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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
September 15, 2021
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 22:00 UTC and began at 22:02 when
a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by
the chair.
Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/42dz
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by the Secretary
via Zoom.
The #asfboard channel on the-asf.slack.com was used for backup.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Sharan Foga
Justin Mclean
Sam Ruby
Craig L Russell
Roman Shaposhnik
Sander Striker
Sheng Wu
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
David Nalley
Matt Sicker
Ruth Suehle
Executive Officers Absent:
Myrle Krantz
Guests:
Daniel Gruno
Greg Stein
Joe Brockmeier
Sally Khudairi
Shane Curcuru
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
B. The meeting of July 21, 2021
See: board_minutes_2021_07_21.txt
Approved by General Consent.
C. The meeting of August 18, 2021
See: board_minutes_2021_08_18.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Board Chair [Sander]
Reflecting back on the past six months, it has been reasonable calm in
terms of items requiring board level attention and action. Meetings
are running smoothly, additional process tweaks are not urgent.
With respect to timely reporting, one of my recurring topics,
I admit that September snuck up on me. Clearly the calendar told me
that the first of the month is a Wednesday, but that didn't register
as a need to take action and get reminders out early. I'm pleased to
see that a number of projects already submitted their report without
prompting.
Recently a point was raised about use of jargon in board reports. As
a organization welcoming contributions from all over the world I think
it is good to be conscious about this, such that reports are as legible
and accessible as possible by our entire community.
B. President [David]
It's been a relatively uneventful month.
I've begun to do some work with Mark Thomas on Brand Protection, and
working with Katia Rojas on looming D&I deadlines.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 8.
C. Treasurer [Myrle]
Onboarding our new Assistant Treasurer, Craig Russell continues. Craig
has begun deepening his understanding of our collections process and
examining the interface between treasurer and fundraising.
We had a snag in vendor payments resulting from a misconfiguration in
bill.com. The consequence of that misconfiguration was underpayment
of our vendor. The problem has been addressed, and the vendor will be
paid correctly going forward. We are still awaiting bill.com’s
response on how the misconfiguration came about.
We encourage those curious about the financial’s of The ASF or our
accomplishments from the previous year to take a look at the
Treasurer’s part of the annual report that was just published:
https://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/FY2021AnnualReport.pdf
D. Secretary [Matt]
In August, the secretary team received 46 ICLAs, 2 CCLAs, and 2
software grants.
E. Executive Vice President [Ruth]
Very caught up in the end parts of shepherding our sponsors into
ApacheCon. See VP Conferences report for more on the event and next
month's meeting for how it went. And of course, we'll see you there!
F. Vice Chair [Shane]
Nothing to report this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Craig]
See Attachment 9
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
See Attachment 10
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Craig]
See Attachment 11
D. VP of Jakarta EE Relations [Rob Tompkins / Sander]
See Attachment 12
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# MINA [bd]
# Mynewt [striker]
A. Apache Airflow Project [Bolke de Bruin / Sheng]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema / Bertrand]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ambari Project [Jayush Luniya / Sam]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Ant Project [Jan Materne / Roman]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Justin]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Sharan]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj / Roy]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski / Sander]
No report was submitted.
I. Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende / Roman]
No report was submitted.
J. Apache Beam Project [Kenneth Knowles / Sheng]
No report was submitted.
K. Apache Bigtop Project [Kengo Seki / Craig]
No report was submitted.
L. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Justin]
See Attachment L
M. Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
N. Apache Camel Project [Andrea Cosentino / Sam]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry / Sharan]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Justin]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache CloudStack Project [Gabriel Beims Bräscher / Roy]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Cocoon Project [Cédric Damioli / Sander]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory / Sharan]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Cordova Project [Jesse MacFadyen / Roy]
See Attachment T
U. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen / Craig]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Curator Project [Enrico Olivelli / Roman]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Daffodil Project [Mike Beckerle / Sheng]
See Attachment W
X. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Bertrand]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Drill Project [Charles Givre / Sam]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache ECharts Project [Wenli Zhang / Sander]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls / Justin]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Flex Project [Olaf Krüger / Sam]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Bertrand]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Gobblin Project [Abhishek Tiwari / Justin]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper / Sander]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Sheng]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Helix Project [Kishore G / Craig]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan / Roman]
No report was submitted.
AI. Apache Hudi Project [Vinoth Chandar / Roy]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Iceberg Project [Ryan Blue / Sharan]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache IoTDB Project [Xiangdong Huang / Sheng]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Marcel Reutegger / Justin]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili / Roman]
No report was submitted.
AO. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Craig]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus / Roman]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Lucene Project [Michael Sokolov / Sharan]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug / Sander]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache MINA Project [Guillaume Nodet / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
@Bertrand: pursue a report for MINA
AT. Apache Mnemonic Project [Yanhui Zhao / Roy]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Mynewt Project [Szymon Janc / Sam]
See Attachment AU
@Justin: follow up on BT SIG
AV. Apache NetBeans Project [Geertjan Wielenga / Sander]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Craig]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Olingo Project [Michael Bolz / Bertrand]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache OODT Project [Imesha Sudasingha / Justin]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache OpenNLP Project [Jeff Zemerick / Roy]
No report was submitted.
BA. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Sam]
No report was submitted.
BB. Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi / Sander]
No report was submitted.
BC. Apache Pinot Project [Kishore G / Sharan]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb / Roman]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache PLC4X Project [Christofer Dutz / Sheng]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew / Sam]
No report was submitted.
BG. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Sharan]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Pulsar Project [Matteo Merli / Sander]
No report was submitted.
BI. Apache Royale Project [Piotr Zarzycki / Roman]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak / Bertrand]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Shiro Project [Brian Demers / Roy]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache SINGA Project [Wang Wei / Justin]
No report was submitted.
BM. Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu / Craig]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz / Sheng]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Storm Project [Kishor Patil / Craig]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Streams Project [Steve Blackmon / Sander]
See Attachment BP
BQ. Apache Submarine Project [Wangda Tan / Roman]
See Attachment BQ
BR. Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana / Sander]
See Attachment BR
BS. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Sheng]
See Attachment BS
BT. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Bertrand]
See Attachment BT
BU. Apache TVM Project [Tianqi Chen / Sam]
See Attachment BU
BV. Apache UIMA Project [Richard Eckart de Castilho / Justin]
See Attachment BV
BW. Apache Unomi Project [Serge Huber / Sharan]
See Attachment BW
BX. Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson / Roy]
See Attachment BX
BY. Apache Wicket Project [Andrea Del Bene / Roy]
See Attachment BY
BZ. Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer / Sheng]
No report was submitted.
CA. Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo / Sander]
See Attachment CA
CB. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira / Justin]
See Attachment CB
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Oozie Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gézapeti
(gezapeti) to the office of Vice President, Apache Oozie, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Gézapeti from the office of Vice President, Apache Oozie, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Oozie project
has chosen by vote to recommend Dénes Bodó (dionusos) as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gézapeti is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Oozie, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dénes Bodó be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Oozie, to serve in accordance with
and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws
of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Oozie Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Submarine Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Wangda Tan
(wangda) to the office of Vice President, Apache Submarine, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Wangda Tan from the office of Vice President, Apache Submarine, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Submarine
project has chosen by consensus to recommend Liu Xun (liuxun) as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Wangda Tan is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Submarine, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Liu Xun be and hereby is appointed to the
office of Vice President, Apache Submarine, 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 Submarine Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Sander: pursue a report for Lucene.net
[ Lucene.Net 2021-07-21 ]
Status: Lucene.Net has reported based on the August meeting comments:
https://s.apache.org/gfoet
* Bertrand: Board Agenda Tool transition to ASF Infra
[ Unfinished Business 2021-08-18 ]
Status: waiting on infra's opinion about using JavaScript for the tool
* Sander: Board Chair section of annual report
[ Marketing and Publicity 2021-08-18 ]
Status: Missed the deadline unfortunately. The upcoming Members
Meeting report will serve as a basis for next Board Chair
section for annual report.
* Sander: follow up with Joe on board input query
[ Marketing and Publicity 2021-08-18 ]
Status: Scheduled for Tuesday, September 21st.
* Craig: pursue a report for W3C Relations
[ W3C Relations 2021-08-18 ]
Status: A report was submitted.
* Sander: pursue a report for Jakarta EE Relations
[ Jakarta EE Relations 2021-08-18 ]
Status: Done
* Justin: pursue a report for Bloodhound
[ Bloodhound 2021-08-18 ]
Status: There is a report in the agenda.
* Roman: follow up with Joshua on project activity
[ Joshua 2021-08-18 ]
Status: pending
* Sander: pursue a report for Streams
[ Streams 2021-08-18 ]
Status: Non-responsive PMC message sent: https://s.apache.org/c2ptq
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 22:12 UTC
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Mark Thomas]
Covering the period August 2021
* ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
* OPERATIONS
Responded to the following queries, liaising with projects as required:
- Counsel has reviewed and made recommendations for the draft downstream
distribution policy
- approved a request to reference ASF marks in a SaaS offering
- denied a request to use ASF marks in a 'partners' listing
- approved an event for Pulsar
- reviewed email thread related to branding concerns with a project - where
the concern was valid, the PMC has the issue in hand
- denied a request to use ASF marks in a software product name
- one approved a request to use the FLINK logo on merchandise
- approved LINKIS as a podling name
- approved a request to use project logos in a UI to refer to loading data in
that project's format
- requested more information regarding a request to use project logos in a UI
* REGISTRATIONS
The assignment of the APISIX mark in China has completed.
* INFRINGEMENTS
Counsel has provided a draft letter to address an infringement of OPENOFFICE.
Counsel has provided a draft letter and draft text to use with Amazon to
address a large scale infringement of multiple ASF marks by an Amazon market
place seller.
Working with counsel and the FLINK PMC to collect the documentation necessary
for the PMC to address various infringements in China.
Continued thanks to clr who has been working with counsel to provide the
paperwork necessary to progress the registration of our APACHE mark in China.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri]
1) ASF Sponsors: we are renewing 7 Sponsors (3 Platinum, 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2
Bronze); pursuing 2 renewals (1 Platinum, 1 Bronze); signing on 1 new Sponsor
(1 Gold); awaiting payment from 9 Sponsors (3 Gold, 2 Silver, and 4 Bronze);
and discussing Sponsorship with one candidate organization (level to be
confirmed). Several Sponsors have verbally committed to renew, but have been
slower to sign agreements, open purchase orders, and/or process payment over
the past few months. We received payment from two renewing Sponsors at the
Gold level.
2) Targeted Sponsors: we are onboarding three new Targeted Sponsors who are
donating services to benefit four Apache projects. We have finalized our
policy towards cash targeted donations vs. service/in-kind donations, and are
executing agreements and invoices with these incoming Targeted Sponsors.
3) Sponsor Relations: we are promoting ApacheCon@Home and the Annual Report to
all sponsors.
4) Event Sponsorship: ApacheCon@Home sponsorships are in-flight, with a
handful of sponsor agreements and payments due in the remaining few weeks. We
received payments from 3 sponsors, and await payment from 9 sponsors.
5) Individual Donations and Corporate Giving: this is historically a slower
time of year for most charitable donations. We earned $838 in August over 46
donations.
6) Administrivia: we’re continuing to troubleshoot a small handful of
AR/follow-through/reporting issues with the Accounting team, and are seeing
gradual improvements.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Joe Brockmeier]
General
=======
Not a lot of M&P activity in August. Published the Annual report on the last
day of the month. Continue working with Sally, Swapnil, etc.
Reviewed Bitergia report and provided feedback. Late on providing runbook to
Greg for updating site, mea culpa, will try to have complete by end of
September.
Have been looking into some of the CLC results around www. For the most part a
lot of results that can be ignored, but have taken action to remove a few
instances of gendered language.
Budget
======
Continue to process payments as needed. HALO contract expires at the end of
September, having discussion with Sally around that.
Activities
==========
Published: ASF Annual Report for FY2021
https://s.apache.org/FY2021AnnualReport
Press Releases: we issued the following formal announcements during this
timeframe
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Pinot as a Top-Level
Project
- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program for ApacheCon@Home 2021
- The Apache Drill Project Announces Apache® Drill v1.19 Milestone Release
- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Annual Report for 2021 Fiscal Year
Informal Announcements: we published 5 items on the ASF "Foundation" Blog,
including 4 Apache News Round-ups and 1 monthly overview, totaling 398 news
summaries published to date. We tweeted 20 items to 60.5K followers on
Twitter, and posted 20 items to 50.1K followers on LinkedIn. The ASF's YouTube
channel had 15.6K views, and has just passed the 10K subscriber milestone.
Future Announcements: 1 announcement is in development
Media Relations: we responded to 10 media queries. Possible project with a
top-tier reporter on a long-lead project remains on hold, but is not
cancelled. We received a total of 3,621 press hits vs. last month's 3,594,
inclusive of coverage on the ASF, Apache Projects, and ApacheCon. Highlights
include:
- VentureBeat on Drill https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/01/apache-software-foundation-updates-drill-for-broader-sql-queries/
- TechTarget on Drill https://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/news/252506054/Apache-Drill-improves-big-data-SQL-query-engine
- The New Stack on Kafka https://thenewstack.io/from-pets-to-cattle-going-cloud-native-with-apache-kafka/
- SD Times on serverless architecture https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/infrastructure-management-going-extinct-with-serverless/
- Forbes on Open Source foundations’ project lifecycle (mainly CNCF)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2021/09/01 /from-incubation-to-augmentation-how-software-projects-grow/?sh=28e8fd225f26
(upcoming article on Pinot from The New Stack --delayed 2 weeks: NAK from
spokesperson, since resolved)
Analyst Relations: we received 3 analyst queries, and completed fact-checking
an article on BI solutions for a European Analyst (response delayed by PMC).
We also have been working with a PMC on submitting corrections to an analyst
report that used the Apache Project for comparison. Apache was mentioned in a
total of 29 reports by Gartner, Forrester, 451 Research, GigaOm, and IDC.
Recordings - Video/YouTube and Feathercast: Published: July Month in Review,
ApacheCon@Home Community Track highlight; all presentations from ApacheCon
Asia have been uploaded
Upcoming: ApacheCon@Home promotion with VP Conferences; August Month in
Review; Annual Report Highlights (Sally drafted summary)
New activity on Feathercast (by Rich): now listed on iTunes; two new posts
Lucene & Solr and Heron (incubating).
Website / logo compliance
=========================
Sally received a request for help with site logo compliance. Sally provided
some legacy guidance and list of sites that are / may be out of compliance.
Several have responded right away and indicated they have or plan to fix
issues, one project was flagged incorrectly as the logos were indicating
compatibility with hardware rather than "thanks" or other endorsement. However
the project had several other issues with the site and I provided some
guidance on those other issues.
