Rich named as his replacment.
Rich named to a new position: VP, Conferences.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: What are the next steps to resolve the issues?
[ Chukwa 2016-07-20 ]
Status: ongoing
* Jim: Work with PMC to plan next steps for the project
[ OpenOffice 2016-07-20 ]
Status: See report. AI can be closed.
* Jim: Discuss new committers discussion with PMC
[ Clerezza 2016-08-17 ]
Status: email sent. Will follow up
* Ross: Prepare a proposal for VP, Conferences
[ Discussion Items 2016-08-17 ]
Status: done
* Jim: Prepare a proposal for EVP role
[ Discussion Items 2016-08-17 ]
Status: moot
* Greg: follow up to make sure infra understand exactly what will be done and
[ CloudStack 2016-09-21 ]
Status:
* Shane: follow up to see that the PMC is responsive to comments
[ Helix 2016-09-21 ]
Status: PMC chair reached out to me privately after a delay. Asked
them to answer on board@ (Surprised they didn't already know
that...)
* Marvin: give feedback to PMC regarding bringing on new committers
[ Pig 2016-09-21 ]
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 10:34 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
This report represents the roles of the EA as well as the Interim VP of TAC:
• 27 applications submitted; 14 approved, 1 declined assistance due to
last minute work obligations
• All flights and lodging booked
• Request for (out-of-cycle payment) wire transfer for the hotel sent
10.17.2016
• All visa invitation letters and pertinent documents sent
• Preliminary numbers show we are under budget
• Everything is running very smoothly
ApacheCon:
• Collaborations continue with Sharan re promotional items for the ASF
booth
• Sharan and Jean-Frederic Clere will be co-facilitating the BarCamp – I
have put them in touch w/the LF to work out the details.
Misc:
• Assisted VP, Infra with setting up interviews
• Sent package to Jim for him and Shane to distribute at “All Things Open”
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Travel, the school year, and preparing for upcoming talks have led to less
progress on brand answers and policy improvements than I hoped, although Mark
Thomas has done an excellent job in several areas both answering questions and
helping to analyze issues, including some ideas for improving operations in
the longer term. I hope to have some plans documented by ApacheCon, although
finding the a workable and sustainable solution to protecting Apache brands
will be a long-term effort that will require more help.
I will be presenting "Practical Trademark Law for FOSS Projects" at All Things
Open, based largely on experiences with Apache projects dealing with third
party uses. I will also be presenting several trademark-related talks at
ApacheCon in Seville, Spain. Separately, I have been invited to speak at a
law conference on open source trademark matters.
One question about registered trademarks did come up that needs clarification:
PMCs are responsible for policing notable use of their project trademarks in
the same manner whether their trademarks are registered or not. The ASF
treats all Apache project names and logos as trademarks of the Foundation.
Two PMCs with strong brands have been actively working on addressing some
trademark issues, which is great to see the attention and care. Unfortunately
the number of times that PMC members either disagree on actions to take or
have misconceptions about how trademark policies work means that there is
still a lot of back and forth with trademarks on many of the issues.
The Domain Name Policy is being updated to prohibit the use of Apache project
names as second level or similar style domain names when used for content
related to potentially similar software products or services to that Apache
project. It's clear from review that we will need to publicize this more
widely to ensure PMCs are aware of it.
A major non-English website and long-running conference using one of our
registered trademarks was brought to trademarks@ and will need to be
addressed. Given the popularity of the project, it's disappointing that this
website was never reported before now. There is also little apparent interest
from the PMC to work on addressing it.
I am negotiating an contract update to continue licensing a project's
registered mark for a recurring conference.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
Sorry for late posting.
I'll start with thanking Ross for his service and a wonderful mentor.
This month was marked by a thread in an SEO forum that, as Ross indicated,
claimed that the ASF is selling links. After a long debate on the fundraising@
list, the consensus is to revert back to 'nofollow' links. The plan is for VP
Fundraising to first update the Sponsorship page, and then work with all
Bronze sponsor to let them know that the link will convert very soon to a
'follow' link. For sponsors that will choose to withdraw the sponsorship, and
I anticipate getting into that situation, will have their sponsorship funds
returned. VP Fundraising will first work out a process with Tom (Virtual).
After that the Thanks page will also be reverted to 'nofollow' links.
We do have a few pending request for Bronze sponsorship to which we answered
that we are analysing the situation and a response will be provided later.
Due to the distraction triggered by the thread mentioned above, there was no
progress on the initiatives mentioned in the previous report.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we remain within budget. Several invoices, including news
clipping, have been submitted for payment. ApacheCon promotional
materials have been charged against ASF credit cards.
II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi published the ASF
Quarterly Report (Q1 FY2017) on 29 September. She continues to work
with Hadrian Zbarcea with select Sponsorship/Fundraising
communication/engagement items, and has opened the Snoot analytics
service to all PMCs. In addition, she has begun to work more closely
with the Apache Incubator, both kick-starting their Twitter campaigns
as well as leading the call for a new logo. Sally also continues to
counsel several vendors involved with various Apache projects with
publicity, outreach, and branding requirements, most notably those
involved with incubating projects and/or active in the Big Data space
(Strata + Hadoop conference took place this month).
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued
via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org
during this timeframe:
- 13 September 2016 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache®
Syncope™ 2.0
- 20 September 2016 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache®
Kudu™ v1.0
- 3 October 2016 --Apache® POI™ Celebrates 15 Years at The Apache
Software Foundation
IV. Informal Announcements: 9 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog. 5 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total
of 115 weekly summaries published to date. 49 items were Tweeted on
@TheASF. No new videos have been added to the ASF YouTube channel.
Sally has been tweeting for the Apache Incubator account for the past
few weeks.
V. Future Announcements: two announcements are in development.
Projects planning to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as
PMCs wishing to announce major project milestones and "Did You Know?"
success stories are welcome to contact Sally at <press@apache.org> for
more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper
planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: we responded to 8 media queries. The ASF received
1,997 press clips vs. last month's clip count of 675. Media coverage
of Apache projects yielded 4,882 press hits vs. last month's 2,871.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 3 analyst queries and
completed fact-checking a Forrester report. Apache was mentioned in 18
reports by Gartner, 11 reports by Forrester, 12 reports by 451
Research, and 24 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with Sharan Foga and Melissa
Warnkin on preparations for the ASF booth at ApacheCon Europe, and has
just announced media/analyst training for ASF Committers, PMCs, and
Incubating projects during the event. Fintan Ryan of RedMonk will be
conducting the media training briefings.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: No
conference-related activities at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 31 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]
Operations Action Items:
========================
Short Term Priorities:
======================
- Work on experiment with ProxMox for virtualization to aid
in moving VMs from the vCenter cluster, slated to be decommissioned.
- Further explorer upgrading puppetised machines to Ubuntu 16.04
- Engage with and onboard new staff once hired.
Long Range Priorities:
======================
- Explore moving podlings to separate LDAP entries, which would also
make the MATT/GitHub experiment much easier in the long run.
- Mailing list system switchover is expected to happen in the coming
months. A couple of outstanding tickets are pending, and we have yet
to design a working redirect, although this is expected to be trivial.
- VMs on Eirene, Nyx and Erebus to be moved in readiness for their
decommission,
- Moving JIRA to a new location, as the old machine is slated to be
decommissioned.
General Activity:
=================
- Infrastructure will be present at ApacheCon Seville to interact with the
wider ASF community.
- Maven backup repository is being moved to a different DC to save cost
- LDAP clusters are being resized to accommodate DC IP shortages
- VPN scenarios being worked on to reduce the number of public IPs used
Ticket Response and Resolution Targets:
=======================================
Stats for the current reporting cycle can be found at
https://status.apache.org/sla/jira/?cycle=2016-10
The tentative goal of having 90% of all tickets fully resolved in time
is currently not being met, but we expect the rate to go up once new
staff has been onboarded.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Uptime stats have been very stable over the past few months,
at 99.9% for critical services and 99.8% in total.
For detailed statistics, see http://status.apache.org/sla/
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Nick Burch]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Nothing requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Stats for September 2016:
x11 CVEs issued to projects (some may not be public yet).
e-mails to security@
6 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or
Confused user due to Android licenses
2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
2 Support question
3 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org
1 [commons]
1 [axis]
1 [groovy]
4 Vulnerabilities reported to projects
1 [zookeeper]
1 [hadoop]
1 [httpd]
1 [activemq]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom Syndication
Format and Publishing Protocol specifications.
Abdera is in maintenance mode with minimal development activity. I believe
there are at least three PMC members providing oversight still. Recently there
have been a couple of user requests for a new release to pick up updated
dependencies, hopefully that will get done during the next quarter.
The last release was over two years ago, the last commiter / PMC member
addition was Nov 2011.
No board issues.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache 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 made one new release since the previous report and have
not added any committers/PMC members.
Releases
Version 1.8.0 was released on 9/6/2016!
Version 1.6.6 was released on 9/18/2016.
Activity
The number of subscribers to the dev list has decreased slightly, while
the user list subscribers have stayed constant. Mailing list and commit
activity are up significantly over the previous quarter.
In the past 3 months, there have been 295 commits to the master branch
from 16 authors, 7 of whom are not yet committers.
Version 1.6.6 has been released and we have ceased active development
on the 1.6 release line. We will only make another 1.6 release if a
severe issue requires it, and this will be the last release line to
support Java 6 and Hadoop 1.x.
Version 1.8.0 was released, our first significant, non-bugfix release
since May 2015. There was a discussion about dropping Java 7 support for
this release, but ultimately we decided to push that off until the next
major release.
The third annual Apache Accumulo Summit took place on October 11, 2016
(http://accumulosummit.com) and was very successful, with two tracks of
talks and over 200 attendees.
Community
Marc Parisi was added as a committer and PMC member on 8/31/2016.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment C: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
## Description:
- Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally
manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and
other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Following our last release we are answering some questions and fixing bugs.
Progress was slow over the summer holidays. There are a couple of off-list
discussions about future work for ACE. Through a back-channel we've received
word that ACE is also running on a private cloud, we're reaching out to the
people behind it to see if they are interested to spread the word on how
they did this.
## Health report:
- The current release seems pretty stable. There are still some ongoing
discussions about extending ACE.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 2 months
- Last PMC addition was Bram de Kruijff on Mon Jul 08 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 2 months
- Last committer addition was Bram Pouwelse at Thu Feb 25 2016
## Releases:
- February 9th, 2016: ACE 2.1.0 release.
## Mailing list activity:
- users@ace.apache.org:
- 75 subscribers (up 0 in the last 2 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (32 in previous quarter)
- dev@ace.apache.org:
- 73 subscribers (up 3 in the last 2 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 2 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 2 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment D: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
* Description: Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source
message-oriented middleware. 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
2.0, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, Stomp and REST.
* Activity
** Overall, the project health is very stable. No disgreements in the
community and the folks on the project are working together on both ActiveMQ
and Artemis. The ActiveMQ code base continues to grow and improve and it is
pushing releases more frequently as was the plan. Activity with the Artemis
code base continues its successful march toward full compatibility with
ActiveMQ.
** ActiveMQ
*** Active discussions around a new web console
*** The project is a little stuck on the docker issues pending infra and legal
resolution
** ActiveMQ Artemis
*** Apache Artemis 1.4.0 Released
*** AMQP 1.0 implementation improvements
**** Local transaction support improved
**** Multi-session-per-tx and multi-tx-per-session capabilities support
**** Support for OASIS AMQP JMS mappings for JMS 1.1 over AMQP 1.0 added
**** Major refactor of the AMQP implementation making it simpler and easier to
understand
*** [CVE-2016-4978] Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Deserialization of untrusted
input vunerability.
**** Fixed in Apache Artemis 1.4.0
**** Announcement made
*** Support for setting global limits (total memory and disk utilization)
added
*** Basic Java EE CDI integration added
* PMC changes
** Currently 23 PMC members
** No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
** Last PMC addition was Martyn Taylor on Fri Jul 08 2016
* Committer base changes
** Currently 57 committers
** John D. Ament was added as a committer on Mon Aug 08 2016
* Releases
** 5.13.4 was released on Mon Jul 18 2016
** 5.14.0 was released on Thu Aug 04 2016
** 5.14.1 was released on Thu Sep 29 2016
** ActiveMQ Artemis 1.4.0 was released on Mon Sep 12 2016
-----------------------------------------
Attachment E: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
## Description:
Apache Airavata is a distributed system software framework to manage
simple to composite applications with complex execution and workflow
patterns on diverse computational resources.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Since the last reporting time, the activity has picked up both on mailing lists
and code commits.
## Health report:
The project remains healthy. There are quite a few new contributors and an
increase in pull requests. We anticipate some of these contributors will
hang-on, and join the PMC bandwagon. The attention to detail in review of
the pull requests has improved and the contributors are responding well
to the feedbacks. A PMC member was added during this reporting period.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- Nipurn Doshi was added to the PMC on Tue Aug 23 2016
## 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:
- Last release was 0.15 on Fri Dec 04 2015
## Mailing list activity:
The mailing list traffic increased. The Jenkins build failures were coming to
dev list which provides a misleading statistic below. We now moved the jenkins
notifications to issues. From next quarter, the dev list threads will purely
indicate discussions. Excluding this, still there is fair amount of community
engagement both on dev and user lists. We would like to continue to improve on
these aspects.
