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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
January 18, 2017
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:35
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/34r0
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Isabel Drost-Fromm
Marvin Humphrey
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Mark Thomas
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Kevin A. McGrail
Sam Ruby
Craig L Russell
Ulrich Stärk
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Daniel Gruno
David Nalley
Davor Bonaci
Gavin McDonald
Greg Stein
Hadrian Zbarcea
Henri Yandell
Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
Owen O'Malley
P. Taylor Goetz
Sean Kelly
Tom Pappas
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of December 21, 2016
See: board_minutes_2016_12_21.txt
Tabled.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
The item from the December meeting regarding the Role of Brand
Management as it relates to PMCs has continued to generate vigorous
discussion over the last month. The agenda this month draws several
conclusions from that discussion.
During the meeting, a question was raised regarding the ability of a
director, who serves as an officer, to participate in a discussion or
vote pertaining to their role. As a result of this discussion, I’ve
added an agenda item for the board to confirm that this in itself poses
no conflict of interest.
This led to a separate perceived conflict of interest being raised,
which unfortunately became heated and singled out an individual,
appearing to question their integrity. The concern was found to be
without merit and withdrawn, and there is no outstanding concern over
the individual's actions in any capacity.
The incident highlighted the need for Directors, and officers
participating in board discussions, to maintain a respectful attitude
toward each other during difficult conversations.
I have not yet proposed a date for the Annual Meeting, but will do so on
the board mailing list in the next couple of weeks. It is to be held no
later than 22 April, however I expect to maintain the timing we’ve used
in March if practical.
B. President [Sam]
Overall
=======
My current priorities: brand, fundraising, EA/TAC, then FY18 budget.
Depending on timing, FY18 budget will likely rise in priority.
Thanks go out to the board for approving the FY17 budget. As mentioned
in the last board meeting, I'd like to discourage the board from
deferring the FY18 budget to the next board as revisiting the budget
mid-year is always a possibility. See the budget item below for more
detail.
Discussions have resurfaced concerning the equity of last calendar
year's compensation. As a part of this, I'm working with Greg and
David to revisit whether FY17's budget needs to be tweaked and to see
if there are better ways to plan for FY18. Operations is also working
closely with the Treasurer and Virtual to revise how compensation
related disbursements are approved and tracked in order to maintain
privacy.
Other discussions have made it clear that there is a need to
reestablish and maintain a safe working environment for officers. To
help address the specific and immediate problem, I've added a
resolution that gives the board an opportunity to reaffirm that Brand
Management has been operating in the best interests of the foundation.
More generally, the scope of Brand Management is not the last of the
contentious issues that I will need guidance from the board on. We
need to work together to ensure that there is an environment where the
relevant officers can not only participate but even are free to take
uncomfortable or unpopular positions, and not allow those with
differing opinions to seek to question their integrity.
Finally, I'd like to once again apologize for the frequency which with
I contributed to the discussion. I should have allowed a greater
opportunity for others to speak and instead focused on re-teeing up the
discussion items for this month's board meeting as well as preparing
one or more resolutions.
Brand Management
================
Brand Management is continuing to work with the Podlings and PMCs that
are willing to work within the constraints of the published ASF
Trademark Policy, and per my direction is deferring activity related to
the remainder of the projects.
A summary of those policies has been published at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/policies.html
I continue to seek clarification and guidance from the board on this
matter. And have added a discussion item again this month to cover
this topic. Additional background can be found in the Brand Management
report.
Meanwhile, Mark is making progress on producing a private JIRA instance
for tracking trademark (as well as security) issues, and will be
starting with some pilot projects.
Fundraising
===========
In conjunction with the Assistant Treasurer and VP of Marketing of
Publicity, the possibility of making use of the facilities provided by
Hopsie (https://hopsie.com/) are being explored. Benefits include an
(as of yet unknown) increase in funds raised (largely by providing
gentle reminders to repeat donors), and to improve on our ability to
send out thanks. The plan is to proceed with the free trial period and
if the expectation is that this will pay for itself in increased
donations, to select one of the paid plans going forward.
EA/TAC
======
As we are in the lull between conferences, not much activity to report
this month. The EA also took some much needed time off.
Melissa did add three new members to TAC. It turns out that two of
these individuals are not ASF members, and this was done without
consulting with the existing TAC members. This is being revisited.
Budget
======
The first thing to be aware of is that the FY17 is that it doesn't
include substantial strategic investment beyond the normal (and
continual) focus on retiring technical debt and aging hardware. In
other words, it is the new normal. In fact, the infrastructure costs
for FY18 are likely to go up as the plan will be to be fully staffed
for the full year, and little (if any) savings resulting from the
investigations into reducing the infrastructure cost per project will
be realized in this timeframe.
On the plus side, we have more than adequate cash reserves, so none of
this is an immediate problem that needs to be addressed. But back of
the envelope calculations indicate that we will run out of money in
four to six years.
So in addition to a year+1 (i.e. FY18) budget, I plan to start
exploring what a year+5 (i.e., FY22) budget outline would look like.
The hope is that this will give us an opportunity to discuss topics
like whether or not we need TAC or need an ED five years from now, and
to work backwards to determine what steps we should be taking along the
way to make that happen.
My ideal would be that the board has complete say over the five year
plan and individual officers have complete say over the one year plan
subject only to the constraint that their plan conforms to the five
year plan. I recognize that this ideal isn't practical as officers
will need to have some say in what is possible, and the board isn't a
mere rubber stamp for the one year plan.
I'd like to discourage the board, however, from selecting individual
contractors (DLAPiper was discussed in board meetings a few months
ago), and making use of a line item veto. A few illustrative examples
as to why that might be: Fundraising's input may be that given one
level of investment we can expect a given level of income; with
additional investment we can expect more. Selecting a lower level of
investment and a higher level of return isn't an option. More
subtlely, there are some variables, like the rate at which new projects
are accepted, that affect multiple line items.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 7.
C. Treasurer [Ulrich]
We have started preparing the production and filing of the FY2016 990 for the
ASF which is due on March 15 2017.
We are also currently trying to figure out how to convert our significant
bitcoin balance into traditional currency and are waiting for Virtual to come
back with guidance on that.
Especially VP Infrastructure has seen problems with our current SVN based
invoice submission and approval process which in principal is open for all
members to see. This transparency has caused unneccessary and painful
discussions. In order to protect employee and contractor privacy and to simplify
the reimbursement process, we will be looking into third-party expense
management solutions to replace the current system. We hope to have a concrete
proposal for next month's board meeting.
Virtual Update:
Here is a brief summary of the Foundation's performance through December
2016.
Cash at December 31st 2016 was $1,598K, which is down $100.9K from last
month's ending balance (Nov 2016) of $1,698.9K, due to monthly AP. The
December 2016 cash balance is up $14.4K from the December 2015 month end
balance of $1,583.5K. The December 2016 ending cash of $1,598K represents a
cash reserve of 15.7 months based on the FY17 Cash forecast average monthly
spending of $100.8K/month. The "Estimated" yearend cash reserve for
the ASF, based on the Cash Forecast tab is 16.3 months and the reserve
continues to be very healthy for an organization of ASF’s size.
Regarding the Cash P&L, the Foundation's total revenue YTD through
December 2016 was $546.8K and is behind the "UPDATED" budget by
$37.5K. We will connect with the VP of Fundraising to review the outstanding
Sponsorship billing. Sponsorship payments were received from the following
Sponsor in December 2016: iSIGMA for $20K.
In December expenses were under budget by $12K due primarily to Publicity
underspending. We have in the forecast moved that spending forward. Because
we have an adjusted budget with actuals through Nov 2016 and we have moved
underspending from Dec forward for Publicity the YTD variance is the same as
the Monthly variance, for Dec 2016. The rest of the depts. had small
variances that washed each other out in total for the month of Dec 2016.
Regarding the bottom line the Foundation on a YTD Cash Basis has generated a
Net deficit of -$184.9K,vs a budgeted net deficit of -$159.2K for FY17. The
deficit shows that the Foundation is investing in area’s such as Branding
and Infra and we have moved underspending and sponsor billing forward
accordingly to address this for the YTD numbers.
So in summary with the close of the first month of the "UPDATED
BUDGET" for 2017 we are still on track both from an expense and a revenue
standpoint.
We continue to work on the FY 16 990 with the CPA, and have a target date of
Wed Jan 18th to send it to the CPA, with the final due date to the IRS of
3.15.17.
Income and Expenses for December 2016
Current Balances:
December 2016 Orig FY17 Budget Variance
Citizens Checking $287,999
Citizens Money Market $1,204,967
Paypal - ASF $104,936
Total Checking/Savings $1,597,902
Income Summary:
Public Donations $5,119 $- $5,119
Sponsorship Program $20,000 $63,167 $(43,167)
Programs Income $- $- $-
Other Income $- $- $-
Interest Income $510 $- $510
Total Income $25,629 $63,167 $(37,538)
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $80,889 $81,798 $(909)
Sponsorship Program $- $- $-
Programs Expense $- $- $-
Publicity $5,500 $17,809 $(12,309)
Brand Management $11,729 $10,000 $1,729
Conferences $2,629 $3,215 $(586)
Travel Assistance Committee $8,871 $14,000 $(5,129)
Tax and Audit $- $- $-
Treasury Services $3,100 $3,100 $-
General & Administrative $13,928 $8,655 $5,273
Total Expense $126,645 $138,577 $(11,932)
Net Income $(101,016) $(75,410) $(25,606)
YTD 2016 YTD FY17 Orig Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Public Donations $18,992 $13,874 $5,119
Sponsorship Program $495,795 $538,962 $(43,167)
Programs Income $27,200 $27,200 $-
Other Income $825 $825 $-
Interest Income $4,025 $3,515 $510
Total Income $546,838 $584,376 $(37,538)
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense $- $- $-
Infrastructure $446,041 $446,948 $(907)
Sponsorship Program $- $- $-
Programs Expense $- $- $-
Publicity $90,681 $102,991 $(12,309)
Brand Management $52,644 $50,914 $1,730
Conferences $4,822 $5,409 $(587)
Travel Assistance Committee $28,735 $33,864 $(5,129)
Tax and Audit $6,000 $6,000 $-
Treasury Services $24,800 $24,800 $-
General & Administrative $77,969 $72,696 $5,273
Total Expense $731,692 $743,622 $(11,930)
Net Income $(184,854) $(159,246) $(25,608)
D. Secretary [Craig]
December was an average month of document filing for Secretary.
In December, 77 iclas, two cclas, and two grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Ross]
I took the whole of December off in unexpected (personal) ways. Due to a mail reconfiguration (on my end) prior to the holidays I appear to have lost access to much of the ASF mail. This went unnoticed until the last couple of days when I resurfaced from an unexpected off the grid experience on the account supposed to be receiving ASF mail. Consequently I am doubly out of touch, though priority ASF mail is still routed to my day job account and thus has been processed.My apologies for the absenteeism.
Infrastructure
The big news is that it is now a priority to move a few test projects to Gitbox. This is (hopefully) the last stage before the full roll out of an improved experience for projects wishing to use Git as their primary source control repository.
For the long range the infra team have set a goal of moving "all services off ASF-owned hardware". Though I note some apparent contradictions between this goal and some short term activity, e.g. "Finalizing launching Fisheye services locally at the ASF to replace the third-party service run by Atlassian". After checking with the infra team I confirmed that this item means moving to an ASF owned service but not moving to ASF owned hardware.
The infra team also provide some community engagement numbers. This is a new practice and one that should be encouraged given concerns that Infra has become divorced from the broader community wishing to contribute to our infrastructure efforts. The headline here is that there are non-infra patches being applied to areas such as the puppet work.
There is no progress as yet for the "cost per project" analysis.
TAC
Closing out the last event and preparing for the next. Applications will open January 19th and close on March 8th.
M&P
Business as usual :-)
F. Vice Chairman [Chris]
Nothing to report.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Mark]
See Attachment 8
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 9
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Bertrand]
See Attachment 10
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Abdera [bp]
# ActiveMQ [bp]
# Apex [mh]
# Archiva [bp]
# Geronimo [bp]
# Incubator [rb]
# Mesos [bp]
# Sqoop [bp]
# Tajo [rb]
# Thrift [bp]
# TomEE [jj]
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim]
No report was submitted.
@Mark: help Abdera transition to the Attic
B. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Rich]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Chris]
See Attachment C
D. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Isabel]
See Attachment D
@Bruce resubmit the report for February
E. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Marvin]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise / Shane]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for Archiva
H. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Bertrand]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Marvin]
See Attachment I
J. Apache AsterixDB Project [Till Westmann / Mark]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Brett]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Avro Project [Ryan Blue / Chris]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Beam Project [Davor Bonaci / Shane]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Calcite Project [Jesús Camacho Rodríguez / Jim]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Rich]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Isabel]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Jim]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Brett]
See Attachment R
S. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Rich]
No report was submitted.
T. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Isabel]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Shane]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang / Bertrand]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Geode Project [Mark Bretl / Mark]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Marvin]
No report was submitted.
@Alan will report next month
Y. Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas / Chris]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / Isabel]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Bertrand]
See Attachment AA
Rich: Still have a large number of podlings in the incubator;
would like to hear from the incubator if this is a problem
Shane: It appears that the issue is the number of active
Mentors.
Mark: In the past, problems were that the podlings were
straining the structures of the Foundation; but now, this is
not such an issue;
Ross: This discussion should focus on long term budget not
mentoring
Sam: There are the two issues: budget and mentoring.
Jim: Seems to be a disconnect between board and IPMC; may need
better communication.
@Jim: consolidate and take board's concerns to IPMC.
AB. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Jim]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Brett]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Gaul / Mark]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Chris]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Shane]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly / Rich]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Marvin]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Chris]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon / Brett]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Palumbo / Mark]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Maven Project [Robert Scholte / Shane]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Jim]
No report was submitted.
@Jim: pursue a report for Mesos
AO. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Marvin]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger / Bertrand]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Rich]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Isabel]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache ODE Project [Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar / Chris]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg / Shane]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Rich]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache OpenOffice Project [Marcus Lange / Bertrand]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley / Jim]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / Marvin]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Brett]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan / Isabel]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho / Mark]
No report was submitted.
