The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes February 19, 2014 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at 10:34 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: Shane Curcuru Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Greg Stein Directors Absent: Sam Ruby Doug Cutting Executive Officers Present: Ross Gardler Rich Bowen Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Sean Kelly Daniel Gruno Phil Steitz Jake Farrell Marvin Humphrey David Nalley Noah Slater 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of January 15, 2014 See: board_minutes_2014_01_15.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] The main topic of discussion on the board list over the last month has been release practices. As it progressed, it was good to see that ongoing operational concerns were handled separately from discussion about how to do more frequent releases within the bounds of current ASF policy. Releasing open source software to the public is one of the most fundamental things we do, so it is important that it is handled diligently. We're getting closer to the time where we need to prepare for the Annual Members Meeting, so I've started to canvas dates. Currently the first week of June seems the most feasible, but I've included a discussion item in the agenda to decide. The ASF received an invitation to participate in the "2014 Future of Open Source Survey", which Sally has taken forward with the PMCs. B. President [Ross] An extremely busy month for me personally which has kept me away from many of my ASF duties. The EA contract was renewed as previously agreed. A new renewal date has been entered into the calendar. With Melissa's help we are in the processes of updating our Director records with CSC. Please note that Melissa is now providing an approximate breakdown of her time. As is appropriate Melissa is in full control of her time allocation, this new reporting is intended only to inform the board for budget monitoring as requested. ApacheCon proceeds thanks to continuing significant effort from Rich. Due to my personal issues this month I have not been as helpful as I had hoped but it seems Rich has, as always, taken it in his stride. See the EVP report for more detail. I am yet to make significant progress on reporting budget vs actuals. The treasurer has provided some initial data exports but I have been unable to find the time to process it. Since I need to create a new budget for the following year I propose to build this reporting into a new spreadsheet that I develop during the preparation of this budget. Trademarks remains very busy and Shane has indicated that he is falling behind a little. I have encouraged Shane to continue to work with Melissa to identify areas in which she can help. I also note that an Member has also offered to help. Fundraising is also progressing well though it is notable that this is taking up a reasonable chunk of both Sally's and Melissa's time. Like trademarks we need to acknowledge this role is not one that a volunteer can be expected to fill. Unlike Trademarks though VP Fundraising appears to have been able to find sufficient tasks that can be handled by contractors. I believe this is mainly due to the less legally sensitive domain. However, I grow increasingly concerned that more support from Officers in managing key sponsor relations is necessary. Marketing progresses with its usual rhythm. No exceptional items to reports. Infra also reports nothing exceptional this month. I do note the ongoing improvement of GitHub integration at the specific request of committers. I engaged with the Cordova PMC with respect to their release process. Initially this engagement was only as a member attempting to help them understand the lay of the land. However at the request of a number of Directors and Infra I subsequently made a formal request (cc board@ and infra-private@) to ensure releases after 2.8.1 are formally voted upon. Joe has been working with the PMC to define a suitable process which does not introduce unnecessary work. I will conduct any necessary sanity checks with the board to ensure the final solution is acceptable. For now the PMC has acknowledged the need to address this issue (see Cordova report) and Joe reports that he is satisfied with progress to date. TAC has, once again, failed to submit a report (and due to my own lateness they have not had a prompt from me). However, Melissa reports progress has been made towards planning for ApacheCon. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] The Treasurer's Office processed repayment for some items related to the Dublin Meetup and also processed payment to NASDAQ Global Newswire in coordination with VP Press, Marketing and the President. The Treasurer and the President identified how a statement of actuals could be provided to the President quarterly. Over the past month, the office has periodically provided information to the EA on sponsors and their incoming payments. We have processed a payment to the EA and set up her new payment amount to reflect her updated contract and raise. The Office dealt with an inquiry from the Apache OOo PMC regarding reimbursements for FOSDEM 2014. We are actively coordinating with Virtual, Inc. to obtain a quote for their financial services. We are working with EA and Nick Burch to handle wire transfer for initial payments for TAC flights for ACNA 2014. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 914,191.62 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,864.39 PayPal: 100,404.09 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 1,302,460.10 Income Summary: Lockbox 50,737.49 Fundraising 10,965.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 61,702.49 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- EA 3,462.00 Trademarks 2,613.75 Sysadmin 31,100.00 misc expense 578.29 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 37.44 ASF credit card - Justin Erenkrantz 50.00 Press 11,545.45 Dublin Meetup 25.44 PayPal 45,312.20 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 94,724.57 D. Secretary [Craig] January was an average month after the December doldrums. There were 60 iclas and three cclas received and filed. The board subscription list received some overdue maintenance. LDAP subscriptions to pmc-chairs have been synchronized with PMC chairs in committee-info.txt. All but three PMC chairs are subscribed to board. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] ApacheCon North America 2014 will be held in Denver Colorado, April 7-9, with tutorials and a co-located Cloudstack event to follow on the 10th and 11th. Since the last meeting, the ApacheCon call for papers has come and gone, and we have, as of Monday, February 17th, selected a schedule of talks for the event, and notified the selected speakers. We are still receiving answers back from those speakers and adjusting the schedule for the people who have declined, or want their talks moved to avoid other conflicts. Members of the Apache community were amazingly helpful in the process of selecting the content, and I think we have a really solid schedule for this event. As compared to years past, the conference will have much more content, with 10 tracks on Monday and Tuesday, and 9 on Wednesday, and the Cloudstack Collaboration Conference on Thursday and Friday. Additionally we have a day and a half of tutorials, and numerous evening events. It is now LF's responsibility to market the event and draw in the registrations. I expect to have a report on registrations for the next board meeting. The lead time is very short, and they have their work cut out for them. Any way that we can help promote the event will be important to augment their effort. Meanwhile, we are looking at venues in Europe for November, with Budapest and Rome being considered. And we are also very tentatively looking at the possibility of doing an event in Brazil, although that is unlikely to be in this calendar year. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report for this month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Chris] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Brett] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Shane] No report was submitted. B. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Doug] See Attachment B C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Bertrand] See Attachment C D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Roy] No report was submitted. E. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Greg] See Attachment E AI: Greg: follow up F. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim] See Attachment F G. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Chris] No report was submitted. H. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Jim] See Attachment H I. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Roy] No report was submitted. J. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Continuum K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Shane] See Attachment K L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Brett] No report was submitted. M. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Greg] See Attachment M N. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Doug] No report was submitted. O. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Chris] See Attachment O AI: Chris: follow up with Empire-db P. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Roy] See Attachment P Q. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Doug] See Attachment Q R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Bertrand] See Attachment R S. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Greg] No report was submitted. AI: Greg to pursue a report for Giraph T. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Brett] See Attachment T U. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Jim] See Attachment U V. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Shane] See Attachment V W. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Jim] See Attachment W X. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Bertrand] See Attachment X Y. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Doug] See Attachment Y Z. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Roy] See Attachment Z AA. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Greg] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Brett] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Shane] See Attachment AC The report was not approved due to lack of detail, and a report will be expected next month. AD. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Chris] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Bertrand] See Attachment AE AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Roy] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Doug] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Shane] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Jim] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Greg] See Attachment AJ Greg: follow up on "typo" AK. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Chris] See Attachment AK AL. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Brett] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Bertrand] See Attachment AM AN. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Shane] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Roy] See Attachment AO AP. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Brett] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Jim] See Attachment AR AS. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Chris] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment AT verbal approval of late report AU. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Greg] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Bertrand] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Brett] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Chris] No report was submitted. AI: Chris to pursue a report for Velocity AY. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Shane] See Attachment AY AI: Shane: ask for an update on sufficiency of PMC members on their next regular report AZ. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Jim] See Attachment AZ AI: Jim: follow up with regard to new committers next regular report BA. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Roy] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Greg] See Attachment BB AI: Shane: follow up with PMC with regard to cordova.io domain name. BC. Apache OpenOffice Project special report [Andrea Pescetti / Doug] See Attachment BC Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to the preparation, evaluation and analysis of massive climate remote sensing and model output data. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Open Climate Workbench Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to preparation, evaluation and analysis of massive climate remote sensing and model output data; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench", be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project: * Andrew Hart * Maziyar Boustani * Christopher Douglas * Chris Jack * Dan Crichton * Denis Nadeau * estani * Cameron Goodale * Alex Goodman * Huikyo Lee * Jason Peter Evans * Jinwon Kim * Michael Joyce * Laura Carriere * Lluis Fita Borrell * Luca Cinquini * Chris Mattmann * Nick Kew * Paul Loikith * Paul Michael Ramirez * Paul Zimdars * M. V. S. Rama Rao * J Sanjay * Shakeh Khudikyan * Suresh Marru * Duane Waliser * Kim Whitehall NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Joyce be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Open Climate Workbench podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Open Climate Workbench podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Marvin Humphrey to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Marvin Humphrey from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator project has chosen by vote to recommend Roman Shaposhnik as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Marvin Humphrey is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Roman Shaposhnik be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Incubator Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish the Apache Spark Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to fast and flexible large-scale data analysis on clusters. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Spark Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Spark Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to fast and flexible large-scale data analysis on clusters; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Spark" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Spark Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Spark Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Spark Project: * Mosharaf Chowdhury * Jason Dai * Tathagata Das * Ankur Dave * Aaron Davidson * Thomas Dudziak * Robert Evans * Thomas Graves * Andy Konwinski * Stephen Haberman * Mark Hamstra * Shane Huang * Ryan LeCompte * Haoyuan Li * Sean McNamara * Mridul Muralidharan * Kay Ousterhout * Nick Pentreath * Imran Rashid * Charles Reiss * Josh Rosen * Prashant Sharma * Ram Sriharsha * Shivaram Venkataraman * Patrick Wendell * Andrew Xia * Reynold Xin * Matei Zaharia NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matei Zaharia be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Spark, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Spark Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Spark podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Spark podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Spark Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache Knox Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to secure access for Apache Hadoop clusters. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Knox Project" be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Knox Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to secure access for Apache Hadoop clusters; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Knox", be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Knox Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Knox Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Knox Project: * Christopher Douglas * Chris Mattmann * Devaraj Das * Dilli Dorai * Alan Gates * John Speidel * Kevin Minder * Larry McCay * Mahadev Konar * Owen O'Malley * Sumit Mohanty * Tom Beerbower * Thomas White * Venkatesh Seetharam NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kevin Minder be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Knox, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Knox Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Knox podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Knox podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Knox Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items A. Select a date for the Annual Members Meeting What availability do other directors and executive officers have? Last week in May would be one year since the last meeting. Ross prefers *not* the first week of June. No holidays are in conflict from Tuesday through Thursday of prospective weeks. May 27 through May 29 is the tentative date. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Greg: email to multiple PMCs to ask for dates on releases. Status: Brett can roll this in with note about committee records * Roy: Update the guidance for releases to forbid shipping binary dependencies within a source package unless their source is also included (see board_minutes_2012_04_18.txt) and communicate to committers. Status: still not done * Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is anything to be done at the "ASF level" Status: * Chris: follow up on bringing on new committers and PMC members to DB Status: * Brett: follow up with Click regarding the Attic or rebooting Status: still not done * Jim: Ask Any23 PMC if they are ready to switch chairs Status: PMC pinged. * Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records Status: tracking, but message still not done * Doug: to pursue a report for Helix Status: report received * Brett: to pursue a report for jclouds Status: report received * Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter Status: * Doug: pursue a report for Mesos Status: report was received * Chris: pursue a report for OpenJPA Status: report received * Bertrand: inconsistency with last committer in TomEE report Status: TomEE PMC confirms last committer was Nov 2013, all good. * Greg: ask for an out-of-band report for next month for Web Services Status: 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:41 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@, treasurer@, comdev@, and board@) and following-up with appropriate personnel ApacheCon: 70% (includes TAC) Very busy month; progressing well - Rich will provide more information Placed a reorder for the "Ask Me" pins and stickers (half of which is being sent directly from the