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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
July 17, 2019
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:39
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3w7e
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:
Danny Angus
Rich Bowen - left at 11:52 Pacific
Shane Curcuru
Ted Dunning
Myrle Krantz
Daniel Ruggeri
Craig L Russell
Roman Shaposhnik
Joan Touzet
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
David Nalley
Tom Pappas
Sam Ruby
Matt Sicker
Executive Officers Absent:
Ulrich Stärk
Guests:
Andrew Musselman
Daniel Gruno
Greg Stein
Gris Cuevas
Jim Jagielski
Kevin A. McGrail
Paul Angus
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of June 19, 2019
See: board_minutes_2019_06_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
B. The meeting of May 16, 2019
See: board_minutes_2019_05_16.txt
Tabled.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Craig]
Planning is well underway for our 20 year celebrations at ApacheCon
NA in Las Vegas and ApacheCon EU in Berlin. Kudos to all the
volunteers who are making this happen.
We are on solid financial footing thanks to our generous sponsors and
prudent spending. The FY2020 budget was approved and we are once again
tracking actuals to budget.
This month saw good progress on Apache's new initiative for equity,
diversity, and inclusion, including the start of a partnership with
Outreachy to help us understand better the barriers to contribution to
our projects. Thanks to IBM who chose to sponsor up to three interns
at Outreachy to work on Apache projects.
We will shortly open a call to participation for all PMCs to nominate
mentors for the Outreachy program. I encourage all PMCs to consider
participating.
With this on track, there are still obstacles to the smooth operation
of this initiative. I'd like to thank Gris Cuevas for her leadership
and look forward to her continuing to drive progress here.
Apache was contacted by the European Commission Directorate-General
for Competition and asked to comment on the proposed acquisition of
Red Hat by IBM. Both companies are Apache sponsors. After deliberating
openly on the board list, we decided to let the invitation lapse
without responding.
B. President [Sam]
Financially, we are starting off as we have now for years, ahead on
income and behind on spending. As always, the caveat this early in
the year is that timing of payments affects these results.
Quiet month for Brand Management
Fundraising has secured additional sponsors and is pursuing process
improvements.
In addition to keeping on top of things and having a pipeline of
future announcements, Marketing and Publicity has begun on the new
tasks recently approved in the FY20 budget.
Finance, Conferences, and Marketing & Publicity continue to work
closely together.
Diversity and Inclusion has begun reporting on each of the three
initiatives identified in the budget request.
Conferences is wrapping up last minute details for ACNA. Sponsorship
levels for ACEU to date is a concern.
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Meta-governance discussions
Despite the resolution to establish the position of VP, Diversity and
Inclusion being rescinded and replaced, confusion continues. This is
impacting the ability of the committee that Gris established to get on
with their important work.
As I did last month, I will once again state that unless and until I
hear otherwise, I will assume that the board agrees to the following:
* VP's reporting to the President can add or remove members of any
committees that they oversee, and can even create and disband entire
committees, all without prior board approval.
* VP's reporting to the President (or anybody they delegate to do so)
can place any individual on moderation if they feel that they need
to do so to improve the tone and effectiveness of their lists.
Similarly, the President and EVP can do that for lists like
operations@.
* VP's reporting to the President, as well as the President and EVP,
can talk to third parties using media such as telephones and
videoconferences without being required to invite or even provide
prior notification to others.
If I'm incorrect in any of these assumptions, I ask the board to speak
up now.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 8.
@Roman: Discuss metagovernance of VPs
C. Treasurer [Ulrich]
Operating Cash on June 30, 2019 was $2,302.8K, which is down $57.4K
from last month’s ending balance (May 19) of $2,360.2K. Total Cash as
of June 30, 2019 is $3,696.7K (includes the Pineapple and restricted
Donation) as compared to $2,847.9K on June 30th 2018 (an increase of
$320.0K year over year). The June 2019 ending Operating cash balance
of $2,302.8K represents an Operating cash reserve of 9.2 months based
on the FY20 Cash forecast average monthly spending of $250.1K/month.
The ASF actual Operating reserve of 9.2 months at the end of June 2019
is ahead of the budgeted 8.9 month reserve for YTD through June 2019.
The ASF Operating reserve continues to be very healthy for an
organization of the ASF’s size and Operating activity.
Reviewing the YTD Cash P&L, total Income is ahead of budget at this
point in the Fiscal year by $63.5K. As compared to FY19, YTD revenue
is ahead by $45.0K because of prepaid revenue for ApacheCon NA 2019;
however, Sponsorship Program revenue is under budget.
YTD expenses through June 30, 2019 are under budget by $13.7K. All
departments, except for Publicity and Conferences, are under budget at
the end of June 2019. Publicity and Conferences are over budget
primarily due to the timing of some payments, at this early point in
the Fiscal year.
Regarding Net Income (NI), YTD FY20 the ASF finished with a negative
<$117.5K> NI vs a budgeted negative <$194.7K> NI or $77.2K ahead of
Budget, NI, for FY20 at this point in the Fiscal year. This is
attributable to timing of Conference payments as well as underspending
in most depts YTD vs the FY20 Budget. At this point in the FY we are
doing very well, ahead in Revenue and well under budget in Expenses,
even taking timing variances into account. With regard to FY19, we
are outpacing revenue, by $45.0K as noted above, but we are also out
pacing expenses by $77.5K; thus, year over year NI for FY20 is behind
FY19 by $32.5K.
Current Balances:
Boston Private CDARS Account 2,261,344.76
Citizens Money Market 1,078,966.19
Citizens Checking 351,276.45
Paypal - ASF 5,139.18
Total Checking/Savings 3,696,726.58
Jun-19 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 836.05 2,860.61 -2,024.56
Sponsorship Program 37,000.00 57,000.00 -20,000.00
Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Conference/Event Income 38,342.00 0.00 38,342.00
Other Income 2,809.15 324.93 2,484.22
Interest Income 494.52 500.00 -5.48
Total Income 79,481.72 60,685.54 18,796.18
Expense Summary
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 69,614.02 85,733.08 -16,119.06
Programs Expense 0.00 3,333.33 -3,333.33
Publicity 14,683.48 21,233.34 -6,549.86
Brand Management 0.00 8,166.67 -8,166.67
Conferences 36,306.59 7,250.00 29,056.59
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 20,000.00 -20,000.00
Fundraising 11,250.00 16,080.00 -4,830.00
Treasury Services 3,350.00 3,350.00 0.00
General & Administrative 1,652.75 6,915.00 -5,262.25
Diversity and Inclusion 0.00 5,833.33 -5,833.33
Total Expense 136,856.84 177,894.75 -41,037.91
Net Income -57,375.12 -117,209.21 59,834.09
YTD FY20 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 4,949.27 5,768.41 -819.14
Sponsorship Program 93,000.00 136,000.00 -43,000.00
Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Conference/Event Income 101,634.00 0.00 101,634.00
Other Income 6,627.08 1,035.05 5,592.03
Interest Income 983.06 900.00 83.06
Total Income 207,193.41 143,703.46 63,489.95
Expense Summary
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 145,155.40 171,466.16 -26,310.76
Programs Expense 0.00 6,666.66 -6,666.66
Publicity 93,011.88 50,541.68 42,470.20
Brand Management 0.00 16,333.34 -16,333.34
Conferences 44,479.17 14,500.00 29,979.17
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 20,000.00 -20,000.00
Fundraising 28,868.75 32,160.00 -3,291.25
Treasury Services 6,700.00 6,700.00 0.00
General & Administrative 6,436.28 8,330.00 -1,893.72
Diversity and Inclusion 0.00 11,666.66 -11,666.66
Total Expense 324,651.48 338,364.50 -13,713.02
Net Income -117,458.07 -194,661.04 77,202.97
@Daniel: Check in on treasurer availability
D. Secretary [Matt]
In June, we received 45 ICLAs, four CCLAs, three software grants, and
one emeritus request.
Just before the end of the month, there was a DDoS vulnerability
announced for PGP key servers and clients. We mitigated this by
temporarily switching to a more secure keyserver instance for
verifying keys in the Secretary Workbench that limits the signature
data returned on keys to mitigate this problem. This has caused some
interruptions to key verification on documents received by the
Secretary, though work is ongoing to fully return the service to full
reliability once we can upgrade to the latest release of GnuPG which
has its own mitigations in place for any keyserver and not just
keys.openpgp.org. We have been working closely with the Whimsy PMC and
Infra to continue improving the tooling in this area.
E. Executive Vice President [David]
I've spent some time working on the Annual Report with Sally.
Travel Assistance Committee
===========================
TAC has finished selections for ACNA and the application process is
closing for ACEU.
Infrastructure
==============
Infrastructure has dealt with a number of security issues as well as
spending the bulk of available time on a datacenter relocate.
F. Vice Chairman [Shane]
No notable activity other than a busy summer.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Rich]
See Attachment 9
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
See Attachment 10
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Myrle]
See Attachment 11
D. VP of Data Privacy [John Kinsella / Joan]
No report was submitted.
@Danny: Document the data privacy needs of the organization.
E. VP of Jakarta EE Relations [Mark Struberg / Craig]
See Attachment 13
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Apex [rs, da]
# Archiva [myrle]
# Arrow [rb]
# Data Privacy [rs]
# Griffin [myrle]
# Hadoop [da]
# Infrastructure [rs]
# James [rs]
# Mesos [wohali]
# NetBeans [rb]
# ODE [clr]
# River [rs]
# Samza [rb]
# Tcl [td]
# TomEE [myrle]
# VXQuery [rs]
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Michael Wall / Ted]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Daniel]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Shane]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise / Danny]
No report was submitted.
@Danny: pursue a roll call for Apex
E. Apache Aries Project [Christian Schneider / Roman]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Danny]
See Attachment F
@Rich: Follow up about release vote concerns
G. Apache AsterixDB Project [Till Westmann / Craig]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Attic Project [<vacant> / Daniel]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Avro Project [Thiruvalluvan M. G. / Rich]
No report was submitted.
@Rich: pursue a report for Avro
J. Apache Calcite Project [Francis Chuang / Joan]
See Attachment J
K. Apache CarbonData Project [Liang Chen / Ted]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Celix Project [Pepijn Noltes / Shane]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Myrle]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox / Roman]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Ted]
See Attachment O
P. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Roman]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache DataFu Project [Matthew Hayes / Danny]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Shane]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Directory Project [Shawn McKinney / Daniel]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Dubbo Project [Ian Luo / Joan]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Fineract Project [Vishwas Babu A J / Myrle]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Fluo Project [Keith Turner / Craig]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Geronimo Project [Romain Manni-Bucau / Rich]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Griffin Project [William Guo / Myrle]
See Attachment X
@Myrle: Look into getting a better report
Y. Apache Hadoop Project [Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli / Joan]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang / Daniel]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache HBase Project [Misty Linville / Ted]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean / Danny]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Isis Project [Kevin Meyer / Rich]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache James Project [Benoit Tellier / Roman]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache jclouds Project [Andrea Turli / Craig]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Shane]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache JMeter Project [Bruno Demion / Craig]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly / Rich]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez / Danny]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon / Joan]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AM. Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Myrle]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache MADlib Project [Aaron Feng / Daniel]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Musselman / Ted]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Maven Project [Robert Scholte / Danny]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Craig]
No report was submitted.
@Craig: pursue a roll call for Mesos
AR. Apache Metron Project [Casey Stella / Joan]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache MINA Project [Guillaume Nodet / Rich]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache MyFaces Project [Bernd Bohmann / Myrle]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache NetBeans Project [Geertjan Wielenga / Ted]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Shane]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Roman]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache ODE Project [Sathwik / Daniel]
See Attachment AX
@Daniel: Reach out for choice on rebooting or atticing the
project
AY. Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg / Roman]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Daniel]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache OpenOffice Project [Peter Kovacs / Joan]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley / Danny]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / Ted]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Shane]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson / Rich]
No report was submitted.
BF. Apache PLC4X Project [Christofer Dutz / Craig]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Ranger Project [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Myrle]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone / Ted]
No report was submitted.
BI. Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan / Daniel]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang / Craig]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache SkyWalking Project [Sheng Wu / Danny]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Sqoop Project [Venkat Ranganathan / Myrle]
See Attachment BL
BM. Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno / Shane]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Streams Project [Steve Blackmon / Rich]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Joan]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo / Roman]
No report was submitted.
@Joan: pursue a report for Tapestry
BQ. Apache Tcl Project [Georgios Petasis / Ted]
See Attachment BQ
@Daniel: pursue a roll call for Tcl
BR. Apache Tez Project [Jonathan Turner Eagles / Joan]
See Attachment BR
BS. Apache Thrift Project [Jens Geyer / Rich]
See Attachment BS
BT. Apache Tika Project [Tim Allison / Shane]
See Attachment BT
BU. Apache TinkerPop Project [Stephen Mallette / Craig]
See Attachment BU
BV. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Myrle]
No report was submitted.
BW. Apache Traffic Server Project [Bryan Call / Daniel]
See Attachment BW
BX. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Roman]
See Attachment BX
BY. Apache Web Services Project [Daniel Kulp / Danny]
See Attachment BY
BZ. Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo / Daniel]
No report was submitted.
CA. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Joan]
See Attachment CA
@Myrle: Pursue a roll call for Archiva
CB. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb / Shane]
See Attachment CB
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Update Apache Security Team Membership
WHEREAS, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Board Commmittee,
known as the Apache Security Team expects to better serve
its purpose through the periodic update of its membership; and
WHEREAS, the Apache Security Team is a Board-appointed committee
whose membership must be approved by Board resolution;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the following ASF
members be added as Apache Security Team members:
Yann Ylavic <ylavic@apache.org>
Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@apache.org>
Special Order 7A, Update Apache Security Team Membership, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache HBase Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Misty Linville
(misty) to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Misty Linville from the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache HBase project
has chosen by consensus to recommend Duo Zhang (zhangduo) as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Misty Linville is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache HBase, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Duo Zhang be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, 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 HBase Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache OpenWhisk 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 platform for building serverless applications
with functions.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache OpenWhisk Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenWhisk Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a
platform for building serverless applications with functions; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache OpenWhisk" 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
OpenWhisk Project, and to have primary responsibility for management
of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache
OpenWhisk 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 OpenWhisk
Project:
* Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@apache.org>
* Carlos Santana <csantanapr@apache.org>
* Chetan Mehrotra <chetanm@apache.org>
* Dave Grove <dgrove@apache.org>
* Dominic Kim <style95@apache.org>
* Dragos Dascalita Haut <dragos@apache.org>
* James Dubee <dubeejw@apache.org>
* James Thomas <jamesthomas@apache.org>
* Jeremias Werner <jeremiaswerner@apache.org>
* Krzysztof Sobkowiak <ksobkowiak@apache.org>
* Markus Thömmes <markusthoemmes@apache.org>
* Matt Rutkowski <mrutkowski@apache.org>
* Matt Sicker <mattsicker@apache.org>
* Michele Sciabarra <msciabarra@apache.org>
* Olivier Tardieu <tardieu@apache.org>
* Rob Allen <akrabat@apache.org>
* Rodric Rabbah <rabbah@apache.org>
* Sven Lange-Last <slange@apache.org>
* Tyson Norris <tysonnorris@apache.org>
* Vincent Hou <houshengbo@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dave Grove be appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenWhisk, 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 Apache OpenWhisk Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
OpenWhisk podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
OpenWhisk podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache OpenWhisk Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Attic Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Henk P. Penning
(henk) to the office of Vice President, Apache Attic, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors acknowledges the death of Henk P.
Penning, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Attic project
has chosen by consensus to recommend Mads Toftum (mads) as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Mads Toftum be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Attic, 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 Attic Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Rich: Look into activity and assess state of project
[ Apex 2019-04-17 ]
Status: The PMC chair has announced that they are stepping down, and a
new PMC chair has been proposed. That is encouraging, except
that neither one of those threads has received even a single
response.
* Roman: Follow up with PMC about activity
[ Cocoon 2019-05-15 ]
Status: Done
* Rich: open up attic discussions to dev list
[ Forrest 2019-05-15 ]
Status: In the month since the thread was started -
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fda24957e049f10d282037594d2aa61ce9a31cf8fc5313959aa81672@%3Cdev.forrest.apache.org%3E
- there has not been even a single response. We should discuss
inviting them to retire.
* Myrle: follow up about report
[ Hama 2019-05-15 ]
Status: I am going through my action items quite late, and this action
item was missed in June as well. Hama's next report is in
August anywyas. Rather than send a reminder this month, I will
check their report before the August meeting and, if
necessary, ask them to bring it "up to par".
* Myrle: follow up about trademark issue
[ Impala 2019-05-15 ]
Status:
* Joan: follow up with project
[ Mesos 2019-05-15 ]
Status: No update. Please close this, we have a new issue for Mesos
(roll call).
* Rich: find out what the sentence in Issues means
[ Open Climate Workbench 2019-05-15 ]
Status: There has been no response to my email to private@ or dev@. I
am at a loss as to know how to get anybody's attention on this
project.
* Craig: start thread on changing reporting deadline
[ TomEE 2019-05-15 ]
Status:
* Rich: propose new PMC chair due to consistently late reports
[ TomEE 2019-05-15 ]
Status:
* Tom: research what other nonprofits do for CoCs for boards
[ Statement of Expectation of Conduct of Board Members 2019-05-15 ]
Status:
* Daniel: begin a discussion on the lists about this
[ Publishing of vote records 2019-05-15 ]
Status:
* Roman: create a framework of vote meanings
[ Convention of semantics of Board votes 2019-05-15 ]
Status:
* Shane: pursue a report for Archiva
[ Archiva 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Report provided.