@Mark: pursue a report for Sqoop
BB. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Chris]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno / Rich]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Bertrand]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Marvin]
See Attachment BE
Activity is very low but the report doesn't really address the
activity level.
@Mark: try to get a better report that reflects activity
BF. Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo / Brett]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Mark]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Tez Project [Siddharth Seth / Jim]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Shane]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Isabel]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache TinkerPop Project [Stephen Mallette / Isabel]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Jim]
See Attachment BL
The community appears to be stagnant even though there is
activity e.g. in conferences.
BM. Apache Traffic Server Project [Bryan Call / Rich]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Brett]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Mark]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo / Shane]
See Attachment BP
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Confirm the actions of the VP, Brand Management
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has created the office of "Vice
President, Brand Management", serving at the direction of the
President, and,
WHEREAS, the President has requested that the Board of Directors
ratify the actions of Vice President, Brand Management as
reported within the Foundation records,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the actions of the VP,
Brand Management have to this date been in the best interests of
the Foundation, and are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved
as the acts and deeds of this Foundation.
Special Order 7A, Confirm the actions of the VP, Brand
Management, was approved by Unanimous Vote, with Chris, Jim,
and Bertrand abstaining.
B. Change the Apache Isis Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Dan Haywood
(danhaywood) to the office of Vice President, Apache Isis, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Dan Haywood from the office of Vice President, Apache Isis,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Isis
project has chosen by vote to recommend Kevin Meyer (kevin) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Dan Haywood is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Isis, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kevin Meyer be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Isis, 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 Isis Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache Ranger Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the
public, related to a data management platform that provides
real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications
throughout widely distributed cloud architectures.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Ranger Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED,that the Apache Ranger Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a data management platform that provides real-time,
consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout
widely distributed cloud architectures.
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Ranger" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve
at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
Apache Ranger Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Ranger Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Ranger Project:
* Alok La <alok@apache.org>
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@apache.org>
* Colm O hEigeartaigh <coheigea@apache.org>
* Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org>
* Devaraj Das <ddas@apache.org>
* Don Bosco Durai <bosco@apache.org>
* Dilli Dorai <dillidorai@apache.org>
* Gautam Borad <gautam@apache.org>
* Kevin Minder <kminder@apache.org>
* Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org>
* Madhanmohan Neethiraj <madhan@apache.org>
* Ramesh Mani <rmani@apache.org>
* Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>
* Sanjay Radia <sradia@apache.org>
* Selvamohan Neethiraj <sneethir@apache.org>
* Velmurugan Periasamy <vel@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Selvamohan Neethiraj be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Ranger, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Ranger PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Ranger Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Ranger Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
Ranger podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Ranger podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Ranger Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Directory Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Kiran Ayyagari
(kayyagari) to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Kiran Ayyagari (kayyagari) from the office of Vice President, Apache
Directory, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Directory
project has chosen by vote to recommend Stefan Seelmann (seelmann) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Kiran Ayyagari is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Directory, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Stefan Seelmann be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, 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 Directory Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Terminate the Apache Stratos Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Stratos
project has arrived at a consensus to recommend moving the project to
the Attic; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Stratos project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Stratos
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache Stratos
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Stratos" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Stratos PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7E, Terminate the Apache Stratos Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. There seems to be an unmet need for documentation of overall ASF
policy. Either a single page, or a small set of pages, authored
and maintained by the board would be helpful. Ideally this list
would be light on details and heavy on pointers.
The consensus of the board is that this is worthwhile to pursue.
B. Role of Brand Management as it relates to PMCs. Do we empower PMCs
to do what is best for their communities, and let a thousand flowers
bloom, even to the point where we allow actions that may limit our
abilities to enforce our marks? Or do we treat Brand as a core part of
our unique Apache model for community, and require consistency in
approach across all PMCs and third parties, even if it means denying
use of marks to friendly third parties in ways that would benefit
communities?
More specifically:
1) Is the Trademark Policy a policy or a set of best practices?
https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
2) Are PMCs the wrong tool for trademark enforcement?
The board has previously concluded that brand management has the
authority to set branding policy for the foundation and for PMCs
(Minutes: July 16, 2014).
PMCs may request exceptions to policy, and such exceptions are to be
publicly documented. In addition to this policy, Brand Management
provides best practices for PMCs to handle branding issues.
The board concludes that PMCs are a valid means for trademark enforcement,
and are responsible for handling all external branding issues they become
aware of. PMCs may request assistance from Brand Management as required.
However, Brand Management does not unilaterally handle branding issues.
C. Discussion of Brand Management during the December meeting raised a
question about whether a Director who serves as VP, Brand Management
would have a conflict of interest by participating in the discussion.
The Board concludes that Directors who also serve as non-compensated,
volunteer officers are not presumed to have a conflict of interest
when discussing or voting upon topics related to their officer
role(s), aside from their own appointment or continuance as an
officer.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Mark: pursue a report for Abdera; determine if the Attic is next
[ Abdera 2016-11-16 ]
Status: 2017-01-11 Reminded PMC of need to ask on dev@. Offered to do
this for them. Sent to dev@ on 2017-01-16.
* Shane: Follow up with PMC and legal regarding potential trademark issues
with a vendor
[ Spark 2016-11-16 ]
Status:
* Marvin: Discuss retirement with PMC: need to discuss on dev/user list
[ Stratos 2016-11-16 ]
Status: Complete. A discussion was launched on dev@stratos in December
( https://s.apache.org/KXBg ). No objections were raised to
retiring the project. A few weeks later, I asked for a
volunteer to submit the Attic resolution for Stratos and to
carry through the steps of moving to the Attic (
https://s.apache.org/9Rm0 ). Imesh Gunaratne stepped forward
and has created ATTIC and INFRA Jira issues. No resolution was
submitted, but I have now taken the liberty of adding it
myself, as I believe that the consensus to retire is clear and
that there is no point in drawing this out further.
* Bertrand: Work with the Incubator PMC to clarify / better document the
[ Action Items 2016-11-16 ]
Status:
* Rich: Follow up with PMC to address previous comments
[ Bahir 2016-12-21 ]
Status: I followed up with the Bahir PMC making specific suggestions
as to improving their "what is it" messaging. We'll see in
next quarter's report whether they make any change, as there
was no response on-list.
* Mark: pursue a report for Cocoon
[ Cocoon 2016-12-21 ]
Status: Complete: We have a report this month,
* Bertrand: Work with PMC to get a more complete report
[ Felix 2016-12-21 ]
Status:
* Jim: Mentor comments are extremely important; please try to include them.
[ Incubator 2016-12-21 ]
Status: Ongoing: Keep for 1 more month
* Jim: Many projects have been incubating for years. Please address this.
[ Incubator 2016-12-21 ]
Status: ToDo: Keep for 1 more month
* Isabel: Work with PMC to see if they plan to change their remit
[ Labs 2016-12-21 ]
Status:
* Jim: pursue a report for TomEE
[ TomEE 2016-12-21 ]
Status: Report rec'd
* Marvin: Pursue response to feedback from previous board meeting
[ VCL 2016-12-21 ]
Status: Complete. Josh Thompson provided a brief but in my view
sufficient response: https://s.apache.org/tSHu
* Sam: lead the discussion offline and prepare another resolution to vote on
[ Discussion Items 2016-12-21 ]
Status: Depending on how today's meeting goes, this item is either
done or ongoing.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
A number of Members plan to attend FOSDEM in Brussels in February.
Discussion on dev@community.apache.org
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 12:05 p.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
Nothing to report; I've been catching up on emails from my absence.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
* ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
As noted in last month's report, we await ratification by the board as to the
status of brand policy and unresolved questions thereon (as is amply reflected
in mailing list archives).
Separately, it is clear we lack the volunteer time to respond to questions
from outside parties and PMCs with either the timeliness, or the consistent
and knowledgeable answers and assistance that our projects and contributors
deserve. I do not have a solution to this long-term issue other than the
documentation already provided, so I look to President and the board as a
whole to help brainstorm.
In particular, while we have detailed documentation and education on a wide
variety of trademark related questions, it is clear from recent experience
that what's provided is not sufficient to better educate our project
communities and our Membership.
* OPERATIONS
Issues and questions are far behind normal answers given the long,
contentious, and confusing threads about all of brand policy (or lack
thereof). Attempting to answer Member questions, deal with the harsh
rhetoric, and providing additional explanations for brand activities sucked up
virtually all available volunteer time over the past month.
Additional documentation was created in response to questions, including
listings of both selected known trademark issues requiring evaluation, as well
as a listing of known cases where non
detailed overview of all existing brand documentation:
https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/policies
I co-presented "Trademarks In Open Source" at the Practising Law Institute
legal education conference, which was very well received.
* REGISTRATIONS & CONTRACTS
Signed updated event contract for a major Hadoop-related conference.
Our CASSANDRA application in the US has published for opposition.
Several requests are still in process at various stages.
--
- Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
Fundraising activities continue normally.
Tom's reports provides more details about the financials.
Hadrian and Lynsey, probably Tom too have a call scheduled for this week to
sync up on the work. Once the details of how the tasks are devide are agreed
they will be documented.
The guidestar data is out of date and Hadrian is updating it, expected to be
completed by the time of the board meeting.
Sam asked about a proposal for increasing the ASF revenue and Hadrian is
preparing it.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: Sally Khudairi is reviewing expenditures to date in advance
of preparing the proposed budget for FY2018. A mid-year subscription
payment (clipping service) and remainder-of-year invoice (Snoot) have
been submitted to the accounting team at Virtual for payment.
II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally continues work with Fundraising,
Brand Management, Apache Incubator, and Events/ApacheCon. She
published 1) ASF's Q2 Operations Summary https://s.apache.org/oTOF ;
2) Feedback from The Apache Software Foundation on the Free and Open
Source Security Audit (FOSSA) https://s.apache.org/romf ; 3) the
second post for the new "Success at Apache" blog
https://s.apache.org/ykoG ; and 4) the call for a new logo for the
Apache Incubator http://s.apache.org/rFii .
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued
via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org
during this timeframe:
- 11 January 2017 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache®
Zest™ Renamed to Apache Polygene https://s.apache.org/4Klg
- 10 January 2017 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache®
Beam™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/u67z
- 10 January 2017 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache®
Eagle™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/lRU1
IV. Informal Announcements: 6 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total
of 130 weekly summaries published to date. 29 items were Tweeted on
@TheASF. Rich Bowen and his group of volunteers continue uploading
audio recordings from ApacheCon onto Feathercast. No new videos have
been added to the ASF YouTube channel. Sally continues to tweet for
the Apache Incubator account, and has added LinkedIn as an official
outreach channel for the ASF.
V. Future Announcements: one announcement is 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 3 media queries. The ASF received
973 press clips vs. last month's clip count of 2,210. Media coverage
of Apache projects yielded 1,014 press hits vs. last month's 3,027.
VII. Analyst Relations: we received no analyst queries during this
timeframe. Apache was mentioned in 11 reports by Gartner, 2 reports by
Forrester, 6 reports by 451 Research, and 7 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working on new positioning for
ApacheCon and is exploring underwriting options for a future event
outside of North America. Linux Foundation will be brought in once she
has gained traction with candidate underwriters.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally is working
with Sharan Foga on the ASF presence at FOSDEM 2017.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 25 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]
Finances & Operations
=====================
We've been working with Virtual to deal with a process improvement
that results in better privacy protections for HR-related data
for our contractors and employees.
Short Term Priorities
=====================
- Get one or more projects launched on the Gitbox system
- Training of our new staffers, particularly towards VM migration
- LDAP changes to support podlings, and to integrate it within our
supported services (eg. Sonar and Roller)
Long Range Priorities
=====================
- Move all services off ASF-owned hardware, including the difficult
process of moving our email infrastructure
- Finish the use of puppet for all services, then explore to move
towards upgrading to Puppet 4, and/or containers for ongoing service
management
General Activity
================
- Tightened/streamlined git sync processes (see paragraph below)
- Ongoing conversation and development plans for integrating podling
management into LDAP (and other ASF tooling; particularly, gitbox)
- Finalizing launching Fisheye services locally at the
ASF to replace the third-party service run by Atlassian.
- Restructured the git repository request service (reporeq.apache.org)
to better handle podlings, in particular assist them in setting the
right name and notification lists.
- We suffered a catastrophic hardware failure on the physical machine
that was hosting the application side of Jira. The service was
fully-puppetized and relocated to a VPS. More details will be
published after a post-mortem, during the week of the 16th.
Uptime Statistics
=================
Uptime for this month has been around 99.6% overall. Some issues with
git-wip running out of memory at times have pushed the uptime for this
down to around 98%. We are investigating the issue. blogs.apache.org
moved to a new host, which also caused a small amount of downtime.
Jira going down hard has not helped.
For more details, please visit: http://status.apache.org/sla/
Github as Master
================
The GitBox project is pending responses from the pilot projects before
it can continue. We are looking at multiple potential candidates at the
moment for this. Rather than wait on external groups, we will be using
Infrastruture's own website repository for our testing.
Git mirror/GitHub sync process
==============================
The sync process between Subversion and Writeable git repositories to
git.apache.org and onwards to GitHub has been suffering from missed
syncs lately, at an approximate rate of 1 miss out of every 10 hits. The
process has been improved and the logging also widened, so we can better
analyze any failures that may occur. The upgrades appear to have cut
down on the missed syncs by a large factor. We have, as of this writing,
had 2 missed syncs compared to the 100 or so we usually have, and both
seem to be attributed to timeouts pushing to github. The error rate
going from git-wip to the pubsub system has been reduced from around
10-20 errors per day to 0 by refactoring the pubsub agent. We continue
to monitor the situation and address any bugs that may show up.
Community Growth 2016
=====================
Since this is a new year, it might be worth looking back at 2016:
- We had 34 people contributing to our codebase (puppet) for the first
time in their involvement with the ASF, compared to 12 people who
regularly contribute to the repo.
- 354 new people have filed an issue with infra for the first time,
while 329 people, who regularly work on issues, have also been
contributing to the 2,321 issues created in 2016.
- 9 people who were previously active on JIRA have now started
contributing code (patches etc) to Infra.
'Costs per project' Project
===========================
Unfortunately, I've been a bit swamped with other things
and this hasn't gotten many cycles. Expect more on this
issue next month.