- users@airavata.apache.org:
- 112 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 35 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- dev@airavata.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 562 emails sent to list (345 in previous quarter)
- architecture@airavata.apache.org:
- 77 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@airavata.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 728 emails sent to list (270 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 162 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 73 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment F: Report from the Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise]
## Description:
Apache Apex is a distributed, large-scale, high throughput,
low-latency, fault tolerant, unified stream and batch processing
platform for Apache Hadoop.
## Issues:
There are no issues that require the Board's attention.
## Status/Activity:
September saw the release 3.5.0 of Apex Malhar, with many new
features, including windowing support following the Apache Beam semantics,
support for the same in the high level stream API, new data structures
for incremental checkpointing and many new and improved operators.
https://blogs.apache.org/apex/entry/apache_apex_malhar_3_5
The community is working towards the next release Apex Malhar 3.6.0,
which will continue to expand the operator library, usability with operator
documentation and examples, optimized window state management
and the first iteration of SQL support using Apache Calcite.
The community is also working on integrating Apex as engine into other
frameworks, including Apache Beam (incubating) and Apache SAMOA (incubating).
Apex continues to see increased interest and adaption, a list of organizations
that use Apex and integrations can be found here:
http://apex.apache.org/powered-by-apex.html
~50% YoY growth in contributors
~50% more subscribers on the users@ mailing list over last 6 months.
Continuous presentations with growing worldwide meetup community:
https://www.meetup.com/topics/apache-apex/
Apex will be represented with several talks at upcoming big data conferences,
including Apache Big Data Europe.
## Community:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Chandni Singh 2016-09-07
- Currently 40 committers.
- Last committer addition was Devendra Tagare on 2016-08-10
https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?apex
- 57 contributors all time
## Releases:
Following are the most recent releases:
- Malhar 3.5.0 released 2016-09-05
- Malhar 3.4.0 released 2016-05-25
- Core 3.4.0 released 2016-05-12
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
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:
- As a community we made 3 releases this quarter and 3 further releases
currently under vote, and added Johannes Utzig as a new committer.
## Health report:
- The number of subscribes has remained consistent over the last three
months.
- The user@ traffic has been significantly greater than the previous
three months with a wide range of discussion across the Aries sub-modules.
- Despite 32 issues being closed off, the number opened was slightly
higher in the past 3 months.
## 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 52 committers.
- Johannes Utzig was added as a committer on Wed Sep 14 2016
## Releases:
- Aries Blueprint Core 1.7.0 (blueprint-core) 2016-09-19
- Aries Blueprint CM 1.0.9 (blueprint-cm) 2016-09-19
- Aries Transaction Manager (transaction-manager) 1.3.1 2016-10-07
- Aries Blueprint Core 1.7.1 (blueprint-core) voting in progres
- Aries JMX Core 1.1.7 (jmx-core) voting in progress
- Aries Util 1.1.3 (util) voting in progress
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@aries.apache.org:
- 135 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 481 emails sent to list (546 in previous quarter)
- user@aries.apache.org:
- 239 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 269 emails sent to list (91 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 42 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 32 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
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:
- Arrow made its first release.
- In preparation of the release, multiple discussions were focused on
formalizing various Arrow specification details.
- Discussion was good and we reworked some integration to invert the
dependency model between the Parquet project and the Arrow project.
- A new Arrow file format was defined and implemented in both Java and C++.
It is also available from Python.
- Community members covered Arrow at multiple conferences including Strata
NYC.
- Arrow <> Parquet interchange has been made available in C++.
- The new Arrow file format is planned to be used to move forward on both
cross-language IPC implementations and enabling cross-language compatibility
tests.
- We've seen good growth in the Arrow developer mailing list, having increased
to 467 subscribers (up 43 in the last 3 months):
## Health report:
- The first release is a good step in engaging a broader range of contributors
and users. Having bits for use, albeit alpha, allows us to engage a wider
range of engineers.
- We need to continue to add new examples and more documentation to better
describe how to use and extend Arrow.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Abdel Hakim Deneche on Tue Jan 19 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ippokratis Pandis at Thu Feb 18 2016
## Releases:
- 0.1.0 was released on Wed Oct 12 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 95 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 73 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache AsterixDB Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large collections
of semi-structured data.
Activity:
- Development and discussions are active, the community is healthy and
engaged.
- Some activity to make AsterixDB more extensible to enable projects to
extend AsterixDB in different directions while maintaining a stable common
core.
- The first non-incubating release of AsterixDB is getting more urgent.
- Twitter handle has been changed to @AsterixDB, name to "Apache AsterixDB".
Issues:
- There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
PMC/Committership changes:
Wenhai Li was added as a committer on 2016-10-05.
The last committer added was Wenhai Li on 2016-10-05.
The last PPMC/PMC member added was Michael Blow on 2016-03-28.
Releases:
AsterixDB graduated from the Incubator on April 20, 2016. The last releases
were on February 26, 2016: AsterixDB 0.8.8-incubating and Hyracks
0.2.17-incubating.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment J: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away.
Etch is still in the process of moving to the Attic.
Repeating from last report; activity is low. The Attic could use some energy
towards generating advice on how to keep out of the Attic, some more energy
on the mundane clean up work, and energy on encouraging energy.
That said, bar Etch there's not much short term to do.
## PMC changes:
- Currently there are 20 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Herve Boutemy on Sat Jul 18 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- general@attic.apache.org:
- 35 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 86 emails sent to list (109 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment K: 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:
- 1.8.2 release is close to a release candidate.
- Added a single-message format and API for systems like Kafka.
## Health report:
- Last report stated, "Avro is healthier than last [quarter]". This is
because the community was talking about setting up a regular release
schedule and there was interest in regularly getting contributor work
into releases. This is an important step becuase contributors won't
submit patches to a project if they are never available to use.
- The release planned for August has been delayed by build issues, but
is nearly through blockers and is expected this quarter.
- Contributor engagement is still a goal we are working on. Many committers
do not have time to review patches.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on Sun Feb 14 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Matthieu Monsch at Mon Jan 18 2016
## Releases:
- 1.8.1 was released on Fri May 20 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@avro.apache.org:
- 279 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 757 emails sent to list (660 in previous quarter)
- user@avro.apache.org:
- 631 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 45 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 51 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 35 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment L: Report from the Apache Calcite Project [Julian Hyde]
## Description:
Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework 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.
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, but resides in the
same git repository.
## Issues:
- I (Julian Hyde) have decided to step down as PMC chair, because I
believe that a rotating chair fosters a strong community. The PMC has
voted on a replacement, and is recommending Jesús Camacho Rodríguez as
new PMC chair. (See Special Orders 7B).
- This is my last Board report for the project; I'd like to thank the
Board for their support and trust.
## Activity:
Calcite became a top-level project exactly one year ago. On
graduation, the community decided not to adopt bylaws, but to have a
"state of the project" discussion each year, and to rotate the PMC
chair yearly if possible. We have been having this discussion,
achieved consensus on Jesús Camacho Rodríguez as a candidate for PMC
chair, confirmed in a private PMC vote.
Some of the other feedback during the discussion included:
- Satisfaction with the pace of the project, and its ablity to "fan
out" to cover diverse areas of interest (some of practical use to
production systems, some of them more experimental);
- A sense that Avatica is still doing OK as a sub-project (that is, it
is not yet time to consider TLP status), but needs to be factored
into its own git repo;
- A thirst for documentation to make it easier for casual users to use
Calcite.
Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and
its Avatica sub-project. There has been one release of Calcite, with
another currently under vote, and no releases of Avatica.
Julian Hyde gave a talk at FlinkForward (Berlin); three community
members (including the proposed new PMC chair) will be giving talks
about Calcite or mentioning Calcite at Apache: Big Data in Seville in
November.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both
Calcite and Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Josh Elser on Wed Feb 17 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 19 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Francis Chuang was added as a committer on Tue Sep 27 2016
- Milinda Pathirage was added as a committer on Tue Jul 12 2016
- MinJi Kim was added as a committer on Sun Sep 04 2016
## Releases:
- 1.9.0 was released on Wed Sep 21 2016
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
## Description:
- OSGi framework implementation in C and C++.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- C++ support added by use of the C++ specific dependency manager.
- Documentation relating to C / C++ dependency manager added / improved
## Health report:
- Celix is still a small community, hopefully the C++ support will
atract some atention
## 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 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Gabriele Ricciardi at Sat May 21 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.0.0-incubating on Tue Feb 25 2014
- Celix release was postponed to add C++ support, in hindsight maybe not the
best decission. The idea is that C++ support can atract some additional
attention. Technically everything is now ready for a release.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@celix.apache.org:
- 57 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (28 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment N: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
## Description:
Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring
large distributed systems.
## Activity:
- Updated site navigation
- Updated Apache trademark on Chukwa website
## Issues:
- No commerical sponsor to build momentum
- Not enough people to build a community
## PMC/Committership changes:
- No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
- Latest PMC addition: Tue Oct 15 2013 (Alan Cabrera)
- 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:
- 0.8.0 was released on Fri Jul 15 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 90 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 24 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 159 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment O: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
## Description:
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce and Apache Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
## Issues:
We had a report this quarter that a file that was used in some of our
tests contained content that had an unclear copyright status outside
of the US (maugham.txt, containing a sampling of work from W. Somerset
Maugham.) We removed this file from our source repo and updated the
tests that made use of it, as discussed in this JIRA issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-616 If the board feels
that any additional action is required here, please let the PMC know
and we will take it.
## Activity:
We had a normal amount of activity this month, primarily focused on
performance and debugging for very large MapReduce pipelines executed by
Crunch and improvements to the new Kafka Streams-based pipeline executor.
## Health report:
Work proceeds apace to improve what Crunch does well (executing large and
complex MapReduce pipelines), but as MapReduce gradually declines in
use and is replaced by Apache Spark as the execution engine of choice, we
expect that patches will come in more slowly and be primarily focused on
fixing bugs as opposed to adding new functionality.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Micah Whitacre on Wed Apr 02 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was David Whiting at Mon Nov 30 2015
## Releases:
- 0.14.0 was released on Fri May 06 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment P: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
## Description:
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you
build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as
HTTP, JMS or JBI.
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
## Activity:
This was a fairly active quarter on a bunch of fronts. DOSGi 2.0
was finally released completing some of the splitting of the remote services
spec into Apache Aries and the implementation in CXF. It also cleaned up the
architecture quite a bit to help make it easier to maintain. Fediz had a
couple of patch releases to cleanup some requirements presented by users.
CXF itself had some patch releases mostly to fix bugs. Work toward 3.2 is
progressing and we were able to drive Oracle into producing a "milestone" API
jar for the JAX-RS 2.1 update that we need for 3.2.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Francesco Chicchiriccò was added to the PMC on Sun Sep 18 2016
- Jan Bernhardt was added to the PMC on Sun Sep 18 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francesco Chicchiriccò at Mon Nov 30 2015
## Releases:
- 3.0.10 was released on Mon Jul 25 2016
- 3.1.7 was released on Mon Jul 25 2016
- Apache CXF Fediz 1.2.3 was released on Sun Sep 04 2016
- Apache CXF Fediz 1.3.1 was released on Thu Aug 11 2016
- DOSGI-2.0.0 was released on Thu Sep 15 2016
In addition, 3.0.11 and 3.1.8 are being voted on now.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton]
## Description:
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
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:
1) After our July, 2016 report, we received feedback from the board:
mt: Thanks for the thoughtful response to the merging lists idea.
Does the PMC have any ideas/plans for the DdlUtils sub-project?
Since that time, the DB community have reached consensus that DdlUtils
is retired. A public vote on the DdlUtils list confirmed that consensus,
and the PMC are working to implement a subset of the Apache Attic
process to reflect that decision and to make the status be clearly
communicated to future visitors of the Db project site.
2) The Derby student who participated in the 2016 Google Summer of Code
completed her project successfully
3) Apache DB welcomed two new committers this quarter:
- Tilmann Zäschke was added as a committer on Fri Jul 15 2016
- Brett Bergquist was added as a committer on Tue Aug 30 2016
## Health report:
Activity in the Apache DB community this quarter was 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 44 committers (up 2 this quarter).
## Releases:
- Last release was Derby-10.12.1.1 on Sun Oct 11 2015
- A Derby 10.13 release is underway, and will probably complete next quarter.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment R: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]
Current Activity and Status
---------------------------
In the last quarter 5 committers were added.
PMC voted to accept SCIMple-Identity as a sub-project.