Plan to give projects a nudge with more current guidance before end of
September.
Additional
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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
==========
- Our use of a CDN appears to be working smoothly on picking up our
entire traffic load (websites and downloads). This will obviate our
historic (over 25 years) mirror system. Infra is working with M&P to
communicate this move, and to write an article/thanks about the
system's history. Our mirror system was transformative and supplied
our ecosystem for decades. We do not intend to end it with a simple
"thanks" to our many providers, so M&P is helping to create a full
rollout and handling.
Short Term Priorities
=====================
- Fill our open position.
Long Range Priorities
=====================
- Gitbox; mail gateway
General Activity
================
- Lots of work on backup management: improving use of bpc, shifting
some large systems to rsync, deployment of new backup server and
decomm of the old server, and evaluation of new/alt systems.
- New version of auto-blocking system deployed, along with companion
logging and new logs cluster.
- Lots of Buildbot 0.8 migration to 3.2.
- home.a.o migrated to better/cheaper system.
- The CDN satisfies all website content, and we have incrementally
shift artifact downloads from our servers/mirrors over to the CDN.
- Critical upgrades for cwiki security.
- Planning how to test/roll-out a large service upgrade on lists.a.o
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen]
As of this writing, we are one week out from ApacheCon @Home 2021, and so that
has consumed all of my VP Conferences time since our last report.
We currently have 2000 registrations for the event. Given past trends, we
anticipate getting another 50% (ie, 1000) in the last week before the event.
This puts us behind last year’s registration, which is as expected based on
the virtual event fatigue we’re seeing in many other events.
ApacheCon @Home will be held September 21-23, and attendance details are
available at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/register.html
We are supported, as always, by many wonderful sponsors, who make this
possible both with their financial support as well as the participation of
volunteer speakers from the many many organizations that participate in Apache
projects.
This event is also made possible by the hundreds of hours of volunteer time,
in putting together the schedule, updating the website, contacting sponsors,
and, of course, the speakers themselves. I am enormously grateful to all of
them for their hard work
We look forward to seeing all of you at this event.
We have begun thinking about what will be our strategy in 2022, with the slow
return of in-person events. We are carefully watching various companies as
they begin to set policy around a return to hosting, sponsoring, or attending
in-person events, and hope to have more clarity about this in the coming
months. We welcome any data or advice from others who are navigating this
decision.
We especially are seeking advice from anyone who has worked through the
logistics of holding a “hybrid” event, whether successfully or not, as we
figure out whether such a venture is feasible for us in 2022. Please bring
that discussion to the planners@apachecon.com mailing list if you have such
personal experience.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
Current Events
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No current events
Future Events
=============
None Currently
Short/Medium Term Priorities
=====================
In person events are starting to pop up and TAC is keeping an eye out for
suitable events.
To be discussed are additional questions that could/should be added around
Covid Passports etc.
Mailing List Activity
=====================
None
Membership
==========
No changes to the membership this month.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of Diversity and Inclusion [Katia Rojas]
## Description:
- The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team
that 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:
None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
Round "May 2021 - August 2021" has concluded with good feedback.
Thank you Justin Ross for contributing to this program as a mentor
on the project "Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton
C++". [1][2] Round "December 2021 to March 2022" has started [3].
We made the initial application as a community to get in the
program and got confirmation for the budget from David Nalley as
AWS representative. We have a budget for at least one intern,
until now. Thank you David for helping us with the budget. Thank
you Jarek Potiuk and Matt Sicker for looking for an additional
budget on your side as well, every contribution counts! We are
calling for mentors for the current round. [4] For the current
round (Dec2021-March2022), we received 2 project proposals from
the Airflow PMC and possibly a third one coming. Airflow PMC'
experience with the program has been successful, according to
Jarek Potiuk's feedback, they had great success with the round a
couple of years back - with Ephraim - the Outreachy Alumni, who
just became a PMC Member of Apache Airflow!
*** Project: EDI Website We are asking for help for this project, see
Jira ticket [5]
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words: CLC (Conscious Language
Checker) Thank you so much Daniel Gruno and Rich Bowen for your
amazing work and contribution to the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Committee, thank you for your patience and commitment. [6] Many
topics have been discussed via ML [7] [8]. Thank you to all of you
that provided feedback, shared good criticism, and made
recommendations. Some of the topics discussed on the ML are:
opt-in by default to the project, a list of sample words (with
context), and sample replacements. Some Jira tickets have been
opened to address the topics listed above: [9][10]
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors *** The goal
of this second part of the project is to make actionable
recommendations for ASF projects to spread the lessons learned. We
will start with one ASF project (PMC) and one approach for
improvements. Action items and progress: Approve final Report of
the Community Survey & Contributor Experience: in progress. Joe
Brockmeier and Bitergia team are working on final changes. Review
contract and sign: We are delaying the signature of the contract
because our representative in Google, Brittany Hermann, has to
complete her onboarding process before having access to the budget
for this project. Once, she can allocate the budget, we will
proceed with the contract. A possible date to start working on
this project is January 2022.
*** Operations FY2021: Katia received the information of FY2021.
## Committee members changes:
Dave Fisher has been added to the committers list.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/communities/apache/implement-distributed-tracing-for-qpid-proton-c/cfp/
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-08-13/december-2021-initial-applications-open/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11
[6] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r39f4281951a110045b27b655dd5306957eb7150b51f5c4d8c827ff73%40%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E
[7] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r97ca487cdb1a1220c86c7f5df6fe010fae5023ac1a42d2299363c9ad%40%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E
[8] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r15aa5f521e5095ef9af21a6c6f7871f50e27f6ef248fe41d46b1bfbe%40%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-38
[10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-39
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Attachment 8: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [Christian Grobmeier]
Due to relocation no progress policy-wise was made this month.
The mailing list was moderated and responses to deletion requests were given.
No other requests were made so far.
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Attachment 9: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Currently, ASF has 12 people participating at W3C with a declared Apache
affiliation.
2 people are in the JSON-LD Working Group, which is evolving from active work
on the JSON-LD specification to maintaining the specifications.
The other area of participation is Community Groups (CG) shich range from
discussion communities through to generating material for future working
groups. Long-running Working Groups are no longer favoured and instead W3C
team expects substantive material to begin the WG phase. CGs form one way to
generate that material.
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Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
Past month has been pretty calm. Committee members took good care of resolving
most issues on time. We've resolved quite a few issues and are down to 16 from
the 18 that were unresolved last month.
Roman has been traveling and under a lot of additional pressure from $DAYJOB
which limits the amount of time available to push on some of the outstanding
ASF LEGAL issues. This is expected to improve greatly in the 2nd half of Oct.
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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.
Stats for Aug 2021:
33 [license confusion]
26 [support request/question not security notification]
Security reports: 48 (last months: 42, 56, 45)
18 [site]
4 [ofbiz]
3 [airflow], [james]
2 [any23], [guacamole], [jspwiki], [knox]
1 [brooklyn], [dubbo], [flink], [httpd], [jena],
[karaf], [logging], [nifi], [ranger], [spamassassin],
[tomcat], [zeppelin]
In total, as of 1st Sep 2021, we're tracking 90 (last month:
82) open issues across 39 projects, median age 85 (last month:
73) days. 69 of those issues have CVE names assigned.
7 (last month: 7) of these issues, across 5 projects, are older
than 365 days.
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Attachment 12: Report from the VP of Jakarta EE Relations [Rob Tompkins]
The past month(s) have been super busy with work so I don’t have a whole lot
to report. This month I plan to put in some hours to see if anyone needs any
correspondence between The Jakarta working group and our our EE related
projects.
Cheers,
-Rob
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Airflow Project [Bolke de Bruin]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Airflow is the creation and maintenance of software
related to workflow automation and scheduling that can be used to author and
manage data pipelines.
## Membership Data:
There are currently 45 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The
Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Elad Kalif was added to the PMC on 2021-08-30
- Ephraim Anierobi was added to the PMC on 2021-08-31 (Just to mention it
here: Ephraim is an alumni of the Outreachy program that Apache participated
in. This is a cool story!)
- Aneesh Joseph was added as committer on 2021-07-06
- Brent Bovenzi was added as committer on 2021-08-27
- Jed Cunningham was added as committer on 2021-06-25
- Tzu-ping Chung was added as committer on 2021-06-25
## Project Activity:
### Releases:
- Provider Packages 2021-09-04 was released on 2021-09-08.
- Provider Packages 2021-08-30 was released on 2021-09-03.
- Provider Packages 2021-08-24 (cncf.kubernetes) was released on 2021-08-27.
- 2.1.3 was released on 2021-08-23.
- Provider packages 2021-07-27 was released on 2021-08-02.
- Apache Airflow Helm Chart 1.1.0 was released on 2021-07-26.
- 2.1.2 was released on 2021-07-14.
- 2.1.1 was released on 2021-07-02.
- Provider packages 2021-06-26 was released on 2021-07-02.
- upgrade-check-1.4.0 was released on 2021-06-26.
- Provider packages 2021-06-18 was released on 2021-06-23.
As of June 17, 2021 the 1.10.X version of Apache Airflow reached end of life.
### CVEs published
- CVE-2021-38540: Apache Airflow: Variable Import endpoint missed
authentication check <
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb34c3dd1a815456355217eef34060789f771b6f77c3a3dec77de2064%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
>
- CVE-2021-35936: Apache Airflow: No Authentication on Logging Server
< https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r53d6bd7b0a66f92ddaf1313282f10fec802e71246606dd30c16536df%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
>
### Events:
Airflow Summit 2021 <https://airflowsummit.org> took place July 8-16, 2021
which was attended by more than 10,000 participants from all over the world.
That was up from 6000 attendees in Airflow 2020 and brought much higher
quality content. We engaged meetup groups from 8 different cities around the
globe, and hosted in 2 different time blocks to accommodate attendees from
Europe, Americas and Asia. We are looking forward to the 2022 edition which -
hopefully - will bring back the physical component, keeping the “free to
attend” option for online conference.
## Community Health:
The community seems to be very active despite the decrease in traffic on
dev@airflow (probably due to the summer season). The number of commits and
code contributions increased by 12% and 24% correspondingly. While the current
big stakeholders - mainly Astronomer - grow stronger when it comes to a number
of committers and PMC members, we also added committers and PMC members coming
from different backgrounds and companies. There is also an increased activity
from other stakeholders - Google and Amazon.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Allura is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a software development infrastructure platform commonly known as a
"forge"
## Issues:
- No issues needing board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Allura was founded 2014-03-18 (7 years ago) There are currently 16
committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Dillon Walls on 2020-12-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dillon Walls on 2020-12-02.
## Project Activity:
- a large contribution for File management was finally merged
- small fixes & improvements continue
- it came to our attention we have some icons & fonts under Category B
licenses we need to resolve
## Community Health:
- Slow core development but still there
- Not much community activity, but a couple questions have been asked &
responded to
- Last release was 2021-05-17
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Jayush Luniya]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Ambari is the creation and maintenance of software
related to Hadoop cluster management
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Ambari was founded 2013-11-20 (7 years ago)
There are currently 109 committers and 51 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Szabolcs Béki on 2020-03-27.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tamas Payer on 2020-03-28.
## Project Activity:
The new Ambari 2.7.6 release aiming to make Ambari independent of Cloudera HDP
repositories has very little momentum. The exact release date is not yet
clear.
## Community Health:
The community health is remarkable not good.
Last PR was 3 months ago.
No traction in the getting closer to issue the new release.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Jan Materne]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Ant is the creation and maintenance of the Ant build
system and related software components.
It consists of 3 main projects:
- Ant - core and libraries (AntLibs)
- Ivy - Ant based dependency manager
- IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse
Additionally Ant provides several extensions to Ant (antlibs).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Ant was founded 2002-11-18 (19 years ago)
There are currently 29 committers and 22 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Magesh Umasankar on 2018-07-06.
- No new committers. Last addition was Jaikiran Pai on 2017-06-14.
## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
* Ant 1.10.11 was released on 2021-07-13.
* Ant 1.9.16 was released on 2021-07-13.
* AntUnit 1.4.1 was released on 2021-07-07.
* Ivy 2.5.0 was released on 2019-10-24.
Tests with early version of JDK 17 worked, but
- Changes in the JavaDoc tool causes problems because the failing-behaviour
changed and we have to check that to keep Ant consistent over different
JDK versions.
- With upcoming JDK18 the SecurityManager is marked for removal and this
causes that Ant itself cannot be built on JDK18 because there is the need
for SM on older JDKs. One migration option might be to offer an antlib
containing the permissions stuff and deprecate the core types - and
remove them from core once the next Java LTS version without
SecurityManager arrives.
Two CVEs arised in Apache Commons and due the same code origin Ant is affected
too.
- https://cveprocess.apache.org/cve/CVE-2021-36373 Apache Ant TAR archive
denial of service vulnerability Special crafted TARs could lead to an
OutOfMemoryException which causes Ant itself to fail. Fixed with Ant
1.10.11 (Java8+) and Ant 1.9.16 (Java<8)
- https://cveprocess.apache.org/cve/CVE-2021-36374 Apache Ant ZIP, and ZIP
based, archive denial of service vulnerability Basically the same but for
the JAR-family. Fixed with Ant 1.10.11 (Java8+) and Ant 1.9.16 (Java<8)
## Community Health:
For Ant we feel healthy enough to apply patches, and get a release done. But
basically we are in "maintenance mode". There isn't much development.
For IvyDE we lack the knowledge of building Eclipse plugins on actual Eclipse
versions. We hope to get the build running again so we could update that.
As most projects moved to Maven or Gradle, the interest in Ant is decreased
and also the will to contribute. Ant is still used in several places, as this
"swiss army knife" is a sharp one in some areas. But to sum up: we don't
expect to get more contributors, but we'll keep the project alive as long as
possible and worthful.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Any23 is the creation and maintenance of software related
to automatic crawling, parsing, analyzing, producing, validating and converting
RDF (Resource Description Framework) data
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Any23 was founded 2012-08-27 (9 years ago)
There are currently 15 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Hans Brende on 2018-02-25.
- No new committers. Last addition was Hans Brende on 2018-02-21.
## Project Activity:
In August 2021, a non-project committer reported two security vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities were tracked through the Apache CVE process and a
subsequent release was cut as Any23 2.5. The official CVE's are
CVE-2021-38555 and CVE-2021-40146.
## Community Health:
4 members of the PMC responded to the 2.5 VOTE thread. The community is small
but healthy.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
## Description:
The mission of Archiva is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Build Artifact Repository Manager.
Last release 19th June 2020.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Archiva was founded 2008-03-19 (13 years ago)
There are currently 21 committers and 9 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Martin Stockhammer on 2017-04-10.
- No new committers. Last addition was Martin Stockhammer on 2016-09-22.
## Project Activity:
Low activity. Still working on a large refactoring in main branch.