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Attachment 6: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen]
We are now one month out from the CFP for ApacheCon North America
closing, so we are still not seeing a lot of action. So far we have 38
papers submitted for ApacheCon, and 40 for Apache: Big Data. While we
usually get 75% of the submissions in the last 2 weeks, I do
nevertheless encourage you to go ahead and submit your talks if you
have something already in mind.
Email will go out to our users@ and dev@ mailing lists today or
tomorrow reminding everyone of the upcoming CFP deadline, and of the
next registration rate change deadline. A draft of that email appears
on the dev@community.apache.org mailing list. Another email will be
going to the committers@apache.org mailing list with a registration
code within the next few days.
We had a very encouraging call with the Linux Foundation yesterday in
which they went over their marketing plan with us. I can provide
additional detail to anyone who is interested. Meanwhile, Sally and I
will be coordinating with LF in the coming 6 months to promote the
CFP, registration, sponsorship, and then doing post-conference
promotion to lead up to the next event.
In the past, we have stated a "requirement" that projects display an
"upcoming event" image on their project website. A combination of
factors have resulted in that no longer being a reality. In the coming
weeks I hope to 1) provide the necessary images and 2) reach out to
the various PMCs to ask/encourage them to resume this
At the beginning of next month, we will participate in FOSDEM. This
effort has been headed up by Sharan Foga and Daniel Gruno, as last
year. We have a table in the expo area, and are producing various
small swag items to give away. We have asked projects to step up to
take an hour at the table to promote their project. We also have a
number of speakers appearing in various tracks and devrooms. Further
details of our FOSDEM participation may be found at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/FOSDEM+2017
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Attachment 7: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Melissa Warnkin]
As you all know, I have been on sick leave for the past three weeks.
In my absence, Nick Burch has taken care of several issues (thank you
SO much, Nick!!):
* Recorded the surveys received from Seville
* Sent out the interview questions to those who agreed from the surveys
* Started to make the changes on the application questions (awaiting
confirmation that he's received all the requested
changes/additions/modifications)
* Call for judges emailed
Applications are scheduled to open on January 19th. Nick is working
with Freddy (from Infra) on a project to migrate tac-vm2.
Apps close on March 8th Judges call planned for March 10-12th Budget
approval by March 13th
Committee - no new members this month
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Attachment 8: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Our reclassification of the JSON License to CatX received quite
a bit of external notice, from entries on LWN to Richard Fontana's
"7 notable legal developments" article[1].
Nothing requiring board attention at this time.
1. https://opensource.com/article/17/1/yearbook-7-notable-legal-developments-2016
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Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Stats for December 2016:
5 CVEs issued to projects (some may not be public yet).
e-mails to security@
8 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or
Confused user due to "Apache" mentioned in OSS licenses
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
13 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org
1 [brooklyn]
1 [camel]
1 [openmeetings]
1 [couchdb]
1 [lucene]
1 [ant]
1 [apr]
1 [tomee]
1 [camel]
2 [site] rejected
1 [httpd]
1 [cxf]
8 Vulnerabilities reported to projects
1 [struts]
4 [httpd]
1 [nifi]
1 [hadoop]
1 [ofbiz]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
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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 no new releases since the previous report and have
added two committers/PMC members. We forgot to mention in our last
report that our trademark registration for ACCUMULO in the US has
been granted! We also amicably resolved a trademark issue with the
GitHub organization "accumulo" [1].
Releases
There have been no new releases since the last report.
The latest release was version 1.6.6 on 9/18/2016.
Activity
The number of subscribers to the dev list and the user list has
decreased slightly. User list activity has increased slightly, while
activity for other mailing lists has decreased from the previous quarter.
Activity is still generally strong.
In the past 3 months, there have been 81 commits to the master branch
from 14 authors, 5 of whom are not yet committers.
We have not begun release planning for our next release, but have
63 of 122 issues resolved towards a 1.7.3 release, 31 issues resolved
for the 1.8 branch, and 58 issues resolved for the master (2.0) branch.
Community
Mike Miller was added as a committer and PMC member on 10/24/2016.
Mike Walch was added as a committer and PMC member on 11/3/2016.
Branding
We noticed that the "accumulo" organization on GitHub did not meet third
party branding guidelines. After we discussed this with the owners of the
organization, they transferred control of the organization to the Apache
Accumulo PMC and moved all third party repositories that had been
associated with the organization.
[1]: https://github.com/accumulo
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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:
- Last time, the board asked us to clarify a couple of things:
- We mentioned there were off-list discussions about future work. These
were informal discussions between some committers, but nothing came out
that was worth sharing. In hindsight we could have omitted this from the
report. We are obviously aware that any decisions need to be made on the
list.
- It was mentioned that activity was low, asking us if there are still 3
PMC around. We acknowledge that activity was (and still is) low, but
there are still at least 3 PMC members around to answer questions and fix
bugs.
## Activity:
- Activity is still fairly low.
## Health report:
- It is fair to say that the project is in "maintenance mode" at the moment.
There are still enough PMC members around, but activity is low.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 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 3 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:
- 74 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
- dev@ace.apache.org:
- 70 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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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: ActiveMQ
* Continued hardening of AMQP protocol support
** Fixes to some memory leaks and deadlocks added
** Latest release now supports Jetty releases in the 9.3.x family.
* ActiveMQ Artemis
** Apache Artemis 1.5.0 released with follow up of 1.5.1 maintenance release.
** Highlights:
*** Outgoing AMQP connections supported
*** The ability to broker to detect network failures was added
*** CDI Integration was added
*** Apache Artemis 2.0.0 is planned which includes major overhaul of the
Artemis addressing model
*** New model has been proposed and implemented, highlights include:
**** Better support for address naming across protocols added
**** Ability to define prefixes for specifying pub/sub and point to point
messaging requirements added
**** Consolidation of JMS and other protocol management/configuration
* Both projects are now base-lined on Java 8
* Begin blogging about the ActiveMQ project on https://blogs.apache.org/
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- Clebert Suconic was added to the PMC on Thu Oct 27 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 58 committers.
- Christian Schneider was added as a committer on Wed Jan 04 2017
## Releases:
- 5.13.5 was released on Mon Dec 19 2016
- 5.14.2 was released on Wed Dec 07 2016
- 5.14.3 was released on Wed Dec 21 2016
- ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5.0 was released on Mon Nov 07 2016
- ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5.1 was released on Thu Dec 08 2016
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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:
- The community is active and rocking.
## Health report:
- The project remains healthy. The community has found a rhythm in
transitioning active developers. We see a cycle of new contributors
taking more pro-active role while previously active developers answer
key design questions. The project should brainstorm mechanisms to further
retain contributions from folks moving on.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- Eroma Abeysinghe was added to the PMC on Sun Dec 11 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- Marcus Christie was added as a committer on Mon Dec 26 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.16 on Mon Jul 25 2016
PMC is planning to release 0.17 within next 2 to 3 weeks.
## Mailing list activity:
- The mailing list traffic is steady and nothing concerning, hence omitting.
## JIRA activity:
- 131 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 156 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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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.
## Issues:
There are no issues that require the Board's attention.
## Status/Activity:
In November the community released 3.6.0 of Apex Malhar library, which
added the initial version of SQL support using Apache Calcite,
improvements to windowed state management performance and scalability,
expanded user documentation and many other improvements.
In December followed the 3.5.0 release of Apex Core, which is the stream
processing engine. The previous release was 3.4.0 in May and releases are
generally less frequent than the library. The release contains several
operability improvements and also moves the Apache Hadoop dependency from
2.2 to 2.6, enabling the engine to take advantage of newer features in
Apache Hadoop YARN.
Apex is now also present in Apache Beam; the first version of the
Apex runner is part of the recent 0.4.0 Beam release.
Another integration with Apache SAMOA (incubating) was also completed
recently. Apache SAMOA is an open source platform for mining big data
streams and allows multiple Distributed Stream Processing Engines (DSPEs)
to be integrated into the framework.
Apex was presented at Apache Big Data in Seville, at Big Data Spain in Madrid,
Big Data Conference in Phoenix and also as part of the Apache Beam tutorial
at Strata Singapore. We continue to see increase in interest and adoption,
more info can be found on the Powered By page on the project web site.
## Community:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC member added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Chandni Singh 2016-09-07
- Currently 40 committers.
- No new committer added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Devendra Tagare on 2016-08-10
- Contributors: 67 all time, 45 in last 12 months
## Releases:
Following are the most recent releases:
- Malhar 3.6.0 released 2016-11-26
- Malhar 3.5.0 released 2016-09-05
- Core 3.5.0 released 2016-12-06
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment H: 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 PMC were requested by the board to consider if there are any
potential PMC candidates among the current committers. There was some
discussion, but no people were decided upon. This will be discussed
again in the coming days.
- A new contribution of the JAX-RS Services OSGi specification Reference
Implementation has been contributed from Carlos Sierra Andrés. This
specification is currently in draft.
- The number of subscribers to the dev@ user@ private@ and commits@ lists
are roughly consistent (down by 0-3 in the last 3 months).
- The dev@ list traffic is consistent, while the user@ traffic has been
down over last three months. However, there has been a wide variety of
discussion across the different modules within Aries.
- 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.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Johannes Utzig at Wed Sep 14 2016
## Releases:
- Aries Blueprint Core 1.7.1 (blueprint-core) 2016-10-19
- Aries JMX Core 1.1.7 (jmx-core) 2016-10-19
- Aries Util 1.1.3 (util) 2016-10-20
- Aries Transaction Control service (tx-control) 2016-10-21
- Aries JPA 2.5.0 (jpa) 2016-10-31
- Aries Apache Aries Blueprint Plugin SPI 1.0.0
(blueprint-maven-plugin-spi) 2016-12-05
- Aries Blueprint Plugin Annotations 1.0.0
(blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation) 2016-12-05
- Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin 1.5.0 (blueprint-maven-plugin)
2016-12-05
- Aries Transaction Manager 1.3.2 (transaction-manager) 2017-01-03
- Aries Proxy Service 1.0.6 (proxy-impl) 2017-01-03
## 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)
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Attachment I: 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 has made great progress since the last report.
- The community has actively been driving towards a set of cross-language
compatibility tests. These are now complete.
- The compatibility tests were a key gate identified to seeing the
specification as solidified. Now that it is, the community will be starting
work on our second release.
- This release will show the arrow projects java arrow, arrow-cpp, py-arrow
and Parquet's parquet-cpp all working nicely together.
## Health report:
- A core group of community members continue to make good progress on various
aspects of both the Java, C++ and python projects.
- We're seen a small number of casual contributors arrive and provide
additional patches to the project.
- Multiple people have been doing community outreach through the various blog
posts, meetups and conference presentations. Examples include
- Upcoming talk at Strata San Jose in March
- Upcoming talk at Dataworks Summit Munich in April
- Arrow and Pandas vision: https://s.apache.org/arrow_1701_01
- Python Data Wrangling talk: https://s.apache.org/arrow_1701_02
- We continue to see nice growth in mailing list and jira activity.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- Wes McKinney was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 19 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- Uwe Korn was added as a committer on Thu Oct 27 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.1.0 on Tue Oct 11 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 140 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 117 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment J: 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.
- The activity to make AsterixDB more extensible is ongoing. The BAD (Big
Active Data) extension of AsterixDB is now maintained in a separate
repository and relies on available extension points.
- Couchbase is working on another extension that supports a tighter
integration with Couchbase server.
- SQL++ has been added as a second query language for semi-structured data.
There is hope that its more familiar syntax can help to increase interest
in AsterixDB.
- A lot of activity around the first non-incubating release. Most release
activities are around generating LICENSE and NOTICE files based on
manually curated and version controlled metadata. RC1 is currently under
review on the dev list.
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.
Jochen Wiedmann resigned from the PMC on 2016-10-26.
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 K: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away.
DeviceMap moved to the Attic last quarter, and Etch's move to the Attic
was completed.
Nothing much else to report - low activity, but there's little in the
way of priority items that need to be done.
## 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:
- 36 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 41 emails sent to list (85 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 L: 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:
- The 1.8.2 release candidate failed with too few PMC votes.
## Health report:
- The 1.8.2 release candidate failed because only 2 PMC members
voted. When discussed on the dev list, there were two
suggestions to avoid this in the future. First, use open-ended
votes to give PMC members more time to notice there is a vote.
Second, the RM should reach out to PMC members to make sure
they see that a vote is happening.
- After last report IDF asked, "What steps precisely do you have
planned to take to increase contributor engagement?" The step
that the community agrees on is continuous integration to
provide automated feedback to both contributors and committers.
Not much has been done to set up automated testing.
Part of the community is also in favor of splitting out
implementations into separate repositories to make the project
easier to work with. This idea is controversial and discussion
has stalled without a resolution.
- Last report stated, "Contributor engagement is still a goal we
are working on. Many committers do not have time to review
patches." IDF asked, "Where does this time pressure come from?"
To clarify, time pressure was a generous assumption. A more
correct statement is simply that reviews are not keeping pace
with contributions. Part of the community considers this a
problem becuase without reviews we can't grow the community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Niels Basjes was added to the PMC on Fri Dec 16 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:
- 278 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 462 emails sent to list (757 in previous quarter)
- user@avro.apache.org:
- 633 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 68 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 51 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment M: Report from the Apache Beam Project [Davor Bonaci]
## Description:
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for both batch and streaming data
processing, enabling efficient execution across diverse distributed execution
engines and providing extensibility points for connecting to different
technologies and user communities.
## Issues:
There are no issues that require the Board's attention at this time.
## Activity:
Apache Beam was established as a top-level project at last month's Board
meeting. This is the first in the series of three consecutive monthly reports
for new projects.
Since becoming a top-level project, we have:
* completed administrative and infrastructure-related tasks to transition from
a podling to a TLP,
* published the press release and a follow-up blog,
* published the first non-incubating release, version 0.4.0.
In addition, since the last report, we have participated in major conferences
and meetups, including:
* presented at Apache: Big Data Europe 2016 and ApacheCon's Podling Shark
Tank, as well as and the Birds of Feather session,
* presented at QCon San Francisco 2016,
* presented at Strata + Hadoop World Singapore 2016, along with a hands-on
Beam tutorial,
* co-organized a meetup with an Apache Apex user group, and presented at
another meetup.
