The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes November 17, 2010 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am (Pacific) and began at 10:04 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Jim Jagielski and vmWare. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Shane Curcuru Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Geir Magnusson, Jr. Sam Ruby Noirin Shirley Greg Stein Officers Present: Craig L Russell Guests: Brett Porter 3. Minutes from previous meetings A. The meeting of 2010-08-18 See: board_minutes_2010_08_18 Approved by general consent B. The meeting of 2010-09-11 See: board_minutes_2010_09_11 Approved by general consent C. The meeting of 2010-09-22 See: board_minutes_2010_09_22 Approved by general consent D. The meeting of 2010-10-20 See: board_minutes_2010_10_20 Tabled until next meeting E. The meeting of 2010-11-02 See: board_minutes_2010_11_02 Tabled until next meeting 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] Thanks to all who helped put on another successful ApacheCon. I talked to a number of folks there who very much appreciated ApacheCon as a place for them to meet. The board has published several Java-related statements in the past month. We restated our support for the Harmony project in the light of IBM's reduced involvement. We expressed our pleasure at being re-elected to the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee, but also our concern that we might be forced to soon leave the JCP if Oracle does not start honoring its agreements there. B. President [Jim] The 2 main events from the last month have been ApacheCon NA 2010 and the growing interest, publicity and notice regarding our thoughts regarding the JCP, the EC and our continued involvement therein. Regarding the former: From what I heard and experienced, most of the attendees were quite happy with ACNA2010. Trainings seemed somewhat less well attended than previous years, but the sessions themselves seemed quite crowded. Also, the general agreement was that the content was some of our best. While at ACNA2010, I talked with many reporters and analysts regarding event #2 (the JCP). As expected, some of the details got lost or misrepresented, especially regarding some of the finer points of the issue, but these were quickly corrected. It will, of course, be interesting to see how all this pans out. I have contacted Karen Sandler regarding drafting a consultant agreement for our EA. The first draft was delivered on the 12th and I am working some final details on that draft to return to Karen. Basically, it's in clearly specifying that the EA will be a contractor and not a part-time employee. While at ACNA2010, I was asked to speak at Georgia Tech regarding Open Source and "The Apache Way". The presentation was during a computer engineering class and was quite well received. It was also good since it reinforced the fact that the whole concept of "open source" still needs external advocacy. Most of the students simply knew about the GPL and associated the ASF with the web server only; that is, only a very surface understanding of FLOSS! This week I will be attending the SC10 Conference in NOLA. The ASF is sharing a booth with The Linux Fund. Sally will also be at the ASF booth with me. I attended the #infra working lunch-and-meeting at ACNA2010. Topics included the support for git (as mentioned in the infra report) as well as preliminary budgeting for next year. C. Treasurer [Geir] Books are up to date - $20 discrepancy remains (haven't spent time). Current balances are total cash of $445,093 at Wells Fargo and $32,264.30 at Paypal. In terms of lockbox, we've had : - $101 check from Amazon Tasks Done: - all bills paid - paypal data loaded up to 11/1/2010 - FY2009 990 corporate tax return filed - fundraising support (invoices) In Progress: - find the $20 discrepancy in checking Statement of Financial Income and Expense - October 2010 Ordinary Income/Expense Income Interest Income 97.13 Contributions Income Unrestricted 3,014.41 Total Contributions Income 3,014.41 Total Income 3,111.54 Expense Bank Service Charges 356.76 Postage and Delivery 19.95 Program Expenses Infrastructure Colocation Expenses 518.00 Hardware Purchases 4,930.00 Infrastructure Staff 13,600.00 Infrastructure Travel 1,613.48 Total Infrastructure 20,661.48 Travel Assistance 1,442.17 Public Relations PRC Travel 1,424.80 Public Relations - Other 21,217.29 Total Public Relations 22,642.09 Conference Expenses 4,379.99 Total Program Expenses 49,125.73 Travel & Ent 1,322.16 Total Expense 50,824.60 Net Ordinary Income -47,713.06 Net Income -47,713.06 Statement of Financial Position As of October 31, 2010 Oct 31, 10 Oct 31, 09 $ Change % Change ASSETS Current Assets Checking/Savings Other Expenses 587.38 69.40 517.98 746.4% Other Income -4,464.12 -396.79 -4,067.33 -1,025.1% Paypal 30,159.58 14,469.06 15,690.52 108.4% Wells Fargo Analyzed Account 172,623.24 281,575.29 -108,952.05 -38.7% Wells Fargo Savings 285,936.67 284,703.16 1,233.51 0.4% Total Checking/Savings 484,842.75 580,420.12 -95,577.37 -16.5% Accounts Receivable Accounts Receivable 55,600.00 0.00 55,600.00 100.0% Total Accounts Receivable 55,600.00 0.00 55,600.00 100.0% Total Current Assets 540,442.75 580,420.12 -39,977.37 -6.9% TOTAL ASSETS 540,442.75 580,420.12 -39,977.37 -6.9% LIABILITIES & EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Credit Cards ASF Credit Card - Phil Golucci 3,809.83 0.00 3,809.83 100.0% ASF Credit Card - Paul Querna 7.79 4,974.72 -4,966.93 -99.8% ASF Credit Card - Ruby 2,681.99 2,990.90 -308.91 -10.3% ASF Credit Card - Erenkrantz 0.00 3,577.03 -3,577.03 -100.0% Total Credit Cards 6,499.61 11,542.65 -5,043.04 -43.7% Total Current Liabilities 6,499.61 11,542.65 -5,043.04 -43.7% Total Liabilities 6,499.61 11,542.65 -5,043.04 -43.7% Equity Retained Earnings 626,337.08 363,648.74 262,688.34 72.2% Net Income -92,393.94 205,228.73 -297,622.67 -145.0% Total Equity 533,943.14 568,877.47 -34,934.33 -6.1% TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 540,442.75 580,420.12 -39,977.37 -6.9% D. Secretary [Craig] October was a busy month for grants and contributor agreements. Kinosearch (Apache Lucy) provided nineteen grants; 3 for Gora; 2 others. 23 iclas were recorded along with 2 cclas. One member went emeritus. E. Executive Vice President [Noirin] F. Vice Chairman [Greg] This past month, I signed an agreement (as Vice Chairman) with Google regarding the operation of the upcoming Apache Extras hosting site. This was a sticking point in the project's forward progress, and the Community Development Project is now pushing it forward for a launch. The agreement was cleared by Legal and signed copies are present in foundation/legal/. No other activity or requests to report at this time. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of JCP [Geir Magnusson Jr] See Attachment 1 B. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] See Attachment 2 C. VP of Fundraising [Serge Knystautas / Bertrand] See Attachment 3 D. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Roy] See Attachment 4 E. VP of W3C Relations [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 5 F. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 6 G. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg] See Attachment 7 H. Apache Conference Planning Project [Noirin Shirley] No written report was provided. There was interest expressed at ApacheCon Atlanta for conferences to be held in Brazil and Sri Lanka. I. Apache Infrastructure Team [Philip Gollucci / Jim] See Attachment 9 Shane: yay new web site! J. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Noirin] See Attachment 10 Officer reports were approved by general consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Doug] See Attachment A B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Shane] See Attachment B C. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Sam] See Attachment C D. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Martin Sebor / Jim] See Attachment D E. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Geir] See Attachment E F. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Jim] See Attachment F G. Apache Cocoon Project [Vadim Gritsenko / Sam] See Attachment G H. Apache Community Development Project [Ross Gardler / Doug] See Attachment H I. Apache Continuum Project [Emmanuel Venisse / Shane] See Attachment I J. Apache CouchDB Project [Damien Katz / Greg] See Attachment J K. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Noirin] See Attachment K Some concerns were expressed about there being bugs that have been fixed in trunk but no releases to incorporate the fixes. AI: Noirin see if a release can be produced. L. Apache Hadoop Project [Ian Holsman / Bertrand] See Attachment L M. Apache Hive Project [Namit Jain / Geir] See Attachment M N. Apache HTTP Server Project [William A. Rowe Jr. / Roy] See Attachment N O. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Jim] See Attachment O P. Apache Incubator Project [Noel J. Bergman / Shane] See Attachment P Sam: appreciates action on missing reports. Q. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Bertrand] See Attachment Q R. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Sam] See Attachment R S. Apache Logging Project [Curt Arnold / Greg] See Attachment S T. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Noirin] See Attachment T Concerns about the name of the project on the web site. AI: Noirin discuss trademark guidelines with the project. U. Apache Pig Project [Olga Natkovich / Doug] See Attachment U V. Apache POI Project [Nick Burch / Geir] See Attachment V W. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Roy] See Attachment W X. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug] See Attachment X Y. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Jim] See Attachment Y Concerns about the size of the PMC. AI: Jim follow up with PMC chair. Z. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Roy] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Thrift Project [Bryan Duxbury / Geir] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Turbine Project [Scott Eade / Sam] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Tuscany Project [Ant Elder / Greg] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Velocity Project [Henning Schmiedehausen / Noirin] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Xalan Project [David Bertoni / Shane] See Attachment AF Insufficient board report. AI: Shane follow up with PMC chair. AG. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Sam] See Attachment AG Looks like xerces-p may be ready for the attic. AI: Sam follow up with PMC. AH. Apache XML Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Geir] See Attachment AH AI. Apache XML Graphics Project [Simon Pepping / Greg] See Attachment AI With the exception of Apache Xalan Project, committee reports were approved by general consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Velocity Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Henning Schmiedehausen to the office of Vice President, Apache Velocity, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Henning Schmiedehausen from the office of Vice President, Apache Velocity, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Velocity project has chosen by vote to recommend Nathan Bubna as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Henning Schmiedehausen is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Velocity, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nathan Bubna be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Velocity, 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. Approved by unanimous roll call vote. B. Establish the Apache ZooKeeper Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to distributed system coordination for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache ZooKeeper Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ZooKeeper Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to distributed system coordination; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache ZooKeeper Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache ZooKeeper Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache ZooKeeper Project: * Patrick Hunt * Flavio Junqueira * Mahadev Konar * Benjamin Reed * Henry Robinson NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Patrick Hunt be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache ZooKeeper PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache ZooKeeper Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ZooKeeper Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Hadoop ZooKeeper sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Hadoop ZooKeeper sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged. Approved by unanimous roll call vote. C. Establish the Apache OODT Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the construction of scientific, data management systems for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache OODT Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache OODT Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the construction of scientific, data management systems; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache OODT" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache OODT Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache OODT Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache OODT Project: * Andrew Hart (ahart@apache.org) * Brian Foster (bfoster@apache.org) * Cameron Goodale (goodale@apache.org) * Chris A. Mattmann (mattmann@apache.org) * Dan Crichton (crichton@apache.org) * David Kale (davekale@apache.org) * David Woollard (woollard@apache.org) * Ian Holsman (ianh@apache.org) * Joshua Garcia (joshuaga@apache.org) * Justin Erenkrantz (jerenkrantz@apache.org) * Paul Ramirez (pramirez@apache.org) * Sean Hardman (shardman@apache.org) * Sean McCleese (smcclees@apache.org) * Sean Kelly (kelly@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chris A. Mattmann be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache OODT Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator OODT sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator OODT sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Approved by unanimous roll call vote. 8. Discussion Items A. Brand Management budget for graphic designer to improve our image. There are two issues: First, our main graphic mark, the feather, needs major work to make it suitable for many purposes: web, print materials, and branded items. Second, the new cms-based web site is live but needs continued attention. Roy suggests that a competition is usually the approach for an open source project to get graphic design help. Shane agreed to plan and run a competition but if not successful would like to pay for the services of a graphic talent. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Roy: Update /dev with rule that invitation only dev meetings are OK, provided that such meetings are discussed on the dev list, and that all committers are included. Status: Not done. * Doug/Philip: Initiate a discussion as to what items the board should periodically request be included in reports (example: diversity) to the mailing list. (Original context: JackRabbit) Infrastructure section Status: not done. * Jim: Start the process of hiring an EA based on the job description that Sander produced. Status: In process... Working with Karen on contractor agreement for position. * Noirin: follow up with Edd Dumbill re Apache track at OSCON Status: In progress - Edd was positive, but still working on follow-through/concrete next steps. * Sam: find out what's going on with Bluesky Status: Not started. * Greg: discuss release policy with Lab folks Status: Not started. * Greg: follow up with Synapse re no releases since 2008 Status: Not started. * Jim: Contact Sonatype CEO to try to resolve Maven branding issue. Status: Working w/ Shane on this. * Jim: Facilitate the purchase of AMD box. Status: Now part of infra budget and sched. Can close. * Doug: Reassure PMC'S that the Apache Software Foundation will support PMC's that acquire licenses to use TCK's under acceptable terms. Status: Done, but more will be needed as the Java story unfolds. * Greg: follow up with HBase to clarify the "developer release" term. Status: Not started. * Doug: Suggest to Noel that JSPWiki needs a nudge. Status: Not done. * Greg: Find out whether Shindig can use internal Hudson. Status: Not started. * Jim: Work on the mid-year budget update and follow up with the EA candidate.. Status: In process.... so far have prelim budget w/ infra. Will continue with others. * Noirin: Arrange a face to face meeting with Stone Circle at ApacheCon. Status: Done. Will report results at next board meeting. 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment The regular business of the board was concluded at 11:23am (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of JCP Focus has been on one subject since the last report, namely the upcoming JCP EC vote on Java SE 7 and 8. In addition, I'm pleased to report that the ASF has been ratified for another term on the EC with a large show of support of the voters. There has been a bit of interaction with the press on this subject and overall, we've done well handling it. We've put out a public statement regarding the ratification of the EC seat, as well as a call to action for the EC regarding the vote for Java 7 : https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/statement_by_the_asf_board1 The vote has started today (Tuesday, November 16, 2010) and I plan to : 1) Vote 'no' with an explanation of why 2) Engage the press on our 'no' vote and explanation 3) Write to the EC as a whole and provide a clear explanation/review of our position, mainly for those that are new to the EC or simply confused by the complicated nature of the dispute (as well as the calculated FUD). I'll also publish this statement publicly as well. 4) Prepare a statement for publication for either possible outcome of the vote. I also plan to do some personal blogging on this matter, and will make it clear it's not the position of the ASF. This has been a long and arduous journey for all of us, and I've been honored to be able to serve the foundation in this manner. Thanks to all for the support over the years. It hasn't been boring :) ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management One board-level request: potential funding for graphic designer (Discussion). Volunteer graphical design energy is historically difficult to find and especially keep active. Hiring/contracting a part time graphical designer could go a long way to improving the public image of our websites - both a.o and project websites. Key tasks: making a.o style actually look good; producing a proper set of feather image variants (including ones for inclusion on TLP pages); offering graphic design service to projects. Operations And Community ======================== Some positive reactions to the Branding Requirements have come back from PMCs, as well as a few discussions and improvements. Next step is to publish Trademark Policing Procedures to committers@ next month, so that all committers are aware of what to do about trademarks. Awareness of trademarks, both in general and allowable uses, seems to be widely varied across committers. I will contact projects about including the branding checklist in their quarterly reports until each project is updated. Discussed upcoming marks actions with several PMCs to get project feedback on various third party uses. Discussed many branding issues at ApacheCon with a variety of PMC members, and also with some external analysts. Requested RedMonk to assist on branding strategy as part of our existing engagement. Working with Subversion PMC to normalize trademark policy; they still have their legacy trademark policy from pre-Apache time posted. External Requests ================= Contacted third parties about the use of our Solr mark on their websites. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising SPONSORSHIP IBM is officially a new gold sponsor. We are working to process the invoice on their end by having us setup us up as a vendor and answer legal questions around the sponsorship. FuseSource is a new bronze level sponsor. We are generating an invoice for this as well so that they can move forward. I did not send updates to sponsors as I mentioned in the last report. The activity around ApacheCon consumed a lot of time and want to move forward on updating sponsors on what is going on. I expect to move on this in the coming month, and have begun identifying sources of information to send sponsors. I also plan to create an unstructured text file in subversion. DONATIONS We have about 1.5 months left for individual donations for this year... the thank you letters are good, but we aren't positioned to really push this. OTHER FUNDRAISING The new website launched, and I made a few updates to the thanks and other pages after this transition. I like that updates happen quickly, though I feel like there is a bigger need to work through some of the structural and content changes to the fundraising pages since the site is less navigation-driven. Writing out documentation in SVN of the fundraising tasks including W-9 forms, non-profit status, process for thank yous, list of contacts, etc.... ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity STATUS: I. Budget: we produced new promo stickers, badges, and a retractable vertical banner, and also purchased a flat screen monitor, all used at ApacheCon and the upcoming SC10 conference; all items were shipped using the ASF's FedEx account. We've successfully used Sam Ruby's ASF credit card for production expenses and to purchase the monitor. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally Khudairi has been working with Serge and Greg on Sponsorship-related matters. III. Press Releases: we issued the following press releases over the PR NewsWire service: - 6 October 2010 ApacheCon Announces Keynote Presentations by Thought Leaders Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet, Daniel Crichton of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Bob Sutor of IBM Corporation - 20 October 2010 The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Maven Version 3.0 We received two requests to issue a press release: - the new release of Mahout v0.4. We reserve formal press releases for major version releases (e.g. 2.0, 3.0, etc.), and so blogged the news as a "The ASF Asks:" top-level snapshot on the project which was also forwarded to the ASF media/analyst lists. - the upcoming BarCamp in Sydney, Australia. Doing so is to recognize the sponsorship provided by Sydney University; this will likely take place in the form of a joint announcement. To reach our target audience of attendees, we will be posting event details on the ASF blog, announce@ list, and Twitter feed. We'll also likely Tweet a few updates pertaining to sponsors, additional details, etc.. IV. Informal Announcements: the following announcements were distributed to our dedicated press/analyst list (only; not PR Newswire), as well as posted on the ASF blog and Twitter feed: - 20 October 2010 Media Alert: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Maven Version 3.0 - 21 October 2010 Statement by the ASF Board on recent Java-related events - 29 October 2010 Read Beyond the Headers - 3 November 2010 The ASF asks: Have you met Apache Mahout? - 6 November 2010 Apache News Roundup from the ApacheCon Show Floor - 9 November 2010 Statement by the ASF Board on our participation in the Java Community Process The "Did You Know?" Twitter campaign continues to go strong, with many people stopping at the ASF booth during ApacheCon and commenting "I didn't know that!". We're still seeking success stories -- please forward to Sally at press-AT-apache-DOT-org. V. Media Relations: we have been actively working with The Register, IDG, ZDNet, the Bitsource, Linux User, and eWeek to coordinate interviews with Jim Jagielski and Geir Magnusson. The ASF blog on ComputerWorld UK continues, with the addition of Isabel Drost to the list of bloggers. We've been tweeting/promoting Feathercasts as they've become available. Sally would like to support the Feathercast effort by bringing in some of the responsibilities in-house, and will discuss options with Rich Bowen. VI. Future Announcements: No press releases are planned at this time. VII. Analyst Relations: we are following up with Gartner Group, as they've issued their "Top 10 Computing Trends for 2011" (Cloud Computing remains at the top of the list for the second year). Michael Cote, James Governor, and Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk have been supportive and offered insight on several Java-related incidents over the past few weeks. Cote attended ApacheCon, participated in the Media Training, had several in-depth briefings on Apache TLPs and Incubating projects, and has produced write-ups on Apache Mahout and libcloud. James Governor has been promoting the benefits of ASF Sponsorship to an array of Apache-centric companies. Aside from proactive outreach with press-oriented news, no additional direct analyst activity has taken place during this timeframe. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: we've actively pitched the conference on Twitter and the announce@apachecon.com list. Sally oversaw promotion with the conference PR firm and managed the day-to-day outreach. We secured 7 media partners to help spread the word and received excellent press coverage during and post-con. The team worked with Rich Bowen to produce Feathercast interviews to help promote tracks, with participation from Nick Burch, Marcel Offermans, and Sander Temme. Both Sally and a member of the conference PR team manned the ASF booth for the duration of the conference. In addition to overseeing event promotion, Sally served as conference program chair, secured the keynote speakers, and performed general MC activities. We have begun discussions on ways to improve marketing efforts for the 2011/Vancouver conference. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: - 7-8 October: Lucene Revolution/Boston we were offered complimentary expo space (via ConCom); Glen Daniels, Shane Curcuru, and Sally staffed the booth. The event was commercially-focused (although the backbone of the talks were technical in nature); several attendees were curious as to why we were physically there, but pleasantly surprised to see us. Also, Sally connected with new Sponsors Basis, and had several fundraising-focused discussions with interested individuals and organizations. - 13-19 November: Supercomputing (SC10)/New Orleans we will be sharing a booth with the Linux Fund. Sally will be there with support from Jim Jagielski. - 11 December: BarCampApache Sydney, in cooperation with ConCom. We will be issuing a joint announcement with Sydney University to support additional outreach tactics to promote the event. X. PR Newswire account: we have 10 pre-paid, flat-rate press releases available through 30 April 2011. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of W3C Relations No issues requiring board attention. TPAC in Lyon, France came and went without any change in status of the proposal to offer the HTML5 specification under a more liberal license. HTML5 continues to progress towards a Last Call in May of 2011. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee Three JIRAs created, zero closed. Mostly this has been a steady state (similar number being opened and closed), will watch to see if this is an anomaly or if we will start to accumulate a backlog. Larry and Karen fielded some trademark questions. I'm not seeing any signs that the split between Branding and Legal Affairs is causing any confusion (it had in the past). Miscellaneous discussions include JXTA/JXSE (which uses and older version of the Apache License) and Fair-use data in SVN. Much discussion regarding Harmony and the state of the JCP, one concrete outcome of that was a blog posting entitled "Read Beyond the Headers". I've not proceeded as promised on expanding the Legal Affairs committee or documenting processes, mostly due to travel and lack of time. I still intend to follow through on this. Legal Affairs approved of the signing of the agreement with Google regarding Apache Extras. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project For October 2010: There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds arriving at security@apache.org. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. 4 Support question 2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 6 Vulnerability reports of which 2 Vulnerability report [couchdb, via security@couchdb] 2 Vulnerability report [tomcat, via security@tomcat] 1 Vulnerability report [httpd] 1 Vulnerability report [shiro] CVE-2010-3863 [CLOSED] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team We specced and ordered an Opteron-based Dell R515 machine for virtual machine hosting- cost ~ $12.5K. A FC card was thrown in (for reuse of the decommissioned helios array) at no additional cost. Chris Rhodes was given root@ karma. We held a team meeting on Monday Nov 1 during ApacheCon. Highlights were posted to infrastructure-private@. Daniel Shahaf was made a member of the Infrastructure Team. www.apache.org was converted to the CMS with new templates and stylesheets provided by Chris J. Davis. HP has offered to supply our replacement servers for SARA. Tony Stevenson is leading this conversation, as it could save us roughly ~$30K from our budget. Discussed the fact that Apple has EOL'd Xserves while we just recently racked a donated pair of them. Renewed the service warranty with Dell on baldr (jails) for 1y. Plan drafted on what it would take for Git to be able to be used as a project's primary source code repository. Currently dependent on volunteers driving the effort. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 10: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee Gavin has been unable to send in a proper report due to connectivity issues. We'll do a full report for the board next month. As a quick update in the mean time, we had 13 TAC recipients at ApacheCon (the 14th was denied a visa so unable to attend). All the recipients seemed to have a good time, and pleasingly almost all seemed much more confident and happy to engage with other committers by the end. The organisers also seemed happy with the work put in by the TAC recipients to help with the conference. A meeting was held after ApacheCon to discuss how the process has worked for ApacheCon plus the two recent retreats, and how things should work into the future. Minutes will hopefully be circulated shortly for wider discussion, then we can hopefully draw up a policy for how+when we can support smaller events. ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Apache Abdera Project Abdera continues with a fairly quiet low level of activity. There have been no releases this quarter but a number of patches have been submitted and a new release to get those out is now underway. We voted in one new committer however so far he has been unable to get approval from his employer to sign the ICLA. There have been no PMC member changes. The user list has a small steady stream of user posts, often which get answered by other users or developers. There are no board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache Ant Project Ant Status Report - Nov 2010. o Release Status Core --------- Ant 1.8.1 was released on May 7th, 2010 and remains the current release. Some initial discussions regarding Ant 1.8.2 have taken place but there is nothing firm at this time. Ivy ------- Ivy 2.2.0 was released on October 7, 2010 Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010. o Code Donations Ant has voted to accept the Bushel project code to become part of Ivy. Stefan Bodewig is shepherding the code through the Incubator. There has also been some preliminary discussion about whether Ant would sponsor the EasyAnt project through the incubator. o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Buildr Project We made two releases in the past 3 months, Buildr 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, both containing a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements. We also voted one new committer (Peter Donald) and one new PMC member (Antoine Toulme), bringing us to a total of 8 committers and 6 PMC members. The project team remains very diversified with no committers affiliated to the same commercial organization. User and dev mailing lists are healthy, we're seeing sustained adoption and contributions from the community. In terms of marketing, there was a Buildr presentation in September at JavaZone 2010 and there's a repeat planned in January at the San Francisco Java User Group. (Unfortunately, we had no representation at ApacheCon.) We also set up a new Twitter account to mirror questions asked on StackOverflow and we continue to use our Twitter account and CoTweet to follow comments made about Buildr on the Twittosphere. There are no current plans to make another release before the end of the year, although this may change based on user/developer motivation and discussion. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache C++ Standard Library Project Notable changes since previous report (September 2010): No project activity since the last report. Future plans: I'm considering stepping down as chair of stdcxx. I haven't had time to spend on the project or to help interested contributors become committers. Unless another committer steps up willing to take on the responsibility stdcxx might need to be retired. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Cassandra Project Cassandra is a distributed database combining the best of Google's Bigtable and Amazon's Dynamo. --Highlights-- The ApacheCon Cassandra/NoSQL track went extremely well, with great talks that often saw standing-room-only attendance. The Cassandra meetup at ApacheCon also saw a good turnout. Cassandra got a lot of positive attention recently when Digital Reasoning announced that the US Government has a 400 node Cassandra cluster. --Releases-- 0.6.5, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 0.7-beta2, 0.7-beta3 0.7-final is taking longer than expected, primarily because of some corner cases of the new schema modification code. While we work out those last details, we've branched 0.7 so work on new features for the next major release can proceed in parallel. --Community-- Cassandra has been getting a lot of positive attention at conferences, including JavaOne, CME, Oredev, Devoxx, and NoSQL Japan, as well as ApacheCon. We have no new committers since the last board report, but we do see a long tail distribution of contributions from the community -- we recently passed the 100-person mark of contributors who have had at least one patch accepted. With luck we will be able to help some of these move towards becoming a full committer. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Click Project Apache Click is an easy-to-use page and component oriented Java web framework. There are no board level issues at this time. Infrastructure ------------------- No issues Development ------------------ Currently working up a new Apache Click 2.3.0 release candidate. Community ---------------- Mailing list traffic has been lighter than usual. Some committers now returning from other commitments. Henning Schmiedehausen and Will Glass-Husain who helped with the project incubation are now going emeritus on the PMC. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Cocoon Project There have been no new releases or development. Traffic on users list is steady, with mostly silence on the development list. Started the process of identifying active PMC members. By last count we have 11 active PMC member, 17 members who have not responded/decided, and following 21 PMC members became emeritus: Ard Schrijvers Arje Cahn Bertrand Delacretaz Carsten Ziegeler Christian Haul Felix Knecht Giacomo Pati Helma van der Linden Jeremy Quinn Jeroen Reijn Jorg Heymans Marc Portier Marcus Crafter Ralph Goers Ross Gardler Simone Gianni Steven Noels Timothy Larson Torsten Curdt Ugo Cei Upayavira Branding guidelines have not been implemented yet. Preliminary conclusion though is that project website is compliant with "Project Website Basics", "Project Naming And Descriptions" and "Project Metadata" sections; need to be updated to include links in "Website Navigation Links" section, and has no trademark attributions as per "Trademark Attributions" and "Logos And Graphics" sections. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache Community Development Project Status report for the Apache Community Development Project Project Status -------------- The Community Development is progressing well, although a little more slowly than some would have hoped. The planned mentoring project has still not been formally launched. Largely due to the loss of the labels module in JIRA which was previously used by projects to indicate issues appropriate for mentoring. An alternative will be put into place very soon. Work on a project to provide hosting for Apache related software projects is progressing. Legal documents have all been signed, draft usage guidelines and a FAQ are available and PMCs have been contacted to reserve project names. We have taken ownership of party@ mailing list (no changes in usage are proposed). Google Summer of Code completed - thanks to all involved. It is noticeable that once again we have failed to generate any press (we never produced a press release for press@). We applied for the Google Code-In (Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible) but were, unfortunately, unsuccessful. Ross Gardler has spoken at a reasonably large number of events around Europe addressing two key themes - The Apache Way and Innovation at the ASF. No issues require board attention at this time. Community --------- An increasing number of volunteers are becoming engaged with Community Development PMC and contact from external participants is increasing (although still low). Objectives for next period -------------------------- - Gain support from at least 5 PMCs for the mentoring programme - Formally launch mentoring programme - Launch hosting facilities for Apache related projects ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Status report for the Apache Continuum Project Below are the important events that happened in the project since August. Releases -------- No releases since the report in August. Development ----------- Development activity has been very quiet this quarter. Some work on distributed build continues on trunk. Community --------- Continuum project name is reserved on apache-extras.org Issues ------ No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Apache CouchDB Project Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API. About to release maintenance version 1.0.2 as well as a new feature release 1.1.0. New features include: - native SSL support, - many fixes to edge-cases in replication, - database for persistent replication setups, - HTTP range request support, - new, scalable OS process handling, - native HTTP proxy support for externals, Major improvements on new replicator by Filipe Manana (development branch). Discussions and steps towards integrating Cloudant's BigCouch, a dynamo-style sharding solution with Apache CouchDB. Discussions of integrating with more Erlang-native build systems. Classified JIRA issues into "easy for new contributors", "medium" and "hard" to allow new contributors find easy tickets to work on. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status report for the Apache Forrest Project Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. General status: Development is quiet. On the dev mail list, developers are assisting each other. Some patches were received this quarter, but not yet applied. Questions on the user mail list are being attended to by a couple of PMC members. That list is quiet. Progress of the project: Added a new whiteboard plugin output.Markdown Discovered that some people think that forrest cannot be run with Java 6. Added an FAQ to explain that it is only for some non-necessary validation of some configuration files, and show two workarounds. A few PMC members did some more work towards sorting out the issues needing to be addressed prior to our upcoming release. Our zone is moved to the new server. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18. Attend to project branding: # Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org Yes. # Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. Yes, done. FIXME: The home page description is done. Need to ensure that any other use of the description is using this new copy. # Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included Yes done for our main site. FIXME: Need to check all "plugin" sites. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. # Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. Yes done for our main site. FIXME: Need to check all "plugin" sites. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. # Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site Not yet included TM. Do not have source for one logo. For the other banner, we do have the source and a way to generate it in tools/logos but not yet done this. # Project Metadata: DOAP file checked-in and up to date We were an early adopter of DOAP, so do have it. Need to ensure that it is up-to-date. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Hadoop Project Hadoop status report for October 2010 to November 2010 Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. Discussions have started on the issues that the board identified; we seem to have a general agreement on some issues, but we need an official consensus on the proposals, and have them discussed openly in the public mailing lists. Specifically: * Everyone is in general agreement that we need to release more often. The question revolves around how we test them to ensure they keep to the quality that Hadoop releases are known for. * The discussion of having 'mentors' to help guide new committers was started. * The Cloudera branding issue was forwarded to the trademarks group, where Shane & Karen are deciding how best to pursue the issue of their certification courses and branding on their website. * Bylaws have been discussed on general@ * Owen will be the release manager for the 0.22 release schedule later this month. * The ZooKeeper project has voted to become a separate TLP. This has been raised for the board's consideration. * people have started using reviews.apache.org to discuss patches COMMON Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce. Releases: * None this period. New Committers: * None this period. Community: * 1073 subscribers on common-dev * 2068 subscribers on common-user HDFS HDFS is a distributed file system that supports reliable replicated storage across the cluster using a single name space. Releases: * None this period. New committers: * None this period. Community: * 26 committers * 286 subscribers on hdfs-dev * 463 subscribers on hdfs-user MAPREDUCE MapReduce is a distributed computation framework for easily writing applications that process large volumes of data. Releases: * None this period. New committers: * Scott Chen was voted in as a committer in August 2010. Community: * 26 committers * 303 subscribers to mapreduce-dev * 568 subscribers to mapreduce-user ZOOKEEPER ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed applications. Releases: * None this period. Two releases are in progress, near term a 3.3.2 fix release (1 blocker pending), and longer term 3.4.0 feature release. New committers: none Community: * 6 active committers, 2 PMC members * 176 subscribers on zookeeper-dev * 356 subscribers on zookeeper-user The ZooKeeper project has petitioned the board to become a TLP. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Status report for the Apache Hive Project Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Hadoop. It provides SQL to query and manage data stored in Hadoop in table and partitions and provides a metastore to metadata information about the data stored in hadoop. Releases: 0.6.0 released New committers: Carl Steinbach (Cloudera) Amareshwari Sriramadasu (Yahoo) Their vote has been approved by the PMC, and a mail has been sent to root for creating the account. Community: * 232 contributors (commented, filed bugs or contributed to Hive). This was 217 at the last report time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Status report for the Apache HTTP Server Project Community --------- Ranier Jung was added to the PMC roster. Sander Temme organized a track of httpd content and a well attended httpd meetup on various topics related to the state of httpd at this past ApacheCon. A large majority of active httpd committers were in attendance. Branding -------- The http://httpd.apache.org/ site should now entirely conform to the current guidelines. Corrections are welcome to the PMC list. Subprojects ----------- httpd activity has picked up during the ApacheCon face time. The project is very nearly at a 2.3.9 tag on the development branch, and there has been a great deal of activity in the docs@ effort. 2.2.17 and 2.0.64 were both released since the last report. This is registered as HTTP Server and as httpd at apache-extras. mod_fcgid was released the first week of November on a short voting cycle, in order to put a security fix out to those administrators who allow the authoring of fastcgi apps by untrusted users. This is registered at apache-extras. mod_ftp was tagged; after one month there are insufficient votes for a new release. Interest by at least three PMC members will be evaluated in this coming period. This is registered at apache-extras. libapreq has reemerged from its cocoon and is actively soliciting the correct license assignment for outside world/vendor patches, in anticipation of a new release candidate. This is now registered as both apreq and libapreq at apache-extras. mod_mbox is enjoying some resurgence of patch activity. This is registered at apache-extras. Three http://httpd.apache.org/modules/ references, to mod_pop3, mod_snmpd and mod_arm4 appear to be abandoned; these were never released, and are not registered at apache-extras as it appears that the authors or any champions could consider moving the code there. Over the coming period the project will consider their fate (to the attic, or to apache-extras if they enjoy even one advocate). mod_python references and dist files have been removed, with a single pointer remaining to the attic. Releases persist at http://archive.apache.org/ and this has not been registered at apache-extras, to allow fewer developers to restart this effort in that context. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Status report for the Apache HttpComponents Project Status Overall the project remains active. Releases HttpCore 4.1-beta2 was released on the 1st of September HttpClient 4.0.3 GA has been released on the 19th of September, as an emergency release following the 4.0.2 release on the 10th of September HttpComponents LICENSE and NOTICE maven plugin 0.0.1 was released on the 5th of November to support the future releases of the main artifacts Community We've voted in Jonathan Moore as a committer Ortwin Glueck (Odi) has decided to go Emeritus. We thank him for all his work on the HttpComponents project, and wish him luck with his future endeavours. Development The new HTTP caching module is being improved to add a file system based cache implementation ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project There are no issues for the Board. New PMC Members: Hadrian Zbarcea, Isabel Drost, Siegfried Goeschi, Mohammad Nour El-Din (pending his acceptance). Henning Schmiedehausen has left the PMC. Infrastructure has proposed that the Incubator switch over to the new CMS. It seems that early next year will be the timeframe. The PMC has voted to submit OODT for TLP status. Congratulations to the project. Kitty, Celix and Stanbol have been voted to start Incubation. - Kitty: lightweight Java application server performance diag & admin utility - Celix: OSGi-like C implementation with focus on interoperability with OSGi - Stanbol: software stack and set of components for semantic content management Jena, a semantic web framework in Java, is currently being discussed. Bertrand and other have discussed coordination amongst the semantic content projects: Clerezza, Stanbol and Jena. We also found strong support to start an android-interest mailing list to help build a critical mass of developer support for Android-based projects at the ASF. Finally, based on prior discussion with the Board, and the benign results of subsequent experiments, the Incubator is discussing looser rules for projects to vote on their own Committers. Missing reports: Droids, HISE, Stonehenge - Droids appears to have no activity since September. People asking questions are not getting answered. Perhaps the project should be mothballed. - HISE has some activity, although October was quiet. - Stonehenge appears to have been dead since July, when it made a milestone release, and is discussing being archived. There appears to be disappointment over the perceived disappearance of Microsoft and WSO2. An e-mail has already been sent to start the discussion of mothballing or otherwise handling these projects. ----------------------------------------------- = ALOIS = ALOIS stands for "Advanced Log Data Insight System" and is meant to be a fully implemented open source SIEM security information and event management system. ALOIS is incubating since 22nd October 2010. Things done since October: * Committers user accounts created * Added more comments to source code * Added Apache license and copyright to source code * Uploaded source code to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/alois/trunk * Released unpublished library "libisi" to rubygems (https://rubygems.org/gems/libisi) and rubyforge http://rubyforge.org/projects/libisi/ Next steps to do: * Create developer howto (to explain how to get started and howto test the sourcecode) * Review code * Create a public demo server * Create Roadmap (including reschedule preexisting bugs) * Ensure required libraries/dependencies meet license requirements * Publish internal bugreports to https://issues.apache.org/jira/ = Amber = Amber is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v1.0, v1.0a and v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. The most important issues that must be addressed before graduation are: * attract new users and developers * making a release The Incubator PMC / ASF Board should be aware that: * community activity is very low and committers/mentors have been quite dormant lately How has the community developed since the last report * No change How has the project developed since the last report * A couple of issues on spec-api have been fixed. * Site has been prepared and is being published. * Amber has been presented at latest Apache Retreat in UK, a couple of people talked about possibly contributing OAuth v2.0 implementation. * Work being done on signature-api to fix RSA algorithm. = Bluesky = (BlueSky has been incubating since 01-12-2008. It is an e-learning solution designed to help solve the disparity in availability of qualified education between well-developed cities and poorer regions of China. Current status of developing the next version of RealClass: * Learning QT network API, and tried to encapsulate it into new class * Testing Video/Audio/Screen encode/decode API of FFempeg, including sending and receiving, this job had almost been done; * Making UI of new system, ongoing next step: * Finish message parse and socket plus encode/decode class before Dec 1st * Finish UI design and commit UI code in 2 weeks = Chukwa = We're mostly marking time. We have a dependency on HBase, but their latest version broke some things we rely on. Waiting for them to fix, (which they are scheduled to do) pending a Chukwa release. People are still supplying bug fix patches. We're also still adding documentation. = Clerezza = Clerezza (incubating since November 27th, 2009) is an OSGi-based modular application and set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. There are currently no issues requiring board attention. Recent activity: * First real life usage with heavier load, leads to significant performance improvements and to the fix of stability issues (Performance test results are available in issue CLEREZZA-348). * Removed jersey code from triaxrs (license conflict with CDDL 1.1 and GPL 2) * Interaction with the Jena team on TDB was already happening, with Stanbol and Jena coming to the Incubator there's a very promising ecosystem for Clerezza. * Summary about clerezza architecture written (CLEREZZA-334) * Improved User documentation Next steps: * Make our first release * Voting for logos and website theme * Add documentation and tutorial to website Top 2/3 Issues before graduation: * Improve our website with tutorials and "getting started" content. * Prepare some easy-to-run demos to get people interested in Clerezza. = Deltacloud = Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular clouds. Infrastructure: * Hudson configured to trigger build after commit (https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/apache-deltacloud-core/) Latest activity: * Deltacloud API was proclaimed as stable and version 0.1.0 was released * A new EC2 driver for Deltacloud API (in review process) * Client improved to be more stable * Deltacloud API is now Ruby 1.9 compatible Current issues: * Support for buckets (streaming) = Droids = DID NOT REPORT. = Gora = Gora is an ORM framework for column stores such as Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra with a specific focus on Hadoop. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation 1. Port Gora code and license headers into ASF license headers 2. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and with infection into existing ASF projects like Nutch and Hadoop 3. At least one Gora incubating release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, not at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? The community is slowly migrating over from Github. Mailing lists activity is mainly from Gora committers and mentors, though we have fielded a user question or two since the last report. Enis sent a link regarding the spring-data framework, a NoSQL solution from the Spring community. How has the project developed since the last report? Gora was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on September 26, 2010. Work has effectively begun at the ASF. An Apache Forrest-based website has been stood up (GORA-2) at http://incubator.apache.org led by Enis Soztutar and Henry Saputra. Andrew Hart contributed a logo for GORA in GORA-3. Andrzej Bialecki has been leading the development of several Gora backends, including Ehcache (GORA-13), JDBM2 (GORA-14) and Solr (GORA-9). Other bugfixes and development discussions (e.g., GORA-12) have been churning along (with contributions from Dogacan Guney and others. The project's development is moving forward. A software grant was recorded on October 5, 2010 and Chris Mattmann set up the initial Gora Incubator tracking status page at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/gora.html in GORA-10. = HISE = DID NOT REPORT = Isis = Isis is an ASL 2.0 licensed implementation of the Naked Objects pattern. It is based on contributions of the original Naked Objects Framework along with a number of sister projects that were developed for the book "Domain Driven Design using Naked Objects". Isis was accepted into the Incubator in 2010, September 7th. Project Development (month 2 of incubation): * All code now uploaded (including sister projects); code now building. * Worked on Maven website, stubs for documentation; first-cut logo/branding; site now building. * Initial site uploaded (some issues still outstanding here). Community Development (month 2 of incubation): * Mailing list shows increased usage from previous month. * Wiki starting to get some useful content. * Vangjel Stavro showed interest in contributing to Wiki documentation. * A number of new individuals have expressed an interest in contributing in various areas... no contributions yet, but hopeful. * Informal "spreading the word" and introducing others to what is Apache Isis and what it can do for their software development at ApacheCon 2010. * Lightning talk scheduled at LJC OpenConference, Nov 2010. * Session accepted at REConf 2011 conference, on the Isis "BDD Viewer" (Concordion integration). * Got permissions to create Hudson build jobs for Apache Isis, expected to be finalized maximum by the end of this month November 2010. Top 3 Issues to address in move towards graduation: * Putting good documentation site out as start-off to building larger community. * Getting first release out to demonstrate credibility. * Ensuring existing committers all happy with transition to Apache. None of these issues requires Board attention. New Releases * There is currently no incubator release yet. = Kitty = Brand new, and just getting started. Podling setup has begun (mailing list creation, svn, jira, web site, etc.), but is not yet complete. Hope to see the Kitty community going real soon. = Libcloud = Libcloud is a unified interface into various cloud service providers, written in Python. Libcloud joined the Incubator on November 3rd, 2009. Our last major release was 0.4.0 on 12 October 2010. Over the past few months we have accomplished: * Code cleanup, including removing Zope dependencies * New driver for !ElasticHosts * Bug fixes and improvements for GoGrid, EC2, Linode, Slicehost, and RimuHosting. * Sandbox creation, hosting the Java version Documentation is still currently lacking, and a refresh of the website is in order. Both will facilitate new driver contributions and project adoption. With the introduction of a Java counterpart of Libcloud, many questions arise on the direction of the project as a whole. Initially, library and API development were one in the same in Python, but with interest in other languages (Java, Ruby, etc), we need to determine how to best establish standards so to provide some sort of consistency between languages. The direction and formation of a polyglot Libcloud will likely be the final hurdle before graduation. = NPanday = NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday allows .NET projects to be converted into Maven projects thus allowing them to fully utilize the other technologies driven by Maven. NPanday has been incubating since August 2010. The top priorities towards graduation are: * create initial status file and update incubator web site * work through IP clearance and other items from status file * work on creating an initial release There are no issues for the Incubator PMC or board at this time. There were a couple of issues filed by some new users and they've also submitted patches. The two major issues that are highlighted for the 2.0 release were merged into trunk. = Nuvem = Apache Nuvem will define an open application programming interface for common cloud application services, allowing applications to be easily ported across the most popular cloud platforms. Nuvem was accepted for Incubation on June, 2010. The Nuvem Project is slowly getting started. The community is discussing project Roadmap. We presented at ApacheCon 2010 in the community track with a good number of attendees. Top things to resolve prior to graduation: Increase the number of active committers. = PhotArk = Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application including a content repository for the images, a display piece, an access control layer, and upload capabilities. * PhotArk was accepted for Incubation on August 19, 2008. * Issues before graduation : * PhotArk started as a project with no initial code-base, and we have grown the community to the minimal 3 independent committer size required for graduation and have been seeing slow but continuous interest in the project. The community started discussion graduation and based on mentors feedback we are going to recruit couple committers before we start the graduation process. * PhotArk community members are working on the M3 release which incorporates GSoC contributions. * PhotArk project was featured in ApacheCon with a talk from Avdesh in the Tuscany Track. = SIS = Apache SIS is a toolkit that spatial information system builders or users can use to build applications containing location context. This project will look to store reference implementations of spatial algorithms, utilities, services, etc. as well as serve as a sandbox to explore new ideas. Further, the goal is to have Apache SIS grow into a thriving Apache top-level community, where a host of SIS/GIS related software (OGC datastores, REST-ful interfaces, data standards, etc.) can grow from and thrive under the Apache umbrella. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Not at this time Community progress since the last report The SIS community elected Nga Chung as an SIS committer on September 1, 2010 in recognition of her contributions in SIS-3. SIS'ers need to follow up after the meeting with ESRI to determine if they are interested with participating in the community. Much of the other activity continues to be from the mentors and committers. Project progress since last report SIS was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on February 21, 2010. There has been a wealth of development activity over the past month in preparation for the 0.1-incubating release. Chris Mattmann proposed to be the RM for the release, and has pushed out 3 release candidates so far, addressing comments from the IPMC community. As it stands today, the SIS 0.1-incubating rc #3 VOTE is set to pass around 7pm PST tonight. The initial version of SIS 0.1-incubating includes the ability to load data from GeoRSS (SIS-19 and SIS-22), a REST-ful location service (SIS-16), and a demo JSP file in the WAR webapp that shows the SIS point-radius and bounding box queries using a Google Maps search interface (SIS-15, SIS-18 and SIS-23). = Stonehenge = DID NOT REPORT = VCL = VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. Community Involvement * The Apache VCL user community continues to grow. We really need to get more committers. We have asked on our development list for more people to get involved and also individually contacted people encouraging them to get involved, but are still having trouble getting people on board. Plans for next Release * We announced our second release through ASF on Oct. 5th * We plan to reduce the number of items to go in to the next release in hopes of decreasing time between releases. Top Issues Before Graduation * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions = Whirr = Whirr provides code for running a variety of software services on cloud infrastructure. Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status information is available at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html. Progress since the last report: We have made an initial 0.1.0 release and the second 0.2.0 release is being voted on this week. We continue to get contributions from outside the initial committer base, and have added one committer (Adrian Cole). Whirr is being covered at industry meetups (e.g. at Devoxx later this month). The website and infrastructure are all up and running smoothly. Plans for the next period: * Do a third release. * Support the existing services on more cloud providers (beyond Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Servers). * Add more services (probably HBase next). Top three items to resolve before graduation: * Increase community involvement in the project * Make several incubating releases * Support at least three services on Whirr = Wink = Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. Apache Wink has been incubating since 2009-05-27. Notable Activity: * In the process this week of releasing Apache Wink 1.1.2. * Asynchronous HTTP client provided by Sonatype contributors (Jeanfrancois and Jason), JCDI support, logging debug improvements, and general bug fixes were added. * Interesting presentation by Luciano Resende related to Apache Wink at ApacheCon: http://lresende.blogspot.com/2010/11/apachecon-session-building-restful.html * Voted in Mike Rheineheimer as a PPMC member. Looking to add more committers. Planned Activity: * More Java EE 6 integration * Interest from Jeanfrancois to provide support for Atmosphere in Wink for asynchronous processing so may add some support here. Top issues before graduation: * Build community = Wookie = Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial. Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009 Community: * the community is slowly diversifying but we need to see more active contributions from new people before graduation. A release will help in this regard. * There was a Wookie session at ApacheCon and a meetup discussed potential for the creation of a widget "portal" solution possibly using Wookie * started process towards first release (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WOOKIE/Wookie+First+Release) Recent activity: * removed all previous non Apache-licensed dependencies (removed major dependency on hibernate) * implemented pluggable persistence framework (JPA, JCR versions implemented) * various other bug fixes & updates geared towards getting first release completed Next steps: * complete release process * investigation/implementation into replacement for direct web remoting layer (possibly socket.io) - already started Issues before graduation: * complete first release * build community/expand user base = Zeta Components = Zeta Components is a high-quality library of loosely-coupled PHP components. It has entered incubation on 2010-05-21. The infrastructure is mainly in place and the project is working in direction of a first release. Since August 2010: * The license / copyright change has been performed * Almost all infrastructure is in place * A new committer has been voted by the PMC (needs verification from IPMC) * Several external contributions have been proposed The 3 most important issues to be tackled are: * Create a release process (in discussion) * Perform an initial release * Attract more contributors ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache jUDDI Project jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR). - jUDDI converted off Apache WS infrastructure to her own infrastructure. The jUDDI website now runs on http://juddi.apache.org. - jUDDI released version 3.0.4. Some bugs where fixed in the core jUDDI code, and the jUDDI-client was extended to support the next item on this list. - jUDDI is now integrated into the RiftSaw (RiftSaw is Apache ODE running on JBoss). Upon un/deployment BPEL processes are un/registered into jUDDI. - We are working towards version 3.0.5, which should see some enhancement to the jUDDI Portlets. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Status report for the Apache Lenya Project Apache Lenya is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: No board level issues at this time. Development: Further work on editor support. Continued development on version 3 architecture. Community: Richard Frovarp presented on the project at ApacheCon NA. Branding: Project Naming And Descriptions : Mostly complete. Need to conduct another run through the site to make sure nothing was missed. Website Navigation Links : Completed Trademark Attributions : Will complete by the end of the year. Logos and Graphics : Will complete by the end of the year. Project Metadata : DOAP file is updated and correct. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Status report for the Apache Logging Project - Community No new committers this period. Ralph Goers attended ApacheCON. There is still consensus to have a project virtual "annual meeting" to address recurring issues and the PMC chair in a focused manner, however no agenda or set of proposals was prepared during this period. - Project Branding Requirements The project and log4j logos on the project web site have been updated with TM marks. The generic logging services content and log4j-extras content should be updated within the week. Other content will be updated during their next release cycle or as implementation period closes. The log4j logo uses uppercase letters while all other mentions of log4j are lowercase. The original vector art was not committed at the same time as the image and altering or redrawing to use lowercase letters would appear to be difficult. - Development log4j 1.2: A few bug fixes and enhancements. To support the pending Chainsaw release, several log4j "companions" need to have new or initial releases and log4j 1.2.17 should be released. apache-log4j-extras 1.1 has had one release vote and another release candidate is imminent. Release votes for the other companions and log4j 1.2.17 are expected to follow. log4j 2.0: Ralph Goers has continued work during this period. log4cxx: A log4cxx release that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 and that addresses a persistent problem with crashes on shutdown (particularly with 64-bit systems) is (still) long overdue. log4net: Two commits, typical mailing list activity, no progress on NET 4.0 release. log4php: Five commits, typical mailing list activity. Chainsaw: Chainsaw has been by far the most active development area again this quarter. A formal Chainsaw release is hopefully in sight, but first several log4j "companions" need to be pushed to their first formal release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Status report for the Apache Perl Project -- mod_perl 1.0 -- The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd 1.3.x. No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report. --- mod_perl 2.0 -- mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches. No new mod_perl 2.x releases since the last report; however, work is progressing towards a 2.0.5 release in Q4 2010 after all dual-lifed modules have been released. --- Apache-Test -- Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications, and includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP and Parrot. Apache-Test 1.31 was released : 14 Sep 2010 --- Apache-SizeLimit -- Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes based on various environmental triggers. Apache-SizeLimit 0.93 was released : 02 Oct 2010 --- Apache-Bootstrap -- Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy. No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since the last report. --- Apache-Reload -- Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter without completely restarting httpd. Apache-Reload 0.11 was released : 21 Aug 2010 -- Apache-DBI -- Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients using DBI. Apache-DBI 1.09 was released : 11 Nov 2010 -- Development -- mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and applied with due consideration for our production userbase. -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is, as always, thriving. nothing noteworthy has happened since the last report. -- PMC -- No noteworthy PMC events happened during this quarter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Status report for the Apache Pig Project Pig status report for October 2010. Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets. As of September 22, 2010 Pig became a TLP. Prior to this move Pig was a subproject of Hadoop. Project by-laws have been approved by the PMC: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/ProposedByLaws. Pig held its Third Contributors Workshop attended by 10+ developers some of them remotely via Skype. We have discussed plans for Pig 0.9 release as well as issues around user function management. Please see the notes here: http://s.apache.org/S4I Releases: *In the process of releasing Pig 0.8 Committers: * Corinne Chandel became Pig committer in the documentation area. Community: * 492 subscribers to user mailing list (485 in the last report) * 196 subscribers to dev mailing list (197 in the last report) ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Status report for the Apache POI Project Community --------- In the last quarter, we haven't added any new committers. One community member we had been planning to offer committership to has vanished this quarter, but we'll aim to offer it if they return. One other person has been submitting several good patches via bugzilla, but not participating via the mailing lists. Yegor is hoping to have the time to reach out and provide some mentoring on this front, with a view to committership if all goes well with increasing their community engagement. Talks on POI at ApacheCon seemed well attended compared to others in their tracks, and everyone seemed to enjoy them! Traffic on the user and dev lists was steady until the 3.7 final release went out, traffic on the user list since then has risen pleasingly. Releases -------- We released POI 3.7 beta 3 in September, then 3.7 final during ApacheCon. The rough plan is for 3.8 in the summer, and the first beta in the spring once the fixed-bugs-count is high enough to warrant one! Branding -------- Our website was largely compliant with the new branding requirements already. Some tweaks to navigation titles/links for consistency have been made, and we're aiming to tweak titles and logos shortly to add TM, now that 3.7 is finished. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Status report for the Apache Qpid Project November 2010 Status report for Apache Qpid. Apache Qpid implements the latest AMQP specification, providing transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more. And Apache Qpid is extremely fast. Apache Qpid aims to be 100% AMQP Compliant. We have no issues to report at this time. Releases: - Qpid is at RC1 for the 0.8 release of Qpid, expected to be released soon. - This release brings support of 0-10 to all brokers and client - Brings new API's, and many enhancements. Community and Project - Chuck Rolke voted into the project as committer - Steady churn of questions/ activity on users list - Continued work on the project from the dev community. No issues to report at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Status report for the Apache Roller Project Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and databases. We're currently working to release a major revision of Roller. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/What's+new+in+Roller+5.0 Since the last report the project has made a second release candidate available for Roller 5.0 ( http://s.apache.org/apacheroller50rc2). Changes have been limited to bug fixes and small improvements. Recently some testing has revealed that the way we include OpenJPA in Roller may cause problems on some non-Tomcat app servers and we're discussing ways to ensure that Roller can run on the widest possible set of app servers. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache Santuario Project The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. It has been a reasonably busy quarter for the project. Since the last board report, Werner Dittman and Axl Mattheus have left the project PMC (gone emeritus). A large number of website fixes were reported and fixed in the last quarter. Several bug fixes were made for the Java project in the last quarter, including several important issues such as a JSR 105 classloading issue, a concurrency problem on some static initialization code, and a fix for a long-standing problem with DOM parsers that don't intern Strings. A vote was called to release 1.4.4, but later withdrawn, as a critical issue was reported and it was decided to address this issue in 1.4.4 rather than wait until the next release. A new vote has been called to release 1.4.4 and it is anticipated that it will be released in the next few days. There has been some discussion on the desired features of a new Java 1.5 release planned for next year. Two significant features would be more complete support for XML Signature 1.1 and dropping support for JDK 1.4, which would allow us to take advantage of JDK 1.5 language features and new APIs, such as the JCE ECC APIs. We intend to continue this discussion and to capture the requirements for this release in an issue tracking system next quarter. The C++ project added an additional XML Sig 1.1 extension (X509Digest), added support for removing References after signature creation and did some work on the build system. The first Release Candidate for 1.6.0 was released. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache Shiro Project Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Releases: - We are proud to announce that we have made our first release as a TLP, Apache Shiro version 1.1.0 on November 1st, 2010. Community & Project: - No new committers or PMC members - Community interaction and user list traffic has grown significantly since becoming a TLP, with over 400 emails on the user and dev mailing lists last month. This is more than double the average monthly traffic we had while in incubation, showing continued growth and a healthy community as a TLP. - We experienced our first security vulnerability CVE issue. It wasn't handled as appropriately as it should have, with the issue becoming public (in a roundabout way) before it should have been made known. We dealt with the issue, fixed the source code, and very shortly thereafter released version 1.1.0. This was a bit difficult as this CVE issue overlapped with the other issues required for 1.1 and because we had not yet released a TLP version, we couldn't simply create a point release and just 'get it out the door' quickly. Instead we needed to coordinate the fix in the context of our first TLP release, which was a little more challenging. In any event, it was a great learning experience, and we are confident any further CVE issues will be handled appropriately. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Status report for the Apache Subversion Project The project filed an extra report last month to report its 1.6.13 release and its status as "not quite Apache", along with our 1.7.0 plans which *will* be a true and proper release from the ASF. The project is preparing a new 1.6.14 release at the time of the Board meeting, and 1.7.0 is still on track for a release in Q1 of 2011. In the past month, we have added three new PMC members: * John Szakmeister (jszakmeister) * Daniel Näslund (dannas) * Stefan Fuhrmann (stefan2) John has been a "full committer" for years, so he has effectively been on the PMC. His addition this month is simply clearing up the paperwork. We added one new committer, Johan Corveleyn, to work on an experimental branch. At ApacheCon, CollabNet sponsored a Subversion meetup, but the event saw very few in attendance. The community is trying to determine better methods of outreach and marketing, and/or whether it is simply a reflection of Subversion's maturity and lack of "new hotness". Some discussions have begun recently about usage of the Subversion (registered) trademark. The community has had a usage policy for quite a few years and is trying to figure out the right alignment with the standard ASF policy, and if any policy changes need to occur. There is significant external usage that has been causing concern, but the community is also worried about hurting the very people who contribute most to the project. As is typical, the right answers are not obvious, and the Subversion project is working with the Trademarks group to figure out the right course. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache Thrift Project Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. This is Thrift's first report as a TLP project. Community We've added one committer, Christian Lavoie, since graduating. In general, the traffic on the user and dev lists has picked up nicely. A steady amount of work is being done to improve the build system and bring some of the lesser-maintained language libraries up to date. There appears to be a growing set of users who would like Thrift to be usable natively on Windows. Releases We haven't made any releases since graduation, though we have likely accumulated enough fixes to warrant an 0.6 release. Branding A branding audit has not yet been undertaken. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache Turbine Project Apache Turbine Project Board Report, November 2010 Status ====== The Turbine project has as usual seen fairly low levels of activity in the last quarter. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Project Branding Board Report Checklist - TBC ============================================= The requirements are acknowledged, but not yet addressed. * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site * Project Metadata : DOAP file checked-in and up to date Community changes ================= No new committers were voted in since the last board report. No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. A vote is underway to elect a new PMC chairperson. Turbine core project ==================== The Turbine core project continues with occasional commits. No beta or final releases were made since the last board report. Fulcrum component project ========================= Work on migrating the build process of the Fulcrum components to Maven 2 continues thanks mostly to Siegfried Goeschl. Releases this quarter: * 2010-11-12: fulcrum-pbe 1.0.1 * 2010-11-12: fulcrum-hsqldb 1.0.0 META project ============ There has been no activity on the META sub-project in this quarter. No beta or final releases were made since the last board report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache Tuscany Project Apache Tuscany, the SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA, is about to be five years old having being accepted for Incubation on the 7th of December 2005. Releases in the last quarter have been a milestone release of the 2.x code and a maven plugin release. There are also two releases with voting currently in progress, 1.6.1, and 2.0-Beta1. There has been one new committer made, a GSOC student who continued to participate after GSoC has finished, and there is a new PMC member currently being discussed. The BarCamp day at the Apache Retreat in Hursley had a good Tuscany turn out and was an enjoyable and useful day for all. At JavaOne there were a number of Tuscany talks and ApacheCon had 6 Tuscany sessions, so kudos to all those involved. Some stats: 370 current subscribers to the user list and during this quarter about 300 emails on the user list. 272 subscribers to the dev list and about 1400 emails in this quarter. Compared to the previous quarter subscribers are down slightly, emails are up slightly. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Status report for the Apache Velocity Project == November 2010 Board Report == === Status === Another quiet quarter in Velocity land. The Velocity project currently has no board-level issues at this time. === Community changes === Antonio Petrelli was voted onto the Velocity PMC. The Velocity PMC has voted to change the chair from Henning Schmiedehausen to Nathan Bubna. === General Project news === Some fixes to the Velocity site build enable building the site off-line and outside the Velocity zone. === Velocity Engine project === Reorganization and bug-fixing of the engine code continues. We expect to release the last version of the 1.x code base soon and then switch to 2.x ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache Xalan Project There have been no releases this quarter for Xalan-C or Xalan-J. There has been a small to moderate amount of activity on the project's mailing lists. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Status report for the Apache Xerces Project Xerces-J The developers have primarily been focused on completion of the XML Schema 1.1 processor and Schema Component Designators (SCD) support, with significant work done over the last month in integrating support for xs:override and the new complex type restriction rules, as well as making many bug fixes. The SCD and xs:override implementations were developed by our students during GSoC and will be featured as part of our upcoming Xerces-J 2.11.0 release which is currently planned for the end of November. Two of the three GSoC students from this summer are still contributing to the project. One has shown an interest in eventually becoming a committer which is very encouraging. Xerces-C++ No development activity during the reporting period except for a couple of bug fixes. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 100+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of September. Xerces-P There was no development activity over the reporting period and no posts to the p-dev mailing list. Note that Jason Stewart left the project earlier in the year so Xerces-P is currently without a maintainer. Theoretically any of the Xerces-C++ developers could pick this up if they were interested. XML Commons A proposal was recently posted to the development mailing list to complete XML Commons' migration out of the XML project and on to the Xerces domain. This includes moving the website, download area, mailing lists, bug tracker (Bugzilla to JIRA) and SVN location. If no one objects to the plan we would start the process of moving things over in the next few weeks / months. It has otherwise been quiet the last 3 months, with a few minor commits and one user query about upgrading to a newer XML Commons External (i.e. XML APIs) release. Apache Project Branding Requirements These have been acknowledged but for the most part have not been assessed yet, though can confirm at this time that the project site is up at xerces.apache.org, has many of the required links and that up to date DOAP files exist for each of the sub-projects and their components. Updates to the website to meet any outstanding requirements will occur gradually. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache XML Project Quiet quarter, as usual, in XML-land. No issues requiring board attention, no new releases, no new committers. And no work on the way forward, that is what happens now that XIndice (where no development activity is happening, though lists are monitored and questions answered) is the only project left. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache XML Graphics Project General Comments There are no issues that require Board attention. Developer activity has been rather low for all three subprojects, apart from the FOP work on Complex Scripts. Java 1.5 has been accepted as the base version of the platform. XML Graphics Commons XGC's Gump builds started causing error reports when the build infrastructure was moved from sun to openjdk. This is due to a dependency on com.sun Java classes, especially on the com.sun JPEG codec. Very recently this dependency was removed, so that the project builds are successful again. Batik There have been practically no changes to the codebase in the last three months. User list activity has gone down a bit but questions are mostly getting answers. Gump builds currently fail as well for the same reason as with XGC. Batik still depends on com.sun classes for JPEG encoding. This is expected to be resolved soon by adding XGC as a dependency tor Batik (and thereby reducing code redundancy between the two subprojects). Fop Support for Complex Scripts in FOP is being developed by Glenn Adams, who is sponsored for this work by Basis Technologies. Completion of this work will make FOP truly global, as is required in today's world, but this will take some time. The current phase focuses on Arabic scripts. Because FOP depends on XGC, its Gump builds failed as well. With the help of infrastructure, we have realised nightly builds for FOP. Old Renderer implementations for AFP, PCL, PDF, PS were removed, to reduce redundancy in the code. Glenn Adams introduced a policy of no checkstyle, javadoc and ant warnings. Deployment to Maven repository With help of a fellow ASF committer the artifacts of the XML Graphics Commons 1.4 and FOP 1.0 releases were deployed to the Maven repository, one month after the release of FOP. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the November 17, 2010 board meeting.