* Danny: pursue a roll call for Axis
[ Axis 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Resolved Roll call thread got three responses.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/84be06b7367c75e29e3f1936f65eb0620c22e8d784ee992999d43492@%3Cprivate.axis.apache.org%3E
* Roman: pursue a report for Bloodhound
[ Bloodhound 2019-06-19 ]
Status:
* Craig: work with IPMC to clarify podling release policy
[ Incubator 2019-06-19 ]
Status:
* Shane: pursue a report for Lucene.Net
[ Lucene.Net 2019-06-19 ]
Status:
* Rich: pursue a roll call for Joshua
[ Joshua 2019-06-19 ]
Status:
* Myrle: pursue a report for Mesos
[ Mesos 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Joan sent a reminder:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/782b81bcaa8a4f4b2323f6fb734c11d83650c5199762721100568d18@%3Cprivate.mesos.apache.org%3E
There has been no response.
* Shane: pursue a report for Pivot
[ Pivot 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Attached as Attachment CB. [rlw]
* Roman: purse a roll call for River
[ River 2019-06-19 ]
Status: done
* Joan: follow up with Royale about build security
[ Royale 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Security team has followed up and included comments in their
report. This can be closed.
* Daniel: find out what happened with mailing list traffic
[ Sentry 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Followed up in
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7b047602df66b0026b65db99dc818f661b49c6d21509d79f7046e7e4@%3Cprivate.sentry.apache.org%3E
* Ted: follow up about trademark issue in Sling
[ Sling 2019-06-19 ]
Status:
* Myrle: Follow up with ODE PMC about options regarding rebooting the project
[ Action Items 2019-06-19 ]
Status: Sent e-mail to the ODE list:
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10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
We note with great sorrow the passing of long-term volunteer and Apache
Member Henk Penning. https://www.apache.org/memorials/henk_penning.html
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 12:27 p.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Mark Thomas]
* ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
* OPERATIONS
Covering the period June 2019
It has been a fairly quiet month.
Responded to the following queries, liaising with projects as required:
- Responded to an external request to produce FLINK apparel
- Provided support to the DLAB podling regarding naming
- Provided advice to a conference based around KYLIN
- Explained to a potential Wikipedia contributor that use of our logos
in the context of a page about the project would be nominative use
- Provided advice to a conference based around KAFKA
No progress on the draft policy for use of our marks by downstream
distributions.
* REGISTRATIONS
- Continued to collate information to support our registration of APACHE
IGNITE in China
* INFRINGEMENTS
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri]
Fundraising continues to go well thanks to our wonderful sponsors. This month
we secured two new Bronze sponsorships and have processed four renewals (2
Silver, 2 Bronze).
We continue the efforts around consolidating terms of an ASF + Targeted
Platinum sponsorship. This has been an ongoing effort with the sponsor, Infra
and Fundraising for several months. Conversation has picked up recently and a
path forward has been identified.
We also continue our relentless pursuit of improved operations by driving
focus on updating record keeping, securing, and maintaining online accounts.
New sponsor agreements and renewals are successfully being processed using
Docusign through Virtual ensuring these activities continue to run smoothly.
Sponsor onboarding is now also done via online form which directly feeds the
central data tracker for sponsors. This unlocks significant automation
capabilities down the road!
Support for events remains on track and doing well. We are continuing to sign
on new sponsors for ApacheCon US and ApacheCon EU as well as working with both
sponsorship lead teams to improve sponsorship sales.
We received $3,135 from individual donors via Hopsie. An ApacheCon Bronze
sponsor also paid their sponsorship fee via Hopsie during this period as well.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
[REPORT] ASF Marketing & Publicity - July 2019
I. Budget: we received Board signoff on the proposed FY2020 budget and
projections through FY2024, and have begun to commence activities on select
projects for the ASF 20th Anniversary at ApacheCon.
II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi continues to support ASF
Fundraising by engaging existing sponsors, securing sponsorship renewals (2
Silver and 2 Bronze sponsors), signing and onboarding new sponsors, and
working on ApacheCon sponsorships. Her work with ASF Conferences continues.
There have been several delays with securing and publishing "Success at
Apache" posts over the past couple of months due to limitations in volunteer
availability: this is being corrected. We are working on finalizing and
publishing the ASF FY2019 Annual Report. She has also been supporting the ASF
Board with drafting statements and minutes.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 11 July 2019 - The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program for
ApacheCon™ Europe
- 24 June 2019 - Statement by The Apache Software Foundation Board of
Directors
IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were published on the ASF "Foundation"
Blog. 5 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 260 weekly
summaries published to date. We tweeted 17 items to 54K followers on Twitter.
We posted 8 items on LinkedIn, which garnered more than 39K organic
impressions.
V. Future Announcements: 1 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 requested to
contact Sally at <press@apache.org> with at least 2-weeks' notice for proper
planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: we responded to 4 media queries. The ASF received 865
press clips vs. last month's clip count of 1,668. Media coverage of Apache
projects yielded 2,130 press hits vs. last month's 3,263. ApacheCon received
14 press hits.
VII. Analyst Relations: we received no analyst queries. Apache was mentioned
in 2 reports by Gartner; 1 report by Forrester; 3 reports by 451 Research; and
2 reports by IDC.
VIII. Graphics: members of the new Central Services sub-group under Marketing
& Publicity have successfully completed the redesign and relaunch of
https://www.apachecon.com/. Sally continues to develop graphics to promote
the ASF and ApacheCon, and aims to collaborate with fellow members of
Central Services on future requirements.
IX. Events liaison: we continue to work closely with Virtual and
newthinking/Plain Schwarz on various advisory and tactical support across
ApacheCon/Las Vegas and Berlin. This includes engaging with various ApacheCon
chairs to promote their tracks on Feathercast, with subsequent blog posts, and
will endeavor to extend the same to ApacheCon Europe. We posted 6 items on the
ASF Events/ApacheCon pages on LinkedIn, tweeted 8 items on the ApacheCon
Twitter account (the event producers are picking up the pace on promoting
event activities and individual sessions). Sally continues to work closely
with ASF VP Conferences Rich Bowen, and plans to scale back her day-to-day
involvement by mid-month, particularly with event sponsorship. She is also
overseeing Sponsor Ambassador activities and the ASF’s presence at upcoming
events such as OSCON (July), Cumbre/CCOSS (September), and Huawei Connect
(September).
X. Newswire accounts: we have 1 pre-paid press release with GlobeNewswire
through December 2020. This order will auto-renew next month.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
General
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Infrastructure is operating as expected, and has no current issues
requiring escalation to the President or the Board.
Highlights
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Builds
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Many Foundation projects use TravisCI for their continuous build/test
system, rather than (or in addition to) our Infra-managed Jenkins and
buildbot systems. Infra has purchased additional capacity for use by
our projects, but we continue to overtax our Travis resources. This is
partly due to a typical tragedy of the commons: projects don't
understand how much they are using (and thus, denying to others). We
found just three projects were using over half of all our capacity.
Lack of APIs and detailed metrics from the Travis system have hampered
work to provide detailed feedback to our projects.
We are investigating alternatives for outsourcing build capacity. Some
suggestions on our builds@ mailing list have been provided, and a
couple targeted sponsorships are being investigated.
Short Term Priorities
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- Complete our travel planning to attend ACNA 2019 in Las Vegas. The
entire team will be attending this year.
Long Range Priorities
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- Complete the migration to Ubuntu (LTS) 18.04 and Puppet 6 (P6)
General Activity
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- Many migrations to 18.04/P6 have been performed. We are
concentrating on the oldest systems running Ubuntu 14.04
- The team spent about two hours responding to a DMCA request. More
information is in the Legal Affairs report.
- Emptying one of our datacenters, by migrating all services/VMs to
other datacenters (primarily Hetzner).
- Certificate updates for our web sites, and several internal systems.
- Preparing moves for our Subversion server, for Jira, for our primary
mail server, and for our mail archives. This entails lots of puppet
work and testing, before "pulling the lever".
- Small in-place upgrade for Jira, to resolve a security issue (which
didn't apply in our configuration, but just to be safe...).
- Automatically applied topics to all GitHub repositories to group
them by project (h/t David Blevins), and to carry their DOAP settings
- Resolved a security issue within our Jenkins build environment.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen]
ApacheCon North America
Registration is open, and the numbers are coming in. As usual, there's concern
with the numbers, tempered by the fact that we have a community which, for
whatever reason, tends to register very late.
The effort to promote project interest in the Hackathons has started.
We still have a number of gaps in the schedule, from speakers who have dropped
out, and for sponsored sessions. We hope to fill all of these in the next two
weeks.
We are wrapping up last minute details, and are mostly focused on promotion at
this point.
ApacheCon Europe
Sponsorships: We currently have 4 sponsors (one at each level plus a second
one at gold level). This level of sponsorship is low. Sally is coordinating
with NewThinking to make suggestions and look for solutions. Ticket sales: We
have currently sold 33 tickets. Our community tends to buy tickets late; we
are not concerned by this level of ticket sales.
Media relations: Sally and newThinking/plain schwarz put out press releases in
German and in English last week. We have several media partnerships,
including the Irish Tech Times for which Myrle provided an interview
Content: We have sent out speaker acceptances, and formulated a schedule. The
schedule is public We have all non-sponsor keynotes set, and we also know who
our keynote will be from Google (Leah Cole). We still need to check
acceptances, send out reminders, and replace any "holes". We have been
working on Visa letters. We're trying to set up hackathon coordination, but
it seems to not be "taking". Travel: TAC will be closing on July 18th
(extended from the 14th). We have been coordinating with them.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
Events
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TAC is currently running applications for 2 events.
ApacheCon NA2019 Las Vegas
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Applications closed (after a short extension) on June 25th. We had 50
applications that Judges had to score. After some deliberations, this was
narrowed down and finally there were 14 applicants accepted. 1 applicant
shortly after withdrew his application citing funding elsewhere, so we end up
with 13.
Now we enter a rapid period of Ensuring we have Hotel Rooms, that all that
require VISAs apply ASAP and that we can provide supporting documents etc.
Flights need to be booked and Conference Tickets need organising.
ApacheCon EU2019 Berlin
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Applications close on July 14th, and then judging will begin here. Currently
around 32 applications.
No other Events planned to support at this time.
Membership
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No changes in the TAC membership.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of Finance [Tom Pappas]
VP Finance June 2019 report Continue to work with and support
Fundraising committee Continue to Work with and Support Conference
committee on ACNA 19 Worked and completed the FY20 budget that was
approved with accounting team for the June 2019 financial close
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Attachment 8: Report from the VP of Diversity and Inclusion [Gris Cuevas]
## Description:
- The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team who
contributes towards generating a current description of the D&I landscape in
the industry and for the foundation. The team also focuses on developing
resources the projects can leverage to increase diversity and inclusion in
their communities.
## Issues:
- The mailing list and D&I committee are in need of a set of rules of
engagement for dialogue and collaboration, the VP of D&I will appoint a
group of experienced individuals to support the committee on this matter
## Activity:
Moving forward, the D&I committee will report activity by project, referring
to the top projects we proposed to the board each fiscal year. We’ll also add
a section on operations to report on bureaucratic tasks and a section for
community highlights where members can share their own efforts and wins.
*** Project: Survey revamp***
- Started scope of project in a Google Doc for easy collaboration
- Looking for a contractor to start work, Myrle introduced Gris to a potential
collaborator
- We need help identifying other vendors
*** Project: UX Research on new contributors ***
- Looking for a contractor to start work, Gris is talking to two agencies on
the week of July 15th
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- The VP of D&I hosted a meeting to discuss a path forward to establish a
relationship with Outreachy, the notes of the meeting were brought back to
dev@
- We sent a call for a Community Coordinator, an entity similar to the GSoC
Chair for the ASF
- We’re laying down plans to catch the next round of internships
- Outreachy’s team sent introductions to Gris and D&I members of Mozilla’s
working groups
*** Operations ***
- We have gotten approved budget to operate in the 2020 fiscal year
- Our GitHub repository is up and running
- We have started conversations with Outreachy to explore ways of
collaboration on the research about the experience of underrepresented
individuals who contribute to Apache projects
*** Community Highlights ***
- We’re working on the production of an event in Latin America that aims to
increase the representation of Latin tech practitioners in Apache projects:
ccoss.org
- We had 2 corporate sponsors commit funds to D&I projects, IBM for our
Outreachy engagement and Google for D&I initiatives
## Health report:
- The committee is active, however some conversations haven’t been healthy and
we are exploring ways to improve the environment, especially in the dev@
list
- At this point, the V.P. of D&I is concerned the culture and perception of
the D&I has been damaged due to recent developments, she will work with the
committee to focus on achieving small wins that can bring credibility and
positive energy back to the committee
## Committee members changes:
Removed one member from the committee
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Attachment 9: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
For the past months we've had a regular amount of usual requests flowing
through LEGAL JIRA and legal-discuss. Hen and the rest of the volunteers took
a good care of resolving most of these in time. We're up 3 to 23, unresolved
issues this month.
We have received our first official DMCA takedown notice and acted
accordingly. The party who submitted the notice considers matter to be
resolved now. The material that had to be taken down consisted of 3 emails
available via mail-archives.apache.org. We are currently in the process of
formalizing a check-list/policy of actions to be taken should the next DMCA
takedown notice arrive.
We have provided guidance to the Incubator PMC around relaxing release policy
for podlings.
We are continue the work with Jakarta EE VP around implications of Eclipse
Foundation Jakarta EE paperwork.
We continue to evaluate additional options for counsel to augment the work of
DLA Piper. We expect to have an update on this in a month or two. Mishi
Choudhary from SFLC is looking into refreshing the relationship with us. In
additional to that we also had Cliff Allen reaching out offering his help.
Legal section of the ASF yearly report has been submitted to Sally
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Attachment 11: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Continued work on incoming security issues, keeping projects reminded
of outstanding issues, and general oversight and advice. We have a
proposed resolution for this board meeting to expand the security team
to include Yann Ylavic and Dirk-Willem van Gulik, both of whom have
been on the security alias and doing security related work for some
time.
This month included the security disclosure by a researcher who found
several Apache projects used build scripts that would download
dependencies over http rather than https. Prior to public disclosure,
we worked to address these examples and also contacted all Apache
projects to have them check build scripts and change to downloading
dependencies securely. As a result, a number of Apache projects made
changes to their dependencies, some declared they were not affected,
and a few are in the process of being updated.
Stats for June 2019:
12 [license confusion]
10 [support request/question not security notification]
Security reports: 23 (last months: 44, 29, 39, 35)
3 [spark], [web site related]
2 [httpd], [infrastructure], [lucene], [trafficcontrol]
1 [activemq], [allura], [axis], [beanutils], [commons],
[nifi], [openoffice], [struts], [zookeeper]
In total, as of 1st July 2019, we're tracking 64 (last month:
73) open issues across 36 projects, median age 120 (last month:
91) days. 45 of those issues have CVE names assigned.
8 (last month: 8) of these issues, across 5 projects, are older
than 365 days.
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Attachment 12: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [John Kinsella]
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Attachment 13: Report from the VP of Jakarta EE Relations [Mark Struberg]
## Description:
Apache Jakarta EE Relations exists to discover how the ASF can work together
with the Eclipse Foundations Jakarta EE working group.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The initial setup still has to be done. Do we need a mailing list and who
else want's to provide input on the matter?
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Michael Wall]
## Description:
- 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.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The last release was 1.9.3 on Apr 9 2019 [1].
- The community continues to march toward the 2.0.0 release. This includes
closing old issues on Jira and moving still relevant issues to github
issues.
- The monthly "Hack Day" continues in Columbia MD. There was nothing of note
posted from the May meeting, but a summary of June's meeting is at
[2]. There was a meeting on Jul 10, but no notes from that yet.
## Health report:
- The project remains healthy. Activity levels on mailing lists, issues and
pull requests remain constant.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 34 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Nick Felts on Thu Mar 22 2018
## Committer base changes:
- All Committers are also PMC members, see the PMC Changes section for
details
## Releases:
- accumulo-1.9.3 was released on Wed Apr 10 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Nothing significant in the figures
## Issue activity:
- 86 issues created [3] and 70 closed [4] across all the Accumulo repos since
the last report.
- 134 pull requests created [5] and 135 closed [6] across all the Accumulo
repos since the last report.
[1]: https://accumulo.apache.org/release/accumulo-1.9.3/
[2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/953ddb7f3d621daa1cc068804dd7d813469c147b29778e68081a310f@%3Cdev.accumulo.apache.org%3E
[3]: https://github.com/search?q=is:issue+created:2019-04-17..2019-07-17+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikisearch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
[4]: https://github.com/search?q=is:issue+closed:2019-04-17..2019-07-17+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikisearch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
[5]: https://github.com/search?q=is:pr+created:2019-04-17..2019-07-17+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikisearch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
[6]: https://github.com/search?q=is:pr+closed:2019-04-17..2019-07-17+repo:apache/accumulo+repo:apache/accumulo-website+repo:apache/accumulo-examples+repo:apache/accumulo-docker+repo:apache/accumulo-testing+repo:apache/accumulo-wikisearch+repo:apache/accumulo-proxy+repo:apache/accumulo-maven-plugin+repo:apache/accumulo-pig+repo:apache/accumulo-instamo-archetype+repo:apache/accumulo-bsp
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Attachment B: 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
** 5.15.10 & 5.16.0 releases preparation
** Roadmap proposal (discussion is on-going, no decisions yet)
* ActiveMQ Artemis
** Artemis progresses towards becoming ActiveMQ 6 as per roadmap, with
continued improvements in feature parity with ActiveMQ 5.
** Release of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.8.0 (May 8)
*** Support ActiveMQ5 feature JMSXGroupFirstForConsumer
*** Bug fixes
** Release of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.8.1 (May 22)
*** Paging scale-ability
*** Bug fixes
** Release of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.9.0 (June 6)
*** Support of MicroMeter API to enabled better pluggable metric integration
** Community Discussion of further Paging enhancements, by page cache partial
re-design.
* ActiveMQ NMS
** Release of Apache NMS API 1.8.0
*** .NET standard 2.0 support
*** First official NuGet package
** Current activity in creating an NMS AMQP implementation, getting this into
a state for release for the first time.