Beam continues to interconnect additional execution engines and data
storage/messaging systems. Since the last report, a runner for Apache Apex was
merged from a feature branch and released, and IO connectors for Elasticsearch
and MQ Telemetry Transport have been contributed.
Going forward, the main focus continues to be on community growth. On the
technical side, the next major milestone is the availability of the first
stable release, which will include backward-compatibility guarantees.
## Health report:
The community continues to grow steadily, as follows:
* The number of contributors continues to increase, with an expectation of
additional committers in the near future.
* Releases continue at a regular pace of 1-1.5 months per release.
* Mailing list activity continues to increase, with some metrics doubling
quarter-over-quarter (see below).
## PMC changes:
Currently 14 PMC members. No new PMC members have been added since graduation
a month ago.
## Committer base changes:
Currently 17 committers. No new committers have been added since graduation a
month ago.
## Releases:
The first post-graduation release, version 0.4.0, was published on January 1,
2017.
## Mailing list activity:
Mailing list activity continues to increase, with some metrics doubling
quarter-over-quarter.
- dev@beam.apache.org:
- 310 subscribers (up 49 in the last 3 months)
- 1079 emails sent to list (519 in previous quarter)
- user@beam.apache.org:
- 261 subscribers (up 54 in the last 3 months)
- 231 emails sent to list (246 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 512 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 338 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment N: Report from the Apache Calcite Project [Jesús Camacho Rodríguez]
## 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:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and
its Avatica sub-project. Since the last report there have been two
Calcite releases (1.10.0 and 1.11.0) and an Avatica release (1.9.0).
Interest in Calcite by other projects and developers continues to
grow, and we have recently added a new PMC member.
There was an important presence of the Apache Calcite project in
Apache: Big Data Europe 2016 (Seville, Spain). In particular, there
were six talks revolving around Apache Calcite. Topics included
streaming SQL and integration with Druid, Apache Geode and Apache
Hive.
In addition, existing adapters that allow Calcite to read data from
other systems (JDBC, Druid, Apache Cassandra) continue gaining wide
adoption and multiple parties continue contributing to their
development.
Finally, work to extend Calcite SQL capabilities and improve Calcite
core has been ongoing for the last few months, consolidating existing
code as well as adding new features.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both
Calcite and Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- Maryann Xue was added to the PMC on Mon Jan 09 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 19 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francis Chuang at Tue Sep 27 2016
## Releases:
- 1.10.0 was released on Wed Oct 12 2016
- 1.11.0 was released on Mon Jan 09 2017
- avatica-1.9.0 was released on Tue Nov 01 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 142 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 114 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment O: 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:
- Celix 2.0.0 has been released.
- A small ETCD patch has been issued and merged
- A considerable code donation is added to JIRA. Containing a services based
(remote) publish subscribe implementation. A vote to accept this has been
started
## Health report:
- The current activity is healthy considering the size of the community.
## 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:
- 2.0.0 was released on Wed Oct 26 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@celix.apache.org:
- 58 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 25 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment P: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
## Description:
- Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring
large distributed systems.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- User interface improvements to make dashboard more user friendly.
- Updated HBase and Solr support.
- Updated website trademark to reflect Apache Software Foundation.
## Health report:
- Several individual contributors are planning to take Chukwa
project to a new direction with IBM backing the support of
new development. The activites should reflect in Chukwa
JIRA or mailing listing in the next 6 months.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alan Cabrera on Tue Oct 15 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sreepathi Prasanna at Mon Mar 16 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.0 on Fri Jul 15 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 90 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 40 emails sent to list (24 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 160 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
## Description:
Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based.
## Issues:
We are currently in the process of choosing a new PMC chair. The community
will also be asked if it's time for the project to go to the Attic.
## Activity:
The most recent release is 2.1.12 on 2013-03-14
2 JIRA issues opened since 2016-10-01
3 JIRA issues resolved since 2016-10-01
11 commits since 2016-10-01
There's only a little activity on both users and dev mailing-lists.
There have been some quite interesting changes since last release, at least
for 2.1 branch, which would deserve a release.
## PMC changes:
None. Most recent addition: 2012-07-06
## Committer base changes:
None. Most recent addition: 2012-07-06
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce
and Apache Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The JIRAs for the past few months have focused on core bug fixes and
iteration/fixes on the Apache Kafka support that we started on after our last
release in May.
## Health report:
The Crunch code does what it does well, and it has for at least a few
releases. Beyond bug fixes and supporting upgrades to new Hadoop/Spark
releases, there isn't an obvious new direction to take the project in that
would stay true to its original mission while remaining useful to developers.
In terms of project goals, API design, and even a subset of committers, Crunch
has a lot in common with the newly top-level Apache Beam project, which is
focused on the next generation of data processing engines that unify batch and
streaming use cases into a single API. Finding a way to join forces with Beam
is one available way forward for the project, but figuring out what that move
would look like would require some extensive discussions on the mailing lists,
both about the future of data pipelines in general as well as the role that
the Crunch community most wants to play.
## 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:
- Last release was 0.14.0 on Wed May 04 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: 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:
Activity in the DB project was quite low this quarter, although we
did complete the Derby 10.13 release that was begun in the previous
quarter.
## Health report:
In general, the software in the DB project is mature and sophisticated,
and isn't undergoing much change, so periods of low activity occur.
In the Derby community, the largest project underway involves an
effort to ensure that Derby is compatible with the upcoming Java 9
release; members of the Derby community are engaged with the Java 9
community to test Derby using early access builds of Java 9.
## 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.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brett Bergquist at Tue Aug 30 2016
## Releases:
- Derby-10.13.1.1 was released on Mon Oct 24 2016
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]
Current Activity and Status
---------------------------
In the last quarter 1 new PMC member was added.
Stefan Seelmann has been voted as the new PMC
chair, resolution was sent to board for approval.
------------------------- Detailed Information ------------------
### Community
No new committers (last addition: August 2016)
One new PMC member was added (last addition: November 2016)
- Chris Pike
## 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: 323 subscribers (+19)
- Development mailing list: 190 subscribers (+15)
###### Development and Releases
- No new releases (last release was on 22nd July, 2016)
- A lot of code documentation was reviewed and modified
### 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
- 73 subscribers (+1)
###### Development and Releases
- New version 1.0.0-RC2 was released on 31st Oct, 2016
- A lot of code documentation was reviewed and modified
### 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
- New version 2.0.0.v20161101-M12 was released on 1st Nov, 2016
### 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
- New version 2.0.0-RC1 was released on 6th Nov, 2016
###### Mailing list subscriber info
- 35 subscribers (+3)
### 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
- 31 subscribers (+4)
### 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 newly accepted project,
SCIMple-Identity, from Penn State University. This is still pending as of now.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment V: Report from the Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang]
Apache Eagle is an open source analytics solution for identifying security and
performance issues instantly on big data platforms.
## Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity
1. Apache Eagle was graduated as top-level Apache project at last month's
Board meeting. We worked with infrastructure team to complete post-graduation
transition work including source code, site, jira, email etc.
2. Publish a press release for graduation.
## Health report
The community is still active especially after graduation
* A few more contributors submitted bugs, enhancement, they can become
committers in the near future.
* Prepare a significant release 0.5 by end of Feb
## PMC changes
Currently 15 PMC members. No new PMC members have been added since graduation.
## Committer base changes
Currently 15 committers
## Releases
No release
## Mailing list activity
- dev@eagle.apache.org:
- 71 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1707 emails sent to list (3022 in previous quarter)
- issues@eagle.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 946 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- user@eagle.apache.org:
- 45 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity
- 244 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 218 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: Report from the Apache Geode Project [Mark Bretl]
## Description:
- Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable
transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very
low latency performance with high concurrency processing.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- New proposal on improving JSON serialization and extending the serialization
framework to allow other libraries to be used.
- Example code is moving to a new repo to make it easier for end users to
acquire and run the examples.
- Lots of discussion around product configuration and how it ought to work
## Health report:
- We have received contributions from 10 new community members (more than 30
code submissions as well as email and JIRA's).
- In December we saw the mailing list activity on dev@geode more than double
compared to the previous month.
- We're continuing to work on attracting new contributors and making it easier
to participate in the community.
- We have a volunteer release manager for our next release, v1.1.0.
## PMC changes:
- No new PMC members added since last report
- Currently 30 PMC members
## Committer base changes:
- No new committers added since last report
- Currently 76 committers
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.0.0-incubating issued on October 25, 2016.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@geode.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 3117 emails sent to list (1573 in previous quarter)
- issues@geode.apache.org:
- 55 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1983 emails sent to list (2807 in previous quarter)
- user@geode.apache.org:
- 201 subscribers (up 16 in the last 3 months):
- 301 emails sent to list (161 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 298 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 264 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: 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.
The community is working through criteria for its 3.x and 2.x series,
particularly w.r.t. compatibility e.g., [1]. Progress on 3.0.0-alpha2 [2,3]
and a 2.8 [4] will likely produce RCs soon.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-11096
[2] https://s.apache.org/zBhP
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+3.0.0+release
[4] https://s.apache.org/smEX
RELEASES
Last release: 2.6.5 2016-10-07
COMMUNITY
(+ PMC Carlo Curino 2016-11-03)
(+ PMC Li Lu 2017-01-10)
(+ PMC Ming Ma 2016-11-03)
(+ PMC Rohith Sharma K S 2016-11-17)
(+ PMC Varun Vasudev 2016-10-20)
(+ PMC Zhe Zhang 2016-11-03)
(+ committer Bibin Chundatt 2016-12-12)
(+ committer Konstantinos Karanasos 2017-01-12)
(+ committer Rakesh Radhakrishnan 2016-12-30)
(+ committer Sidharta Seethana 2016-12-15)
(+ committer Sunil Govind 2016-10-27)
(+ committer Yiqun Lin 2017-01-14)
(+ branch-HDFS-9806 Thomas Demoor 2016-10-24)
(+ branch-YARN-5734 Jonathan Hung 2016-12-13)
(+ branch-YARN-5734 Min Shen 2016-12-13)
(+ branch-YARN-5734 Ye Zhou 2016-12-13)
auth: 161 committers and 75 PMC members
SECURITY
CVE-2016-3086: Apache Hadoop YARN NodeManager vulnerability
CVE-2016-5001: Apache Hadoop Information Disclosure
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: 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: 0.98.23 was released on October 22,
2016 and 0.98.24 was released on January 4, 2017. 0.98.24 is expected
to be the last regular release from this code line. Andrew Purtell
resigned his informal role as long term maintainer and RM for the
0.98 branch a few days ago.
We made two releases from our 1.1 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Nick Dimiduk: 1.1.7 was released on October 22, 2016 and
1.1.8 was released on December 15, 2016.
We made one release from our 1.2 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Sean Busbey: 1.2.4 was released on November 6, 2016.
Voting on the first release from our 1.3 code line, 1.3.0, under the
supervision of branch RM Mikhail Antonov, has almost completed and
looks like it will carry.
ACTIVITY
It is my pleasure to report Stephen Yuan Jiang was added to the PMC
on October 13, 2016; and four committers were added since our last
report: Lijin Bin joined us on November 17, 2016, Phil Yang joined
us on November 26, 2016, Josh Elser joined us on December 10, 2016,
and Guanghao Zhang joined us on December 19, 2016.
STATS
Mailing list memberships all saw a small increase since our last
report.
The JIRA open/close rate and ratio is close to that reported last
time.
57 committers
32 PMC
1078 subscribers to the dev list (up 9 in the last 3 months)
2355 subscribers to the user list (up 1 in the last 3 months)
634 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
514 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]
Incubator PMC report for January 2017
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 presently 64 podlings incubating. We had one new podling join. No
changes in PMC membership.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- None
People who left the IPMC:
- None
* New Podlings
- Griffin
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Ranger
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
December:
- Apache Mynewt 1.0.0-b1-incubating 2016-12-12
- Apache Edgent 1.0.0-incubating 2016-12-15
- Apache Tephra 0.10.0-incubating 2016-12-15
- Apache Fineract 0.5.0-incubating 2016-12-22
- Apache Streams 0.4.1-incubating 2016-12-26
- Apache Guacamole 0.9.10-incubating 2016-12-29
* IP Clearance
- None
* Legal / Trademarks
- The process for picking a new incubator logo has begun, we're expecting to
complete it in April. Thanks to Sally for picking up the CFP!
- Incubator documentation updates are in progress, we are starting with
release management then will move into roles & responsibilities.
* Infrastructure
- No issues, though its suspected some status on github as master for
OpenWhisk may be expected.
* Miscellaneous
- N/A
* Credits
- Report Manager: John D. Ament
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- NetBeans
- RocketMQ
- Traffic Control
- Weex
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Annotator
- MADlib
- ODF Toolkit
Community growth:
- Gossip
- Horn
- Juneau
- Mynewt
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
- Ranger
The following appear to be close from maturity model:
- Airflow
- BatchEE
- FreeMarker
- Metron
Created a report, but did not receive mentor sign off:
- ODF Toolkit
- Spot
* Did not report, expected next month
- DataFu
- Milagro
- SensSoft
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Table of Contents
Airflow
Annotator
BatchEE
FreeMarker
Gossip
HAWQ
Hivemall
HORN
Juneau
MADlib
Metron
Mynewt
NetBeans
OpenWhisk
RocketMQ
Rya
Traffic Control
Weex
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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?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. We elected 1 new PPMC Member/Committer : Alex Van Boxel a.k.a.
alexvanboxel
2. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Oct 4 and Dec
31, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 191 to 224
3. Since our last podling report 3 months ago (i.e. between Oct 4 and Dec
31, inclusive), we resolved 202 pull requests (currently at 1263 closed
PRs)
4. One meet-up, hosted at WePay, was held by the community
5. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 74
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above
Date of last release:
None. First ASF release currently being discussed.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
As mentioned on
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Announcements#Announcements-Nov28,2016,
Alex Van Boxel joined the Apache Airflow PPMC/Committer group.
Signed-off-by:
[X](airflow) Chris Nauroth
[x](airflow) Hitesh Shah
[ ](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. Publish a project roadmap to guide us towards a first release
2. Achieve active development cadence
3. Improve project description and clarify purpose on the web site
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Code contributions at Apache have not yet begun, although the community is
coalescing.