------------------------- Detailed Information ------------------
# Community
Five new committers (last addition: August 2016)
- Alex Haskell
- Christopher Harm
- Richard Feezel
- Steve Moyer
- Shawn E Smith
No new PMC members (last addition: May 2016)
# Projects
Note: Unless otherwise specified all projects are implemented in pure Java.
## Apache Directory Server
ApacheDS is an extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in
Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group
### Mailing list subscriber info
- Users mailing list: 304 subscribers (+2)
- Development mailing list: 175 subscribers (+0)
### Development and Releases
- Version 2.0.0-M23 was released on 22nd July, 2016
## Apache Directory LDAP API
The Apache Directory LDAP API is an ongoing effort to provide an enhanced LDAP
API, as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and Mozilla
LDAP API). This is a "schema aware" API with some convenient ways to access
all types of LDAP servers, not only ApacheDS but any LDAP server
### Mailing list subscriber info
- 72 subscribers (+4)
### Development and Releases
- Low activity
- No new releases, switched to RC state in the last release and preparing to
release a GA soon
- Bug fixes and improvements
## Apache Directory Studio
Apache Directory Studio is a complete directory tooling platform intended to
be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with
ApacheDS. It is an Eclipse RCP application, composed of several Eclipse (OSGi)
plugins, that can be easily upgraded with additional ones. These plugins can
even run within Eclipse itself
### Development and Releases
- Low activity
- No new releases. The latest attempt to cut a release was halted due to a bug
in the installer generation script
## Apache Fortress
Apache Fortress is a standards-based access management system that provides
role-based access control, delegated administration and password policy
services with an LDAP backend.
### Development and Releases
- Very high activity
- Version 1.0.1 was released on 22nd, July 2016
### Mailing list subscriber info
- 32 subscribers (+1)
## Apache Kerby
An implementation of Kerberos v5 protocol and contains various tools to access
and manage kerberos principals and keytabs. It provides a rich, intuitive and
interoperable implementation, library, KDC and various facilities that
integrates PKI, OTP and token (OAuth2) as desired in modern environments such
as cloud, Hadoop and mobile.
### Development and Releases
- Low activity
- No new releases
### Mailing list subscriber info
- 27 subscribers (-1)
## Apache Mavibot
An embeddable key-value database library with Multi-version Concurrency
support
### Development and Releases
- Low activity
- No new releases
## Apache eSCIMo
An implementation of SCIM(System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
protocol version 1.
### Development and Releases
- Nil activity
- No releases yet
- Will be replaced with the code from newlyaccepted project, SCIMple-Identity,
from Penn State University
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
## Description:
Apache Geronimo is a JEE6 certified open source server runtime that integrates
the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet
the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators.
## Issues:
- We are concerned with the lack of community activity
- The inability to obtain a AL2.0 compatible JEE TCK pins Geronimo to JEE6
- CI/TCK setup has fallen into disrepair
## Ongoing Work - prepare for possible breakup and shuttering or downsizing:
- bring in any PMC members of sibling projects in Geronimo's JEE6 universe
- inventory any required interactions between individual specs
- inventory outstanding bugs in JEE6 specs and assess the amount of work
required
- inventory what are the outstanding security issues and assess the amount of
work required (will likely need to remove distributions until fixes can be
put into place)
- inventory CI setup and assess the amount of work required
- inventory TCK setup and assess the amount of work required
## Activity:
- Released geronimo-validation-1.1 v1.0
- Apache Yoko moved to git to be worked on by David Jencks, Joe Chacko,
and Neil Richards
## Health report:
- Last quarter was a very light quarter for Apache Geronimo, in spite of
this quarter's release
## PMC changes:
- Currently 42 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Wed Aug 06 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Adding Joe Chacko and Neil Richards.
## Releases:
- Released geronimo-validation-1.1 v1.0
## Mailing list activity:
- Even though there is a moderate level of activity on the mailing lists,
it is still very low.
- dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 356 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 95 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter)
- geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 43 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 99 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 16 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter)
- servicemix-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org:
- 6 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 447 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- xbean-dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- xbean-scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- xbean-user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas]
Apache Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and
managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.
Apache Hadoop cut its first release from trunk since 2011. Releases in the 2.x
series will continue to follow stricter compatibility guidelines on a branch.
The 3.0.0-alpha1 release has kicked off several API cleanups, reasoning about
dependencies, and other pains endured to avoid downstream breakage.
RELEASES
2.6.5 was released 2016-10-07
2.7.3 was released 2016-08-24
3.0.0-alpha1 was released 2016-09-02
COMMUNITY
(+ committer Anu Engineer 2016-07-27)
(+ committer Mingliang Liu 2016-08-14)
(+ committer Wei-Chiu Chuang 2016-07-20)
(+ committer Xiao Chen 2016-07-20)
(+ committer Larry McKay 2016-07-20)
(+ branch-HADOOP-13345 Rajesh Balamohan 2016-08-06)
(+ branch-HADOOP-10285 Rakesh Radhakrishnan 2016-09-26)
(+ branch-HADOOP-12756 Mingfei Shi 2016-08-22)
(+ branch-HADOOP-13345 Aaron Fabbri 2016-08-14)
(+ branch-HDFS-9806 Ewan Higgs 2016-09-21)
(+ branch-HDFS-9806 Virajith Jalaparti 2016-09-21)
(+ branch-HDFS-9806 Pieter Reuse 2016-09-21)
(+ branch-YARN-4752 Daniel Templeton 2016-08-14)
(+ branch-YARN-5079 Billie Rinaldi 2016-08-12)
(+ branch-YARN-5079 Gour K Saha 2016-08-12)
auth:154 committers and 69 PMC members
TRADEMARKS
The project updated its logo to include "Apache" [1]. We have an outstanding
request to trademarks@ to register our yellow elephant logo with the USPTO.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13184
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: 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 under the supervision
of branch RM Andrew Purtell: 0.98.21 was released on August 15, 2016.
0.98.22 was released on September 9, 2016.
We made one release from our 1.1 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Nick Dimiduk: 1.1.6 was released on September 4, 2016.
We made two releases from our 1.2 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Sean Busbey: 1.2.2 was released on July 10, 2016. 1.2.3 was
released on September 11, 2016.
Our upcoming 1.3 code line is in prerelease under the supervision
of branch RM Mikhail Antonov, now taking on production-like workloads
to shake out the handful of remaining issues.
Recently the community updated plans for branching for the next major
code line, 2.0. Co-RMs Matteo Bertozzi and Stephen Yuan Jiang will
supervise. (Because of his volunteerism in this regard, discussion is
underway to add Stephen Yuan Jiang to the PMC.) In broad strokes the
plan is to branch and produce an alpha quality preview some time in
November of 2016, then stabilize toward beta quality by the end of this
calendar year.
ACTIVITY
It is my pleasure to report the project added four new PMC during
this reporting period. Dima Spivak was added to the PMC on August 30,
2016. Duo Zhang joined us on September 5, 2016. Misty Stanley-Jones
joined us on September 6, 2016. Stephen Yuan Jiang joined us on
October 14, 2016.
Dima Spivak was granted committer and PMC status simultaneously,
increasing the ranks of our committers by one, to 53.
We had enough interest in HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the
HBase community that took place earlier this year in May, that the
Program Committee had to turn away quality talk proposals. Thanks to
generous contribution of hosting space and logistics from Google and
Bloomberg we found a home for this overflow in an additional East
Coast edition[1] which took place last month and was well attended
by members of our user and developer communities. The organizers
of the HBase-NYC meetup group report that their membership went
from ~600 pre-event to ~850 post, showing a good increase in local
community interest.
STATS
Mailing list membership has been steady.
The JIRA open/close rate and ratio is very close to that reported
last time.
53 committers
31 PMC
1066 subscribers to the dev list (up 3 in the last 3 months)
2355 subscribers to the user list (up 5 in the last 3 months)
592 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
457 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
1. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/233024937/
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]
Incubator PMC report for October 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 currently 63 podlings undergoing incubation - new record from 61 last
month!
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Felix Meschberger
People who left the IPMC:
N/A
* New Podlings
- Hivemall
- Spot
- NetBeans
Please note: none of the new podlings submitted reports. They will begin
reporting next month.
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
None
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
September:
- Apache Singa 1.0.0-incubating 08 Sep 2016
- Apache Tephra 0.9.0-incubating 19 Sep 2016
- Apache Madlib 1.9.1-incubating 19 Sep 2016
- Apache Samoa 0.4.0-incubating 22 Sep 2016
- Apache Batchee 0.4-incubating 29 Sep 2016
- Apache Streams 0.3-incubating 29 Sep 2016
* IP Clearance
Apache Storm JMS Integration from P. Taylor Goetz
Apache Storm SQE from JWPlayer
A vote was started to import Aether from Eclipse Foundation as Maven Artifact
Resolver, however it has not been closed as of the time of writing.
* Legal / Trademarks
Sally has begun work on helping improve the incubator brand. She has taken
over the Twitter account and has proposed putting together a selection for
a new logo.
* Infrastructure
Kudos to the infrastructure team for their hard work on the Netbeans
proposal, getting all of the needed infrastructure assessment prior to the
incubator accepting this podling.
Incubator usage of the new reporeq tool has been mixed. It would be great to
see a blog post or something about how to submit git repository requests.
* Credits
- Report Manager: John D. Ament
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Annotator
- AriaTosca
- Juneau
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Airflow
- FreeMarker
- Quickstep
Community growth:
- Geode
- Gossip
- HAWQ
- MRQL
- Mynewt
- Rya
* Ready to graduate
- BatchEE
* Did not report, expected next month
- DataFu
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Table of Contents
- Airflow
- Annotator
- AriaTosca
- BatchEE
- DistributedLog
- FreeMarker
- Geode
- Gossip
- HAWQ
- HORN
- Juneau
- MADlib
- Metron
- Milagro
- MRQL
- Mynewt
- ODF Toolkit
- Quickstep
- Rya
- SensSoft
- Streams
- Tamaya
- Toree
- Traffic Control
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--------------------
Airflow
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
author and manage data pipelines.
Airflow has been incubating since 2016-03-31.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Getting an Apache release out
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
We discovered a private Gitter channel for committers that was created during
the days when the Git project was owned by Airbnb. When the Github project’s
ownership moved to the ASF, so did that of all the Gitter channels. We killed
the channel - all committers left the channel and can no longer even
see/discover it.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. We elected 2 new PPMC Members/Committers (Li Xuanji a.k.a. Zodiac & Sumit
Maheshwari a.k.a. msumit) 2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e.
between Jul 7 and Oct 4, inclusive ), we grew our contributors from 160 to 191
3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Jul 7 and Oct 4,
inclusive ) , we merged >142 pull requests 4. Two meet-ups (One for HUG
Warsaw, the other an Airflow meet-up @Stripe HQ in SF) and several public
talks (e.g. DataDaySeattle, PyData SF) were held by the community 5. Since
being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies using Apache
Airflow has risen from 30 to 58
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Podling name search approved :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-110 2. Very active
discussion list, public Gitter channels and JIRA (more than 500 issues)
Date of last release:
None. First ASF release currently being discussed.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
As mentioned on
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements, 1. On Aug
16, Sumit Maheshwari (a.k.a. msumit) was elected to the PPMC and Committer
group 2. On Aug 19, Li Xuanji (a.k.a. zodiac) was elected to the PPMC and
Committer group
Signed-off-by:
[x](airflow) Chris Nauroth
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
[x](airflow) Jakob Homan
--------------------
Annotator
Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and humans.
Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Setup project infrastructure at the ASF
2. Migrate existing community to the ASF
3. Engage committers listed in our Proposal to plan next steps
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
n/a
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has established support for incubation and initial committers
and mentors have been added to project email lists.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project code identified in our Proposal remains under active development with
some components having achieved new version milestones in the last month.
Committers are working to establish a web presence and code collaboration on
ASF infrastructure.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](annotator) Nick Kew
[ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
[ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
[X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
--------------------
AriaTosca
ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK)
and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and
Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions.
AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable
release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache development process
and formulate a plan for fully functional release 1 of ARIA and populate
tasks to ASF Jira
2.Migrate existing users to apache mailing lists, redirect the present
external project links to Apache.
3.Grow the community around the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Project is still being established and presently onboarding the initial
committers.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Received Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from Gigaspaces.
The mailing lists, Jira, Github Repo, Incubator podling, Confluence Wiki
have been setup for the project.
The initial set of committers now have their apacheIds.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is presently being setup in Incubator. We expect the first code
push to happen in the month of October.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Project is running with the initial set of committers.
Signed-off-by:
[X](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi
[X](ariatosca) John D. Ament
[ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. fix last few cleanups on the licence/notice files
2. enhance the website and download page which is pretty poor at the moment
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
Some interactions on JIRA and twitter, Stian participated to the release vote!
How has the project developed since the last report?
Got some enhancements, fixes and a new release.
Date of last release:
2016-09-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-12-02
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
--------------------
DataFu
johndament:
Discussions on this podling seem to have stopped completely. There was a
graduation discussion back in August, which seems to have dropped
completely after some release content issues were identified.
