The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes September 19, 2012 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am (Pacific) and began at 10:03 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding on IRC; joined the call at 10:33 Jim Jagielski Brett Porter Sam Ruby on IRC; not on the call Greg Stein Directors Absent: Ross Gardler Executive Officers Present: Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: Chris Mattmann (conflict with HPC user forum keynote) Guests: Shane Curcuru Martijn Dashorst Kevin A. McGrail Sander Striker 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of August 15, 2012 See: board_minutes_2012_08_15.txt Approved by General Consent. B. The meeting of August 28, 2012 See: board_minutes_2012_08_28.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] We held our annual face-to-face board meeting last month, this year in the Washington DC area. We rapidly reached consensus in several areas that might have taken considerably longer to discuss over email, demonstrating the effectiveness of this annual tradition. Many thanks to Adobe for hosting the meeting. My summary of that meeting follows. --------------- We appointed the following new officers: Executive Vice President - Ross Gardler Treasurer - Chris Mattmann Assistant Treasurer - Sam Ruby Many thanks to exiting EVP Noirin Plunkett. We currently engage six paid contractors. Over time this number will likely increase, and long-term we may need to hire an Executive Director. In anticipation of this we decided to slightly re-organize the Foundation to better permit such a role. We now place all operational components of the Foundation under the President, rather than having some report directly to the Board. The groups that report through the President now include: Branding ConCom Fundraising Infrastructure Press Travel Assistance In particular, these groups will now submit their monthly reports to the President who will compile them into a single report to the Board. The President is now responsible for answering questions to the these groups from the Board. B. President [Jim] Thanks again to the board with entrusting me with the duties of President. We are starting to make the transitions from many of the committees reporting directly to the board to instead reporting to the President. The 'operations@' mailing list discussed at the f2f has been setup but not yet formally announced. Our EA is working almost exclusively on ACEU duties and has been invaluable in the ongoing progress associated with Concom. C. Treasurer [Chris] Chris's transition as ASF Treasurer is going along smoothly, thanks to Sam and others. The biggest issue is filing 2011 Taxes. Chris filed an extension using IRS form 8868 [1] and file taxes using form 990. Since our 2011 Taxes were originally due on Sep 15, 2012, they are now due on Dec 15, 2012. Chris has been curating a Quicken database [2] based off of Sam's Treasurer whimsy.apache.org scripts and it is up to date through August 2012 (CYTD). Chris is working on a 2011 Quicken DB for the tax situation since we believe Quicken has some bells and whistles to make this process less difficult. Sam is working to get Chris account access and an RSA hard/soft token to the Wells Fargo account. Also Sam has given Chris access to our Paypal account and Chris confirmed he can log in. Chris brought up the need to ensure HALO was paid on time (request from Sally), and Sam ensured that he would cover bill paying for August 2012 until Chris has the ability to pay bills from Wells Fargo. Sally and Melissa and Upayavira and Greg have been working with Google and secured $7500 in subsidies for student registration and select speaker expenses for ApacheCon EU 2012. Chris and Sam worked with Sally to create an invoice for Google so that we can get the money headed our way. Hadrian Zbarcea is leading an effort working with the ASF Board to get an audit process going for the ASF's finances. Talks appear to be ongoing and no specific action is required from the Treasurer at this time. Income and Expenses - August 2012 Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 539,532.33 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,323.87 PayPal: 128,255.99 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 955,112.19 Income Summary: Sponsors 201,193.73 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 201,193.73 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- Executive Assistant 2,508.09 Infrastructure Contractors 36,400.00 Network Services - Traci.net 518.00 Public Relations 5,271.08 Misc Expenses 3,802.77 ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 2,981.81 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 2,783.79 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 54,265.54 [1] http://s.apache.org/gI [2] http://s.apache.org/Uom AI Chris transfer money from PayPal account; review whether transfer affects FDIC insurance. D. Secretary [Craig] August, a traditionally slow vacation month, saw substantial activity at secretary@. 82 ICLAs, five grants, and six CCLAs were received and recorded. As part of the filing process 14 new account requests were made. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] Budget to support ApacheConEU has been agreed with ConCom, waiting for any final objections before setting up discount codes. Steve of OpenBastion has still not submitted a contract for consideration. I've chased him a number of times. It looks like he has been putting his energy into making sure speaker acceptances/rejections went out. ConCom volunteers seems to be progressing more now that the pressure to produce a large event has subsided. The event has been rebranded as ApacheConEU (Community Edition). F. Vice Chairman [Greg] No report was submitted. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru / Jim] See Attachment 1 B. VP of Fundraising [Upayavira / Jim] See Attachment 2 C. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Jim] See Attachment 3 D. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Jim] See Attachment 4 E. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] No report was submitted. AI: Sam Ruby to pursue a report for Legal Affairs F. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Jim] See Attachment 6 G. Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch / Jim] See Attachment 7 H. Apache Infrastructure Team [Sam Ruby / Jim] See Attachment 8 AI Jim follow up with infra regarding git status I. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Jim] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick / Bertrand] See Attachment A B. Apache Archiva Project [Maria Odea Ching / Jim] See Attachment B C. Apache Axis Project [Andreas Veithen / Ross] See Attachment C AI Doug follow up regarding inactive projects D. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Doug] See Attachment D E. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment E F. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Brett] See Attachment F G. Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik / Rich] See Attachment G H. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Greg] See Attachment H I. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Jim] See Attachment I J. Apache Commons Project [Luc Maisonobe / Bertrand] See Attachment J K. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Sam] See Attachment K AI Bertrand: what does "payoff that has been considerably shortened" mean? L. Apache Felix Project [Felix Meschberger / Roy] See Attachment L M. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg] See Attachment M N. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Brett] See Attachment N O. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Doug] See Attachment O P. Apache Hive Project [John Sichi / Bertrand] See Attachment P Q. Apache Incubator Project [Jukka Zitting / Ross] See Attachment Q R. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Roy] See Attachment R S. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sam] See Attachment S AI Doug: follow up regarding project roadmap T. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Jim] See Attachment T V. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Brett] See Attachment V W. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Bertrand] See Attachment W X. Apache OODT Project [Chris A. Mattmann / Rich] See Attachment X Y. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Ross] See Attachment Y Z. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Gurkan Erdogdu / Sam] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Jim] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Pig Project [Daniel Dai / Roy] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Pivot Project [Sandro Martini / Greg] See Attachment AC AI Jim: Why can't the "evolution project" happen within Pivot? AD. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Doug] See Attachment AD AE. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Roy] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Greg] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Doug] See Attachment AG AH. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Rich] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle / Bertrand] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Ross] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Jim] See Attachment AL AM. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Brett] See Attachment AM AN. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Sam] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Brett] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Whirr Project [Tom White / Jim] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Rich] See Attachment AQ AI Brett, Martijn: make a start at updating the release.html documentation AR. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Sam] No report was submitted. AI: Sam to pursue a report for XMLBeans AS. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Mahadev Konar / Bertrand] See Attachment AS AI Bertrand: follow up with PMC to suggest that events should use the Apache brand name and communicate with Conference Committee on the success of the events. AT. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Greg] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Doug] See Attachment AU Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Airavata Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to executing and managing computational jobs on distributed computing resources including local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, academic and commercial clouds. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Airavata Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Airavata Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to executing and managing computational jobs on distributed computing resources including local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, academic and commercial clouds; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Airavata" 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 Airavata Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Airavata 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 Airavata Project: Aleksander Slominski Ate Douma Chathura Herath Chris Mattmann Eran Chinthaka Srinath Perera Heshan Suriyaarachchi Lahiru Gunathilake Marlon Pierce Patanachai Tangchaisin Raminderjeet Singh Saminda Wijeratne Shahani Weerawarana Suresh Marru Thilina Gunarathne NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Suresh Marru be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Airavata, 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 Airavata 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 Airavata Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Airavata Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Airavata podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Airavata podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Airavata Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Establish the Apache Stanbol Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a set of reusable components for semantic content management. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Stanbol Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Stanbol Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a set of reusable components for semantic content management; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Stanbol" 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 Stanbol Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Stanbol 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 Stanbol Project: * Alessandro Adamou * Ali Anil Sinaci * Andrea Nuzzolese * Andreas Gruber * Andreas Kuckartz * Benjamin Nagel * Bertrand Delacretaz * Cihan Cimen * Concetto Bonafede * Enrico Daga * Fabian Christ * Florent André * Olivier Grisel * Ozgur Kilic * Reto Bachmann-Gmür * Rupert Westenthaler * Suat Gonul * Tommaso Teofili * Valentina Presutti * Walter Kasper NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Fabian Christ be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Stanbol, 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 Stanbol 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 Stanbol Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Stanbol Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Stanbol podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Stanbol podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Stanbol Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish the Apache SIS Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to the acquisition, processing, representation, and dissemination of spatial data. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache SIS Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache SIS Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the acquisition, processing, representation, and dissemination of spatial data and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache SIS" 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 SIS Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache SIS 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 SIS Project: Adam Estrada Andrew Hart Charitha Madusanka Martin Desruisseaux Gregory D. Reddin Ian Holsman Joe Schaefer Kevan Lee Miller Chris Mattmann Nga Thien Chung Patrick O'Leary Peter Karich Paul Michael Ramirez Ross Laidlaw Sean William McCleese NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Adam Estrada be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache SIS 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 SIS Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator SIS podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator SIS podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache SIS Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache Bigtop Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a system for integration, packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution based on Apache Hadoop. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Bigtop Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Bigtop Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a system for integration, packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution based on Apache Hadoop; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Bigtop" 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 Bigtop Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Bigtop 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 Bigtop Project: * Alan Gates gates@apache.org * Patrick Hunt phunt@apache.org * Steve Loughran stevel@apache.org * Tom White tomwhite@apache.org * Alejandro Abdelnur tucu@apache.org * Andrew Bayer abayer@apache.org * Konstantin Boudnik cos@apache.org * Stephen Chu schu@apache.org * Bruno Mahe bmahe@apache.org * Peter Linnell plinnell@apache.org * James Page jamespage@apache.org * Patrick Taylor Ramsey ptr@apache.org * Roman Shaposhnik rvs@apache.org * Michael Stack stack@apache.org * Andrei Savu asavu@apache.org * Edward J. Yoon edwardyoon@apache.org * Andre Arcilla arcilla@apache.org * Eli Collins eli@apache.org * Travis Crawford traviscrawford@apache.org * John Sichi jvs@apache.org * Owen O'Malley omalley@apache.org NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Roman Shaposhnik be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, 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 Bigtop 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 Bigtop Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Bigtop Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Bigtop podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Bigtop podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Bigtop Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items a. Drafting resolution(s) to formally move various officers under the President rather than reporting to the board. Will continue to discuss on the board mailing list. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Daniel: draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle other Apache projects. Status: * Roy: update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: not done yet * Doug: ask CouchDB to include community information in next report Status: not done yet * Jim/Ross: draft travel approval policy Status: not done yet * Jim: send a message to committers@ regarding binaries signed by Apache. Status: Not yet done. Was looking to piggyback on Roy's "releases" email. * Sam: review committers@ history and make it publicly archived Status: 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 10:54 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management Operations And Community ======================== Responded to a usual array of requests, including several book publishers who seem to be appreciating our FAQ entry for them. Approved the Airavata name for TLP; kudos to the PPMC there for doing very thorough research around the name! External Requests ================= Commented on a fundraising@ request that included an agreement that could have granted far too broad rights to our marks in a sponsorship agreement. Trademark Registrations ======================= Worked with DLAPiper to ensure past registration tracking from Sun/Oracle legal firms for OpenOffice.org registrations is fully transferred to us. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising Most fundraising activity during the last month has been around the Calxeda donation of ARM based servers to ASF infrastructure. While we have watched this, it has not needed much of our input, as Sally has been handling their PR wishes. Other than this, August was a quiet month for fundraising, with a few enquiries that have not led to anything. We now have a reasonable understanding of the payment patterns for our platinum and gold sponsors. We still have a number of bronze sponsors that still need to be approached. I believe it is now time to start setting fundraising targets, to ensure we continue to meet our financial expectations. These targets will be set so as to maintain our current income levels, and won't account for growth. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity I. Budget: no payments are due at this time; special thanks to ASF Treasurer Chris Mattmann and Sam Ruby for seeing payments through quickly. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi has been working with Upayavira with select ASF Platinum and Gold Sponsors, as well as with several companies donating products & services, and others seeking to make contributions to the Apache Incubator to ensure their publicity activities comply with our guidelines. In addition, Sally continues to work on ApacheCon sponsorship with Melissa Warnkin. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org -- - 5 September 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Wicket™ v6.0 - 5 September 2012: Apache Wicket v6.0.0 Technical Fact Sheet IV. Informal Announcements: the following items were announced on @TheASF and @ApacheCon Twitter feeds -- - 13 September 2012: @ApacheCon - #SmartSearch enthusiasts: #LuceneEurocon will be co-located at ApacheCon Europe & sponsored by LucidWorks. Join us! http://apachecon.com/ - 13 September 2012: @ApacheCon - Love #Apache #BigData + want to learn more? Join us at #ApacheCon Europe! http://apachecon.com/ Thanks to BigData track sponsors @Hortonworks - 12 September 2012: @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon Europe has super-discount #STUDENT rates --just €75-- thanks to special sponsorship from #Google! Sign up at http://www.apachecon.eu/ - 5 September 2012: @TheASF - The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #Wicket™ v6.0 http://s.apache.org/ThA #OpenSource #Web #Application #Framework #Java - 27 August 2012: ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #EU program will be announced the week of 17 Sept; Early-Bird reg extended to 1 Oct! Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/ #conference - 27 August 2012: @TheASF - Meet the #Apache #Subversion community in San Francisco, Greenwich CT, and London at Subversion Live! http://s.apache.org/Nru #conference - 16 August 2012: @ApacheCon - Early-bird registration is NOW OPEN for #ApacheCon #Europe -- 5-8 Nov in #Sinsheim, #Germany! http://www.apachecon.eu/tickets/ #Conference #OpenSource No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: we remain on standby for input from the Tuscany PMC regarding the press release for Tuscany v2.0. The press-analyst briefing for a feature on CouchDB has yet to take place due to media-analyst scheduling conflicts, coupled with summer holidays. Those PMCs wishing to announce major project news --as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator-- please contact Sally at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: in addition to select pre-announcement briefings, 9 media requests were responded to (including New York Times, Popular Science, and Network World), and 5 interviews coordinated for various projects. The ASF received 546 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 691. VII. Analyst Relations: we are trying to re-book RedMonk for their briefing on CouchDB. Apache was mentioned in 12 reports by 451 Research, 25 writeups/reports by Gartner (including Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Who's Who, and Emerging Trends reports), and 4 reports by Forrester. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally continues to act as a point of contact regarding sponsorship of ApacheCon Europe, and is working with Melissa on invoicing as well as the ASF Treasury with select ASF Sponsor accounts receivable. She also continues to participate in a number of strategic discussions to help ensure the planning team is tactically synchronized. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: we arranged Lars Eilebrecht to participate on an Open Source security panel in London, and are working with Santiago Gala in processing a request for participation in a pan-Iberian/Portuguese conference on Open Source. Sally has also been actively coordinating the attendance of one of our PMCs at an award ceremony during a major industry conference in recognition of their efforts. X. Newswire accounts: we have 5 pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account and 17 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of the Fiscal Year. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of W3C Relations With the successful publication of reports, Lawrence Rosen has left XML Security PAG Touch Events PAG ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project For August 2012: There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds arriving at security@. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. 1 Support question 3 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 9 Vulnerability reports of which: 1 [axis, via security@apache.org] 3 [httpd, via security@apache.org] 1 [james, via root@apache.org] 1 [ofbiz, via security@apache.org] 1 [tapestry, via security@apache.org] 1 [infrastructure, via security@apache.org] 1 [ooo, via ooo-security@incubator.apache.org] Reminder: vulnerability handling process explained at http://apache.org/security/committers.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project ----------------- ApacheCons ---------- The website for ApacheCon NA 2013 is set to go live early this week, and the Call For Papers will launch shortly after that. This is slightly later than planned, but it was felt best to delay things until after the ACEU notifications and schedules were done. ACEU continues to trial various processes, website features, ideas etc for ACNA, with varying levels of pain/success. While this has caused some notable delays to ACEU things this month, it has led to a lot of bugs getting fixed / processes getting refined, which should hopefully make life much slicker and easier for ACNA (expected to be a much larger event) Notifications to Speakers, Backup Speakers and rejections have been sent out, and almost all responses received. A few speakers have declined, and will shortly be replaced by the designated backup speakers, with remaining backup speakers likely to be called upon nearer the time. The allocations of sessions to tracks were worked out a few weeks ago, and used as the basis for track chairs to select the talks they wanted to include. Now that speaker responses are in, the Schedule for ACEU is set to be announced early this week. Following last month's board feedback, we have opted to make the ACEU event more focused on the community, and trimmed back a few aspects to reduce the amount of volunteer energies required. As part of this, we intend to dramatically lower the committers ticket price, to try to draw more committers along. Details on this are expected to be announced this week. We've also gained sponsorship to offer heavily discounted student tickets, and a volunteer has kindly put together a flyer advertising this. Speakers will be offered a free ticket if they need it. A few speakers are helping revise the draft speaker information, and we expect to send this out a few days after the schedule. Melissa is doing a great job in maintaining the task schedule and todo list, which is helping reduce (but sadly not eliminate...) the number of dropped balls and late task completions. Small Events ------------ No new small events are currently scheduled, or in the planning stages. There is limited volunteer cycles available to help mentor if volunteers interested in organising an event were to surface. There's not currently the cycles available to seek out and encourage new people, but there is hope that ACEU may cause some to show up. Committee --------- No new committee members were added this month, though 3 were added last month. ACEU has a number of volunteers who hadn't been widely involved in ConCom before, several of whom may be good candidates for committee membership in the near future. There have been some discussions on the number of lists that ConCom manages. A few people have suggested reducing it to simply two lists, but some potential snags with this approach have been identified and not yet resolved. This discussion is expected to continue, and we hope that the recent list of requirements and background on where the more recent lists have come from, may allow someone to come up with a new plan which solves most of the problems. Progress with the long term TODO list has been virtually non-existent, with admin/website/etc energies currently focused on ApacheCon instead. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team Daniel Gruno added to the Infrastructure Team. Bought a pair of 1TB SATA drives, one of which was used to replace a bad disk in hermes (mail). Calxeda donated access to a 24-node ARM-based hosting service to be deployed as part of our build farm offerings. Removed the custom jira patch licensing plugin largely because no one wanted to continue to maintain it. Migrated jira service to its own hardware (a spare r410) for stability reasons. Picked up a 7 more SATA drives for inventory and replacement. VP Infra pointed out various rumblings rising to the board level about contractor communications, and had various ideas about how to address that. Started work on a Circonus-based service to replace our aging nagios installation. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee General ----------- TAC is moving from a Board Committee to a Presidents Committee, as such we will now report directly to the president for our monthly reporting, and for adding/removing committee members etc. Budget approvals in the future will also go through the president. No changes to the committee this month, however we do have 2 new (ASF) members in Mohammad Nour and Kanchana offering to help us with organising our recipients at the ApacheCon EU event. As they are intending to go anyway this is a good thing for us. ApacheCon EU 2012 November ---------------------------------------- Things are continuing to tick along nicely, hotels have been block booked (but not yet paid.) We paid our first installment for the flights to secure prices before they jump up. Nick, Melissa and others in association with concom have been driving things along in this regard, combined with the 3 judges all seems to be in good shape. ApacheCon NA 2013 --------------------------- Some dates are being discussed, we need to align ourselves more with concom in order to open at the right time for this event. It is likely to be once the ApacheCon EU event has finished. ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Apache APR Project The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- No new versions have been released this quarter, though APR-util 1.5.1 is currently being tested. A previous candidate, APR-util 1.5.0, was not released. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012 and the previous stable APR-util release was in December of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none About 15 bugs have been opened during the reporting period, with about 7 bugs resolved. Mailing list activity has decreased from the previous quarter. Development ----------- Activity has been moderate compared with recent reporting periods, with most activity centered around APR-util 1.5.x and preparing the initial release of that branch. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache Archiva Project Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT. Releases -------- No releases for this quarter Community --------- Eric Barboni has been added as a new committer (4 Aug 2012). We have not added any PMC members recently, with the last addition on 31 Aug 2011. No updates regarding previous trademark issue with MailArchiva. They haven't proceeded with their rebranding plans as of this board report. Development ----------- * Distribution moved to use svnpubsub. * Site moved to svnpubsub. * 1.4-M3 to be released soon, just waiting for two other dependencies to be released. The release will include the UI overhaul in the Archiva webapp and the integration of all the imported Redback components (security system). Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- Already completed. Issues ------ No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Axis Project The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. No releases this quarter. Last releases: * Axis2/Java: April 2012 * Rampart/Java: April 2012 * Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Project branding status per subproject: * Axis2/Java: OK * Rampart/Java: OK * Sandesha2/Java: OK * Axis2 Transports/Java: not OK; will likely be merged into Axis2/Java and disappear as a distinct subproject (vote in progress) * Axis/Java: not OK; the current site (from 2006) will be replaced by a 1.4.1-SNAPSHOT site which will be compliant * C/C++ subprojects: not OK; Nadir Amra will look into this svnpubsub migration status: * The Web site has been successfully migrated to svnpubsub. * Migration of the dist area to svnpubsub will start soon. Community: * No issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache BVal Project The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation 1.0 (JSR-303) specification and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on February 15, 2012. ### Releases ### No releases since the last report. ### Activity ### Little development activity of late; most of the BVal team are spread across various ASF projects, so we've not yet been able to make good on our intentions to continue improving the codebase towards a 1.0 release. Traffic on the user mailing list remains low/nonexistent. We continue to follow the progress of the Bean Validation specification; its 1.1.0 version is being developed under Red Hat's (open) leadership as JSR-349. Apache BVal will implement Bean Validation v1.1.0 as soon as is practical. ### Community ### No changes in community. ### Branding ### The project has adopted (though not yet re-branded with) a new logo contributed by Adonis Raduca. The PMC thanks him for his contribution, as well as his employer, IRIAN Solutions, for his time. ### Legal ### No concerns at present. ### Infrastructure ### Nothing needed at the moment. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache C++ Standard Library Project DESCRIPTION Apache STDCXX is a collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components of every piece of software, implemented as C++ classes, templates, and functions essential for writing C++ programs. RELEASES * There has not been a release of stdcxx since 2008. Renewed work is being done on the 4.2.x and 4.3.x branches. CURRENT ACTIVITY * After a "gentle" nudge by the current chair, we've seen renewed activity on the mailing list. In particular, a specific BUGZ entry (STDCXX-1056) has seen a lot of discussion. * There was some licensing FUD discussed on the list, mostly to promote a "rationale" for moving the project elsewhere and/or releasing stdcxx under a different license. This has (hopefully) been clarified. * Branching and development policies are being discussed on the mailing list. * Moving to git, as a way to draw in more potential developers was suggested, but as of yet there is no decision on whether to follow through with it. COMMUNITY * Stefan Teleman (steleman@apache.org) was added to the PMC in July ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Camel Project Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Project Status -------------- * There are no issues that require the board attention. * The project is healthy, active and stays at a high level. Community --------- * Apache Camel in the news: * "Java aktuell - Das Magazin", "Java Magazin", "Heise Developer" and "h-online" published articles about Apache Camel * We celebrated our fifth birthday: http://s.apache.org/PZ7 * We will have 4 talks at ApacheCon EU 2012 and also a talk at JavaOne 2012 * The community stays at a high level * The community is active and questions being answered in short term. * Avg. 781 mails per month on the users mailing list in Jun 2011 - Aug 2012 * Avg. 239 mails per month on the dev mailing list in Jun 2011 - Aug 2012 * Avg. 275 commits per month in Jun 2011 - Aug 2012 * No new committer in this reporting period (last one joined in March 2012) * We are watching a few good candidates which we probably add in the next reporting period * No new PMC members in this reporting period (last one joined in November 2011) Community Objectives -------------------- * Working on Camel 2.11.0 * Concrete the Camel 3.0.0 road map Releases -------- * 2.10.1 * 2.10.0 * 2.9.3 * 2.8.6 ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Cayenne Project Apache Cayenne(TM) is an open source persistence framework licensed under the Apache License, providing object-relational mapping (ORM) and remoting services. Development * Active work on Cayenne 3.1 release continues with 3.1 Beta 1 being released in June. The 3.1 API is considered stable and any new changes are targeted at the 3.2 development. * DocBook migration of Confluence documentation continues. * Apache CMS migration has stalled, but will be resumed in order to complete the migration away from Confluence before the end of the year. Community * Mailing list activity is near-average on developer and user lists over the summer. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache Chemistry Project Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java, Python, PHP, and .NET (and possibly other languages). The project has graduated in February 2011. == Project status == The OpenCMIS (Java) subproject is working on fixes and new features. One topic is to make OpenCMIS work in different environments and with different dependencies. Another topic is to follow the Browser Binding changes in the CMIS 1.1 specification draft. The DotCMIS (.NET) subproject follows OpenCMIS and adopts relevant changes. There is not much activity around the other two subproject, cmislib (Python) and phpclient (PHP). == Community == No significant changes. Steady traffic on the mailing list. == Releases == No releases in the last three months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: 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 ------------------- There are no infrastructure issues at this time. Development ------------------ Progress is being made towards a version 2.4 release due for release in Q3 2012. Community ---------------- There have been no new committer or PMC members added during this period. Mailing list traffic has been very light for the period. The project needs to recruit new committers and community support remain active and healthy. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Apache Commons Project Apache Commons provides a large set of reusable Java components. Commons components are widely used in many projects, both at Apache and outside. There are no particular problems that would require board support. Several components have been released since last report: Commons IO 2.4 (2012-07-06) Commons DbUtils 1.5 (2012-07-21) Commons Configuration 1.9 (2012-08-23) Commons project is still late for the mandatory svnpubsub migration. We have relaunched the thread about this and hope we will make the switch before the deadline. Commons community experienced a few changes, as two new committers have been elected: Bruno P. Kinoshita and Elijah Zupancic, one committer has left: Mikkel Meyer Andersen as well as one PMC member: Henri Biestro. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status report for the Apache DirectMemory Project Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. DirectMemory graduated August 15th and not much happened since - except for the payoff that has been considerably shortened. Next steps will be in gathering community and development team proposals to better identify a direction for our efforts (which has sometimes been an issue, as pointed out during the graduation voting process) and, maybe, spread adoption (which is very limited at the moment regardless of the good number of integrations developed). All tasks regarding TLP graduation have been completed (including svnpubsub for both distribution and site deployment). ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Felix Project Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies aligned with OSGi technology. Community * Felix Meschberger appointed new chair by the ASF board (June 20th) * Jan Willem Janssen has been added as a committer (Aug 7th) Software * Recent subproject releases: - Framework, Main, and Main Distribution 4.0.3 (July 6th) - SCR Generator 1.2.0 (Aug 23rd) - SCR Annotations 1.7.0 (Aug 23rd) - DS Annotations 1.2.0 (Aug 23rd) - Maven SCR Plugin 1.8.0 (Aug 23rd) - SCR Ant Task 1.2.0 (Aug 23rd) * Donation of UserAdmin implementation (Aug 21nd) Project Branding * Project Website Basics: done * Website Navigation Links: done * Trademark Attributions: done * Logos and Graphics: open * TM missing from all Logos * Project Metadata: done Licensing and other issues * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Status report for the Apache Flume Project DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * No further releases are planned at this time. The last release of Flume was version 1.2.0, which was released on July 26, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/zI4 COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since the last report. * Committer composition has not changed since the last report. * A user-group meetup is being organized for the week of October 22 around the time of Strata-Hadoop World conference in NY. * Currently there are: - Total of 127 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 280 subscribers to the user list - Total of 21 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Status report for the Apache Giraph Project Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project Status -------------- Releases: 0.2.0 - expected early October * Only use Netty for communication Community --------- We added two committers recently: Alessandro Presta and Eli Reisman. In the past 30 days we have resolved 21 issues and have a lot of folks trying out the system. Mailing lists: 125 subscribers on dev 184 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Status report for the Apache Gump Project Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the projects to collaborate. Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds many ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and log4net. == Summary == No Board level issues. == Releases == The ASF installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the time. The project is in a state of a perpetual beta. There have been no releases. == Activity == Gump on vmgump now runs on Oracle Java7 since more an more projects depend on it. As a result other projects - most notably those who implement JDBC interfaces - have been broken. The dataset of projects built by Gump is maintained by only a few people contributing across all projects and a few additional people maintaining the metadata of the projects they are interested in the most. == Changes to the Roster == All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure the ASF installations. No new committers to the code base, no changes to the PMC. == Statistics == As of Mon, 10 Sep 2012 the ASF installations check out a bit more than 175 source trees (115 from the ASF repository) and try to build a bit more than 850 "projects". A complete Gump run takes about eight and a half hours on vmgump and about ten on the FreeBSD jail and eight on Adam where more projects fail to build. [1] the main instance at http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/ , a FreeBSD jail at http://gump.zones.apache.org/gump/public/ and a Mac OS X Server at http://adam.apache.org/gump/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Status report for the Apache Hive Project Apache Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Apache Hadoop. It provides SQL to query and manage data (in the form of tables and partitions stored in HDFS or external systems) and provides a metastore containing metadata information about the stored data. Releases: No new releases for this quarter. Community: * Existing committer Ashutosh Chauhan was added to the PMC. * Navis Ryu was added as a new committer. Branding Checklist: We've created HIVE-2432 to track this, with sub-tasks corresponding to each item. * Project Website Basics: [DONE] * Project Naming And Descriptions: [IN PROGRESS] * Website Navigation Links: [IN PROGRESS] * Trademark Attributions: [IN PROGRESS] * Logos and Graphics: [DONE] * Project Metadata: [DONE] ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project The Incubator continues to work reasonably well, with no major issues that would require direct board attention or assistance. The downward trend in the number of podlings at the Incubator continues thanks to the efforts to more actively help podlings towards graduation and to retire old, inactive podlings. The rate of this change has leveled off over summer, but we still graduate or retire some 2-3 podlings while accepting only 1-2 new podlings on average per month. Current podlings can be roughly divided in three equal-sized groups based on the time they've spent in the Incubator: a) less than a year, b) less than two years, and c) more than two years. Of the podlings reporting this month only Etch, Isis and NPanday fall into the last group, and we're happy to see at least Etch and Isis being close to graduation in near future. o Community Noah Slater joined the Incubator PMC since our last report. The following podlings are requesting graduation to an Apache TLP: - Apache Airavata - Apache SIS - Apache Stanbol The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions. The vote to recommend graduation of the Bigtop podling is in progress. The following proposal for a new incubating project was accepted: - Apache Drill A proposal for a new project called MetaModel was brought up for discussion. Only one of the podlings reporting in this month is having trouble with low levels of community activity; see the NPanday report for details. The interesting bit here is that just a bit over a quarter ago NPanday looked like it was just about ready to graduate. o Releases The following incubating releases were made since our last report: - August 16th, 2012: Apache S4 0.5.0-incubating - August 20th, 2012: Apache Wink 1.2.1-incubating - August 22nd, 2012: Apache Bigtop 0.4.0-incubating - August 23rd, 2012: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1-incubating - August 24th, 2012: Apache DeltaSpike 0.3-incubating - September 4th, 2012: Apache OpenMeetings Moodle Plugin 1.4-incubating - September 6th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.1-incubating - September 14th, 2012: Apache Bloodhound 0.1-incubating All the four podlings categorized below as being blocked on graduation by the lack of an Apache release have been in that state for quite a while. Ambari and Cordova are just on the verge of their first release, and we've asked Kalumet and Wave to put more focus on getting a release out. o Legal / Trademarks The question of whether Openmeetings can releasing modules for 3rd party products with proprietary or copyleft licenses (LEGAL-147) is unresolved and currently blocks one of their releases. Clarification from the legal team on whether such cases can indeed be treated as platform dependencies would be welcome. It was noted that the podling status pages do not always have up to date information about IP clearance. We've tried to put some focus on this issue during podling reviews. o Infrastructure The recent OpenOffice release caused some trouble by contacting svn.apache.org as a part of the build. Many of the recent new podlings have opted for Git as their version control system, which has caused some strain as the relevant infra processes are still being developed. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings) Allura, Blur, cTAKES, Drill These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Not yet ready to graduate (7 podlings) No release: Ambari, Cordova, Kalumet, Wave Low activity: NPanday Low diversity: Bloodhound, Flex We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues. Ready to graduate (7 podlings) Bigtop, Etch, HCatalog, Isis, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, S4 We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter. -------------------- Allura Allura is forge software for the development of software projects, including source control systems, issue tracking, discussion, wiki, and other software project management tools. Allura has been incubating since June 2012. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Move project development to ASF hardware 2. Grow the community 3. Verify distribution rights, esp. with regard to dependencies' licenses Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No issues at this time How has the community developed since the last report? We have had several introductions and discussions among developers and users on the allura mailing list. We received and merged two patches from a contributor (who isn't a committer). The Bloodhound podling is in a similar domain as Allura, so we have had some cross-list emails. How has the project developed since the last report? All active committers have submitted CLAs and have accounts created. The software grant for Allura has been submitted. On the mailing list, several licensing questions have been discussed and resolved how to handle: external contributions, handling of a non-essential GPL library, and handling of our ForgeHg tool which has a dependency on the GPL'd mercurial library. Signed-off-by: rbowen, rgardler -------------------- Ambari Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for Apache Hadoop clusters. - Incubating since 30 August 2011. - ambari-186 merged to trunk - trunk had roughly 400 commits since last board report - branch 0.9 has been created to do a release. - a release vote is currently underway. We hope to be able to release in a week or two. - 8 new committers have been contributing steadily since April (Vikram Dixit, Mahadev, Yusaku, Hitesh, Jitendra, Ramya, Vinod, Varun) - 4 new Ambari PPMC members added - Mahadev, Ramya, Jitendra and Hitesh - new branch ambari-666 created for refactoring to make the architecture more robust and flexible for adding more features in the long run. Issues that must be addressed before graduation are: - Making a release - Attracting users and developers - Increase diversity of developers outside of Hortonworks Signed-off-by: ddas, omalley, wave -------------------- Bigtop Bigtop is a project for the development of native packaging and stack tests of the Hadoop ecosystem. Bigtop entered incubation on June 20, 2011. Primary issues blocking graduation: None: the discussion thread on bigtop-dev and bigtop-user produced a unanimous +1 vote for starting the graduation process. Issues which Incubator PMC and/or ASF Board might need/wish to be aware of: Bigtop is about to start the graduation vote Community development since last report: Stephen Chu added as a Bigtop committer Bigtop has developed a very robust and high profile user community: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Powered+By+Bigtop Increased number of patches from our new community members Project development since last report: - released Bigtop 0.4.0-incubating - Bigtop 0.3.0 branch is now in active maintenance mode courtesy of Cos and Bruno - Bigtop 0.3.1 expected shortly - Giraph is now supported in Bigtop 0.4.0/trunk branches - Hue is now supported in Bigtop 0.4.0/trunk branches - Hama is now supported in Bigtop 0.3.0 branch - used Bigtop to validate Hadoop 1.0.* RC and Hadoop 2.0.1-alpha RC releases - used Bigtop to validate HBase 0.92.1 RC - increased the # and scope of integration tests Signed-off-by: tomwhite, mnour -------------------- Bloodhound Bloodhound is an issue tracker derivative of Trac, with the goal of making deployment easy, and usage intuitive. Bloodhound has been incubating since December 2011. The top three issues that need to be addressed to move toward graduation are: 1. Improve community diversity 2. Lowering the barrier to entry and development 3. Establish a frequent release cycle Since our last report Bloodhound has had its first release, version 0.1.0-RC1. This was promptly followed by one external website hosting resources required during the installation to go offline. At the time of writing this is unresolved, although a temporary fix has been identified and suggestions for a more permanent fix have been made. Our project issue tracking system has now also been upgraded to this first release of Bloodhound. Predictably the number of issues raised since has risen significantly since as it exposed many minor shortcomings not obvious when not used daily. Conversations have also started on how to highlight issues that potential new contributors would find engaging and manageable in complexity. This is mainly to address point 2 of the issues listed above. Signed-off-by: gstein, jukka -------------------- Blur (incubating since August 2012) Apache Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Issues needing Board/Incubator PMC Attention: None. Key Activities: - Git repo is just now in place - code cloned from Github and updated to latest revision so the code cleanup (package naming, licensing, etc.) can now proceed. - JIRA is active now. - Mailing lists created. - Website created and in the process of CMS-ification. - Public Blur hack sessions/meetups are being held (Mondays) at Near Infinity with summaries posted on dev list. Community: - Issues are being created and worked. - Subscriptions: users@ - 17; dev@ - 18 Signed-off-by: phunt, cutting -------------------- Cordova Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project entered incubation as Apache Callback in October, 2011, before changing its name to Cordova. Cordova is an active community with contributors and committers from many different backgrounds. The first Apache release is expected to be ready shortly, after which Cordova should be ready to graduate. - Tizen code contribution to CordovaJS - Tizen native code contribution to incubator-cordova-tizen The following ppl have been nominated for committer status: - Regis Merlino, Intel - Christophe Guiraud, Intel - Paul Plaquette, Intel - Markus Leutwyler, HP - Andrew Grieve, Google - Michal Mocny, Google - Braden Shepherdson, Google Graduation concerns: - source release issues still open for 2.1.0 (But should be closed today! Sept 5) - official apache release artifacts remain to be verified by a mentor Signed-off-by: rgardler, jukka, bmargulies -------------------- cTAKES cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. cTAKES was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on Monday, June 11, 2012. Three most important steps moving towards graduation - Attract new contributors - Make at least one cTAKES release - Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache and using the infrastructure Anything required IPMC attention? Developers are waiting on the SVN load to be completed by INFRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5079 Community: We have had additional committers and PPMC members join and are waiting for one corporate CLA before finalizing the addition of three more. We have open JIRA tickets to replace the Bugs tickets we still had had open on SF.net. Development: - We plan to migrate the entire SVN repo from SourceForge to Apache SVN. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5079) Our goal is to create an initial 2.6-incubating release after this is done. - We have received ICLA's from Sunghwan Sohn, Hongfang Liu, Stephen Wu, Troy Bleeker. - We began using Apache's Infrastructure (SVN, Apache CMS, Jira, Mailing Lists) - The ctakes-dev@ discussions have been active. Signed-off-by: mattmann -------------------- Drill Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets, inspired by Google's Dremel. We have just started and have mailing lists and svn up. Git has been delayed by issues in infra. Community development is progressing well with several companies offering paid developers and 90 subscribers to the dev list. A hackathon in the SF bay area is scheduled. A lunchtime meetup is scheduled for Boston. Additional meetups in New York and London are in the planning stages. All such physical meetups will have remote access if possible (probably not for the lunch) and all will be reported back to the mailing list to be sure to include those in different places and time zones can participate. Graduation is still a distant vision since we haven't got all the basic mechanics in place yet. The community side of things is going well and the development of a realistic release looks like it will be moving shortly. Signed-off-by: tdunning -------------------- Etch Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services. The Etch toolset includes a network service description language, a compiler, and binding libraries for a variety of programming languages. Status: The implementation of the binding-cpp was completed initially. After a short bug fixing phase we would like to create a new release that include it. We filed a proposal for the ApacheCon Europe 2012 to present the Apache Etch features to a wider audience. The Etch podling voted 6/0/0 to do the graduation to become an Apache TLP. Currently we prepare a resolution and work out a time chart. The graduation will start while the next days. Future Tasks: - Bug fixing binding-cpp - General Bug fixing - Graduation - Community development Signed-off-by: rgardler, jukka IPMC comments: Ross Gardler: All looks good for graduation. Not the most active of projects but it it certainly alive. -------------------- Flex Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A large community is waiting to see if committer activity will increase and starting to think about graduating. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: - Get better at resolving issues the Apache Way - Get more initial committers to commit something - Make another release with more non-Adobe involvement Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? There was discussion about letting Flex graduate with the requirement that one or two mentors remain on the PMC. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) The issue regarding the import of attachments for existing JIRA bugs remains open (INFRA-4380). It is not critical, but it would be nice to get this resolved soon. The PPMC has voted to move from SVN to Git. Having Apache approve read/write Git repositories would be helpful. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - We released Apache Flex 4.8.0 (incubating). - OmPrakash Muppirala and Erik de Bruin were added as a committer and PPMC member due to their work on the installer. Peter Ent and Gordon Smith from Adobe were also added as committers as they are shepherding large donations from Adobe. - Adobe completed the trademark donation. - Adobe donated the Text Layout Framework, the rest of the Mustella test suite and signed off on the Falcon compiler donation. - OmPrakash Muppirala has been leading the development of a tool that allows IDEs like Adobe Flash Builder to work better with Apache Flex releases. Justin McLean, Stephen Downs, Roland Zwaga, Tomasz Maciag, and Erik de Bruin have also contributed to the tool. - We have accepted several patches from the community to address issues with our test suite. - After much discussion, we voted to move from SVN to Git and employ something known as the Git Branching Model. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? - We hope to finalize the release of the installer. - Adobe will submit the Falcon compiler source - We will get the test suite stable on Mac desktops and then on Windows and mobile configurations. This should remove the last excuse for committers who are afraid to make changes without a validation suite - We hope to complete the transition from SVN to Git. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Our mentors continue to be very helpful. Signed off by mentor: wave, bdelacretaz, bmargulies -------------------- HCatalog HCatalog is a table and storage management service for data created using Apache Hadoop. HCatalog entered Apache incubator in March 2011. What has the project accomplished since the last report? - Released version 0.4 - Voted in one new committer - Received patches from 19 people In March 2012, HCatalog was identified as having low diversity. With the addition of the new committer there are now 9 committers from 3 organizations. Additionally, we have received patches from 19 unique people (including committers) some of which are outside the committer organizations. We believe the low diversity issue has either been addressed, or good progress has been made towards addressing the issue. What are the top 2-3 things to resolve before graduation? - Grow the user community. There has been progress in this area with new users asking questions on the mailing list, receiving patches from an] increasing number of contributors, and work towards publishing pre-built artifacts in the Apache repository. We need to continue in this positive direction. - Resolve a review process issue that affects our ability to develop new features. Time between receiving patches and committing has increased to problematic levels, often causing code rot and contributors extra work to rebase patches against trunk. At this time we feel confident in our ability to make progress toward resolving these issues. Signed-off-by: gates, wave -------------------- Isis Isis is an ALv2 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 " (pragprog 2009). Isis was accepted into the Incubator in 2010, September 7th. Project Development - Work broadly completed on integrating with JDO/DataNucleus (in favour of OpenJPA) - Numerous Enhancements to Wicket viewer - Internal refactoring to simplify codebase Community Development - Several further new correspondents on the mailing list - Have had four individuals that have contributed patches this quarter - this is a substantive increase from previous quarters - maintaining a clone of the SVN codebase on github seems to have helped - Project (which is part-funding JDO/Wicket development) continues - expected to run until Dec 2012, with possible extension - Publicising RestfulObjects spec (as implemented by Isis' RestfulObjects viewer) - talk given at 1-day conf (DDD10), in Aug - InfoQ article on Restful Objects published - Talks on Isis and Restful Objects to be presented at J-Fall conf, in Oct. - Talk on Isis to be presented at ApacheCon EU, in Nov. Top 3 Issues to address in move towards graduation - None; per previous report we want one new committer voted on prior to graduating - We currently have three candidates for being new committers. We just need to do a successful vote for one of these (highly unlikely all three votes would fail). - We should then be in a position to vote to graduate We don't believe that any of these issues requires Board attention. New Releases - None in this period - intention is to release 0.3.1-incubating prior to next report Signed-off-by: mnour, struberg, mfranklin IPMC comments: Matt Franklin (mfranklin): Good report. Two questions/comments: - Why not just propose the committers and see what the PPMC thinks? Is there a reason for waiting? - The incubator status page needs to be completed. It appears that more has happened than the page reflects. -------------------- Kalumet Apache Kalumet is a complete platform to administrate data center. It covers the operating system tasks, middleware provisioning, etc. Kalumet entered incubation in September 2011. Community Developement: Most of users are waiting for a first release to jump into Kalumet. A talk has been submitted to ApacheCon EU. This talk is an introduction to Kalumet, a presentation of the current features and present the roadmap. Project Development: We fixed major bugs: - KALUMET-42 - KALUMET-40 - KALUMET-39 - KALUMET-38 - KALUMET-23 The Kalumet activity is better now, we did 96 commits on Kalumet. The Kalumet community is focusing on the documentation, we made good progress around the documentation (screenshots, etc). Before Graduation: - The documentation is the highest priority. - Once a first documentation is completed, we plan to cut off a couple of Kalumet releases. Post Graduation: - Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps. - Refactoring of the UI. Currently Kalumet Console uses Echo2 framework. It's a category B license framework. We plan to refactore the console to use a new framework. Web Site/Communication Development: The website will be updated with the documentation. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of: None so far. Signed-off-by: jbonofre, olamy, jukka -------------------- NPanday NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday has been incubating since August 2010. NPanday has had a lull of activity for several months as all the committers have had other things occupying their time. There are still clear goals for what to do next, when someone has cycles to pursue them: produce a release of the most recent changes, and to better promote the project among the .NET and Maven communities. We continue to see occasional questions from users, and occasional patch submissions, but haven't added a new committer since 20 April 2011. The last release was on 16 May 2011. Since the last report, Matthias Wessendorf resigned as a mentor. Nobody has stepped in to replace him. The top priorities towards graduation are: - work out a concrete plan towards graduation in the next quarter - encourage newer contributors to do so on a continuing basis. Signed-off-by: dennisl, mfranklin IPMC comments: Matt Franklin (mfranklin) I am concerned about the level of engagement of the community. The vast majority of mail traffic has been from automated build failures and even a question from a potential user saw no response from the committers/PPMC. IMHO, there needs to be a significant increase in engagement over time before the project would be ready to graduate. -------------------- OpenMeetings OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. OpenMeetings entered the incubation on November 12, 2011. Project status: - 3 New Committers entered the project: Stephen Cottham, Alvaro, Bustos Ruiz, George Kirkham - 2.0 Release was announced at 26.07.2012 - Legal concerns regarding plugins have been raised and resolved, see [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-147] - Moodle Plugin was released at 04.09.2012 others are currently voting - GSoC students have successfully completed their projects: Student Dmitry Zamula: [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENMEETINGS/Posting+documents+on+the+whiteboard+with+POI] Student Ankur Ankan: [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENMEETINGS/Openmeetings+Plugin+for+Zimbra] Student German Grekov: [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENMEETINGS/Connection+testing+tool] There was one extra student that worked on this project even not accepted by Google/ASF or OCAD. He completed a plugin for ATutor LMS: [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENMEETINGS/ATutor+plug-in+installation+and+usage] Community status: - new committers see above - several plugins are available and will follow up soon, some are listed here [https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/OpenMeetings/]. Plugins should give also Non-Java guys a chance to contribute. - Currently discussing the RoadMap for version 2.x and 3.0. Preparing a DHTML prototype using Apache Wicket. A pure JavaScript interface might attract more potential contributors. - after a long period of refactoring having more releases in shorter cycles might attract more users and potential contributors - several developers will come to the ApacheCon in Europe to meet and discuss Why not graduate: - Not all code released (some plugins missing) Signed-off-by: yegor, mnour -------------------- OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations support have supported 110 languages worldwide. Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation 1. We are discussing the makeup of the future PMC. This will be a slow process as we digest input from our Mentors. We are separating our discussion about who should be a PMC member from what makes an ideal PMC member. The first will remain private for now and the second will be renewed on ooo-dev. 2. We have begun discussing the Chair. 3. Continue our review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy. We are working to fulfill graduation requirements in the next quarter. Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness No new issues at this time. In regards to the ooo-private leak reported on our last report. The PPMC is satisfied with the result. The Board is aware of the result as well. If this issue needs further discussion please ask on ooo-private. Community Development/Outreach Progress There are now 110 committers with 72 of those on the PPMC. Relative to the last report, that is an increase of 15 committers and a decrease of 3 committers on the PPMC (following an audit to reconcile subscribers to the ooo-private mailing list). We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (e.g. forum moderation) We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distribution requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accommodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of native language home pages Because our product is client-centric, we have put additional focus on our social networking accounts - Google +, Facebook - in collecting feedback and ideas from our user base. Project Development Progress We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 on August 23, 2012. This was primarily a maintenance release and included: - Official Source tarballs in English - Six different client platform convenience install versions in 19 languages - Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms - Language packs for 19 languages - Fixes for 69 bugs and an important security fix - Over 1.4M downloads the first week. A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline The build artifacts in this last source release do not strictly follow guidelines as some fallback downloads of dependencies do access svn.a.o. This has been fixed in trunk by eliminating the use of svn in all cases. Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify updates and, optionally, install an update if available. Older versions of OpenOffice (3.1 and less) are problematic when we turned these on it created a DDOS attack on www.apache.org which we regret. The IBM Symphony code (mentioned in the June report) was brought into svn in mid-May. There was discussion on the ooo-dev list about how best to use/integrate this contribution. After some discussion, the community was most in favor of integrating Symphony aspects into the current AOO base over a period of time, rather than the reverse. Community support forums remain popular with users but registration seems to have stabilized. The ooo-users list also is quite active. As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, now has more than 440 subscribers and remains very active. Signed-off-by: rgardler, jukka -------------------- S4 S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous, unbounded streams of data. S4 entered incubation on September 26th 2011. Primary issues blocking graduation: - growing the community - verifying the name of the project. See PODLINGNAMESEARCH-10 Community development since last report: We received contributions from new contributors, including core, communication layer, deployment framework and command set. Project development since last report: We had our first release as part of the incubator, on August 16th 2012: S4 0.5.0-incubating Apart from being a major refactoring, this release aims at lowering the adoption bar by clarifying the API and providing a set of commands for the development and deployment lifecycle. We also believe this recent release should encourage adoption and contributions. Signed-off-by: phunt, bmargulies -------------------- Wave Incubating since: Dec-2010 Description: Wave is a real-time communication and collaboration tool. Wave in a Box (WIAB) is a server that hosts and federates waves, supports extensive APIs, and provides a rich web client. This project also includes an implementation of the Wave Federation protocol, to enable federated collaboration systems (such as multiple interoperable Wave In a Box instances). Most important issues are: - Building up community. - Extending the features set to match the features of Google Wave. Community: One new committer added. Discussions (somewhat stalled) on additional committers. The next major milestone regarding graduation is to make a release. The current codebase is not considered mature enough for a useful release, however, the community is discussing what is required to make one, both to better understand the licensing status of our codebase, and as a means to draw in additional developers and thus speed up development. Signed-off-by: upayavira, mfranklin IPMC comments: Matt Franklin (mfranklin): Is there anything that could be released, even in alpha/beta form? Code completeness or maturity is not a barrier to graduation so long as the community can demonstrate an understanding of the Apache release process. IMO, it is best to get early, alpha releases out on a regular basis. You don't have to advertise them as completely ready for prime time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Status report for the Apache Jackrabbit Project The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level issues at this time. o Releases We made the following unstable 2.5.x releases from Jackrabbit trunk: * Apache Jackrabbit 2.5.1 on August 6th The following patch releases were made from earlier maintenance branches: * Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.3 on September 3rd This quarter also saw the first releases of the OCM code base in a while: * Apache Jackrabbit OCM 2.0 on July 10th Finally we made two releases from the Jackrabbit Oak sub project: * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.4 on August 13th * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.3 on July 5th o Community / Development * Randall Hauch joined the Jackrabbit team as committer and PMC member. * Work on Jackrabbit Oak is still going strong: there where again two Hackathons in the last quarter during which great progress was made and which lead to the release of Oak 0.3. and 0.4. Another Hackathon will take place in September co-located with the .adaptTo(Berlin) 2012 conference (http://adaptto.mixxt.de/networks/events/show_event.65841). Being part of .adaptTo() allows us to further broaden the community and spark more interest in Apache Jackrabbit Oak. * Jukka Zitting and Michael Dürig submitted a talk about Oak for .adaptTo(Berlin) 2012 (http://adaptto.mixxt.de/). * Jukka Zitting and Michael Dürig submitted a talk about Oak for ApacheCon Europe 2012. o Infrastructure We are still in progress of migrating from Confluence to the new CMS. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Status report for the Apache Karaf Project Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: around 15,000 distribution downloads - User mailing list: 666 messages - Dev mailing list: 542 messages - Commits: 1110 commits We organized a Karaf 2nd birthday concall to discussed about the Karaf and Karaf subprojects activity and define the roadmap. Brian Topping (btopping) has been voted as a new Karaf committer. Lukasz Dywicki (ldywicki) has been voted as a new Karaf PMC member. Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.2.8 * Apache Karaf 2.2.9 Karaf 2.3.0 is on the way, a first release is planned for September. We also plan to release Karaf 3.0-RC1 during October. Karaf WebConsole development resumed, the plan is to include WebConsole in Karaf 3.0. We're also progressing on the other Karaf sub-projects (Cellar and EIK). The Karaf community continues to help other Apache projects to support Karaf. Branding ======== As commented in the latest board report, this section will be removed from the next reports. * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: ok * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Status report for the Apache Labs Project Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers. [STATUS] A typically slow quarter for Labs. The PMC remains quiet and healthy. [DETAILS] == Community == We held a vote to change the status of Noggit to completed as it has moved out of the Labs. We voted to accept a new project, Mavibot, that is a pure Java implementation of a MVCC B+Tree. == New Labs == Mavibot == Labs Statistics == - new: 1 - status changes (last 3 months): 1 - total number: 39 - active: 16 - idle: 14 - promoted: 3 - completed: 6 - labs with commits: mavibot, magma, yay ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Status report for the Apache Lucene Project TLP --- Trademarks: We have not made progress on trademarks since the last board report, but do intend to finish the necessary pieces. * Project Naming And Descriptions : We believe this is complete, but are still reviewing. * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included. Likely complete, but under review. * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. The main TLP site is converted, subproject sites have not. * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site In progress. Some have been converted to have TM, some not. We don't seem to have ready volunteers on the graphical front, so it is slower than we'd like * Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date Done LUCENE JAVA/Solr ---------------- Lucene Java is a search-engine toolkit and Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene. The community is very active. In the last quarter, we have released Lucene and Solr 3.6.1, as well as two preview releases for 4.0: 4.0-ALPHA and 4.0-BETA. We hope to release 4.0-final soon. We have added one new committer: Greg Bowyer. Open Relevance Project ---------------------- The Open Relevance Project is a project aimed at providing Lucene and others tools for judging the quality of search and machine learning approaches. The community is not very active, but we don't expect it to be very high volume either as it is a niche area. PyLucene -------- PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java. Development is almost entirely an automated port, so this project will never require a lot of developers. The user community is active. PyLucene 3.6.1 was released on August 24th. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Status report for the Apache MRUnit Project DESCRIPTION MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Unit testing is a technique for improving project quality and reducing overall costs by writing a small amount of code that can automatically verify the software you write performs as intended. This is considered a best practice in software development since it helps identify defects early, before they're deployed to a production system. RELEASES * The last release of Apache MRUnit was version 0.9.0-incubating, released on May 12, 2012 while in Incubation. * No new releases are planned currently for the project. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Board report is due because I missed last month * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/lv * Development has slowed down due to a pending change from SVN to Git * 1 JIRAs were resolved in the last month, 13 JIRAs the prior month COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 26 subscribers to the developer list. - Total of 36 subscribers to the user list. - Total of 12 committers/PMC members (+1 voted in but pending an ICLA) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Status report for the Apache OFBiz Project Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) is an open source enterprise automation software project. By enterprise automation we mean: ERP, CRM, E-Business / E-Commerce, MRP, SCM, CMMS/EAM, and so on. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. *Releases* - we are working at the new bug fix release for the 10.04 series; this will be released as soon as possible as 10.04.03 - next step is to release the first release of the 11.04 series with name 11.04.01 *Community and Project* Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high. Significant new development continues, mostly focused on bug fixes, code cleanup, stabilization, improving localizations, performance and scalability. *Infra/Legal* We are working with infra to resolve some minor issues with buildbot (INFRA-4785). ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Status report for the Apache OODT Project Apache OODT is a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management and data processing. Releases/Development: We released Apache OODT 0.4 on June 20, 2012 [1]. We're currently working towards 0.5 with 31 issues currently resolved, and we'll likely pull together an RC in the next month or so. We worked with Gavin and infra@ to get an OODT PEAR channel [2] up and running at [3]. Thanks Gav! Community: The Apache OODT PMC didn't add any new members to its ranks over the last quarter. Chris Mattmann and Paul Ramirez mentored a student jointly between the Apache OODT PMC and the Apache SIS PPMC in Google Summer of Code. The student, Ross Laidlaw, successfully completed his project, and passed his GSoC final evals. Great job, Ross! [4] Ross is now an Apache OODT PMC member and a member of the Apache SIS PPMC. Chris Mattmann was asked by Ross Gardler to participate in an Apache Case Study being conducted by Indiana University as part of an NSF EAGER grant. Branding: No updates beyond last report. Looks good. Press: Chris Mattmann has given a few talks on Apache OODT, including discussing the ASF and OODT at the NASA Open Source "Mini Summit" at the Summer Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) meeting in Madison, WI [5], and recently at the ESIP Information Technology and Interoperability "Rant and Rave" on Open Source [6] to promote the new ESIP Open Source Cluster [7] that Mattmann will chair. [1] http://s.apache.org/6oN [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-329 [3] http://pear.apache.org/oodt [4] http://s.apache.org/Xyr [5] http://s.apache.org/3Fl [6] http://s.apache.org/dGy [7] http://s.apache.org/pE ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache OpenNLP Project The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services. Development ------------------ The development activity remained slow but constant, a few smaller fixes and improvements have been contributed by the community and one bigger patch for L-BFGS maxent training support. There was still no work done on the outstanding release and the next release is at least two or three months away. Community --------------- The community remains active and there is good traffic on the lists. No new committers have been voted in. Releases ------------ No releases since we graduated from the incubator. Issues -------- There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache OpenWebBeans Project Apache OpenWebBeans is an ALv2-licensed implementation of the "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specification which is defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0). OpenWebBeans will also implement the CDI-1.1 specification which is currently being created as JSR-346. Board Issues * There are no issues that require Board attention. Development * Continue to fix bugs and implement code improvement. New Releases * 1.1.5 has been released, 12 August 2012 Discussions * Pluggable Proxy API usage and removal of javassist. * New logger API. * OWBInjector class update. Community * New committer, Thomas Andraschko, 8 September 2012 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: 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. Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along. --- 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 1.38 was released on August 6th, 2012 No new Apache-Test releases since the last report. --- 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 0.97 was released on April 2nd, 2012 --- 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. No new Apache-Reload releases since the last report. -- 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. No new Apache-DBI releases since the last report. -- 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 user base. -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is seeing an increase in activity, with a few bug reports and user questions. Discussion on full support for httpd-2.4 is underway. -- PMC -- No noteworthy PMC events happened since the last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache Pig Project 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. Releases: * No new release Community: * 308 subscribers to the dev mailing list (286 in the last report) * 842 subscribers to the user mailing list (819 in the last report) * We have successfully completed four Google Summer of code projects - PIG: Move Grunt from Javacc to ANTRL(Boski Shah) - Adding the Datetime Type as a Primitive for Pig(Zhijie Shen) - Statistical Inference Operator on Pig (List Operators)(Allan Avendaño) - CUBE operation in Pig(Prasanth Jayachandran) * We had a Hadoop Summit Pig Meetup on Jun 12th, and a Pig hackthon on Aug 24th. Both events are in SF bay area. Status of branding checklist: Project Naming and Description: DONE Website Navigation Links: DONE Trademark Attributions: DONE Logos and Graphics: NOT STARTED Project Metadata: NOT STARTED ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache Pivot Project Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual we had a low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, but usually we are able to give an answer on fast time. Little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker. Our Mailing lists have these numbers: commits - 22 subscribers dev - 71 subscribers users - 188 subscribers Commits since last report (approx): 90 , from only 2 PMC members. On the progress of the project, we are still working on important fixes for the 2.0.x maintenance branch (some of them already committed), and we have started some developments on 2.1 (now on trunk). Some work has been done even in the Web Site, mainly to update/clarifying info and some technical details in tutorials, as requested by users. Issues During last months I have seen a little slowdown both in posts on our mailing lists and worst a slowdown from all developers in development activity (both as commits and as discussions between us). All my tentatives (since last report) to expand the community up to now gave no real effect. Some time ago I started to integrate our trunk with GIT (but staying on subversion of course), to see if a better integration with git could help us to get some interest from developers using it, even for patches. As written in August to board, the 3 September I sent an email to our users and dev mailing lists to propose an evolution project for mid/long-term just created by me on GitHub (and return to Apache when we reach a minimal community), but without any comment from anyone. Of course this is not as a replacement for Pivot, but as an evolution (fully incompatible) of it, targeting only HTML 5 UI. So even this tentative to expand the community up to now had no effect. Releases no new releases. Branding/naming issues: Remaining issues are (with tracking on JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-750 ): * main site navigation needs some additional links - DONE Note that to have the ASF logo looks good with our graphic style I had to put online a version of it with a transparent background. If it's not so good tell me. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: I have started to look at the Apache CMS for future evolutions of the site, but I have to ask to infra some info before enabling CMS for us, and then start the transition to it. Community changes None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache Portals Project Apache Portals is a project for building freely available and interoperable portal software. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available portlet applications. ISSUES The board has required an additional report in August 2012. No additional issues since August. RELEASES Pluto 2.1.0-M3 Released August 27, 2012 We have released another 2.1 milestone to address a few bugs with handling of the container xml escape flag. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Status report for the Apache ServiceMix Project Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi. Project Status: While we continue to have an active community with good participation from users on mailing lists, IRC, and issue reporting in JIRA, we also have lost some of our momentum now that major parts of the functionality are being maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf and Apache Camel. Community: No changes since last report. Community Objectives: Our current objective is to work on a ServiceMix 4.5.0 release - with all dependency project releases done, we can start working on getting this out. Documentation and website remain important working topics - we are looking into the mandatory migration to svnpubsub at the moment. When releasing OSGi bundles, we are repackaging and wrapping existing artifacts from other projects. To ensure these changes get donated/ communicated back to the original community, we now require backlinks to the corresponding issue in the other project. Branding Status: - Project Naming And Descriptions : Compliant - Website Navigation Links : Compliant - Trademark Attributions : Compliant - Logos and Graphics : Current logo is not compliant - Project Metadata : Compliant Releases: - ServiceMix Specs 2.0.0 in June - Apache ServiceMix 3.4.1 release in July - A set of 31 OSGi bundles in September ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache Shiro Project Apache 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 released a 1.2.1 bugfix release on 28 July 2012. Current trunk development is targeted at a 1.3.0 release (time frame not yet determined). Community & Project: - The Shiro community remains helpful, with steady month-after-month mailing list traffic. No noticeable changes here. - The Shiro site and distribution continues to experience good growth, with the site averaging around 10,000 visitors per month and 7,000 downloads a month from Maven Central, and that number is steadily increasing each month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Status report for the Apache Sling Project Apache Sling is an OSGI-based scriptable web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. Community * Nothing to report Releases * New Releases: Apache Sling Installer Core 3.3.8, Apache Sling Launchpad Installer 1.1.4 Apache Sling Maven Launchpad Plugin 2.1.2 (August 19th, 2012) * New Release: Apache Sling Scripting JST 2.0.6 (August 17th, 2012) * New Releases: Apache Sling Adapter 2.0.16 Apache Sling JCR ContentLoader 2.1.6 Apache Sling Parent POM 13 (July 9th, 2012) * New Releases: Apache Sling Commons Compiler 2.0.6 Apache Sling Adapter 2.0.14 Apache Sling JCR ClassLoader 3.1.8 Apache Sling JCR Compiler 2.0.4 Apache Sling Scripting Core 2.0.24 Apache Sling Scripting Java 2.0.4 Apache Sling Scripting JSP 2.0.24 Apache Sling POST Servlets 2.1.2 (June 28th, 2012) Documentation * Website is moving to Apache CMS soon (WiP) Project Branding * Project Website Basics: done * Project Naming And Descriptions: done * Website Navigation Links: partial ** Open Question regarding "License" link * Trademark Attributions: done ** Attribution on footer of each page * Logos and Graphics: open ** TM missing from all Logos * Project Metadata: done Licensing and other issues * none ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache SpamAssassin Project SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into virtually any email system. Releases -------- No releases for this quarter. We recently revised our ReleaseGoals (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ReleaseGoals) and chair will be doing best to spearhead the 9/30 release. In other words, the release of version 3.4.0 is still imminent. This release will improve IPv6 support greatly. Many people are running using trunk, however, which has great bugfixes and is quite stable. Community & Development ----------------------- Chair attended F2F as guest. Was attacked by ninja trashcan but otherwise was impressed by the runnings of the board meetings. Need to migrate our zones and zones2 server off of Solaris to yet to be determined resource. Need to migrate our website to svnpubsub. Need to get our jenkins build slave working under FreeBSD instead of Solaris1. Might need access to the box to figure out what is killing it on the build slave though. We are in the process of voting Adam Katz and John Hardin to the PMC. The project users' list is active; questions get asked and answered. The project dev list has been active with both committers and community members contributing. Our RuleQA project is off the ground and we added 14 masscheck accounts in August: bpedersen odiserens mmiroslaw dlemke bpoliakoff jwallin hmundaca ewollesen bbailey vk5ztv talbers manderson acecchi maselig The increased masscheck accounts is greatly helping our automated masscheck process to publish rules more consistently. Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- As a new chair who took over from a chair who left unexpectedly, I am not aware of any branding issues but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. I have the original PMC project brand email from 5/31/2011 pulled out to review. Issues ------ UPDATED: 9/15: Received response from Nick Bebout and confirmed he has a CLA. https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6822 The issue below is likely to resolve without board input but it would be nice to know if code that is licensed to ASF: http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/auto-mass-check.git/tree/LICENSE and written by people with CLAs: Darxus, Warren Togami and Nick Bebout all listed at http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html but hosted externally can simply be brought in without explicit requests. I chose the explicit request path to keep things more cordial but I don't like ASF code hosted outside. Is there a concern with pulling in code stored outside of ASF but licensed to ASF? Specifically http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/auto-mass-check.git/tree/ Chair sent the following email on 8/10 with no response to date: To: nb@fedoraproject.org, wtogami@gmail.com & Darxus@chaosreigns.com & SA PMC Good Morning Gentleman, I wanted to let you know that I've got a fire under masscheck right now and one of the tasks we are working to solve is the SVN Revision: differences on the uploaded logs. This has led to a need to unify and standardize the masscheck script because we'll be telling all masscheckers to use the same script. The new script will need to use a newer rsync channel that is more secure which will solve Warren's concerns and we'll hopefully have some more bells and whistles. I'd like to invite you guys in on this because of your great work at http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/auto-mass-check.git/log/. But I also understand if time doesn't allow so I want to ask explicitly for permission to pull the code into the project. I know it's noted at the top of the file that it's but I wanted to ask anyway. Plus, I also wanted to make sure I got the info in CREDITS correct so my understanding is that the upgrades to the script were by Nick Bebout, Warren Togami and Darxus. Barring your objections, I'd like to get start on this ASAP but likely Monday at the latest so if you could respond sooner than later, it would be greatly appreciated. I know the masschecks have stood idle too long but I also don't want to lose the current momentum. Regards, KAM ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache Steve Project DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * All Steve mailing lists, jira, wiki, etc. are set up per INFRA-5082 [1]. * Discussion continues on the dev mailing list regarding the SVN import issue in INFRA-5169 [2]. * Dev list activity peaked at 17 messages in August 2012, and is down to 7 in September 2012. No commits list activity yet as we are waiting for SVN import to occur. COMMUNITY * No new committers or PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5082 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5169 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Status report for the Apache Synapse Project Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period, but new users continue to appear on the mailing list During the reporting period there have been 25 commits from 6 committers. Releases No new releases during this period. Board issues We intend to move to the svnpubsub model over the next three months. We have not identified any issues in this migration. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Status report for the Apache Tiles Project Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the development of web application user interfaces. Releases: This quarter has marked at least one release of all of the Tiles 3 components. The following versions have been released and voted as Beta quality by the PMC: * Apache Tiles 3.0.1 * Apache Tiles Autotag 1.1.0 * Apache Tiles Request 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 Community: The project has not added any new committers or PMC members during this reporting cycle. However, I am pleased with the level of discussion that has taken place on the mailing list. The Tiles community has always been a "niche" community and a slow-moving project. I see that trend continuing. But, as with past reporting periods, I see movement continuing at a steady pace and starting to involve more people. Overall I am happy with the direction of the project. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Status report for the Apache Tomcat Project General: Continued healthy activity across multiple components and responsiveness on both dev and user lists. Issues: There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time. Releases: * Apache Tomcat 7.0.30 * Apache Tomcat 7.0.29 * Apache Tomcat 7.0.28 * Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.24 Development: There was lots of development activity on forthcoming Apache Tomcat 8 release. Community: Keiichi Fujino has joined Apache Tomcat PMC. Security: We were working on number of non critical security issues which will be disclosed with future releases. Trademark: Detailed status: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt There are no pending trademark issues which would require board's attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Status report for the Apache UIMA Project Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: No releases since last report. But both 2.4.0 releases of the C++ and UIMA-AS frameworks are close. Activity: We have had much work in testing various release candidates for the C++ version of the UIMA framework (we're up to Release Candidate 7), with feedback from user testing. Bug fixes and improvements are actively being done to both UIMA base SDK and UIMA-AS. Work continues on the TextMarker project in the sandbox, with most issues now resolved, and documentation started. We are progressing toward bringing in a contribution, UIMAFit; they've done the background work toward getting a software grant signed by the various parties, and have posted a code drop on a Jira for the team to initially give feedback on. Community: no changes Issues: No Board level issues at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Status report for the Apache VCL Project DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community has completed the post-graduation tasks. * Work continues to migrate content from Confluence to the new CMS website and to improve the design. * Several commits have been made to the VCL 2.3.1 bugfix branch to address minor problems with VCL 2.3, which was released in July. VCL 2.3.1 will be released this fall. * Traffic on the lists has been fairly high, mostly due to questions related to recently released VCL 2.3. * Development is still in the beginning stage for the VCL 2.4 features. Most development has been devoted to bug fixes. * One of the committers is working to develop code to provide a VCL block in Moodle. Some licensing concerns arose from this due to Moodle's GPL license. [1] Guidance was provided by legal-discuss. It was decided for this to be a separate non-ASF project independent of the Apache VCL. RELEASES * None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 154 * Posts to user list, 8/2012: 130 * Subscribers to the dev list: 144 * Posts to dev list, 8/2012: 159 * Committers: 9 * PMC members: 6 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://markmail.org/thread/leb6jw5e3d45lswy ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Status report for the Apache Velocity Project DESCRIPTION Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects. RELEASES * None CURRENT ACTIVITY * GSoC 2012 student Dishara Wijewardana successfully completed her project. Her mentor, Claude Brisson, did a great job of guiding and overseeing the project integrating Velocity with the JSR-223 scripting interface. Her branch still needs integration with the trunk. * A few issues have been fixed in the VelocityTools project * The Velosurf project (by PMC member Claude Brisson) has been added to the sandbox. COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Activity remains low on all lists, though Stack Overflow regularly has Velocity questions, of which the intelligent ones and a few less-so ones are answered in reasonable time. * Apache Velocity remains in a more-or-less dormant period, not its first in the last 12 years though. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Status report for the Apache Whirr Project Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: Version 0.8.0 was released last month, with Andrew Bayer as the Release Manager. We plan to have further 0.8.x releases coming soon. Community: We voted in one new committer, Andrew Bayer, in the last quarter. The PMC composition did not change. We recently moved to Git for our SCM system. - User mailing list: 45 messages - Dev mailing list: 492 messages - Commits: 81 commits Issues: No Board level issues at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Status report for the Apache Wicket Project Apache Wicket is a Java framework for creating highly dynamic, component oriented web applications. Things worthy of note: - Released Wicket 6.0.0 - Experimental development model seems successful - Kerfuffle about source releases - No new committers were added Released Wicket 6.0.0 Being in the works for a while now, we finally released Wicket 6.0.0. It contains a complete rewrite of our client side API, bolsters default integration of JQuery and lots of other exciting stuff. We worked with press@ to craft a press release, and due to Sally's excellent training we didn't need too much time and drafts to have a press release ready. The biggest hurdle was for us to agree to delay announcing the release until the PR could be sent across the wire, adding ~6 days to the schedule. A big thanks goes to Sally, for helping us, and staying with us while we were discussing the merits of a press release. We were covered a bit in the press, though not as massive as a HTTPD release, or a single patch in HTTPD. Probably the best coverage was done by h-online (http://s.apache.org/apachewicketbouncestoa6). Semantic Versioning in effect Starting with 6.0.0 we use semantic versioning for our releases. A discussion was started on how to proceed with future releases where two models were proposed. One was how we developed previously, and a new one where we release 6.y releases more often, and only 6.y.z releases for (critical) bug fixes. It seems that the community favors the latter. Experimental development model seems successful In order to have more development happening at Apache we created an experimental submodule for our project where new functionality is developed. These modules are released together with our main product releases, but are numbered separately. We started with adding websocket/push/atmosphere as an experimental module and we have added Twitter bootstrap and a new examples project. Our goal of having more development happening at Apache seems to work: some modules have been released several times with our betas and most recently with 6.0 final, and they are gaining some interested users. Kerfuffle about source releases At our private list a somewhat heated discussion was started when it was pointed out that our releases are non-compliant with Apache policy, as discussed at several threads in the incubator by Roy. The main point I have heard being made (on-list and off-list) is that providing a plain source release is seen as bureaucratic, not helped by the rather scathing tone of Roy's messages and threats delivered on general@ (warranted or not). It probably would help if the release policy (found at www.a.o/dev/release.html) would provide a rationale for the requirement of a plain source distribution, as Roy stated in his provocative teachings. For future discussions it would be better to have a document that to separates the form from the content, as the blunt text provokes more discussion than necessary. Another item of discussion was whether it is sufficient to vote on a (signed) tag in our git repository. The reasoning is that with a (signed) tag, our repository can provide automatically generated tarballs, similarly to those provided by github.com. I have stated that this is not so, and that we must vote on the actual crafted and signed source distribution. The non-compliant distributions we previously made contain both source and the compiled artifacts (in a lib/ folder in the archive) as a convenience to our users. As most folks download Wicket through Maven Central, the only folks downloading our distributions are the ones not using Maven and that number is rather low, and they actually want the binaries. It will be interesting to get some insight into the difference between convenience binary downloads and the pure source downloads. We will be providing plain source releases for the most recent releases in our actively maintained branches. The older versions of those distributions have been archived, and should not be used in any case due to security issues in those releases. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Status report for the Apache XMLBeans Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Status report for the Apache ZooKeeper Project ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed applications. There was one new release in the last quarter: 3.3.6 which was a bug fix release and is marked as stable. 3.4.4 release (bugfix release) is expected to happen within the next week. Trunk is also under development for an eventual 3.5.0 release. So far primarily code cleanup and refactoring has been applied to trunk. 3.5.0 release date is a TBD. Our focus is on scalability, jdk7 and openjdk support, maven build/rel, testing and audit logging. Community: Apache ZooKeeper had its second official meetup: http://www.meetup.com/zookeeperusergroup/events/67732652/ Around 40 people attended and there was excitement on upcoming features/improvements in ZooKeeper. Ivan Kelly was added as a PMC member for ZooKeeper. Mailing list activity continues to be high. * 8 active committers representing 5 unique organizations * 8 active PMC members representing 4 unique organizations * 342 subscribers on dev (up from 323 last quarter) * 692 subscribers on user (up from 653 last quarter) BOOKKEEPER Bookkeeper is a distributed, reliable, and high performance logging service. The project also includes Hedwig which is a highly scalable Pub/Sub service built on top of ZooKeeper and Bookkeeper with strong durability guarantees. Our second release as a sub-project of ZooKeeper, 4.1.0, was released on June 13th. It fixes 102 issues of both BookKeeper and Hedwig. New features include JMX instrumentation and a CLI interface to Hedwig. We are aiming for a new release within a month, and this release will include an important new feature: auto-replication. Infrastructure issues: No issues. Community building: We have been consistently receiving more contributions from developers across different companies, in particular Huawei. They have expressed strong interest in the project due to its coupling with HDFS. There has been smaller contributions and bug reports from Twitter and Hubspot, and contributions from Twitter folks have been increasing lately. In general, we have been able to grow the community and increase diversity. Community: * 47 subscribers to bookkeeper-dev * 52 subscribers to bookkeeper-user * 389 issues opened to date, 108 opened since Jun 1, 2012 * 31 reporters of Jira issues, 15 since Jun 1, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------ Attachment AT: Status report for the Apache Lucene.Net Project Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net just graduated from the Incubator August 15th and we are currently moving our resources and website out of the incubator. A new DNS https://lucenenet.apache.org has been setup and our new mailing lists have been created. Still to do is moving our SVN repositories and moving over our website. We are nearing a new release, 3.0.3, which should be put to a vote within a day or two. ------------------------------------------------------ Attachment AU: Status report for the Apache Oozie Project DESCRIPTION Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). RELEASES * The last release of Apache Oozie was version 3.2.0-incubating, released on Jun 06, 2012 while in Incubation. * A branch has been created for release 3.3.0 and it is currently being verify and stabilized in preparation for the release. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/oBP (since last incubator report, July 2012) * Post-graduation tasks are under way with a majority of them completed already. Details at: http://s.apache.org/t3O COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since becoming a TLP. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (1), Cloudera (2), Continuity (1), Ebay (1), Hortonworks (2), Microsoft (2), Yahoo (2). * Currently there are: - Total of 94 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 208 subscribers to the user list - Total of 11 committers - Total of 11 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the September 19, 2012 board meeting.