** Activity on updating NMS openwire implementation to .NET standard 2.0 and
also NuGet package.
## Releases
** ActiveMQ Artemis 2.9.0, released on Thu Jun 6 2019
** ActiveMQ Artemis 2.8.1, released on Wed May 22 2019
** ActiveMQ Artemis 2.8.0, released on Wed May 8 2019
** Last release was 5.15.9, released on Mon Mar 18 2019
## Committer/PMC Changes
* No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
** Last PMC addition: Tue Nov 27 2018 (Justin Graham Bertram)
* No new committers in the last 3 months.
** Last committer addition: Tue Oct 30 2018 (Jamie Mark Goodyear)
** Currently 60 committers and 24 PMC members.
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Attachment C: 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 without any major concerns.
## Health report:
- The project is in its steady state with a linear progression in the
development and usage. We made a major technical refactoring integrating
Apache Airavata with Apache Helix orchestration, we are hoping the
sophistication Helix will offer will stir up more usage of Airavata.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Wannipurage Dimuthu Upeksha on Mon Mar 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Eldho Mathulla at Mon Jul 23 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.17 on Sat Mar 23 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 87 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months.
- 70 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Apex Project [Thomas Weise]
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Christian Schneider]
## Description:
- Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- In this period we have rather low activity as the upcoming OSGi specs are
still in early stage.
- Mainly fixes stable releases
- We now moved the main aries repo to git too. So now all Aries source code is
available on git and github which makes it easier for new contributors to
propose changes.
- We decided to work on a new website that has a nicer design and is easier to
maintain. A new contributor François Papon offered to create the basic
structure and design for us.
- Last year we decided to have a regular change in PMC chair. So I will call
for proposals for a new PMC chair.
## Health report:
- Health of the project is good. We have a low number of active committers
but activity is stable.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Carlos Sierra Andrés on Tue Jul 03 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 57 committers.
- Amichai Rothman was added as a committer on Thu May 23 2019
## Releases:
- rsa-1.14.0 was released on May 20 2019
- jax-rs-whiteboard was released on May 31 2019
- Aries Proxy 1.1.5 was release on Jun 21 2019
- spifly-1.2.3 was released on Jul 08 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau]
## Description:
Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory
data. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory
format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient
analytic operations on modern hardware. It also provides computational
libraries and zero-copy streaming messaging and interprocess
communication. Languages currently supported include C, C++, C#, Go,
Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Python, R, Ruby, and Rust.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The community is discussing a 1.0.0 release featuring
forward-looking binary format stability guarantees. Given the
nature of the project, this is obviously an important milestone
for adoption and user support
- Since the last report, a new Buildbot-based CI system has been
connected to apache/arrow to provide additional build capacity, with
a bot system called "ursabot" to provide on demand builds, benchmark
comparisons, and other tools to assist the developer community
## Health report:
- We have been having significant problems with CI build times and are
discussing strategies to decouple our de velopment process from the
shared pool of ASF-managed cloud CI resources like Travis CI and
Appveyor
- The community is healthy, though there were some concerns
around the 0.14.0 release vote and we are discussing
conventions around handling issues raised during release
candidate vetting.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andrew Grove on Sun Feb 03 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 43 committers.
- New committers:
- Francois Saint-Jacques was added as a committer on Wed Jun 12 2019
- Neville Dipale was added as a committer on Mon May 13 2019
- Praveen Kumar has also been invited to be a committer and accepted.
Acct request is in process.
## Releases:
- 0.14.0 was released on Wed Jul 03 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 735 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 690 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment G: 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.
- Apache AsterixDB 0.9.5 and Apache Hyracks 0.3.5 are under review.
Issues:
- Concerning jj's question on release numbering: The product Apache AsterixDB
currently does not fully support some features (e.g. backup or replication)
that we would expect from a 1.0 release. So, the current numbering reflects
the status of the product for production use. There has been no concern
about this release numbering so far.
PMC/Committership changes:
- The last committer added was Hussain Towaileb on 2018-12-21.
- The last PMC member added was Xikui Wang on 2018-02-02.
Releases:
- Apache AsterixDB 0.9.4.1 was released on 2019-02-22
- Apache Hyracks 0.3.4.1 was released on 2019-02-22
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Attic Project [vacant]
The chair, Henk Penning, passed away: <https://www.apache.org/memorials/henk_penning.html>
The PMC is holding a vote to decide whom to recommend as the next chair.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Thiruvalluvan M. G.]
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Calcite Project [Francis Chuang]
## 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-project within Calcite and provides a framework for building
local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica has an independent
release schedule and its own 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, we have added 4 new committers and 1 new PMC member. In
terms of pull requests and mailing list participation, we are also seeing a
lot new contributors. In our last report, we also noted an improvement in the
review of pull requests by new committers as well as contributors without
committer status. We are seeing a continual improvement in this area with most
PRs receiving an initial ping from a committer or a contributor within the
first couple of days after it's been opened.
A paper illustrating the use of Calcite for streaming-SQL applications was
presented by members of the Apache Calcite team in conjunction with members of
Apache Flink and Apache Beam at SIGMOD 2019.
In terms of releases, Calcite 1.20.0 was released in late June, containing
more than 130 fixes and enhancements. This makes it one of our largest
releases ever. We also released Avatica 1.14.0 in late April, which was then
followed by 1.15.0 in mid-May, due to a regression that broke existing
behavior expected by Avatica clients. A release of Avatica-Go, 4.0.0, was also
released in the middle of May.
We are seeing continual momentum in the project and are very happy to see new
faces, both on the mailing list as well as contributing code via pull
requests. We believe this is a testament to our welcoming community as well as
the commercial applicability of the project.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both Calcite and
Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- Stamatis Zampetakis was added to the PMC on Sat Apr 13 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 43 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Chunwei Lei was added as a committer on Sat Apr 27 2019
- Danny Chen was added as a committer on Tue May 14 2019
- Ruben Q L was added as a committer on Sat Apr 27 2019
- Zhiwei Peng was added as a committer on Sat Apr 27 2019
## Releases:
- 1.20.0 was released on Mon Jun 24 2019
- avatica-1.14.0 was released on Mon Apr 29 2019
- avatica-1.15.0 was released on Mon May 13 2019
- calcite-avatica-go-4.0.0 was released on Thu May 16 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 195 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 161 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache CarbonData Project [Liang Chen]
## Description:
- The Apache CarbonData is an indexed columnar store solution for fast
analytics on Big Data platforms (including Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark,
among others) to help speed up queries an order of magnitude faster over
petabytes of data, with the aim of using a unified file format to satisfy
all kinds of data analysis cases.
## Issues:
- There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Besides integration with Apache spark, now CarbonData can integrate with
Apache Hive, presto, alluxio for further extending the ecosystem.
- We are focusing on the releases(1.5.3,1.5.4,1.6.0) in the last 3 months,
which provided many significant features, such as : Support Configurable
Page Size, Support Binary Data Type, Supported Compaction on Range Sorted
Segments , support gzip compressor to get better compression ratio etc.
- Meetupbe organized in China on 5th June, 2019 .
## Health Report:
- The project is healthy, community keep active in all the various
categories(dev mailing list, JIRAs, and pull requests).
## Releases:
- 1.5.3 was released on April 10 2019
- 1.5.4 was released on June 10 2019
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Chuanyin Xu was added to the PMC on Mon Dec 31 2018
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months, the community is planning
to invite some new PMC as per their merit contribution for project.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- Akash R Nilugal was added as a committer on Fri May 03 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity stays at a high level
- dev@carbondata.apache.org:
- 171 subscribers (down -18 in the last 3 months):
- 63 emails sent to list (177 in previous quarter)
- issues@carbondata.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5111 emails sent to list (3991 in previous quarter)
- user@carbondata.apache.org:
- 73 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 122 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 93 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Pepijn Noltes]
## Description:
- Dynamic service framework for C and C++
## Issues:
- It has been over a year since the last celix release. Although
Celix does not have many release, we should work on a new release.
## Activity:
- IP Clearance started for the HTTP Admin donation.
- A lot of small bug fixes including some for the Remote Service
Admin and UDP Multicast PubSub.
## Health report:
- The mailing list activity is normal for Apache Celix.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Erjan Altena on Mon Jun 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Roy Lenferink at Thu Feb 09 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.1.0 on Tue Jan 30 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@celix.apache.org:
- 52 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 31 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
## Description:
- Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large
distributed systems.
## Issues:
- Hadoop 3.x is no longer providing compatible API for integration.
- Chukwa can not monitor Hadoop 3.x platform due to removal of Hadoop
monitoring version 1.
## Activity:
- Minor updates to prepare for 1.0 release, but encounter compatibility
issues with Hadoop 3.x.
- To solve compatibility issue is a major under taking in Chukwa code base.
## Health report:
- Development has been stalled for the last 2 years due to unstable releases
of Hadoop 2.7.3 to 3.2.0.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- Sreepathi Prasanna join Chukwa PMC on Jun 1st 2019.
## 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:
- 85 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 148 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (1 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 N: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox]
Same as the off cycle report last month:
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software
related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions.
Any language and build system are welcomed.
Status
------
Creadur is primarily used by other Apache projects to help check for
conformity to ASF standards. This is why the project team is primarily
comprised of members and committers from other ASF projects. The risk
of the project foundering is therefore very low despite the ongoing
lack of progress.
If someone has an itch to scratch, it will no doubt get fixed.
Community
---------
In September 2016 Karl Heinz Marbaise was elected to join the PMC /
Commit.
Releases
--------
Apache Rat 0.13 was released Nov 5th, 2018
Apache Rat 0.12 was released in June 2016
Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014
Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
## Description:
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce
and Apache Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Some good work the past couple of months resolving some long-standing issues
with S3 compatibility/utility that put us into good position for completing a
release and adding new committers.
## Health report:
Same structural issues as our last report; the utility of the project is
primarily for developers who are using MapReduce pipelines either
in local Hadoop clusters and/or migrating them to the cloud, so
there isn't much new work to do besides those efforts.
## 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 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Stephen Durfey at Fri Feb 09 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.15.0 on Sat Feb 25 2017
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
## Description:
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS.
These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP,
RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS
or JBI.
There are also two sub-projects that leverage CXF:
Fediz - Fediz helps you to secure your web applications via the standard
WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile.
DOSGi - is the reference implementation of the Distribution Provider component
of the OSGi Remote Services Specification
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The activity this quarter centered around bug fixes for the 3.3.0 release that
released earlier in the year. There are some discussions happening now around
changes that will be necessary to support Java 13+ which will definitely result
in some added developement efforts.
## Health report:
For the most part, the project is making steady, but not stellar, progress.
Many of the protocols and specs that CXF implements are mature specs and don't
really change much. Thus, steady progress and regular releases are a good
thing.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- Last added PMC members:
- Andy McCright was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 24 2019
- Alexey Markevich was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 24 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 43 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Alexey Markevich at Fri Dec 29 2017
## Releases:
- 3.2.9 was released on Sun May 12 2019
- 3.3.2 was released on Sun May 12 2019
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DataFu Project [Matthew Hayes]
## Description:
- DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and Pig UDFs to
perform data analysis. It provides functions for common statistics tasks
(e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream sessionization, and set and
bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs for incremental data
processing in MapReduce. A new Spark package is in development.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- New spark package in development nearly ready to merge into master.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition predates incubator graduation in Feb 2018.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer addition predates incubator graduation in Feb 2018.
## Releases:
- 1.5.0 was released on Mon Jan 07 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@datafu.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 73 emails sent to list (48 in previous quarter)
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Attachment R: 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:
- The Derby project has completed migration of the community wiki
to the new Confluence location, using the Infra-provided tools.
- The JDO community is working toward a 3.2 release, but has not
published the new release yet.
## Health report:
Regular project activity levels continue. The recent Derby release
has resulted in a small uptick in community activity as Derby users
gain experience with the Java 8 to Java 9 transition.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 44 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Tilmann Zäschke on Wed Feb 27 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 47 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
## Releases:
- Last release was Derby-10.15.1.3 on Sun Mar 10 2019
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Shawn McKinney]
## Description:
The Apache Directory TLP consists of the following sub-projects:
- ApacheDS: An extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in
Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides
LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol.
- LDAP API: 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.
- Studio: 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.
- Fortress: A standards-based access management system that provides
role-based access control, delegated administration and password policy
services with an LDAP backend.
- 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.
- Mavibot: An embeddable key-value database library with MVCC
(Multi Version Concurrency Control) support.
- SCIMple: An implementation of SCIM v2.0 specification.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Per sub-project:
- ApacheDS: good activity: Lots of work being done clearing out JIRA tickets,
bugs and enhancements. New release being planned.
- LDAP API: good activity: Three releases over the past quarter addressing
security issues and new functionality along with significant performance
enhancements.
- Studio: low activity: New release planned after ApacheDS release.
- Fortress: low activity: Release 2.0.4 postponed to allow the LDAP API
releases to happen. Next steps, migrate to LDAP API 2.X, combine the four
git repos into one, remove ehcache.
- Kerby: no activity
- Mavibot: no activity
- SCIMple: no activity
## Health report:
Number of releases is low compared to previous quarters. However, there is
quite a bit of activity in LDAP API and ApacheDS. New releases are planned in
Fortress and ApacheDS that will take advantage of the new code being produced
by the API project.
The PMC feels the overall project is healthy. There is very low activity in
Kerby and Scimple which is a concern and will be monitored by the PMC.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Radovan Semancik on Sat Sep 29 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 58 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Lothar Haeger was added as a committer on Mon Dec 17 2018
## Releases:
- Apache LDAP API 1.0.3 was released on Thu Apr 18 2019
- Apache LDAP API 2.0.0.AM3 was released on Tue May 14 2019
- Apache LDAP API 2.0.0.AM4 was released on Sat Jun 08 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Moderate activity, about the same as previous quarter.
## JIRA activity:
- 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 139 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Dubbo Project [Ian Luo]
## Description:
- Apache Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework.
## Issues:
The dubbo-js community would like to make their first release, please
suggest the recommended way to publish npm distribution. Shall we use
official Apache account to publish it (like what did in docker hub),
or using a person account?
## Activity:
- Apache Dubbo Shenzhen meetup will be held on 2019-07-20, schedule is
announced and registration is open.
- Apache Dubbo Shanghai meetup will be held on 2019-08-17, CFP is open.
- Projects under dubbo group are being transferring to ASF,
hessian-lite has been transferred to
ASF, by the end of June, there are still 7 projects remaining, which
will be transferred to thubbo group.
- GSoc project for Dubbo has completed the first evaluation stage.
- dubbo-website now support auto-build from markdown to html files
based on Apache jenkins service.
- Apache Dubbo has been invited to the Alibaba Summer of Code project
- The first book about Apache Dubbo has been published.
- The dubbo community is voting on accepting go-hessian2 project into Apache
Dubbo.
- Apache Dubbo has won the best open source project in 2019 Cloud computing
Open source Industry Conference.
## Health report:
- The overall status of Dubbo community is good.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- Victory Cao was added to the PMC on Mon Jun 03 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- New commmitters:
* Feng Hu was added as a committer on Tue Jun 25 2019
* Alex Stocks was added as a committer on Thu Jun 20 2019
* ShengXiao Xie was added as a committer on Thu Jun 13 2019
* Shunyu Lei was added as a committer on Fri Jun 07 2019
## Releases:
- The community is voting for both 2.7.3 release and 2.6.7 releases
- There is discussion around dubbo-js project to make their first release
## Mailing list activity:
Some of the committers are less active. Hopefully they can be more active.
- dev@dubbo.apache.org:
- 345 subscribers (down -30 in the last 3 months):
- 738 emails sent to list (1061 in previous quarter)
## GitHub activity:
The closed issues/pull request has decreased than last month. The
number of open pull request has been increase. More contribution are
needed from the community.
- 87 Active Pull Requests, 57 merged pull request during the last 1 month
- 136 Active Issues, 78 closed issues during in the last 1 months
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Fineract Project [Vishwas Babu A J]
## Description:
Apache Fineract (\’fīn-,ә-,rakt\) is an open source system for core banking as
a platform. Fineract provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for
entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer
financial services to the world’s 2 billion underbanked and unbanked.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The Fineract community maintains two active projects.
Fineract 1.x - Current generation product which is widely used.
Fineract-CN - Next Generation framework which is still under active
development and has not been officially released
- Fineract 1.x
A new major release (1.3) was shipped.
Ongoing work (shout-out to Michael Vorburger) around updating to newer
versions of dependencies for the next major release (1.4), likely to be
shipped in this quarter.
We have a GSOC student working on migrating our API documentation to Swagger.
- Fineract-CN
Ongoing activity and discussions around ensuring license compliance in
preparation for an initial release. Additional details follow
- Thanks to Juhan Aasaru, JFrog artifactory has been setup for all Fineract
CN projects. This greatly simplifies our build process.
- GSOC student working on migrating our RDBMS from MySQL to PostgreSQL and
our ORM from Hibernate to another Apache compliant library
## Health report:
Both projects continue to remain healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Courage Angeh was added to the PMC on Tue May 14 2019
- Isaac Kamga was added to the PMC on Thu Apr 25 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- New committers:
- Angel Cajas was added as a committer on Sat Apr 27 2019
- Juhan Aasaru was added as a committer on Fri Apr 19 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.0 on Tue Apr 30 2019
## Mailing list activity:
No major changes in mailing list traffic
- dev@fineract.apache.org:
- 342 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 637 emails sent to list (707 in previous quarter)
- issues@fineract.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 369 emails sent to list (688 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
No change in activity rates around both projects
- Fineract 1.X
- 26 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
- Fineract CN
- 20 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Fluo Project [Keith Turner]
## Description:
- Apache Fluo is a distributed processing system built on Apache Accumulo.
Fluo users can easily setup workflows that execute cross node transactions
when data changes. These workflows enable users to continuously join new
data into large existing data sets with low latency while avoiding
reprocessing all data.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- A good bit of recent activity is focused on making updates that
were found as a result of testing with Java 11, Accumulo 2.0, and
Hadoop 3.0. Hadoop is does not have a Java 11 ready release so
some small workarounds are required to test on a cluster
with Java 11 and Hadoop 3.0.