--------------------
DistributedLog
DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers
durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a fundamental
building block for building reliable distributed systems.
DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the community, especially people from outside Twitter
2. Improve documentation, especially admin and user guides
3. First Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Increase in contributions from community, more discussion of subproject
ideas
2. Lots of engagement on documentation requests and etc
3. Improved responsiveness of committers to community members
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Documentation has improved significantly with addition of clean, easy to
understand and well designed website with landing page
2. First release and repackaging of the project under apache namespace are
being discussed
Date of last release:
NA
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
NA
Signed-off-by:
[ ](distributedlog) Flavio Junqueira
[X](distributedlog) Chris Nauroth
[ ](distributedlog) Henry Saputra
--------------------
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. The FreeMarker project exists
and produces releases since around 2001.
Most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Commuity growth; we need more developers.
2. Fill blanks left on the status page.
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?
There was a discussion about a graduation attempt, and the overall result
(though opinions
can slightly differ) was that we better see if we can attract more developers
first. For that,
we intend to start a branch that gets rid of the several backward
compatibility
constraints that makes contribution and addressing some interesting
templating
problems rather difficult or impossible, and which makes the code base more
attractive in general.
(Note that this is 15 year old code base, and the need for this is not a new
idea.) This branch
would be also the opportunity to switch to org.apache Java packages and
org.apache Maven coordinates.
We have positively completed the verifications about possible name conflicts
(PODLINGNAMESEARCH-107).
Date of last release:
2016-06-26
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
--------------------
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. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside of
Pivotal.
2. Establish a steady release cadence.
3. Discuss graduation on the geode dev list.
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?
- Karen Miller was added as a new committer and PPMC member
- 3 geode clubhouses on
- Domain Driven Design & Reactive Programming w/ Apache Geode
- What's New with Spring Data Geode
- Events & Continuous Query
- 3 presentations involving geode at SpringOne:
- Where Does Apache Geode Fit in CQRS Architectures?
- Spring Data and In-Memory Data Management in Action
- Design Tradeoffs in Distributed Systems - How Southwest Airlines Uses Geode
- A geode user group meeting in Tokyo
How has the project developed since the last report?
- We renamed packages from com.gemstone to org.apache to move us closer to
graduation
- The geode documentation was donated to the project
- We had our third public release 1.0.0-incubating.M3
- We have cut a release branch and getting close to our final 1.0.0 release,
using the apache package names
Date of last release:
2016-08-23
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Karen Miller 2016-07-18
Signed-off-by:
[x](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[X](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(rvs) Honestly, I think the project is one release away from starting a formal
graduation discussion.
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Gossip
Gossip is an implementation of the Gossip Protocol.
Gossip has been incubating since 2016-04-28.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce a release
2. Update the site, especially how-to-contribute documentation
3. Develop specifications for protocol
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have accepted features/patches from two contributors. We have opened up a
discussion to add one of them as a project committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The ability to gossip user defined payloads
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GOSSIP-21) has been added to the
project.
This is a key feature that downstream tools needed to use the project.
Contributors have moved the project from Junit4 to Junit5
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GOSSIP-11), as well as
redesign/re-factoring of system internals
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GOSSIP-15)
Date of last release:
(None yet)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No
Signed-off-by:
[x](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz
[x](gossip) Josh Elser
[ ](gossip) Sean Busbey
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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. we have seen significant increase of communication and collaboration across
the whole community in past 3 months. The community becomes more open for
discussion around the roadmap, various features that committers are working
on, infrastructure enhancements for the project.
2. One talk at trust cloud computing summit
* Apache HAWQ: The leading SQL-on-Hadoop Query Engine.
(http://www.cnii.com.cn/technology/img/4598.files/yicheng.html)
3. Two meetups: Data Science at Scale with HAWQ and MADlib and Hadoop
* https://www.meetup.com/Data-Engineers-Guild/events/233974633/
* https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-siliconvalley/events/232976650/
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The release candidate (Apache HAWQ 2.0.0.0-incubating RC4) has been
proposed and the voting process on the dev mailing list completed. The main
target of the first release is to clear all IP related issues for HAWQ and
this is a source code tarball only release. Full list of JIRAs fixed/related
to the release: link
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/HAWQ+Release+2.0.0.0-incubat
ing>
2. New features added include
* snappy compression for AO tables
* HAWQ register feature for registering data into HAWQ native tables
* PXF - JSON support (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-178)
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Add one committer in September: Kavinder Dhaliwal
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hawq) Alan Gates
[x](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
[X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(rvs) Now that the first release of HAWQ has officially been published, I
believe the community has unblocked itself and will be running in high gear.
Looking forward to a cadence of releases and community expansion.
--------------------
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. Make an initial release
2. Keep up development velocity.
3. Continue to grow community.
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?
* We received few 'pull request' contributions from government research
institute.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Improved CLI commands
* Developing recurrent neural network and LSTM
* Writing a paper about HORN project (http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00781)
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](horn) Luciano Resende
[ ](horn) Robin Anil
[X](horn) Edward J. Yoon
--------------------
Juneau
Apache Juneau is a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content
types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-
documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code.
Juneau has been incubating since 2016-06-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build up community with non-IBM and non-Salesforce contributors.
2. Release a version of the product to spark external interest in the
project.
3. Finish building community architecture and guidelines.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new members in September. The hope is that a release of the product will
spark interest.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Versioning and release guidelines have been created in Confluence.
Currently in the process of creating our first release.
Date of last release:
None.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](juneau) Craig Russell
[ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
[X](juneau) John D. Ament
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
The project has room for growth. Its currently a 1 man project, will be
good to see a release go out to help build a larger community.
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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. Need guidance from Incubator PMC on how to resolve the BSD licensing
switch over to Apache License. What should be the content of the license
headers for files that were previously BSD licensed and then granted to
ASF? Related legal-discuss threads:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201609.mbox/%3CC
ALGG8z03zHhbFegXoi4fH+vXtF+9m7x6hak9RjKQjapuzi67gQ@mail.gmail.com%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201603.mbox/%3C9
D1AF43C-370B-4E58-B0EF-2E29D242F50B%40jaguNET.com%3E
2. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
3. Continue to 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?
Yes-please see #1 above and provide guidance.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Two new committers added to the project:
* Orhan Kislal (9/7/16)
* Nandish Jayaram (9/7/16)
2. MADlib related events in Q3 2016:
* Jul 27 - MADLib community call. Topic: Open discussion on Apache
MADlib project (hosted by Greg Chase, Frank McQuillan)
* Aug 19 - Presentation to Hortonworks. Topic: Apache MADlib, Apache
HAWQ (incubating) and Apache Zeppelin (Rahul Iyer, Frank McQuillan)
* Sep 13 - MADLib community call. Topic: Deep dive on MADlib 1.9.1
release (hosted by Greg Chase, presentation by Frank McQuillan)
* Sep 21 - Meetup at Hortonworks San Francisco. Topic: Future of data
- Apache MADlib and Apache HAWQ (Tushar Pednekar)
* Sep 22 - Meetup at Hortonworks Santa Clara. Topic: Future of data -
Apache MADlib and Apache HAWQ (Tushar Pednekar)
3. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs and pull requests.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 3rd ASF release MADlib v1.9.1 released on Sep 19, 2016. Features include:
path functions (phase 2), 1-class support vector machines for novelty
detection, prediction metrics, sessionization, pivoting.
2. Community has started active development on the v1.10 release.
3. 13 JIRAs created and 5 resolved in last 30 days.
Date of last release:
MADlib v1.9.1 on 9/19/16.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected:
Orhan Kislal on 9/7/16 and Nandish Jayaram on 9/7/16.
Signed-off-by:
[x](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[x](madlib) Ted Dunning
[x](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
tdunning:
This project seems to be ticking along pretty reasonably. The only worry I
have about it is that it seems to be strongly centered around a few (or
even just one) very strong contributors. That is a worry relative to
longevity and community building. Overall, I don't think that the project
is getting much marginal value from incubation.
johndament:
Its unclear what guidance from the IPMC is required if the podling is
already reaching out to legal, which would be the main thing I can think
of to recommend to them right now.
rvs:
@johndament: I think we need to formalize whatever decision by legal. I'll
create a formal LEGAL JIRA soon.
--------------------
Metron
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to
offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron provides
capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing, storage,
advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying the most
current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry within a single
platform.
Metron has been incubating since 12-08-2015
Three most important issues to address in the move towards Graduation.
- Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
- Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
- Make an Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of
- We are currently in the process of producing our third Apache release
* How has the community developed since the last report
- We received strong community contributions in both code, documentation, and
testing from two additional community members and are hoping to make them
committers shortly
- David Lyle and Nick Allen were promoted to PPMC
- Tweaked and re-voted on the community bylaws
- Introduced a by-weekly community demo and meeting
* How has the project developed since the last report
- We closed on 41 more Jiras and made our code base more compliant and
introduced several important features. We also had lively discussion on the
dev boards about how these features should be implemented.
Signed-off-by:
[x](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
[x](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
--------------------
Milagro
Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a first release
2. Continue to migrate to full Open Development.
3. Building the MILAGRO community – engaging developers and cryptographers
beyond the core companies, raising awareness and helping to secure future
of internet.
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?
We have elected two new committers. User questions are dealt with well on the
mailinglist, although the volume remains low.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Commit activity has finally migrated from Github. The project is very keen to
adopt full two-way mirroring with github as soon as possible. Mailinglist
activity remains low.
Main development focus over last couple of months was on crypto library
(MILAGRO crypto lib), which was re-factored and improved, in order to improve
the code quality, readability, and test coverage.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Alessandro Budroni and Nicola Asuni were elected in July 2016.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[x](milagro) Nick Kew
--------------------
MRQL
MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and
Flink.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the number of active committers
2. Increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list activity
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?
There were no new developers or new committers since our last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There were 8 JIRA issues reported during this period, from which 7 have
already been resolved. The main work during this period was on algebra-based
and source-level debugging of MRQL queries. Basically, results from an MRQL
query are annotated with lineage information, which links each result value
with the input data that were used to calculate the value. Given a result
value, our debugger not only can print the input values that contributed to
the result value, but can also display the detailed workflow that was used to
calculate this value (how-to provenance). In contrast other data-centric
debuggers, such as Titian for Spark, our debugger supports on-line browsing
and searching using GUIs and can work on all MRQL supported platforms
(map-reduce, Spark, Flink, and Hama). It also allows to insert trace points in
the query source to debug the query at the source level. We hope that this
debugger will be a valuable tool for developing and understanding MRQL
queries.
Date of last release:
2016-03-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-04-17
Signed-off-by:
[X](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[X](mrql) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
--------------------
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 point releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity with the
goals of the first major (1.0) release in the last quarter of 2016 and
continued demonstration of 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 with diverse
backgrounds, 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. Active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers. 15 new
subscribers on dev@ mailing list since last report. 2. Increased participation
by 3rd parties through pull requests for new BSP support, features, and test
cases. Outreach continues via conferences, exhibits, one on one meetings, beta
testers, GSoC participation. 3. Vigorous discussions, feature proposals, and
implementation suggestions on @dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Releases: No new releases since June 6th but work on several branches are
being merged for first 1.0 beta release in October. The project has now closed
100+ pull requests. 2. Planning: Issues including bug reports, features, and
wish list captured and tracked in ASF JIRA by members of the community. Work
continues against 125 tickets opened for 1.0 releases (beta and GA). 3. Effort
towards self governance: Voting successfully completed to grant committer
status to one new candidate since last report.
Date of last release:
2016-06-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-10-04
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
[X](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?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Patches had been provided from LibreOffice developers for the ODF validator.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Svante Schubert is working on the major collaboration feature, likely to
attract more developers. He aims to get the basic updates in before the next
release based on JDK6. The release is aimed to be before the ApacheCon EU and
one release afterwards on JDK 8 including the feature. He will attent the
ApacheCon EU to get in contact with people from the POI project in order to
evaluate possible ways to graduate.
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 discussions at ApacheCon will let us
formulate a plan for where the project should go, to bring back to the list,
and hopefully get ODF Toolkit out of the incubator!
--------------------
Quickstep
Quickstep is a high-performance database engine.
Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create and ASF release (current target is December 20, 2016).
2. Continue to build the developer community.
3. Acquire early adopters.
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?
1. We have two new community members (Tarun Bansal and Tianrun Li). 2. Working
with a large company to fund three students for a year and allow them to
contribute to Quickstep. Funding has been approved and in the process of
finalizing the ICLA approvals.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Closed over 10 pull requests. 2. Started running end-to-end
benchmarks/workloads to build towards a viable product. 3. Cleaned up the
repository to have licensing and copyrights in line with ASF projects.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[x](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik
[x](quickstep) Julian Hyde
[x](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
I am concerned that the project is evolving but is not doing it
in the Apache way. For example, the "new community members" were
welcomed on the mailing list but there was not a vote or
discussion about making them committers. Also, there is still no
release and the project does not seem to be making it a priority,
and substantive discussions are not happening on the list (other
than discussions about pull requests). Of course, it is great
to see commit activity and a growing community.
rvs: I'm very much in agreement with Julian that the project seems to be
somewhat in trouble with adopting itself to the "Apache Way". Honestly,
it feels like an academic project hosted by ASF at this point. I believe
at this point mentors need to show some "tough love" and push for having
a real plan of how community thinks about addressing all the issues we've
observed so far. Julian and I are working on making it a priority for the
PPMC.