How has the community developed since the last report?
One (1) new contributor has expressed interest on the mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The initial website is up and all repositories have been created.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None since start of incubation
Signed-off-by:
[ ](annotator) Nick Kew
[ ](annotator) Brian McCallister
[ ](annotator) Daniel Gruno
[X](annotator) Jim Jagielski
--------------------
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. some more activity probably (but since we are between specification
releases it was expected)
2. probably graduate
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No, BatchEE implements a JavaEE specification and its development cycle is
pretty close to the specification, since there was no new version. It is in
maintenance mode for now which was expected.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Not much, BatchEE is stable and used with few container flavors (part of
TomEE plus, used with tomee embedded, application composer, meecrowave, ...)
How has the project developed since the last report?
Fixes on CDI scopes.
Date of last release:
2016-09-25
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
--------------------
FreeMarker
FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.
FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
We think that the project is getting ready for a successful
graduation, since during incubation we have cleared copyright and
trademark, migrated all the project's assets to the ASF Infra,
learned how to produce and publish releases (with 2 releases issued
during incubation), learned how to invite committers. But, the
project is still struggling to find a way to "convert" active users
into committers; there are several users that have expressed the
desire to be more involved and help the project, but this doesn't
materialize into consistent contributions. In order to facilitate
new contributions and attract new potential committers we are trying
to define new ideas/tasks that are useful to the project but can be
completed even by contributors who don't yet know the project in
depth. We also plan to make a non-backward-compatible branch which
is easier to contribute to because it removes the substantial
complexity caused by the legacy burden, and also allows adding
interesting new features that wouldn't be feasible with the backward
compatibility constraints set more than 12 years ago.
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?
This was a more silent period, but Jira issues, pull request, Stack
Overflow questions were answered, some issues were fixed.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
Date of last release:
2016-06-26
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[X](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[X](freemarker) David E. Jones
[X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
--------------------
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. Create some tutorial videos and blog posts to educate people on Gossip
Project
2. Focus on some critical technical improvements multi-node testing and
accrual failure detection that will be critical for adoption into other
projects
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?
- One contributor has been voted as a committer. There are 13 watches 24
stars on github.
- Sean Busbey has stepped down as a mentor. Sean's early help was critical
to this hatchling. Thank you, Sean.
- Drew Farris has taken a role as a mentor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Some technical features were frozen out until we completed our first
release. Effort was spent on doing the first release (getting access, key
signing, correctly enabling RAT maven plugin etc). This was mostly one-time
effort.
Date of last release:
We are currently voting on our first release.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Chandresh Pancholi as added as a committer on 11/29/16
Signed-off-by:
[x](gossip) P. Taylor Goetz
[x](gossip) Josh Elser
[x](gossip) Drew Farris
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Josh Elser:
First release should be landing within 72*2 hrs. Hopefully this will
spawn a good cadence and attract more people to the, relatively quiet,
podling.
--------------------
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. 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
2. 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. The community becomes more open for discussion around the roadmap,
various features that committers are working on, infrastructure
enhancements for the project.
2. Two talks:
* The SQL-on-Hadoop engine that replaces traditional data warehouses:
HAWQ, China Open Source Conference Oct, 2016, Lei Chang
* Apache HAWQ on cloud: the easiest way to cloud from traditional data
warehouses, Big Data Technology Conferences, Dec, 2016, Lei Chang
3. Ed volunteered as an RM for the upcoming 2.1.0.0 release
4. Interesting discussions and work around Docker for HAWQ. HAWQ has an
account on docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/hawq/
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Apache HAWQ 2.0.0.0 released.
2. HAWQ 2.1.0.0 release proposed:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/HAWQ+Release+2.1.0.0-incubating+Release
* Critical HAWQ Register bug fixes
* Move HAWQ Ambari plugin to Apache HAWQ: HAWQ-1013 RESOLVED
* Introduction of the PXF ORC support
* Many bug fixes
Date of last release:
Oct 8, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Two committers added: Hong Wu and Paul Guo
Signed-off-by:
[X](hawq) Alan Gates
[ ](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
[X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
Hivemall
Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create the first Apache release
2. Community growth (committers and users)
3. Documentation improvements
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* We added 2 new committers since the last report from different organizations.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Merged two large contributions from external contributors.
* dev@ mailing list had 112 messages in this month as seen in
https://lists.apache.org/trends.html?dev@hivemall.apache.org:2016-12
No messages in users@ in this month.
* Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 38 stars as of Dec 26
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall
Still the community migration is halfway as the original repository has
475 stars.
* Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 33
followers as of Dec 26
* Increased articles that mentions Apache Hivemall such as
https://dzone.com/articles/2016-the-year-in-big-data
http://gihyo.jp/dev/column/newyear/2017/hadoop-ecosystem (in Japanese)
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Worked towards the first Apache release in Q1, 2017.
Merged 2 out of 5 large pending pull request that is blockers for the release.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls
* Merged two large pull requests from external contributors.
Hivemall PMC invited them to Hivemall committers.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/11
(contribution by Takuya Kitazawa@Tokyo Univ)
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/15
(contribution by Ryu-ichi Ito@Osaka Univ)
* Finished setup for TravisCI and Coveralls.
* Created 2 JIRA issues and resolved 3 issues in this month.
Date of last release:
No release yet (planning the first Apache release in Q1, 2017)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Ryu-ichi Ito on Dec 28, 2016 - Committer (currently waiting for ICLA)
* Takuya Kitazawa on Dec 28, 2016 - Committer (currently waiting for ICLA)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin
[X](hivemall) Markus Weimer
[ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
[ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai
--------------------
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. Expand the community.
2. Create the first Apache release.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* No issue at this moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We added 1 new committer since the last report from different
organization.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Implemented Recurrent Neural Networks.
* Merged few trivial improvement pull requests.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* 2016-12-12 New committers: Yeonhee Lee.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](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. Solicit user feedback/usage
3. Grow awareness of the project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
One new original committer from IBM submitted his ICLA and joined in
December.
How has the project developed since the last report?
First release created. Second release currently in the pipeline.
Infrastructure and website in place.
Date of last release:
2016-10-25
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
n/a
Signed-off-by:
[X](juneau) Craig Russell
[ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann
[X](juneau) John D. Ament
--------------------
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/%3CCALGG8z03zHhbFegXoi4fH+vXtF+9m7x6hak9RjKQjapuzi67gQ@mail.gmail.com%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201603.mbox/%3C9D1AF43C-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
of the "Apache Way”.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
1. Yes-please see #1 above and provide guidance.
2. The next release v1.10 will be the 4th as an incubating project. After
that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level status.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Some related events in Q4 2016 and upcoming:
* Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation accepted at FOSDEM’17 Graph devroom.
Topic: Graph Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases
(Frank McQuillan)
* Dec 1, 2016 - MADLib community call. Topic: New features in R
interface and MADlib user survey results (hosted by Greg Chase, Orhan
Kislal, Frank McQuillan)
* Nov 16, 2016 - Presentation at PGConf Silicon Valley. Topic:
Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib
(incubating) (Frank McQuillan)
* Nov 14, 2016 - Presentation at Apache Big Data Europe. Topic:
Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib
(incubating) (Roman Shaposhnik)
2. Material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs and pull requests.
3. New contributors to the project have been working on KNN module and
Python interface.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Active work in progress for 4th ASF release MADlib v10 scheduled for Jan
2017. Features include: single source shortest path graph algorithm,
completely new module for encoding categorical variables, R interface
update, grouping support in elastic net and PCA, cross validation in
elastic net, verbose output option for decision tree visualization.
2. Mailing list activity in Q4: 227 postings to dev, 66 postings to user.
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:
[ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](madlib) Ted Dunning
[X](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(rvs) I had a chat with ASF VP Legal and the proposal is to go ahead with the release like it is. If there will be concerns raised by IPMC during the review of this upcoming release Jim volunteered to be directly involved to work through these concerns.
--------------------
Metron
Metron is a project dedicated to providing an extensible and scalable advanced
network security analytics tool. It has strong foundations in the Apache
Hadoop ecosystem.
Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Trigger a community discussion to graduate from incubation. We have
received a lot of value from the incubation process and after speaking
to our mentors and going through the Apache Project Maturity Model we
believe that we will soon be ready to graduate.
2. Vote to ratify our Development Guidelines and Process for Reporting
Issues
3. Vote to ratify our Release Process
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We refreshed our website to be more compliant with Apache policies
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We added 2 committers
- We had a clean Apache build
How has the project developed since the last report?
- We closed 63 PRs as of our last build
- We integrated with Apache Ambari to make the project easier to deploy
- We modified and re-voted on our Bylaws
- We successfully filed our Name Search Jira.
Date of last release:
2016-11-14
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2016-9-1
Signed-off-by:
[x](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
[x](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
--------------------
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 MCU architectures, peripherals, and
network connectivity protocols with the goal of the first major (1.0)
release in the first quarter of 2017. These point releases are intended
to demonstrate and solidify the repeatability, usability, 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, get users with
diverse backgrounds applying project to new use cases and encouraging
adoption, 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. 23 new
subscribers on dev@ mailing list since last report.
2. Increased participation by several new contributors through pull
requests for new MCU support, new BSP support, features, and test cases
and test results. Increased usage of the project for 3rd-party products
or demos. Outreach continues via conferences, exhibits, one on one
meetings, tutorials, beta testers.
3. Vigorous discussions on feature proposals, code behavior analysis, API,
code usability, and implementation specifics on @dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. The first beta release of the first major release (1.0.0-b1) was
completed on December 13, 2016. A second beta is being considered before
the first release in Q1, 2017 to facilitate a smooth major release.
2. Planning: Issues including bug reports, features, and wish list captured
and tracked in ASF JIRA by members of the community.
3. Effort towards self governance: Voting successfully completed to grant
committer status to two new candidates since last report.
Date of last release:
2016-12-13
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2016-12-6
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[x](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
[x](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
--------------------
NetBeans
NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform and application
framework.
NetBeans has been incubating since 2016-10-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Licensing, i.e., identifying and solving GPL-related code.
2. Coming up with a process of contributing code that makes sense to
everyone.
3. Working on roadmaps, features, and plans together as a community.
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?
Our first vote for the new logo, still ongoing.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The 1st (out of 12) repository has been cleared by Oracle legal / technical
review for donation.
Dependencies optionally downloaded from Maven Central instead of the
project's own public dependencies server.
Converted Git repositories pushed to GitHub by a community contributor.
These are not canonical since we are waiting for the Code Grant to be
signed.
First community member pull request on the GitHub repository.
Ticket created for a new website.
Date of last release:
No releases yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No one has been elected so far.
Signed-off-by:
[X](netbeans) Ate Douma
[X](netbeans) Bertrand Delacretaz
[ ](netbeans) Emmanuel Lecharny
[ ](netbeans) Daniel Gruno
[X](netbeans) Jim Jagielski
[ ](netbeans) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd):
6(!) Mentors active on mailing lists. Healthy progress over the past
couple months.
--------------------
OpenWhisk
OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able
to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) from
external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic
(Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-based
Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and
catalog services.
OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Moving github repos under the Apache Github Org
2. Setup jenkins infra server to automate website deployment
3. Review and update project
[checklist](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openwhisk.html).
Some items should be mark done (around infra) and followup on committer
that there is a ICLA submitted. Additionally, we add links to the project
page to their respctive areas on our .org site and/or newly created
COnfluence Wiki.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
- No issues so far
How has the community developed since the last report?
- dev and private mailing list establish and initial activity healthy
- New website deploy openwhisk.org with content from the Github repo
How has the project developed since the last report?
- TBD: gather stats from Github repos commits, issues and pull requests
- New in core: New API Auth Keys architecture, API Gateway experimental
- New in packages: Kafka Feed
- Added a "Dockerized" option for running the "wskdeploy" tool
Date of last release:
- No release yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No one ha been elected or nominated yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger
[ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm
[X](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández
--------------------
RocketMQ
RocketMQ is a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to use
message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of
streaming data.
RocketMQ has been incubating since 2016-11-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Confirm the IP review is complete
2. Make our first Apache release
3. Vote in our first committer / PMC members
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?
* Contributors have begun to appear and contribute to the code base
* Discussions on dev@ mailing list is beginning
How has the project developed since the last report?
* User accounts created for new folks
* ICLA documents submitted and recognized
* SGA document submitted and recognized
* Mailing lists created
* Git repo created
* Source code has been imported
* Work has begun on the code base using git pull requests
Date of last release:
No releases yet
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No elections have taken place yet
Signed-off-by:
[x](rocketmq) Bruce Snyder
[ ](rocketmq) Brian McCallister
[ ](rocketmq) Willem Ning Jiang
[ ](rocketmq) Luke Han
[x](rocketmq) Justin McLean
--------------------
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 more releases as part of the Apache Foundation
2. Increase diversity of contributors.
3. Continue to harden and develop core Rya features to improve user
experience
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?
* New committer and PPMC member, David Lotts, was invited and accepted to
join Apache Rya PPMC.
* Committer Caleb Meier joined Rya PPMC.
* Sean Busbey resigned as mentor
* Billie Rinaldi became a mentor for Rya
* Talk on Rya at Accumulo Summit, October 11, 2016
* PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the repository continue
to be received
How has the project developed since the last report?
* We had the first successful release as part of the ASF
* Resolved an incompatible-licensed geospatial dependency so we can have
the successful ASF release - we refactored the code to isolate an
optional module
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered
* Committed features: implemented new commands for Rya console: AddUser
(give perimssions to users for the tables associated with Rya instance),
RemoveUser , Uninstall, LoadStatementsFile. Added merge tool to allow
cloning between Mongo and Accumulo instances. Added initial Spark
support.
Date of last release:
2016-10-28
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* New committer and PPMC member David Lotts elected on Oct 25, 2016
* New PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
[x](rya) Billie Rinaldi
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Josh Elser
The podling put in a substantial amount of work to get their first
release out. We noticed that their geospatial indexing support was
bringing in a bunch of incompatibly licensed deps. Multiple members made
an effort to both understand the problem and the potential to address it.
I was/am very happy both with their patience, effort, and concern that
was given to the problem. It was a good sign that they will pay attention
to these kinds of problems on their own in the future (self-governing).