## Community Health:
Low activity. But stil have users reporting issues.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Atlas is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a scalable and extensible set of core foundational governance
services - enabling enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their
compliance requirements
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Atlas was founded 2017-06-20 (4 years ago) There are currently 44
committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ashutosh Mestry on 2019-04-16.
- No new committers. Last addition was Sidharth Mishra on 2021-04-19.
## Project Activity:
- Apache Atlas 2.2.0 was released on 2021-08-17. This release includes
significant improvements and fixes, more than 220 JIRAs
- DSL search enhancements to enable search using classification attributes
- Dependent component version updates: Kafka 2.5, curator 4.3.0,
nimbus-jose-jwt 9.8.1, commons-io 2.8.0, JUnit 4.13.1
- Apache Kafka hook improvements
- Apache Hive hook fixes and improvements
- updates to support Apache Flink types
- Python client improvements
- UI improvements
## Community Health:
- the community was focused on releasing Apache Atlas 2.2.0, after a year in
development
- dev@atlas.apache.org had a 27% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (926
emails compared to 1258)
- 85 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-36% change)
- 97 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-18% change)
- 102 commits in the past quarter (-52% change)
- 21 code contributors in the past quarter (-12% change)
- 6 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-45% change)
- 6 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-50% change)
## Most recent releases:
2.2.0 was released on 08/17/2020
2.1.0 was released on 07/16/2020
0.8.4 was released on 06/21/2019
1.2.0 was released on 06/12/2019
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski]
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende]
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Beam Project [Kenneth Knowles]
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Kengo Seki]
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing
Issues
======
There are no issues to raise to the Board at this time.
Releases
========
There have been no releases since the last report. The last release was
towards the end of 2014:
* apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014)
PMC/Committer Changes
=====================
There are currently 14 PMC members on the project. The last changes were in
April 2017.
The last new committers were added in May 2014.
The last addition to the PMC was in January 2017 (dammina)
Community & Development
=======================
The main activities since the last submitted report have been focusing on
making progress on the bloodhound-core project. Support for being able to
start from an existing, legacy bloodhound database has been prioritised
alongside work on an API to interact with the database.
Progress is slow but potentially getting more steady.
Finally, we continue to be able to demonstrate that there are four PMC members
who are able to assert their ongoing oversight of the project.
Replies to Board Feedback
=========================
> jm: It been a long time since any committer or PMC members added. Do
> you have any potential candidates?
At this point there may not be clear evidence of candidates. That said, the
recent increase in activity is considered essential for generating more
interest.
> sw: Does the community consider any new release? The last release
> was over 7 years ago.
Currently there is no timeline for getting to a new release. The PMC
recognises that a release is likely to generate more interest in the project.
Further releases of the trac-based version of the project are not considered
likely and so we will be waiting for the new project to become usable enough
before coming to a decision.
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson]
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Andrea Cosentino]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Camel is the creation and maintenance of an open-source
integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Camel was founded 2008-12-17 (13 years ago)
There are currently 79 committers and 38 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was James Netherton on 2021-04-12.
- Marat Gubaidullin was added as committer on 2021-07-29
- Pasquale Congiusti was added as committer on 2021-07-22
- Zheng Feng was added as committer on 2021-06-30
## Project Activity:
- We released Camel 3.7.5
- We released Camel 3.4.6
- We released Camel 3.11.0
- We released Camel 3.11.1
- The Camel 3.7.x releases are part of the second LTS for Camel 3. We are
planning to support 3.7.x for one year. We are releasing these LTS with bug
fixes
- We released 3.11.0 release: this release is the LTS release with 3.7.x.
We're going to stop releasing 3.4.x releases and going ahead with those two
LTS. We are already working on the new LTS which will be 3.14.0, with two
intermediate development releases.
- We released Camel K 1.4.1
- We released Camel K 1.5.0
- We released Camel K 1.5.1
- We released Camel K 1.6.0
- We are improving the Camel-K experience and we are expanding and improving
the Kamelet concept, by introducing more Kameletes to the provided catalog
- The Camel-Quarkus work is going ahead following the main camel releases with
multiple releases
- We released Camel-quarkus 2.0.0-M1
- We released Camel-quarkus 2.0.0-M2
- We released Camel-quarkus 2.0.0
- We released Camel-quarkus 2.1.0
- We released Camel-quarkus 2.2.0
- We are continuing working on the Camel-kafka-connector for basing it on
Kamelet concept
- 0.10.1 on 23 May 2021
- The 0.7.x releases are based on the second LTS of main Camel, 3.7.x
- We are working for supporting the next Camel LTS with camel-kafka-connector
too
- We'll be featured on the Integration track at ApacheCon @Home 2021 and
ApacheCon Asia 2021. We received 22 submissions and selected 14 for a two
day presence at ApacheCon @Home 2021, first day focusing on Camel, second
day focusing on other ASF projects in the software integration ecosystem.
## Community Health:
- dev@camel.apache.org had a 8% increase in traffic in the past quarter (386
emails compared to 356): This increase is related to 3.11.x LTS release and
migration effort.
- issues@camel.apache.org had a 30% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(1616 emails compared to 2280): We are focusing on fixing issues for 3.11.x.
- users@camel.apache.org had a 6% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(311 emails compared to 329): the situation is more or less the same of the
last quarter, the decrease is probably for the summer time.
- 212 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-42% decrease) and 209 issues
closed in JIRA, past quarter (-42% decrease): as reported above, the
situation is stable. The activity related to Camel 2 is near to zero and we
are focusing on old opened issues. We are getting feedback about new LTS
releases, but many of them are coming from other channel like the zulip
chat.
- 3053 commits in the past quarter (36% decrease) and 123 code contributors in
the past quarter (1% increase): the core Camel team is stabilizing the
codebase so there is a little decrease in number of commits, contributions
related to documentation and website is increasing. This is related to
summer time probably, but also by the fact we are focusing on stabilizing
the LTS and codebase is more or less stable at the moment.
- 851 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-20% decrease) and 851 PRs closed on
GitHub, past quarter (-19% decrease): the code stabilization and less work
on the camel kafka connector side explain the decrease in number of PRs open
and closed. Camel-kafka-connector still needs to be aligned to the new LTS
with Kamelets support.
- 251 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (38% decrease) and 248 issues
closed on GitHub, past quarter (24% decrease): The camel-kamelets repository
last quarter gave a boost to the github issues, now it's much more stable.
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry]
# Apache Cayenne Board Report, September 2021
## Description
Apache Cayenne is a Java database persistence framework. It takes a
distinct approach to object graph persistence and provides an ORM
runtime, remote persistence services, and a cross-platform GUI
database mapping/modeling/development tool.
## Issues
On the previous Board Report, Justin Mclean commented:
> I notice that your latest source release contains compiled code in the form
> of jars and class files. There may be a reason why these are included, but
> in general a source releases shouldn't contain jar or class files. It
> would be good to review this.
This has mostly (or completely) been addressed, but we still need to do
another pass to verify it is complete.
No other issues require board attention at this time.
## Membership Data
Apache Cayenne was founded 2006-12-19 (14 years ago).
There are currently 23 committers and 9 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Nikita Timofeev on 2017-06-25.
- No new committers. Last addition was Arseni Bulatski on 2018-12-10.
## Project Activity
Development is focused on Cayenne 4.2. Prior versions are
maintenance-only.
- Cayenne 4.0 (stable)
- Maintenance only.
- Cayenne 4.1 (stable)
- Maintenance only.
- Cayenne 4.2 (development)
- Most development work is focused on this version.
### Releases
- Cayenne 4.0.2 on 2019-10-14.
- Cayenne 4.1 on 2020-07-21.
- Cayenne 4.2.M3 on 2021-03-19.
## Community Health
Cayenne is healthy. JIRA, Git, and mailing list activity were down over the
past quarter with few issues reported following the 4.2 Milestone 3 release.
Summer has traditionally be a slower quarter for the project as well.
Questions on the mailing list are being actively addressed.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller]
## Description:
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the
CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in
Java, Python, PHP, .NET, Objective-C, and JavaScript (and possibly other
languages).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Chemistry was founded 2011-02-16 (11 years ago)
There are currently 38 committers and 36 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Laurent Mignon on 2017-09-23.
- No new committers. Last addition was Laurent Mignon on 2017-09-20.
## Project Activity:
There was no activity in the last three months.
Last releases were in 2017.
The Apache Chemistry website moved from Apache CMS to Apache Pelican.
(Thanks to Dave Fisher, who did all the work.)
## Community Health:
We have a mature code base. No major development is expected.
There hasn't been much activity in the last four years and there
is no expectation that this is going to change.
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Gabriel Beims Bräscher]
## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.
## Issues:
No issues to report.
## Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the LTS maintenance
release of CloudStack 4.15.1.0.
- 4.15.2.0 has been discussed and agreed by the community to be worked upon
(quick minor release).
- Kubernetes Provider 1.0.0 has passed its release vote, published on docker
hub, and soon it will be announced.
- The Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 6.2.0 is in the release process. We will
soon have it released.
- The community is working towards the next LTS release 4.16.0.0 (Q3-Q4 2021).
- GSoC 2021: all 4 students had passed mentors mid-term evaluation and have
submitted their pull requests, now the program is coming to completion with
final evaluation by mentors during 23-30 Aug next week.
- Terraform codebase has been imported, passed IP clearance, a release to be
worked upon soon (Hari volunteered to be the RM).
- The Apache CloudStack has been working to align with the Inclusive naming
initiative (such as we see in diversity@apache). As an example, we already
migrated the default branch from "master" to "main" and have been updating
documentation and the codebase.
- The project has been discussing alternatives to update the CloudStack
website. The main goals with such a move would be to bring a newer look to
the website as well as make it easier to edit; thus, being open to anyone to
contribute with the project website, regardless of any development skills.
However, so far none of the discussed approaches meet all the requirements
to be published in the
'apache/cloudstack-www' repository and also be friendly to contributors with
no development background.
- The Apache CloudStack is pleased to announce the virtual CCC (CloudStack
Collaboration Conference) that is scheduled for 9-12 November 2021.
## Health report:
Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.
Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data were obtained on September 1st, via
[https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack].
These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
Health Score (Chi): 10.00 (Super Healthy)
- More than 4 emails per day to all mailing lists combined in the past
quarter.
- New members added to the LDAP committee group within the last six months
- New committer(s) invited within the last three months
- New releases (4.15.1) in the past 6 months.
- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 248 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-6% change) 278 PRs
closed on GitHub, past quarter (1% increase)
-- Issues: 112 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (12% increase) 120 issues
closed on GitHub, past quarter (-10% change)
-- Commits: 529 commits in the past quarter (-23% decrease)
-- Code contributors: 34 in the past quarter (-12% change)
- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 20% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(901 emails compared to 749).
-- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had an 80% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (14 emails compared to 69), we encourage the use of github
"issues".
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 35% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (52 emails compared to 80).
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 10% increase in traffic in the past
quarter (781 emails compared to 705).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 52
- There is one new PMC member added since the last report.
- Most recently added PMC member: Nicolás Vázquez was added to the PMC on
2021-08-01.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 128
- There are three new committers since the last report.
- the last vote for committers was done on 2021-06-30.
- Most recently added committers: David Jumani, Daniel Augusto Veronezi
Salvador, and Pearl Dsilva were added as committers on 2021-07-06.
## Releases:
Latest:
- 4.15.1.0 was released on 5th July 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.14.1.0 was released on 4th of March 2021 -- EOL 1st January 2022.
Reaching EOL:
- 4.13.1.0 reached EOL on 1st May 2021, it was released on 2nd May 2020.
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Cédric Damioli]
## Description:
The mission of Cocoon is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Cocoon was founded 2003-01-22 (19 years ago)
There are currently 79 committers and 32 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Javier Puerto on 2012-07-06.
- No new committers were added.
## Project Activity:
Still low activity, no new commits or issues last quarter.
## Community Health:
Interestingly, despite very low dev activity, there was a few threads
on the users list with quick answers from commiters.
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Commons is the creation and maintenance of Java focused
reusable libraries and components
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Commons was founded 2007-06-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 148 committers and 42 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Henri Biestro was added to the PMC on 2021-06-12
- Matt Juntunen was added to the PMC on 2021-06-25
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Lee on 2020-03-12.
## Project Activity:
The Commons project is active with 11 releases:
- GEOMETRY-1.0 was released on 2021-08-21.
- POOL-2.11.1 was released on 2021-08-17.
- POOL-2.11.0 was released on 2021-08-11.
- DBCP-2.9.0 was released on 2021-08-03.
- CSV-1.9.0 was released on 2021-07-30.
- VFS-2.9.0 was released on 2021-07-20.
- NUMBERS-1.0 was released on 2021-07-17.
- IO-2.11.0 was released on 2021-07-13.
- COMPRESS 1.21 was released on 2021-07-12.
- JEXL-3.2.1 was released on 2021-06-25.
- IO-2.10.0 was released on 2021-06-13.
## Community Health:
The Commons community feels healthy with code contributions coming in through
Jira and GitHub PRs. We have released 11 components during this reporting
period. Email traffic has increased; contributors and commits have increased;
PRs have decreased.
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Jesse MacFadyen]
## Status report for the Apache Cordova project - September 2021
## Description:
- A platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and
JavaScript.
## Activity
Current work has been around keeping up with recent changes to iOS and
Android, our most used platforms, and updating plugins. We continue to work
towards reducing technical debt, and 'running the business' We are in the
process of archiving older documentation and translations which were very out
of date.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Health report:
Our status dashboard at http://status.cordova.io remain mostly all green -
failures are usually due to external service issues that do device testing.
Our nightly builds have been extremely stable.
ASF Project Statistics gives the project a Community Health Score (Chi): 9.6 (
Super Healthy )
We continue to see contributions from a small group of dedicated individuals.
That said, things remain stable and the project continues to see good traffic.
The cordova-cli, the base tool used for creating/building/running gets 125k
downloads a week on npm, and has been consistent for the last year. Various
core plugins see usage in the 50-80k/wk range.
Our primary channel for helping, and hearing from users is via our #slack
community, which has ~4k users and continues to be fairly active.
## Membership Data:
There are currently 103 committers and 100 PMC members in this project. The
Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.
### Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Pieter Van Poyer on 2021-04-05
- No new committers. Last addition was Pieter Van Poyer on 2021-04-05
## Releases:
- cordova-electron@3.0.0 was released on 2021-09-06.
- cordova-plugin-camera@6.0.0 was released on 2021-08-23.
- cordova-android@10.1.0 was released on 2021-08-17.
- cordova-plugin-camera@5.0.3 was released on 2021-08-09.
- cordova-android@10.0.1 was released on 2021-07-30.
- cordova-android@10.0.0 was released on 2021-07-20.
- cordova-js@6.1.0 was released on 2021-07-14.
- cordova-plugin-whitelist@1.3.5 was released on 2021-06-30.