--------------------
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. Have a first release as part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the documentation to be more formalized and more representative of
the current codebase.
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?
* A new committer was invited and accepted to join the committers for Apache
Rya (incubating).
* Talk on Rya at the DC Graph Database meetup on August 30, 2016
* Online presentation on Rya to a group of researchers and developers from
Cray on September 29, 2016
* Talk on Rya accepted at Accumulo Summit, October 11, 2016
* The Rya "office hour" teleconference continues every other week, with few
exceptions when people are too busy. Users and developers can ask
questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The
minutes are sent to the dev@ list. Attendance at these meetings has grown
beyond existing committers of the project to include new contributors. New
contributors have led the discussion for new features that they have helped
develop. We continue posting minutes and reference slides from the
meetings on confluence to provide reference documentation to new
contributors.
* Multiple PRs from several non-committers which are integrated into the
repository continue to be received
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Worked on the first release. The first release candidate was proposed, but
the vote did not pass on the dev list. Working on the next release
candidate.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: added a benchmark tool for the pre-computed joins
optimizer; added support for property chain inference; integrated Apache
Fluo (incubating) with Rya so triples inserted in Rya are inserted into
Apache Fluo (incubating) too in order to incrementally update any
pre-computed joins registered with Fluo; added OPTIONAL support for
pre-computed joins
Date of last release:
Not applicable. Initial vote on first release candidate did not pass on dev
list. Working on the next release candidate.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
New committer Caleb Meier elected on August 31, 2016
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](rya) Sean Busbey
[ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
JE: Podling had a first release candidate staged, but it failed to numerous
incompatibly-licensed transitive dependencies. Progress on release is stalled,
but not forgotten.
--------------------
SensSoft
SensSoft is a software tool usability testing platform
SensSoft has been incubating since 2016-07-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving towards the first Incubating release of the source code and other
release artifacts.
2. Grow the Apache SensSoft (Incubating) community.
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the SensSoft Roadmap
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENSSOFT/Roadmap
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has not grown over and above the list of initial committers.
Draper Labs are doing a bunch of social media outreach and are also demo'ing
SensSoft at a number of Human/Computer + UI/UX Events so we hope this will
change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has seen loads of activity on Jira and the mailing list. All code
has been licensed under ALv2.0 with NOTICE's, DISCLAIMER's, etc now being
committed across the SensSoft software suite. Jira is very busy. We are
utilizing builds.apache.org for all projects builds... this is part of the aim
to move towards CI for the SensSoft stack.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](senssoft) Paul Ramirez
[X](senssoft) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](senssoft) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): One mentor active within the past month. Active
JIRA/Developers Mailing Lis
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Streams
Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and
online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these
datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for
streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.
Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Community growth and PMC maturity.
2. Demonstrate a consistent release schedule.
3. Participation of project community within related standards-bodies and
Apache projects.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
A vote to retire the project was initiated but cancelled after several
individuals on the IPMC list expressed new interest in helping the project
continue to grow and eventually graduate. The project is now on a monthly
reporting schedule to monitor effective progress in growing the community
and active participation.
How has the community developed since the last report?
dev@streams.incubator.apache.org
46 emails sent by 15 people, divided into 9 topics.
http://streams.incubator.apache.org
196 Sessions, 170 Users, 512 Pageviews
How has the project developed since the last report?
https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-master
Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 9 commits to master and 9 commits to
all branches.
On master, 8 files have changed and there have been 114 additions and 193
deletions.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams
Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 6 commits to master and 6 commits to
all branches.
On master, 61 files have changed and there have been 85 additions and 66
deletions.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams-examples
Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 12 commits to master and 15 commits to
all branches.
On master, 67 files have changed and there have been 549 additions and 761
deletions.
92 Issues closed with release of 0.3-incubating
7 new Issues opened
Date of last release:
2016-10-03 : 03-incubating release
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-09-28: Suneel Marthi elected as mentor / PMC member
Signed-off-by:
[X](streams) Ate Douma
[ ](streams) Matt Franklin
[X](streams) Suneel Marthi
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Ate Douma: I see promising improvements with open discussions about next
steps
and future plans, both technically and to broaden the community involvement.
It's still wait and see however if and how the community does pick this up.
--------------------
Tamaya
Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on a modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extensible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE
environments.
Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Extend Community
2. Improve Documentation
3. Stabilize existing code base
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
See following sections.
How has the community developed since the last report?
A number of existing committers have decided to leave the project, this
includes the loss of two mentors and two other committers.
We have increasing feedback of use cases to be covered and also a few
bug reports, so Tamaya is used by developers and companies.
Additionally we are doing regular bi-weekly hangouts and have defined a
well defined roadmap.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have decided to improve the project setup, so we can
release easier and faster in the future: separating the site from the
project release, separating experimental modules and stable modules
into separate repositories. This work is currently ongoing, but we make
good progress and we plan to get out a release of the core parts around
end of October.
Date of last release:
2016-04-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Phil Ottlinger at 24th April 2016.
Signed-off-by:
[X](tamaya) John D. Ament
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
The project has room to improve. With the loss of mentors and existing
committers, need help mentoring this project.
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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: RESOLVED! Library is now released as MPL v2 and
necessary changes made in Toree
2. Make a release: The community is working on RC from 0.1.x branch. Master
has
moved to start support for Spark 2.0
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) In progress. Project elected new PPMC member.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
NONE, previous issue with LGPL dependency has been RESOLVED as the JeroMQ
dependency has now been released as MPL license.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. The Apache Toree has elected a new PPMC member: Marius van Niekerk
1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
Toree. Making significant progress here.
3. More external contributions being made. Spark 2 port done by outside
contributor and merged into master
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. JeroMQ community has finalized work to transition to MPL. Release
available and changes made in Toree src
2. Addressing issues opened by community
Date of last release:
None since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new additions since incubation
Signed-off-by:
[x](toree) Luciano Resende
[ ](toree) Reynold Xin
[x](toree) Hitesh Shah
[X](toree) Julien Le Dem
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Traffic Control
Traffic Control allows you to build a large scale content delivery network
using open source.
Traffic Control has been incubating since 2016-07-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Move code, issues, email lists and release process to ASF
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
All CCLAs and ICLAs have been signed, and we are clear to proceed with
moving the source from github.com to Apache. We are cleaning up the
issues and open PRs at this time, and should be able to move the code
before mid October.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- All legal hurdles for software grant have been cleared.
Date of last release:
We are trying to release 1.7 using the old process and git before the move
in to Apache git.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-07-12 - initial committer list.
Signed-off-by:
[x](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
[ ](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
[ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
[ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): Still getting off the ground, mailing lists are
new. No observable mentor activity.
Phil Sorber (mentor): There were some struggles getting all the legal ducks
in a row but that's all complete now so expect decent uptick in activity.
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Attachment W: 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:
We have not made any releases this quarter, though a patch release (1.13.1)
is imminent.
A session on Apache Isis was presented at the JAX London conference [1], and
several further session proposals have been submitted for future conferences.
## Health report:
Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are all healthy. They
are down on previous quarters, but we are not concerned by the change.
This has been a "slow" quarter for development of the core platform, but we
expect development to pick up again in the next quarter.
In the last report we made a remark about Oracle's apparent lack of
"enthusiasm" for JEE this year, prompting discussions on the dev list about
maybe switching to using SpringBoot as a base platform. Given that Oracle
now seems to have recommitted to JEE (with a renewed emphasis on "cloud"),
we are likely to keep things as they are and remain on core JEE.
## 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:
- Last release was 1.13.0 on Mon Jul 11 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Nothing of much significance here; a small rise in subscribers. Emails
are down, probably due to there being no new release this quarter.
- users@isis.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 190 emails sent to list (395 in previous quarter)
- dev@isis.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 263 emails sent to list (806 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 47 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 22 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1] https://jaxlondon.com/session/apache-isis-closing-the-architecturecode-gap/
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Attachment X: 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:
- Release process (vote) for james server 3.0-beta5 has started.
- A new logo has been voted and a new skin is under vote.
- Web site update is now done via git.
## Health report:
- Users confirm interest in a new release and new distributed storages.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Antoine Duprat on Fri Mar 11 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Raphael Ouazana at Thu Jul 07 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was SERVER-2.3.2.1 on Sat Sep 26 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- Subscribers and email activity stable
## JIRA activity:
- 85 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 45 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Y: 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 in the final stages of preparation for the jclouds 2.0 release. This is
long-awaited and much needed by many users, and we are close to completing the
feature set that we want to ship. The last details of the Azure ARM provider
are being wrapped up; with that, we will have support for all of today's major
cloud providers.
We have also completed integration with the new ProfitBricks REST API, and
have been able to move the jclouds Docker provider to a very stable state.
== Community ==
We have continued to receive substantial contributions from the community,
especially to the ProfitBricks and OneAndOne providers. This is very pleasing,
but we are still looking for additional ways to encourage participation.
We've tried lowering the barrier to becoming a committer; however, this has
not resulted in a noticeable increase in sustained activity. We are currently
discussing changes to our release cadence, with a view to releasing more
frequently, driven by user demand (e.g. for a set of required fixes to a
particular provider) rather than release dates or feature-based milestones.
This will hopefully allow users to keep up to date with the project more
easily, and encourage contributions by reducing the turnaround time from PR to
officially released code.
Our GSoC student completed their project successfully, which is in trunk and
will be part of the jclouds 2.0 release.
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)
We have voted on a new PMC member and the NOTICE has just been sent to the
board. We hope to have him added after the 72 hours if there are no
objections. This will help with the intended accelerated release cadence and
to bring new energy to our community involvement efforts.
== Community Objectives ==
Our immediate aim is to complete the Azure ARM provider and release jclouds
2.0 as soon as possible. Beyond that, we will be focusing on implementing the
new release criteria to improve the engagement with the community and
encourage participation.
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 1.9.2, took place on 2016-01-16.
As discussed above, we are aiming to release jclouds 2.0 shortly.
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
## Description:
Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for
RDF and SPARQL.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project has been proceeding steadily. Initial thoughts on the
next release have lead to an uptick in activity.
## Health report:
The project has been running as normal and there have been some
nice contributions from outside the usual contributors.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Adam Soroka on Mon Jun 06 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Adam Soroka at Mon May 30 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.1.0 on Tue May 10 2016
## Mailing list activity:
The project mailing lists are at normal levels - a wave of
students asking beginner questions on users@ have got some
very patient answers from the community. Discussions on
github reflected to dev@ account for the slight peaks
recently.
- users@jena.apache.org:
- 622 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months):
- 812 emails sent to list (410 in previous quarter)
- dev@jena.apache.org:
- 157 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 963 emails sent to list (599 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 35 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 37 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
Report from the Apache JMeter committee [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 is preparing the next release 3.1.
It will be the last version with support for Java 7.
Improvement activity continues.
The JMeter Twitter account has 2829 followers as of 11th Oct 2016.
This is about 80 more than at the time of the previous report (Jul)
## Health report:
The project has gained a bit after the summer vacations and in expectation of
the next release.
No new committer has been added recently.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Felix Schumacher on Tue Feb 03 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
## Releases:
- 3.0 final was released on Tue May 17 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Generally the lists see steady activity, with a small increase in the numbers
of subscribers
- user@jmeter.apache.org:
- 828 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 249 emails sent to list (305 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 116 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 107 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly]
## Project description
Apache Johnzon is an implementation of JSR-353 (JavaTM API for JSON
Processing) and a set of useful extension for this specification like an
Object mapper, some JAX-RS providers and websocket (JSR-356) integration.
## Status
Graduation out of the incubator is completed, the first non-incubator release
was done on July 21, 2016. There is ongoing work to make Johnzon JSR-367
(JSON-B) compliant. Its also planned to implement JSR-374 (JSON-P 1.1), the
successor of JSR-353.
## Releases
- 0.9.4 was released on July 21, 2016
- 0.9.5 was released on August 24, 2016
## Committers and PMC membership
The last committer we signed up was Reinhard Sandtner on April 12, 2016. The
last PMC member was Reinhard Sandtner, added to the PMC on August 30, 2016.
## Project activity
Since the last report (submitted July 2016) there was low activity.
We had 5 new Jira issues and fixed 6 of them. On the mailinglist there a no
unanswered questions left. On the dev list we have 28 subscribers currently
and 9 msg sent per week. Sine last report we saw mailing list activity from a
few new people.
One reason for low activity in the moment could be the uncertainty about the
situation within the Java community process (JCP) about the future of the
related Java specification requests (JSR's), namely JSR 374 and 367.