## Health report:
- 14 commits from 2 committers and 4 contributors [04/11-06/10]
- Issues and pull request : opened 17 and closed 16 [04/11-06/10]
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kenneth Mcfarland on Mon Mar 19 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kenneth Mcfarland at Thu Dec 07 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was fluo-recipes-1.2.0 on Mon Mar 05 2018
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Romain Manni-Bucau]
## Description:
- Apache Geronimo is an umbrella project for JakartaEE/JavaEE, container
tools and Microprofile implementations.
## Issues:
- None
## Activity:
- Some maintenance about Microprofile implementations mainly and the
historical xbean library.
## Health report:
- We still have acceptable traffic and activity.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 39 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Raymond Augé on Thu Aug 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 69 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Łukasz Dywicki at Thu Aug 16 2018
## Releases:
- openapi-1.0.8 was released on Thu May 09 2019
- openapi-1.0.9 was released on Sun Jun 09 2019
- xbean-4.14 was released on Mon May 27 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- The activity is mainly about the development activity - understand not much
user feedback since it comes through other channels like TomEE one.
- dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 313 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 176 emails sent to list (440 in previous quarter)
- geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 214 emails sent to list (110 in previous quarter)
- tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 407 subscribers (down -11 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Griffin Project [William Guo]
## Description:
- Apache Griffin is an open source Data Quality solution for Big Data,
which supports both batch and streaming mode. It offers an unified process
to measure your data quality from different perspectives, helping you build
trusted data assets, therefore boost your confidence for your business.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There is no specific activity in this quarter. We are doing bug fix and
feature enhancement.
## Health report:
- The mails and commits activity are as good as usual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members, no change.
- Last joined PMC was chemikadze on Oct 12, 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers, no change.
- Last joined Committer was chemikadze on Sep 30, 2018.
- Some active contributors will join as committer in the coming Quarter.
## Releases:
- None after last report
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@griffin.apache.org<mailto:dev@griffin.apache.org>:
- 87 subscribes
- 109 emails sent by 27 people, divided into 46 topics in Jan, 2019.
- 54 emails sent by 24 people, divided into 32 topics in Feb, 2019.
- 230 emails sent by 33 people, divided into 114 topics in Mar, 2019.
- 138 emails sent by 20 people, divided into 72 topics in April, 2019.
- 23 emails sent by 12 people, divided into 11 topics in May, 2019.
- 28 emails sent by 17 people, divided into 16 topics in June, 2019.
- 69 emails sent by 17 people, divided into 43 topics in July, 2019.
## JIRA activity:
- 23 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli]
The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable,
scalable, distributed computing.
GENERAL
- Release 3.0.4 / branch-3.0 EOL discussion happened in May 2019 - not fully
concluded
- A full day Hadoop Community Meetup happened at Cloudera Palo Alto on June
26: https://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Contributors/events/262055924/
RELEASES
- Apache Hadoop Ozone 0.4.0-alpha was released on May 7 2019
- Apache Hadoop Submarine 0.2.0 was released on Jul 2 2019
COMMUNITY
## PMC changes:
- New PMC Members since last report: 3
- Currently 104 PMC members.
- Mukul Kumar Singh was added to the PMC on Mon May 13 2019
- Billie Rinaldi was added to the PMC on Tue May 14 2019
- Aaron Fabbri was added to the PMC on Tue Jun 18 2019
## Committer base changes:
- New committers since last report: 7
- Currently 203 committers.
- Thomas Marquardt was added as a committer on Wed June 19 2019 (was
previously a branch committer for ABFS connector work HADOOP-15407 since Jun
2018).
- Gabor Bota was added as a committer on Tue Jun 25 2019
- Daniel Zhou was added as a committer on Wed Jun 26 2019
- Szilard Nemeth was added as a committer on Sat Jun 29 2019
- Abhishek Modi was added as a committer on Sat Jul 06 2019
- Tao Yang was added as a committer on Tue Jul 09 2019
- Ayush Saxena was added as a committer on Tue July 11 2019 (was previously a
branch committer to RBF HDFS-13891 branch since Mar 2019).
## JIRA Activity
- 999 JIRA tickets created since the last board report [ project in (YARN,
SUBMARINE, HADOOP, HDT, HDDS, HDFS, MAPREDUCE) AND createdDate >= 2019-04-15
]
- 720 JIRA tickets resolved since the last board report [ project in (YARN,
SUBMARINE, HADOOP, HDT, HDDS, HDFS, MAPREDUCE) AND resolutiondate >=
2019-04-15 ]
## Mailing list subscriptions & activity:
Slightly down (on both subscriber count as well as emails sent)
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang]
## Description:
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.
## Issues:
None
## Activity:
1) Add docker of common, plan, storage compile for ORC 2) Support table
CREATION and DROP functionality for ORC 3) In progress of supporting INSERT
and SELECT functionality for ORC 4) Talks:
- Introduction and implementation of pluggable storage framework in Apache
HAWQ, Second Apache HAWQ meetup of year 2019, April 27, 2019. (Speaker: Huo
Ruilong)
- Application of pluggable storage framework in Apache HAWQ, Second Apache
HAWQ meetup of year 2019, April 27, 2019. (Speaker: Huo Ruilong)
- Using Apache HAWQ to build big data platform in Big Tree Finance Ltd., HAWQ
Fans Club, June 28, 2019. (Zhao Chao)
## PMC changes:
None
## Committer base changes:
None
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AA: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Misty Linville]
## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.
hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.
hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.
## Issues:
Board-only information removed from public report.
## Activity:
There have been lots of interesting discussions on the dev@ mailing list.
Highlights:
- HBase 1.2.x is at the end of maintenance (EOM). 1.2.x users are encouraged
to upgrade to the current stable line (1.4.9) or even newer if they are
able.
- We had more discussions of EOLing the 2.0.x line, and decided to release a
2.0.6 release first.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/804ee14d 830ab41bdf5846f6f86d3db7f1af36f6304d82ef89d67f44@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
We started talking about HBase 3 and we'd like to hear your thoughts.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e12dd080 5d2dc99ddb713f72e8978977e406681716059944a141fca9@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We're looking for users who are using "Preemptive Fast Fail." If that's you,
please weigh in.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e234283f f115bd74d018178052886ad5494932b8070317d7b9268d86@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We mostly wrapped up the 6+ month move to git-box.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3496568d 6cc002f74f5c3bcce46ed44b7ee9e90d7d53af2c65b6f785@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d05defa9 6237dca49783c1b615964b6b09ff90482c4873b390141488@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
and improved the documentation for reviewers and committers
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/11ade0cc9 81913997d719c7138bbb930bf528c2d2f5c048b7d4cd4f3@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
- Toward modularizing HBase code for ease of maintenance and releases, we
created new repositories for hbase-connectors, hbase-native-client,
hbase-filesystem. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20934,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c6d4717d 5569de7cf89125b253b2126d9ec87ed8a895d7cf3c46dff2@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://github.com/apache/hbase-native-client,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a6403bc0 4be7bf04ba90196b44f1a4cdc0364cd2e7ca1927250a8f1b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/93fd0bd7 9cb54bc14015fa7e17ddb11e02a4b44ecaf75f916f232833@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We improved the Downloads page by removing all references to dist.apache.org
from it. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22206)
- We had several heart-felt discussions, on dev@ and private@, about the
responsibility of the PMC in voting for release candidates, Release Manager
burn-out, the meaning of +0 votes, whether to continue testing a RC after it
is sunk, and other related topics. Some of those discussions are available
to the public.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a4f8e44b ef8ceac7faf7759c3c8e66d495ce484216978f71548b4e31@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9de91f65 ecd4290bf82c52393078ac15a8933adb67bb22719ca6744b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8cf2f7d86 51f0975d413355641ea8ca4e6ac1204b5c4532c027f5208@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
See the items below about voting.
- Anoop started a Google Group for people interested in hosting or attending
HBase meet-ups in India
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cfca58e6 2ceb2120808dbe62c9860bf9bdb7e3a023edfeffdcef83ed@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Josh Elser organized and attended the first NoSQL Day on May 21 in
Washington, DC, and wrote up a report.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a30a42f3 4cc6581aca68944551604b18b90fab5147ff69705e543081@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- A team of developers expressed interest in getting HBase running on ARM, and
offered to help manage some testing infrastructure.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e2c1a628 491d6d659ee9ef948d3e9d760a781c2ce2d657cda1d9ab14@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
HBaseCon Asia takes place July 20, 2019, in Beijing. The Call For Papers (CFP)
closed on June 17. (https://hbase.apache.org/hbaseconasia-2019/,
https://easychair.org/cfp/hbaseconasia-2019)
Another goal, spanning several quarters, is to solicit more non-binding votes
on release candidates, as non-binding votes are one signal of broader
community engagement. Based on several discussions, we surfaced the following
further expectations:
- Voting on release candidates is largely about well-formedness of the
artifacts. A script exists to help determine well-formedness.
- A candidate that gets few votes can be discouraging to the release manager
(RM).
- A +0 vote is a powerful signal to the RM that you care about a candidate but
don't have enough information to vote decisively.
- Don't assume a single -1 means a candidate is sunk, even if it looks
serious.
- If you find a problem, file a JIRA and try to help find root cause. Don't
rely on the RM to own every problem.
- PMC members are expected to vote on as many release candidates as possible,
and 1.x releases need more consistent voters. As a reminder, anyone on the
dev@ list can test and provide feedback on a release candidate, and cast a
non-binding vote.
Three new committers were added this quarter, and one committer joined the
PMC. More details below. Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for
agreeing to take on more responsibilities in the project.
## Health report:
We're in the middle of the summer in the northern hemisphere, but it hasn't
slowed down the conversation. Subscribers to dev@ are down a bit (-41), but
discussions are still vigorous, with 1524 emails (1064 last quarter).
The same pattern holds for users@, with 61 fewer subscribers than last
quarter, but 184 emails (115 last quarter).
We're still fixing a lot of JIRAs, and this quarter we fixed ever so slightly
more than we created! Numbers below.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 46 PMC members.
- Jan Hentschel was added to the PMC on Tue May 07 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 82 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Yi Mei was added as a committer on Wed May 22 2019
- Wellington Chevreuil was added as a committer on Thu Jun 06 2019
- Xiang Li was added as a committer on Mon May 13 2019
## Releases:
- 1.2.12 was released on Tue Apr 16 2019
- 1.3.4 was released on Sat May 4, 2019
- 2.1.5 was released on Wed Jun 5, 2019
- 1.3.5 was released on Sun Jun 09 2019
- 1.4.10 was released on Sun Jun 09 2019
- 2.2.0 was released on Mon Jun 10 2019
- hbase-connectors-1.0.0 was released on Thu May 02 2019
- hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1 was released on Mon Jun 10 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@hbase.apache.org:
- 1007 subscribers (down -41 in the last 3 months):
- 1524 emails sent to list (1064 in previous quarter)
- user@hbase.apache.org:
- 2171 subscribers (down -61 in the last 3 months):
- 184 emails sent to list (117 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 484 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (down from 494 last quarter)
- 489 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (up from 436 last
quarter)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean]
# Incubator PMC report for July 2019
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are
viewing this not in that format, it can be seen here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/July2019
There are presently 48 podlings incubating. In June, podlings executed 7
distinct releases. We added no new IPMC members and no IPMC members
retired. We have no new podlings this month. A couple of other podlings are
heading towards graduation in the next few months including OpenWhisk. A
couple of podlings failed to realise that they can submit their own reports
rather than having to reply on their mentors. DLab, for instance almost
failed to report for the second month, although they did have draft reports
on their mailing list for previous missed reports. Three podlings Amaterasu,
Livy and Tuweni didn't submit a report and have been asked to do so next
month. Three other reports currently do not have sign off BatchEE,
DataSketches and DLab.
There was one IP clearance.
Milagro is trying to reboot themselves, and it's good to see lots of new
activity, this seems a successful attempt so far, and they are working on a
release.
BatchEE has decided to leave the incubator and join the Geronimo project as
that seems a better fit for them than becoming their own TLP.
OpenWhisk has brought up graduation and has a few minor issues around
releases, communication and branding to address. This again points out the
challenges the incubator has when ASF policy may not be in line with modern
development workflows.
Zipkin decided that the incubator wasn't a good fit for them culturally and
left the incubator returning back to be OpenZipkin. They had a large amount
of work to do before they could graduate and some of the issues they faced
would have been difficult to solve. It would be fair to say that their
expectations were not correctly managed when entering the incubator.
There was some debate if a vote needed to be held by the IPMC to record
this, with some people objecting in strong terms.
The IPMC is still working on if podlings need to follow ASF's release
policy and distribution policy while in incubation. It seems that more
people think that the incubator does not have to follow policy. However,
the board has never granted an exception to the incubator for this, it's
not in its original charter or documented anywhere. Last months
proposal to do just this didn't get IPMC consensus.
In these threads, there were a number of good suggestions that could be
implemented to smooth the progression from podling to top level project for
some podlings. As usual, it's then difficult to get consensus on and
implement these ideas. Hopefully, all this will coalesce into some
action(s) and a new proposal (assuming one is needed) to be put forward to
the board next month.
It was clarified with Infra that they will allow distribution of artifacts
that don't follow policy, or rather they won't check and assume anything
voted on by the IPMC is OK to be distributed. In other words, it's the IPMC
responsibility.
Legal also clarified what they expected, and it's possibly a bit awkward as
they (perhaps unsurprisingly) expect a TLP to follow all release policy,
which includes any releases made by the IPMC. We have not been doing this.
They went further saying if the incubator is not considered a TLP, or is
somehow *special* then the legal committee has indicated what they would
allow in releases. This list is less restrictive than what has previously
been followed by the IPMC, but still includes some situations where the
incubator shouldn't approve a release.
It's considered that the incubator is a TLP so this still needs to be
resolved in some way and the conversation is now focused on this.
Possibly getting a bit ahead of itself, the incubator made two releases
that included issues that it would not usually release; inclusion of
compiled source code and dependency on Category X software.
Until this issue is resolved, I don't see an end to this issue re-occurring
every few years as it has done previously. This is confusing for podlings
as they get mixed or contradictory answers to their questions depending
on who they ask, and the ASF policy documentation is heavy on the compliance
side. This situation also had a part to play in Zipkin leaving.
The IPMC needs to be clear up front that some podlings may need major
changes to how they operate, and they need to consider carefully if the ASF
is, in fact, a good fit for them. The incubator has started work on a page
outlining the expectations and what some of the issues are that they might
encounter. there may be some overlap with the recently created Incubator
cookbook.
A couple of podlings have not been able to attract IPMC votes on their
releases in the usual 72 hours.
A discussion has been started on changing the incubator DISCLAIMER text to
more accurately reflect that podling releases may not be in line with
policy. This has no legal standing but is informational.
Several podlings talks and talks about the incubator were accepted for
ApacheCon North America.
Some of the incubator wiki pages were missed in the transfer and infra are
looking into why.
A few more podlings have corrected PPMC members not been signed up to their
private lists.
## Community
### New IPMC members:
None
### People who left the IPMC:
None
## New Podlings
None
## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Amaterasu
- Livy
- Tuweni
## Graduations
- OpenWhisk
## Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
June:
- Apache Doris 0.10
- Apache Tuweni 0.8.0
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js 1.0.0
- Apache Druid 0.15.0
- Apache OpenWhisk Runtime Node.js v1.14.0
- Apache Training - Navigating the ASF Incubator Process 1.0
- Apache OpenWhisk runtimes version 1.1.3.0 Released
## IP Clearance
ServiceComb Toolkit project contribution
## Legal / Trademarks
Legal has confirmed how podlings releases need to comply with policy.
## Infrastructure
Infra has confirmed how podlings releases need to comply with policy.
## Miscellaneous
None
|----------------------------------------------------------------------
## Table of Contents
[Annotator](#Annotator)
[BatchEE](#BatchEE)
[BRPC](#BRPC)
[DataSketches](#DataSketches)
[DLab](#DLab)
[Flagon](#Flagon)
[Gobblin](#Gobblin)
[Hudi](#Hudi)
[Iceberg](#Iceberg)
[Milagro](#Milagro)
[MXNet](#MXNet)
[Rya](#Rya)
[TVM](#TVM)
[Weex](#Weex)
|----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
## Annotator
Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
humans.
Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Release initial versions
2. Add active contributors
3. Demonstrate good governance through voting on process improvements.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Participation on the mailing list and issues has increased. Overall
architectural discussions for the API of the first official release are
also underway. The project recently voted to adopt a new logo, with
input from the community.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The project's API is being solidified for its first release. There has
been active coding in the last month and and more related conversations
on the mailing list. We still need to increase participation in the
actual code activities of the project, but interest in general is growing
again.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [x] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
None yet, but hopefully sooner than later.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers nor PPMC members have been added since the last report.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes. Mentors have been helpful with recent questions.
### Signed-off-by:
- [x] (annotator) Nick Kew
Comments:
- [ ] (annotator) Steve Blackmon
Comments:
- [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
## 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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:
None (see below).
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Not much and we agreed to move the project under geronimo responsability
to exit the incubator.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [X] Other: exiting the incubator as a subproject of Apache Geronimo.
### Date of last release:
2017-12-01
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-24-01
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
N/A
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
- [ ] (batchee) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
- [ ] (batchee) Mark Struberg
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
## BRPC
brpc is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-
performance services.
BRPC has been incubating since 2018-11-13.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Check all third-party dependency, and remove unused NSPR files
2. Update all source files to add unified header
3. Plan to have a offline forum in Shanghai to prompt brpc
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
It is very near to its first Apache release.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have made a large progress toward Apache release,
and planed a forum to attract more users.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
Still working on the first release
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No answer.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No answer.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (brpc) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Love the forum idea to build the community.