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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. Licenses and legal details. Traffic Control is a project made up of
several different components, and includes or depends on an extensive
list of software. We are working on making sure all source files have
the right headers, all the licenses of included software are compatible
and the LICENSE and NOTICE are correct.
2. Enhance automation to facilitate committer voting on new releases.
3. Enhance documentation to ease ramp-up time for new community members.
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 hosted a 2 day user / dev meetup in the Bay Area in October that was
attended by 16 people representing 5 companies.
How has the project developed since the last report?
All code has been move to Apache git. All new issues are being opened
in Apache JIRA. All email communications have been moved to to Apache
email lists. Our website has been moved to
http://trafficcontrol.incubator.apache.org/ .
Since the last report (October 2016), we have
* Merged 145 Pull Requests with 314 commits from 19 contributors
* Opened 83 JIRA issues
* Closed 45 JIRA issues
* Seen 81 messages on the dev@ list in December (before December we
had commit messages going to dev@ as well, so those numbers are not
indicative of dev communications)
Date of last release:
None yet. We are addressing issues with release 1.8-incubating RC5.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers or PPMC members yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](trafficcontrol) Phil Sorber
[x](trafficcontrol) Eric Covener
[ ](trafficcontrol) Daniel Gruno
[ ](trafficcontrol) J. Aaron Farr
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd):
Healthy activity on mailing lists, one mentor active.
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Weex
Weex is a framework for building Mobile cross-platform high performance UI.
Weex has been incubating since 2016-11-30.
This is our first report. Weex community is really excited about joining
Apache community and getting organized. Most of us are newbie of
international open source community, Thanks everybody in ASF for your
patience and encouragement.
Most notable progress this first month;
1. 7 members of Weex team have submitted ICLAs.
2. SGA & CCLA have been signed and have been mailed to secretary, of ASF.
3. Project maillist & JIRA have been activated & we have volunteer JIRA
administrator. Our setup issue on JIRA[1]
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Code repository need be set up.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Weex Github star number was reached 10k on December 21.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since our Apache code repository haven’t been setup, the project have not
been developed in Apache Way yet. But our pre-Apache development process
are ongoing. Several bugs have been fixed and some new features have been
added (detail of information [2]). We will migrate code to Apache repo as
soon as possible.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None
[1]:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WEEX-1
[2]:https://github.com/alibaba/weex/releases/tag/v0.9.4
Signed-off-by:
[ ](weex) Luke Han
[ ](weex) Willem Jiang
[ ](weex) Stephan Ewen
[x](weex) Niclas Hedhman
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Niclas Hedhman:
The development on the previous GitHub project is progressing at high
speed. But we have an understanding that moving to ASF repos is of the
highest importance for the next month.
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Attachment AB: 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 made three patch releases this quarter [1,2,3].
## Health report:
Everything is healthy. We have had a few small releases, and have added a
new committer. We have also voted to replace our PMC chair (so as to
broaden the experience/expertise of others in our PMC).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Bilgin Ismet Ibryam was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 09 2016
- We also submitted a [NOTICE] to board@a.o (on 5th Jan 2017) to
change our PMC chair. Have added the appropriate text to the
'Special Orders' section of this agenda.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- Bilgin Ismet Ibryam was added as a committer on Wed Nov 09 2016
## Releases:
- 1.13.1 was released on Sun Oct 30 2016
- 1.13.2 was released on Wed Dec 14 2016
- 1.13.2.1 was released on Tue Jan 03 2017
## Mailing list activity:
Nothing particularly significant in these figures; everything steady.
- users@isis.apache.org:
- 173 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 176 emails sent to list (202 in previous quarter)
- dev@isis.apache.org:
- 79 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 532 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 49 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 46 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.13.1
[2] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.13.2
[3] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.13.2.1
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Attachment AC: 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:
- James server 3.0-beta5 has been released.
- New logo has been chosen by the community.
- The Web site has been updated to is now done via git.
- Fix continue to be committed toward a stable behavior of the server.
## Health report:
- Users regularly come to ask question and open JIRA.
## 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 James server 3.0.0-beta5 on Nov 2016.
## Mailing list activity:
- Subscribers and email activity stable.
## JIRA activity:
- 89 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 45 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Gaul]
== Project Status ==
We have two new providers under review: 'packet.net' and 'vagrant'.
Additionally we are reviewing a large feature for the 'oneandone' provider.
We have seen some interest in supporting OpenStack Keystone v3. jclouds
currently supports the deprecated v2, which makes it hard to use jclouds with
new OpenStack installations difficult. Adding support for Keystone v3 is an
important step to continued OpenStack support, but will be a significant
addition that will require effort and coordination. There are currently no
full-time developers dedicated to jclouds, so this will likely be challenging.
== Community ==
The project continues to receive a moderate amount of issues and pull
requests, with regular questions and responses from community members on the
mailing list.
There have been some recent contributions from new contributors, with several
questions that demonstrated good understanding of the code. Given that the
jclouds codebase is perceived to have a steeper learning curve, this is
encouraging.
There are currently 11 PMC members and 23 committers.
Last committer: 2016-02-05 (Reijhanniel Jearl Campos)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
- Help progress contributions to new and existing providers
- Work towards a plan for OpenStack Keystone v3 support
- Prepare for 2.0.1 bug fix release in Q1 2017
- Prepare for GSOC 2017 by creating and tagging potential projects with
"gsoc2017"
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 1.9.3, took place on 2016-11-23. 2.0.0 was released
shortly before that, on 2016-11-14.
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Attachment AE: 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 released 3.1.1 on the usual 6 month-ish cycle. This has
been the regular project tick for the last couple of years but the
feeling is now that Jena is putting too much into a release and
that a 3 month cycle would be better.
Several major new contributions are in progress.
On the users list, there has been a lot of student-level questions,
particularly of the nature "ask-before-try", leading to some
pushback. After a discussion on dev@, the consensus is that this level
of questions is something that wil happen from time-to-time and unless
it is damaging, the core user community accepts it.
The PMC added Lorenz Buehmann as a committer in recognition of the
effort he provides in patiently answering many questions on users@.
StackOverflow continues to be a second source of user questions.
## Health report:
The level of activity is normal; a slight lull for December and
post-release is not uncommon.
## 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 15 committers.
- Lorenz Buehmann was added as a committer on Fri Oct 28 2016
## Releases:
- 3.1.1 was released on Tue Nov 08 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Normal levels.
## JIRA activity:
Normal Levels
- 33 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 37 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The project has released version 3.1. This version is the last version with
support for Java 7.
The 3.1 version has been well received with a lot of blogs mentioning it.
The project is preparing the next release 3.2 which will move to Java 8.
## Health report:
The project has gained a bit during the end of year vacations and in
expectation of the next release.
We got some nice Pull Requests proposed.
Project has been added to Sonar (builds.a.o/analysis).
We also contributed to "Help Wanted" initiative and got feedback and
proposals to help.
The JMeter Twitter account has 2960 followers as of 14th Jan 2017.
This is about 130 more than at the time of the previous report (Oct 2016)
The git clone of JMeter repository on Github has 788 stars (was 600 in
October) and 447 forks as of 14th Jan 2017.
## 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.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Antonio Gomes Rodrigues at Tue Jun 28 2016
## Releases:
- 3.1 final was released on Sat Nov 19 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Generally the lists see steady activity, with a small increase in the numbers
of subscribers
- dev@jmeter.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
- 497 emails sent to list (578 in previous quarter)
- issues@jmeter.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 478 emails sent to list (624 in previous quarter)
- user@jmeter.apache.org:
- 838 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 201 emails sent to list (228 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 81 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 72 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly]
## 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.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## 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 with significant work done in the latest 1.0.0 release. Its
also planned to implement JSR-374 (JSON-P 1.1), the successor of JSR-353.
## Releases: Last release was 1.0.0 on Mon Dec 12 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 there was low activity.
We had 7 new Jira issues and fixed 3 of them. On the mailinglist there a no
unanswered questions left. On the dev list we have 27 subscribers currently
and 5 msg sent per week. Since last report we saw mailing list activity from a
few new people.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
## Description:
- A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard JEE
components (Java, servlets, JSP).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- This quarter has been a silent one, with all the activity mostly happening
on holidays (roughly, second half of December, first half of January)
## Health report:
- Apache JSPWiki remains as a 100% volunteer effort, so quiet periods like
this one are not uncommon. There were commits from 2 individuals on this
period.
- This quarter should have seen some movement regarding the transition of
jspwiki.a.o from ASF's CMS to JSPWiki. I voluntereed for this task, but
have been totally away for almost all the quarter, so no progress here...
- All questions on ML where answered, and there are enough people to
provide project oversight. Finally, there weren't new blog posts on this
quarter.
## 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
## Mailing list activity:
- As outlined on the Activity section, this has been a quiet quarter, which
reflects on ML statistics:
- dev@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 87 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 47 emails sent to list (84 in previous quarter)
- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 178 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 28 emails sent to list (30 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré]
## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container,
multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues:
- As requested by the board, the Karaf PMC members decided to provide this
new report to address board comments and questions. We want to apologize a
new time for the delay to address those comments.
## Activity:
- We are maintaining our pace in the release. The next major release is
4.1.0 on which we are working. This release will contain lot of feedback
and contributions from the users.
- We also continue to improve the Karaf subprojects, especially Karaf
Decanter and Karaf Cellar. They both received important contributions from
users.
- We started a discussion on the dev mailing list about a new feature: Karaf
Boot. The purpose is to simplify writing applications running on Karaf and
provide easy way to package applications and Karaf all together. Due to
the releases activity, the discussion was in stand-by, but we plan to
restart the discussion and move forward about this.
- We are beginning the work for a full JDK9 support, we expect to achieve
the result in release 4.2.0
## Health report:
Apache Karaf has been receiving issue reports, patch submissions from down
stream projects such as OpenHab and OpenDaylight.
These projects use Apache Karaf as their runtime environment, their
contributions upstream to Karaf help strengthen and grow our broader
community.
It's also interesting to see that Karaf received contributions from other
Apache community, like Apache Unomi.
Last month we quickly reacted to a CVE security request that we already
fixed in last 4.0.8 release.
We are still watching for new potential committers and PMCs, extending our
dev community.
Talks related to Karaf (directly or indirectly) were present during
ApacheCon EU, promoting the project.
We also received new requests and feedback from new users (on the mailing
list and/or Jira) showing a healthy user community.
We are trying to be active on related projects (Apache Felix, enRoute, ...)
to increase the Karaf adoption and grow the user community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Grzegorz Grzybek was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016
- Luca Burgazzoli was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016
## Releases:
- 4.0.8 was released on Sun Dec 18 2016
- Cellar 4.0.3 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean for the project. If
there is nothing significant in the figures, omit this section.
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 183 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 324 emails sent to list (370 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 39 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1378 emails sent to list (1350 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 369 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 555 emails sent to list (769 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 163 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 174 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon]
## Description:
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've made one minor release and one bug fix release.
Additionally, we branched for Kudu 1.2 which we expect to release by the
end of January.
In addition to the features that have landed in Kudu 1.1 and the upcoming
1.2, we have also made initial progress on adding various security-related
functionality to Kudu. It is not yet usable by end users, but some
infrastructure has landed in our master branch and we expect to provide
some basic security functionality in Kudu 1.3. Many users have cited lack
of security functionality as a barrier to adoption, so we expect to see an
up-tick in usage later this year as it becomes available.
## Health report:
- Subscriptions to the user mailing list are up 14% over last quarter, with
a comparable growth in traffic. Subscriptions to development-related lists
have grown at a slower rate (~5%). Questions on both the mailing list
and our Slack channel are typically answered within a day.
- Development velocity (as measured by commits and dev list traffic) is
is slightly down from the previous quarter, likely due to a relatively
quiet holiday period in December. That said, absolute levels are still
healthy (4-5 commits per day)
- This quarter, we committed code authored by 21 distinct contributors, of
whom 9 were new to the project. Of the 9 new contributors, 7 are unaffiliated
with Cloudera, who employs the majority of active committers. This is a good
sign for long term project diversity, though we still need to cultivate the
new contributors and encourage continued involvement.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members and committers (all committers are PMC)
- Last committer/PMC addition: Jordan Birdsell was added on Nov 8, 2016.
## Releases:
- Apache Kudu 1.0.1 was released on Tue Oct 11 2016
- Apache Kudu 1.1.0 was released on Mon Nov 21 2016
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Attachment AK: 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:
The community made maintenance releases of Lucy and Clownfish.
Long-discussed plans to revamp Clownfish to use interface inheritance
rather than classical inheritance (a model more compatible with more host
languages) have materialized into a concrete proposal which has basically
achieved consensus.
Health report:
The project continues to make releases and forward progress. The C
bindings seem to have attracted some new users based on increased user
list activity. The community is doing some of the things that it should
to attract new contributors, but could do more. As with last quarter,
most commits are authored by one contributor; mailing list engagement is
somewhat more diverse.
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members. The last committer
and PMC member change was Timothy Wilkens, who joined in September 2014.
Releases:
- Apache Lucy 0.6.1 was released on Thu Dec 08 2016
- Apache Clownfish 0.6.1 was released on Thu Dec 08 2016
Mailing list and JIRA activity:
Mail volume on the dev and issues lists fell a bit further this quarter.
The user list picked up some.
- dev@lucy.apache.org:
- 60 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 24 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
- issues@lucy.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 50 emails sent to list (47 in previous quarter)
- user@lucy.apache.org:
- 89 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 68 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Palumbo]
## Description:
Apache Mahout is an environment for quickly creating scalable performant
machine learning applications.
## Issues:
None
## Activity:
- The Team is currently in the process of putting together a milestone 0.13.0
release.
- Work is presently focused on adding support for Visualization, GPU and
native optimization.
- Sebastian Schelter presented a poster at Machine Learning Systems Workshop,
NIPS 2016 Dec 10, 2016 “Samsara: Declarative Machine Learning on
Distributed Dataflow Systems” - https://ssc.io/pdf/poster-mlsystems.pdf
- Andrew Palumbo presented “Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce” at the Orange
County Big Data Meetup, October, 2016.