## Dev mailing list:
dev@cordova.apache.org had a 34% increase in traffic in the past quarter (70
emails compared to 52):
## Github activity:
issues@cordova.apache.org had a 12% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(1997 emails compared to 1781):
Issue close rate of 84% 141 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-7% change)
119 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (8% increase)
PR close rate of 99%
- 166 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (66% increase)
- 165 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (85% increase)
Commits
- 179 commits in the past quarter (105% increase)
- 20 code contributors in the past quarter (-23% change)
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen]
## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.
## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
- Infra migrated the static web site migration from CMS to GFM
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
## Community Health:
There have been a decrease in the email traffic this quarter. It has been
a quiet summer but still active with new user questions on mailing lists.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 57% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(33 emails compared to 76)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 86% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(2 emails compared to 14)
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Enrico Olivelli]
## Description:
The mission of Curator is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper easier.
## Issues:
No issues for the board. The project is moving forward.
## Membership Data:
Apache Curator was founded 2013-09-18 (8 years ago)
There are currently 15 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Zili Chen on 2020-08-06.
- No new committers. Last addition was Zili Chen on 2020-08-06.
## Project Activity:
One of the new contributors written a blog post about Curator and what he
contributed to the latest 5.2.0 release.
We have suggested him to promote his work and helped him with the post.
https://medium.com/@jmslocum16/idempotent-fault-tolerant-writes-in-curator-5-2-0-eadf7c12c814
Recent releases:
5.2.0 was released on 2021-07-26 (roughly one month ago).
5.1.0 was released on 2020-07-03.
5.0.0 was released on 2020-05-28.
## Community Health:
The community is in good shape, even if we are a small group. We cut a release
with new features and contributions from people outside the committers
group. This is a good sign.
In fact the metrics show a little increase in community communications.
Metrics:
- dev@curator.apache.org had a 75% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(376 emails compared to 214)
- user@curator.apache.org had a 250% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(21 emails compared to 6)
- 20 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (300% increase)
- 7 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (250% increase)
- 10 commits in the past quarter (233% increase)
- 7 code contributors in the past quarter (133% increase)
- 12 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (200% increase)
- 9 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (200% increase)
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Daffodil Project [Mike Beckerle]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of software
related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such
as XML or JSON
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (7 months ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Brandon Sloane on 2021-02-16.
- No new committers were added.
Contributions were added from 4 new contributors.
## Project Activity:
In the past quarter development work was on changes toward the next release of
Daffodil.
We are starting the ip-clearance process for incorporating a new code base
which is to become part of Daffodil. This is a VSCode-based interactive data
format debugger for DFDL schemas. When complete this will add several
additional new contributors/committers.
The project's suggested roadmap, (always subject to change based on
contributors desires) has been updated on our wiki.
## Community Health:
There is some slowdown in activity on the project this quarter which we
believe is seasonal and/or due to the lack of a Daffodil release this quarter.
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg]
## Description:
Apache DeltaSpike is a suite of portable CDI (Contexts & Dependency
Injection) extensions intended to make application development easier when
working with CDI and Java EE. Some of its key features include:
- A core runtime that supports component configuration, type safe messaging
and internationalization, and exception handling.
- A suite of utilities to make programmatic bean lookup easier.
- A plugin for Java SE to bootstrap both JBoss Weld and Apache OpenWebBeans
outside of a container.
- JSF integration, including backporting of JSF 2.2 features for Java EE 6.
- JPA integration and transaction support.
- A Data module, to create an easy to use repository pattern on top of JPA.
Testing support is also provided, to allow you to do low level unit testing of
your CDI enabled projects.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We shipped a release in March and are mostly in maintenance mode.
Sometimes new feature requests pop up which we look at, but nothing
fancy. Statistics say we had a much improved last quarter in terms
of activity. But it doesn't feel like it. It's just if there is some
work to do, then we do it. The next significant steps are the namespace
change from javax to jakarta and a discussion about the long-term vision.
## Health report:
Stable and okish. Enough people around to vote and roll releases for sure.
## Releases
- 1.9.5 was released on 2021-03-10.
- 1.9.4 was released on 2020-06-12.
- 1.9.3 was released on 2020-02-05.
## Project Composition:
- There are currently 35 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5.
## Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Harald Wellmann on 2016-05-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Christian Beikov on 2019-10-21.
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Charles Givre]
## Description:
The mission of Drill is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Apache Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage
## Issues:
Nothing significant to report. We appreciate INFRA team's support adding
the LGTM code checks to the Drill repository.
## Membership Data:
Apache Drill was founded 2014-11-18 (7 years ago)
There are currently 59 committers and 26 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bohdan Kazydub on 2020-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Cong Luo on 2021-01-19.
## Project Activity:
1.19.0 was released on 2021-06-10. We'd like to thank Sally Khudairi for
assisting us in crafting press releases. Drill's most recent release was
featured in VentureBeat and a few other tech publications!
Drill will be targeting to release our next version in the fall, exact
timing is TBD. We have a few large pull requests in flight which will
add significant functionality in Drill. The first is DRILL-7985 [1] which
refactors Drill's pushdown API. The effect of this is that it will be easier
to write storage plugins and it will be possible and easier to add more
optimizations to existing plugins. This PR has one approval and is likely
to be committed in the next few days.
Another very significant addition to Drill is DRILL-7871 [2] which enables
access controls around storage plugin configurations. This is the first
step towards making Drill truly multi-tenant.
[1]: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2289
[2]: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2251
## Community Health:
Community health remains strong. Some of the recent pull requests
are much more complex, so as a result we are seeing fewer pull requests.
Drill is transitioning to using github Issues as well as our Slack channel.
For the next quarterly report, I will see how I can gather Slack metrics and
include them as well. (Slack limits the data for unpaid plans unfortunately)
* dev@drill.apache.org had a 11% decrease in traffic in the
past quarter (668 emails compared to 746)
* 41 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-45% change)
* 16 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-75% change)
* 201 commits in the past quarter (89% increase)
* 18 code contributors in the past quarter (-10% change)
* 49 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-30% change)
* 47 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-30% change)
* 9 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (350% increase)
* 3 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (300% increase)
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache ECharts Project [Wenli Zhang]
## Description:
The mission of Apache ECharts is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript
## Issues:
A website redirecting issue[1] we are working on it.
[1] https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/15620
## Membership Data:
Apache ECharts was founded 2020-12-16 (9 months ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Houjin Huang on 2020-12-16.
- Shen Shuntian was added as committer on 2021-07-09.
A new committer has passed vote and is under processing.
## Project Activity:
- We released 5.2.0[2] at 1st Sep which contains a lot of new features
like universal transition, new color palette picking strategy, labels for
polar bar charts and etc. These new features helps users to create more
powerful visualization works.
- We are working towards the next version 5.2.1 which is expected to be
voted for release in a week.
- We have changed the example code from JavaScript into TypeScript and
we are going to release it along with the next version. Hopefully,
this can help us find more typing issues and provides a better
developping experience to our users.
- We are working on a bar-racing chart generating tool that can generate
code and video automatically from chart data so that users don't have
to write complex code to do it.
[2] https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/basics/release-note/5-2-0
## Community Health:
- We released a "Handbook"[3] recently, which contains online documents from
how to get started to detailed tutorials on various topics. This can help
users better understand ECharts and have a better developing experience.
[3] https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/get-started/
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls]
## Description:
Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi
Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies
aligned with OSGi technology.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Felix was founded 2007-03-28 (14 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 27 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Georg Henzler on 2019-06-10.
- No new committers. Last addition was Robert Munteanu on 2020-07-20.
## Project Activity:
- Existing implementations have been improved/enhanced based on community
feedback.
- We released a new framework version as well as back port version to support
java17.
- Work on migrating the website away from Apache CMS is finished.
- Work has started on a new OSGi spec component (OSGi features).
- Released 23 components including framework 7.0.1 and 6.0.5 (otherwise,
mostly bug fixes/minor improvements).
### Releases
- SCR 2.1.30 was released on 2021-09-08.
- org.apache.felix.http.base-4.1.4 was released on 2021-09-05.
- org.apache.felix.http.bridge-4.1.4 was released on 2021-09-05.
- org.apache.felix.http.jetty-4.1.12 was released on 2021-09-05.
- org.apache.felix.webconsole-4.7.0 was released on 2021-09-05.
- org.apache.felix.healthcheck.generalchecks-2.0.12 was released on
2021-08-31.
- org.apache.felix.healthcheck.generalchecks-2.0.10 was released on
2021-08-28.
- org.apache.felix.systemready-0.6.0 was released on 2021-08-28.
- org.apache.felix.webconsole-4.6.4 was released on 2021-08-25.
- org.apache.felix.healthcheck.core-2.0.10 was released on 2021-08-18.
- org.apache.felix.healthcheck.generalchecks-2.0.8 was released on 2021-08-18.
- org.apache.felix.rootcause-0.2.0 was released on 2021-08-18.
- org.apache.felix.systemready 0.5.0 was released on 2021-08-18.
- org.apache.felix.scr-2.1.28 was released on 2021-07-03.
- org.apache.felix.framework-6.0.5 was released on 2021-06-21.
- org.apache.felix.framework-7.0.1 was released on 2021-06-21.
- org.apache.felix.framework.security-2.8.1 was released on 2021-06-21.
- org.apache.felix.main-7.0.1 was released on 2021-06-21.
- org.apache.felix.main.distribution-7.0.1 was released on 2021-06-21.
- org.apache.felix.resolver-2.0.4 was released on 2021-06-21.
- org.apache.felix.http.servlet-api-1.1.4 was released on 2021-06-15.
- org.apache.felix.http.jetty-4.1.10 was released on 2021-06-13.
- org.apache.felix.inventory-1.1.0 was released on 2021-06-13.
- org.apache.felix.webconsole-4.6.2 was released on 2021-06-13.
## Community Health:
- Overall the project is in ok health.
- The OSGi Alliance transitioned to the Eclipse Foundation and we had some
discussions about how that changes our policies wrt. implementations of
specifications that are not yet final.
- Questions on the user list are answered, development concerns are either
discussed on the mailing list or directly in the JIRA issues.
- We had no issues voting on releases and JIRA issues are generally addressed.
- dev@felix.apache.org had a 30% increase in traffic in the past quarter (528
emails compared to 405)
- users@felix.apache.org had a 90% increase in traffic in the past quarter (19
emails compared to 10)
- 26 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-35% change)
- 31 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-39% change)
- 91 commits in the past quarter (9% increase)
- 9 code contributors in the past quarter (-25% change)
- 20 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (150% increase)
- 20 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (66% increase)
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Olaf Krüger]
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software
related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all
major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv)
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07.
## Project Activity:
No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long
time and it is unlikely that another release will appear.
## Community Health:
During the last quarter, there was nearly no mailing list activity at users
and dev.
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen]
## Description:
Apache Flink is a distributed system for unified batch- and streaming data
processing. Flink consists of a scalable high-performance runtime and
many APIs and libraries, including SQL, functional DSLs in Java, Scala,
Python, and the Stateful Functions library for event-driven applications.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Kafka, Pulsar,
Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Calcite, Iceberg, Hudi, and various others.
## Issues:
- There are currently no community issues that require board attention.
## Membership Data:
PMC changes since the previous report:
- Arvid Heise was added to the PMC on 2021-06-16
- Xintong Song was added to the PMC on 2021-06-16
- Guowei Ma was added to the PMC on 2021-07-06
New committers since previous report:
- Yang Wang was added as committer on 2021-07-06
- Yuan Mei was added as committer on 2021-07-06
- Yun Gao was added as committer on 2021-08-02
The newest PMC member is Guowei Ma, joined on July 6th, 2021.
The newest committer is Yun Gao, joined on August 2nd, 2021.
There are currently 75 committers and 35 PMC members in this project.
## Releases
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- Flink 1.11.4 was released on 2021-08-09
- Flink 1.12.4 was released on 2021-05-21
- Flink 1.12.5 was released on 2021-08-06
- Flink 1.13.1 was released on 2021-05-28
- Flink 1.13.2 was released on 2021-08-06
- Flink Stateful Functions 3.1.0 was released on 2021-08-31.
- Flink Shaded (Vendored Libraries) 14.0 was released on 2021-07-21.
## Project Activity:
- The community is approaching the Flink 1.14.0 release and finalizing the
testing. The release notably improves the batch/streaming interplay of
APIs and applications. Examples are the support of checkpointing in
partially-finished bounded dataflows, smooth navigation between the
DataStream and Table API for batch executed jobs, improvements to the
unified source/sink APIs and metrics.
- In the meantime the community has released a set of bugfix releases for
the 1.11.x, 1.12.x, and 1.13.x lines.
- The Stateful Functions project has released its 3.1 version, which adds
features like a new Go SDK, a much more scalable remote function
dispatcher, as well as many ease-of-setup improvements.
- The Flink Forward (October 2021) conference published its program, with a
mix of getting-started talks, tutorials, industry use cases, and deep
dives. https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2021
The conference is virtual and free to attend.
- The community is still discussing and exploring how to tune the recently
introduced Jira bot. We want to get the benefits of some automated issue
management help, but make sure we don't discourage any users or
contributors.
- There is an ongoing thread about enforcing Apache Flink trademark in
China, for which the ASF trademark folks are helping us.
## Community Health:
The Flink community is happy that Flink again ended up in the top most active
Apache projects. This is a great validation for all of us and the effort we
put into this.
The activity on mailing lists and JIRA remains high, with what looks like
a summer vacation dip on the user list.
- user@f.a.o is at 1668 mails/quarter
- user-zh@f.a.o is at 889 mails/quarter
- dev@f.a.o is at 2313 mails/quarter
- 1261 JIRA issues opened, 1174 JIRA issues closed.
- 1188 PRs opened, 1135 PRs closed.
- The community created and is discussing around 15 new major feature
proposals (FLIPs = Flink Improvement Proposals)
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Gobblin Project [Abhishek Tiwari]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Gobblin is the creation and maintenance of software
related to 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
## Issues:
No issues to report.
## Membership Data:
Apache Gobblin was founded 2021-01-19 (8 months ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 13 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Abhishek Tiwari on 2021-01-19.
- Alexander Prokofiev was added as committer on 2021-07-15
## Project Activity:
- Support for Kafka 1.1 writer was added.
- Logical types support was added in Avro to ORC.
- Support for running a single ingestion job using Gobblin CLI was added.
- Improvements in Gobblin Cluster & GaaS: TaskResult logging improvements,
failure propagation from StatsTracker, support for task interruption
optionality, RestLI action added for flow resume, improved error reporting
for flow configs.
- Improvements in Source, Extractor, Writer: HadoopFileInputSource was made
file split size aware, additional attributes added to metrics in the
Extractor, execution handling, and logging in FS Data Writer was improved.