- [X] (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
- [ ] (brpc) Von Gosling
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
## DataSketches
DataSketches is an open source, high-performance library of stochastic
streaming algorithms commonly called "sketches" in the data sciences.
Sketches are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream
and can provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to
computationally difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than
traditional, exact methods.
DataSketches has been incubating since 2019-03-30.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete a successful 1st snapshot release of Memory repo to DIST and
Nexus. This is a blocking issue.
2. Finish refactoring/snapshot releasing the other repos, which depend on
#1.
3. Move, refactor Website.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
For the IPMC:
As a newbie podling, my experience so far has been exasperating. Finding
how to accomplish key tasks is difficult. The information is spread all
over and the essential details of how to actually
accomplish tasks are often missing.
I have run into multiple roadblocks, especially with regards to
permissions. I have to keep filing new tickets with INFRA to setup access
to infrastructure and they reply that the Mentors need to do this. When
I ask on general@incubator, the replies I get suggest I need to file
tickets with INFRA. So I am confused.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Not much. I wish I could spend more time on this, but I need to get
the migration done.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We continue to evolve the project's functionality with commits to our
GitHub repos.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [x] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
No releases yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
At the initial incubation date.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
1. I have opened INFRA issues that have not yet been addressed and there
will be more to come.
2. I could REALLY use some 1:1 help from an experienced release engineer
(perhaps from another project),that is very familiar with the Apache/Maven
release process and POM to get us off the ground.
Once we have created our first release, we can continue from there. But
getting this first one is out is turning out to be quite a challenge.
I don't think we need more than an hour with an experienced Apache
release engineer, our project just isn't that complicated.
3. I haven't heard from any of the mentors for the last week or so,
perhaps they are all on vacation.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (datasketches) Liang Chen
Comments:
- [X] (datasketches) Kenneth Knowles
Comments:
- [ ] (datasketches) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Please ask your mentors for help, they can setup most
things or direct yo to when you can get help. If your mentors can't help
then ask on teh incubator general list.
--------------------
## DLab
DLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science
environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.
DLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Execute the SGA between EPAM and the ASF so code can be imported - done
2. Complete on-boarding of initial committers - done
3. Work toward an initial Apache release - release branch created – done
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Not this time
### How has the community developed since the last report?
All initial committers have completed on-boarding. Also we've added
couple of new contributors (some of them are waiting for PPMC to be created).
All new contributors are currently onboarding and doing initial work to prove
contribution:
- Andriy Yatskovets
- Kirill Makhonin
- Vitalii Solodilov
- Dmitriy Karbyshev
- Aliaksandr Semianets
Also a few new contributors will start submitting their .icla files soon:
- Andrii Dumych
- Mykola Bodnar
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The team fully switched our work to Apache Infrastructure: JIRA, Git.
First release has been made
https://github.com/apache/incubator-dlab/releases/tag/2.1-RC2
Team is actively working on release 2.2 features.
There will be many new features and conceptual changes introduced in
upcoming release. We are introducing a concept of projects within DLab,
which will allow to control permissions for groups of Dlab users, improve
collaboration capabilities.
Major improvements will be made in terms of GCP platform deployment. GCP
will support majority of the features, currently available in DLab for
AWS and Azure Clouds.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [x] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-15-04
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-18-04
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors have been helpful with onboarding and were providing all
answers timely. We just wish the podling report submission process
could be supported more timely.
### Help needed by DLab team from Apache:
We would highly appreciate if following page could start being populated:
https://incubator.apache.org/clutch/dlab.html, currently there are many
URL’s missing and empty sections.
The team can provide all needed information, but unfortunately we don't
ability to Edit this page.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (dlab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
- [ ] (dlab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
- [ ] (dlab) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
## Flagon
Apache Flagon is a generalized user behavioural logging platform for web
pages and thin-client applications
Apache Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13; Apache Flagon has
officially changed its name from Apache SensSoft.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Accelerate release frequency and reduce branch complexity in repos to
reduce adoption, contributor disincentives.
2. Grow the Apache Flagon Committer/Contributor/Community Base around our
core product Apache UserALE.js (Incubating)
3. Complete the issues highlighted at the Apache Flagon Roadmap [1]
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Apache Flagon is currently suffering from unresponsive mentors:
* Dave Meikle has been active and engaged, aside from a prolonged outage
due to a long-term illness. We are grateful for Dave's help and assistance
since then.
* Lewis McGibbney has been uncharacteristically unresponsive on dev@,
private@, and to PM. Note that Lewis has been a champion for us and have
confidence that he will return to activity.
* Atri Sharma has been wholly inactive. We tried to report this in our
last Q1 report; when posted to dev@ for review, he maintained that he
didn't the ability to cast binding VOTEs as an excuse for
non-engagement. We softened the language in our Q1 report and encouraged
him to participate by providing guidance, mentorship, and engaging in
community VOTEs. We haven't heard from him since despite numerous requests
for help and support posted to private@
As a result of long periods of mentor absence:
* ReRelease of v1.0.0 (at IPMC ) was delayed until mentors (Dave) were
available to guide us through a potential copyright issue (resolved).
* Prolonged the process of our name change as we struggled to explore
Apache documentation and understand what we had to change (in process; HUGE
thanks to INFRA for assisting us with some of the details).
* Is presently impeding our release process (not enough binding VOTES)
after tightening release procedures, and working hard to clean up our
branch structure to increase this cadence.
* We have struggled to get timely IPMC sign-off on REPORTs and have been
unable to post these ourselves to the incubator wiki for lack of permission.
* We have had to abandon our prior NPM distribution as it was released by
a non-responsive mentor on their personal NPM account (we don't have
credentials). [2]
NOTE as of the date of REPORT (6/26/2019) our ReRelease of Apache Flagon
UserALE.js (Incubating) v1.0.0 has been under VOTE on general@ for 9 days
(6/17/2019). After community and PPMC VOTE, we needed +2 binding votes.
We received helpful comments from Justin McLean, but despite numerous
reminders to VOTE, we still have yet to receive the last +1 binding VOTE
from IPMC. We are concerned that without active mentors, our release
cadence will remain slow and unresponsive to user communities.
With Dave Meikle's help, we will be searching for two additional mentors
so that our community is self sufficient. We recommend dropping Atri Sharma
from the project for non-participation.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has:
* improved release processes and code base to expedite future releases
[3,4]
* gathered a wide base of users that are eagerly anticipating UserALE.js
v2.0.0 via NPM (under VOTE within the community as of this date).
* discussed with external parties research applications with university
research labs in machine learning and social computing.
* the community has organically grown with a new contributor, who is
participating in VOTEs
* the community expects to complete major updates to documentation on
website and READMEs, in early JUL 2019. Wiki updates will complete shortly
thereafter.
Despite consistent challenges to our community throughout 2018, we are
showing signs of growth, continue to have a relevant project, and are well
postured to accelerate growth in the coming quarters. We remain committed
to learning and adopting the Apache Way.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Completed migration to GitBox Repos
* Project maturity roadmaps (Wiki) and version release plans (JIRA)
continue to be maintained.
* JIRA boards continue to be maintained.
* Core product source code for front-end and back-end assets has been
steadily maintained and modernized.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2018-03-14
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Arthi Vezhavendan was added to Committer base on 2017-01-24
Dave Meikle was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
Atri Sharma was added to PPMC on 2018-11-24
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks?
See mentorship issues above.
We are now aware that we can lean on general@ or INFRA for support
without permission and have deepened our knowledge of Apache processes so
that committers are more self-sufficient.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
- [X] (flagon) Dave Meikle
Comments: Great to have two releases out post the name change. Now we
need to work on improving the mentor situation and on building the
community.
- [ ] (flagon) Atri Sharma
Comments:
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/Roadmaps
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/useralejs
[3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/flagon/
[4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLAGON/UserALE.js+Release+Manage
ment+Procedure
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: All PPMC members in the roster have permission to edit the
incubator report, you don't need to rely on mentors for that. For extra mentors
please ask on the incubator list.
--------------------
## Gobblin
Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common
aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication,
organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data
ecosystems.
Gobblin has been incubating since 2017-02-23.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Revisit Apache Maturity Model assessment. [In progress]
2. Ensure heavy contributors are awarded committership. [In progress]
3. Complete house-keeping tasks like revisiting website, podling
namesearch. [In progress]
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* 62% of commits were from non-committer contributors.
* Healthy engagement and activity of committers and contributors.
* Email stats since last report:
user@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 21
dev@gobblin.incubator.apache.org : 1744
* There have been 82 Commits since last report:
git log --format='%ci' | grep -cE '((2019-0(4|5|6|7)))'
* 51 ie. 62% of those commits were by non-committers:
git log --format='%ae %ci' | grep -E '((2019-0(4|5|6|7)))'
| cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
* Community's proposal to present in ApacheCon NA 2019 was accepted.
(joint presentation by Paypal and LinkedIn engineers).
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Encryption support for Salesforce connector.
* GobblinEventBuilder enhancements.
* Metric reporter integration with dataset discovery.
* Enhancement to RateBasedLimiter.
* Dynamic config support in JobSpecs.
* GaaS disaster recovery mode skeleton.
* Addition of MySQL based DAG State store.
* New filesystem based SpecProducer.
* Auto-scalability in Gobblin on Yarn mode.
* Container request and allocation optimizations.
* New SQL dataset descriptor for JDBC sourced datasets.
* Speculative safety checks in HiveWritable writer.
* New Async loadable FlowSpecs.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2018-12-09
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Sudarshan Vasudevan in January, 2019.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (gobblin) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
- [ ] (gobblin) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
- [ ] (gobblin) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Hudi
Hudi provides atomic upserts and incremental data streams on Big Data
Hudi has been incubating since 2019-01-17.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Making sufficient number of releases in the Apache way
2. Legal/IP Clearance of software artifacts (LEGAL-461)
3. Growing community further by grooming contributors to committers
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
1. PODLINGNAMESEARCH-162 has been completed. But not reflected on whimsy
2. Software grant has been signed by Uber. But not reflected on whimsy
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Mailing list subs grown to >50, 65 new mailing list threads
2. Slack is about 99 signups total (20-30 WAU), 39 total contributors on
github, ~25 support issues closed on GitHub
3. 3 new organizations reported usage onto the Hudi site
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. ~66 commits from ~15 contributors/committers, across 2 releases
2. All development now happening on ASF infrastructure, with source code
being prepared for ASF release
3. External talks on DataCouncil SF19 and SF BigAnalytics Meetup
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
During inception into incubator.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No Answer.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (hudi) Thomas Weise
Comments: Nice work on the collaboration side. Are there new
contributors that could become committer candidates?
- [X] (hudi) Luciano Resende
Comments: The issues mentioned above that needs board attention
are probably just a question of updating the project page file
with the proper done status/date. Please speakup if the community
needs help from mentors updating the file.
- [ ] (hudi) Kishore Gopalakrishnan
Comments:
- [X] (hudi) Suneel Marthi
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Iceberg
Iceberg is a table format for large, slow-moving tabular data.
Iceberg has been incubating since 2018-11-16.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Update build for Apache release, add LICENSE/NOTICE to Jars.
2. Make the first Apache release.
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg/milestone/1)
3. Grow the Iceberg community
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* No issues that require attention.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* Community growth has continued with several new contributors and
reviewers
* Community has decided on style and added checking to CI for most modules
* Community has started work on extending the spec for new use cases
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Much more content on iceberg.apache.org has been added
* 74 pull requests have been merged, many reviewed by new community
members
* Work has begun to add row-level deletes and upserts to the format
* Added support for Spark streaming, a catalog API, and numerous bug fixes
* Contributors are reviewing code, submitting substantial features, and
improving dev practices
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup (name clearance approval pending)
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
None yet
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None yet
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X](iceberg) Ryan Blue
Comments: I wrote the first pass of the report.
- [ ](iceberg) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
- [X](iceberg) Owen O'Malley
Comments: +1 from discussion on dev list
- [ ](iceberg) James Taylor
Comments:
- [ ](iceberg) Carl Steinbach
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Milagro
Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for
decentralized networks and distributed systems.
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libs
and applications for decentralized networks in order
to grow the ecosystem of users and contributors to the project.
2. Get all functions of the project in line with the Apache Way
so we stay in compliance and can get a relase under our belts.
3. Get a relase under our belts!
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We're growing the list of potential new contributors and
collaborators. We have added two new additional
contributors and expect more soon as we get
milagro-crypto-c in line for release.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The main contributors continue to get their feet wet with Apache
processes and methodologies. Big shout out to the infra team
who have been helpful in dealing with the paculiarities of our project.
As an example, we have managed to migrate issue tracking to GitHub,
but are still using JIRA for release management task tracking.
Most importantly, we have now moved the website to the asf-site
branch model and are ready to update the site with documentation.
Qredo Ltd in London has signed a software contributor agreement
that has been registered with legal office. Qredo is contributing its
server code to become the Decentralized Trust Authority, the first
"product" release after the crypto library release.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Last week.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Jean-Frederic Clere has been great, helpful and hopefully Nick will
stay involved.
### Signed-off-by:
- [x] (milagro) Nick Kew
Comments: This project has sprung to life!
I'll post a note about specificity vs "Last week"!
- [ ] (milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
- Drew Farris (shepherd): Added a new mentor this month. Both mentors
active on the mailing lists. Increased activity throughout the month of
June.
--------------------
## MXNet
A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase diversity in contributors, committers, and PMC members — NEAR
COMPLETION.
2. Identify remaining ICLAs or SGAs that need signing – NEAR COMPLETION.
3. Revisit Apache Maturity Model Assessment — TODO.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
1. Based on usability feedback from users, community has started a
redesign of the website.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* The number of GitHub contributors increased to currently 707
(2019-06-24; +3.7% since last report)
* Active discussions on user forums
* https://discuss.mxnet.io/ (English, 1.8K registered users and 9.4K
posts (+68% since last report))
* https://discuss.gluon.ai/ (Chinese, 6.5K registered users and 37K
posts(+93% since last report))
* Active blogs and social media presence
* Medium (https://medium.com/apache-mxnet) w/ 1.4k followers
* Twitter account (https://twitter.com/ApacheMXNet) w/ 2.1k followers
* Meetup group
(https://www.meetup.com/pro/deep-learning-with-apache-mxnet/) w/ 10
groups in 8 countries, 2141 members
* (in China) Zhihu w/ 7.6k followers, WeChat official account w/ 4.2k
followers. (+40% since last report)
* Active video channels
* YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/apachemxnet) w/ 709
subscriber (+13% since last report)
* Chinese YouTube channel
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLwTKPMlDt2segkZzw2ZQ) w/ 4.4k
subscribers
* (in China) bilibili space (https://space.bilibili.com/209599371) w/
15k subscriber (+15% since last report)
* Highlights in MXNet ecosystem
* MXNet Gluon book published (https://zh.d2l.ai/) first 21.5k hard
copies
* MXNet Gluon book (www.d2l.ai, Dive into Deep Learning/D2L) released
* v1.0.0-rc0
(https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-zh/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc0)
in Chinese
* v0.6.0 (https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-en/releases/tag/v0.6.0) in
English
* Dive into Deep Learning has 47.5K 28-day active users, and has
attracted 11.5K stars & 200+ contributors on GitHub. It has been adopted
as a textbook or reference book by 15+ universities in U.S., China,
Spain, and Australia, such as UC Berkeley.
* GluonCV v0.4.0 release
(https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-cv/releases/tag/v0.4.0)
* GluonNLP v0.6.0 release
(https://github.com/dmlc/gluon-nlp/releases/tag/v0.6.0)
* GluonTS v0.1.4 release
(https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts/releases/tag/v0.1.4)
This is a new toolkit for deep-learning based time-series modeling.
* MXNet Model Server v1.0.4 release
(https://github.com/awslabs/mxnet-model-server/releases/tag/v1.0.4)
* GluonFace (https://github.com/THUFutureLab/gluon-face)
* DeepInsight (https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1) 1.4.1 patch release:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.4.1
2) 1.5.0 release in progress (pre-release v1.5.0.rc1):
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.5.0.rc1
with over 750 patches of new features, improvements, and fixes.
3) Roadmap discussion on 2.0 in progress
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/9686
4) Code donation from dmlc/mshadow in progress.
5) Many ongoing projects:
* numpy-compatbile deep learning:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/14;
* CPU performance and quantization:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/projects/15;
* Mixed precision GPU training (AMP):
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/14173, etc.
6) Github statistics of last month:
* May 24, 2019 – June 24, 2019: Excluding merges, 16 authors have pushed
88 commits to master and 140 commits to all branches. On master, 250 files
have changed and there have been 12,939 additions and 9,919 deletions.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [x] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-04-29
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-05-20
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors have been providing helps per requests from community.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (mxnet) Henri Yandell
Comments:
- [ ] (mxnet) Markus Weimer
Comments:
- [x] (mxnet) Michael Wall
Comments:
- [ ] (mxnet) Bob Paulin
Comments:
- [ ] (mxnet) Jason Dai
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
- Drew Farris (shepherd): Very active project. One mentor observed on the
mailing list, otherwise not a significant amount of mentor activity
apparent - possibly due to the proximity toward graduation.
- Justin Mclean: I'm not sure why the website redesign is an issue for the
IPMC or board. Can you please give some more detail.
--------------------
## 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 unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Working through the graduation procedure steps.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* The community is moving towards graduation: name search completed,
project status file updated, the Apache Project maturity model evaluation
almost done, proposed PMC list finalized
* "SPARQL at Scale with Apache Rya" accepted for presentation at
ApacheCon Las Vegas, Sept 2019
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* working on a major release in the next few months
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [x] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2108-03-04
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* PPMC member Caleb Meier elected on Jan 3rd, 2017
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our two mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Signed-off-by:
- [x] (rya) Josh Elser
Comments: Steady progress to graduation.
- [x] (rya) Billie Rinaldi
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
## TVM
TVM is a full stack open deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and
specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity-
focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or efficiency-
oriented hardware backends.