- Trevor Grant presented: “Apache Mahout?! What’s Next!” At
Chicago Hadoop Users Group, October 2016
Seattle Data Science Meetup, December 2016
San Diego Big Data Meetup, December 2016
Austin Data Meetup, December 2016
DFW Data Science Meetup, December 2016
- Andrew Musselman presented: “Apache Mahout?! What’s Next!” at Seattle Data
Science Meetup, December 2016
- Suneel Marthi presented: “Native and Distributed Machine Learning with
Apache Mahout” Apache Big Data Europe 2016, Nov 13 2016, Seville, Spain
## Health report:
- The project has a dedicated team of voluntary committers.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Stevo Slavić on Tue Apr 21 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Trevor Grant at Tue May 24 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.12.2 on Sun Jun 12 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Robert Scholte]
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* Issues
* Activity
It has been quite a while since we did our latest release of Maven
(3.3.9, 2015-11-15). The number of fixed issues for 3.4.0 is over 100 and
there are enough good improvements which deserve a new release. Now that
we control the codebase of Maven Artifact Resolver (formally known as
Aether), quite some changes/bugfixes have been applied regarding managed
dependencies. The intention is good, but the results are that the behavior
and resolution has changed. This has led to reverts, recommits and a lot
discussions about what is right. There's still no consensus, but we need a
solution since this is blocking a new release.
There has been a vote to reset 3 git repositories to a previous revision,
i.e maven.git, maven-integration-testing.git and maven-resolver.git. The
vote has passed and actions are in progress.
We'll drop Maven 3.4.0 and rearrange all issues marked as fixed for 3.4.0,
starting with a subset for 3.5.0. To prevent the same situation we must
change our commit/push-style and work more with branches.
Jason van Zyl has resigned as member of the JSR-376 Expert Group. Robert
Scholte has replaced his seat on behalf of the Apache Maven team.
Regarding the Jigsaw project Robert Scholte and Brian Fox have shared
concerns regarding the naming strategy for automodules(jars without a
module-info; names are based on the filename). The majority of the Maven
PMC agrees and recognizes the issue from other systems. Robert and Brian
are working on a paper with proposals.
Migration of Maven's EC2 instance + S3 bucket (INFRA-12729) has been
successfully completed with great help of infrastructure: in addition to
expected lower cost, the new service gives better performance, which
permitted work on content analysis. Sadly, growth of data is bigger than
expected: we've already hit a full disk (INFRA-13213) even if provisionned
capacity looked sufficient initially. We need to work again with infra to
find a sustainable solution.
* Health Report
* 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
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 57 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Guillaume Boué at Thu, 07 Jul 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1707 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months):
- 314 emails sent to list (330 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 629 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 1365 emails sent to list (979 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 676 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 290 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 282 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Releases:
Core
* Last Maven release: 3.3.9 (2015-11-15)
Plugins
- Maven Assembly Plugin 3.0.0 was released on Fri, 11 Nov 2016
- Maven Changes Plugin 2.12.1 was released on Tue, 01 Nov 2016
- Maven Compiler Plugin 3.6.0 was released on Sun, 30 Oct 2016
- Maven Dependency Plugin 3.0.0 was released on Fri, 16 Dec 2016
- Maven PMD Plugin 2.7 was released on Sun, 16 Oct 2016
- Maven Resources Plugin 3.0.2 was released on Sat, 10 Dec 2016
- Maven Site Plugin 3.6 was released on Thu, 17 Nov 2016
Other
- Doxia Sitetools 1.7.2 was released on Thu, 27 Oct 2016
- Doxia Sitetools 1.7.3 was released on Thu, 03 Nov 2016
- Maven Artifact Transfer 0.9.0 was released on Tue, 01 Nov 2016
- Maven Common Artifact Filters 3.0.1 was released on Mon, 31 Oct 2016
- Maven Doxia Sitetools 1.7.4 was released on Tue, 08 Nov 2016
- Maven Fluido Skin 1.6 was released on Sun, 06 Nov 2016
- Maven Reporting Executor 1.3 was released on Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury]
## Description:
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
## Issues:
MINA 2.0.16 adresses a security issue where a non secure client can talk to a secure server
## Activity:
Two releases this quarty, addressing security.
## Health report:
Project activitity is broadly the same as previous quarter, in all the
various categories (commits, JIRA tickets, mails). A significant effort
enhancing the Javadoc has been done.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jeff Genender on Tue Apr 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Lyor Goldstein at Thu Apr 30 2015
## Releases:
- Apache FTPServer 1.1.0 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
- Apache MINA 2.0.16 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@mina.apache.org:
- 512 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 57 emails sent to list (28 in previous quarter)
- dev@mina.apache.org:
- 361 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 408 emails sent to list (457 in previous quarter)
- ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org:
- 130 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 35 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 24 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AP: 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 the community is working on the new
JSF 2.3 specification features.
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. While we've seen some
jira activity by a potential contributor, nothing has materialized yet.
- 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.
## 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
- We have no new committer or PMC member candidates at this time beyond what
was mentioned for Trinidad.
## Releases:
- tobago-3.0.0 was released on Thu Dec 15 2016
- tobago-3.0.0-alpha-7 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
- tobago-3.0.0-beta-1 was released on Tue Dec 06 2016.
## JIRA activity:
- 77 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 82 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AQ: 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 1.1.1 was released (12/22/16)
- Apache NiFi 1.0.1 was released (12/19/16)
- Apache NiFi MiNiFi 0.1.0 Java released (12/4/16)
- Apache NiFi MiNiFi 0.1.0 C++ released (12/2/16)
- Apache NiFi 1.1.0 was released (11/29/16)
## Health report:
- We have grown both the PMC and committer ranks during the reporting period.
- We've produced both significant feature and bug fix releases during the
reporting period.
- Discussions on dev and in our wiki are evolving well regarding future
feature ideas and we continue to see new contributors participating.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Joe Skora was added to the PMC on Wed Dec 28 2016
- Andre Fucs de Miranda was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 02 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Joey Frazee was added as a committer on Thu Dec 29 2016
- Jeremy Dyer was added as a committer on Mon Dec 19 2016
- Scott Aslan was added as a committer on Fri Nov 04 2016
- Bryan Rosander was added as a committer on Mon Oct 24 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was Apache NiFi 1.1.1 on Dec 22 2016
- There were five releases during the reporting period.
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity remained strong throughout the reporting period.
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 433 subscribers (up 39 in the last 3 months):
- 810 emails sent to list (847 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 310 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 862 emails sent to list (909 in previous quarter)
- issues@nifi.apache.org:
- 32 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 6600 emails sent to list (11361 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 491 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 367 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AR: 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
Issues
- 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 8 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.
While the traffic on the user mailing list is at a steady level, the traffic
on the development list has dropped within the last 3 months:
- dev@nutch.apache.org:
- 534 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 164 emails sent to list (523 in previous quarter)
- user@nutch.apache.org:
- 1095 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 242 emails sent to list (284 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AS: 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:
We have released the new AngularJS based web console as on Nov 2016. The vote
for console release can be found here (https://s.apache.org/cdtH) and the
passing vote (https://s.apache.org/capW)
The release vote (https://s.apache.org/8RKP) for 1.3.7 was initiated in the
same month and had to request to restrain from voting as the json.org
licensing issue was raised across Apache projects.
It has been found that the old web console has some implementation from
json.org. We are in the process of solving it.
## 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 (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 60 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 225 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AT: 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:
Development of JPA-2.1 slowed down a bit.
We improved the OSGi support and released OpenJPA-2.4.2 which
still targets the JPA-2.0 specification.
## Health report:
Maintenance as usual, new features get addressed whenever there
is time as most committers are also heavily involved in other
ASF projects.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Francesco Chicchiriccò on Thu Sep 15 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 32 committers.
- Christian Schneider was added as a committer on Tue Dec 06 2016
## Releases:
- 2.4.2 was released on Tue Jan 03 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- users@openjpa.apache.org:
- 250 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 32 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
- dev@openjpa.apache.org:
- 134 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 114 emails sent to list (266 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AU: 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:
- We are actively developing both 3.1.x and 3.2.x branches. We are ready to
release 3.1.4 right after NY holidays.
## Health report:
- There were 2 releases in previous quater, and lots of issues were
reported/fixed. We extect more activity after next releases, 3.1.4 and
3.2.0
## 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:
- Last release was 3.1.3 on Tue Sep 27 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 141 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 114 emails sent to list (346 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 341 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 237 emails sent to list (437 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 32 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 33 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 212 emails sent to list (68 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 46 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 67 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AV: 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 file formats, OpenOffice ships for Windows,
macOS, Linux 64-bit, Linux 32-bit and in more than 40 languages.
STATUS
======
The typical year-end slow-down due to Christmas, holidays and family
visits in general has also reached OpenOffice. Due to this the activity
in the projects was more silent, too.
However, limitations of capacity of development is an ongoing concern.
But plans are still active to do more releases.
Compared to the previous reports this time it's shorter by intention.
ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
==========================
There are no current topics to be concerned with.
RELEASES
========
The current release is Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 and was published on
2016-Oct-12.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 is planned for release in 2017 Q1 for further
maintenance.
Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0 is planned for this year - but without to name a
specific time frame - to include new features and bigger enhancements
but of course more bug fixes.
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
==============
PMC
---
The recognition and invitation of potential PMC members remains on a
slow level. No new PMC members were added. A discussion is ongoing to
add a former PMC member.
There are currently 27 PMC members.
The last PMC addition was Malte Timmerman (malte) on 2016-07-14
The last PMC resignation was Kay Schenk (kschenk) on 2016-09-02
Committers
----------
There are 140 committers as of 2017-Jan-08. The recognition and
invitation of potential committers is continuing. The following people
were added:
2016-Nov-07 Peter Kovacs (petko)
2016-Nov-16 Matthias Seidel (mseidel)
Last previous committer addition was on 2016-Apr-26 Jan Høydahl (janhoy)
Last previous committer withdrawal was on 2016-Sep-02 Kay Schenk (kschenk)
ACTIVITY
========
Development and Release Engineering
-----------------------------------
The build system and its documentation is improving as the result of
work by experienced developers and committers. The number of individuals
able to replicate release builds is increasing.
The release manager for the upcoming release 4.1.4 is found and working
on keeping the tasks together.
The hottest action at the moment is to transfer the build system from
the old dmake to the newer gbuild (Google Build). However, with more
than hundred sub-projects in SVN this remains a hugh task.
There are plans to work on a Apple signing service to be able to sign
install files for macOS.
Besides this bugfixing of issues is the next action item to name.
Downloads
---------
The downloads are at a consistent rate. On 2016-Nov-18 A new record has
been reached. OpenOffice hit the mark of 200 million downloads (source:
http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html).
The downloads regarding to plattform and country over the last 3 months
are spread like the following (source:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map?dates=2016-10-15%20to%202017-01-08):
76 % for Windows
8 % for macOS
1 % for Linux
15 % for other platforms
17 % United States
13 % France
13 % Germany
7 % Italy
7 % Spain
4 % Poland
4 % United Kingdom
3 % Russia
3 % Japan
2 % Canada
27 % all other countries
Websites
--------
There is action to improve the translation and structure of webpages for
Danish, Norwegian, German, Portuguese and Korean. The social media
representation (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter) was improved, too.
Community Lists/Archives and Actions
------------------------------------
The list below is in decreasing order by 2016 activity.
LIST AVERAGE MONTHLY ACTIVITY
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
dev@ 1266 1124 552 340 323
users@ 235 198 328 219 208
l10n@ 211 225 119 34 18
qa@ 150 127 71 16 16
marketing@ 63 87 18 3 4
api@ 30 35 20 15 1
doc@ 7 41 25 12 13
recruitment@ - - - - 3 (start in Sep 2016, 38 in
total up to now)
dev-de@ 0 0 42 6 13
users-de@ 38 167 147 94 89
general-es@ 34 24 9 4 4
users-fr@ 1 4 6 0 1
utenti-it@ 29 40 30 37 27
progetto-it@ 12 17 8 2 1
general-ja@ 3 2 0 0 0
geral-ptbr@ 21 5 1 0 0
A new list, recruitment@, was launched on September, 5th. The list is
intended to act as a single-point-of-contact to provide a gentler on-ramp
for newcomers without contending with the active dev@ list for guidance.
The traffic is low but recognized. There have been 31 messages since the
report in October.
The geral-ptbr@ list was closed with the retirement of a moderator and
sustained inactivity.
Apache OpenOffice is represented at a few fairs and events. This is
managed by a small but fine team. Next event is FOSDEM Feb, 4th-5th in
Brussels, Belgium. Here we will share the booth with Apache in general.
Issue Tracking (Bugzilla)
-------------------------
The rate of new Bugzilla issues is decreasing since a few years. The
rate at which issues remain unresolved over all that time is more than
40%. But volunteers are managing the new issue reports that come in.
Development Capacity
--------------------
The arrival of new developers is still slow. But there are indeed people
willing to dig into the code. But with our low number of developers
assignments and mentoring is slow by itself.
A number of previously-active committers have returned to activity
as part of the response to the previous-quarter public discussion
of what AOO retirement would look like.
Next Steps: Improving the mentoring of newcomers and expanding the
capacity to address major issues as part of new releases.
Branding
--------
In average there is nearly 1 request per month for use of the marks.
The same for reports about suspected trademark misuse (or confusion
about selling of Apache OpenOffice binaries, e.g., on eBay).
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
----------
The discussions on the retirement of OpenOffice start in September 2016
were very heated. Since many weeks they became silent now on our mailing
lists.
ISSUES
======
No topics
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Attachment AW: 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:
- There was considerable concern among the Hive committers about
losing their ability to make changes to the ORC code base as we
finish replacing the copy of ORC's code base in Hive with a
reference to the ORC project's release artifacts. The ORC PMC voted
to allow the current Hive committers to become ORC
committers. Twenty of the Hive committers accepted the offer and
have been added. I feel this is good for the project, but it may
induce some short term turmoil with the large influx of new
committers.
- On a separate note, the ORC PMC also added Gopal Vijayaraghavan as
a PMC member. Gopal has done a lot of great work on ORC's
performance and is a great addition to the PMC.
- We made two bug fix releases on the 1.2 line and will likely
make a 1.3 release in the next quarter.
