The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes March 20, 2013 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at 10:33 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 joined at 10:39 Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Brett Porter Sam Ruby Directors Absent: Ross Gardler Greg Stein Executive Officers Present: Chris Mattmann Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Shane Curcuru Marvin Humphrey Sean Kelly 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of February 20, 2013 See: board_minutes_2013_02_20.txt Approved by General Consent. B. The meeting of January 16, 2013 See: board_minutes_2013_01_16.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] We intend to hold our annual members meeting this May 21 and 23, to elect a new board and add new members. We're now entering the 60-day advance notice window and should hence start publicising the meeting, soliciting nominations, etc. B. President [Jim] The call for the 2013-2014 budget went out a few weeks ago. I will send a reminder this week. The due date for the budget requests is the end of the month. This should provide sufficient time for scrubbing the numbers, getting clarification and verification, etc... before the budget is set for approval at next month's board meeting. I've asked Chris and Melissa to work with CSC regarding our corporate status renewals and ensure that our status remains active and in good standing. Brand Management is working a name-conflict issue and has pulled in Legal for assistance, otherwise things are going well, if busy. Both Fundraising and M&P are doing fine. No issues with TAC although I am awaiting the final accounting of money used. No issues with Infra. Concom is working some smaller events but the big news was, as expected, ApacheCon NA 2013. The con was "generally held to be a success", a statement with which I agree, and it was clear that the volunteers in Concom were not as stressed or over-worked at this event as compared to others. A post-conf meeting was held and I am awaiting the notes and recommendations from Concom regarding future ApacheCons. Last month I presented the ASF State of the Feather at ACNA2013, a copy of which is on Slideshare. I'll be presenting at POSSCON next week about FOSS licensing and governance issues. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] Medium load this month for the Treasurer's Office. Confirmed to Sally in late February that Global Newswire invoice has been paid. Working on payment for Melissa for ACNA 2013 receipts, and to Nick Burch for TAC related expenses RE: ACNA 2013. Should be completed in time for the board meeting on 3/20. Some other ACNA 2013 expenses were charged directly to Jim's credit card (FedEx shipments by Melissa to ACNA 2013 hotel in Portland). Melissa noted that after all of the ACNA 2013 flights were booked, we still have a credit of 440.50 GBP with The Flight Centre for future bookings. There was a short discussion between Upayavira, Chris and Daniel Shahaf regarding providing more visibility into lockbox/sponsor mapping for traceability. Discussion centered around tooling, but in the end, Upayavira mentioned if he could simply get access to the statements monthly he was probably OK. Melissa Warnkin our EA requested a 1099. Since I've never made one of those before, I've requested assistance from Sam during my first time generating it. I should be fine after that. Upayavira added a bunch of invoices that generated into the financials SVN repository over the past few months. Sam and I sent a check to Matt Benson to reimburse his registration for ACNA 2013. He hasn't received the check, and is looking into it. Sam and I have provided him with the WFS reference #, which Matt will use to try and track down the check. Sam received a routine call from Paschal Greene of Wells Fargo. We made a number of suggestions and Chris is trying to schedule a con call with Paschal to enact the following: 1. Remove Geir, Aaron, Phillip, and Justin from account access (suggested by Sam, +1 from Chris). 2. Provide Chris with full access to Bill Pay (currently missing access). 3. Reconcile Credit Cards -- Sam and Jim currently have one, as does Justin. Should we decommission Justin's? (question to Sam and Jim) 4. Provide Full Signatory Access for Chris. Jim and Melissa sent along a note from Natasha Livingston of CSC who mentioned that our we need to get our standing in shape with the Delaware Secretary of State. Apparently we need to reconcile a 2012 annual report, and pay off Franchise Taxes. I've sent an inquiry to Natasha requesting a meeting or email conversation with her, and I have Jim's approval to contract with CSC to handle this for us. I've requested a quote from Natasha to take care of this. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 417,954.33 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,556.97 PayPal: 154,993.44 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 860,504.74 Income Summary: Lockbox 100,068.98 Paypal 2,348.12 Misc Deposits 4,308.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 106,725.10 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- ApacheConNA 2010-2011 29,275.98 ApacheConNA 2013 395.00 ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 84.98 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 19.95 EA 4,818.01 misc expense 410.30 Network services - Traci.net 518.00 Press 4,545.45 Sysadmin 31,700.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 71,767.67 D. Secretary [Craig] The office of secretary is running smoothly. Last month was an average month for incoming documents, with 48 ICLAs, three CCLAs, one grant, and one NDA received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] The SGA for Ripple was finally signed-off, with none of the changes that had been originally requested by lawyers. ApacheCon went reasonably well. Attendance was lower in overall numbers but discussions with the producer led to the assumption that past ApacheCons had reported higher numbers because single day tickets were available. The producer did a good job without burning out our volunteers, my own feedback was to request they inject more of their own ideas into the event if they produce another. It would seem that they had chosen to stay aligned with the old model in order to understand the community before injecting more ideas. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Doug] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] No report was submitted. There is a new agreement for TCK access. Under review. C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Sam] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim] See Attachment A B. Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda / Ross] See Attachment B C. Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick / Roy] See Attachment C D. Apache Archiva Project [Maria Odea Ching / Brett] See Attachment D E. Apache Axis Project [Andreas Veithen / Bertrand] See Attachment E F. Apache Bigtop Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Rich] See Attachment F G. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Doug] See Attachment G H. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Ross] See Attachment H I. Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik / Bertrand] See Attachment I J. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Roy] See Attachment J K. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Rich] See Attachment K L. Apache Commons Project [Luc Maisonobe / Jim] See Attachment L M. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Sam] No report was submitted. Report was received late and will be requested for next month. N. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Brett] See Attachment N O. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Bertrand] See Attachment O P. Apache Felix Project [Felix Meschberger / Brett] See Attachment P Q. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Ross] See Attachment Q R. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Jim] See Attachment R S. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Rich] See Attachment S AI: Rich communicate submodule concerns with PMC T. Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies / Sam] See Attachment T U. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Roy] See Attachment U V. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Doug] See Attachment V W. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Brett] See Attachment W X. Apache Lucene Project [Steve Rowe / Doug] See Attachment X Y. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Bertrand] See Attachment Y Z. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Jim] See Attachment Z AA. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Rich] See Attachment AA AB. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Roy] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Ross] See Attachment AC AD. Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly / Sam] See Attachment AD AE. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Bertrand] See Attachment AE AF. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Ross] See Attachment AF AG. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Gurkan Erdogdu / Brett] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Roy] No report was submitted. AI: Jim follow up with Perl PMC to see if this project is still viable. AI. Apache Pig Project [Julien Le Dem / Sam] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Pivot Project [Sandro Martini / Rich] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Jim] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Doug] No report was submitted. AM. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Roy] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Rich] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Brett] See Attachment AO AP. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Ross] No report was submitted. AQ. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Doug] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle / Sam] No report was submitted. AS. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Jim] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Bertrand] See Attachment AT AU. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Sam] See Attachment AU AV. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Jim] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Whirr Project [Tom White / Roy] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AY. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Brett] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Doug] No report was submitted. AI: Doug follow up with XMLBeans PMC to see if this project is still viable. BA. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Mahadev Konar / Rich] See Attachment BA Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache cTAKES 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 processing of natural language text from the electronic medical record. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache cTAKES Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache cTAKES Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the processing of natural language text from the electronic medical record; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache cTAKES" 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 cTAKES Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache cTAKES 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 cTAKES Project: * Andy McMurry * Britt Fitch * Chen Lin * Chris Mattmann * Ding Cheng Li * Dmitriy Dligach * Grant Ingersoll * Guergana K. Savova * Hongfang Liu * James J Masanz * Jörn Kottmann * Kim Ebert * Matt Coarr * Karthik Sarma * Pei J Chen * Scott Russell Halgrim * Sean Finan * Sean Patrick Murphy * Siddhartha Jonnalagadda * Stephen Wu * Steven Bethard * Sunghwan Sohn * Tim Miller * Troy C. Bleeker * Vinod C Kaggal NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Pei J Chen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache cTAKES, 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 cTAKES 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 cTAKES Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache cTAKES Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator cTAKES podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator cTAKES podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache cTAKES Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Establish the Apache Bloodhound 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 software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Bloodhound Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Bloodhound Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Bloodhound" 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 Bloodhound Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Bloodhound 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 Bloodhound Project: * Mat Booth * Matevž Bradač * John Chambers * Branko Čibej * Joachim Dreimann * Andrej Golcov * Peter Koželj * Gary Martin * Gavin McDonald * Ryan Ollos * Mark Poole * Greg Stein * Hyrum K. Wright * Jure Žitnik NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gary Martin be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Bloodhound, 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 Bloodhound 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 Bloodhound Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Bloodhound Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Bloodhound podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Bloodhound podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Bloodhound Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Change the Apache Lucy Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Peter Karman to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Peter Karman from the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Lucy project has chosen by vote to recommend Nick Wellnhofer as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Peter Karman is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nick Wellnhofer be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Lucy Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors voting. Bertrand did not vote. D. Establish the Apache CloudStack 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 providing and supporting Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platforms. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache CloudStack Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache CloudStack Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to providing and supporting Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platforms. RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache CloudStack" 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 CloudStack Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache CloudStack 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 CloudStack Project: * Joe Brockmeier * Will Chan * Chip Childers * Mohammad Nour El-Din * Sebastien Goasguen * Matt Richard Hogstrom * Wido den Hollander * Alex Huang * Jim Jagielski * Alex Karasulu * John Kinsella * Kevin Kluge * Olivier Lamy * David Nalley * Brett Porter * Noah Slater * Marcus Sorensen * Edison Su * Hugo Trippaers * Chiradeep Vittal NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chip Childers be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 CloudStack 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 CloudStack Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache CloudStack Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator CloudStack podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator CloudStack podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache CloudStack Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors voting. Bertrand did not vote. 8. Discussion Items 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Brett: Follow up with HBase PMC to clarify the "owner" role. Status: Clarification provided by two PMC members. I'm satisfied we can close this out. * Daniel: Draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle other Apache projects. Status: * Doug: let PMCs know to leave off branding from board reports unless there are issues. Status: Done. * Greg: Contact Cassandra PMC to ask for dates on releases. Status: * Greg: Let Flume PMC know that affiliations are not needed in the board report. Status: * Jim: Contact Oozie PMC with comments about affiliations and JIRA queries. Status: Forgot about it. Will follow thru this week. * Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:16 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] No board level issues. I expect to submit the same annual budget request as last year. Overall questions to trademarks@ are up, and we've had a lot of podling name search queries lately, which are working fairly well, although it's clear from comments on the searches that the Incubator documentation is not as clear as it could be. The Apache UIMA project was contacted by Softmaker.de with a complaint [1] that the sandbox plugin release of Apache UIMA TextMarker software was a name conflict with SoftMaker's TextMaker word processing software, which is registered in several jurisdictions. ASF Counsel is preparing a detailed response, which will be sent directly to them via trademarks@. An independent third party contacted trademarks@ about an interesting idea for an Apache product logo on merchandise; we are working to get feedback from the relevant PMC. Trademarks@ will be working on improved and simpler merchandising policy for Apache brands, since this can be a great way to bring awareness when done in appropriate ways. Shane was contacted to join a new cross-OSS-project wiki that claims to want to offer suggestions for trademark polices for open source groups - if this gets some traction, it would be a great thing for all of us: http://modeltrademarkguidelines.org Shane spoke at ApacheCon NA to give "Managing Open Source Community Brands" which was well recieved and brought in a lot of good questions from Apache committers during the conference. [2] [1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/uima-dev/201303.mbox/%3C513F5124.70209%40softmaker.de%3E [2] http://communityovercode.com/2013/02/apachecon-presentation/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] It has been a quiet month for fundraising. A discussion about privacy of sponsor's details led to the creation of a private archived alias for vp-fundraising, which is accessible only to the VP Fundraising and a select few others. If this alias is CC'd on correspondence to/from sponsors, future VPs will have access to conversations that otherwise only make it into private mailboxes. There has been activity with two platinum sponsors, one accepting a PO, the other having sent a wire. A third platinum is lined up. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain ahead of plans and under budget. No vendor payments are due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, announce@apache.org, or announce@apachecon.com during this timeperiod. IV. Informal Announcements: 3 items were announced on @TheASF Twitter feed, and 26 on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed. No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: a graduation announcement is being planned for a project currently in the Apache Incubator, as well as several press releases from a few TLPs. PMCs wishing to announce major project news —as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator— are welcome to contact Sally at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: Sally responded to 9 media requests, 4 requests for project graphics/logos, and coordinated 15 interviews across various projects for a recently-published feature on the ASF's influence in the world of Open Source. The ASF received 1,203 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 612. VII. Analyst Relations: no formal briefings are planned. Apache was mentioned in 10 reports by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 12 write-ups by GigaOM, and 19 reports by 451 Research. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally created and moderated the "Apache and The Business of Open Source" plenary panel, and met with several ASF Sponsors. She also created new graphics and worked with Melissa Warnkin on production of promotional items that were distributed at ApacheCon. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no new activities are underway. We are working with O'Reilly regarding our participation at OSCON 2013. X. Newswire accounts: we have 15 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 12 pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account through May 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] About to spend ~$1500 for additional drive capacity for eris (svn.us). Updated our inventory with Traci to better align with their power-cycling service. Set up wilderness.a.o lua playground for Daniel Gruno. Granted danielsh and gmcdonald IRC cloak granting karma. Upgraded bugzilla to 4.2.5 in response to a vulnerability announcement. Jira was upgraded to the latest stable (5.2.8). Daniel Gruno setup a direct SMS service for root-users to take advantage of. Again discussed timing issues surrounding the dissemination of authoritative declarations about newly minted TLPs. Setup paste.apache.org - a pasting service for committers to use. Still dealing with the fallout of our failed rack-1 switch. Now pursuing indirect support with Dell. Received/deployed the new box for an additional vmware hosting service. Upgraded httpd on eos and aurora(www/mod_mbox service) to 2.4.4. Restored archiving for the EA mailbox. Jan Iverson upgraded mediawiki for Apache OpenOffice due to an announced vulnerability issue. Working with concom to setup a USB disk with video data on it in one of our OSUOSL racks. Pruned the apmail group list down to the relevant current active folks. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch] Small Events ------------ We'll hopefully be announcing an event in Bangalore in a day or so. This will be a CloudStack heavy, but by no means exclusive one day BarCamp. The Boston BarCamp is gathering momentum, aimed for May. We have a good mix of new blood and old hands involved! DC and New York are expected to have events after Boston, hopefully sharing a great deal of experience and advice. There has also been some discussion from this around support for small events, both advice and physical stuff. The "Event In A Box" really needs some work to finish off and publish. In addition, people in other areas of the world expressed an interest in doing a small event at ApacheCon, but none of them have piped up on-list yet. Committee Structure ------------------- No new committee members have been added this month. There are possibly a few we should look at adding, once someone has a chance to compare the planners@ and apachecon-discuss@ posts in the run-up to ApacheCon with the committee list, and spot any we've missed... There has been a general consensus to move to just two lists. This may involve renaming the committee! Plans for naming the committee, naming the lists, and what goes where in the move are still open. Budget planning has just begun. ApacheCon NA 2013 ----------------- This was generally held to be a success. We didn't get quite as many people as we'd hoped, but we did have an engaged and interested group there. Final attendence was about 350, we'll be getting exact numbers and details fairly soon. Volunteer energy was used for community events, but very little for the main conference (and if anything people felt too little was used). Various community events around the conference were tried. Other than the post-event hackathons (which there was no interest in until 9am the day after the conference, when suddenly there was lots but it was too late!), events were ok to amazingly attended, and with sustainable volunteer needs to pull off. Local engagement wasn't as high as expected though, but ideas were found for fixing that going forward. A hackathon space during the conf on the same level was missed, and the difference between Sinsheim and Portland on this was noticable, so we now know one really is required. Future ApacheCons ----------------- A fairly long discussion was held after the conf, with notes taken and circulated. There hasn't yet been a lot of on-list review + discussions on this, which may mean people are busy focusing on small events, list re-org and video+audio. The meeting did reach two rough decisions, still awaiting list confirmation. One was that a producer led ACNA under TOB should be done for two more years, with only minor tweaks (to address a few issues), building on the knowledge that TOB have gained from Sinsheim and Portland. It was also felt that there should be another Europe event, but that it had to be producer led - not community (not) driven. That will need an updating of the ACNA RFP based on the lessons learnt, then a search for a suitable producer to make it happen. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] Committee --------- No new members, but our newest committee member (amongst others!) helped out a lot with ACNA Budget discussions are still at any early stage, but based on discussions in Portland we're expecting to go for a similar number ApacheCon NA 13 --------------- 12 people were accepted, but several dropped out before the event (thankfully none after ticketing). In the end, the TAC contingent was 8 people, plus part time assistance from Nick and Melissa. Overall, it seemed to go fairly well, other than the wrinkle with the webapp physical host dying and no-one having recorded the key that all the backups were encrypted with (now fixed on the new setup!). Melissa was a great help as ever, but hopefully had to put less work in than some previous events. The TAC team seemed to gel well, got into the role, learnt a lot and were a great help for the event. All seemed much more confident by the end, more engaged with Apache, knew more people, and a few even expressed an interest in helping with future events (large and small). One issue faced was with the welcome breakfast, where half met in the lobby of one bit of the hotel, half in the lobby of the other, but we know for next time we need to be more specific! The breakfast worked well to introduce everyone and break the ice, and seemed to make the start of the process much easier once again Formal post-event surveys should be going out soon. Future Events ------------- There are no future events we're currently committed to helping. We stand ready to help once ConCom finalise their future ApacheCon plans, and we have the budget + volunteer energy to help with a smaller event, if the organisers of such a gathering need our help. Budget ---------- We are awaiting figures from EA on what we spent at ACNA (in turn the EA may be waiting). Either way, we'll have a budget projection ready in time for the requests deadline. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] For Feb 2013: 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. 3 Support question 1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 6 Vulnerability reports 1 [httpd, via security@httpd] 1 [subversion, via security@] [CLOSING] 1 [geronimo, via security@geronimo] [CLOSING] 1 [httpd, via security@] [CLOSED, not security] 1 [infrastructure, via security@] [CLOSED, not security] 1 [tomcat, via security@] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom Syndication Format and Publishing Protocol specifications. Activity in Abdera is low but there is a steady stream of commits, mainly for bug fixes and minor updates. Three committers have been committing since the last board report and we even managed to get a release out in January this year. There have been no committer or PMC member changes, its been a long time since there has been any. No board issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda] Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. Project Releases The Any23 team was happy to announce the first release of Any23 0.7.0-incubating around September 2012. No releases have been made since. Overall Project Activity since last report Since January reporting, community traffic has remained relatively low both on the user and dev lists. The community decided to move the source code repository to Git as this was seen to be more convenient for the committer base. We are currently in that transition, and plan to release Any23 0.8.0 shortly afterwards this job is complete. How has the community developed since the last report? Mood reflects the previous admission that the Any23 community could benefit from more traffic. For the time being the 0.8.0 release is top of the agenda. It is also hoped that the move to Git will attract more Any23 users to the codebase. Changes to PMC & Committers none PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of projects including, Nutch, Tika, Gora, OODT, Maven and OpenRDF Sesame however this is not an exhaustive list. Project Branding or Naming issues NONE Legal issues NONE ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick] The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- There have been no new releases during the quarter. Discussion has begun around the future next APR-util 1.5.x release. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012, and the previous stable APR-Util release was in October of 2012. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR-Util 0.9.x branch was in October of 2010. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none Votes for two possible committers are on-going at the time of this report. About 13 bugs have been opened during the reporting period, with 4 bugs resolved. (Progress was made on 3 other bugs.) Mailing list activity is minimal and is slightly less than in the previous quarter. Development ----------- Activity has been minimal. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Maria Odea Ching] 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 -------- * Archiva 1.3.6 (7 January 2013) - security release for CVE-2010-1870: Struts2 remote commands execution Community --------- No updates regarding previous trademark issue with MailArchiva. It's been 10 months since we dropped them an email regarding the issue. They seem to have no plans to continue with the re-branding. Development ----------- Development on next milestone release (1.4-M4) is on going. This release will contain improvements on LDAP support, web interface enhancements and bug fixes found on previous milestone release. Target date for 1.4-M4 release is mid April. Issues ------ No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Andreas Veithen] 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; this subproject is in the process of being merged into Axis2/Java and will disappear as a distinct subproject * 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: no progess because of lack of activity in these subprojects svnpubsub migration status: * The Web site has already been migrated to svnpubsub. * Migration of the dist area to svnpubsub not yet done. Community: * No issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Roman Shaposhnik] DESCRIPTION Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration, packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution based on Apache Hadoop RELEASES * The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.5.0, released on Dec 18, 2012 * There has not been much progress with a maintenance release of 0.3.1 * Bigtop 0.6.0 release has been scoped and RM assigned (Roman Shaposhnik) The target date for the release is end of Mar 2013 CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12323696 (since last board report, Dec 2012) * There was a good progress on a proposal for stabilizing the Hadoop 2.X codeline via utilizing test aspects of Bigtop. COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since the last report The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (3), Cloudera (9), Hortonworks (3), Canonical(1), Oracle(1), Twitter(1), Facebook(1), Amazon.com(1), WANDisco(1) * Currently there are: - Total of 98 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 116 subscribers to the user list - Total of 15 subscribers to the announce list - Total of 22 committers - Total of 21 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson] 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 new releases. ### Activity ### Part of the BVal community is engaged at Apache Commons, working on the [weaver] component (subject of my Fast Feather talk at ApacheCon NA 2013) which, when completed, is planned to be used in BVal's code. Mailing list traffic continues to be minimal. 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 ### Mohammad Nour El-Din has resigned from the PMC. ### Branding ### The BVal site has been restyled using a Twitter bootstrap foundation, and incorporating the new logo. ### Legal ### No concerns at present. ### Infrastructure ### Nothing needed at the moment. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller] 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 --------- * At ApacheCon NA 2013 we had 4 talks about Apache Camel. * Red Hat planned (and will announce in short time) the CamelOne 2013 conference in Boston on June 10th - 11th (http://camelone.com/). Rob Davies (Camel PMC member and Red Hat employee), ConCom and the Apache Camel PMC are working together to ensure that this event will meet the ASF trademark and ConCom guidelines. Please find the relevant mail thread at http://s.apache.org/Hq1 * The community stays at a high level (183 subscribers at dev@; 503 subscribers at users@) * The community is active and questions being answered in short term. * Avg. 805 mails per month on the users mailing list in Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 * Avg. 244 mails per month on the dev mailing list in Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 * Avg. 299 committs per month in Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 * No new committers in this reporting period (last one joined in Dec 2012) * No new PMC members in this reporting period (last one joined in Dec 2012) Community Objectives -------------------- * Finalizing our working on Camel 2.11.0 * Discussing Camel 3.0.0 Releases -------- * 2.10.4 (02/22/2013) * 2.9.6 (03/07/2013) ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik] Cayenne is a Java-based persistence framework licensed under the Apache License. Cayenne provides object-relational mapping (ORM), a GUI for database-to-java mapping/modeling, and remote persistence services for Java clients. Project Status * Cayenne 3.1 API is considered stable and bug fixes are being implemented. API changes and new development are targeted to the 3.2 code base now. * Cayenne 3.1 documentation is expanding. Chapters about Cayenne runtime are close to completion. Community * Mailing list activity is near-average on developer and user lists with more questions arising about the 3.1 Beta 1/2 release as more users are trying the beta and having questions about it. * Many committers have expressed an interest in migrating from Subversion to Git, so this is being explored. * Cristiano Ghersi has ported Cayenne into an OSGi environment and is helping to add native support for OSGi in Cayenne. Community Objectives * Continue fixing bugs in Cayenne 3.1 to push for a milestone release. * Continue documentation for Cayenne 3.1. * Continue development on Cayenne 3.2. * Migrate from Subversion to Git. Releases * Cayenne 3.1B2 was released on February 18, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller] Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java, Python, PHP, .NET, and Objective-C (and possibly other languages). The project has graduated in February 2011. == Project status == The ObjectiveCMIS project, which provides an Objective-C CMIS client library, joined Apache Chemistry and did a first Apache release. The OpenCMIS (Java) subproject is in the process of adding CMIS 1.1 support. A first beta release already ships a complete CMIS 1.1 Browser Binding implementation. The cmislib (Python) subproject started refactoring the library code to eventually support the CMIS 1.1 Browser Binding. There is not much activity around the other two subprojects phpclient (PHP) and DotCMIS (.NET) at the moment. A DotCMIS release provides the bug fixes and enhancements that have been accumulated over the past months. == Community == The six contributors of ObjectiveCMIS joined the PMC. == Releases == ObjectiveCMIS 0.1 and DotCMIS 0.5 have been released in January. OpenCMIS 0.9.0 beta 1 has been released in February. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan] DESCRIPTION Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASE Last release was created on 14.08.2012 (clerezza-0.3-incubating) ACTIVITY Clerezza has graduated to TLP per board meeting on 20.02.2013. The common tasks for migration to TLP has been done except for the website. The committee has voted to use svnpubsub to replace the currently use of the deprecated mechanism based on people.apache.org. The committee has also voted to use Git for version control. Respective INFRA issues are filed. With respect to supporting other Apache projects, a better integration of Apache Stanbol has been achieved so that Stanbol modules can be run within Clerezza. COMMUNITY No new committers or PMC members are added. BRANDING No issues LEGAL No issues INFRASTRUCTURE Transfer of resources (source codes, website) as part of graduation tasks is in progress ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Luc Maisonobe] 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. For information, a vulnerability in the example use of the library in Apache Commons FileUpload documentation has been identified (CVE-2013-0248). The vulnerability does not lie in the library itself, but users may copy the example and introduce an insecure way to handle temporary files in their application. The documentation was updated. Several components have been released since last report: Commons Math 3.1 (2012-12-24) Commons Email 1.3 (2013-01-11) Commons Math 3.1.1 (2013-01-13) Commons Daemon 1.0.12 (2013-01-24) Commons Daemon 1.0.13 (2013-02-13) Commons Email 1.3.1 (2013-03-04) As mentioned in the last report, Commons was very late on the svnpubsub migration and tried to catch up. This was finally done thanks to the help of Olivier Lamy (thanks to him for his tremendous work). Concerning community aspects, several new committers have been elected: Mark Struberg and Benedikt Ritter as well as a new PMC member: Olivier Lamy, welcome to them. One PMC member has resigned: Henri Yandell, we thank him for everything he has done within our community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux] ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills] Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop. MILESTONES We completed our most recent release (0.5.0-incubating) on 2/19/13, just before we left the Incubator. ACTIVITY * Most of the Incubator transfer procedures have been completed. We still have our old release directory at the Incubator, but we plan to update that upon our next release. * The PMC is currently voting on a set of bylaws for the project modeled after the bylaws of the Apache Zookeeper project with some small tweaks based on the bylaws of the Apache Pig project. * Nine JIRAs have been resolved since our most recent release, primarily small bug fixes. One major feature was adding the ability to start and monitor a MapReduce pipeline asynchronously, which was contributed by a new developer on the project. COMMUNITY * 50 subscribers to the dev mailing list, 62 subscribers to the user mailing list. * There have been no changes to the PMC or committer composition since our recent graduation, although the PMC is currently holding a vote on adding two new committers. * The user mailing list has seen small but steady traffic in the form of questions and requests from Crunch users. INFRASTRUCTURE * The major TLP creation tasks are completed, but we have one outstanding issue from the move from the Incubator: our github mirror hasn't been updated to reflect the new repo name. This is tracked in INFRA-5933. * The website has been updated to reflect the project's new status as a TLP. LEGAL No known issues. BRANDING No known issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith] Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services. MILESTONES Since the last report in January there haven't been any new release. Next major release is planned for the next month. ACTIVITY * Graduation process has been concluded. * Work on C++ binding is going on, there are some patches in the patch queue which are going to be merged in master soon. * It is planned to bring Java code base to newer concepts available from Java 6. COMMUNITY * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since last report. * It seems TLP presence helped us to get more visibility. We have a new contributor which is participating on the dev mailing list and has provided already some new patches. * More work is still needed to broad both user and developer community. INFRASTRUCTURE * Finished all known task in Incubator * Updated website LEGAL No known issues. BRANDING No known issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Felix Meschberger] 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 Switched to using Apache CMS for the Web Site Switched to SVN Pub Sub for Distributions Anja Skrba (supposedly a Computer Science student from Belgrade/RS) translated a page of our Web Site to serbo-croatian. This in itself is great. But it just looks like this is part of a SEO-gathering scheme. For now we won't prevent such translations but will not link back to them. * Software SCR Generator 1.4.0 (Februrary 18, 2013) Maven SCR Plugin 1.10.0 (Februrary 18, 2013) SCR Ant Task 1.4.0 (Februrary 18, 2013) SCR Annotations 1.8.0 (Februrary 18, 2013) SCR DS Annotations 1.0.2 (Februrary 18, 2013) Framework 4.2.0 (February 12, 2013) Service Diagnostics Web Console Plugin 0.1.2 (February 1, 2013) Dependency Manager Core 3.1.0 (January 28, 2013) Dependency Manager Annotation 3.1.0 (January 28, 2013) Dependency Manager Runtime 3.1.0 (January 28, 2013) Dependency Manager Compat 3.0.1 (January 28, 2013) Dependency Manager Shell 3.0.1 (January 28, 2013) iPOJO Core 1.8.6 (January 10, 2013) iPOJO Composite 1.8.6 (January 10, 2013) iPOJO Annotations 1.8.6 (January 10, 2013) * 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 Q: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui] Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.1 was released on 2/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Justin McLean presented on Apache Flex at ApacheCon NA 2013. COMMUNITY No changes to our set of committers or PMC members. We did implement analytics on the Apache Flex website and in the month of February we had 100,000 page views and more than 36,000 visitors. That is way more than anyone would have expected. The estimated number of Flex SDK 4.9.0 downloads from the Apache Flex website is 16,701. This is from the day it went live on December 27th 2012, through Feb 27th, 2013. This includes downloads directly off our website and people who downloaded the SDK via the Installer. We don't know how many additional downloads occurred directly from our mirrors or other hosts. PRESS Per a request from the Apache Press VP, I was interviewed by a writer from InfoWorld, but it appears that the article has not been published. Harbs was interviewed for an article published on http://www.pro-linux.de. LEGAL Nothing to report. TLP MIGRATION The last of our repos was reconnected to Git-syncing this weekend. I don't know of any other remaining migration issues. INFRASTRUCTURE * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. In the last report I thought we had a solution, but it appears that we are back to trying to devise a new solution. Tony has been helpful, but he was away for a bit, so we'll re-start on this when he gets caught up after his return. * We will be trying to migrate from SVN to Git as soon as possible. We have opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5549 and are awaiting infra response. * The build system keeps failing for lack of disk space. I've seen this complaint brought up by other projects as well. BRANDING No issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig] 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 == Since early this year our self-written maven repository proxy faces random hangs when requesting artifacts from the central Maven repository which leads to build processes being killed after the timeout of one hour. As a result Gump runs currently take several days and we disabled nag emails as build failures were more often related to this problem than a change in the project itself. The underlying problem hasn't been fully analyzed so far. 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. The Mac OS X server usually running Gump, adam.apache.org, has undergone an OS upgrade. The Gump installation is awaiting restoration. == 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. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach] DESCRIPTION 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 * The last release of Apache Hive was version 0.10.0, released on January 11th, 2013. COMMUNITY * In early February the PMC voted to approve two related measures: ** Measure 1: Amend Hive Bylaws to Define Submodules and Submodule Committers Passage of this measure will result in the Apache Hive Project Bylaws being amended with the following changes: http://s.apache.org/WKU The motivation for these changes was discussed in the following email thread which appeared on the hive-dev and hcatalog-dev mailing lists: http://s.apache.org/Ht0 ** Measure 2: Create HCatalog Submodule and Adopt HCatalog Codebase This measure provides for 1) the establishment of an HCatalog submodule in the Apache Hive Project, 2) the adoption of the Apache HCatalog codebase into the Hive HCatalog submodule, and 3) adding all currently active HCatalog committers as submodule committers on the Hive HCatalog submodule. * The HCatalog PPMC subsequently voted to merge the project into Hive as a Hive submodule. The voting thread can be viewed here: http://s.apache.org/5WX * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/z8E * A user-group meetup was held on February 12th in San Francisco. 100 people RSVPed for this event. * The next user-group meetup is scheduled for April 25th in Palo Alto. Currently 70 people have RSVPed for the event with another 30 people on the waiting list. * Existing committer Kevin Wilfong was added to the PMC * Gang Tim Liu was added as a new committer. * The following PMC members requested that their membership status be changed to emeritus: Prasad Chakka (prasadc), Zheng Shao (zshao), John Sichi (jvs), and Paul Yang (pauly). * PMC composition has changed due to the aforementioned changes, as well as several members changing their affiliations. The current affiliations of PMC members are: Facebook (5), Qubole (2), HortonWorks (1), Citus Data (1), and Media6Degrees (1). * Currently there are: - Total of 576 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 1441 subscribers to the user list - Total of 14 committers - Total of 10 PMC members - Total of 6 Emeritus PMC members 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] ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies] This month saw a significant discussion around a proposal to modify the Incubator's policy to eliminate the option for podlings to graduate as sub-projects of existing PMCs. While this discussion still has unresolved issues, including moving short-form IP Clearance to legal, there is significant support for eliminating the option for a proposed podling to explicitly target a sub-project graduation path. Many participants agreed that retaining it as a viable exit path, by exception, was a logical compromise to eliminating it all together; specifically, when it is apparent that achieving TLP is not a viable option and there is a PMC willing to accept the code/community. The effect of this discussion can already be seen in the modification of the Curator proposal to keep TLP as a potential graduation target. Additionally, the Incubator saw a substantial influx of new, accepted projects with more proposals currently under discussion. In prior reports, the issue of mentor time & attention was raised and will need to be watched closely with the addition of so many new projects in a short timeframe. The only point of immediate concern in this space is the failed experiment for Shepherd's to self-organize. As a PMC, the Incubator needs to determine how we will handle the assignment and execution of the up-till-now successful shepherd role for any given report without the direct intervention of a single individual, such as the PMC chair. Lastly, the MRQL project proposal was championed by an individual who is a PMC chair, but is not a foundation member or IPMC member. Discovery of this fact, combined with the perception that the vote was rushed, led some in the IPMC to immediately invalidate the project proposal and take actions to cancel creation of its resources. Further discussions have prompted other IPMC members to step forward as proposed champions and mentors in an effort to get the proposal and project creation back on track. o Community New IPMC members: None People who left the IPMC: None o New Podlings The Incubator PMC voted to accept 6 new podlings since the last report Curator - a set of Java libraries for working with Apache Zookeeper Knox - a single point of authentication for Apache Hadoop services MRQL* - a query processing and optimization system for large-scale data analysis Open Climate Workbench - a framework focused on the rapid comparison of climate model output to remote sensing data. Provisionr - a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple clouds Tajo - a relational and distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop Tez - a framework for processing arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks * The MRQL acceptance has been mired in controversy due to an issue with the Champion's status. (See commentary) o Graduations The board has motions for the following: Bloodhound Cloudstack cTAKES The following projects are graduating to an existing PMC: EasyAnt to the Ant PMC o Releases Apache Onami Parent 0.3-incubating Apache EasyAnt 0.9-incubating Apache Crunch 0.5.0-incubating Apache Mesos 0.10-incubating o Legal / Trademarks No issues at this time o Infrastructure No issues at this time Still getting started at the Incubator These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Knox Tez Not yet ready to graduate Allura Drill HDT Open Climate Workbench S4 Streams Not ready to graduate require attention Kalumet Wave Ready to graduate Bloodhound cTAKES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Allura Bloodhound cTAKES Drill Hadoop Development Tools Kalumet Knox Open Climate Workbench S4 Streams Tez Wave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Allura 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 2012-06-25. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to grow community 2. Move project development to ASF hardware 3. Continue to remove non-AL code from the repo 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? 1. Lots of contributions from Stefano Invernizzi and Simone Gatti. 2. Small patch received from SourceForge user 'honyczek'. No other new contributors. 3. Some new faces on IRC and the mailing list. 4. Professor mentoring Stefano and Simone has expressed willingness to recruit more students to work on Allura. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Allura instance set up at http://allura-vm.apache.org/ but nothing moved to it yet. Need to finish setup and address any problems before moving development to the new vm. 2. GPL code made optional. Licensing review by Peter shows that only one Creative Commons javascript library needs to be addressed. LICENSE and NOTICE files created. Still need to apply Apache License header to all files. Signed-off-by: Ross Gardler: [ ](allura) Greg Stein: [ ](allura) Jim Jagielski: [ ](allura) Rich Bowen: [x](allura) Shepherd notes: Commit activity & mailing list traffic look good. I see that there are license issues that the podling has been dealing with, specifically removing non AL code. I am looking forward to seeing discussions about making a release in the near future. -------------------- Bloodhound Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing. Bloodhound has been incubating since 2011-12-23. The most important issue the Bloodhound community needs to address is diversifying the community, but we believe this is no longer any impediment to graduation. We're hoping to graduate soon, before the next report. While growing our community further continues to be important, we have seen more outside interest recently. This addresses the only barrier to graduation raised after the December2012 report. We have further prepared by completing the PODLINGNAMESEARCH, and just recently completed the community vote on graduation readiness. The project now has two online demo instances running of Apache Bloodhound, one of which shows the current state of the trunk branch [ http://bh-demo1.apache.org ] and providing a first implementation of the new search functionality, responsive layout and multi-product architecture that has been developed. Together these represent the main strands of what Apache Bloodhound set out to achieve. Unfortunately, we do not yet have the ability to make use of the repository browser, which was something that was brought up in the previous report. We added two new committers to the project in January, and a fourth incubation release. We have also seen more interest in the project from a number of channels including irc and the dev mailing list which we are, as ever, hoping to convert into growth of the developer community and continue to improve upon diversity. Signed-off-by: Hyrum Wright: [ ](bloodhound) Greg Stein: [ ](bloodhound) Branko Čibej: [x](bloodhound) P.S.: The Incubator vote to graduate Bloodhound passed on 2013-03-13. A resolution to establish the Apache Bloodhound TLP has been submitted to the Board. Shepherd notes: -------------------- cTAKES cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is an natural language processing tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. cTAKES has been incubating since 2012-06-11. 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? None Community: We added over 10 new committers after the podling was formed. We initiated a community VOTE for graduation (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ctakes-dev/201303.mbox/browser) Development: We successfully produced one released (ctakes-3.0.0-incubating). Roadmap has been created on Jira and currently working on future releases. Signed-off-by: Jörn Kottmann: [ ](ctakes) Grant Ingersoll: [ ](ctakes) Chris Mattmann: [X ](ctakes) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Apache: Project Drill Description: Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to efficiently process nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds. Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11. Three Issues to Address in Move to Graduation: 1. Continue to attract new developers with a variety of skills and viewpoints 2. Develop community skills and knowledge by building some releases 3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among multiple project members Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board: none How community has developed since last report: Mailing list discussions: There has been active participation in discussions on the developer mailing list, including new participants and developers. A few have participated in the users list; mainly activity takes place on developer mailing list. Activity summary: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/ March 2012, 21 by 6th of March (mainly jira; some discussion) February 2013, 227 (jira, focused discussions) January 2013, 169 (jira; focused discussions) Dec 2012, 51 (jira, focused discussions) Topics in discussion on the dev mailing list included but not limited to: * JSON scanner API * implementation of reference interpreter * building SQL parser * implementation of a variety of reference operators including flatten and WindowsPane * Mocking Library * Drill plus behavioral data Presentations There have been more than a dozen presentations from community members at international Hadoop conferences, Strata Conference, HUGs, JUG and an Apache Drill Users Group in at least four countries. Slides Slides from Drill presentations posted online such as at slideshare get a large number of views. Examples: Japan Hadoop Conf. 2013 Winter, 2114 views Boulder/Denver HUG, 848 views PJUG Portland Oregon, 404 views HUG Munich, 475 views Articles An invited article on Apache Drill, “Apache Drill: Newcomer in the Hadoop Ecosystem” appeared in the 30 January 2013 Software Developers Journal, authored by Ted Dunning and Jacques Nadeau. In addition there have been a variety of blog postings about Drill. Social Networking @ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown to 147 followers. How project has developed since last report: 1. Wiki has been built 2. Significant code drops have been checked in from a number of new developers 3. Added our first additional committer and PMC member, additional candidates are developing 4. Additional non-code contributors have become active and are being encouraged Signed-off-by: Ted Dunning: [x](drill) Grant Ingersoll: [ ](drill) Isabel Drost: [ ](drill) Shepherd notes: Drill appears to be healthy. Mailing lists are seeing a ton of traffic and work in the sandbox seems to be progressing at a reasonable pace. Question to the community: When do you estimate that you would want to start putting a preliminary release of some kind together? I assume this would require identifying at least some components that should be moved from "sandbox". -------------------- Hadoop Development Tools Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform. Hadoop Development Tools entered the Incubator on 11/09/2012. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: - Support multiple versions of Hadoop in a single IDE instance. During this time building understanding of the Apache processes around working and releasing. - Release - Grow the podling community in terms of users and contributors. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None How has the community developed since the last report? - Bob Kerns was added to the PPMC - Rahul sharma has begun contributing to the project (HDT-18) How has the project developed since the last report? - Wiki group permissions sorted out with mentors (thanks Adam Berry) - Confluence permissions sorted out (thanks Adam Berry) - requested FISHEYE instance for HDT code base https://support.atlassian.com/browse/FSH-11186 (thanks Bob Kerns) - discussed moving to Confluence for wiki - David Crossley mentioned that HDT needed to fix its project metadata - Bob Kerns put up HDT Product Experience Roadmap on the wiki http://wiki.apache.org/hdt/HDTProductExperience - Discussing 0.1-incubating release Signed-off-by: Suresh Marru: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris A Mattmann: [X ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik: [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Shepherd notes: The report adequately represents the state of the project. My only minor comment is that there appears to be a single individual responsible for most of the commits; but, it is way too early in the podling's lifecycle to determine whether or not there is a lack of community involvement. -------------------- Kalumet Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and resources. Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. cut off a couple of incubating releases 2. we identified "high" priority features/changes for 0.7.0-incubating release. Kscripts and different "ecosystems" (OSGi, JavaEE, etc) providers could be included in this release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None so far How has the community developed since the last report? We submitted a couple of Kalumet 0.6.0-incubating releases to vote. Unfortunately, due to "discussion" around legal files (especially NOTICE), the votes didn't pass. We are fixing the legal issue and will submit a new 0.6.0-incubating release to vote. How has the project developed since the last report? We created the Jira corresponding to the changes that we want to include in Kalumet 0.7.0-incubating release. We decided to increase the release cycle in order to give more visibility to the users. We completed a first documentation. The documentation is part of the 0.6.0-incubating release and is also available directly on the website. Signed-off-by: Jim Jagielski: [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez: [ ](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre: [ X ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy: [ ](kalumet) Shepherd notes: I am a concerned about the recent drop in activity for the podling. There was a flurry of mail around the 0.6.0-incubating release and very little of substance since then, with absolutely nothing in the month of February. I wouldn't be so concerned if the vote was successful; but, since it was a cancelled vote, I would have assumed the community would try to fix the issues and get it out as soon as possible. These observations are, of course, made from a quick review, so I could be missing an important detail. -------------------- Knox Knox Gateway is a system that provides a single point of secure access for Apache Hadoop clusters. Knox has been incubating since 2013-02-22. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Complete the infrastructure setup for the project. 2. Complete the initial code grant. 3. Clear the project name with legal and pick a new name if required. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? 1. None. How has the community developed since the last report? 1. Since we don't have all of our infrastructure setup yet we haven't made much progress on this front. 