TVM has been incubating since 2019-03-06.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Source code and website migration to ASF infra
2. Make the first Apache release
3. Continue to grow the community
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
N/A
### How has the community developed since the last report?
TVM community has welcomed one committer in the past month.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Summary statistics: In the past month authors have pushed 142 commits to
master and 142 commits to all branches. On master, 421 files have changed
and there have been 22,680 additions and 5,388 deletions.
Some highlights of recent developments:
- Robust coverage of windows support.
- Improvements in the integer simplifier interface.
- Major improvements in high level ir(relay) support
- For detailed information about the project development, please refer to
the monthly TVM community's monthly summary:
- May: https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-may-2019/2793
- June: https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-june-2019/3202
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [x] Initial setup
- [x] Working towards first release
- [x] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
June 13 2019
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors are very helpful in providing guidance.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (tvm) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments:
- [ ] (tvm) Sebastian Schelter
Comments:
- [X] (tvm) Henry Saputra
Comments: Working on migration or resources to ASF infra and managed
resources. But the community still growing and active.
- [ ] (tvm) Timothy Chen
Comments:
- [X] (tvm) Furkan Kamaci
Comments:
- [X] (tvm) Markus Weimer
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. The binary convenience library of Weex should exclude the LGPL
runtime(Webkit).
2. A collection of Weex's tools should be donated to ASF, as they are
essential part of building Weex App
3. The Java package name in Weex starts with com.taobao.xxx, which should
be renamed to org.apache.xxx with a low-cost upgrading way for Weex users.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No answer.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* Weex has participated ASOC(Alibaba summer of Code)[4] program and there
will be a postgraduate from ASOC joined Weex community in this
summer(July to August)
* There is a new committer joined Weex since last report.
* We are learning Apache Way (IP/License/Governance Model) and figured
out issues that may block graduation.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* We have 197 incoming pull request and 164 of them are merged
* We have 55 threads in Weex mailing list
* We have solved 200 Github issues
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-05-23
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2019-04-05
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, they are very helpful. We learned a lot about Apache Way from them.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (weex) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: Weex is try hard to find solution for their issue, I
agree with Myrle, they are nearing graduation.
- [X] (weex) Myrle Krantz
Comments: Weex is doing an excellent job of identifying their own
issues, and seeking solutions in the broader foundation.
I concur that they are nearing graduation.
- [ ] (weex) Jan Piotrowski
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Kevin Meyer]
[Report] Apache Isis - July 2019
## Description:
Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven applications
in Java. Users only write POJOs and Apache Isis handles the database and UI
automatically at runtime.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Work continues on re-platforming the framework on top of Spring Boot for
the upcoming 2.0 release. This work also includes restructuring of the
code-base, decoupling functional parts and also renaming of packages to
prepare for future releases that should support the Java module system.
Migration from DataNucleus (JDO) to Spring-Data, as previously announced
on the user-mailing list, was postponed. We decided to descope our tasks
to allow for the 2.0 release to be delivered earlier. Migration to
Spring-Data is still on the roadmap, but needs more time than
anticipated earlier this year.
While not yet released, there have also been made improvements to the
user interface (Wicket Viewer) in the 1.x branch, which are expected to
be part of the 2.0 release.
## Health report:
We consider the project to be reasonably healthy with enough PMC members
participating in votes and both project members and users exchanging
questions and answers on the dev and users mailing lists.
There are two active committers on the framework. While individuals have
come and gone, the total has been fairly consistent throughout the history
of the framework.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Johan Doornenbal on Thu Apr 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Johan Doornenbal at Mon Mar 19 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.0-M2 on Tue Jan 22 2019 [1]
## JIRA activity:
- 40 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 49 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1] https://isis.apache.org/release-notes/release-notes.html#_release-notes_2.0.0-M2
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache James Project [Benoit Tellier]
## Description:
The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which builds into
an advanced enterprise mail server.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We are concerned about adding committers
and PMC members, as well as increasing the diversity of our community.
During the last three months, we approached some community contributors
who we think would have been perfect candidates, but they declined our
invitations. We will continue active community members
Furthermore, we want to strengthen our community by making contributing
easy to use, feature oriented documentation. The expected long term
effect is a higher engagement from the users.
PMC members proposed several talks for both ApacheCON in Vegas and
Berlin, in order to spread the word about Apache James. Only one talk
("Gaining control over emails with Apache James") made it to the waiting
list.
We are working on releasing Apache JAMES server version 3.4.0, shipping
mainly performance improvements.
## Health report:
Many users exchanges regarding the Apache James server on the user
mailing list as well as on gitter. We try to encourage and accompany
contributions to either documentation or code, where users tend to help
each others.
## 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 MIME4J-0.8.3 on Fri Mar 22 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- general@james.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- mailet-api@james.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- mime4j-dev@james.apache.org:
- 85 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
- server-dev@james.apache.org:
- 173 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 1028 emails sent to list (1027 in previous quarter)
- server-user@james.apache.org:
- 379 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 66 emails sent to list (120 in previous quarter)
- site-dev@james.apache.org:
- 40 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 90 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 111 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrea Turli]
== Description==
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud
providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
jclouds continues to accumulate bug fixes but little feature work. Notably we
are struggling with compatibility with Java 8 and newer Guava versions, which
vexes our users.
After a fruitful discussion with the Karaf community, we decided to move
jclouds-karaf and jclouds-cli projects to the Karaf project. This has removed
a blocker for new releases of jclouds, and we think it will help both
communities going forward.
== Community ==
We had 12 contributors this quarter - including several new ones - in addition
to the existing PMC and committers, and more activity on our issue tracker.
Notably, there have been very promising contributions from some new developers
to help with technical debt, particularly to remove uses of an internal
package that makes it impossible to use jclouds in an OSGi environment with
newer versions of Gson.
There is a growing concern around the amount of time being dedicated to the
project, since most of the PMC and committers are now "pure" volunteers (with
$dayjob no longer related to jclouds). Another concern is the lack of
traction, requests, and general interest from the community itself, or from
downstream projects like Apache Brooklyn.
Last committer: 2018-07-23 (Daniel Estevez)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
Unblock the release of jclouds 2.2.0, which will provide Java 8 support. Keep
engaging contributors on Slack, and propose them as new committers as
appropriate. Monitor the PMC and ensure we have enough resources to properly
manage the project.
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.1.2, took place on 2019-02-07.
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Attachment AF: 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 added a major new component to provide GeoSPARQL, an OGC standard
for geospatial query of RDF data in SPARQL. Because this large contribution
needed time and effort to integrate, a regular release (3.11.0) was done to be
followed by a release for GeoSPARQL (3.12.0).
## Health report:
The project dev@ list is at normal levels of activity, the users list on the
quieter side though stackoverflow continues to have more user questions than
users@ - and more people answering users questions.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jan 22 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- Greg Albiston was added as a committer on Mon Jul 08 2019
## Releases:
- Jena 3.11.0 was released on Tue Apr 30 2019
- Jena 3.12.0 was released on Sat Jun 01 2019
## Mailing list activity:
Normal.
- users@jena.apache.org:
- 633 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 266 emails sent to list (294 in previous quarter)
- dev@jena.apache.org:
- 156 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 583 emails sent to list (290 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 28 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 28 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Bruno Demion]
## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- No release since last report.
- The project works on dual-migration from Subversion to Git and Ant to
Gradle. The final objectives are 1/ bring a better (and modern)
environment for the contributor and 2/ add more automation to the release
process.
- The git migration has been completed
- The wiki (under MoinMoin) has been migrated to Confluence with help and
slight pressure from Infra.
## Health report:
- The project has a good activity during last quarter. The migration to git
has slowdown the commits but it's done. So next quarter should be better.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Vladimir Sitnikov on Fri Jun 08 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Maxime Chassagneux at Wed Feb 15 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.1 final on Wed Mar 13 2019
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Johnzon Project [Hendrik Saly]
## Description:
Apache Johnzon is an implementation of JSR-353 (JSON-P 1.0), JSR-374
(JSON-P 1.1) and JSR-367 (JSON-B 1.0) and a set of useful extension for this
specification like JAX-RS providers and websocket (JSR-356) integration.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Status:
We finished and released the implementation of JSR-374 and JSR-367. Current
focus is now to optimize the performance and stabilize the new features. We
also recently added "Portable Java Contracts" to provide the widest OSGi
compatibility.
## Releases:
- 1.1.12 was released on Fri May 29 2019
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Reinhard Sandtner on Tue Aug 30 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jonathan Gallimore at Wed May 09 2018
## Project activity:
Since the last report there was mid activity. We some some more external
contributions than usually via github.
We had 14 new Jira tickets and closed 10 tickets. On the mailinglist there a
no unanswered questions left. On the dev list we have 40 (-1) subscribers
currently and 11 msg sent per week. Since last report we saw mailing list
activity from a few new people.
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili]
## Description:
Apache Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.
## Issues:
- Activity in the project is very low
## Activity:
- Since last board meeting a PR from a non committer was merged
- Based on comment from TD to previous board report, a proposal came up for
implementing models for CJK languages using more recent (and accurate)
approaches that use pretrained embeddings
## Health report:
- The community is essentially the same since graduation. No potential new
committers / PMC members showed up
- Mailing lists have very low activity
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition: Wed Oct 17 2018 (Felix Hieber)
## Releases:
- No releases were performed since graduation
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@joshua.apache.org:
- 29 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (40 in previous quarter)
- user@joshua.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez]
## 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:
- As opposed to last quarter, this one has been quieter. 2.11.0.M4 was
released, fixing a few XSS vulnerabilities, and there's been a some work
towards 2.11.0.M5 which should be out on August.
## Health report:
- We've seen some spike of activity at users@j.a.o, no questions unanswered
on both mailing lists. We also received a couple of vulnerability reports,
which are fixed on master and there was a third vulnerability caught by a
committer, which is also fixed in master. Last but not least, we have an
external contribution waiting to be reviewed at JSPWIKI-1114; it should
get merged before 2.11.0.M5.
On the other hand, development has been mostly carried out by a single
committer, although that's not totally uncommon on the history of the
project.
TL-DR: project remains with enough oversight, usual slow pace of development
## 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:
- 2.11.0.M4 was released on Sat May 18 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Little spike of activity on user@j.a.o at the end of the quarter, otoh
dev saw less emails due to slower pace on development itself .
- dev@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 70 emails sent to list (132 in previous quarter)
- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 165 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 37 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Kudu Project [Todd Lipcon]
## Description:
- Apache Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache
Hadoop ecosystem.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Apache Kudu 1.10.0 has been released with several long-awaited new features
and improvements, including fine-grained authorization backed by Apache
Sentry, synchronization of metadata with Apache Hive Metastore, and table
backup and restore using Apache Spark.
## Health report:
- User and dev mailing list subscriber growth up by 3% and 4% respectively,
but their traffic is down by 36% and 21% respectively. Most questions are
answered relatively quickly, but this decline can most likely be explained
by people preferring instant messaging on Slack over the mailing list.
- Website traffic remains the same, users and sessions both up less than 1%.
We continued working on the revival of the blog with 2 new posts, although
both were published early in the quarter. The blog traffic is up
significantly, page views and unique page views both up by 20% compared to
last quarter's traffic.
- Development activity (measured by code review, JIRA traffic and number of
commits) is up overall (reviews -2%, issues +37%, commits +10%). Commits
were authored by 22 unique contributors (-1 since last quarter).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- Yingchun Lai was added to the PMC on Wed Jun 05 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 22 committers.
- Yingchun Lai was added as a committer on Thu May 30 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.10.0 on Tue Jul 9 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 120 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 101 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han]
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu]
## Description:
- Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
A bug fix and few improvements suggested by one of the contributors.
## Health report:
As we saw on the roll-call, PMC is active and responsive. The project is
being used in at least one of the organizations that we know of, where it is
being used in sustenance mode with occasional changes being made. We are
looking at two of the contributors who are making occasional contributions as
prospective new committers. Project has not been actively looking for new
committers or PMC, as existing committers and PMC are responsive. But PMC has
not done an outreach to users to get them more engaged.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache MADlib Project [Aaron Feng]
## Description:
- Apache MADlib is a scalable, big data, SQL-driven machine learning framework
for data scientists.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.16 which was the 6th release as an Apache TLP project.
This was a significant release that included initial support for distributed
training of deep learning models with GPU acceleration, utilities to load
model architectures and weights, preprocessing of images for mini-batch
gradient descent, and support for Greenplum 6 and PostgreSQL 11. Plus the
usual bug fixes and minor improvements.
- Community is at work on the 1.17 release. Scope is still being decided by
the community, but JIRAs call for improvements to deep learning as a follow
on to 1.16, and improvements to correlation/covariance, association rules
and decision tree.
- After that will be the 2.0 release with JIRAs related to versioning models.
- Frank McQuillan (MADlib committer and PMC member) presented at Dell Tech
World on 2019-Apr-30 on MADlib and Greenplum Database in a talk called "AI
in a Box".
- Yuhao Zhang, a PhD candidate at University of California, San Diego is doing
an internship at Pivotal in Palo Alto to work on parameter selection in
MADlib, which is an important area for deep learning practitioners. Yuhao's
advisor at UCSD is Arun Kumar in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, whose research has contributed to MADlib in the past.
## Health report:
The community is relatively small but very engaged with robust mailing list
traffic, interest in doing frequent releases and new functionality being
developed by contributors.
The number of developers actively contributing to the code/documentation is
approximately 8 in the 2nd quarter of calendar year 2019.
We will constantly be on a lookout for new community members to be invited
either as committers or PMC.
## PMC changes:
- No changes in the last quarter. Currently stands at 14 PMC members.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- Last committer additions were Jingyi Mei on 2018-06-14 and Nikhil Kak on
2018-06-27.
## Releases:
- Next release: v1.17 planned for 3Q2019
- v1.16.0 released on 2019-07-08
- v1.15.1 released on 2018-10-15
- v1.15.0 released on 2018-08-10
## Mailing list activity:
Average monthly mailing list activity was 620 posts to dev@ and 11 posts to
user@ for the last 3 months Apr-Jun.
## JIRA Statistics:
- 12 JIRA tickets created in the last month
- 13 JIRA ckets resolved in the last month
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Andrew Musselman]
## Description:
Apache Mahout is an environment for quickly creating scalable performant
machine learning applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The team is working on a point release, v14.1, to resolve missing binary
artifacts from the 0.14.0 release.
## Presentations and Talks
Josh Kalina, “Portfolio theory with Apache,” Apache Roadshow Chicago, IL, May
14
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Trevor Grant on Fri Feb 03 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Holden Karau at Wed Jul 12 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.14.0 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Nothing significant in the figures
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Robert Scholte]
Maven Board Report - July 2019
---------------------------
## Description:
- Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
## Issues:
<<There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.>>
## Activity:
In our goal to have all our subprojects stable and to gain focus on the
subprojects that really matter, we've started to retire several plugins
and libraries. In May we had a period where all was green in Jenkins.
However, after adding additional JDKs some started to fail again. In
general the fixes are quite simple, so it shouldn't be too hard to get
all back to green.
Retired project(s)
- Maven Ant Plugin
- Maven Repository Plugin
- Maven Artifact Resolution API (Maven2)
- Maven Runtime
- Maven Downloader
It is likely that more will follow.
Github announced a new feature called Github Package Registry. This makes
it possible to publish the binaries next to the sourcefiles (not just for
Java/Maven, but also other technolgies). We've identified several concerns
that might damage our ecosystem. We've had a conference call with Github
and based on that they've already adjusted some features. We're still
keeping an eye on this to ensure Java developers can still rely on the
current eco system.
See also https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-package-registry
We're seeing an increase of PRs that are related to performance
improvements. We're missing enough good knowledge to judge these requests,
so it takes quite some time to understand why a certain change can have a
positive effect on the performance. Also ensuring that improvements won't
be reverted or rewritten in the future is a challenge. We're very glad that
people take time to look into this.
## Health report:
Up until now Maven has been working quite well for both small and large
Java projects. But we recently see issues with real huge Java projects.
It looks like Maven 3 has reached its limits regarding the size of Maven
projects. It becomes more and more important to invest in Maven 4. The
ideas are already there, but still not the human resources.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Guillaume Boué on Mon Aug 07 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 60 committers.
- Romain Manni-Bucau was added as a committer on Fri Jun 21 2019
## Releases:
- Core
- Maven 3.6.1 was released on Thu Apr 4 2019
- Plugins (ordered by date)
- Maven Help Plugin 3.2.0 was released on Tue Apr 16 2019
- Maven PMD Plugin 3.12.0 was released on Mon Apr 22 2019
- Maven Compiler Plugin 3.8.1 was released on Sun Apr 28 2019
- Maven Archetype Plugin 3.1.0 was released on Tue Apr 30 2019
- Maven Surefire 2.22.2 was released on Sat May 04 2019
- Maven Source Plugin 3.1.0 was released on Wed May 15 2019
- Maven Checkstyle Plugin 3.1.0 was released on Mon May 20 2019
- Maven WAR Plugin 3.2.3 was released on Thu May 23 2019
- Maven Toolchains Plugin 3.0.0 was released on Sun Jun 16 2019
- Maven Archetype Plugin 3.1.1 was released on Mon Jun 17 2019
- Maven JDeps Plugin 3.1.2 was released on Wed Jun 19 2019
- Other (ordered by date)
- Maven Doxia 1.9 was released on Thu May 30 2019
- Maven Doxia Sitetools 1.9 was released on Fri Jun 07 2019
- Maven Resolver 1.4.0 was released on Wed Jun 12 2019
- Maven Wagon 3.3.3 was released on Thu Jun 13 2019
- Maven Doxia Sitetools 1.9.1 was released on Wed Jun 19 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1571 subscribers (down -11 in the last 3 months):
- 186 emails sent to list (161 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 604 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 651 emails sent to list (405 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 640 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- issues@maven.apache.org:
- 220 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 4027 emails sent to list (4441 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 291 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 279 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Metron Project [Casey Stella]
## Description:
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order
to offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
within a single platform.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
We released a point release in May, which provided stabilization as well
as infrastructure and abstractions to support other streaming engines.