- Hive Registration changes: dataset-specific DB name support was added,
stability of the Hive Registration module was improved (handling empty
strings, close HiveRegister in completion action step, abort operation
against a view, logging with exception propagation).
- Several other minor enhancements and bug fixes.
Last release (v0.15.0) was done on: Dec 10, 2020.
Current release (v0.16.0) is
being voted on.
## Community Health:
- There have been 106 commits since 1st June 2021.
- 76 commits have been from non-committers.
- We constantly look for consistent contributors to vote them in as Committers
and PMC. (A DISCUSS thread is ongoing to vote in a committer as we speak)
- dev@gobblin.apache.org had 2187 new emails last quarter.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Guacamole is the creation and maintenance of software
related to providing performant, browser-based remote access
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Guacamole was founded 2017-11-14 (4 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 9 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Carl Harris on 2017-11-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Luke on 2020-02-07.
## Project Activity:
The scope for the upcoming 1.4.0 release was finalized on 2021-08-30. Around
20% of the scope for 1.4.0 remains to be completed before the first RC can be
cut, with roughly half those remaining issues currently in progress.
Recent releases:
- 1.3.0 was released on 2021-01-01.
- 1.2.0 was released on 2020-06-28.
- 1.1.0 was released on 2020-01-29.
## Community Health:
The community is active and healthy. The user@ list encountered a disruption
in activity when Nabble ceased supporting mailing list synchronization. This
disruption resulted in a period of divergence between Nabble and the list,
with new mailing list threads not reaching the forums and new forum threads
not reaching the mailing list. There have otherwise been no noteworthy changes
in the level of activity.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig]
# Description
Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's intention
isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that makes people look
beyond their project's boundaries and helps the projects to collaborate.
Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version control
systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well as non-ASF
projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java part of the foundation
but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and OpenSSL.
# Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention.
# Membership Data
Apache Gump was founded 2004-02-18 (17 years ago) There are currently 16
committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
No new PMC members. Last addition was Mark Thomas on 2014-12-03. No new
committers. Last addition was Konstantin Kolinko on 2015-02-11.
# Project Activity
The Tomcat community is the only one still using Gump actively and the only
activity in Gump is around keeping the infrastructure alive and tweaking
things for the benefit of Tomcat builds.
During the past two months Gump has migrated to use OpenJDK 11 rather than
OpenJDK 8 for al JVM based builds. During the migration several projects have
been removed that are (no longer) needed by the projects actively using Gump.
We will certainly support any other project that wants to get the benefit of
the early warning system for backwards incompatible changes Gump provides, but
we are not actively recruiting projects.
# Releases
Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF
installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the time
following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy.
# Community Health
There isn't much happening but help is there when anybody needs it.
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore G]
## Description:
The mission of Helix is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed
resources
## Issues:
No issues for the board.
## Membership Data:
Apache Helix was founded 2013-12-17 (8 years ago)
There are currently 23 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Junkai Xue on 2017-07-03.
- No new committers. Last addition was Meng Zhang on 2021-01-22.
## Project Activity:
- 1.0.2 was released on 2020-09-01.
- Deprecating old 0.6.* and 0.7.* releases
## Community Health:
- Discussion performed normal in open source.
- The user questions increased recently.
- Will try to hold another virtual meet up.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan]
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Hudi Project [Vinoth Chandar]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Hudi is the creation and maintenance of software related
to providing atomic upserts and incremental data streams on Big Data
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Hudi was founded 2020-05-19 (a year ago)
There are currently 24 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Raymond Xu was added to the PMC on 2021-07-13
- Danny Chen was added as committer on 2021-07-12
- Zhiwei Peng was added as committer on 2021-07-12
## Project Activity:
Hudi community released 0.9.0 version, which bring several large features
including Spark SQL DML/DDL support, performance enhancements for uncommitted
data rollbacks, virtual keys and a bunch of new data sources.
Community also discussed and ratified a more clear description of all the
components in the project currently, a future set of new components we will
build out and this was shared in a manifesto blog on our site.
Members of the community continued to present their work in different
conferences and tech talks. We also redid our website, moving away from the
jekyll theme to docusaurus and in the process of realigning the docs to the
new platform vision. We will also be presenting this in ApacheCon
later in september. In other news, we moved our CI away from Travis (shared with
other apache projects) to Azure pipelines. Long queuing delays in travis
was slowing our development significantly in the early part of the quarter.
## Community Health:
There was significant dev activity leading upto the release, that explains the
large number of commits, prs. We use github issues for user support, there were
fewer opened this reporting period.
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Iceberg Project [Ryan Blue]
## Description:
Apache Iceberg is a table format for huge analytic datasets that is designed
for high performance and ease of use.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Iceberg was founded 2020-05-19 (a year ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Zheng Hu was added to the PMC on 2021-06-28
- Jack Ye was added as committer on 2021-07-02
## Project Activity:
0.12.0 was released on 2021-08-15 and is a significant update from 0.11.1.
The community voted to adopt version 2 of the Iceberg table format that adds
row-level updates and deletes.
The community is also working on several improvements:
* Preparing for 1.0 of the Java reference implementation
* Adding an Iceberg specification for SQL views
* Spark implementations of MERGE and UPDATE that use row-level deletes
* Flink UPSERT support
* Z-order specification
* Relative path support for disaster recovery
* Branching and tagging table snapshots
* Additional storage integration modules (Dell EMC, Aliyun OSS)
* Encryption
## Community Health:
The community is healthy and continues to grow. Unique contributors grew by
2% this quarter to 50. Contributions increased to more than 500 PRs and more
than 400 PRs were addressed.
The community is discussing how to scale and coordinate with a published roadmap
and github projects to link the roadmap to individual issues.
The community is also forming a new group of contributors around Python. This
group has held sync meetings and is planning to make the python API more
pythonic and to get to an initial python release.
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean]
# Incubator PMC report for September 2021
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are presently 37 podlings incubating. In August, podlings executed 10
distinct releases. We added 2 new IPMC members, and none retired.
There was 1 IP clearance in August, and no projects graduated last month.
A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months.
This month we were missing reports from Hivemall and Spot. Hivemall asked
to report next month, and Spot will be asked to report next month. The
three projects that failed to report last month have reported this month.
There was a discussion on the IP clearance for Apache AsterixDB JDBC
Driver as all history had been removed and all headers replaced, making it
difficult to determine IP clearance.
A Maven IP clearance was discovered to contain category X licensed code.
It was a quiet month, and most discussions on the mailing list were around
releases, new mentors and IP clearances.
## Community
### New IPMC members:
- Madhawa Gunasekara
- Xun Liu
### People who left the IPMC:
- None
## New Podlings
- None
## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Hivemall
- Spot
## Graduations
- None
The board has motions for the following:
- None
## Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
September:
- Age 0.5.0
- ShenYu 2.4.0
- DataLab 2.5.0
- EventMesh 1.2.0
- Hop 0.99
- Liminal 0.0.3
- NLPCcraft 0.9.0
- NLPCcraft Java client 0.9.0
- Teaclave v0.3.0
- YuniKorn 0.11.0
## IP Clearance
- Apache Maven - Mvndaemon
## Legal / Trademarks
- N/A
## Infrastructure
- N/A
## Miscellaneous
- N/A
## Table of Contents
[AGE](#age)
[Annotator](#annotator)
[brpc](#brpc)
[Crail](#crail)
[Hop](#hop)
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)
[Linkis](#linkis)
[Marvin-AI](#marvin-ai)
[Milagro](#milagro)
[Nemo](#nemo)
[StreamPipes](#streampipes)
[Toree](#toree)
[Wayang](#wayang)
--------------------
## AGE
AGE is a multi-model database that enables graph and relational models built
on PostgreSQL.
AGE has been incubating since 2020-04-29.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Build Community.
2. Continue good governance by practicing our release process.
3. Inviting more contributors to become committers
### 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?
The community grew a lot since the last report. We have a new committer
and
some more contributors in line to be invited to become a committer. We
also
have a potential PMC member. In addition, we have more issues on the
GitHub
page and more discussions from AGE users on the user mailing list.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have had one more release (our 5th release) since the last report, and
the next release will be happening this month. We also have a
visualization
tool added as a subproject for AGE, which allows the user to visualize
their data.
### 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
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-08-03
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-09-03
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, very much.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There is no issue that PPMC is aware of.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (age) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (age) Von Gosling
Comments:
- [ ] (age) Raphael Bircher
Comments:
- [X] (age) Felix Cheung
Comments:
- [X] (age) Juan Pan
Comments: I can see our community is growing. And IPMCs are making
many efforts.
- [ ] (age) Suneel Marthi
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## 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. Onboard additional contributors.
2. Continue demonstrating good governance by practicing our release
process.
3. Build community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Annotator missed last months report due to PPMC members being less
responsive
around summer holidays. Report reminder emails also seem to be
unreliable,
with the reminder for this report coming it after the submission date.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
More people seem to be finding the project, engaging with issues on
GitHub,
testing out the project, and providing feedback. However, Node.js
ecosystem
and packaging issues seem to be a barrier for users that will need to be
addressed.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The project made its second Apache release this past week.
### 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:
2021-09-03
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-09-04
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes! Mentors were helpful in testing the latest release, as
well as reaching out to see what else we might do to move
toward graduation.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no branding issues that the PPMC is aware of.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (annotator) Nick Kew
Comments: Congratulations on the release, though technically I think
a September date falls outside the reporting period.
- [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili
Comments:
- [ ] (annotator) Benjamin Young
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## 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.More apache release, not WIP release
2.Find more users and more usage
3.Grow developers community
### 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?
1. we got approved for our first apache release-1.0.rc02，not WIP release
2. committer lorin has gaved a talk about image graph usage using brpc on
ApacheCon Asia 2021,and got many positive interest.
3. we have setup our regular oncall plan, every week there will be an
engineer who take care of new issues and finish report
### How has the project developed since the last report?
No answer.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-08-29
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-09
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Panjuan are very helpful to our project and community.
she gaved many suggestions about release and promotion.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
we will check it after our 1.0 release.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (brpc) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments: Good report and agree completely with it. Great progress.
- [X] (brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
- [ ] (brpc) Von Gosling
Comments:
- [X] (brpc) Juan Pan
Comments: It looks great we did a release with non-WIP.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Crail
Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in
distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.
Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.More frequent/steady code contributions
2.New release
3.More committers
### 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?
A student from ETH Zurich became committer. He contributed base
elasticity
support.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
A Master thesis project at ETH just finished, which extends elasticity
support to dynamic data node addition and removal without data loss. We
expect PR's out of this activity within the next weeks.
### 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:
2021-05-03
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-05-16
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors are helpful and always responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
PPMC is not managing the podling's brand / trademarks.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (crail) Julian Hyde
Comments: Project activity is slow. Noting the "PPMC is not managing
the podling's brand / trademarks." comment above, I'll start a
conversation on private@ about trademarks.
- [ ] (crail) Luciano Resende
Comments:
- [X] (crail) Felix Cheung
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Hop
Hop is short for the Hop Orchestration Platform. Written completely in Java
it aims to provide a wide range of data orchestration tools, including a
visual development environment, servers, metadata analysis, auditing
services and so on. As a platform, Hop also wants to be a reusable library
so that it can be easily reused by other software.
Hop has been incubating since 2020-09-24.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
no known remaining issues
### 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?
the community continues to grow on our Mattermost chat and social media.
Local user groups have started in (at least) Brazil, Spain, Italy and
Japan.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Hop released 0.99 in early August and aims to release 1.0 in the next
couple of weeks. In preparation for 1.0, the focus has been on testing,
bug
fixing and documentation, although new functionality is added continuously
as well.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
Hop wants to release 1.0 first, and will start the graduation preparation
once 1.0 is available.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-08-07
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Bruno Silva: 2021-07-05
David Campen: 2021-07-06
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
There haven't been any issues that required mentor input. Whenever we need
input from our mentors, they are available. Especially Julian Hyde has
been very helpful.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No known issues.
Name search has been performed, no issues there either:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-191
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (hop) Tom Barber
Comments:
- [X] (hop) Julian Hyde
Comments: Project is very close to graduation. I encourage them to
take the next step.
- [ ] (hop) Maximilian Michels
Comments:
- [X] (hop) Francois Papon
Comments: The project is moving forward very fast and is now closed
to be graduate to Top Level.
- [ ] (hop) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Kyuubi
Kyuubi is a distributed multi-tenant Thrift JDBC/ODBC server for large-scale
data management, processing, and analytics, built on top of Apache Spark and
designed to support more engines.
Kyuubi has been incubating since 2021-06-21.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Gain more active contributors/committers to build a diverse community
2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
3. Improve project structure and documentation
### 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?
1. 5 new contributors participate in the community since entered Apache
incubation. There are currently 42 contributors and 9 committers.
2. 6 authors have pushed 72 commits to master and 129 commits to all
branches. On master, 264 files have changed and there have been 6,186
additions and 1,863 deletions.
3. Several discussions/bug reports on the GitHub Issues/WeChat groups,
etc.
4. Number of GitHub stars increased (last report: 644, currently: 692).
5. Participate in 1 meetup to promote the project.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We have sent the 1.3.0-rc7 to the general mailing list
2. RESTful API Design is accomplished, the community is working on
implementation
3. Support engine pool feature
4. Add Z-Order extensions to support optimize SQL
5. Support add repartition for OptimizedCreateHiveTableAsSelectCommand
6. Add integration test with Apache Hudi
7. Support stop Spark engine through web ui
8. Several improvements on Kubernetes integration
9. Several improvements on event system
10. Several bugs fix and stability improvements
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
Not yet
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
No answer.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No answer.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (kyuubi) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: Kyuubi team is trying their best to do the first release and
the project development is quite active.
- [ ] (kyuubi) Jeff Zhang
Comments:
- [X] (kyuubi) Duo Zhang
Comments: The first release will be ready soon, congratulations.
- [X] (kyuubi) Akira Ajisaka
Comments: The development of the project is very active.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Linkis
Apache Linkis is a computation middleware project, which decouples the upper
applications and the underlying data engines, provides standardized
interfaces (REST, JDBC, WebSocket etc.) to easily connect to various
underlying engines (Spark, Presto, Flink, etc.), while enables cross engine
context sharing, unified job& engine governance and orchestration.
Linkis has been incubating since 2021-08-02.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Improve project infrastructure(CI, CD, test automation, etc.) and
structure to facilitate community collaboration
2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
3. Gain more active contributors and committers to build a diverse
community
### 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?
* 5 new contributors participate in the community since passed Apache
incubation vote. There are currently 51 contributors and 15 committers.
* 54 issues and 26 pull requests since passed Apache incubation vote.
* Some discussions or bug reports on GitHub issues and WeChat groups.
* Number of GitHub stars increased (last report: 2065, currently: 2095).