2. Have received a number of inquiries about participation in spite of this. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Have some of our infrastructure, such as mailing lists, setup. 2. Created PODLINGNAMESEARCH-25 to determine if Knox is a viable project name. 3. Auditing and cleaning up the existing code base in preparation for SVN import. 4. Working on website but that requires completing code grant. Signed-off-by: Owen O’Malley: [X](knox) Chris Douglas: [X](knox) Mahadev Konar: [ ](knox) Alan Gates: [X](knox) Devaraj Das: [X](knox) Chris Mattmann: [X](knox) Tom White: [X](knox) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Open Climate Workbench Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization. Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT) 2. Make an initial release. 3. Add new contributors to the project. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? The project is still adding members of the initial project proposal. So far 71% of the proposal initial committers on the projects have ICLAs on file and accounts either already or under processing. 29% of the project committers (8 people) are still working on filing their ICLAs. Chris Mattmann is working to get these accounts opened. How has the project developed since the last report? Chris filed INFRA-5874 to bootstrap the podling. All mailing lists are setup, and now archiving, SVN repo has been created and is underway. The site has been created (using the CMS) by Suresh Marru. Chris is also working with Craig Russell on filing a Software Grant for the RCMES initial codebase drop. As of Thursday March 14, 2013, the grant has been filed in r40293 of the foundation repository. Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas: [X](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Shepherd Comments: None -------------------- 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 has been incubating since 2011-09-26. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. growing the community 2. verifying (changing?) the name of the project. See PODLINGNAMESEARCH-10 Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? We have a new committer (dferro). How has the project developed since the last report? We kept iterating on the integration with Apache Helix. We also added major updates to the codebase for improving configurability (and usability). We added the sources of the website to our Apache git repository, and prepared updates to the website and documentation for the forthcoming release (0.6). This includes migrating the documentation from the confluence wiki to the S4 website. We are aiming at cutting a release candidate during the second week of march for a new release. Signed-off-by: Patrick Hunt: [X](s4) Arun Murthy: [ ](s4) Shepherd notes: Things seem to be going well despite the smaller size. Do you think you will be proposing graduation before the next reporting period? -------------------- Streams Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams. Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Diverse participation in development. More of the community needs to be actively engaged. 2. Increase the codebase 3. Develop a larger community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Not at this time How has the community developed since the last report? Craig McClanahan gave a presentation on Apache Streams at ApacheCon North America. How has the project developed since the last report? Discussions initiated at ApacheCon have recently been continued on the list and the major issues are being addressed. Signed-off-by: Matt Franklin: [X](streams) Ate Douma: [X](streams) Craig McClanahan: [ ](streams) Andrew Hart: [ ](streams) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Tez Tez is a framework for processing arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks. Tez has been incubating since 2013-02-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Develop collaborations with other Apache projects, including Hadoop, YARN 2. Make an initial Tez release. 3. Grow the Apache Tez community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? The community is still bootstrapping and we will need to probably finish getting ICLAs on board. Chris started a thread on dev@tez to request clarification on who needs ICLAs filed, and who needs accounts set up. Chris can help with this as can the other mentors. How has the project developed since the last report? Arun checked in the initial code drop on March 15, 2013 at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/tez/trunk/. Mailing lists for dev, private, and commits are up and running. Signed-off-by: Alan Gates: [ ](tez) Arun C Murthy: [ ](tez) Chris Douglas: ](tez) Chris Mattmann: [X] (tez) Jakob Homan: [ ] (tez) Owen O'Malley: [ ] (tez) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Wave A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication. It can be used like email, chat, or a document. Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make a release (stalled). The licensing issues have been resolved, and build scripts have been put into the repository. Documentation (see 2) is missing, after which point we can finalize a commit suitable for release. 2. Improve documentation. This is currently scattered between the old WaveProtocol site, the mailing list, and elsewhere. It needs to be pruned (of no-longer relevant documentation), structured and put on the wiki. 3. Increase community size. We are lacking any contributors who are able to make/support large code changes at the moment. A release should help increase wider knowledge of the project, to hopefully bring in more development support. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at this time. (Though see Shepard's notes). How has the community developed since the last report? The mailing list traffic continues to consist of new people asking questions about setting-up/running a WIAB server. (Which could be resolved by #2). Other than that, mostly stagnation. How has the project developed since the last report? Some progress towards a release (licensing) has been made. Internationalization support has been added. Signed-off-by: Santiago Gala: [ ](wave) Upayavira: [ ](wave) Andrus Adamchik: [ ](wave) Vincent Siveton: [ ](wave) Ben Laurie: [ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier: [X] (Note: I am NOT a mentor, but i follow the project and due to timing issues I would like to confirm this report) Shepherd notes: grobmeier: The project is very silent with less commit activity (last commit before 5 weeks). Even when the committers are usually responsive on mailing-lists it is very clear that nobody there can spend enough time to actually drive Wave forward. The next weeks the question needs to be asked if the Incubator goals can ever be reached or if GitHub would be a better home for Wave. A new committer has been elected before a couple of months but the situation didn't change. The missing project report does unfortunately reflect the situation. From Mentor side of view, only Upayavira is actively and constructively contributing to the project. Actually the other mentors should be asked if they are still interested in mentoring Wave. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig] 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 stable release from Jackrabbit trunk: * Apache Jackrabbit 2.6 on February 14th We made the following unstable 2.5.x release from Jackrabbit trunk: * Apache Jackrabbit 2.5.3 on January 13th We made a release from the Jackrabbit Oak sub project: * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.6 on January 28th o Community / Development * Manfred Baedke, Tommaso Teofili and Cédric Damioli joined the Jackrabbit team as committers and PMC members. o Infrastructure Jackrabbit web site migration is pending for infra, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5919 ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré] Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: 31,490 downloads (all distributions, all branches) between December, 1 and February, 28. - User mailing list: 557 messages between December, 1 and February, 28. - Dev mailing list: 382 messages between December, 1 and February, 28. - Commits: 621 commits between December, 1 and February, 28. We are pleased to count two new committers elected in February: - Filippo Balicchia - Christoph Grtischenberger Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.3.1 * Apache Karaf EIK 0.9.0 We are inline to release Karaf 3.0.0.RC1, and a first Cellar release on the 2.3.x branch. A new branch has been created (karaf-2.x) in order to prepare next Karaf 2.4.0. Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams] 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 == The Mavibot lab has been quite successful. It’s PI is currently exploring where to grow from Labs. The community is sleepy but typically responsive when beckoned. == New Labs == none to report == Labs Statistics == - new: 0 - status changes (last 3 months): 0 - total number: 40 - active: 16 - idle: 14 - promoted: 3 - completed: 7 - labs with commits: yay, alike, mavibot ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Steve Rowe] The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software. TLP --- We added two new PMC members in the last quarter: James Dyer and Stefan Matheis. No new committers were added in the last quarter. The most recent committer addition happened in October 2012. Lucene Core and Solr -------------------- Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit. Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core. In the last quarter we made two releases of both Lucene Core and Solr: - 4.1 on 22 January 2013 - 4.2 on 11 March 2013 The community is very active. 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 3.6.2 was released on 04 January 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser] Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users. == Summary == No Board level issues. We adopted GIT source control in February == Releases == Progress has been a bit slow but the next planned release is 3.6 which mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene. No timeline is currently available. Planning and discussion are underway. We're also discussing 4.0 release to get up to parity with Java Lucene. == Statistics == Nuget package downloads: Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 8482 Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 2772 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 463 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 188 ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix] Apache Mahout provides implementations of machine learning algorithms (collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, and more) for large-scale data, mostly via Hadoop-based implementations. Issues: Sean Owen wishes to leave the Mahout PMC (but retain his commit rights), but this is the only issue which needs the Board attention. Current Activity: How has the community developed since the last report? In February: Originally planned for 0.8 release by March 8, but will be letting that slip forward a few weeks. Selection of Presentations, Articles and Outreach: * Ted Dunning on new fast streaming clustering (http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/news-frommahout20130305) * Fast clustering at ACM http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/acm-20130225 * Real time learning http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/real-time-learning * MapR-Lucidworks on reflected intelligence http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/mapr-lucidworks-joint-webinar * Ted Dunning at Strata on Mahout http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/strata-newyork2012 * Ted Dunning on fast clustering at Oxford http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/oxford-05oct2012 * MapR and Amex speak about large-scale analytics with Mahout http://www.slideshare.net/tdunning/customer-analysisatscalestrata10022012 * Overstock and Mahout http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/mahout/ * Advanced Analytics in Mahout http://portfortune.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/advanced-analytics-in-hadoop-part-one * London Data Science http://datasciencelondon.org/tag/mahout/ * Mahout Updated in CDH 4.1 http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/11/whats-new-in-cdh4-1-mahout/ Scientific publications based on Mahout * Sebastian Schelter, Sean Owen: Collaborative Filtering with Apache Mahout, Recommender Systems Challenge Workshop in conjunction with ACM RecSys 2012 http://ssc.