The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes May 15, 2013 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at 10:32 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Ross Gardler Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: Jim Jagielski Executive Officers Present: Chris Mattmann Executive Officers Absent: Craig L Russell Guests: Sean Kelly Shane Curcuru Daniel Kulp Hadrian Zbarcea Mike Kienenberger Henri Yandell 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of April 17, 2013 See: board_minutes_2013_04_17.txt Tabled. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] Our annual members meeting is next week. Nominations have now closed. We have a strong slate of nominees for both membership and next year's board. Today is the final meeting of the current board. Thanks to those who served this past year. You effectively guided Apache on its mission. Thanks also for having me as your chair. It's been an honor. B. President [Jim] A relatively normal month since the last meeting. No problems or problematic issues require board attention. The first item of note is the (re)proposed 2013-2014 budget. The revised budget contains the following changes from the previous proposal: a. President's discretionary fund returned to $5k. b. Updated Infra budget for increased staffing Special Order 7C calls for formal approval of the budget. As requested, our EA is now submitting monthly reports for inclusion in the board agenda/minutes. Feedback and comments are welcomed. As will be noted below, I expect that the workflow associated with the EA to increase to do ApacheCon conf procedural changes and an increased workload, as reflected in the budget. Trademarks, Fundraising and M&P are all progressing well. Infra reported extremely late but, except for the lateness of the report, there are no issues to concern the board. As of the date of this writing, I did not receive anything from TAC or Concom; Concom is an item of discussion however, so having no report isn't that much of a concern at this point. TAC seems simply in idle-mode. As noted in the EVP report, Concom is restructuring, based on a better and more realistic review of available resources and capa- bilities. Both the EVP and I feel that this will be the "secret sauce" and solution looked for by the board. Sam, Chris, Hadrian and I had discussions regarding the status and movement of the audit effort. The general consensus was that Chris would be working with Hadrian to get our books into "acceptable" shape enough to allow us to, in the very near term, get an accountant to review our books and methods and give us a good, solid "gut-check" on where we are, regarding our finances. On a personal matter, I will be unable to attend the 1st half of next week's member's meeting. I can still setup and "run" the elections if required/desired; I'll need to know ASAP however, to ensure that I do the prep-work to allow anyone to "kick-off" the polls, if I am late in returning from the hospital. Finally, I wish to thank all Directors and members for the opportunity to have served as Director again; it's been an honor and privilege. Additionally, please see Attachments 0 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] For the first time in my tenure as Treasurer (and I think in ASF history), we are now managing over $1M in finances for the foundation. A check was cut to deal with final lagging ACNA 2013 charges for one of our TAC travelers. Discussion around the audit was picked up again, with Jim calling for an audit to occur and consensus being reached with Chris, and Sam. Chris sent a summary email detailing the 4 outcomes of the discussion, namely: 1. An audit will be pushed forward - Hadrian to lead 2. Chris is concerned about the additional time that this will add to his plate. Just a concern, but wants it noted. Sam suggested that rather than hiring a CPA to do this, we should be leveraging the EA. 3. The audit is assumed be a multi-month process. 4. Chris will proceed with helping with the audit, and continuing treasurer role. One concrete outcome from this is a desire by Chris to document the treasurer process. INFRA-6262 created for this. Ulrich Stärk raised the issue of an EU subsidiary to the Treasurer's Office and to Upayavira from a sponsorship perspective. The idea is that EU sponsors would find it easier to deal with us if we had such a subsidiary. Additionally, ASF members dealing with the Treasurer's Office for reimbursements, and payments, etc., would also benefit from this. Though the idea seems like a good one, from the Treasurer's perspective I suggested that it won't matter much to me -- most EU folks I reimburse or send $$$ accept wires, and the only pain point is the charges their banks sometimes charge. But otherwise it's just as easy on my end to wire money or send checks (bill pay) regardless. However, I did suggest to Uli to raise the issue to the board if desired, and that the Treasurer's Office would work to support whatever is decided. Largely though it's not the Treasurer's role to do anything other than to implement the policy not to define it (IMO). Chris and Sam have both stepped up efforts to get WFS statements in SVN faster than normal since Upayavira would like to track sponsorship donations in a more streamlined fashion. The EA's FY 2012 1099 copy was delivered and received at her residence. Sorry for the delay. Speaking of Taxes, our FY 2012 taxes can be started since our books for FY 2012 are now closed (end of April). I believe we have until 9/15 to deliver them without late fee. So, plenty of time! Sam and Chris have reached out to WFS and our financial consultant Paschal to deal with Bill Pay issues. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 616,647.85 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,629.07 PayPal: 159,984.04 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 1,064,260.96 Income Summary: Lockbox 578.77 Paypal 1,712.91 Misc Deposits 145,011.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 147,302.68 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 1,193.06 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 494.02 EA 4,752.75 misc expense 390.88 Network services - Traci.net 518.00 ApacheCon NA 2010 - 2011 15,087.50 ApacheCon NA 2013 2,005.00 Sysadmin 15,900.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 40,341.21 Doug noted that Treasurers generally are not immediately reappointed upon a board election. Ross asks if we have concrete examples of Uli's concern of potential sponsors. Chris said no, and felt that it was a lot of work. Ross agreed that without concrete examples we shouldn't pursue it. D. Secretary [Craig] The office of secretary is running smoothly. In April, 53 iclas, two cclas, one grant, and two ndas were received and filed. Thanks to Sam for filling in for this board meeting. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] I made all officers and PMCs of the plans to restructure ConCom to reflect the available resources and capabilities (See special order D). This will see the responsibilities of Conference Planning move to the President, Brand Management, Marketing and Publicity, and Community Development Project. Two points of concern were raised. The first by VP Community Development. This concern was that the small Community Development Project might not be able to cope with the new responsibilities, especially given that other PMCs are considering asking ComDev to assist them. See the ComDev board report for more information. The second concern was raised by VP Marketing and Publicity who felt there was the potential for new roles and responsibilities not to be clear and thus important responsibilities might go unaddressed. This is something that we must remain aware. In my opinion neither of these concerns should prevent us moving forward with the proposed change. I contacted The Open Bastion on behalf of the President in order to evaluate their interest in producing an ApacheCon North America and Europe. They are working on a new contract for our consideration and have asked me to build a list of conferences that should be avoided. Our EA will begin handling the contract negotiations going forward and will work with the President as appropriate. Greg notes that responsibilities falling through the cracks is what we are trying to address with this change. Ross continues to acknowledge the concern. Doug is concerned about handing a volunteer committee responsibilities that they are not enthusiastically accepting. Greg points out that people who are interested in small events are the volunteers and they will simply show up a that new list. Ross agrees and indicates that comdev will be less of a 'gatekeeper' than concom was. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report this month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 8 Daniel relayed that the agreement expired last year. Update: we got Oracle to create a new agreement and we passed this off to our lawyers, and we identified 5 issues. At this point it is in the lawyers hands. Hopefully by the June board meeting, we will have more information. Action Dan to forward on email to Roy C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Roy] See Attachment A B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Ross] See Attachment B C. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Brett] See Attachment C D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Rich] See Attachment D E. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski] No report was submitted. C++ will report next month F. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Doug] See Attachment F G. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim] See Attachment G H. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Sam] See Attachment H I. Apache CloudStack Project [Chip Childers / Rich] See Attachment I AI: Rich to follow up on the security list J. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Brett] See Attachment J K. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Bertrand] See Attachment K General discussion about a reluctance to assign responsibities to ComDev that it does not readily accept. L. Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter] See Attachment L M. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Greg] See Attachment M N. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Sam] See Attachment N O. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Jim] See Attachment O P. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen / Ross] See Attachment P Q. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Roy] See Attachment Q R. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Doug] See Attachment R S. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Brett] See Attachment S T. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Sam] See Attachment T U. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Rich] See Attachment U V. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Bertrand] See Attachment V W. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Ross] See Attachment W X. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Roy] See Attachment X Y. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Greg] See Attachment Y Z. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Doug] See Attachment Z AA. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Jim] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies / Jim] See Attachment AB Summary of podling reports is empty: it should be filled in or removed in subsequent reports. It was noted the Droids has been in the incubator, and while the report cites Activity as what needs to happen, it also cites a flurry of activity. AC. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Greg] See Attachment AC Conclusion on the wiki discussion: not a board issue. Greg will take back a number of suggestions. AD. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Bertrand] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Sam] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Doug] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Roy] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Ross] No report was submitted. AI: Ross to pursue a report for Mahout AI. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Brett] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy / Rich] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Rich] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Sam] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Bertrand] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Roy] See Attachment AN General agreement among board members that a list of PMC affiliations does not belong in a board report AO. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Doug] No report was submitted. AI: Doug to pursue a report for Perl AP. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Greg] No report was submitted. Ross asked PMC to report next month AQ. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Brett] No report was submitted. Ross notes that there was some confusion as to whether QPid should report or not and has requested that they report next month. AR. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Jim] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Ross] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Rich] See Attachment AT AU. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Brett] See Attachment AU AV. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Roy] No report was submitted. AI: Roy to pursue a report for SpamAssassin AW. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment AW Subversion will report again next month to clarify the handling/deprecation of older versions AX. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Sam] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Greg] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende / Bertrand] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Doug] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Jim] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Ross] See Attachment BC BD. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Sam] See Attachment BD BE. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Doug] No report was submitted. AI: Doug to "offer" to send XMLBeans to the Attic if they continue to not report. Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Tuscany Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Luciano Resende to the office of Vice President, Apache Tuscany, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Luciano Resende from the office of Vice President, Apache Tuscany, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tuscany project has chosen by vote to recommend Jean-Sebastien Delfino as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Luciano Resende is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Tuscany, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jean-Sebastien Delfino be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tuscany, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Tuscany Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Whirr Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom White to the office of Vice President, Apache Whirr, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tom White from the office of Vice President, Apache Whirr, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Whirr project has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Bayer as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom White is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Whirr, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Bayer be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Whirr, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Whirr Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Approve the proposed 2013-2014 Budget (see Attachement BF) Special Order 7C, Approve the proposed 2013-2014 Budget (see Attachement BF), was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Dissolve the office of Vice President, Conference Planning WHEREAS, the board created the office of Vice President, Conference Planning, and; WHEREAS, the board created an officer's committee to assist in the work of Conference Planning, and; WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the office of "Vice President, Conference Planning", due to the overly broad scope of the office; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Nick Burch is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of Vice President, Conference Planning, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers committee to assist the work of conference planning be terminated, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the duties of the Vice President, Conference Planning be performed, as appropriate, by the President and Vice President, Brand Management, Vice President, Marketing and Publicity and the Community Development Project. Special Order 7D, Dissolve the office of Vice President, Conference Planning, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Proposed Resolution to Amend the Procedure for PMC Membership Changes WHEREAS, at the board meeting on the 18th of December, 2002, the Board of Directors passed Resolution [R1], setting out a procedure whereby Vice President positions charged with the management of each of the Project Management Committees were assigned the authority to and responsibility of appointing the membership of their respective Project Management Committees, subject to a 72-hour waiting period after a Director of the Board acknowledges receipt of a notification from the Vice President of the respective committee, and WHEREAS the Board of Directors desires to allow the efficient operations and self-government of of the Project Management Committees; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Resolution [R1] of December 18th, 2002 is repealed, and shall be held to be null and void henceforth, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Vice President positions charged with the management of each of the Project Management Committees of the Apache Software Foundation are hereby assigned the further authority to and responsibility of appointing the membership of their respective Project Management Committees, which will be effective 72 hours after a Director of the Board acknowledges receipt of a notification from the Vice President to the Board specifying the change in membership of the committee, unless a Director of the Board disagrees with the change within those 72 hours, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that each such Vice President may delegate this authority and responsibility to appoint the membership of her or his respective Project Management Committee to that Project Management Committee, as a whole, by establishing an appropriate decision procedure for appointing the membership of said committee, and notifying the Board of this delegation. Subsequent to this delegation, any member of said committee may notify the Board of Directors via electronic mail, citing the archived record of the decision in the Foundation's email archive, and such notification shall serve as equivalent to the notification from the Vice President as described hereinabove. And BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Vice President for Infrastructure shall establish an appropriate policy permitting the grant of the necessary permissions to maintain the official electronic records of Project Management Committee membership to Project Management Committee members as delegated by the relevant Vice President. Special Order 7E, Proposed Resolution to Amend the Procedure for PMC Membership Changes, was tabled. 8. Discussion Items Greg to send out a general note to cover missing information (such as dates of last release and dates of last change to PMC composition) in reports. Hadrian asked for a clarification on what information needs to be generated or produced for an audit. The board directed Hadrian to work with Chris and Jim, and suggested that we make available whatever records we have to the auditor that he selects. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Daniel: Draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle other Apache projects. Status: projects have come to an informal consensus, closing this item. * Doug: follow up with XMLBeans PMC to see if project is still viable. Status: Not done. * Greg: Contact Cassandra PMC to ask for dates on releases. Status: Not done, will roll into larger (multiple project) email. * Greg: Let Flume PMC know that affiliations are not needed in the board report. Status: Bertrand to take over this item, for Flume and Oozie. * Jim: Contact Oozie PMC with comments about affiliations and JIRA queries. Status: Bertrand to follow up on affiliations. No status update on JIRA. * Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: still not done * Ross: Discuss Git "documentation" with Flex PMC Status: completed (now a comdev issues) * Jim: Clarify Infrastructure comment from OpenMeetings report Status: still not done * Brett: find out what ActiveMQ needs to resolve their trademark question Status: Reconnected Hiram with trademarks to resolve the issue. Looks like not much further to pursue. 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:47 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 0: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin / Jim Jagielski] Since this is my first report, I'm not sure exactly what format you'd like it in, but here goes: I've only started tracking/documenting my activities after April's Board Meeting, when I was advised to start reporting. It's been a relatively slow month. * Daily monitoring of all email activity to ensure action items, and follow-up with appropriate personnel on said emails. * I've been involved in the discussions with ConCom regarding the "event-in-a-box" topic. To date, I haven't heard of a confirmed date/time/city that these discussions will be taking place. * I've been monitoring email discussions from Citrix with ConCom and Brand Management in regards to Texas Linux Fest 2013. Citrix wants to choose the silver sponsorship package @Texas Linux Fest 2013 and donate it to the Apache CloudStack project in an effort to increase visibility to the project. * I've been monitoring the progress of BarCamp Boston, and I've been in communication with Matt Franklin and Ryan Baxter wrt how I can be of assistance. * I've been monitoring, and responding to, emails from Elizabeth re Lucene/Solr Revolution Europe 2013, and following up with ConCom to ensure they provided her the information she requested. I also contacted Sally for an .eps of the ASF logo for this event. * I've been involved in email communications with Sally and Sharon (Strategic Account Manager for O'Reilly) regarding the application process for ASF's presence @OSCON as a non-profit exhibitor. * I've been in communication with Steve Holden re The Open Bastion listing me as the community sponsor contact on the CloudStack Collaboration Conference's website. I also brought ConCom and Sally into the email thread to cover all bases. ConCom so they were kept in the loop and to advise me if there is anything else I need to be aware of/doing as part of the "community sponsor contact"; and Sally for Marketing/PR purposes, obviously, and also because TOB are requesting a graphic (which is Sally's forte). Foreseeable activities for May: * Continuing discussions with ConCom regarding the event-in-a-box. * Continuing discussions with Citrix regarding Texas Linux Fest 2013. * Shipping the Apache table skirt and swag to Matt Franklin for the Boston BarCamp. * Ramping up for OSCON 2013. * Continuing discussion with TOB regarding the CloudStack Collaboration Conference. I believe that should do it. Let me know if there is something else I need to do with this report, or if you will incorporate it into your President's report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] No board level issues. For awareness, note that brand may need to request additional funding during the upcoming budget year. This primarily depends on both our ability to secure pro bono services of various levels, and especially how long it takes us to organize new trademark registrations. While I had planned to spend more of last year's budget, it took longer than expected to get balls rolling; however we should roll much faster this year. Amount < $20K, so should not be a fundraising concern. Trademarks has had quite a busy month with more than our fair share of controversies and reported potential infringements from a variety of projects. While I can understand that many of our development volunteers may want to see fast and decisive action on each of their perceived issues with third party use of Apache brands, we need to ensure that our brand enforcement is clear, correct, and effective; this takes time to analyze issues. Notable issues being worked on include branding use around Hadoop, HBase, log4j, CloudStack, OFBiz, OpenOffice, and CouchDB. It is clear both from the number of issues, how they are being brought up, the size and types of companies that they are dealing with, and advice from counsel that we will need to make a number of changes in our brand management procedures. These will include more thorough procedures around how our projects create their brands as well as how people report issues and how the Branding committee deals with issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] Renewals This month has been a bumper crop. We have: * Silver payment from VMWare * Renewal from Yahoo * New silver sponsorship from Budget Direct in Australia * Bronze renewal from Talend * Gold payment from ComCast * Bronze renewal from Liip Last month I suggested a division of labour so that I can focus on the admin side of fundraising. Since then, I have resolved the admin side to my satisfaction meaning I can now focus more directly on sponsor liaison. There are automation ideas floating around, but those can be handled at a later date. ----------------------------------------- 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. The proposed budget for FY 2013-2014 was submitted to Jim Jagielski on 13 March, and we await confirmation of Board approval. Our news dissemination account is being renewed with PRNewswire at the beginning of the fiscal year. Our contract with HALO Worldwide expires on 31 May. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi has been in discussions with an existing Sponsor regarding marketing Apache Top-level Projects, as well as with another organization regarding the ASF Sponsorship and Apache Incubator processes. III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org during this timeperiod. IV. Informal Announcements: 3 items were announced on @TheASF Twitter feed. No new posts were made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed or "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: no announcements are currently planned, although some discussions have taken place with a podling contributor regarding graduation. 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 7 media requests and 2 requests for project graphics/logos (she created new monochrome ASF graphics for a request from an Apache project conference). The ASF received 1,775 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 1,615. VII. Analyst Relations: no formal briefings are planned. Apache was mentioned in 6 reports by Gartner, 4 write-ups by GigaOM, and 5 reports by 451 Research. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: no activities are planned at this time. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally continues to work with O'Reilly regarding our participation at OSCON 2013; we have been formally accepted as exhibitors in the non-profit pavilion. Melissa Warnkin is assisting with booth tactics. X. Newswire accounts: we have 15 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 7 remaining pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account through May 2013 which will be rolled into our balance for the new fiscal year. # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] Completed our budget deliberations including funding for a new part-time position. Purchased 3 new HP switches to replace our aging Dell switches. Cost ~ $4700. Continued discussion of code-signing certificates for our projects. Dealt with some failing/overloaded build machines in our Y! farm. Jan Iversen continued to work on our nagios -> circonus service monitoring migration. 2 disks have failed in loki (tinderbox), we've replaced one from inventory but will need to order more to complete the replacement. Experienced some security / porn issues with the moin wiki and have upgraded to the latest version to assist with controlling the spam. We will be disabling password-based ssh access to people.apache.org in the near future, once the supporting scripts have been tested. Rainer Jung was granted root karma and needs to be added to the formal committee roster. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch] NO REPORT ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] NO REPORT ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] The W3C Advisory Board election process has started. There are 12 candidates for 4 places. Nothing to report this month on ASF related activity. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] Relatively quiet month. Nothing requiring board attention. Longest thread involved determining what constitutes a source release. Impetus was a desire to include third party fonts in svn. Conclusion was that these particular fonts were made available under a Category B license so that they could be made available, but were not the "preferred form for making modifications" so could not be considered source. After determining a small number of issues that need to be worked before we consider signing a new TCK license with Oracle, I had Dan Kulp introduce Aaron Williamson of the SFLC to discuss these issues with Oracle on our behalf. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] For Apr 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. 5 Support question 1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 5 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 12 Vulnerability reports 1 [cloudstack, via private@cloudstack and security@] 2 [tomcat, via security@tomcat] [CLOSED] 1 [tomee, via security@] 1 [ofbiz, via security@] 1 [ACS, via security@ and private@cloudstack] 2 [httpd, via security@] [1 CLOSED] 1 [Santuario, via security@] 1 [struts, via security@struts] 1 [xerces-j2, via security@] 1 [tapestry, 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. The previous board report was in March so this one is slightly early. Activity in Abdera is low but there have been about 20 commits from a couple of committers this year. The last release was 4 months ago. There have been no committer or PMC member changes, its been 18 months since the last PMC addition. No board issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] Apache Ant is a Java based build tool and associated tools o News The EasyAnt project was adopted from the incubator by vote on March 7th. The Apache Ant project now consists of 4 (sub) projects - The Ant Core - Ivy - Ivy DE - EasyAnt o Release Status Ant 1.9.1 is currently under discussion Core --------- Ant 1.9.0 was released on March 7, 2013 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013 Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010 EasyAnt ------------- The current release is still from the Incubator 0.9-Incubating. o Committers and PMC Michael Clarke was added as a committer on April 5th, 2013. o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin] Project Description =================== Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing. Issues ====== There are no issues that we believe currently require the board's attention. Releases ======== There have been no releases this month. The last releases were: * apache-bloodhound-0.5.2-incubating (1st April 2013) * apache-bloodhound-0.5.3 (15th April 2013) A discussion about the next releases has recently begun. Community & Development ======================= No new committee members have been added this month. The last addition to the committee was on 10th April 2013. Bloodhound has submitted projects for GSoC and has put a good amount of effort into encouraging prospective students to get involved and interact on the mailing list. We appear to have four valid proposals from students. In addition to the interesting discussions resulting from GSoC, the dev mailing list has been very active covering a good range of topics. And we appear to be remaining responsive to questions. Post graduation interest appears to be ongoing with some more voices appearing on the dev list. We have also seen bloodhound specific questions appearing on the external trac-user mailing list. Although it is good to see interest anywhere, we have attempted to encourage this kind of discussion to move to bloodhound lists. A conversation regarding a potential 1.0 release has also begun as we have recently made very good progress on the initial aims of the project. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert] Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. Since the last report, we have released Buildr 1.4.11 that fixed a single regression in v1.4.10. We have also just voted for the release of Buildr 1.4.12; this release will contain 5 enhancements, 4 bug fixes and 2 minor changes. 3 of these were contributed by non-committers. The mailing lists remain relatively quiet. Our last committer addition dates back to October 2010. Our last PMC addition dates back to September 2010, though we are currently in the voting process to add Peter Donald (our most active committer in the past 2 years) into our PMC. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski] ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 1.1.10 14/Feb/13 1.2.2 24/Feb/13 1.2.3 17/Mar/13 1.2.4 10/Apr/13 1.1.11 18/Apr/13 Development: The Cassandra committers held an in-person roadmap discussion in San Mateo, CA at the end of February. Besides those based in the Bay area, several committers flew in from out of town. Aleksey Yeschenko and Jake Luciani attended remotely via Google Hangout. General sentiment was that the meeting was a success, but we will try our next meeting entirely virtually over Hangout, both to reduce the travel overhead and to make everyone more of an equal participant. I wrote up notes of the meeting itself at [1] [2] [3]. Community: Marcus Eriksson was added as a committer. [1] http://grokbase.com/t/cassandra/dev/132s40hvm4/notes-from-committers-meeting-overview [2] http://grokbase.com/t/cassandra/dev/132tc8nppj/notes-from-committers-meeting-counters [3] http://grokbase.com/t/cassandra/dev/132s6sh415/notes-from-committers-meeting-streaming-and-repair ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: 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 Latest release was created on 17.04.2013 ACTIVITY Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including: - Update dependencies to wink to the latest release 1.3.0 and remove reference to obsolete jaxrs.testutils. - Update jena dependency to the latest version - Moving ResultSetMessageBodyWriter (a jax-rs provider) from rdf.web.core to jaxrs.rdf.providers module - Forwarding exceptions and replacing obsolete method invocation for index optimization in rdf.cris module Further, works are in progress in various issues on supporting fastlane for SPARQL execution. COMMUNITY Latest changes was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 26.03.2013 INFRASTRUCTURE Transfer of source codes to Git is still in progress (waiting for INFRA) Folders for source code distribution under https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/ are requested (waiting for INFRA) An issue for INFRA is created to merge mailing list archive of Clerezza incubation to Clerezza TLP ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar] Apache Click is an easy-to-use page and component oriented Java web framework. The project is facing issues of having a viable community. Infrastructure ------------------- There are no infrastructure issues at this time. Development ------------------ No headway has been made towards a version 2.3.1/2.4 release. Community ---------------- There have been no new commiter or PMC members added during this period. Mailing list traffic has been higher over the last reporting period. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Chip Childers] DESCRIPTION Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. RELEASES * 4.0.2 was released on April 24, 2013 ** CVE-2013-2756 and CVE-2013-2758 were addressed in the 4.0.2 release * The community is still finalizing our 4.1.0 release. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The 4.1.0 release has been slow in getting finalized, due to upgrade bugs from older (2.x) versions of the software. Issues with the upgrade path is actually helping to inspire some new contributors to engage with the project. * New features continuing to merge into master for an eventual 4.2.0 release, and a schedule has been set for that release. * There has been an increase in commits, merge requests and patch requests that include the test automation requested by the community. * The community is working on plans for the upcoming CloudStack Collaboration Conference (June). * Seven GSOC proposals have been seen on the dev@ list, and we are working to help the proposers in refining their understanding of the projects. * The project has created a security@ list for use in coordinating security vulnerabilities and is working to refine it's security report handling processes. COMMUNITY Including the following additions, CloudStack has 61 committers and 21 PMC members. New Committers added in April: * Bruno Demion * Go Chiba * Clayton Weise * Isaac Chiang * Phong Nguyen New PMC Members added in April: * Prasanna Santhanam The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community: * dev@ 609 subs / ~2600 msgs in Apr * users@ 782 subs / ~800 msgs in Apr * issues@ 109 subs / ~2400 msgs in Apr * commits@ 166 subs / ~3300 msgs in Apr * marketing@ 85 subs / ~260 msg in Apr * users-cn@ ~300 subs / ~260 msgs in Apr ISSUES ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler] Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available platform for RESTful webservices and web applications. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair) Community Traffic on users and devs list continues be light but steady, people got a bit more active around the release to give feedback. Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions. Releases 2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20 after 6 posivite PMC votes. Special thanks to Cédric for his first cocoon release. 2.2 and 3 are waiting for some blocking bugs to be closed to be released. Development Bugfixing on C3 and release on the 2.1 branch. Various tickets and patches had been applied to the code base, Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: One Forrest PMC member did assist to do testing prior to our 2.1.12 release inside Forrest. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende] The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects Project Status -------------- No issues require board attention at this time. PMC changes --------------- Suresh Marru has been added to the Community Development PMC Rich Bowen has been added to the Community Development PMC GSoC -------------- The ASF has been accepted to GSoC 2013, and Ulrich Stärk has volunteered to be our Admin for the program this year. Currently we are in the reviewing students proposal phase, and Google should communicate accepted students by end of the month. Mentoring Projects -------------- We have been discussing a pilot mentoring project with India ICFOSS and we are finalizing the schedule of the program before start recruiting mentors from the foundation projects. This project should be similar to GSoC where students will be matched with ASF mentors and work on projects for a specific period of time, but there are NO monetary incentives for either parts. Other -------------- - There has been various talks about expanding the ComDev responsibilities, such as taking the policy documentation responsibilities from Incubator and handling pieces of event management from ConCom. Most of these discussions started due to overwhelmed PMCs that have grown out of control and have taken a lot more responsibilities that they can handle. Although these discussions are good and should be happening, I want to make sure we don't overwhelm the ComDev PMC with all these new responsibilities all at once. Anyway, this is my particular view, and so far we haven't heard concrete plans to implement these discussed items. - The Community has revamped the ComDev website, with the goal to enhance site navigation and information categorization to users. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter] Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security, and integration with popular build tools and source control management systems. As expected, activity has dropped off after the 1.4.1 release last quarter. A contributor has recently submitted some patches related to the upgrade that would warrant a 1.4.2 release once they are reviewed and applied. User list activity was likewise very low, but questions were responded to. The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013. We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] DESCRIPTION Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API. RELEASES - 1.2.2 (4th April 2013) - http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.2.2/apache-couchdb-1.2.2.html - 1.3.0 (24th April 2013) - http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.0/apache-couchdb-1.3.0.html CURRENT ACTIVITY - Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will add clustering capabilities to CouchDB. - Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the CouchDB admin interface. - Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork which improves the build system. - Work is underway to improve our test suite with a view toward making it more stable. - The documentation donation from Couchbase was merged in and shipped with CouchDB 1.3.0. The docs are also available at: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/ The project is undergoing an expansionist phase. The PMC is focusing on bolstering the committer base, and the committer base is focusing on bolstering CouchDB. As part of this, we are also conducting several restructuring exercises. These include: recruiting more committers, re-enforcing expectations around consensus building and decision making processes, re-evaluating our Git workflow, and switching to regular time-based releases. These exercises are going very well so far. We have established consensus to have GitHub pull request comment notifications sent to the development mailing list. This will be an experiment. Our goal is to increase the visibility of important activity that is happening away from the lists. Our success criteria will be increased activity and attention to contributions coming in from GitHub. We will re-enforce the primacy of the mailing list for development discussion and decision making, and will keep a watchful eye for any issues. COMMUNITY Including the following additions, CouchDB has 27 committers and 9 PMC members. New committers: - Dale Harvey - Wendall Cada - Alexander Shorin - Ryan Ramage No new PMC members. Mailing list stats: - announce - 56 subscribers - 2 messages since February - user - 1456 subscribers - 1,057 messages since February - erlang - 105 subscribers - 14 messages since February - dev - 601 subscribers - 2,006 messages since February - commits - 101 subscribers - 959 messages since February ISSUES No issues for the board at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin] Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Project Status -------------- Creadur graduated from the Apache Incubator in April, 2012. The final handover tasks associated with the first release are now in progress. Issues ------ We have no issues requiring board attention at the moment. Community --------- More traffic on the list, and some interest in one of our GSOC project ideas. Stefan Bodewig has resigned from the PMC. Releases -------- None (yet). The last release happened while the project was incubating: RAT 0.8 released in November 2011. Rat 0.9 has been approved but the announcement is pending completion of final release infrastructure handover tasks. Whisker is waiting to be released. Community Objectives -------------------- * Complete release of Apache Rat 0.9 * Release Apache Whisker 0.1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills] Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Releases: We are currently holding a vote for our 0.6.0 release, our first release since leaving the incubator at the end of February. We have received three +1 votes for the current release candidate from PMC members and expect the vote to pass when voting closes in a couple of days. Community & Development: No new PMC members or committers have been added since our report last month, when we added two new committers. We had a tough month on the dev list, primarily due to a strange and somewhat random Java compiler error that caused Crunch builds to fail consistently in some environments but not others, which was frustrating to debug and caused lots of Jenkins failures. We believe that we have resolved these issues with the latest release candidate and are looking forward to our next release and getting back to working on new features and bug fixes for our next release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen] Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Releases: Last release was created on 22.02.2013 (ctakes-3.0-incubating) Development: cTAKES has graduated to TLP per board meeting on 20.03.2013. The code repo and incubator references have been updated to reflect the new TLP home. The committee is currently working on the next release of cTAKES. Community: No new committers or PMC members are added since last month. There has been an increase in user questions on the user and dev mailing lists presumably indicating more interest in the project and community. Also, one of the contributors recently contributed a sizable update to one of the cTAKES components (Dependency Parser) for the future release. Existing committers have also created a Twitter and LinkedIn account to help the community grow and thrive. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg] Apache DeltaSpike is a portable CDI Extension Library (Java JSR-299). It contains a purely JavaSE based core plus a few modules for JavaEE. Project Status: DeltaSpike graduated 3 weeks ago and we are still in transition (INFRA-6178). This is our first TLP report. Releases: We are currently working on 0.4 release preparations. After that pretty big release we'd like to establish a bi-monthly release schedule. Community: The DeltaSpike community is stable and pretty active. We have regular commits from a handful of people and even more people discussing on the mailing lists. There are a few new people on the list already. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. * General Information Community interest seems to be still alive, a new contribution/merge has been proposed. Not much happening in the ML and in SVN * Releases No releases since we left incubation (last one was in sept. 2012) and still far away from the first one. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere] Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. Project Status During the previous months we have submitted several minor bug fixes and small improvements that we will publish with our next release. The overall code base however is very stable and mature and there has been no demand for major changes. Changes in committers or PMC members After several contributions last year prior to our current release, we have decided to accept Dimitar Simeonov as a new committer on our project. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Latest Release Apache-Empire-db 2.4.1 was released on Oct 30, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: 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. BOARD ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES There hasn't been any new release since becoming a TLP in January 2013. We are still working on the C++ binding, which will become the main feature of the new release. In collaboration with some beta users we are continuing to improve and fix all known issues in the C++ binding. ACTIVITY * Since reporting last month we have seen some new users, using both the C and beta C++ binding. Good discussions on the mailing list. * Community patches submitted last month are still in review. * From a development prospective we are focusing on the C++ binding. It is becoming more mature, hoping we can release it within the next month. COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation in January 2013. * Our committer base is quite small but where are in a good work mode. After the C++ binding becomes stable there should be time to take some actions to increase both user and developer community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar] DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * The last release of Flume was version 1.3.1, released on January 2, 2013. * No further releases are planned at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being logged and resolved. * A total of 111 issues have been filed, and 77 issues have been resolved between the period starting February 20, 2013 and May 6, 2013. * Approximately 1505 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 477 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since the last report. * Committer composition has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 174 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 399 subscribers to the user list - Total of 22 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: Jeremias Märki (jeremias) resigned. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Some tiny activity on the user mail list, where a "status" question was well handled by another PMC member. No activity on the dev mail list. Three other PMC members thanked the efforts of Jeremias. So we know that there are 4+ people hanging around, meaning that we can potentially still make decisions. Nice. Response to my late draft report showed that I can stop squinting. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: One PMC member did assist at the Apache Cocoon project to do testing prior to their 2.1.12 release, by testing it inside Forrest. Bumped some related items in our issue tracker which will hopefully stimulate some developer interest. We still need to follow through and update our use of Cocoon and blocks (especially the FOP block). ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project Status: --------- Releases: 1.0.0 - Will be officially released today. Our first release after graduation! Community: --------- Eli Reisman was voted into the PMC. Lewis John Mcgibbney and Claudio Martella are GSoC mentors. Mailing lists: 168 subscribers on dev 237 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney] The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support. Project Releases The Apache Gora team was extremely happy to announce the release of Gora 0.3 on 8th May 2013. VOTE'ing and the release management procedure seems to be working well for the community and it was great to get the code released. Overall Project Activity since last report Generally project activity has been fairly steady. We have been working towards our 0.3 release with one issue (flagged upstream within Nutch) posing quite a problem from a technical viewpoint. The 0.3 release candidate was initially delayed with the intent of addressing this issue however a decision was made to push the RC and address it in 0.4. The user list has seen usual very low traffic. Our dev list has seen 236, 110 and 55 posts (so far) for the months March, April and May respectively. We've recently seen some contributions and activity from newer community members brought to Gora by Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The Gora community decided to move to Apache CMS for publishing documentation and we are currently deciding on when to push the staging site live. How has the community developed since the last report? We have had some interest (mainly streamed down from the Nutch community) regarding improving Gora for specific use cases and more generally. user@gora has 33 subscribers dev@gora has 54 subscribers PMC members Renato and Lewis are preparing and presenting Gora at this years Cassandra Summit in San Francisco in July. This is another attempt to build Gora out more. We have seen a number of students come forward and propose projects for this years GSoC. This is great news for Gora and we are optimistic about working to make the Gora community better. Changes to PMC & Committers The Gora PMC were very pleased to invite and have Roland von Herget join our ranks on Thu, 7th Mar 2013. Roland also joined the Gora PMC. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr & Hadoop (this is not an exhaustive list). ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon] Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. Project Status: * The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time. Releases: * April 01, 2013 - Hama 0.6.1 has released. Community: * Martin Illecker (Hama Pipes contributor) was voted into the committer and PMC. * Users and Volunteers are increasing, but Development was inactive since the last board report. * Edward is participate in GSoC 2013 mentoring program. Mailing lists: * 94 subscribers on dev * 163 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener] Project Description =================== The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. Issues for the Board ==================== There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention. Releases ======== httpd 2.4.4 was released on February 25th, just before ApacheCon North America, which made for interesting new things to talk about at the conference. httpd 2.2.24 was released on February 26th. httpd 2.0.x has not seen a release since late 2010. It is likely that the next release will be accompanied by an EOL declaration. Bug reports =========== Bug reporting and fixing is going at a steady pace with between a half and one new ticket being filed and fixed every day (68 new tickets versus 63 closed). A total of 193 bugs have been discussed via Bugzilla within the last quarter. Community ===================== There have been no new committers or PMC members since the last report, putting the latest addition of a committer at January, 2013 and the last addition to the PMC at December, 2012. IRC and mailing list activity are steady The online commenting system embedded in the manual has proved quite useful in lowering the bar for feedback. A revamped modules.apache.org is operational. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera] The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols. Status Overall the project remains active. Releases - HttpCore 4.2.4 GA was released on the 25th of March 2013 - HttpCore 4.3-beta1 was released on the 25th of March 2013 - HttpClient 4.2.4 GA was released on the 12th of April 2013 - HttpClient 4.3-beta1 was released on the 12th of April 2013 - HttpClient 4.2.5 GA was released on the 24th of April 2013 Community The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists as well as contributions rolling in HttpCore 4.3, HttpClient 4.3 and HttpAsyncClient 4.0 are moving toward a GA release and presently being optimized for performance ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies] The incubator PMC continues to have difficulties with supervision and reporting, as evinced by set of missing reports below. [1] It's not really clear why this problem has grown worse. Perhaps the previous chair was more capable of harnessing the efforts of the PMC, or perhaps it's the larger number of podlings, or perhaps it's random, or more likely it's a combination of the above. While there is a consensus in the PMC that there are problems, there is not a consensus about what actions to take. Several people have proposed changes, and all of those changes have attracted a mixture of support and opposition. If nothing changes, either at the level of lack of reports and other evidence of supervision problems, or with the PMC's ability to reach a consensus, Benson is going to ask the Board for an agenda item on the June agenda to discuss the situation. On the positive side, the PMC has added several new members from inside the podlings, which is one of the schemes for getting more supervision done. [1] There is some evidence that Marvin failed to deliver some reminders. If true, it is a partial explanation but not a complete excuse. o Community New IPMC members: David Nalley Henry Saputra Hemming Schmiedenhausen Chip Childers Joe Brockmeier People who left the IPMC: jeremias@apache.org Stefan Bodewig o New Podlings jclouds o Graduations: the board has motions for the following: o Releases o Legal / Trademarks o Infrastructure The Wiki outage was a minor disruption. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- Still getting started at the Incubator These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Not yet ready to graduate Ready to graduate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Ambari Blur Curator DeltaSpike Droids Falcon Hadoop Development Tools jclouds Knox Mesos MRQL NPanday ODF Toolkit Onami Open Climate Workbench Provisionr Tajo Tez ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Ambari Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari has been incubating since 2011-08-30. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. 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? How has the project developed since the last report? Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Ambari. Signed-off-by: Owen O'Malley: [ ](ambari) Chris Douglas: [ ](ambari) Arun Murthy: [ ](ambari) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Blur Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. An official Apache Release - currently have a plan for 0.1.5 being that release. 2. Community growth, Blur still needs to grow it's community. 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? - We've welcomed a new PMC Member/Committer. - Subscriptions: user@ - 35[+4]; dev@ - 38[+5] How has the project developed since the last report? - In pursuing an official release, we settled on solidifying and releasing the current code - putting on pause for now a 0.2 version. This should bring a release much faster. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Blur. Signed-off-by: Doug Cutting: [X](blur) Patrick Hunt: [X](blur) Tim Williams: [X](blur) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Curator Curator - ZooKeeper client wrapper and rich ZooKeeper framework Curator has been incubating since 2013-03-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Build community 2. Create a first release 3. Finalize name search/trademarks Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? Outside users are starting to post issues, ask questions, etc. Several potential new committers have been identified. There are currently 15 subscribers on the dev list. There are 18 subscribers to the user list. How has the project developed since the last report? The mentors have continued to educate the committers on the Apache Way and how to conduct a proper release. The initial 2.0.0-incubating release is now very close to finalization. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Curator. Signed-off-by: Enis Söztutar: [ ](curator) Luciano Resende: [x](curator) Mahadev Konar: [ ](curator) Patrick Hunt: [X](curator) Shepherd notes: -------------------- DeltaSpike DeltaSpike is a collection of JSR-299 (CDI) Extensions for building applications on the Java SE and EE platforms. DeltaSpike has been incubating since 2011-12-07. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. 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? How has the project developed since the last report? Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for DeltaSpike. Signed-off-by: Mark Struberg: [ ](deltaspike) Gerhard Petracek: [ ](deltaspike) David Blevins: [ ](deltaspike) Matt Benson: [ ](deltaspike) Jim Jagielski: [ ](deltaspike) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Droids Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 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? There has been no change in the active members of the community. There are enough active people to form a viable PMC. How has the project developed since the last report? Development this quarter has been slow after the flury of development last quarter. The codebase has a decent level of maturity, so a lot of changes isn't expected. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Droids. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Scherler: [X](droids) Richard Frovarp: [X](droids) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Falcon Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Bootstrap the project (source code, documentation, issue tracking) 2. Add new and diverse committers 3. Build and grow community 4. Releases at frequent and regular intervals Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - No How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report for Falcon since its acceptance into Incuabtor. We have requested for infrastructure for bootstrapping the podling (awaiting source control, mailing list and issue tracking) - (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6115). We will look to move the source code and make documentation and easy startup-guide available for users to try it out and collaborate. How has the project developed since the last report? N/A. This is the first report being filed for the project. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Falcon. Signed-off-by: Alan Gates: [X](falcon) Chris Douglas: [X](falcon) Devaraj Das: [ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley: [ ](falcon) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Hadoop Development Tools Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09. 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? - Mirko Kaempf has begun contributing to the project (HDT-21) - Worked with, and established a process for, a contribution from a GitHub.com pull request How has the project developed since the last report? - Tools now allow interacting with HDFS and launching Map/Reduce jobs on Hadoop 0.23.6 - New class wizards that support the "new" mapreduce api Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Hadoop Development Tools. Signed-off-by: Suresh Marru: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik: [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Shepherd notes: -------------------- jclouds A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API jclouds has been incubating since 2013-04-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: We are in the initial stages of setup. Our mailing lists have just been created, and we are waiting for infrastructure to migrate git repositories. 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? This is our first report. How has the project developed since the last report? This is our first report. Please check this [x] when you have filled in the report for jclouds. Signed-off-by: Brian McCallister: [ ](jclouds) Tom White: [X](jclouds) Henning Schmiedehausen: [ ](jclouds) David Nalley: [x](jclouds) Jean-Baptiste Onofré: [ ](jclouds) Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](jclouds) Olivier Lamy: [x](jclouds) Tomaz Muraus: [ ](jclouds) Suresh Marru: [X](jclouds) Carlos Sanchez: [ ](jclouds) Shepherd notes: -------------------- 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. Expand community to include more diverse committers. 