* Held 3 community meetings to discuss development tasks of Linkis-1.0.2,
Linkis-1.0.3 and Linkis-1.1.0.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Prepared for non-Apache release 1.0.2 after passed Apache incubation
vote.
* Add new modules Flink EngineConn, OnceEngineExecutor,
multiple-datasourcesupport for Flink EngineConn, monitoring Flink Metrics.
* Several improvements for label module and discovery service,
linkis-gateway, linkis-ps-bml, linkis-cg-linkismanager, linkis-engineconn
and linkis-engineplugin-spark.
* Support Hive 3.0.
* IP Clearance (SGA signed, completed).
* Infrastructure construction (DNS& mailing list enable, Github Apache
repo enable, Github migration, the first phase of the official website
page construction) progress 30%.
* Code modification (sensitive encryption algorithm check, LICENSE header
modification, GPL JAR package replacement, package name replacement, POM
file modification) progress 50%.
* Document modification (document link modification, NOTICE, LICENSE, and
DISCLAIMER modification) progress 50%.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-09-02
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committer added yet
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (linkis) Duo Zhang
Comments: The project is trying to set up the necessary
infrastructures, the progress is good.
- [X] (linkis) Lidong Dai
Comments:
- [X] (linkis) Shaofeng Shi
Comments:
- [ ] (linkis) Saisai Shao
Comments:
- [ ] (linkis) Junping Du
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Marvin-AI
Marvin-AI is an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps
data scientists, prototype and productionalize complex solutions with a
scalable, low-latency, language-agnostic, and standardized architecture
while simplifies the process of exploration and modeling.
Marvin-AI has been incubating since 2018-08-21.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase activity from current contributors and community.
2. Release a new architecture.
3. Integration with workflow frameworks.
### 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?
Three new undergraduated students to join our Marvin-lab.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Redesigned integrations with popular frameworks as: TFX, Apache Airflow
and Kubernetes.
- New CLI commands.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2019-07-18
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Wei Chen added as new PPMC member (2019-06-07).
- New committer Lucas Cardoso in approval process.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (marvin-ai) Luciano Resende
Comments:
- [ ] (marvin-ai) William Colen
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 libraries and applications
for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of users and
contributors to the project.
2. Continue to improve compliance with the Apache Way. In particular to
update the Milagro website and other project sites (e.g. Whimsy) in
accordance with Apache policies.
3. Further releases to increase the scope of the Milagro project, extend
the capability of existing releases and to demonstrate improved
compliance with the Apache Way.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Administrative tasks are still outstanding due to members' other
commitments
and the pandemic. These include In particular, a PPMC meeting to discuss
the project roadmap needs to be arranged, old releases need to be
deleted,
confirmation that the project's Whimsy, Clutch, SVN, Confluence &
Committers
pages are all current, and the code signing keys needs countersigning.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
No change.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Works is still progressing preparing the MPC library for its first
official
Apache release. Some issue regarding static code analysis were
encountered
but these have now been resolved.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2020-02-10
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
February 2020
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Although progress on the project has faltered, there have been no issues
with the mentors.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No known issues, but further investigation is still required by the
Milagro community.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (milagro) Nick Kew
Comments:
- [X] (milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Nemo
Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors
of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.
Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Address a few remaining items in the Apache Project Maturity model
2. Grow the community
3.
### 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?
- Address the items in the Apache Project Maturity model
- Hosted three GSoC students to contribute to Nemo successfully
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Continued to develop (wide-area) streaming support
- Developing partial aggregation
- Developing how to partition a task into subtasks
- Worked on a basic Nemo simulator
### 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:
2020-12-07
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
February 27, 2020
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (nemo) Hyunsik Choi
Comments:
- [X] (nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments:
- [ ] (nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
- [X] (nemo) Markus Weimer
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## ShenYu
ShenYu is a high performance Microservices API gateway in Java ecosystem,
compatible with a variety of mainstream framework systems, supports hot
plug. Users can write their own plugin meet the current requirement and
future needs in a variety of scenarios, especially in large-scale scenes.
ShenYu has been incubating since 2021-05-03.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Make an Apache Release.
2. Build new website document.
3. Building a diverse community with open governance.
### 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?
* 11+ new contributors participate in the community
since entered the
last report. There are currently 199 contributors and 25 committers.
* 60+ pull request since entered the last report
* There is regular traffic on the mailing list
(~50+ mailing list discussions/month).
* Number of GitHub stars increased
(last report: 5063, currently: 5181).
* Held 2 community meetings to discuss development tasks
and how to build an open governance community.
* Opened ShenYu source code activity.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* Release 2.4.0.
* Refactor New Website.
* Admin Support pg.
* Refactor Integrated test.
* New Feature for Requese And Response Cryptor Plugin.
* Plugin Support Dynamic loading.
### 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:
No Release yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
July 2021
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (shenyu) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: Finished the project setup, and the first release is out.
- [ ] (shenyu) Jincheng Sun
Comments:
- [ ] (shenyu) Duo Zhang
Comments:
- [ ] (shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (shenyu) Atri Sharma
Comments:
- [X] (shenyu) Justin Mclean
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## StreamPipes
StreamPipes is a self-service (Industrial) IoT toolbox to enable non-
technical users to connect, analyze and explore (Industrial) IoT data
streams.
StreamPipes has been incubating since 2019-11-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Grow the community
2. Make more releases
3. Complete Maturity assessment
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
There are no issues right now.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
* Two community talks were given at ApacheCon Asia 2021
* Two talks are also accepted for ApacheCon @Home
* Several new contributors appeared on the mailing list and submitted
pull requests
* We've seen increased activity on the user mailing list and more
traction in general
* Number of Twitter followers has increased (last report: 188, currently:
199)
* Number of Github stars increased (last report: 234, currently: 255)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
* A new release 0.68.0 was published in July
* Community members are currently working on several larger improvements,
such as a completely renewed data explorer and better service discovery
* Several bugs were fixed
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2021-07-22
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-05-28
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, our mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
We are actively managing the brand and did not discover any issues
related to incorrect brand use.
Next step related to brand management is to incorporate the new logo into
the website and application.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (streampipes) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
- [X] (streampipes) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
- [ ] (streampipes) Julian Feinauer
Comments:
- [X] (streampipes) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [ ] (streampipes) Kenneth Knowles
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Toree
Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark.
Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase active contributors
### 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?
It has been a quiet few months, with a few bug fixes and code cleanup.
The community also updated the release to provide pip packages to conform
to the new release requirements for python packages.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
New RC conforming to the new release requirements for python packages.
### 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:
2020-07-31
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Kevin Bates was added to the PPMC on 2019-08-14
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
There was nothing requiring mentor intervention on the last quarter.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No Trademark issues
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (toree) Luciano Resende
Comments:
- [ ] (toree) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
- [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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## Wayang
Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling
the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data
processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames
the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data
processing platforms that we currently witness.
Wayang has been incubating since 2020-12-16.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Educate the new PPMCs to be able to do Apache releases
2. Do our first Apache release
3. Grow the community
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Until the moment of this report it was created and didn't have any issue,
because all the important issues got solved.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
The community of Apache Wayang presented at one conference and is
preparing another presentation this month.
- Apache Wayang participated in the BOSS@VLDB 2021 to present the
functionalities; you can find the presentation on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgD_1tPn9sc.
- Apache Wayang will present at the ApacheCon@HOME on September 22 at
18:00 UTC.
The community is also expecting new contributors soon because one
collaboration will start during the following months.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
During the last months, the community was fixing some errors, which
created a bottleneck, but it finally got solved. After solving the
blockage, the focus was cleaning the licenses in the code because some
libraries used by Apache Wayang were not license compatible with Apache
License. At the moment of this report, We are currently discussing
starting our first release.
### 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:
No Release yet. At the moment of this report, We are currently discussing
starting our first release..
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2021-03-05 : Committer
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the mentors are very responsive and helpful
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No answer.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (wayang) Christofer Dutz
Comments: Admittedly, I was a bit worried about the extremely low
volume of communication and commits for some time, but it seems that
the project has started moving again after that conference they mentioned.
- [ ] (wayang) Lars George
Comments:
- [ ] (wayang) Bernd Fondermann
Comments:
- [ ] (wayang) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache IoTDB Project [Xiangdong Huang]
## Description:
The mission of Apache IoTDB is the creation and maintenance of software related
to an IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis
## Issues:
No.
## Membership Data:
Apache IoTDB was founded 2020-09-16 (a year ago)
There are currently 41 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Chao Wang on 2021-06-02.
- Chao Wang was added as committer on 2021-07-03
## Project Activity:
Release:
- IOTDB-0.12.1 was released on 2021-06-22.
- IOTDB-0.11.4 was released on 2021-06-21.
Release Candidate:
- IoTDB-0.12.2 RC3 was proposed on 2021-09-08
Besides, we opened a new repo iotdb-web-workbench for IoTDB's new module.
## Community Health:
In last quarter report, we reported that the dev@ mailing list
traffic decreased.
We investigated the reason and find it is because many discussion
happens on Confluence document.
This quarter, dev@ mailing list is more active (53% traffic increase),
for two reasons: (1) we encourage contributors discuss on the dev@,
and (2) more new contributors joins. We think the community is back to healthy.
Two more things:
- The community joined ApacheCon Asia.
- The community enabled Github Discussion, which is used for user-help.
- The community had a discussion about how to celebrate the first
anniversary of IoTDB's graduation from the Incubator.
But no a clear consensus up to now. Will keep to discuss.
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Marcel Reutegger]
## Description:
The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming
implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API
(JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Jackrabbit content
repository is stable, largely feature complete and actively being
maintained.
Jackrabbit Oak is an effort to implement a scalable and performant
hierarchical content repository as a modern successor to the Apache
Jackrabbit content repository. It is targeted for use as the
foundation of modern world-class web sites and other demanding
content applications. In contrast to its predecessor, Oak does not
implement all optional features from the JSR specifications and it
is not a reference implementation.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Jackrabbit was founded 2006-03-15 (15 years ago)
There are currently 58 committers and 58 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Miroslav Smiljanic on 2020-10-27.
- No new committers. Last addition was Miroslav Smiljanic on 2020-10-27.
## Project Activity:
Apache Jackrabbit Oak receives most attention nowadays. All
maintenance branches and the main development branch are
continuously seeing moderate to high activity.
We continue making regular feature releases of Jackrabbit Oak. The
most recent release was Jackrabbit Oak 1.40.0 that was made available
on June 3rd.
Apache Jackrabbit itself is mostly in maintenance mode with most of
the work going into bug fixing and tooling. New features are mainly
driven by dependencies from Jackrabbit Oak.
The team migrated the Apache Jackrabbit Oak code base from SVN to Git.
The migration went mostly smooth with some hiccups related to automated
tooling. We now see a healthy increase of pull requests. Over the past
three months 96 pull requests were opened, which is a 166% increase.
## Community Health:
The project is healthy with a continuous stream of traffic mostly on
the dev lists reflecting the activity of the respective component.
There is a wide range of topics being discussed on the dev lists as well
as on the various JIRA issues.
Commit activity is moderate, mirroring the activity on the
JIRA issues and the desire of the individual contributors to bring
features and improvements in for the next Jackrabbit Oak release.
## Releases:
- jackrabbit-2.20.3 was released on 2021-06-11
- jackrabbit-2.21.7 was released on 2021-07-09
- jackrabbit-oak-1.22.8 was released on 2021-07-20
- jackrabbit-2.16.8 was released on 2021-08-13
- jackrabbit-2.14.10 was released on 2021-09-09
## JIRA activity:
- 169 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 144 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili]
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré]
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (11 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Karaf runtime 4.3.3 has been released, it's a major release on the 4.3 series.
On the other hand, Karaf runtime 4.2.12 is in preparation (vote will start
shortly), as well as Karaf Decanter 2.8.0.
Karaf main will be upgraded to 4.4 series to update to OSGi R8.
We also did good progress on Karaf 5 proposal: it will presented during
ApacheCon.
## Community Health:
We are looking forward on ApacheCon to have kind of discussion panel about
Karaf 5 (expectations, use cases, etc). We also plan a Karaf meetup before the
end of the year to announce Karaf 5.
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus]
## Description:
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
## Issues:
There are no issues which require board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Libcloud was founded 2011-05-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 24 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Dimitris Moraitis on 2021-05-07.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dimitris Moraitis on 2021-05-02.
## Project Activity:
Last release (v3.3.1) was in January 2021. We plan to do a release with
small bug fixes and changes some time in the next couple of months.
## Community Health:
Github received last activity than past quarter, but there were still
some contributions.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Michael Sokolov]
## Description:
The mission of Lucene is the creation and maintenance of software related to
the java Search engine library.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention in this cycle, except this small
one:
In our last (June) report, we made a mistake: we failed to wrap private email
archive links inside a <private/> section (sorry!). From what we can tell,
the board noted that, and also corrected it for us (thank you!). Yet it looks
like that report was still not published and is still pending board approval?
Is there something more we should do?
## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene was founded 2005-01-18 (17 years ago). There are currently 90
committers and 62 PMC members in this project. The committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Mayya Sharipova was added to the PMC on 2021-06-27
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Miller on 2021-05-28.
## Project Activity:
Development continues passionately. We released 8.9.0 on Jun 16, and PyLucene
8.9.0 shortly thereafter. We are about to release 8.10 (release branch is
cut), the next Lucene/Solr feature-branch release and possibly the last of the
8.x series. This is our first non-floating-point-compliant release in a long
time.
We are also close to our next major release, 9.0. This will be the first
release without Solr, and includes major changes like switching from ant to
gradle for our build, first-class approximate nearest neighbor (KNN) search,
and swapping the byte order for shorts, ints and longs written to the index
from big-endian (popular thanks to Sun SPARCstations long ago) to
little-endian (popular now thanks to x86 and ARM architectures). 9.0 will
require JDK 11 at a minimum (up from JDK 8 for Lucene 8.x).
## Community Health:
The user and development community remains healthy post-split. The board
reporter tool shows sizable drops across many development metrics (issues
opened/closed, PRs opened/closed, contributor count, etc.), but we suspect the
tool might be mis-configured (maybe not pointing to the lucene repository?)
and will work with COMDEV to sort it out (we opened
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-425 for this). Our nightly
benchmarks also track the number of open and closed GitHub PRs against the
lucene repository and shows roughly linear progress on pushing PRs and
containing the open PR count:
https://home.apache.org/~mikemccand/lucenebench/github_pr_counts.html
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug]
## Description:
Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.
## Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
We are still trying to work with INFRA to resolve a CI/CD issue we are having
with GitHub action https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21453
which is an ongoing task to allow us to automate the building and deployment
of both the Lucene.Net website but also it's documentation site.
## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (9 years ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No community committer or PMC changes in the last quarter.
- Ron Clabo was added as committer on 2021-06-02.