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cf-mahout.pdf * Sebastian Schelter, Christoph Boden, Volker Markl: Scalable Similarity-Based Neighborhood Methods with MapReduce, ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2012, Dublin http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2365984 http://ssc.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rec11-schelter.pdf Code We were able to attract the developer of one of the leading scientific recommender libraries [http://mymedialite.net/] to port a few implementations to Mahout (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1106, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1089) However, new code contributions have slowed to a crawl, the number of commits in the past few months, compared to prior years: Feb 2013, 7 Jan 2013, 20 Dec 2012, 7 Feb 2012, 98 Jan 2012, 27 Dec 2011, 99 Feb 2011, 35 Jan 2011, 52 Dec 2010, 37 Feb 2010, 207 Jan 2010, 132 Dec 2009, 135 New Commercial Integrations * Predixion Readmission Insight, a "a preventable readmission healthcare solution" announced http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/03/05/predixion-software-wins-microsoft-health-users-group-innovation-award integration with Mahout, Greenplumb, Hive, and Microsoft's BI stack. * Overstock and Mahout http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/mahout New Open Source Integrations * The recommendation and advertisement network http://www.plista.com/en has built an open source weblayer for Mahout's recommenders https://github.com/plista/kornakapi * Mahout seems to be the framework of choice for PredictionIO http://prediction.io/, an open source prediction server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery Mailing List Summary: User list discussions are currently focussed primarily on bug reporting and helping new users, but very little about future feature work. Developer Mailing List Posting: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-dev/ February 2013, 123 January 2013, 213 Dec 2012, 155 as compared to the same months in previous years: Feb 2012, 578 Jan 2012, 545 Dec 2011, 1079 and Feb 2011, 352 Jan 2011, 473 Dec 2010, 267 We've not had this low developer involvement since the first half of 2009. User Mailing List Posting http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/ User list discussions are primarily in support of very new users, as well as bug reporting on released versions (0.6 and sometimes even 0.5), highlighting the need for 0.8 to be released. While the traffic to the user mailing list has gone down slightly from previous years: Feb 2012, 288 Jan 2012, 367 Feb 2011, 359 Jan 2011, 458 Feb 2010, 497 Jan 2010, 272 This is not a dramatic decrease, as there is still considerable interest in the user community. Summary: How has the project developed since the last report: A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon. == Milestones == 1.) Working towards a 0.8 release 2.) Development on new, faster clustering code ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland] 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. * MRUnit is currently working on a 1.0.0 release. All blockers are closed and the RM is working on building RC. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity has slowed while the project discussed how to support both Hadoop1/Hadoop2: http://s.apache.org/DUs * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/QO7 * 10 JIRAs were resolved since the last report. * Mail traffic is largely on the DEV list. Messages since Dec 1st: dev 62, user 5 COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 34 subscribers to the developer list. - Total of 52 subscribers to the user list. - Total of 10 committers - Total of 10 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato] 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* * new release: "Apache OFBiz 10.04.05" has been released in 2013-01-17; the release contains bug fixes including some fixes for security vulnerabilities reported by the ASF Security team (CVE-2013-0177) * new release: "Apache OFBiz 11.04.02" has been released in 2013-01-17; the release contains bug fixes including some fixes for security vulnerabilities reported by the ASF Security team (CVE-2013-0177) *Community and Project* * mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but there is still good community interaction: users are getting help and helping each other in the user list and in the dev list we are preparing for the upcoming 12.04.01 release, the first release in the 12.04 branch * no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in November 2012 *Infra/Legal* We have no issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] DESCRIPTION Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. MILESTONES Oltu graduated from the Apache Incubator on January 16, 2013. Since then, there have been no new releases. CURRENT ACTIVITY * the main activity at the moment is related to the "After graduation tasks". We have been following the instruction as for [http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#transfer]. * We are tracking our progress in [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5772] and [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBER-76]; * development is freezed because of [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5777]; we would rather continue tracking issues on AMBER as soon as possible in order to avoid any confusion in our community; As long as we understood rename of a JIRA project is not possible but it would be nice to have at least a new JIRA project named OLTU. * we have been discussing the possible synergy between Apache Oltu and other Apache projects (e.g. CXF) * development activity is healthy, new contributors are emerging as potential new committers; * users activity is almost quiet. COMMUNITY * PMC composition has not changed since graduation. * We have voted a new committer : Stein Welberg ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly] DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT For our Christmas-day gift of 2012, we released version 0.5 of OODT [1], which closed out 61 issues in JIRA [2] and provided improvements to: * OODT File Manager, and Lucene- and Solr-based catalog indexing * Curator JAX-RS web application * PushPull remote file retrieval * WEngine workflow system Future work in the next quarter will focus on cross-fertilization projects with Apache Airavata and Apache Tika, as well as fleshing out our Python APIs. OODT Jenkins jobs are now prominently featured from our project home page [3]. Our development mailing lists remain quite popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2013: List Jan Feb Mar ---- --- --- --- dev 57 75 12 user 12 16 0 COMMUNITY The North American ApacheCon 2013 conspicuously featured Apache OODT. Seven speakers gave eight presentations about OODT in the "Apache in Science" track at the conference [4]. We established a third social media base at Google Plus [5], complementing our existing Facebook [6] and Twitter [7] presence. We also created a read-only mirror of OODT at Github [8], enabling a wider base of code contributions and future participants. BRANDING There are no outstanding branding issues since our last report. All's good. PRESS Apache OODT received noteworthy attention in two articles penned by our eminent member Chris A. Mattmann: * Nature published "Computing: A Vision for Data Science" [9] in volume 493 (p. 474) featuring Apache OODT, Hadoop, and Tika in the face of "big data". * Software Development Times published "Apache Does Science" [10], discussing OODT's and Apache Airavata's places in scientific endeavors. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://s.apache.org/gm [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [3] http://oodt.apache.org/ [4] http://s.apache.org/c8C [5] http://s.apache.org/8vM [6] http://s.apache.org/M5x [7] http://s.apache.org/PYt [8] http://s.apache.org/cNy [9] http://s.apache.org/eS [10] http://s.apache.org/Yeg ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] Apache 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. == Releases == A first RC was created, vote is ongoing. Changes to the release process are currently done to reflect and documentate the new process as top level project. == Activity == The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits. The main focus in since the last report have been: - Build a RC and finalizing it - Improvements to SIP integration (audio + video over SIP) - Client side compilation to SWF11 and integration of AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) - Clustering has been refactored, documentation updated and verified: http://openmeetings.apache.org/Clustering.html == Community == There have been 3 new members voted into the PMC: Irina Arkhipets, Denis Kandrov and Vasiliy Degtyarev. Ideas for GSoC 2013 program: Ideas are in the mailing list but not published to Jira yet. == Infrastructure == All resources have been moved to new infrastructure. == Board == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann] 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 team is still working on getting the next release, 1.5.3, out William Colen was elected as a release manager and already produced the first RC, with William as our release manager we are finally able to spread the knowledge on how to make a release further in the team. It will take sometime until all the manual tests are run and 1.5.3 can finally be released. 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 AG: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Gurkan Erdogdu] 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 * here are no issues that require Board attention. Development * Heavy code cleanup & update has been done in trunk. * Started to CDI-1.1 spec implementation. * CMS is done, home page is updated. New Releases * No new release. * Last release, 1.1.7, 8 December 2012 Discussions * 1.1.8 release date. Community * Last committer, Jean-Louis Monteiro, 1st October 2012 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Julien Le Dem] 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: * 0.10.1 : released on 01/06/2013. bug fixes. * 0.11.0 : released on 02/21/2013 This release includes hundreds of bug fixes and many new features including DateType datatype, RANK, CUBE and ROLLUP operators, Groovy UDFs, pluggable reducer estimation logic, additional UDF features, schema-based tuples and HCatalog DDL integration. https://blogs.apache.org/pig/entry/apache_pig_it_goes_to Community: * 349 subscribers to the dev mailing list (330 in the last report) * 944 subscribers to the user mailing list (918 in the last report) * We have one new PMC member: Bill Graham * We have a new PMC chair: Julien Le Dem replacing Daniel Dai * A few committers and PMC members have been moved to emeritus status: Corinne Chandel, Nigel Daley, Pradeep Kamath, Jeff Zhang, Ben Reed and Yan Zhou * The PMC has now 12 members and the project counts 5 additional committers * We had a Pig Meetup on February 7, 2013 in Palo Alto at Hortonworks headquarters * Pig has been listed among 15 high impact Apache projects by computer world http://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/455802/pictures_15_high-impact_apache_projects/?image=1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Sandro Martini] 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, low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists. Low activity on dev mail list, mainly automated emails from the issue tracker. Developments on our next major release 2.1 (on trunk) at the moment are limited to merge fixes from the maintenance branch, and discussing some important feature to put in that release in our mailing lists. We get some interests from users with other JVM languages (Groovy and Scala). One of our PMC members, Roger Whitcomb, attended the ApacheCon NA conference in Portland the last week of February. He reports that he got a lot of helpful information from the sessions and was able to connect personally with a number of people: some looking to use Pivot in other Apache projects, some working on other Apache projects that may be helpful in his work, and also with some Apache board members. There may be some opportunities to collaborate with the Apache Flex project, which we are also exploring. Roger Whitcomb has expressed his interest in becoming the new PMC Chair, and after one year that I'm in that role and the experience gain in doing that I think it's a good choice (even to do a kind of rotation between PMC Members in the Chair role, as done in the past), and note that Roger has been valuable in this project. I'll submit the resolution next month. Issues We delayed a little our 2.0.3 release due to some strange issues in applications of some our users. We still have some important fixes to do but only on Mac with Asian languages, so we moved to next maintenance release. Releases Last Release was 2.0.2, published 21 May 2012. Since past Friday we are in the voting process for 2.0.3 . Branding/naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: None. Community changes Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. A user ask me commit rights in one of our subprojects at Apache-Extras, to put there an extension for Dependency Injection. I hope to be able to get him as a Committer in the future (currently he is not interested). ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor] 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. RELEASES March 6, 2013 - Portals Web Content 1.3 The Apache Portals team is pleased to announce the General Availability of Portals Applications WebContent version 1.3. The Apache Portals Applications WebContent 1.3 contains changes concerning primarily minor bug fixes and maintenance. COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Community activity is slowly improving, with one new release. The Portals sites move to SvnPubSub is completed. The current portals site resources have been moved to the svn /portals/site-live folder. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen] 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, 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. There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Community No changes since last report. Community Objectives Since our last board report, we have finished the long-awaited 4.5.0 release. We're preparing to release 4.5.1 later this month and have started working on Apache ServiceMix 5.0.0, in which we are dropping support for some older technology to allow for a more frequent release cycle. Documentation and website remain important working topics. 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 - A set of 49 OSGi bundles in January - Apache ServiceMix 4.5.0 in February - A set of 18 OSGi bundles in March ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood] 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 have not released anything since our previous 1.2.1 bugfix release. However, enough community desire has surfaced for a 1.2.2 patch release as well as a 1.3.0 release. We are making strong efforts this and next week to accomplish this. - After these next 1.2.1 and 1.3.0 releases, we might start targeting a 2.0 distribution, which would incorporate a lot of desired changes. We have been careful about this because this would very likely introduce backwards incompatible changes that we can't do on minor or patch releases as we follow the APR versioning guidelines. Community & Project: - Les presented Intro to Apache Shiro at ApacheCon this year - it was a good experience to see so many Apache folks. - We still haven't had the time/volunteers to convert over to infra@'s CMS system for our public website, even though we're well past the deadline. This means that our public website can't be updated with new content until this occurs since (as we understand it) the confluence wiki is no longer supported. - The Shiro community remains helpful, with steady month-after-month mailing list traffic. No noticeable changes here. - Everyone on the Shiro dev team has been quite busy w/ their respective full time jobs. Coupled with the holidays, not much development was accomplished last quarter, but efforts are ramping up significantly for a 1.2.2 and 1.3.0 release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler] 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 Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue. No new committers or PMC members, last committer election (asanso) was October 2012. Releases * New Releases: Apache Sling Launchpad Base 2.5.0, and Apache Sling Script Console 1.0.0 (March 4th, 2013) * New Releases: Apache Sling JCR Classloader 3.1.2, Apache Sling Commons Testing 2.0.14, Apache Sling JUnit Core 1.0.8, Apache Sling JUnit Remote 1.0.8, Apache Sling JUnit Scriptable 1.0.8, Apache Sling Testing Tools 1.0.6 (February 18th, 2013) * New Releases: Apache Sling Installer Core 3.4.6, Apache Sling Installer Configuration Factory 1.0.10, Apache Sling JCR Instaler 3.1.6, Apache Sling Parent 15, Apache Sling Fragment Extension XML 1.0.2, Apache Sling Fragment Extension WS 1.0.2, Apache Sling Fragment Extension Activation 1.0.2 (February 18th, 2013) * New Releases: Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.0.4, Apache Sling JCR Resource 2.2.4 (February 14, 2013) * New Releases: Apache Sling Installer Core 3.4.4, Apache Sling JCR Resource 2.2.2, Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.0.2, Apache Sling Security 1.0.2, Apache Sling Parent POM 14 (December 20th, 2012) Documentation * Website has moved to Apache CMS * Dist folder has moved to svn Project Branding is tracked in SLING-2696. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ] Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is active and development is steadily going on for the components Enhancer, Entityhub, and Contenthub. One of the latest contributions is an archetype for easily getting started with implementing an enhancement engine. Unfortunately, there is not much activity in the development of the Ontologymanager, Rules, and Reasoner components. The project needs to discuss the status and future plans of those components since there are about 50 open issues in Jira. Subscribers on the dev list: 178 Meric Taze was elected as a new committer on Feb 14th 2013. The project cut releases of the following components: - source-assembly-1.0.0 - stanbol-parent-3 - apache-stanbol-data-1.1.0 - apache-stanbol-commons-0.11.0 - apache-stanbol-contenthub-0.10.0 - apache-stanbol-entityhub-0.11.0 - apache-stanbol-enhancer-0.10.0 - apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin] Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the development of web application user interfaces. Over the last couple of quarters it seems that Tiles has started to stagnate again. It's probably time to discuss retirement again, so I will get that discussion started and report on it again in the future. There has been a small amount of discussion on various mailing lists, but not nearly enough to say that the project is moving forward at this time. I'll check with the PMC and see if they see that changing any time soon. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk] 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 7.0.37 * Apache Tomcat 7.0.36 * Apache Tomcat 7.0.35 * Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.27 * Apache Tomcat 5.5.36 * Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.1.0 Development There was lots of development activity on Apache Tomcat 7 and forthcoming Apache Tomcat 8 release. Community Violeta Georgieva has been voted as new Tomcat committer. Added comments.apache.org to TC 7 live docs to improve user community interaction. Security We are working on number of other 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 AU: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor] 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: We released a component, Apache UIMA TextMarker 2.0.0, on 05 March 2013. http://uima.apache.org/news.html#05 March 2013 Other Activity: The release of TextMarker elicited a trademark-violation letter; this is actively being worked through by trademarks@. Two major contributions, uimaFIT and DUCC, are now official sandbox projects and are very active. The Eclipse Update Site packaging was restructured to follow P2 conventions, and was released as part of the TextMarker release. Community: New Committers: Jim Challenger and Lou Degenaro, were voted in on 15 January 2013. Issues: No Board level issues at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth] 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 * Work continues to migrate content from Confluence to the new CMS website and to improve the design. * Apache VCL 2.3.1 was released in December. * Development work is underway for the VCL 2.3.2 bugfix release. The fixes have been applied to trunk. Work is underway to provide a means to apply the fixes to the previous Apache VCL 2.x releases. * Development work continues on features slated for Apache VCL 2.4 including a new configuration management system [1]. RELEASES * VCL 2.3.1 was released on 12-20-2012 COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 156 * Posts to user list, 2/12-2/13: 86 * Subscribers to the dev list: 141 * Posts to dev list, 12/12-2/13: 156 * Committers: 7 * PMC members: 4 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Configuration+Management ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Whirr Project [Tom White] Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: No new releases this quarter. Community: The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since the last report. There was a good discussion on the dev list about the new Apache Provisionr project (incubating) and how it relates to Whirr, and in particular whether to bring it to the ASF as a part of Whirr. In the end the community decided to create a new project (Provisionr has now entered incubation). There is interest in using the Provisionr service in Whirr for more reliable machine provisioning. - User mailing list: 15 messages - Dev mailing list: 184 messages - Commits: 15 commits Issues: No Board level issues at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment. Releases: * Apache Wink 1.2.1 from August 2012 is the last project release. * The official TLP release is being worked on by the community and should be done by the time of the project next report. Activity: * Activity continues regular. * The most important graduation infrastructure tasks have been completed. * The community is working on the first Apache Wink TLP release. * The new CMS based website draft was sent to review and the community in general seems happy with the direction. This effort should be completed by the time of the project next report. Committers or PMC changes: * None Trademark/Branding: The new CMS based website is considering and should be compliant with the Trademark policy. Legal Issues: * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Mahadev Konar] ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed applications. Trunk is 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 still TBD. Our focus is on scalability, jdk7 and openjdk support, maven build/rel, testing and audit logging. A bug fix release 3.4.6 is also expected to go out soon with bugs found in 3.4.5 release. Community: Mailing list activity continues to be high. * 8 active committers representing 5 unique organizations * 8 active PMC members representing 4 unique organizations * 384 subscribers on dev (up from 363 last quarter) * 784 subscribers on user (up from 743 last quarter) * A new contributor was voted in as a committer. He is still waiting on ok from his employer to agree to become a committer for ZooKeeper. BookKeeper status report for March, 2013. 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. We have released version 4.2.0 in January 2013. It resolves 189 jira issues and features a new autorecovery mechanism for BookKeeper ledgers, read-only bookie mode, improved scalability for Hedwig, message filtering in Hedwig and much more. In February, we have released version 4.2.1, a bug fix release that resolves 6 jira issues. Infrastructure issues: No issues. Community building: We have been consistently receiving more contributions from developers across different companies. We have two new committers, Uma Maheswara Rao G (Huawei) and Jiannan Wang (Yahoo!). In general, we have been able to grow the community and increase diversity. Community: * 51 subscribers to bookkeeper-dev * 64 subscribers to bookkeeper-user * 573 issues opened to date, 160 opened since Oct 1, 2012 * 37 reporters of Jira issues, 15 since Oct 1, 2012 * 16 patch contributors ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the March 20, 2013 board meeting.