## Health report:
- We need to finish Hive's migration from its own ORC code base to
use our release artifacts. Having two copies of the code in
different projects is very hard to mantain.
- We are seeing some new contributors, which is great.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- Gopal Vijayaraghavan was added to PMC on Jan 08 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 32 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Aihua Xu was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
- Lalam Chinna Rao was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
- Chaoyu Tang was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Jianyong Dai was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
- Eugene Koifman was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Ashutosh Chauhan was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Jesús Camacho Rodríguez was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
- Jason Dere was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Lars Francke was added as a committer on Wed Dec 21 2016
- Rui Li was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
- Mithun Radhakrishnan was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Matt McCline was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Pengcheng Xiong was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Rajesh Balamohan was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Sergio Peña was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
- Siddharth Seth was added as a committer on Mon Jan 09 2017
- Vaibhav Gumashta was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Wei Zheng was added as a committer on Thu Dec 15 2016
- Ferdinand Xu was added as a committer on Wed Jan 04 2017
- Yongzhi Chen was added as a committer on Fri Dec 16 2016
## Releases:
- 1.2.2 was released on Wed Nov 30 2016
- 1.2.3 was released on Sun Dec 11 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 24 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 20 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem]
## Description:
Parquet is a standard and interoperable columnar file format
for efficient analytics.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- parquet-arrow integration has been added in parquet-cpp
- We're preparing a 1.8.2 patch release for the Apache Spark project
- We're preparing parquet-cpp 0.1: its first release (PARQUET-713)
## Health report:
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.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Wes McKinney on Thu Sep 01 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Uwe Korn at Sun Sep 04 2016
## Releases:
- 1.9.0 was released on Sun Oct 23 2016
## 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:
- 176 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 452 emails sent to list (436 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 81 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 67 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AY: 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
- we solved an issue with an android port of PDFBox. The author didn't
change the package names after forking PDFBox. We asked him to change that
and he complied.
## Activity:
- we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x
- there are some small improvements as well
- Maruan started an effort to update our logo. It's still a work in progress
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on
the mailing lists
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Tim Allison on Mon Sep 19 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tim Allison at Mon Sep 19 2016
## Releases:
- 1.8.13 was released on Fri Dec 09 2016
- 2.0.4 was released on Fri Dec 16 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 120 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 105 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan]
Apache Samza is a stream processing framework built on top of Apache Hadoop
YARN and Apache Kafka.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Streaming and SQL analytics on Samza in QCon SF'16
- Streaming meetup at LinkedIn in Nov 2016 cover the roadmap for Samza
- Engineering blog post of async feature in Samza 0.11
## Health report:
- Project seems healthy, but growth has been relatively flat. Likely due to
complete saturation of projects in the stream processing space.
## 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.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Xinyu Liu at Mon Sep 26 2016
## Releases:
- apache-samza-0.11.0 was released on Sun Oct 16 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- email conversation drops down in this quarter, likely due to end-of-year
holiday seasons
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 300 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 287 emails sent to list (764 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 43 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 31 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
After the 1.0.0 release it got a bit quiet around the project and the
community. No commit was made since November 2016.
The discussion about electing a new PMC chair who may drive the project
is also in an idle state. No one so far stood up to take the job.
We plan to start a new discussion in 2017 about the future of Stanbol.
Subscribers on the dev list: 227
Last new committer was
Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015
Last new PMC member were
Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016
Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016
Last stack release was:
Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016
Last component release was:
Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014
org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno]
## Description:
Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the
Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of
Directors.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention yet.
## Activity:
No activity in this period, which was anticipated (STeVe is a project
that generally only has activity around March, April, May)
## Health report:
Two additional people have chosen to resign from STeVe, leaving the
PMC at 5 members currently. This is not a great situation to be in,
and we will be pushing for some more contributors once we get closer
to the annual members meeting. There are still >3 active PMC members
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015
- Sean Kelly chose to resign from the PMC on November 1st, 2016.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 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, although the codebase is considered stable.
We might consider pushing a release soon (TBD).
## Mailing list activity:
- Pretty low activity, expected to go up in the coming months as we get
closer to the annual meeting.
- dev@steve.apache.org: no email sent
- issues@steve.apache.org: no email sent
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Struts Project [René Gielen]
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, with a clear focus on the 2.5 branch.
Adoption of the new 2.5 release line, being considered as a transition
and consolidation branch on our way towards Struts 3, is on the rise and
we might discuss dropping support for the 2.3 line later this year.
We received a few reports regarding possible security issues, one of
which led to a security bulletin and a fix found in Struts 2.5.8 [1]. In
addition we received a notice that recent releases have been signed with
unresolvable GPG keys. This issue should be resolved for upcoming releases.
Based on the feedback we received from board on the last report, we
started discussion on possible new committership candidates. We widened
a bit the scope of investigation and identified a few contributors that
might be valuable additions. The first candidate is now being
voted upon. The others are still being monitored closely.
No new committer or PMC member was added in the last quarter.
The last committership addition was on 2015-10-23 (Aleksandr Mashchenko).
The last PMC addition was on 2016-08-13 (Aleksandr Mashchenko).
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
[1] https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-044.html
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BE: 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 have discussed 0.12 release.
## Health report:
- There are no changes in this respect.
## 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:
- 102 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- issues@tajo.apache.org:
- 26 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (307 in previous quarter)
- user@tajo.apache.org:
- 47 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo]
## Description:
- Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features
high productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific
performance.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Activity on the user mailing list is slow, and unfortunately getting slower.
- Questions are answered with participation of not only the core contributors
but also by the community at large. Discussion focuses
especially around new features of the 5.4 release.
## Branding requirement progress:
- We'll try to add the 'tm' to the Apache Tapestry logo ourselves in the
near future.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jochen Kemnade on Thu Mar 19 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jochen Kemnade at Fri Apr 25 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.4.1 on Sat Mar 19 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BG: 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:
- We released rivet 2.3.3 with a bug fix and a newly developed experimental
form broker to check and validate form data
- Working at the forthcoming release of rivet 3.0. The Makefile.am scripts
have been modified to provide better support of the automake generated
targets. Future code distributions will be much more fine tuned.
## Health report:
- There are no changes in this respect
## 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-2.3.3 was released on Mon Nov 28 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- mailing lists have been quiter than usual recently
- rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org:
- 49 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 46 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter)
- site-cvs@tcl.apache.org:
- 7 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 68 emails sent to list (35 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 1 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BH: 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:
The trademark registration for Tez has run into a hurdle at the USPTO,
where the trademark examiner has raised concerns about the likelihood of
confusion of the Hindi language translation of Tez (speed), with the already
registered trademark "SPEED" by "Genesistems, Inc
## Activity:
- Development of a YARN Shuffle handler continues on a branch, and
development on multiple edges between vertices started on a branch.
- No releases in the last 3 months. Bug fixes, enhancements, and UI
improvements continue.
## Health report:
Development activity, and mailing list activity was a little lower than
what it has been in the past, likely due to the holiday season. Expect some
bug fix releases in the next few months, and potentially a major release.
## 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 36 committers.
- Zhiyuan Yang was added as a branch committer (branch TEZ-1190)
on Wed Nov 30 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.4 on Thu Jul 07 2016
## JIRA activity:
- 103 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 65 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BI: 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 recently published our 0.10.0 release which included
a fix for a known security vulnerability, CVE-2016-5397. We are in the process of
reviewing a new client library for Rust and are seeing a number of bug fixes and client
library patches being submitted from new contributors.
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Nobuaki Sukegawa, 1.25.2016
* Committer addition: James King, 10.18.2016
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 84
* Resolved: 48
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 1207 messages
* @user 25 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.10.0, Release Date: 1.3.2017
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
=== Apache Tika Status Report : January 2017 ===
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 Tika 1.14 was released on Wed Oct
19 2016. Version 1.15 is now underway with current new features such as the
WordPerfect and QuattroPro parsers, SAX based parser for Office formats, and
inline image extraction in PDFs.
Work has also continued on the new 2.X branch.
Community
=========================
Luís Filipe Nassif was added as a committer on Tue Oct 18 2016
Tika has featured an article from Chris Mattman entitled 'Searching deep
and dark: Building a Google for the less visible parts of the web'[1].
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 351, 359 and 162 messages in Nov, Dec and
Jan 2016/17, respectively. user@ was at 41, 2 and 17 messages, during the same
timeframe.
[1] https://s.apache.org/qzen
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BK: 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 committer in Robert Dale.
TinkerPop released versions 3.1.5 and 3.2.3. New developed has started on
the follow-on releases to those versions and work for the new major line
of 3.3.0 is under way.
It was nice to see some additional growth in the number of TinkerPop
providers - those who implement and expand on TinkerPop interfaces.
OrientDB, a distributed multi-model database, announced official support
for Apache TinkerPop. It was also announced that HGraphDB had been released
which provides a TinkerPop implementation over Apache HBase. This news was
recently reported on the ASF blog[1].
As an update to brand management issues mentioned in the previous report,
recall that the TinkerPop PMC had become aware of two individuals not
acknowledging our marks with respect to products sold with TinkerPop
graphics. While one of the two was quick to respond to the issue and
correct it, we found the other unresponsive. As we made several attempts at
contact via email, we aren't really sure if there is much else that we can
reasonably do. The mailing address on the website doesn't look legitimate,
there is no phone number to call. The site itself looks somewhat
incomplete in many ways (e.g. lorem ipsum text), so perhaps this is not
worth pursuing any further.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
- 3.1.5 (October 17, 2016)
- 3.2.3 (October 17, 2016)
## PMC/Committer:
- Last PMC addition was Jason Plurad - August 2016
- Last committer addition was Robert Dale - October 2016
## Links
[1] https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/hgraphdb_hbase_as_a_tinkerpop
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BL: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on,
but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise
Edition Specifications.
As commented in the last board report, the project has work to do on
attracting new committers. In the last year an overwhelming majority of
commits have come from one person. That said, since last board report in
September we’ve seen at least 7 non-committers submit a total of 21 pull
requests through the Github integration. Some of those successfully applied,
many not and one deleted by accident.
Wearing my PMC Chair hat my concern on adding new committers in the current
climate is there is not enough discussion to match the level of commit
activity. In particular, only 1 of the 7 faces have posted to the mailing
list. Recalling Ken Coar’s decision to go RTC in Geronimo, I’ve put that
course of action up for discussion in the PMC. Though Ken did it for entirely
different reasons, the benefits it brought the community could be particularly
useful here.
Work on a new website reached a point where the community was overall happy
and voted to go live with it. The new site is largely a new landing page, a
few new quick-starts and links to many pages of the old site which has a
slightly different look and feel. Contribution to the new site is a
definitely opportunity for those looking to get started.
Last release was 7.0.2 on 2016-11-11. Last committer was added November 2015.
Last PMC addition, 4 new members on 2015-08-11.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Bryan Call]
## 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:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We held our Fall Summit in Sunnyvale, at Linkedin. There were over 80
people that registered and approximately that many attended. There were
a number of great presentations from the ATS Community and we had two
companies give talks on products that support ATS.
- At the Fall Summit the ATS Community discussed moving to GitHub for issue
tracking and at the beginning of the year (1/1/2017) we made the
transition.
- We are discussing having the 2017 Spring Summit at ApacheCon in May.
- Five people from the ATS Community attended the IETF 97 meeting in Seoul in
November. There is an interest in the QUIC protocol in the ATS Community
and a few of us will be attending the IETF QUIC Interim Meeting in January
in Tokyo.
## Health report:
- We have branched the v7.1.0 release and are working on finalizing the
release.
- We expect continued increase in committers, partially thanks to the Github
migration which we feel continues to encourage and simplify user
participation.
- Commits are down from the previous quarter. We were preparing for the
v7.0.0 release in the previous quarter and v7.0.0 had more changes in the
release then we normally have, more than 400 issues closed.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 39 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Chao Xu on Sun Sep 18 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 47 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Chao Xu at Wed Sep 14 2016
- We extended an invitation to Gancho Tenev and he hasn't accepted yet
## Releases:
- 7.0.0 was released on Sun Nov 06 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity stayed relatively flat over the last quarter, which
is good considering holiday vacation.
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 503 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 223 emails sent to list (234 in previous quarter)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 322 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 211 emails sent to list (253 in previous quarter)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5170 emails sent to list (9249 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 153 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 126 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Commit activity:
- 76,998 lines of code changed (down -2%)
- 313 commits (down -21%)
- 18 committer email addresses (down -54%)
- 39 author email addresses (down -12%)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BN: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
Activity:
- Activity in the last quarter has been quite low - especially over the
holidays.
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
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BO: 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
* 2.0.10 - December 2016
* 2.1.8 - December, 2016
Axiom - StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model
* 1.2.20 - October 2016
Last releases for other technologies:
* 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)
Note :
There was a concern raised by the board about the last report submitted, that
suggests Oct-2016 report was identical to previous report except 2 new
releases mentioned. We have informed several times to the board about the
nature of this PMC, in fact community section of the report contains brief
summery about the nature of this PMC. Web services is no longer a hot topic
and not a area that radical innovations are happening also all the
sub-projects are pretty much stable & mature too, in this context it's hard to
expect major development efforts around these sub-projects.
Having said these projects are not inactive, user queries are answered on
time, bug fixing and new releases are happening frequently, maintaining good
level of committers diversity as well.
Most of the time notable changes between 2 board reports are limited to
mention new releases, in this current report we have 3 new releases other than
that all the other aspects such as community activities, last committer and
PMC member additions are remains same as previous report.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BP: 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
- NFLabs decided to change their brand from zeppelinhub
(https://www.zeppelinhub.com) to zepl (http://www.zepl.com/). Migration
expected to be done around Mar/April timeframe.
## Activity:
- Released 0.6.2
- Community is working on 0.7.0 release
## Health report:
- Steady increment of number of code contributors. +33 since last report, 186
total
- New committer recruitement is in discussion at private@
## 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.
- Last committer addition was DuyHai Doan at Mon Sep 12 2016
## Releases:
- 0.6.2 was released on Fri Oct 14 2016
- 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:
- 633 subscribers (up 47 in the last 3 months):
- 542 emails sent to list (827 in previous quarter)
- dev@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 293 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
- 4294 emails sent to list (4290 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 399 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 273 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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End of minutes for the January 18, 2017 board meeting.
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