2. Align technically with security work going in in Hadoop. 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. Now that we have a release we will be reaching out to those that expressed interest when the project was proposed. 2. Couple of active developers engaging the project on the mailing lists at the moment. 3. Apache ways of discussing on list and other important knowledge being learned and executed by the community. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Completed initial release (0.2.0) via Apache processes. 2. Over 65 issues brought into JIRA. 3. All Knox source code/etc. has been vetted and is in Git. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Knox. Signed-off-by: Owen O'Malley: [ ](knox) Chris Douglas: [X](knox) Mahadev Konar: [ ](knox) Alan Gates: [X](knox) Devaraj Das: [ ](knox) Chris Mattmann: [X](knox) Tom White: [X](knox) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Mesos Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation across cluster applications. Mesos has been incubating since 2010-12-23. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Improved documentation and support using ASF Mesos Wiki. 2. Roll an 0.11.0 release. 3. More interaction on the dev lists besides those from Review Board/JIRA. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The project currently only has 1 active mentor, Chris Mattmann. Chris has been able to get Paul Ramirez and Andrew Hart, both IPMC members, to help mentor as well when needed (e.g., with release VOTE'ing), but it's still been pretty scarce. Chris brought this up to the IPMC in threads before, but it went without a reply. How has the community developed since the last report? Ben Mahler was added as a PPMC member and committer on the project. We've seen an increase in activity on the mailing list. Airbnb has been increasingly using Mesos, not only for Chronos, but also for Hadoop (using our newly written Hadoop framework). There has also been a production engineering meetup where Mesos was presented: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/event s/97563092/ How has the project developed since the last report? The project has moved its source repo to ASF Git per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6065. We need to get our website properly ASF branded. We also need to move towards more discussions on the dev list that aren't shepherded by automated tools (Review Board, and JIRA). This would make it easier to follow conversations, and to encourage new contributors to be able to discuss the code, and its stewardship. On top of the usual bug fixes and reliability improvements, we've implemented resource monitoring to gain visibility into the resource consumption of executors running in Mesos. We are also much closer to shipping a feature that allows the slave to upgrade gracefully (without killing all tasks underneath it). Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](mesos) Brian McCallister [ ](mesos) Tom White [X](mesos) -------------------- MRQL MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop and Hama. MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Expand the development community to include more diverse committers 2. Complete the first release 3. Improve query performance on large clusters 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? We are in the process of completing the infrastructure for the MRQL podling. We have created a new wiki site for MRQL that includes a detailed developer documentation, which includes a guide to potential committers on how to contribute to the MRQL project, gives a detailed roadmap of the codebase, and lists the future release plans. This wiki also contains user documentation of the MRQL query language. We have also created a JIRA site for MRQL. So far we have created 9 JIRA issues, some of them related to infrastructure improvement, from which 6 have already been resolved. How has the project developed since the last report? The existing code has been substantially modified in many ways to facilitate contributions by committers. The codebase now includes a testbed of queries to automatically test various aspects of the system. We are now in the process of refactoring the code based on our coding guidelines and of using maven as our project management tool. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for MRQL. Signed-off-by: Alex Karasulu: [X](mrql) Anthony Elder: [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera: [X](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](mrql) Shepherd notes: -------------------- NPanday NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. work out a concrete plan towards graduation ASAP 2. encourage newer contributors to do so on a continuing basis 3. reach out to other projects using .NET that might be interested in working with NPanday Some new attention has sparked recently around getting support for Mono back up to par, which might help resolve some of the regressions that are in the way of a release. Hopefully some of the newer contributors will be able to continue helping out in that regard. Users have drawn attention to the fact that the home page doesn't list any recent activity. Some effort needs to go into making it clearer of the current status and how to contribute. The existing committers continue to be busy with other projects, but are still interested in seeing the project succeed and looking for new volunteers. We are still short on mentors, and would appreciate any volunteers. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for NPanday. Signed-off-by: Dennis Lundberg: [ ](npanday) Shepherd notes: -------------------- ODF Toolkit Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers. 2. Successfully complete another podling release. 3. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? No new committers added. We stalled in our 0.6 release plans when our Release Manager left due to changing work commitments. A new Release Manager stepped forward and we're currently voting on a new Release Candidate. There has also been some discussion of whether we will ever become large enough to sustain a TLP, and whether it would make more sense to move the code into an existing TLP, e.g., OpenOffice or POI, both of which are related technologies. How has the project developed since the last report? Completed development work for 0.6 release. Along with the usual bug fixes, enhancements in this release include: * Added document encryption support * Added metadata support * Support for OpenDocument-v1.2 * Additional APIs for Simple API Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for ODF Toolkit. Signed-off-by: Sam Ruby: [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch: [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov: [ ](odftoolkit) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Onami Apache Onami aims to create a community focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities. Onami has been incubating since 2012-11-14. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We have successfully performed all votes to graduate. Graduation has not performed, infra issues are still open: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6164 Please check this [ grobmeier ] when you have filled in the report for Onami. Signed-off-by: Christian Grobmeier: [ X ](onami) Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](onami) Olivier Lamy: [ ](onami) 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? We're up to 82% (23) of the initial project members having ICLAs on file and accounts. We've got 18% more (5) people still who have yet to submit their ICLA. Chris Douglas and Chris Mattmann have reached out to Chris Jack and Bruce Hewitson and Chris Jack has submitted his ICLA. We are working on processing his account request atm. How has the project developed since the last report? * Primary development has been moved to Apache from JPL now. * Previously planned development has been migrated to Apache as well via JIRA issues * Cameron Goodale focused on refactoring the core code and breaking it down into smaller functions and objects * Mike Joyce and Shakeh Khudikyan have impressive GUI code on its way to the source. * Suresh Marru working on refactoring source code to use ASF package names * Huikyo Lee now contributing to the discussion on list. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Open Climate Workbench. Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench) -------------------- Provisionr Provisionr provides a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple clouds. Provisionr has been incubating since 2013-03-07. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. release 0.4.0-incubating compliant with the ASF policies 2. develop a community 3. improve support for golden images & cloudstack 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 the project. How has the project developed since the last report? All the project infrastructure has been set up now. Meanwhile development activity has been fairly light so far. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Provisionr. Signed-off-by: Roman Shaposhnik: [ ](provisionr) Tom White: [X](provisionr) Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](provisionr) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Tajo Tajo is a distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop. Tajo has been incubating since 2013-03-07. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make an initial Tajo release 2. Grow the Apache Tajo community 3. Foster more committers Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? * A Seoul Tajo meetup was held April 4, 2013 and Jihoon, Sangwook, Jinho, Jaehwa, people who are interested in Tajo, were present. Hyunsik wrote up a summary detailing the meting, which included an overview of Tajo and briefly mentioning that the roadmap is on the Tajo wiki. Coordinated with ComDev. * The number of subscribers for tajo-dev grows up to 40. * The Tajo official logo is being voted in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAJO-55. * 4 GSoC projects have been proposed. How has the project developed since the last report? * Many Jira issues have been created. * 10 Jira issues, including bug fixs and improvements, are resolved. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Tajo. Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](tajo) Owen O'Malley: [ ](tajo) Alex Karasulu: [X](tajo) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Tez Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects. 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. How has the project developed since the last report? A few jiras have been created and some patches have been filed. Mailing lists for dev, private, and commits are up and running. There have been some JIRAs, Git is up and running and a couple of larger code contributions have been made. Chris raised this as a potential issue. In the meanwhile, moderate-low development is occuring. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Tez. Signed-off-by: Alan Gates: [X](tez) Arun Murthy: [ ](tez) Chris Douglas: [X](tez) Chris Mattmann: [X](tez) Jakob Homan: [ ](tez) Owen O'Malley: [ ](tez) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam] jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR). jUDDI - We are close to releasing version 3.1.5 adding a much improved distribution with quickstart examples, a way to create deployments using different JPA or JAXWS implementations for different target platforms, lots of fixes of bugs found by the work that is taking place on the console. - Traffic on the mailing lists picking up, mostly people starting to use the examples. - a new committer on the project (Alex) is currently working on a console which will be released as part of 3.2 (which we will focus on after 3.1.5) - 3.2 will probably drop support for JDK 1.5. - some new ideas are bounced around for as extensions to the UDDI v3 spec. They may likely get published as part of this project since the OASIS committee is no longer active. Scout - No release this period, not really any development took place. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. Request: wiki enabled on Github. The jUDDI project has a github mirror, and we'd like to have the wiki on github enabled, we use a process where we maintain the docs on the wiki using asciidoc, which can then be converted to docbook and then the html, pdf etc. This or asciidoc support on the Apache CMS (using Gollum?). See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5920. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao] Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems. Development =========== We are in the final phase of testing Kafka 0.8 (supports intra-cluster replication). We have updated the related docs and expect to release 0.8 beta in a couple weeks. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 390, 357, 174 emails in Apr, Mar and Feb, respectively (up from 243 in Jan). kafka-dev has 567, 565, 457 emails in Apr, Mar and Feb (down from 804 in Jan since 0.8 dev is winding down). There are patches being contributed by non-committers. Releases =========== 0.7.2: released Oct. 11, 2012 0.8.0 beta: expected to release in two weeks ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp] The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: No board level issues at this time. Development: No new releases this quarter. Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14 There has been an effort to make a new release. We are currently trying to improve our build system. We use Ant without Ivy, causing some problems in dependency management that we would like to improve. There is a GSOC proposal in for the project. Community: Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists. No change in community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus] Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases - Libcloud 0.12.1 has been released on February 19th, 2013 - Libcloud 0.12.3 has been released on March 21st, 2013 - Libcloud 0.12.4 has been released on April 22nd, 2013 Community * No new PMC Members * Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier] The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open- source software related to the logging of application behavior. - Community Remko Popma joined as a committer. We have received significant contributions from Nick Williams to log4j 2 and will most likely invite him as committer too. There is more community participation around log4j 2 in general. A discussion on the log4cxx lists took place on moving the component to the attic. A couple of users were -1 to it. According to them log4cxx is stable and valuable and should be kept. The idea of forking it to GitHub was not accepted. The idea of forming a new dev team from the community and restarting it at the incubator found some interest. A couple of people mentioned they would be willing to submit a "few patches". However, it seems nobody is willing to take ownership for long-term tasks like cutting releases. In 2012, the Logging project decided on a yearly chair election. The PMC re-confirmed the current chair to serve for another year. In general, the project is healthy and growing again. - Project Branding Requirements All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We are still planning for a new Chainsaw release. - Releases * Log4j 2.0-beta5 (Apr 25, 2013) - Subproject details log4j 1, Companions: less activity, several bugs were reported. log4net: less activity, a few code modifications. Help has been provided on the user list. log4cxx: no activity (see community section). log4php: less activity than last quarter. Chainsaw: still blocked by a Companions release. Companions (for log4j 1.x): a new release still planned. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright] Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been three major releases, including a 1.1.1 release on February 13, 2013, and another major release is undergoing voting right now. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We are voting on a new committer and PMC member at the time of this writing also. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around new committers, release-related communication, and voting. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy] Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build lifecycle. * General Information Maven 1 has been declared officialy EOL. (http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x-eol.html). A security fix core version has been release due to the security issue CVE-2013-0253. Maven core is moving from Sonatype Aether to Eclipse Aether for its 3.1 version: it has the downside of implying some non backward compatible changes for a few plugins. The plan is to first fix those plugins to have them working with the future new core release. We have a usual release numbers of components and plugins (see below). * New PMC Members None this quarter - last added June 2012 * New Committers * Andreas Gudian * Michael Osipov * Henning Schmiedehausen * Releases * Maven Wagon 2.4 (2013-02-11) * Maven 3.0.5 (2013-02-22) * Doxia 1.4 (2013-04-27) * Plugins * Maven PMD Plugin 3.0 (2013-02-17) * Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.10 (2013-02-22) * Maven Help Plugin 2.2 (2013-02-23) * Maven Changes Plugin 2.9 (2013-03-07) * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.14 (2013-03-08) * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.14 (2013-03-08) * Maven Surefire Reports Plugin 2.14 (2013-03-08) * Maven PMD Plugin 3.0.1 (2013-03-10) * Maven Dependency Plugin 2.7 (2013-03-13) * Maven Release Plugin 2.4.1 (2013-03-26) * Maven Compiler Plugin 3.1 (2013-04-08) * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.14.1 (2013-04-10) * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.14.1 (2013-04-10) * Maven Surefire Reports Plugin 2.14.1 (2013-04-10) * Other * ASF Parent pom 13 (2013-01-21) * Maven Parent pom 23 (2013-01-21) * Maven Shared Utils 0.3 (2013-03-08) * Maven Dependency Analyzer 1.4 (2013-03-13) * Maven Indexer 5.1.1 (2013-03-06) * Maven Shared Incremental 1.1 (2013-04-08) * Maven Shared Utils 0.4 (2013-04-10) * Maven Reporting Exec 1.1 (2013-04-18) * Doxia Sitetools 1.4 (2013-04-27) * Maven Dependency Tree 2.1 (2013-05-06) * Security * CVE-2013-0253 Apache Maven 3.0.4 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek] Apache MyFaces is a project of the Apache Software Foundation, and hosts several sub-projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. This report is a re-submission of the report submitted in April. Community --------- * No new Committers * No new PMC Members * No new Contributors The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases, we discuss upcoming topics. -> Community business as usual (nothing special to report). Releases -------- MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report: * MyFaces Core v2.0.17 (01/Apr/13) * MyFaces Core v2.1.11 (01/Apr/13) * MyFaces Extensions Validator (ExtVal) 2.07 (03/Mar/13) * MyFaces Tobago 1.0.40 (04/Mar/13) * MyFaces Tobago 1.5.9 (04/Mar/13) Wiki/CMS -------- * After a discussion about Wiki-Spam we locked http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces (which we don't use actively any longer) by the end of april . * CWiki -> CMS migration (ongoing) Issues ------ There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: 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 "After graduation tasks" are now completed. We have been following the instruction as for http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#transfer We tracked the steps in and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBER-76 that is now resolved The previous INFRA blocker (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5777) about JIRA migration has been solved. All the JIRA issues are successfully migrated. development activity is healthy we started also to implement OpenId Connect and JWT specifications, new contributors are emerging as potential new committers; We have improved our demo webapp module users activity is almost quiet. COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation We have voted one new committer since graduation ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi] Project Description Apache Onami aims to create a community focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities. Onami graduated from the Apache Incubator on April 17, 2013. Since then, graduation has not performed, infra issues are still open, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6164 New Releases No new releases since incubation completed, see above Committers and PMC membership No new committers nor PMC membership since incubation completed. Mailing list activity Mailing lists activity keep healthy, with lower activity in the user@ list Branding For the best of our knowledge, site branding is aligned to requirements. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur] DESCRIPTION Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). NEW RELEASES * Apache Oozie version 3.3.2, released on MAR/25/2013 CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/vf1 (since last report, February 2013) * Branch 4.0, with HCatalog integration, will be the next major release COMMUNITY * PMC composition has not changed since last report. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (1), Cloudera (2), Continuity (1), Ebay (1), Hortonworks (2), Microsoft (2), Yahoo (2). * Committers composition has not changed since last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 105 (-1) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 268 (+23) subscribers to the user list - Total of 13 committers - Total of 11 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk] Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally donated by Sun Microsystems. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no board-level issues at this time RELEASES Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013. At time of writing the release has been approved by the PMC but not announced yet (just waiting for the distribution mirrors). We also expect to release artifacts for version 2.2.1 to the Maven repository in the near future (these will be subject to another release vote as we understand it). The last previous release was 2.2.0 in July 0f 2011. COMMUNITY No new committers have been added since Nov of 2011, although a couple of emeritus committers have showed up on the mailing list in recent months. We hope that with releases coming on a more regular basis, user interest will pick up, and with it we will attract more potential new committers. ACTIVITY There has been significant activity around the release. The 2.2.1 release was a maintenance release of the 2.2 branch. In the time since the 2.2 branch there have been a large number of changes to the trunk code and the QA test code, particularly in regards to concurrency issues, leading to some debate around the confidence level in the trunk code. Basically, we feel that we waited far too long between releases. With the 2.2.1 maintenance release out of the way, the community is discussing how to proceed with release of the trunk code (which will likely become the 2.3 stream). Also, we are discussing a switch to Review-then-Commit procedure on the trunk code (previously we had specified RTC only on API changes, but Commit-then-Review on the implementation code). The discussions have been at times spirited, but generally cordial. There have been some suggestions that we should consider switching to Git for version control. We're watching other project's experiences with interest. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson] Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release. Community Since our last report the community has continued to clean-up the JIRA issue list, make simplifications in the Roller codebase and re-organize the Roller source into a smaller number of Maven modules. Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. There was one new release in the last quarter - version 1.5.4 of the XML Security for Java project was released on the 18th of March. This release was a minor bug fix release. Overall project activity was quiet, with some ongoing work on a new major 2.0 release of the XML Security for Java project. The svnpubsub migration was also completed during the last quarter. Santuario has added a new PMC member in the last quarter - Marc Giger. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada] Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs. Development: RangeSet class[1] was started by Martin D and worked on by Joe White. Resolved a blocking issue with XML prefix mappings [2] An implementation of the ISO 19115 standard (Geographic information --- Metadata --- Part 1: Fundamentals) has been committed in the "org.apache.sis.metadata.iso" package and sub-packages [3]. This implementation contains about 100 public classes defined by the international standard, plus about as many internal classes in support of XML marshalling. Dynamic (read/write) views of metadata property as java.util.Map and as TreeTable have been provided using reflection mechanism similar to JavaBeans. Those views are used today for rich toString() representations, and will be used later for metadata edition in Graphical User Interfaces. Next Release: Release of Apache SIS 0.3 is planned as soon as the following work has been completed (tentatively this month):    * A bridge from NetCDF files conforming to the CF-1.5 conventions,      to the ISO 19115 metadata. This bridge would provides to SIS      users a first "real" source of data they can use with SIS      metadata implementation.    * Complete and test the XML marshalling of metadata objects. This      marshalling shall be compliant to the ISO 19139 (Geographic      information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation) standard. Community: Mattmann was invited to present at at the Geospatial FOSS NOAA meetup right outside of Washington DC. This meetup was hosted by OpenGeo and there are currently 64 members. Harash Kumar is currently evaluating how to to couple SIS and Apache Airavata as part of an ongoing research project he is working on. Apache SIS to participate in Google Summer of Code! Branding: The SIS Website is finally ported to the Apache CMS from the old incubator site. Wahoo! We are now working on getting it cleaned up and looking great! Many thanks to Suresh Marru in helping us get everything working properly. Setup a review board for SIS here[4] Press: The new SIS website is now updated and live. Issues: We were having systematic JVM crash on the Solaris node, while it worked well on Ubuntu. We did not really fixed the problem, but just avoid it for now by forcing the builds to occur on the Ubuntu nodes. We have some ideas about what may cause the JVM crash, which we will try after the SIS release. [1] http://s.apache.org/r1 [2] http://s.apache.org/MJi [3] http://s.apache.org/Qvj [4] http://s.apache.org/fx0 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] * Board Issues There are no Board-level issues of concern. * Community elego is sponsoring a hackathon in Berlin again. Unlike past years, this is being run independent of a paid conference. This will happen next month (June), lasting for a week. The Subversion community has greatly benefited from these hackathons and is looking forward to attending again. We added one new committer (rschupp). Our last PMC Member was added in March, 2012. * Releases 1.8.0-rc2 has been produced for the community to evaluate. We expect the 1.8.0 release to occur in June. When that happens, we will fully deprecate the 1.5.x series, according to Subversion policy. The 1.6.x series will receive only security updates, and 1.7.x will continue receive useful, important, and security updates. Since our February report, Subversion 1.6.21 was released on April 4th (to tigris.org); this was primarily a security release. In addition, Apache Subversion 1.7.9 was released on the same day to fix the same set of security issues. The Security Team helped the PMC with CVE generation, and overall assistance. LATE NOTE: the versioning policy described above is incorrect. Please see subversion.apache.org and our report next month. In short: 1.6.x will be fully deprecated and receive no updates. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco] Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. Status There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Community user@ ML is active, with new users evaluating the project and asking questions: currently 59 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. dev@ ML activity is progressing: currently 50 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. After effort for finalizing new major version 1.1.0, we are preparing to start working on 1.2.0, while providing maintenance fixes for 1.0.X and 1.1.X. We have a new contributor, Bruno Rogério de Moura. Releases since last report * 1.0.6 (Feb 27th, 2013) * 1.0.7 (Mar 26th, 2013) * 1.1.0 (Apr 5th, 2013) * 1.0.8 (Apr 18th, 2013) * 1.1.1 (Apr 29th, 2013) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl] Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. Status The Turbine project has as usual seen low levels of activity in the last quarter. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Project Branding Board Report Checklist The last issue left is - TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. Turbine core project The Turbine core project proceeds slowly to the next milestone release which shall include a modified security implementation and support for the Quartz scheduler to replace the built-in one. We finally committed the site to the location provided by Infra and are now ready for switching to svnpubsub. Fulcrum component project There has been no activity on the Fulcrum sub-project in this quarter. No beta or final releases were made since the last board report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. ISSUES - There are no issues that require the board's attention. RELEASES - None COMMUNITY ACTIVITY - The Tuscany PMC has voted to recommend a new project chair. - Sebastian Millies has been voted as a new Tuscany Committer. - The community has started moving the artifacts from Apache Nuvem as part of Tuscany and the phyton modules have been incorporated into the Native Tuscany. We still need to complete the move of java artifacts. - Traffic hasn't changed much, and continues to be on the lower side in the past few months. BRANDING - We still need to update logos with ™ and review project doap file. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] DESCRIPTION Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects. RELEASES * None CURRENT ACTIVITY * Minimal COMMUNITY * We have welcomed Sergiu Dumitriu as a committer. * Activity remains low on all lists and slightly higher on Stack Overflow. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] PROJECT The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries. We implement the W3C XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and the XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 recommendations. RELEASES No new releases - latest stable releases are: Xalan C/C++ version 1.11 29-0ct-2012 Xalan Java version 2.7.1 27-Nov-2007 ACTIVITY A patch release for Xalan C/C++ is being planned during the summer. A patch release for Xalan Java is being planned after the summer. The GSoC-2012 student is showing interest of more active involvement. There is still a healthy community to do bug fixes. Our projects had a presence at ApacheCon NA 2013 thanks to Steve Hathaway. Michael Glavassevich may be mentoring a student for GSoC 2013. The student from last year is again showing interest to participate. ISSUES There are no issues for the board at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] Xerces-J It's been relatively quiet on the development front. A few bugs were fixed and some JIRA issues were resolved. There were a few students who expressed an interest in working on Xerces-J for GSoC though none of them created a formal proposal. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 125+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of February 2013. No new releases this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010). Xerces-C Several users have asked for the release of version 3.2.0, in order to include the latest fixes (including the support for Visual Studio 2012). A proposal has been made to include support for the XML 1.0 5th edition in the 3.2.0 release. A few users have volunteered to do testing on various platforms. We are hopeful that the new version will be ready in the coming weeks. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 120+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of February 2013. No new releases this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.1.1 (April 27th, 2010). Xerces-P Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period. XML Commons Some minor improvements were made to the JAXP ObjectFactory classes to better align them with similar classes in Xerces-J and Xalan-J. No postings to the mailing list this quarter. Apache Project Branding Requirements There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project logo. General After reaching consensus with the community an admin group was set up for the Xerces Wiki to put an end to the SPAM that was frequently being posted to it. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch] The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. Issues for the Board -------------------- No issues at present. Community --------- No new committers. 1 new PMC Member; Luis Bernardo XML Graphics Commons --------------------- 3 bug fixes committed to SVN. There were no releases this quarter. The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012) FOP --- User mailing list has several questions posted and answered each week. Some new bugs logged and several patches have been submitted and processed. 26 separate commits in total to SVN. There were no releases this quarter The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012) BATIK ----- Mailing list activity was very light. 2 committers from the FOP Team, prepared a patch to allow Batik to load Fonts from a source other than java.awt.Font. This was submitted and reviewed by a Batik committer. Its not yet beenn apllied as this is Work in progress. There were no releases this quarter. The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Proposed 2013-2014 Budget [Jim Jagielski] ASF budget for FY May 1 2013 - Apr 30 2014 APPROVED by the board: ------------------- INCOME (projected) == Interest == Interest income : $3,600.00 == Public donations == One-Time (by chk, etc) : $2,400.00 PayPal ($2000 x 12 mos) : $24,000.00 Car Program LLC : $1,600.00 ($400 x 4 contributions) Category total : $28,000.00 == Sponsorship Program == Platinum sponsors (5) : $500,000.00 Gold sponsors (4) : $160,000.00 Silver sponsors (3) : $60,000.00 Bronze sponsors (4) : $20,000.00 Category total : $740,000.00 == Program Income == Google Summer of Code : $10,000.00 Category Total : $10,000.00 == Unrelated Business Income (royalty, licenses, etc.) == Category Total : $0.00 Income Category Summaries: Interest Income : $ 3,600.00 One-time donations : $ 28,000.00 Sponsorship Program : $740,000.00 Program Income : $ 10,000.00 Unrelated Business Income : $ 0.00 INCOME Total : $781,600.00 EXPENSES == Fundraising Overhead == PayPal (@ ~ 3.74%) : $100.00 Car Program LLC : $ 0.00 Category Total : $100.00 == Administrative == Office Supplies (Sec'y) : $0.00 Office Supplies (Treasurer) : $500.00 President Discretionary : $5,000.00 Exec. Assistant (PT) : $40,000.00 (+33%) Category Total : $45,500.00 (+28%) == Infrastructure == Staffing System Admin : $ 420,000.00 (+17%) (4.5 FT) Hosting : $ 8,216.00 Cloud : $ 2,000.00 OSU OSL (OR, USA) : $ 0.00 SURFnet (AMS, NL) : $ 0.00 Traci.net (FL, USA) : $ 6,216.00 Hardware : $ 65,000.00 (+3%) Replacement : $ 20,000.00 (-20%) Expansion : $ 30,000.00 (+50%) Build farm : $ 10,000.00 Disks/RAM : $ 5,000.00 (-36%) Service contracts : $ 000.00 (-100%) Dell : $ 000.00 Silicon Mechanics : $ 000.00 Sun : $ 000.00 Other : $ 000.00 Misc : $ 1,500.00 Spamhaus RBL : $ 0.00 SSL / DNS renewals : $ 700.00 3rd Party Thank yous : $ 800.00 Travel : $ 000.00 (-100%) 4 Staff+VP @ AC Event : $ 000.00 AC Event food 1 mtg : $ 000.00 Category Total :$ 494,716.00 (+7%) == Publicity == Outside PR Services : $75,000.00 Press releases (prepaid) : $12,000.00 Travel : $7,500.00 Consultant Expenses : $2,500.00 Conference Participation : $1,500.00 Conference Support : $5,000.00 Conference Signage : $4,500.00 Collateral Printing : $2,500.00 Contact Database : $1,500.00 Clipping Service : $5,000.00 Category Total 2013 : $117,000.00 (-0.9%) == ConCom == Local events & hackathons : $50,000.00 Travel : $5,000.00 Discretionary : $5,000.00 Category Total : $60,000.00 == Travel Assistance Committee == Sponsored Attendees (4 events) : $50,000.00 (-30%) Category Total : $50,000.00 == Legal == Discretionary : $2,500.00 Category Total : $2,500.00 == Brand Management == Register key trademarks : $8,400.00 Register project marks : $2,000.00 Register mark ownership : $3,000.00 Category Total : $13,400.00 == Board == Chairman Discretionary : $5,000.00 Conference Calls : $0.00 Category Total : $5,000.00 == Banking Fees == Checks : $ 150.00 Safe-deposit box : $ 75.00 Monthly fees : $1,000.00 Lockbox : $2,500.00 Category Total : $3,725.00 == Treasury Services == Tax Filing : $2,000.00 Online services : $1,500.00 Category Total : $3,500.00 == Licenses / Insurance == Corp. Service Co. (DE Agent) : $ 299.00 D&O Insurance : $1,500.00 Property/Asset Insurance : $1,000.00 Misc. Insurance : $2,201.00 Category Total : $5,000.00 == Shipping == Federal Express / Courier : $500.00 Category Total : $500.00 == Misc. == Category Total : $0.00 Expense Category Summaries: Fundraising overhead :$ 100.00 Administrative :$ 45,500.00 Infrastructure :$494,716.00 Publicity :$117,000.00 ConCom :$ 60,000.00 Travel Assistance :$ 50,000.00 Legal :$ 2,500.00 Brand Management :$ 13,400.00 Board :$ 5,000.00 Banking Fees :$ 3,725.00 Accounting Services :$ 3,500.00 Licenses / Insurance :$ 5,000.00 Shipping :$ 500.00 Misc :$ 0.00 Expense Total :$740,941.00 === SUMMARY === Income Total : $781,600.00 Expense Total : $800,941.00 (+4%) Net Total : $-19,341.00 ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the May 15, 2013 board meeting.