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Attachment AC: 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. There's enough
people to provide oversight.
## Activity:
- Source code was migrated from SVN to Git (+ its integrations) in order to
ease contributions.
- We've also talked about moving jspwiki.a.o from ASF's CMS to JSPWiki
(https://s.apache.org/PFXI) as a) historically it's always been that way, and
b) we could use it as showcase, having a separate wiki doesn't seem to be
enough (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-1030). I volunteered
for the task (moving content, copyright compliance, asking infra) but haven't
had time this quarter. Hopefully this will change on the upcoming quarter.
- 5 new blog posts at https://blogs.apache.org/jspwiki/
## Health report:
- All questions asked on MLs where answered, with a few JIRA issues solved
and some other fixes that went into trunk/master.
- 3 JIRA issues fixes came from an external contributor.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dave Koelmeyer on Wed Apr 06 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dave Koelmeyer at Wed Apr 06 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.10.2 on Sat Feb 20 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon]
Apache Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache
Hadoop ecosystem.
## Issues:
No issues requiring the board's attention at this time.
## Activity:
Since the last report:
- We released Kudu 1.0 in mid September, and issued a corresponding press
release. Thanks, Sally, for the support!
- The 1.0 release and corresponding press generated record traffic to our
project web site. It has since tapered off but remains higher than
historic levels.
- The community is currently voting on a 1.0.1 bug-fix release to address a
few issues discovered in 1.0.0.
- Kudu was featured in 5 talks at the Strata+Hadoop World conference in
NYC in September. Two talks were delivered by a member of the PMC, but
three were delivered by real-world users about their use cases. These
user talks had positive things to say about their adoption.
## Health report:
- Mailing list subscribership is up slightly in the last month, and traffic
is stable.
- We committed code from one brand new contributor in the past month.
Many new users have shown up on mailing lists and our Slack-based user chat.
- JIRA tickets are being created at a slightly higher rate than they are
being resolved, as a lot of contributors are working on scoping out
upcoming post-1.0 development work. Nevertheless, new bugs reported by
users are being triaged and addressed quickly.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members and committers (all committers are PMC)
- Last committer/PMC additions: 2 added on 9/14/2016.
## Releases:
- September 19, 2016: Kudu 1.0.0 released.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
Description:
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic
programming languages. The Apache Clownfish "symbiotic" object system pairs
with "host" programming language environments and facilitates the
development of high performance language extensions.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time.
Activity:
A goal to publish feature releases more frequently was met this quarter:
0.6.0 followed 0.5.0 after a seven month gap, whereas the previous two
feature releases had been spaced by two-year gaps. The testing framework
and error handling routines received a lot of attention, going some distance
towards making the software easier to grok and hack on.
Health report:
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members. The last committer
and PMC member change was Timothy Wilkens, who joined in September 2014.
This quarter was quieter than usual. In recent times, Lucy has been
developed primarily by two main contributors, and one of them recently
changed employment, resulting in diminished contributions.
A Director inquired last report cycle about ways to identify new candidates
for committer or PMC. Growing the community requires at the least starting
at the top of the "open source funnel": crafting a compelling story and
publicizing the software. New communities will have to be approached,
as Lucy's original Perl story has limited growth potential. Technically
speaking, both Clownfish and Lucy could plausibly be presented in C, Go,
or Python contexts, and Clownfish is ripe for presentation to
language-dev groups, but the website and the documentation do not
reflect that; changing the impression they give is probably a prerequisite
to successful outreach. Once that task is accomplished it's likely a matter
of speaking at conferences, blogging, tweeting and other techniques to get
the word out.
Releases:
- Apache Clownfish 0.6.0 was released on Sep 23 2016
- Apache Lucy 0.6.0 was released on Sep 23 2016
Mailing list and JIRA activity:
- Mail volume on the dev, user, and issues lists was down somewhat this
quarter.
- 16 JIRA tickets created and 16 resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Palumbo]
Apache Mahout is an environment for quickly creating scalable performant
machine learning applications.
## Issues:
- None
## Activity:
1. Work is presently focused on adding support for Visualization, GPU and
native optimization
2. Suneel Marthi and Trevor Grant did a Mahout on Flink talk at Flink Forward
2016, Berlin, Germany - September 13, 2016
3. Suneel Marthi did a Mahout talk at Department of Theoretical Physics,
Fritz-Haber Institut der Max Planck Gessellschaft, Berlin, Germany -
September 16, 2016
4. Suneel Marthi did a ‘Distributed Machine Learning with Apache Mahout’ talk
at Big Data Ignite, Grand Rapids, Michigan - September 30, 2016
5. Upcoming Apache Mahout talk at Apache Big Data Europe, Seville, Spain - Nov
2016
6. Team presently working on 0.13.0 release planned for Oct 2016.
## Health report:
- The health of the project is good with a devoted team of committers.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Stevo Slavić on Tue Apr 21 2015.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
## Releases:
- Mahout 0.12.2 released on June 12, 2016
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy]
Maven Board Report - October 2016
---------------------------
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
* Activity
Some new required changed have been identified to improve the Maven
ecosystem.
One proposal handles the support for identifying the platform as part of
the Maven Artifact coordinate.
Another proposal will introduce a new metadatafile besides the pom.xml we
now call Project Dependency Trees Schema: The Project Dependency Trees
artifact defines all the side artifacts of a project as well as each
artifacts tree of dependencies. This can be used by consumers to decide
what the consumers effective tree of dependencies is as well as allowing
consumers to perform intelligent substitutions in the tree. By providing
the entire tree we can reduce the number of requests a consumer needs to
make in order to resolve all the artifacts the consumer requires.
Others can already join to improve these proposals. Once all details are
clear, we'll search for contact with third parties related to artifact
management.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Requests+for+Comment
While the specs of Java 9 are still being adjusted, the work to support
these new features are still in progress. First result are already there
and have been shared at JavaOne.
IP Clearance for Aether, renamed to Apache Maven Artifact Resolver, has
been finalized:
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/maven-aether.html
During an audit of expenses, Maven's EC2 instance + S3 bucket were found
expensive and under-utilized: we studied both issues with infra and
a new hosting solution was found that will be less expensive and easier to
use for the PMC. Migration is under way (INFRA-12729).
* Health Report
General activity is healthy, with new committers, patches coming from
newcomers, discussion and commits from existing developpers on misc
topics.
* Community
* PMC changes
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andreas Gudian on Sun, 22 Nov 2015
* Committers changes
- Currently 57 committers.
- Guillaume Boué was added as a committer on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
* Mailing List activity
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1722 subscribers (down -20 in the last 3 months):
- 375 emails sent to list (348 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 635 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 1069 emails sent to list (934 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 685 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
* JIRA activity:
- 239 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 200 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
* Releases
Core
* Last Maven release: 3.3.9 (2015-11-15)
Plugins
* Maven WAR Plugin 3.0.0 (2016-08-24)
Other
* Maven Shared Utils 3.1.0 (2016-07-26)
* Maven Plugin Tools 3.5 (2016-08-30)
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Attachment AH: 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.
Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
The project continues to see new bug reports, bug fixes, features,
reviews and releases. The mailing lists, slack and IRC channels are
also very much active with healthy discussions.
Current plans:
MesosCon Europe was a great success. The keynotes, presentations and
events were all well received.
MesosCon Asia (our first conference in Asia) will be happening in
November. The program has been finalized after community vote.
We made good progress in cleaning up stale reviews and gathering
metrics.
New committers:
Qian Zhang was voted in as committer and PMC on .
We've identified couple more people that are close to become
committers and are actively working to nominate them.
Qian adds more diversity to the list of commmiters both in terms of
organization (IBM) and geography (China). In fact, we have more folks
in the committer pipeline from China which is great!
Releases: (since last report)
1.0.0 2016/07/26
1.0.1 2016/08/22
1.1.0 In progress
1.0.2 In progress
JIRA Activity:
526 - Issues created
327 - Issues resolved
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury]
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Attachment AJ: 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 is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit was May 2016.
Last commit on behalf of a contributor was Sept 2016.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit was May 2016.
Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2016.
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 on behalf of a contributor was August 2016.
- 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.
Security:
- We received a vulnerability report against MyFaces Trinidad on July 20th and
responded to the reporter the same day. We released patched versions of
Trinidad 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.1.x on Sept 29th along with CVE-2016-5019.
Issues:
mt asked: Is it time to retire CODI and Orchestra? Also, a quick look at
myfaces.a.o doesn't make it clear that CDI/Deltaspike is the
recommended approach for new users.
Initially, no one from the MyFaces PMC responded to these questions at the
end of July, but discussion has started this week. On Oct 12th, I posted
a request for help on the dev@deltaspike and dev@myfaces lists to see if
anyone there would be willing to update the pages for CODI and Orchestra.
Two individuals who are members of both PMCs suggested some changes to the
CODI and Orchestra pages to indicate that these two projects are not
actively maintained and to redirect users to DeltaSpike or Spring. There
was a trivial contribution for Orchestra on Aug 10th which was applied on
Aug 11th, so support is still being provided when requested.
## 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 MyFaces Core-2.2.11 was released on Sun Sep 18 2016
- Apache Tobago-2.0.10 was released on Wed Sep 07 2016
- Apache Tobago-3.0.0-alpha-4 was released on Sat Jul 16 2016
- Apache Tobago-3.0.0-alpha-5 was released on Sat Aug 27 2016
- Apache Tobago-3.0.0-alpha-6 was released on Mon Sep 19 2016
- Apache Trinidad-1.2.15 was released on Mon Sep 26 2016
- Apache Trinidad-2.0.2 was released on Mon Sep 26 2016
- Apache Trinidad-2.1.2 was released on Mon Sep 26 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 48 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 41 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AK: 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.
- Apache MiNiFi, a child project of Apache NiFi, is an edge data collection
agent built to seamlessly integrate with and leverage the command and control
of NiFi. There are both Java and C++ implementations.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Apache NiFi 0.7.0 and Apache MiNiFi 0.0.1 Java implementation was produced.
- The first release of Apache MiNiFi's C++ based implementation was produced.
- The Apache NiFi 1.0.0 release occurred as the culmination of more than a
year's worth of discussion, planning, and contributions.
- Preparations are underway to produce Apache NiFi 0.7.1 and 1.1.0 releases.
## Health report:
- Activity on mailing lists, JIRA, Git remains strong including code
contributions from 47 different individuals in this period.
- We've introduced new committers, PMC members, and recent reviews of the
pipeline suggest both committer and PMC progression is very promising.
- Recent efforts have occurred to work down the PR backlog and to close out
stagnant submissions.
- The JIRA open/close rate was excellent during the 1.0 release push. We need
to continue to monitor this and ideally have periods where closure exceeds
creation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- Matt Burgess was added to the PMC on Oct 6 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Koji Kawamura was added as a committer on Wed Jul 20 2016
- Yolanda Davis was added as a committer on Sat Jul 30 2016
- Andre Fucs De Miranda was added as a committer on Sun Aug 07 2016
- Rob Moran was added as a committer on Mond Sep 19 2016
## Releases:
- minifi 0.0.1 was released on Sun Jul 10 2016
- nifi 0.7.0 was released on Tue Jul 12 2016
- nifi 1.0.0 was released on Tue Aug 30 2016
- minifi c++ 0.0.1 was released on Fri Sep 2 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- We introduced an issues list and moved many dev emails there which has
improved the quality of discussion on dev.
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 385 subscribers (up 48 in the last 3 months):
- 809 emails sent to list (945 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 289 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
- 1129 emails sent to list (3701 in previous quarter)
- issues@nifi.apache.org:
- 26 subscribers (up 26 in the last 3 months):
- 10702 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 753 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 652 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AL: 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
There have been no releases since the last board report:
- Nutch 1.12 was released on Jun 19 2016,
- the last release on the 2.x branch (2.3.1) dates to Jan 20 2016.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Furkan Kamacı completed his GSoC project successfully and the developed code
is merged into Nutch's 2.x branch.
Four Nutch committers will give talks about crawler technology (not only Nutch)
at ApacheCon and Apache Big Data Europe in Seville.
Issues
- 29 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 25 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members in the last 3 months, last PMC addition on May 23 2016.
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level:
- dev@nutch.apache.org:
- 537 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months):
- 487 emails sent to list (608 in previous quarter)
- user@nutch.apache.org:
- 1098 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 280 emails sent to list (258 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar]
## 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:
- As indicated in the last report about the inclusion of 2 new
features, we have been working on it, and both the features
are completed and are now undergoing final integration testing.
We will start the release process for the new ODE Console sometime
in this week and it will have its own release cycles and post its
release we will initiate ODE release.
New feature coming in the new release
a) A new standalone distribution, based on an embedded TomEE and
b) New AngularJS based console app.
Around 47 issues have been fixed for the coming release.
## 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.
## 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:
- 151 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 64 emails sent to list (139 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 226 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 13 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg]
## 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.
## Activity:
We started with the implementation of the JPA-2.1 spec and moved
trunk to be 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.