Also, there was a conference (Dataworks Summit) in May which featured
two technical talks on Apache Metron.
## Health report:
The leadup to and aftermath of that conference seems to have had a
corresponding spike in dev and user list activity. This is
good as there was a cause for concern during the last board report.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Justin Leet on Mon Dec 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 39 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Shane Ardell at Fri Nov 16 2018
## Releases:
- 0.7.1 was released on Wed May 15 2019
## Mailing list activity:
While subscribers seem flat, the uptick in usage is heartening.
I include these raw statistics to support the points during the
Health Report section.
- dev@metron.apache.org:
- 197 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 239 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter)
- user@metron.apache.org:
- 285 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 185 emails sent to list (147 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 82 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Guillaume Nodet]
## Description:
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop
high performance and high scalability network applications easily.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
3 releases this quarter.
The discussions around moving Vysper to the Attic have not progressed.
## Health report:
Both Mina SSHD and Mina Core subprojects have very few active committers.
The FtpServer and Vysper have almost no activity.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jonathan Valliere on Mon Aug 27 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 27 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jonathan Valliere at Thu Feb 15 2018
## Releases:
- Apache MINA 2.1.2 was released on Fri Apr 19 2019
- Apache MINA 2.1.3 was released on Sun Jun 02 2019
- Apache MINA SSHD 2.3.0 was released on Mon Jul 15 2019
## Mailing list activity:
Nothing interesting here.
## JIRA activity:
- 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 91 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Bernd Bohmann]
## Description:
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the
Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the
JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity and health:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy, and the community is working on
fixes and improvements on the JSF 2.3 specification.
UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad is in maintenance mode.
Last developer commit was Sept 2017.
- 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 Sept 2017.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core).
Last commit May 2017.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 44 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Eduardo Breijo-Baullosa on Tue Jan 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 78 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Eduardo Breijo at Thu Jun 29 2017
## Releases:
- myfaces-core-2.3.4 was released on Thu May 23 2019
- tobago-4.4.1 was released on Tue May 28 2019
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Feedback to the Board:
- We have added a note on our main page about
active components and components in maintenance
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache NetBeans Project [Geertjan Wielenga]
## Description:
- Apache NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform, and
application framework.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- On track for 07/15: scheduled first release of Apache NetBeans outside the
Apache Incubator.
- Full time-based release schedule is published:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Release+Schedule
- Migration, e.g., with references to 'Incubator' removed everywhere:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-18261
- First release with official Apache NetBeans installers.
- Apache NetBeans can be built on latest LTS JDK release, JDK 11:
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1144
- Several releases completed of Maven archetypes and utilities that support
Apache NetBeans.
## Health report:
- Committee Health score: 10.00 (Super Healthy), i.e., more than 4 emails
per day, new members, committers within the last six months.
- Stable, steady progress.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 64 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Sarvesh Kesharwani was added to the PMC on Thu Jun 06 2019
- Vikas Prabhakar was added to the PMC on Thu Jun 06 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 68 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Sarvesh Kesharwani was added as a committer on Thu May 30 2019
- Vikas Prabhakar was added as a committer on Mon Jun 03 2019
## Releases:
- MAVENARCHETYPES-NBM-ARCHETYPE-1.16 was released on Mon Jul 01 2019
- MAVENARCHETYPES-NBM-SUITE-ROOT-1.11 was released on Mon Jul 01 2019
- MAVENARCHETYPES-NETBEANS-PLATFORM-APP-ARCHETYPE-1.21 was released on Mon
Jul 01 2019
- MAVENUTILITIES-HARNESS-11.0 was released on Wed May 29 2019
- MAVENUTILITIES-NB-REPOSITORY-PLUGIN-1.4 was released on Wed Jun 12 2019
- MAVENUTILITIES-NBM-MAVEN-PLUGIN-4.2 was released on Wed Jun 12 2019
- MAVENUTILITIES-PARENT-1 was released on Thu May 23 2019
- MAVENUTILITIES-SHAREDLIB-1.3 was released on Wed May 29 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Steady and stable mailing list activity:
- users@netbeans.apache.org:
- 686 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 707 emails sent to list (475 in previous quarter)
- dev@netbeans.apache.org:
- 451 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 1397 emails sent to list (1430 in previous quarter)
- announce@netbeans.apache.org:
- 285 subscribers (up 24 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- netcat@netbeans.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 101 emails sent to list (197 in previous quarter)
- notifications@netbeans.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 1327 emails sent to list (1580 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 453 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 162 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AV: 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 NiFi MiNiFi 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.
- Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items
including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache
MiNiFi.
- Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the
NiFi classloader isolation model.
- Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Released Apache NiFi Registry 0.4.0 which allows storage of extensions
which is a critical step towards us breaking apart the monolithic release
of today resulting in smaller binaries in Apache infra a mirrors and will
also bring a better user experience for updating live running NiFi clusters
and operations in container based environments.
- The community is working the release preparation and voting process for
Apache NiFi MiNiFi CPP 0.6.1.
- Apache NiFi 1.10.0 is progressing nicely with nearly 200 JIRAs already
included. This brings powerful features such as sourcing extensions from
the latest NiFi Registry at runtime, far better model for paramaterized
version controlled flows, Java 11 compatibility, and much more.
## Health report:
- Health of the community remains strong with many active release lines,
feature development, active user and developer base including new
participants and continued participants.
- We see considerable commentary on Apache NiFi in the form of meetups,
conferences, training, and talks including from folks at Google, Cloudera
and others. A recent tweet from a Ford Motor Company employee says it best
"Love, love, love @apachenifi Using MiNiFi opens up IOT innovation in
amazing ways. Every IOT device manufacturer, including automotive, should
consider opening up API's to let developers do their thing! Bringing value
to your product! "
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- Peter Wicks was added to the PMC on Wed May 29 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 43 committers.
- Arpad Boda was added as a committer on Thu May 23 2019
## Releases:
- Apache NiFi Registry 0.4.0 was released on Mon May 20 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity on the mailing lists remains high with a mixture of new users,
contributors, and deeper more experienced users and contributors sparking
discussion and questions and filing bugs or new features.
- We do see a significant drop in users list usage while dev and issues
remains busy and even growing. Meanwhile we see strong growth in our slack
channel and it is very user centric.
- Slack Channel Usage: apachenifi.slack.com
- 394 users currently in the room. This has grown weekly.
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 693 subscribers (up 18 in the last 3 months):
- 447 emails sent to list (800 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 443 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 357 emails sent to list (417 in previous quarter)
- issues@nifi.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5371 emails sent to list (4140 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 274 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 188 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel]
Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene®, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop®
data structures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
Nutch 1.15 was released on Aug 09 2018.
The last release on the 2.x branch (2.3.1) dates to Jan 20 2016.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Development on Nutch 1.16 has been continued at slower speed.
Issues with the dependency management (see NUTCH-2669 and linked
issues) currently block the releases. We still need to wait for
a fix in an upcoming Ivy release, find a reliable work-around
or move to Maven as build system (NUTCH-2292).
Migration of the Wiki from MoinMoin to Confluence is still in progress,
waiting for INFRA-18528 to add missing pages which failed to convert.
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. Currently 20 committers and
PMC members.
Last committer and PMC addition was Roannel Fernandez at Sat Jun 23 2018.
The traffic on the user mailing list has dropped to a lower level:
- user@nutch.apache.org:
- 995 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months):
- 29 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)
- dev@nutch.apache.org:
- 480 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 166 emails sent to list (276 in previous quarter)
(mostly machine-generated emails from Jira, Jenkins, Wiki)
JIRA ACTIVITY
- 13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 20 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Sathwik]
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
No response from PMC members for the board comments on April 2019 report,
nor there is any response for query on the way forward on the dev list
[https://s.apache.org/is2zk] that I had raised couple of days ago.
## Activity:
No activity in the project.
## Health report:
- There has been not much user/dev activity since the last reporting period
April 2019.
## 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.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
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Attachment AY: 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 Java SE as well as containers e.g Java EE,
Tomcat, Spring or OSGi.
We are currently working on implementing the JPA-2.2 specification and
just released our first version.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Activity declined a bit after shipping our first JPA-2.2 release.
We have been working on a few fixes and hope to ship the next
bugfix release in the upcoming quarter.
## Health report:
Contributions are still ok-ish for such an old project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Maxim Solodovnik on Sat Apr 13 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- Matt Pavlovich was added as a committer on Wed May 22 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.1.0 on Sun Apr 14 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- users@openjpa.apache.org:
- 222 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
- dev@openjpa.apache.org:
- 118 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 122 emails sent to list (195 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik]
## Description:
- Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board,
collaborative document editing and other groupware tools. It uses API functions
of Media Server for Remoting and Streaming (Red5 or Kurento).
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We are fixing final few issues and preparing 2 releases 4.0.9 and 5.0.0-M2
- We are also voting to invite Stefan Kühl to the community
The project is active :)
## Health report:
- We have more email on user@ list due to release of 5.0.0-M1 with
WebRTC support
I would excpect even more emails after 5.0.0-M2 release :)
Where were fewer commits due to the fact I was busy doing some personal stuff
and had less time for OpenMeetings,
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Hepp on Tue Jun 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Aaron Hepp at Tue Jun 05 2018
## Releases:
- 5.0.0-M1 was released on Tue Apr 02 2019
- 4.0.9 was released on Mon Jul 15 2019
- 5.0.0-M2 was released on Tue Jul 16 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 133 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 171 emails sent to list (156 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 327 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 405 emails sent to list (260 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (10 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 43 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 24 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Peter Kovacs]
## 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 41 languages.
## SUMMARY
Latest Release was in November 2018. The community health in general is
mediocre. Short- and mid-term there is no view of improvement.
## ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
No issues
## RELEASES
We are working in parallel on 2 release lines:
1) 4.2.0 is the next minor release, planned to be released into a beta phase.
We have missed our goal on going into the beta in 2018. We managed only to
solve the biggest blockers. Currently dev test versions are being rolled to
be more widely tested.
2) 4.1.x is still in maintenance. We are discussing a parallel 4.1.7 release.
The motivation in maintaining the 4.1.x line is not very high. We will shut
it down as soon as we have a stable release of 4.2.x
## LATEST RELEASE HISTORY
2018-11-18 4.1.6
2017-12-30 4.1.5
2017-10-19 4.1.4
## PMC
There are 28 PMC members as of 2018-Apr-11.
Last PMC member addition was on 2017-Dec-20 Keith N. McKenna (knmc)
Last PMC member withdrawal was on 2017-Feb-04 Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid)
## COMMITTERS
There are 141 committers as of 2018-Apr-11.
Last committer addition was on 2017-Jan-28 Kay Schenk (kschenk)
Last committer withdrawal was on 2017-Feb-04 Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid)
## ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Community overall health is mediocre. On user level support and translation
teams are well working. Documentation team is virtual non-existent. We have
issues to bring volunteers on board for development.
We lack resources to build the community up in the area of development and
documentation. We are holding ground with the people we have in development.
## WEBSITES & INFRASTRUCTURE
We had issues with Spammers on our template site at SourceForge.
## MARKETING
The booth team has been present at T-Dose [0] on May, 11th in Eindhoven (NL)
representing ASF and OpenOffice. The next planned booth is at FrOSCon [1] on
August, 10 + 11th in Sankt Augustin (D), which will be finalizing the
convention tour of our team in 2019. The feedback is positive and keeps the
project visible. We will continue these efforts.
## REFERENCES
[0] http://t-dose.org/node/1150
[1] https://www.froscon.de/programm/aussteller/#a2562
## DEVELOPMENT
There has been only little overall progress, mainly in translations.
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley]
## Description:
- A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
## Activity:
- We released the bug fix release 1.5.6.
- We are preparing to making release candidates for 1.6 in the coming week.
- The column encryption has been committed to master.
- We added user annotations on the types to support the Iceberg project.
- We worked with the Spark community to help them adopt the 1.5.6 release.
## Health report:
- It has been challenging to get code reviews on the Java side. We prefer to
have code reviewed before it is committed, but we allow commit then review,
so the work doesn't get stuck. Hopefully the new committers will give us
additional review bandwidth.
- Two new committers were added this quarter.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Gang Wu on Wed Jan 16 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 41 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Sandeep More was added as a committer on Wed Jun 12 2019
- Renat Valiullin was added as a committer on Wed Jun 19 2019
## Releases:
- 1.5.6 was released on Wed Jun 26 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- With the 1.5 line being stable, there have been relatively little traffic
on the users list, but lots of traffic on dev & issues as we close in an
1.6 release.
- dev@orc.apache.org:
- 67 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 104 emails sent to list (50 in previous quarter)
- issues@orc.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 136 emails sent to list (78 in previous quarter)
- user@orc.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (55 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 39 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 29 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem]
## Description:
Parquet is a standard and interoperable columnar file format
for efficient analytics. Parquet has 3 sub-projects:
- parquet-format: format reference doc along with thrift based metadata
definition (used by both sub-projects bellow)
- parquet-mr: java apis and implementation of the format along with
integrations to various projects (thrift, pig, protobuf, avro, ...)
- parquet-cpp: C++ apis and implementation of the format along with Python
bindings and arrow integration. (Now as part of apache arrow)
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Following up on activity from last report. We have recently added new
committers and a PMC member. We are still working on releasing 1.10. There’s
been agreement on a plan to get there but is still slow moving.
## Health report:
The discussion volume on the mailing lists is stable.
Tickets get created and closed at a reasonable pace.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 25 PMC members.
- Gábor Szádovszky was added to the PMC on Fri Jun 28 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 33 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Fokko Driesprong was added as a committer on Tue Jun 25 2019
- Nándor Kollár was added as a committer on Tue Jun 25 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was Format 2.6.0 on Tue Oct 02 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@parquet.apache.org:
- 238 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 693 emails sent to list (684 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 63 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 48 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
## Description:
- the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with
PDF documents.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- in the last quarter the annotations appearance work from last year has
been ported from the trunk to the 2.0 branch
- the trunk now supports parse on demand (allows to open large files with
minimal memory usage)
- there is an external offer to implement linearized PDF files (faster
loading of PDF files on the web)
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on
the mailing lists
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Matthäus Mayer on Mon Oct 16 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Joerg O. Henne at Mon Oct 09 2017
## Releases:
- 2.0.16 was released on Thu June 27 2019
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson]
--- mod_perl --
No new mod_perl 2.x releases since 2016-10, with a new release
planned for the near future.
-- Activity --
Steve Hay is putting the finishing touches on Apache-Test 1.41,
with the release candidate accumulating +1s
Following that release, Steve Hay is also planning on taking on
the release hat for releasing a new mod_perl @ 2.0.11
These releases contain mostly bugfixes and a few necessary changes
to continue supporting the newer versions of httpd and Perl.
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing little activity, as usual.
Patches and bug reports are few, but keep on coming.
-- Commiters --
Currently 22 committers.
No new changes to the committer base since last report.
Last Commiter addition was Jan Kaluza in April 2013
-- PMC --
Currently 11 PMC members.
No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
Last PMC addition was Steve Hay on Wed Feb 29 2012
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache PLC4X Project [Christofer Dutz]
## Description:
- Apache PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial
programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with
a shared API.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We have made great progress with the code generation and we're working on
first next-gen drivers for Java.
- Just recently a bug has been found and we're currently starting to work on
a bugfix release 0.4.1.
- We have split up our core repository into a plc4x-build-tools repository,
which contains maven plugins and build related tools in order to keep
releases simple.
- On 2019-06-18 Christofer Dutz had a talk on Apache PLC4X at IoThüringen
Meetup in Erfurt, Germany.
- In total 5 talks dealing with Apache PLC4X have been accepted as part of
the ACNA 2019 CFP.
## Health report:
- The last month has been a little quieter as usual, as some of the major
contributors have been busy with paid work tasks or fairs as well as with
tasks related to other Apache committees in preparation for ApacheCon NA
2019 in Las Vegas (TAC, Conference Plan, IoT Track-Chair duties).
- As most of the tasks mentioned above have been finished, we are expecting
the pace to pick up again.
- Some new names have been popping up on the mailing-list.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Björn Höper was added to the PMC on Mon May 13 2019
- Matthias Milan Strljic was added to the PMC on Mon Jun 03 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Björn Höper was added as a committer on Wed May 08 2019
- Matthias Milan Strljic was added as a committer on Mon Jun 03 2019
## Releases:
- 0.4.0 was released on Mon May 27 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@plc4x.apache.org:
- 53 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 620 emails sent to list (519 in previous quarter)
- issues@plc4x.apache.org:
- 7 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 85 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 24 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 13 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Other Numbers:
- 81 GitHub Stars (Up by 15 in last month)
- 174 Twitter Followers (@ApachePLC4X account) (up by 8 in last month)
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Ranger Project [Selvamohan Neethiraj]
## Description:
- Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Community is working toward releasing Apache Ranger 2.0.0
- Jira: has usual amount of activities in the community. +101(added)
-93(resolved) over last 3 months
- Git (source): 90 commits over last 3 months
## Health report:
- Community is working on 2.0.0 release with features like:
- support for Hadoop 3, Hive 3.0, HBase 2.0, Kafka 2.0.0
- Hive, HBase plugin enhancements to authorize new operations
- Policy model enhancements to support custom conditions at policy level
- new feature: security-zones
- new feature: support for roles & role-based access control
- new feature: Ozone authorization plugin
- new feature: Presto authorization plugin
- Regular JIRA activity
- Reporter tool provides healthy score
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Qiang Zhang on Fri Feb 08 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers
- Nikhil Purbhe was added as a committer on Wed May 22 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was Apache Ranger 1.2.0 on Wed Oct 03 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Regular activity continues.
- dev@ranger.apache.org:
- 110 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)
- 950 emails sent to list (497 in previous quarter)
- user@ranger.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months)
- 43 emails sent to list (114 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 101 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 93 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone]
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan]
## Description:
- Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing engine that are highly
configurable to process events from various data sources, including
real-time messaging system (e.g. Kafka) and distributed file systems (e.g.