## Project Activity:
We are continuing to track down bugs and/or mistranslations from Java, and are
uncovering new issues every month. There has been an overall effort to
normalize exception handling, fix system timing issues, and to fix many
inefficiencies due to Java APIs that were missing in .NET, that have recently
been added to J2N.
J2N has been the primary focus of the Lucene.NET project this quarter.
Recent releases: Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00014 was released on 2021-03-28.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00013 was released on 2020-11-16.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00012 was released on 2020-09-19.
If all goes to plan there will be further beta releases shipped in the next
quarter and then hopefully an RC and final release of 4.8.
## Community Health:
Last quarter we welcomed our newest committer, Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02. He has
been helping a lot to close GitHub issues, answer incoming questions, and
promote Lucene.NET.
We have seen a slow down of incoming bug reports and have closed some issues
that have been open for a long time, which is hopefully a good sign that we
are nearing stability.
Since 2021-03-17 there has been 53 PRs created to the project of which 50 have
been closed or merged.
Since 2021-03-17 there has been 21 bugs reported to the project of which 10
have been fixed or closed.
(previous quarter stats available directly via
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?lucenenet#githubissues)
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Guillaume Nodet]
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Mnemonic Project [Yanhui Zhao]
## Description:
Apache Mnemonic is an open-source Java library for durable object-oriented
programming on hybrid storage-class memory(e.g. NVM) space. It comes up with
durable object model (DOM) and durable computing model(DCM) and takes full
advantages of storage-class memory to simplify the code complexity, avoid
SerDe/(Un)Marshal, mitigate caching for constructing next generation computing
platforms. Mnemonic makes the storing and transmitting of massive linked
objects graphs simpler and more efficient. The performance tuning could also
be mostly converged to a single point of tuning place if based on Mnemonic to
process and analyze linked objects. The programmer is able to focus on the
durable object oriented business logic instead of worrying about how to
normalize/join, SerDe(un)marshal, cache and store their linked business
objects with arbitrary complexity.
## Issues:
None during this report period
## Membership Data:
Apache Mnemonic was founded 2020-11-30 (9 months ago)
There are currently 20 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Chenyang Li on 2020-11-04.
- Zhen Li was added as committer on 2021-07-22
We keep looking for new committers and grow our communities
## Project Activity:
We had our 0.15.0 release at July 4th, covering the following achievements
1. Port the resgc and primitive dependency and remove the project dependency
on this third party libraries. (With the approval from the author)
2. Upgrade project JDK version to 14, and resolve the conflicts and issues
across the project to support this upgrade
3. Major website information updates including member information, release
information, release flows, etc.
4. Bug fixes and general project improvements
We are currently planning our 0.16.0 release targeting 2nd half of September.
With focusing on test cases/deployment improvement, including all test cases
(except 3rd-party) passed after new JDK upgrade, all external code
dependencies removed for easy deployment, update 3rd party tests based on
latest version, and bug fixes/improvements across the project. Xiaojin Jiao
will serve as our release manager for 0.16.0 release, and we have JIRA ticket
created for this release task.
We also propose a potenctial roadmap for our project 1.0 release by the end of
this year, and are engaging with our communities for the feedbacks and
suggestions.
## Community Health:
We now see a stable contribution flow from our committers, from issue open, to
pr request, to developer activities since our last release. According to the
community health report, we had 31 issues opened and 22 PR request so far,
will several more in the pipeline preparing for the 0.16.0 release. In
addition to our mailist, we communicate through github comments for code
contribution guideline and suggestions on PR request. There are several issue
or feature enhancement we would like to see in our project, and marked them on
github page to help us tracking them.
Our community has held regular meetings on weekly basis, and we have covered
the following topics on the project meeting
- Project related training
- Release target discussion and planning
- New feature support discussion
- Blocker issue discussion and possible solution
- Encourage community engagement and looking to grow our developer communities
We hope to attract more committers through a clear layout of our project
roadmap, which is currently in discussion and planning.
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Mynewt Project [Szymon Janc]
## Description:
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V and MIPS
architectures.
The mission of Apache Mynewt is the creation and maintenance of software
related to an embedded OS optimized for networking and built for remote
management of constrained devices that are incapable of running either Linux or
Android
## Issues:
BT SIG manufacturer ID - can this be handled by Mynewt PMC chair or board
action is required?
## Membership Data:
Apache Mynewt was founded 2017-06-21 (4 years ago)
There are currently 36 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jerzy Kasenberg on 2019-10-24.
- No new committers. Last addition was Krzysztof Kopyściński on 2021-01-26.
- Szymon Janc is new Apache Mynewt PMC chair.
## Project Activity:
Next release is tentatively planned on Q4 2022.
Community work in several areas including:
test facilities, improvements in MCU and BSP support, bug fixes
## Community Health:
Due to summer and vacations season last quarter was quite calm.
Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity has dropped compared to last quarter
- Questions on mailing list are responded promptly
- Slack activity dropped
# GitHub activity:
- Number of opened PRs dropped compared to last quarter
- Number of commits and code contributors is similar to last quarter
- Issue types seen include change/feature requests, bug reports,
contributions/PR, Q&A
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache NetBeans Project [Geertjan Wielenga]
## Description:
The mission of Apache NetBeans is the creation and maintenance of software
related to development environments, tooling platforms, and application
frameworks, in particular for Java.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache NetBeans was founded 2019-04-17 (2 years ago)
There are currently 77 committers and 63 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Sarvesh Kesharwani on 2019-06-06.
- No new committers. Last addition was José Contreras on 2021-05-24.
## Project Activity:
- 12.4 was released on 2021-05-19.
- 12.5 release is slipping, voting candidate is available.
- 12.5 will have experimental support for Java 17 LTS.
- Would be good to have more release managers to spread knowledge.
- Idea to have a Release Team of about 6 people per release, rather than
depending on one or two hardworking release managers.
- Strong core of developers continually working on their areas.
## Community Health:
We've been wrapping up the 12.5 release, which has slowed down activity on
mailing lists and elsewhere:
- dev@netbeans.apache.org had a 53% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(375 emails compared to 791)
- users@netbeans.apache.org had a 9% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(463 emails compared to 507):
- 214 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-35% change)
- 94 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-15% change)
- 47 commits in the past quarter (-32% change)
- 10 code contributors in the past quarter (-9% change)
- 183 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-10% change)
- 180 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-12% change)
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato]
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise
processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management),
E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing
Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset
Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for
reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (15 years ago)
There are currently 54 committers and 32 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Priya Sharma on 2021-03-11.
## Project Activity:
- new release: Apache OFBiz 17.12.08 was released on 2021-08-09
- security team: with the release 17.12.08 a security vulnerability has been
fixed and announced (CVE-2021-37608); during the last quarter the team has
received a few other vulnerability reports, not qualifying for CVEs, that
could be addressed by the community thru the standard bug ticketing system's
workflow
- upcoming releases: the community is preparing to release the first release
from the 18.12 branch, that will become the new active branch; when this
will happen, the 17.12 branch will be archived; the community is also
discussing to create a new branch out of trunk to initiate the stabilization
process for future releases
- Various bug fixes, refactoring, code cleanups and enhancements have been
contributed to the project
- Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our
backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty
## Community Health:
The last quarter has been slower than usual, possibly because of the summer
season. However the community is engaged in improving the trunk, preparing for
the new releases, addressing security vulnerability reports, publishing new
releases (1 in the last quarter) and in various discussions and support
requests posted in the mailing list and in our issue tracker. No new
committers and PMC members have been invited but there are a few candidates in
our watchlist.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Michael Bolz]
## Description:
The Apache Olingo Project provides an implementation of the OASIS OData
(Open Data Protocol) specifications, in server and client form;
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Olingo was founded 2014-03-19 (7 years ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ramya Vasanth on 2019-04-15.
- No new committers. Last addition was Archana Rai on 2017-05-26.
## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
- 4.8.0 was released on 2020-12-27.
- 4.7.1 was released on 2019-12-25.
- 4.7.0 was released on 2019-12-04.
With release 4.8.0 we continued to have at least
one maintenance release per year.
For this year (2021) release 4.9.0 is planned in december.
## Community Health:
Overall community health is good and activity
on the mailing lists in last quarter has increased.
The V4 code line is on development also reflected in some
discussions on mailing list which results in 10 new JIRA items.
One JIRA item and one PR could be solved and some commits where done,
but with December release preparation this will increase.
Release of V4 version 4.9.0 is planned to be done in December
this year containing the latest updates, fixes and improvements.
The V2 code line has still open JIRA items but is is not certain if there
are enough changes to do a new release this year.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Imesha Sudasingha]
## Description:
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data
capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
## Issues:
No issues persist that require board's attention
## Membership Data:
Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (11 years ago)
There are currently 47 committers and 46 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Nadeeshan Gimhana was added to the PMC on 2021-04-25
- No new committers. Last addition was Nadeeshan Gimhana on 2021-04-06.
## Project Activity:
- Last release was in October 2019.
With the conclusion of GSoC 2021, we have completed the new React.js based
OPSUI implementation. Additionally, we have introduced a docker deployment to
deploy OODT components with docker-compose with zero configuration. We plan to
release 1.9.1 patch release in the next quarter and then 2.0 with a bunch of
new features.
## Community Health:
Community health was really good, mainly due to the GSoC 2021 project activity
and several contributors working alongside to add different features. As a
result email activity, commits and PR counts were high compared to last quarter.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Jeff Zemerick]
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg]
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi]
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Pinot Project [Kishore G]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Pinot is creation and maintenance of distributed OLAP
data store to provide Real-time Analytics to power wide variety of
analytical use case
## Issues:
There are no open issues in the project that needs board's attention
at the moment.
## Membership Data:
Apache Pinot was founded 2021-07-20 (2 months ago)
There are currently 26 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- The community slack channel crossed 1700 members.
- No new PMC members (project graduated recently).
- No new committers were added.
## Project Activity:
- We completed the 0.8.0 project release that included various features.
Key callouts include:
+ Enhancements to JSON object indexing and support for nested JSON.
+ Support for Apache Pulsar and Kinesis streams for realtime ingestion.
+ Move from Java 8 to Java 11
+ Detailed release notes: https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/releases/0.8.0
## Community Health:
With the community contributions growing, the PMC met and discussed on
standardizing contribution guidelines that ensure productivity
from the contributors as well as maintains overall project growth in
the right direction. Link can be found here:
https://docs.pinot.apache.org/developers/developers-and-contributors/contribution-guidelines
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb]
## Description:
The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Rich Internet applications in Java.
## Issues:
As suggested by the Board from our last report and discussion on Legal
a Discussion Item A has been added (above) to consider appointing a
new PMC Member to provide project oversight. A separate email thread
on ComDev is also active (per Board request) to discuss community
development.
## Membership Data:
Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (11 years ago)
There are currently 9 committers and 7 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.
Note: this data seems to be in error, based on activity, so an update
needs to be made.
## Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13.
- Niclas Hedhman has asked to be removed from the PMC.
- No new committers were added.
## Project Activity:
There continues to be development activity, leading up to a new release,
now scheduled for the end of 2021.
## Community Health:
Following up on the Legal and ComDev discussions should provide insight
into the next steps for the project, which should include website updates
as well as appeals on the mailing lists.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache PLC4X Project [Christofer Dutz]
## Description:
The mission of the Apache PLC4X project is creating 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 currently no issues
## Membership Data:
Apache PLC4X was founded 2019-04-17 (2 years ago) There are currently 19
committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 5:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ben Hutcheson on 2020-11-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Thomas Frost on 2021-05-07.
## Project Activity:
The community has been working hard on preparing the codebase for the next
release. Many different larger initiatives are finally coming to an end and
are being integrated back into the devleopment branch. Currently two votes on
tooling releases are on their way, which are needed to do the big 0.9.0
release.
It's currently conference-time and we have quite a number of PLC4X related
talks accepted at various conferences:
- ApacheCon Asia (2 Talks)
- ApacheCon @Home (2 Talks) (upcoming)
- LF OSS-Summit (1 Talk) (upcoming)
- Eclipse Con (1 Talk) (upcmming)
- IoT Conference (1 Talk) (upcoming)
Apache PLC4X 0.8.0 was released on 2021-01-28
## Community Health:
After a short phase of summer-holiday related low activity, we're seeing
increased activity in both commits as well as the mailinglists
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew]
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor]
## Description:
Apache Portals exists to promote the use of open source portal technology. We
intend to build freely available and interoperable portal software in order to
promote the use of this technology. With the Pluto project, we provide a
reference implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is
a full feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project
is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely
available portlet applications.
## Issues:
## Membership Data:
Apache Portals was founded 2004-02-17 (18 years ago)
There are currently 41 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Neil Griffin on 2017-02-11.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ahmed on 2016-08-06.
## Project Activity:
A security related release for both Pluto and Jetspeed are
scheduled for Q4 of this year.
## Community Health:
pluto-dev@portals.apache.org had a 2500% increase
in traffic in the past quarter (26 emails compared to 1)
pluto-scm@portals.apache.org had a big increase in
traffic in the past quarter (9 emails compared to 0)
7 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (700% increase)
7 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (700% increase)
8 commits in the past quarter (800% increase)
1 code contributor in the past quarter (100% increase)
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Pulsar Project [Matteo Merli]
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Royale Project [Piotr Zarzycki]
## Description:
Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development
of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes.
Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run
wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova
applications, on Node, and on other platforms.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
- Hugo Ferreira became a committer on 5 October 2020.
- Christofer Dutz became a committer on 4 September 2020.
## Project Activity:
We have released a new version of the Royale framework, 0.9.8. It contains a
very large number of changes due to more than a year elapsing since the
previous release. Many of the changes improve system stability and rendering
speed; others make available features and functions that were present in
Apache Flex.
Activity on social media:
- Our Twitter account has 719 (previously 715) followers.
- Our Facebook page has 208 (previously 169) likes.
- Our LinkedIn Group has 159 (previously 156) people.
- Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 62 (previously 58)
questions.
- Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes
quick team consultations more convenient.
## Community Health:
There are number of users who have ongoing migration projects from Flex to
Apache Royale - we are seeing quite often technical questin on users mailing
list regarding that.
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak]
## Description:
The mission of Apache ServiceMix project is to create and maintain a flexible,
open-source integration container, powered by OSGi, that unifies the features
and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, and Karaf into a powerful
runtime platform you can use to build your own integrations solutions.
## Issues:
No issue requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache ServiceMix was founded 2007-09-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 50 committers and 21 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrea Cosentino on 2017-03-15.
- No new committers. Last addition was Andrea Cosentino on 2016-03-13.
## Project Activity:
We did monthly bundles releases (for other projects like Camel or Karaf):
* bundles-2021.06
* bundles-2021.07
* bundles-2021.08
## Community Health:
ServiceMix is still maintained, waiting the "move" to Karaf. Our main focus is
on specs and bundles (the runtime is really on Karaf side for now).