We don't have any TCK for it but that doesn't stop us.
We got a few new contributors which we observe as committer candidates.
We discussed the option to release 3.0.0 milestones starting with
the end of this month.
## Health report:
We have a few people involved in maintaining the older 2.2.x branches
and a few who help us with the JPA-2.1 tasks. There is not a huge flood of
new commits but we are moving steadily.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- Francesco Chicchiriccò was added to the PMC on Thu Sep 15 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francesco Chicchiriccò at Tue Apr 26 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.1 on Sun Feb 21 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@openjpa.apache.org:
- 251 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 41 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
- dev@openjpa.apache.org:
- 133 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 249 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 24 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 20 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AO: 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:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Both our GSOC student were successful, we are currently working on
3.2.0 release which should improve performance and user UI.
## Health report:
- Mail list activity is growing due to 2 bugfix releases and improved stability
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Susheel Jalali on Fri Mar 04 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Susheel Jalali at Mon Feb 29 2016
## Releases:
- 3.1.2 was released on Fri Aug 12 2016
- 3.1.3 was released on Tue Sep 27 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 144 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 350 emails sent to list (192 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 339 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 474 emails sent to list (401 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 59 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 21 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 32 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 97 emails sent to list (138 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 50 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 60 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Marcus Lange]
DESCRIPTION
===========
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office-document productivity suite.
There are six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument
Format (ODF) that are Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math, Base. With
limited support for other formats, OpenOffice ships for Windows, Max OS
X, Linux 64-bit, Linux 32-bit and in dozens of languages.
STATUS
======
The first release after a longer time has been done and released and
announced successfully. This makes sure that the community can build a
release. So, we are back in the playground of active projects. However,
limitations of capacity and coordination of the project's moving parts
are ongoing concerns.
ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
==========================
Concerns for Board attention are in the Issues section, below.
RELEASES
========
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 was developed at the end of the 3rd quarter,
with release on 2016-10-12.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 is contemplated for release around year end for
further maintenance and available security fixes.
Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0 is planned for next year (maybe Q1) to include
new features and bigger enhancements but of course also further bugfixes
and security fixes if needed.
Complete Release History
------------------------
2016-10-12 4.1.3
2016-08-30 4.1.2-patch1 (additional binaries)
2016-08-02 4.1.2-patch1 (source code only)
2015-10-28 4.1.2
2014-08-21 4.1.1
2014-04-29 4.1.0
2013-10-01 4.0.1
2013-07-17 4.0.0
2013-01-30 3.4.1 refresh (8 more languages)
2012-08-21 3.4.1 incubating
2012-05-08 3.4.0 incubating
PMC/COMMITTERS
==============
The recognition and invitation of potential PMC members has slowed.
There are 27 current PMC members. Complete history is available in PDF
at http://s.apache.org/vji.
2016-07-14 Malte Timmermann (malte) joined the PMC
The last preceding PMC addition was on 2016-03-05
2016-09-02 Kay Schenk (kschenk) retired from the PMC
The last preceding retirement was on 2016-06-08
Committers
----------
There are 138 committers as of 2016-10-12. 23 have registered PGP keys.
The recognition and invitation of potential committers is continuing.
2016-04-22 Jan Høydahl (janhoy) joined the project
Last previous committer addition was on 2016-02-26
2016-09-02 Kay Schenk (kschenk) withdrew as committer
Last previous committer withdrawal was on 2016-06-08
ACTIVITY
========
Development and Release Engineering
-----------------------------------
The build documentation is further updated as the result of experience
producing release 4.1.3. The number of individuals able to replicate
release builds is increasing.
As part of a help-wanted effort along with public and mailing-list
attention to the possibility of project retirement, 21 newcomers offered
to contribute in various areas of the project. One is quite active with
others not showing steady activity so far.
In addition, 5 previous contributors offered to return to active
participation with varying presence so far. One returnee is highly
experienced and is heavily active on security, bug fixes, and release
management.
The arrival and continuing involvement of newcomers has been tracked in
the PMC Private OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet at <https://s.apache.org/4Xij>.
Deployment and Take-Up
----------------------
The take-up of Apache OpenOffice in terms of downloads is at a
consistent rate, showing a decrease for 4.1.2 of less than 10% compared
to 4.1.1.
For the 12 months spanning release of AOO 4.1.2 through 2016-09-30,
there are 37 million downloads, averaging about 3.1 million per month.
86.1% for Windows,
7.9% for Macintosh, and
6.0% for all other distributions
For comparison, release of AOO 4.1.1 averaged 3.2 million per month
(correcting a calculation error reflected in previous reports). Details
are at https://s.apache.org/dxaX
US destinations have the greatest number of downloads by nationality,
representing 16% of the total. About 40% of the worldwide downloads are
for English localizations. The estimation of language proportions is at
https://s.apache.org/2fwg
Branding
--------
There is no priority to update to the new feather logo and to adapt a
new "Power-By" logo.
There is typically one request per month for use of the marks.
There is typically a report per month of a suspected trademark misuse
(or confusion about selling of Apache OpenOffice binaries, e.g., on
Ebay). One requested correction due to an incorrect use of OpenOffice in
a product name was confirmed in September.
Community Lists and Archives
----------------------------
An Apache OpenOffice booth was manned at FrosCon 2016 near Bonn,
Germany, in August. In November, there will be booths at events in The
Netherlands and in Oberhausen, Germany.
The year-over-year decline in mailing list activity continues. A few
bumps reflect the Q3 4.1.3 activity, developer recruitment, and
discussions about retirement and avoiding retirement.
A new list, recruitment@, was launched on September 5. There have only
been 8 messages so far. The list is intended to act as a
single-point-of-contact to make it easier to support a gentler on-ramp
for newcomers rather than contending with the active dev@ list for guidance.
Detailed data is in PDF at <https://s.apache.org/OHfh>. The list below
is in decreasing order by 2015 activity.
LIST AVERAGE MONTHLY ACTIVITY
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016Q1-Q3
dev@ 1266 1124 552 340 313
users@ 235 198 328 219 209
users-de@ 38 167 147 94 90
utenti-it@ 29 40 30 37 25
i10n@ 211 225 119 34 19
qa@ 150 127 71 16 18
api@ 30 35 20 15 1
doc@ 7 41 25 12 17
dev-de@ 0 0 42 6 12
general-es@ 34 24 9 4 4
marketing@ 63 87 18 3 2
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
---------------------------
The rate of new Bugzilla issues is steadily decreasing since 2013, the
first full year of the Apache OpenOffice Top-Level Project. The rate at
which issues remain unresolved over all that time is stubbornly more
than 40%. The Q3 activity related to issues treated for maintenance
release 4.1.3 has not altered that condition. Full comparative analysis
is in the PDF at <http://s.apache.org/YFT>. Qualitative analysis at
<http://s.apache.org/SNg> applies.
Wiki and Documentation
----------------------
The documentation effort initiated in 2013 is stalled. A committer and
PMC member wanted to make progress here was be convinced to still keep
active in the project, now probably in other areas.
Along with significant outdated material on the MediaWiki, changes in
the product are not accompanied by corresponding user documentation.
The few documentation volunteers that arrived as part of the Q3
help-wanted effort have not shown any impact on documentation so far.
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. The general reaction
The limited supply of expert contributors with the capacity, capability,
and availability for sustaining the project is reported.
As part of monthly reporting requested by the Apache Board, the
following concerns are featured here:
Development Capacity
Handling of Security
Trademarks
Governance
Development Capacity
--------------------
The arrival of newcomers is at a slow trickle. Arrivals on the
developer, QA, and docs lists seek assignments and mentoring. The
newcomers appear eager though lacking project and product knowledge. The
project has a low capacity to support them at that level. However, there
are volunteers to take over the role as mentor.
A couple of developers, including returnees to the project, have arrived
ready to work, making a noteworthy difference.
Effort to provide rapid maintenance releases has succeeded. There is now
greater capacity for producing maintenance builds and having multiple
release-manager candidates.
Next Steps: Improving the mentoring of newcomers and expanding the
capacity to address major issues as part of a feature release.
Handling of Security
--------------------
Release 4.1.3 provides a full-update for the vulnerability CVE-2016-1513
that was disclosed before there were updated binaries available. Release
4.1.3 also provides fixes for two additional vulnerabilities. There is
concurrent disclosure of those as CVE-2016-6803 and -6804.
For the three eliminated vulnerabilities in 4.1.3, the average number of
days before an update was 248, the longest delay being 367 days, the
shortest being 88 days.
In comparison, for the five eliminated vulnerabilities in 4.1.2, the
average number of days before update was 146, the longest delay being
247 days and the shortest being 86 days.
So, the average time has maybe increased. However, effort to turn these
times down is serious.
The security team was streamlined somewhat, including the addition of
more PMC members so that coordination of security with overall project
governance is improved. An energetic security investigator has added to
the team, and another returned as part of the community concerns over
the future of the project.
Branding
--------
There continue to be significant abuses of the Apache OpenOffice brands
by providers of downloads that introduce possible adware along with
misrepresenting association with the project. One peculiar case
(Softpedia.com) started to offer "Apache OpenOffice.org 4.1.3" [sic] two
days before the release was officially announed by the project itself.
Perpetrators have also discovered the easy use of "openoffice" as a
subdomain (i.e., like openoffice.foo.com).
Materials for gathering and managing these cases have been set up on the
PMC private repository.
The fight against these kind of windmills is still active but seems
endless; especially on a project like OpenOffice with a very well-known
brand name.
Governance
----------
Transition to the new Chair has occurred smoothly. Updating and turnover
of documentation will be concluded in October.
The September discussions on "What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve?"
and "What Would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?" were very heated,
attract attention and have gone in a direction that was not wanted by
the project. Luckily, these have died down, as has the arrival of
newcomers and past contributors as part of the "Help-wanted" effort. We
hope that this is entierly cooling down with showning more activity
again. And new releases are a great help here.
The improvement to do new releases is a critical first step in building
sustainability. We as project have shown that we can do it.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AQ: 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:
- We've made the 1.2.0 release and a 1.2.1 bug fix release.
- We've updated the http://orc.apache.org/ home page to better support the
Apache branding guidelines.
- We've implemented benchmarks between Avro, JSON, ORC, and Parquet.
- We've given presentations about the benchmarks at Hadoop Summit San Jose
and Melbourne, and Strata New York. https://s.apache.org/file-format-bench
## Health report:
- We continue efforts to increase the size and diversity of the
contributor base by encouraging people to contribute to the project.
## 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 more than 2 years ago
## Releases:
- 1.2.0 was released on Wed Aug 24 2016
- 1.2.1 was released on Tue Oct 04 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- The mailing list is relatively stable with fewer issues, but a little
more dev and user traffic.
- dev@orc.apache.org:
- 33 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 149 emails sent to list (186 in previous quarter)
- issues@orc.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 136 emails sent to list (186 in previous quarter)
- user@orc.apache.org:
- 32 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 23 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem]
Report from the Apache Parquet committee [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:
The community has been converging toward a 1.9 release. The vote will start in
the coming days. Discussion about better encoding and vectorization apis are
ongoing. The parquet-cpp repo has reached a stable state and should release
soon. Integration with arrow-cpp is now in the parquet-cpp repo.
## Health report:
The PMC and committer list are growing. Discussion is happening on the mailing
list, JIRA and regular hangout sync up. Notes are sent to the mailing list.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- Wes McKinney was added to the PMC on Thu Sep 01 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- Uwe Korn was added as a committer on Sun Sep 04 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was Format 2.3.1 on Thu Dec 17 2015
- parquet-mr 1.9.0 vote ongoing
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity on the mailing list is still relatively the same
- JIRAS are resolved about at the same pace they are opened.
- dev@parquet.apache.org:
- 172 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 486 emails sent to list (394 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 85 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AS: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
## Description:
- the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x
- there are some small improvements as well
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the
mailing lists
- there is an increasing number of inquiries about our new major version
2.0.x. There are more and more new people being attracted as well as users
upgrading from the former 1.8.x version.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Tim Allison was added to the PMC on Mon Sep 19 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- Tim Allison was added as a committer on Mon Sep 19 2016
## Releases:
- 2.0.3 was released on Sat Sep 17 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 111 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 94 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
## Description:
Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework. It uses Apache
Kafka for messaging, and Apache Hadoop YARN to provide fault tolerance,
processor isolation, security, and resource management.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- A lot of activity toward the end of last quarter to add some new
committers.
- Hadoop Summit talk: Lambdaless Stream Processing at Scale in LinkedIn
## Health report:
Project seems pretty stable right now. Added three committers who have been
pretty active over the past year. Mailing list activity is up slightly from
prior three months.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Navina Ramesh on Thu Jan 07 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Jagadish Venkatraman was added as a committer on Wed Sep 21 2016
- Jake Maes was added as a committer on Wed Sep 21 2016
- Xinyu Liu was added as a committer on Mon Sep 26 2016
## Releases:
- 0.10.1 was released on Mon Aug 08 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 309 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 686 emails sent to list (529 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 59 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 50 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho]
## Description:
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Development activity continues to be primarily on sqoop2 branch, but there are
still bugfixes on trunk branch as well.