HDFS).
## Issues:
- No issues requires board attention
## Activity:
- Samza 1.2 is released: http://samza.apache.org/blog/2019-06-11-announcing-the-release-of-apache-samza--1.2.0
## Health report:
- Project is in healthy status with 1.2 released in June 2019
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- Boris Shkolnik was added to the PMC on Thu Jun 06 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Bharath Kumarasubramanian was added as a committer on Mon Jun 24 2019
- Cameron Lee was added as a committer on Thu Apr 11 2019
- Rayman Preet Singh was added as a committer on Mon Jul 08 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.2.0 on June 11 2019
## /dist/ errors: 9
- This has been fixed.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 267 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 215 emails sent to list (1011 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 107 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 84 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang]
## Description:
- a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and components to
make development and deployment of cloud applications easier.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- ServiceComb held a meetup in ShangHai last month[1]
- ServiceComb PMC accepted the donation of servicecomb-toolkit, and
servicecomb-mesher to subproject.
- We just add a new PMC and a new Committer last month.
[1]https://s.apache.org/zlg2p
## Health report:
- The mails and development activity are as good as usual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Haishi Yao was added to the PMC on Mon Jun 10 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- Xiaoliang Tian was added as a committer on Thu Jun 20 2019
## Releases:
- ServiceComb Java Chassis 1.2.0 was released on Sat Apr 13 2019
- ServiceComb Java-Chassis 1.2.1 was released on Sun May 19 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- This month there are 972 emails sent by 38 people, divided into 535
topics.Top 5 member: GitBox: 406 email(s), ningjiang@apache.org: 114
email(s), liubao@apache.org: 65 email(s)
, zhanglei@apache.org: 49 email(s), wujimin (JIRA): 36 email(s).
- dev@servicecomb.apache.org:
- 119 subscribers (down -33 in the last 3 months):
- 258 emails sent to list (261 in previous quarter)
- issues@servicecomb.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 440 emails sent to list (509 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 111 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 89 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache SkyWalking Project [Sheng Wu]
## Description:
Apache Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for
microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems. Support
observing and monitoring system from different sources, such as distributed
tracing agents/SDKs, through Service Mesh telemetry data.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Two known public talks
1. KubeCon Shanghai, by project V.P. Sheng Wu and CNCF Envoy senior
maintainer, Lizan Zhou
2. GIAC Shenzhen, by project PMC, Hongtao Gao The project released a new
version. We have several at least one public talk in the next several
months. Several across projects cooperations are in schedule or processing,
such as Apache ShardingSphere(incubating), Alibaba Seata, Apache Pular,
## Health report:
Active project and its community. 20 authors have pushed 83 commits, 420 files
have changed and there have been 13,011 additions and 1,137 deletions. 160+
commits included in 6.2.0 release, a lot of features are contributed from the
community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Zhenxu Ke was added as a committer on Mon Jun 17 2019
- Yuguang Zhao was added as a committer on Fri Apr 19 2019
## Releases:
- 6.1.0 was released on Sun May 05 2019
- 6.2.0 was released on Tue Jul 02 2019
## Mailing list activity:
Release and new committer discussion and votes happen in dev and private mail
lists respectively. A lot of features discussions and questions happen in
GitHub issues, so 5k+ emails in the notifications mail list.
- dev@skywalking.apache.org:
- 64 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 112 emails sent to list (173 in previous quarter)
- notifications@skywalking.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5632 emails sent to list (3530 in previous quarter)
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Venkat Ranganathan]
## Description:
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Development activity continues on both trunk and sqoop 2 branches - both
our major versions that we currently support and develop.
## Health report:
Community is healthy, we see new contributors showing up and contributing
to the project with decent mailing list traffic.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Vasas Szabolcs on Mon Nov 05 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 32 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Fero Szabo at Thu Nov 08 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.4.7 on Tue Jan 23 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@sqoop.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 72 emails sent to list (143 in previous quarter)
- user@sqoop.apache.org:
- 506 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BM: 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.
## Activity:
- No especially noteworthy activity. There are some plans to make use of
infrastructure's asfpy libraries for messaging in STeVe to properly quell
the unicode issues that have popped up during prior elections.
## Health report:
- As per usual, I did the standard PMC check[1], and we have four members
reporting in, so still sufficient oversight on an otherwise quiet project.
There are no outstanding vulnerabilities or major bugs that we are aware
of, so I can relatively safely state that the project is in maintenance or
hiatus mode currently, as opposed to unmaintained. If bugs creep up, we'll
look at fixing them.
[1] https://s.apache.org/m4idu
## PMC changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015
## Releases:
- Still no official releases. Perhaps next year? :)
## Mailing list activity:
- Virtually no email traffic this quarter, not worth displaying.
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA ticket created, that's about it.
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Streams Project [Steve Blackmon]
## Description:
- Apache Streams unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and online
activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these datasets
accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for
streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.
## Issues:
- Keeping the existing community active and growing the community remains a
challenge.
## Activity:
- Activity was low again this quarter, but a check-in thread in Q1 confirmed 4
attentive PMC members [1]
- Some development occurred this quarter, primarily maintaining and
modernizing existing modules.
- Several interesting new data integrations are being actively developed but
have not yet merged.
- Several PMC members are committed to code and community development
activities during ACNA 2019 hackathon, and ACEU 2019 hackathon, maybe also
at Flink Forward Berlin 2019.
- Streams-related presentation at Chicago Roadshow in May
## Health report:
- Mailing list and commit participation was low again. Adding committers and
growing the PMC needs to be a focus this year.
- Streams is still over-due for a release to incorporate new ActivityStreams
2.0 support and updates to several of our core dependencies.
## PMC changes:
- None. There are currently 8 PMC members. The most recent PMC addition
occurred on July 19, 2017.
## Committer base changes:
- None. There are currently 8 committers. The most recent PMC addition
occurred on July 19, 2017.
## Releases:
- Apache Streams 0.6.0 was released on June 17, 2018
## Upcoming Project Initiatives:
- Perform first binary release
- Additional examples in source tree and on the web
- Export archives of more online services
- Integrations with additional APIs containing profile and activity data
- More support for Activity Streams 2.0
- Reduce disparities between normalized activities and objects of like type
collected from various data sources.- Deprecate and delete non-essential
modules
- Drop non-essential third-party maven dependencies
- Support JDKs > 8
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/677af59d2b30e4b2793e49f434d16a7ace5c9d88b65d5e3332c3552e@%3Cprivate.streams.apache.org%3E
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Struts Project [René Gielen]
The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant
and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over
configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with
plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON.
The Struts team made no GA releases in the last quarter.
Within the last quarter we saw somewhat lowered development activity
with 13 closed pull requests. We invited one individual, from which we
continue to receive high quality contributions on GitHub, to become a
Struts committer. So far the candidate did not accept the invitation, to
our regret.
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Yasser Zamani on Tue Jun 12 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 59 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Yasser Zamani at Wed Nov 15 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.5.20 (2019-01-14)
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@struts.apache.org:
- 368 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 25 emails sent to list (81 in previous quarter)
- announcements@struts.apache.org:
- 1360 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- issues@struts.apache.org:
- 256 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 145 emails sent to list (306 in previous quarter)
- user@struts.apache.org:
- 1478 subscribers (down -20 in the last 3 months):
- 42 emails sent to list (135 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo]
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Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Georgios Petasis]
## 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 only the Apache Rivet project is actively maintained.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We are still testing Windows continuous integration. The major problem that
needs to be resolved, is that testing whether the code compiles is one
thing. It would be nice if we can provide pre-build binaries that can be
used, but this needs some more work (i.e. to specify the paths the lib
package is located and shared objects must be loaded from it).
- We are closely monitoring the changes Tcl version 9 will introduce, and a
new branch (rivet 4.x) has been created.
- We have started thinking again Rivet's behaviour on how the "exit" Tcl
command is executed, especially in a multi-threaded environment. A new
branch has been created.
## Health report:
- The project activity is limited to Apache Rivet.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 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 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brice B. Hamon at Tue Nov 25 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was rivet-3.1.1 on Wed Jan 09 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org:
- 47 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (35 in previous quarter)
- site-cvs@tcl.apache.org:
- 7 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 3 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Jonathan Turner Eagles]
## Description:
- Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which
can be used to process arbitrarily complex directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs)
of data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing
primitives which can be used by other projects.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Produced a 0.9.2 release after months of release being blocked due to
process. New release process is tested and documented.
## Health report:
- There is some concern as 2 recent highly active PMC have left the community
and moved on to other things.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 35 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kuhu Shukla on Sun Mar 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kuhu Shukla at Wed May 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.9.2 on Thu Mar 28 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Less activity this month as there are 2 less highly active devs.
- dev@tez.apache.org:
- 136 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 50 emails sent to list (106 in previous quarter)
- issues@tez.apache.org:
- 46 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 131 emails sent to list (337 in previous quarter)
- user@tez.apache.org:
- 209 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jens Geyer]
## Description:
- Apache Thrift is a high performance cross platform RPC and serialization
solution.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- In the past weeks certain issues have been adressed and new features were
added. We are currently in the middle of preparing for the next (0.13.0)
release.
## Health report:
- The project code is healthy and fairly mature.
- Regarding the ratio between the numbers of active vs. silent committers,
there is still room for improvement.
- The level of participation and activity differs between the various
languages Thrift currently supports, i.e. the bread-and-butter mainstream
languages usually (and probably naturally) get more recognition and active
participation than the more exotic ones.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was James E. King III on Fri Nov 03 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- New commmitters:
- David Mollitor was added as a committer on Wed May 08 2019
- Sebastian Zenker was added as a committer on Tue Apr 30 2019
## Releases:
- Last maintenance release was 0.9.3.1 on Wed Mar 13 2019
- Last regular release was 0.12.0 on Fri Jan 04 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity is good
- User inquiries and questions are usually answered very quickly or in a
timely manner.
- dev@thrift.apache.org:
- 258 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 380 emails sent to list (1445 in previous quarter)
- user@thrift.apache.org:
- 664 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (40 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 58 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 42 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Tim Allison]
## Description:
- 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 requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The project had one release in the last quarter.
- We're seeing increased reports of vulnerabilities in our dependencies on
our JIRA. We added ossindex-maven-plugin a while ago and update as
indicated, but a non-trivial amount of communications/bugs reported are now
focused on this topic.
- We plan to start the release process in the next few weeks for the next
version.
## Health report:
- Nothing noteworthy in email, commits, etc.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Thejan Wijesinghe on Tue Apr 17 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Thejan Wijesinghe at Wed Apr 18 2018
## Releases:
- 1.21 was released on Sun May 19 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- Regular fluctuations; nothing significant to report.
- dev@tika.apache.org:
- 190 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 716 emails sent to list (358 in previous quarter)
- user@tika.apache.org:
- 363 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 70 emails sent to list (54 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 53 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 45 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BU: 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:
In keeping with our decision earlier in the year to release more often,
TinkerPop released 3.4.2 and 3.3.7 at the end of May 2019, which continues
our pattern of releasing roughly every two months. We last released along
the 3.2.x line with 3.2.11 back in January 2019 and since that time no
additional changes have been made to that branch. As a result, the community
has decided to not do any more release on that line of code and have
declared it end-of-life. We have also started work on the 3.5.x line of
development which will contain major new features and changes. At this time,
we do not have any timeline for when this version will be ready for release.
Early discussion and design of TinkerPop 4.x continues. Recall that from
our last report that TinkerPop currently plans a shift toward programming
language, data language, data structure and data processor agnosticism, all
of which are extensions of where TinkerPop 3.x has evolved to this day. Of
key interest in recent discussion is the notion that we will try to make
available some features of TinkerPop 4.x in TinkerPop 3.x which should help
to ease transition between the two major versions for both end users and
the various graph systems out there that utilize the TinkerPop framework.
The wider TinkerPop community saw some new growth with some fresh additions
to the ecosystem:
* Alibaba Graph Database[1] - a cloud-native graph database
* gremlin-rs[2] - Gremlin Language Variant for the Rust programming language
The announcement of Apache TinkerPop support from Alibaba Graph Database was
an interesting surprise as it further confirmed TinkerPop's relevance in the
graph technology space. It was also good to see support for Rust as it opens
up TinkerPop development to that group of developers and widens the
TinkerPop community footprint.
There were a number of talks/papers about TinkerPop, Gremlin and related
projects during this reporting period. Here were some by TinkerPop
committers/PMC members:
* Extending Gremlin with Foundational Steps[3] - Stephen Mallette
* Building an Enterprise Knowledge Graph @Uber[4] - Josh Shinavier
* Introduction to Property Graphs and Gremlin[5] - Harsh Thakkar
* SPARQL and Gremlin Interoperation[6] - Harsh Thakkar
TinkerPop also added a new committer recently. Joshua Shinavier was one of
the original TinkerPop founders of the project from 2009, long before
TinkerPop entered the Apache Incubator in 2015. While he has been away for
a bit, he has returned to the project with interests in the future of
TinkerPop 4.x.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
- 3.3.7 (May 28, 2019)
- 3.4.2 (May 28, 2019)
## PMC/Committer:
- Last PMC addition was Jorge Bay-Gondra - October 2018
- Last committer addition was Joshua Shinavier - June 2019
## Links
[1] https://cn.aliyun.com/product/gdb
[2] https://github.com/wolf4ood/gremlin-rs
[3] https://s.apache.org/3sjxp
[4] https://s.apache.org/it04t
[5] https://s.apache.org/aanav
[6] https://s.apache.org/gfn39
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Attachment BV: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment BW: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Bryan Call]
## Description:
Apache Traffic Server is a HTTP and HTTP/2 proxy server and cache. What makes
ATS unique across the landscape of HTTP proxy caches is a focus on
extensibility (plugins), HTTP and HTTP/2 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 had our ATS Spring Summit in Beijing China and it had great attendance
with 24 people singing up for the event. The event was hosted by one of our
PMC members from Skyguard and they did a fabulous job on scheduling meals and a
social event to see the Great Wall.
- Our ATS Fall Summit will be held in the Bay Area and will be hosted by
Verizon Media. Summits in the Bay Area tend to have a much larger number of
attendees.
## Health report:
- ATS 8.0.3 was released in March as planned. We are working on a 7.1.7 and
8.0.4 releases and they will be released in August.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 49 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evan Zelkowitz on Mon Apr 01 2019
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 58 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evan Zelkowitz at Fri Feb 22 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was 8.0.3 on Wed Mar 20 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- The number of users email subscribers went down 3.2% and the number of
subscribers on the dev mailing list went down 1.3%. The number of commits and
authors went surprisingly down by 49% and 28% respectively. Hopefully the
number of commits and authors will increase with the release of 9.0.0 in
October.
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 456 subscribers (down -15 in the last 3 months):
- 135 emails sent to list (226 in previous quarter)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 309 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 305 emails sent to list (184 in previous quarter)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
## Commit activity:
- 61,459 lines of code changed (up 49%)
- 420 commits (down 44%)
- 20 committer email addresses (down 10%)
- 39 author email addresses (down 28%)
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Attachment BX: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
Activity:
- There has been no visible (dev list or git) activity on the project since
the last report.
- A discussion on the way forward has started and - while no decision has been
taken - it currently seems to lean towards retirement.
Issues:
- Concerning jj's question on "not enough push to make it happen": There was
not enough interest/motivation to finish the steps to get to a release.
PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 12 committers and 8 PMC members in the project.
- Christina Pavlopoulou joined the PMC on 2018-10-29.
- Last PMC addition was Christina Pavlopoulou on 2018-10-29.
- Last committer additions were Riyafa Abdul Hameed and Christina Pavlopoulou
on Aug 22, 2016.
Releases:
- Last release was 0.6 on May 26 2016
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Attachment BY: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Daniel Kulp]
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
fixed, 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...
## Activity
Much of the activity this quarter was around some bugs that users
have reported in WSS4J and doing some optimizations in WSS4J for very
large messages (>2G).
## Releases
- The only release this quarter was WSS4J-2.2.3 on Wed Apr 03 2019
## PMC changes:
- Currently 42 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alessio Soldano on Tue May 17 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 224 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Alessio Soldano at Sun Sep 14 2014
Last releases:
* WSS4J 2.2.3 : Apr 2019
* XmlSchema 2.2.4 : Dec 2018 (XML schema object model)
* Neethi 3.1.1 : Jan 2018 (WS-Policy Framework)
* Axiom 1.2.21 : Nov 2018 (StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model)
* Woden 1.0M10 : Sept 2015 (WSDL 2.0 implementation)
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Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo]
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Attachment CA: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
## Description:
Apache Archiva software is an extensible repository management tool that
helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
New release 2.2.4.
Working on Java upgrade and refactoring to support more repositories
provider (not only Maven)
## Health report:
We have enough PMC to cut release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Martin Stockhammer on Mon Apr 10 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Martin Stockhammer at Thu Sep 22 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.2.4 on April 30th 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- users@archiva.apache.org:
- 214 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- dev@archiva.apache.org:
- 100 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (24 in previous quarter)
- issues@archiva.apache.org:
- 31 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 34 emails sent to list (95 in previous quarter)
- notifications@archiva.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 19 emails sent to list (97 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment CB: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb]
(postponed from June 2019)
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
This is a postponed report from June 2019, but otherwise no board-level
issues at this time.
Activity:
Some development work has picked up again. No user activity on the mailing
lists. I intend to finish the long-delayed 2.1 release this calendar year,
at which time it seems appropriate to have a discussion about the future of
the project, given the continuing low level of activity. There are now code
issues with the latest versions of Java (9, 10, 11, etc.) that have not been
addressed, and which could become serious impediments in the coming year.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged again this quarter, although there was some small amount
of development activity. Users remain quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still some development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 168 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- No JIRA tickets created in the last 4 months.
- One JIRA ticket closed/resolved in the last 4 months.
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