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Brian Demers]
## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework
## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.
## Project Activity:
- Shiro released v1.8.0 this quarter (2021-08-26).
- Work is underway to move the project's site build more maintainable
by migrating from custom tooling to an existing OSS static site generator.
- Work continues on 2.x, removing code and reducing module/build complexity
Releases:
- 1.8.0 was released on 2021-08-26.
- 1.7.1 was released on 2021-01-31.
- 1.7.0 was released on 2020-10-29.
## Community Health:
- JIRA messages have been moved to issues@shiro.a.o, this will shift reported
numbers around a little this quarter and likely next.
- The ASF Slack is often where dev chatter starts, (and then followed
up with a message to dev@shiro.a.o as needed)
- Happy 11th Birthday Apache Shiro!
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache SINGA Project [Wang Wei]
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu]
## Description:
Apache Sling™ is a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an
extensible content tree.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Sling was founded 2009-06-17 (12 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 29 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Angela Schreiber on 2021-03-16.
- No new committers. Last addition was Joerg Hoh on 2021-03-03.
## Project Activity:
Work continues on various individual modules, with 49 releases for this
reporting period.
Our sample application, the Sling Starter 12 is planned but no one is
actively working on its release.
## Community Health:
The project activity continues at a good pace. While we had significantly more
commits merged (+75%) the number of contributors is slightly down (-11%).
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz]
Apache SpamAssassin report to Board for September 2021
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. The project provides a
framework/engine and regular rule updates that reflect the changing nature of
spam email seen in the wild. Updated rules are generated through a combination
of hand crafted contributions and automated processing of spam and anonymized
processed non-spam that are contributed by volunteers.
Status and health report:
The project activities, including running our rule update infrastructure and
our dev and user mailing lists, are continuing smoothly.
Primary focus for development is now targeting version 4.0.0
Releases:
The last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 3.4.6 on 12 April 2021.
Note that we maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated
through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via
our mass-check facility.
Committer/PMC changes:
Most recent new committer: Paul Stead (pds) 12 September 2018
Most recent new PMC members:
Paul Stead (pds) 23 March 2021
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Storm Project [Kishor Patil]
## Description:
The mission of Storm is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Distributed, real-time computation system
## Issues:
Couple of vulnerabilities reported and are being resolved.
## Membership Data:
Apache Storm was founded 2014-09-16 (7 years ago)
There are currently 42 committers and 41 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bipin Prasad on 2020-11-15.
- No new committers. Last addition was Bipin Prasad on 2020-11-16.
## Project Activity:
Security issues being address, preparing for next release 2.3.0.
## Community Health:
The community is healthy with new bugs reported and being fixed.
Hoping to get next release out by next month.
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Attachment BP: 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:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Streams was founded 2017-07-18 (4 years ago). There are currently 9
committers and 9 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
1:1.
## Community changes:
- Brian Hodge joined PMC on 2020-04-26
- Brian Hodge became a committer on 2020-04-26
## Project Activity:
- Apache Streams 0.6.1 was released in March 2020.
- Next Apache Streams release will be the first compatible with JDK11.
- Necessary work to enable an Apache Streams binary/bytecode release so far
has stalled: curation of an accurate NOTICE file is required and no one has
demonstrated interest/time to complete this effort.
- Two PMC members are presenting work based on Apache Streams for ApacheCon
2021.
- Not much code or mailing list discussion since Q2 board report :(
- There is an ongoing discussion about path and priorities to 1.0 release.
## Community Health:
- Adding committers and growing the PMC will remain a focus.
- We need to identify and execute strategies to reach out to likely interested
users and developers, including evolving the project for new use cases.
- We need to conduct more regular roadmap planning, create and deliver based
on a release schedule.
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Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Submarine Project [Wangda Tan]
# [REPORT] Submarine - Sep 2021
## Description
Apache Submarine is a unified AI platform which allows engineers and data
scientists to run Machine Learning and Deep Learning workload in a distributed
cluster.
## Issues
- PMC proposed to change PMC chair from Wangda Tan to Xun Liu, awaiting the
board's approval.
## General
## Membership Data:
Apache Submarine was founded on 2019-10 There are currently 28 (from 26 since
last report) committers and 10 (from 9 since last report, Kai-Hsun Chen got
added) PMC members in this project.
## Project Activity:
### Releases
- Community is actively working on 0.6.0 since last report, we have released
0.5.0 in the last quarter.
## Community Health:
### JIRA Activity
- 172 JIRA tickets created since the past quarter [ project in ("Apache
Submarine") AND createdDate >= 2020-06-15
]
- 217 JIRA tickets resolved since the past quarter [ project in ("Apache
Submarine") AND resolutiondate >= 2021-06-15
]
- 48 JIRA tickets created since the past month [ project in ("Apache
Submarine") AND createdDate >= 2021-08-15
]
- 108 JIRA tickets resolved since the past month [ project in ("Apache
Submarine") AND resolutiondate >= 2021-08-15
]
### Mailing list, slack channel, Github activities:
- dev@submarine: 388 emails during Aug, 2021. There're 17 accounts
participated the discussion.
- Community sync up: Similar to last report. Submarine community sync up is
very active now, weekly sync up has 15+ participants in the last several
months.
- There're 494 stars of apache/submarine Github. (Up from 407)
## Answers for feedbacks from board:
No specific question from board for the last report.
Thanks, Wangda
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Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana]
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Membership Data:
Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09.
- No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14.
## Project Activity:
The Google Summer of Code project 'Containerisation of Apache Synapse ESB'[1]
was completed successfully. We got a good contribution from the student (Nuwan
Jayawardene). This is a good initiative for us to improve Synapse to support
containerized decentralized architecture. Nuwan is willing to engage with the
community after the project completion too.
We were unable to complete the work we targeting for the next release. We hope
we will be able to complete it soon. This is the first release we are going
after moving the code to Github. We hope to automate most of the activities in
the release process with Github so that we can minimize the cycles that we
need to spend on triggering a release.
[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5453446305546240
## Community Health:
dev@synapse.apache.org had a 22% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (25
emails compared to 32)
2 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
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Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
## Description:
- A Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java WebSocket and Java
Unified Expression language specifications implementation
and Jakarta EE equivalents.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
- There are currently 28 PMC members.
Igal Sapir was added to the PMC on Mar 18 2019
- There are currently 47 committers.
Raymond Augé was added as committer on 2020-07-02
## Project Activity:
Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M4 is a milestone release and is
targeted at Jakarta EE 10.
- Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M4 (alpha) was released on 2021-08-06
- Apache Tomcat 10.0.10 was released on 2021-08-05
- Apache Tomcat 9.0.52 was released on 2021-08-06
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.70 was released on 2021-08-16
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.31 was released on 2021-09-01
## Community Health:
- Continued healthy activity across multiple components and
responsiveness on both dev and user lists.
## Security:
- Detailed status:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
## Trademark:
- No new trademark issues in the last 2 months
and there are currently no outstanding trademark issues that the
Apache Tomcat PMC is working on.
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Attachment BT: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
## Description:
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based
on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java
Enterprise Edition Specifications.
## Health
The project continues to see good turnout on release votes for a second
quarter. The latest release saw 11 +1 votes total with 5 of those votes
being binding. Though we are in good shape, we should still consider more
PMC additions to keep the trend going in the right direction.
## Activity
Efforts shifted to TomEE 8 after the considerable amount of work the
community underwent to reach Jakarta EE 9.1 certification with TomEE 9 for
the day of the Jakarta EE 9.1 release announcement. During the push several
tests in the main build were broken and as mentioned in the previous report
the TomEE 8.0.7 binaries had issues and the community decided not to publish
them to the website. The 8.0.7 binaries were placed on the mirror system to
sync to archive.apache.org, then immediately taken down.
After a short break to recharge, work over the subsequent weeks went to
fixing the tests and restoring a passing build. The last of this work
finished recently and TomEE 8.0.8 went up for vote 9/1 and successfully
completed 9 days later.
With TomEE 8.0.8 released work will likely shift back to TomEE 9, which is
still in milestone, to close remaining gaps required to do a final release.
Part of this will involve helping out Apache BVal get a passing TCK result
with the new jakarta namespace. During the push for certification, the
project temporarily switched TomEE 9 to Hibernate Bean Validator, which is
compliant and Apache Licensed.
The project had some unfinished tasks since the migration off the Apache CMS.
The proceess to generate/publish html to the final repo was still very
manual. This has now been automated with Jenkins jobs triggered if any of
the documentation sources are updated. Because the process was previously
manual, contributions to the website sometimes went a few weeks before the
site someone regenerated the site and published them. Now that things are
automated and published very quickly after a PR merge, we have noticed a
resurgance of activity translating examples on the website to other Spanish
and Portugese.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition Cesar Hernandez on February 10th 2021
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 33 committers.
- Last committer added was Richard Zowalla on January 6th 2021
## Releases:
- Apache TomEE 8.0.8 on September 9, 2021
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Attachment BU: Report from the Apache TVM Project [Tianqi Chen]
## Description:
The mission of Apache TVM is the creation and maintenance of software related
to compilation of machine learning models to run on a wide range of hardware
platforms
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache TVM was founded 2020-11-17 (10 months ago)
There are currently 46 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Cody Yu was added to the PMC on 2021-07-13
- Junru Shao was added to the PMC on 2021-07-08
- Giuseppe Rossini was added as committer on 2021-09-04
- Manupa Karunaratne was added as committer on 2021-08-26
- Siyuan Feng was added as committer on 2021-09-04
## Project Activity:
Last release: 2020-10-09
The community starts the 0.8 release planning process. This release is going
to contain a few major reworks of the TVM's internal architecture and bring
next set of improvements. The project have been quite healthy and maintains
the rate of 210 commits per month.
Recent highlights include:
- TensorIR scheduling system close to land in a month.
- New frontend support: Oneflow, Paddle
- Project API for micro tvm.
- Automatic mixed precision support to enable customized floating points such
as fp16.
## Community Health:
We continue to bring new people from different organizations as committers and
PMC members. The new RFC process(apache/tvm-rfcs) is now in-place. Overall the
community reacted positively to the new RFC process as it allows more people
to participate in the design proposal phase of the architecture. We also start
to see a lot of collaborations around RFC discussions.
The community also start to take a stab in improving code review process by
update the review guidelines to contain more recommendations around code
convention, documentation and consensus building. The proposed guideline
improvements is voted and set to be incorporated into the contributor guide.
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Attachment BV: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Richard Eckart de Castilho]
## Description:
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software
related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis
Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators,
facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and
video.
## Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20.
## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
- Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.11.0 released on 2021-07-02
## Community Health:
The community continues to be moderately active and provides bug reports and
PRs at times. Development of a new JSON-based data format for the UIMA CAS
data has started, community feedback is trickling in.
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Attachment BW: Report from the Apache Unomi Project [Serge Huber]
## Description:
The mission of Apache Unomi is the creation and maintenance of software related
to providing a reference implementation of the OASIS Customer Data Platform
specification currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical
Committee
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Unomi was founded 2019-02-20 (3 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 7 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Taybou on 2021-03-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Anatol Sialitski on 2021-01-29.
## Project Activity:
The focus is on the next releases, improving the flexibility of the platform
to be deployed as SaaS. Security, performance, deployment and integration
improvements are all strong focuses, as is the next big version (2.0) that will
implement the full OASIS specification in GraphQL. The CDP market is clearly
growing and Unomi's opportunity is clear but we have to make sure we can
grow the project's visibility and user base by making it easier to work with
for non-Java developers.
## Community Health:
The community is staying healthy, but during the summer months things have
been a bit quieter, as is to be expected. Again, we see a lot more activity on
Slack than in the mailing lists, as well as in Github. The stats are a bit
lower than in the last report because we previously had a lot of activity due
to the security releases.
Here are the stats:
- dev@unomi.apache.org had a 47% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (341 emails compared to 640)
- users@unomi.apache.org had a 136% increase in traffic in the past
quarter (26 emails compared to 11)
- 17 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-65% change)
- 20 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-62% change)
- 83 commits in the past quarter (-31% change)
- 10 code contributors in the past quarter (-23% change)
- 27 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-47% change)
- 26 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-46% change)
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Attachment BX: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson]
## Description:
The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software
related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24.
- No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04.
## Project Activity:
- Last release: 2019-07-25
- There has been very little activity since the last board report.
## Community Health:
Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning
community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
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Attachment BY: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Andrea Del Bene]
## Description:
The mission of Wicket is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Component-based Java Web Application Framework.
## Issues:
No issue to report to the board.
## Membership Data:
Apache Wicket was founded 2007-06-20 (14 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 32 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Thomas Heigl on 2020-08-14.
- No new committers. Last addition was Thomas Heigl on 2020-05-18.
## Project Activity:
Work on Wicket 10 is going on following the evolution of the entire Java
community. That's why for Wicket 10 we are planning to support Jakarta
Servlet 5.x and it will probably require Java 17 as minimum version.
We also worked to support a more modern manipulation library like Byte Buddy
with both Wicket 9.x and 10.
## Community Health:
The community is stable and healthy and still providing valuable feedback for
Wicket 10.
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Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer]
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Attachment CA: Report from the Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo]
## Description:
Apache Zeppelin is a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool
for general-purpose data processing systems.
## Issues:
## Membership Data:
Apache Zeppelin was founded 2016-05-18 (5 years ago)
There are currently 22 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jeff Zhang on 2018-01-25.
- No new committers. Last addition was Philipp Dallig on 2020-06-24.
## Project Activity:
Zeppelin 0.10.0 is officially released.
3 CVE are fixed in 0.10.0 release.
- CVE-2021-27578: Apache Zeppelin: Cross Site Scripting in markdown
- CVE-2020-13929: Apache Zeppelin: Notebook permissions bypass
- CVE-2019-10095: Apache Zeppelin: bash command injection in spark
## Community Health:
- users@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 155 emails sent to list ( 106 in previous quarter)
- dev@zeppelin.apache.org:
- 772 emails sent to list ( 613 in previous quarter)
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Attachment CB: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira]
## Description:
Apache ZooKeeper is a system for distributed coordination. It enables
the implementation of a variety of primitives and mechanisms that are
critical for safety and liveness in distributed settings, e.g.,
distributed locks, master election, group membership, and configuration.
## Issues:
No issue requires board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache ZooKeeper was founded 2010-11-17 (11 years ago)
There are currently 30 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Enrico Olivelli on 2020-01-15.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ling Mao on 2021-01-16.
## Project Activity:
There was no release in the period, although the community is working
towards 3.7.1. We did have two releases in the last period, though.
## Community Health:
Metrics indicate a drop on the activity across email lists and GitHub.
Summer months tend to be a bit quiet, but we will keep monitoring the
metrics in the near future.
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End of minutes for the September 15, 2021 board meeting.
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