## Health report:
Community is healthy: we see new contributors showing up and contributing to
the project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Abraham Elmahrek on Sun Mar 15 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- Attila Szabo was added as a committer on Sun Aug 14 2016
## Releases:
- 1.99.7 was released on Sun Aug 07 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 38 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 22 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AW: 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:
- No activity of note this period, which is to be expected.
STeVe is generally only active around the annual meeting.
We expect acvitity to pick up again around February/March.
## Health report:
- As STeVe is a "seasonal project", it is expected that activity is
nonexistent in this reporting period.
- Greg Stein has chosen to leave the STeVe PMC. We thank Greg for his
work - I'd personally like to thank him for his many code reviews
over the years.
- Still have 3+ PMC members that are alive and well, though we could
consider appointing more PMC members at this point.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015
- Greg Stein left the PMC on October 5th 2016.
## 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:
- No official releases yet, though the software is being used in
production.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AX: 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 releases in the last quarter.
* Struts 2.3.30 - full GA release including bug fixes and feature
enhancements (2016-07-07)
* Struts 2.5.2 - full GA release including bug fixes and feature
enhancements (2016-07-07)
Within the reporting period we saw reasonable community and development
activity. Both the 2.3 and 2.5 branch received further bug fixing and
feature enhancement efforts. The new 2.5 release line, being considered
as a transition and consolidation branch on our way towards Struts 3,
seems to be adopted very well by our user community. Traffic on the user
mailing list was slightly more vivid in the last quarter.
No new committer was added in the last quarter. The last committership
addition was on 2015-10-23 (Aleksandr Mashchenko).
In the reporting period Aleksandr Mashchenko (amashchenko) accepted our
invitation to join the PMC as a new member, effective 2016-08-13 [1].
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
[1] https://s.apache.org/struts-amashchenko-pmc
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
## Description:
Tajo is an open source big data warehouse system in Hadoop for processing
web-scale data sets.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We are discussing 0.12 release.
- We've implemented MongoDB storage plugin.
## Health report:
After many full-time contributors became part-time contributors,
jira and mailing list traffic decreased. However, we are continuing
effort to making community healthier.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hyoung Jun Kim on Sun Dec 07 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jong-young Park at Sun May 29 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.11.3 on Wed May 18 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@tajo.apache.org:
- 101 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (58 in previous quarter)
- issues@tajo.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 307 emails sent to list (1037 in previous quarter)
- user@tajo.apache.org:
- 49 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo]
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
## Description:
- Apache Tcl is home to the Tcl-Apache integration efforts. The purpose
of our project is to combine the power of the Apache web server with the
capabilities of the mature, robust and flexible Tcl scripting language.
Currently within Apache Tcl only the Apache Rivet project is actively
maintained
## Issues:
- We have no issues worth reporting to the board
## Activity:
- At last Apache Rivet's test suite is running with Apache 2.4.
A few more features were added and released with Rivet 2.3.2
## Health report:
- Apache Rivet is a mature project and well known to the Tcl
programmers, still there is no much interest in the community
about this language when it comes to web programming
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Brice Hamon De Crevecoer on Tue Nov 25 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brice B. Hamon at Tue Nov 25 2014
## Releases:
- rivet-2.3.2 was released on Wed Sep 21 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- The rivet-dev mailing list is a trouble-free zone,
but not altogether quiet: from time to time something is
discussed with easy and friendly general attitudes
- rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org:
- 51 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 24 emails sent to list (24 in previous quarter)
- site-cvs@tcl.apache.org:
- 7 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 36 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 2 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BC: 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:
- 0.8.4 was released on July 07 2016
- Development of a YARN Shuffle Handler specific to Tez is taking place on
a branch.
## Health report:
Development and release activity, and activity on the mailing lists continues
to be at about the same level as the last 6 months.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 33 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sreenath Somarajapuram on Tue May 03 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- Ming Ma was added as a committer on Thu Sep 01 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.5 on Thu July 07 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 131 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 85 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BD: 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 has been working diligently to get our CI back on
track and prepare for our next release. With the new workflow in place and CI
builds green once again we have created the Apache Thrift 0.10.0-rc0 release
candidate and it is now up for review and vote. We have also added a new
committer to the project, James King.
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Nobuaki Sukegawa, 1.25.2016
* Committer addition: James King, 10.18.2016
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 66
* Resolved: 62
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 1294 messages
* @user 36 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.3, Release Date: Oct 6, 2015
Vote in progress: 0.10.0-rc0, Vote started: Oct 18, 2016
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content
detection, analysis, and extraction. It allows a user to understand, and
leverage information from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types
including most of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text,
Images, Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other
standards bodies.
Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.
Releases
=========================
The last release of Tika was made in May 2016. Version 1.14 has been
progressing and will be released soon including new
features such as the Image Recognition parser, OCR within PDFs, and a range of
new mime type support.
Work has also continuted on the new 2.X branch.
Community
=========================
There have been no new committers added in this period. The last committer
joined in June 2016.
Tim Allison has blogged via the Open Preservation Foundation on the regression
pack work he kicked of to make Apache PDFBox, Apache POI and Apache Tika more
robust[1].
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 242, 476 and 115 messages in Aug, Sep and
Oct 2016, respectively. user@ was at 5, 56 and 14 messages, during the same
timeframe.
[1] https://s.apache.org/z9QL
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache TinkerPop Project [Stephen Mallette]
## Description:
Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases
(OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP).
## Activity:
TinkerPop has added a new member to the PMC in Jason Plurad and a new
committer in David Brown.
TinkerPop released 3.1.4 and 3.2.2. 3.2.2 contains gremlin-python[1], which
officially opens TinkerPop up to the Python community. We tend to think
of Python as the most used language for TinkerPop outside of the JVM so
having native support for it should help expand usage. October will see
releases 3.1.5 and 3.2.3. These two releases are mostly bug fixes and minor
usability improvements. We expect to continue to maintain both of these
lines of code (bug fixes for 3.1.4 and ongoing development of 3.2.2), but
intend to begin work on a new major line in 3.3.0 in the coming weeks.
In an effort to share the technical knowledge of "releasing TinkerPop", we've
started to share the work of that process. While we've always had our release
process documented[2] and a single release manager can handle releases,
we've determined it better (when possible) to have one release manager per
release line. Our initial trial with one release manager per version, on the
previous release, worked well. We hope to continue with this approach for
future releases.
Promotionally speaking, there have been a number of talks at conferences on,
or related, to TinkerPop. As a sample, here are the talks given by PMC
members:
Graph Computing with Apache TinkerPop - Dr. Marko Rodriguez [3]
Graph Processing with Titan and Scylla - Jason Plurad [4]
On the brand management front, it was noted by a PMC member (Jason Plurad
had just been voted in almost to the day he made the report) that there was
an individual selling products (baby clothes, mugs, t-shirts, etc.) on Amazon
with TinkerPop graphics on them. Soon after, a second company was also noted
selling similar products on an independent site. Neither, had permission from
Apache to do that. After some discussion with Trademarks, the PMC chair sent
notice to both sites requesting that they acknowledge the marks in their
product description. No response was received from the seller on Amazon, but
all products were quickly removed. No response was received from the second
seller, but on greater inspection of the site, it doesn't really appear to be
terribly active or maintained. Next steps with respect to this seller have
yet to be discussed.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
- 3.1.4 (September 6, 2016)
- 3.2.2 (September 6, 2016)
## PMC/Committer:
- Last PMC addition was Jason Plurad - August 2016
- Last committer addition was David Brown - August 2016
## Links
[1] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#gremlin-python
[2] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/dev/developer/#_release_process
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLR-I53Gl9g
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllAy9OjzIo
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
## Description:
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features. What makes ATS unique across the
landscape of HTTP proxy caches is a focus on extensibility (plugins), HTTP
protocol conformity and performance. ATS is driving some of the largest CDNs
in the world, delivering a significant portion of all internet traffic.
## Issues:
- I (Leif Hedstrom) have decided to step down as PMC chair. The ATS PMC has
voted on a replacement, and is recommending Bryan Call as new PMC chair.
(See Special Orders 7A).
- This is my last Board report for the project , and I'd like to thank the
Board and the entire Apache Community for the support and trust.
## Activity:
- No events were planned or held in the last quarter, however the community
has worked hard organizing our upcoming ATS Fall Summit. Details for the
summit is still being finalized, see our Wiki for more information:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Fall+2016+Summit
## Health report:
- ATS v7.0.0 is in its final stages of being released, hopefully in the next
few weeks we'll have a candidate.
- We expect continued increase in committers, partially thanks to the Github
migration which we feel continues to encourage and simplify user
participation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 39 PMC members.
- Chao Xu was added to the PMC on Sun Sep 18 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 47 committers.
- Chao Xu was added as a committer on Wed Sep 14 2016
## Releases:
- 6.2.0 was released on Sun Jul 24 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Again, the drop in email activity is because of our changes to Github, and
we ended up duplicating a noticeable amount of automated emails for a
quarter. That has now settled, and we're back to normal levels. Hence the
dramatic changes in traffic to some lists, which are as expected.
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 500 subscribers (up 16 in the last 3 months):
- 243 emails sent to list (up 40%)
- 49 active participants/authors (up 22%)
- 46 topics (up 4%)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 323 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 256 emails sent to list (down 90%)
- 39 active participants/authors (down 18%)
- 50 topics (down 85%)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 9734 emails sent to list (5982 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 305 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 358 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## IRC activity (#traffic-server):
- 62 users (25 active)
- 1,938 messages sent
(note: The IRC metrics are new, and only partial for this quarter).
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
Activity:
- All 3 GSoC projects finished successfully.
- VXQuery now contains most of the JSONiq extension for XQuery.
- Activity is back to pre-GSoC levels.
- Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou were added as
committers on Aug 22, 2016.
Issues:
- There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in the project.
- Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Jul 18, 2014.
- Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina
Pavlopoulou on Aug 22, 2016.
Releases:
- Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Apache Web Services is a collection of shared technologies related to SOAP/XML
based Web Services that can be shared by different implementations. Spring-WS,
Axis2, CXF, and others use parts of the technology created within Apache Web
Services.
Community:
WebServices is a mature project based on standards that are also quite mature.
As such, there is not a significant amount of activity required. However,
user questions are being answered promptly, bugs are being fixes, and there
are at least 3 independent PMC members around making sure the project can
continue to produce releases as needed. Since SOAP/XML based Web Services is
no longer considered state of the art, we don’t expect a major uptick in new
development efforts, new committers, etc...
Last committer addition: Sun Sep 14 2014 (Alessio Soldano)
Last PMC addition: Tue May 17 2016 (Alessio Soldano)
Releases this period:
WSS4J - implementation of WS-Security and related technologies
* 2.0.9 - July 22, 2016
* 2.1.7 - July 22, 2016
Last releases for other technologies:
* Axiom 1.2.19 : Apr 2016 (StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model)
* XmlSchema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015 (XML Schema model)
* Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014 (WS-Policy implementation)
* Woden 1.0M10 : Sept 2015 (WSDL 2.0 implementation)
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.
There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment.
Community:
The Wink project is a mature project with a small community which is
currently not very active. Although I believe Wink is a mature project
with active users, the overall PMC has been alive but not active. The
user community was pretty much quiet in the last three months.
Releases:
* Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013
Committers or PMC changes:
* Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013.
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo]
## Description:
Apache Zeppelin is a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for
general-purpose data processing systems.
## Issues:
- Migration of contents from zeppelin-project.org to zeppelin.apache.org is
still in progress and tracked by ZEPPELIN-1117
- https://www.zeppelinhub.com is owned by NFLabs. NFLabs contacted trademark@
about using 'zeppelinhub' brand name and in discussion about branding issue.
NFLabs is now turning their direction toward changing their brandname which
doesn't include 'zeppelin' in it.
## Activity:
- Released 0.6.1 with Spark 2.0 and scala 2.11 support
- 0.6.2 release is currently in vote
- Community is working on 0.7 roadmap
## Health report:
- Steady increment of number of code contributors. +18 since last report, 153
total
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- Last (P)PMC addition was Prabhjyot Singh on Mar 29 2016, under incubation.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- Ahyoung Ryu, DuyHai Doan, Renjith Kamath were added as a committer since
last report.
## Releases:
- 0.6.1 was released on Aug 15 2016
- 0.6.0 was released on Jul 02 2016
- 0.5.6-incubating was released on Jan 22 2016
- 0.5.5-incubating was released on Nov 18 2015
- 0.5.0-incubating was released on Jul 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 584 subscribers (up 30 in the last 3 months):
- 871 emails sent in the past 3 months (724 in the previous cycle)
- dev@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 282 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
- 4511 emails sent in the past 3 months (3818 in the previous cycle)
## JIRA activity:
- 368 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 257 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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End of minutes for the October 19, 2016 board meeting.
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