vendor to Michael Stehmann in Germany for OOO's 2014 events, as well as for distributing amongst others in the EU. By doing so, this will reduce our shipping costs tremendously). Researched items for our giveaways (will be placing an order within a week or so) Sent email for a volunteer to edit the website to update the ApacheCon info at the top right of all pages (still reflects Portland info) Sent email for volunteer to create the Speaker Slide Template TAC: Initial preparations made so we can proceed immediately with the planning on Feb 10 after the judges make their decision Fundraising: 25% Updated "Thanks" page on website Sent letter to Craigslist acknowledging their payment Call w/Upayavira on Jan 22 to discuss pending renewals and upcoming renewals. We will be having bi-weekly calls starting on Feb 6 Continuing to follow-up on renewals sent out Sent quote to Produban (per their request) for Silver renewal (not due until Aug 1) Sally (per Upayavira's request) reached out to the Platinum sponsors regarding their renewal and approached the subject of the proposed new "Diamond" level Misc: 5% Sorted FedEx invoice for a shipment sent to Lewis McGibbney and committed to svn for processing Prepared package to Michael Stehmann for FOSDEM (Rich graciously agreed to take with him so we could avoid the $176+ in shipping costs...thanks again, Rich!!) Completed the annual report questionnaire received from CSC. Sent to Ross for review of a couple of missing bits of information Contract renewal - signed on Jan 20 Weekly status calls with Ross and Rich ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] This was a very busy month on trademarks@, and there are a number of open questions still being worked on. There have also been a number of good discussions about clarifying our policies - both for PMCs as well as for third parties - and about improving the Project Independence guidelines. Incubator PMC and trademarks@ was contacted by a third party about our use of the Apache Sentry name for our security-related product. Discussions are continuing. My two talks on Brand Management were accepted for ApacheCon Denver, and also one brand talk at the following CloudStack Collab that week. Phew! The Apache Hadoop PMC created trademarks@hadoop.a.o privately archived mailing list; plans are to use it for better coordination of various Hadoop-related brand policing. Met with counsel for the CLOUDSTACK matter, and met with a representative from UKFast to work on a settlement to ensure our registration in the EU can continue and to ensure that UKFast recognizes our marks. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] At the request of Upayavira, this month’s report is being written by Melissa. Melissa has been continuing to follow-up on the renewals that have been sent out. As a result of her persistence, some that we thought were “dead”, she has revived. We have received a Bronze payment from Cerner. As of the writing of this, we’re awaiting an update from the Treasurer’s office on any new payments. Melissa has reached out to Sam to request the Tax#/EIN# be added to the quotes and invoices. Facebook has sent a Supplier ACH Enrollment Form, which Melissa has completed and sent off to them. In the process of adding “thank yous” to individual donors on the “Thanks” page of the website. The renewals for Yahoo! and Citrix will be going out soon, as they are up for renewal the first week of April. Although we’ve been making great progress, it’s clear that we still have a lot of work ahead of us. I’ve (me, Melissa) actually been contemplating a better invoicing/accounting system to keep track of this. I think it would be in our best interest if we purchase an invoicing/accounting system. We might have to pay for a program, but it would be totally worth it in the long run. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain on schedule and under budget. All vendor payments have been processed on time with thanks to the Treasurer and Operations teams. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi completed Sponsor renewal outreach activities for several organizations, and has secured confirmation from select Platinum-level Sponsors. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org: - 11 January 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Release of #Apache™ #SpamAssassin™ 3.4.0 IV. Informal Announcements: six newsworthy items were announced on @TheASF; one new post was made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed. No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: one project milestone announcement is planned to take place by the end of the month. PMCs wishing to announce major project news, as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator, are welcome to contact Sally at for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 9 media requests, and 2 notifications for industry award submissions. The ASF received 1,519 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 422. VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 2 analyst queries. Apache was mentioned in 17 reports by Gartner, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 13 reports by Yankee Group, and 3 reports by IDC. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is liaising with the ApacheCon producer, with particular focus on communications and sponsor outreach. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally continues coordinating award nominations for a few Apache projects, as well as liaising with the ASF's presence at several conferences and virtual events. X. Newswire accounts: we have renewed our pre-paid press release agreement with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire, and have 17 in our account through the end of the calendar year. We also have 9 remaining pre-paid press releases on the PRNewswire account through May 2014, as well as ongoing distribution donated by Pressat with no pre-established termination timeframe. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] New Karma: ========== Finances: ========== Board Action Items: =================== Short Term Priorities: ====================== * Look into mac build slaves. * Converge on git.apache.org migration to eris. (Step 1 is merge git -> git-wip on tyr) (opinions?) * Investigate / negotiate external code-signing capability, currently in talks under NDA. INFRA-3991 is tracking the status, and a Webex call has taken place. * Complete nagios-to-circonus migration for monitoring. * Continue to experiment with weekly team meetings via google hangout. * Explore the possibility of revamping the infra documents to have a more intuitive feel about them, improve readability. * Confluence Upgrade. Upgrade from 5.0.3 to latest. Hopefully will be less painful this time around. (Support case closed, nothing useful came from it other than check the logs.) * Port tlp creation scripts over to new json-based design on whimsy. * Ensure all contractors are participating in on-call situations, minimally by requiring cell-phone notification (via SMS, twitter, etc) for all circonus alarms. * Explore better integration with GitHub that allows us to retain the same information on the mailing list, so that vital discussions are recorded as having taken place in the right places (if it didn't happen on the ML...). Long Range Priorities: ====================== * Choose a suitable technology for continued buildout of our virtual hosting infra. Right now we are on VMWare but it no longer is gratis software for the ASF. * Continue gradually replacing gear we no longer have any hardware warranty support for. * Formulate an effective process and surrounding policy documentation for fulfilling the DMCA safe harbor provisions as they relate to Apache services. * Institute egress filtering on all mission-critical service hosts. General Activity: ================= * Migrated dist.apache.org from backups of thor to eris. Unfortunately a dozen commits were naturally lost in the process. Thanks to TRACI.NET for providing additional bandwidth for this purpose. * Jira: Jira is now runnning on Apache Tomcat 8.0.0 (rather than 7.0.x). While running on 8.0.x is unsupported by Atlassian, this is providing valuable feedback to the Tomcat community. To mitigate the risk of running an unsupported configuration, Jira is being monitored more closely than usual for any problems and there is a plan in place to rollback to 7.0.x if necessary. * At the behest of committers, we have started working on a stronger implementation of GitHub services, including 'vanity plates' for all Apache committers on GitHub. A method of interacting with GitHub Pull Requests and comments has been completed, that both interacts with the GitHub interface and retains all messages on the local mailing lists and JIRA instances for record keeping. At the time of writing, we have 367 committers on the Apache team on GitHub. We have made a blog entry about this at http://s.apache.org/asfgithub which seems to have reached many projects already. Furthermore, the Incubator has been involved in the development of this, and are thus also aware of its existence and use cases. * The new SSL wildcard was obtained from Thawte earlier this month, and will be rolled out to services very soon. Thanks to jimjag this got the business end of the deal done so we could actually get the cert in before the incumbent expires. * All remaining SVN repos have now been upgraded to 1.8. * Resurrected thor (mail-search) after soliciting help from SMS for on-site repairs. * Amended release policy to provide rationale and spent time explaining the new section to members@. See http://www.apache.org/dev/release#why * Work with Cordova on processing their historical releases to comport with policy. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] We had 26 applications submitted this time. Of those, based on the judges recommendations, the committee chose to accept 15 of these. Considering the tight timescales we've been compressed into, those numbers are actually pretty good. All 15 successful applicants have accepted, and we now have an almost complete set of flight / hotel / conference / dates / etc requirements from everyone. We're working with the travel agent to find the cheapest sensible flights for everyone, probably about half have been finalised now, rest expected soon. As with past conferences, we're booking non-refundable and non-changeable tickets, and we're self-insuring for the event of someone not getting a visa or similar. We're ensuring everyone has their own travel insurance to cover medical costs especially, but also ideally cancellations in case they're ill or similar. We've 5 applicants who need to apply for visas, so these are our top priority. We have however hit a snag with getting the wire transfer to the Travel Agent, so she can ticket the flights we're happy with. We think we'll probably be fine to wait until early next week to ticket most flights, but for next time it'd be good if more people were able to approve transfers with the bank. If the delay looks set to increase, we'll just put more (or perhaps even all) on credit cards. On a related money note, only Gav and Melissa have access to /repos/private/financials/Bills/ to submit or track invoices. It would be good if all of the Travel Assistance Committee could be given access too, since we do generate a fair number each year. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] Relatively slow but steady month. No progress yet on Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) issue. Geir has offered to help regarding conversations with Oracle related to TCK access (renewals as well as new ones). We are operating under the understanding that we still can test against expired TCKs in the meantime. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds arriving at security@ in Jan. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. Some effort was made this month to start to chase some old issues which we forwarded to projects but were there was no visible progress. One of these was escalated to the board after the reporter had no response for 6 months (the discussion was ongoing at the time of this report, but in general the difficulty is where a PMC does not have complete technical coverage of the project, in these cases we should make sure the PMC build a separate security team of the folks who can handle issues. This is in no way an ASF-only issue, we see exactly the same problems with other upstreams including Linux kernel etc.) Jan 2014 1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 4 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 5 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 1 [cordova] 1 [directory] 1 [roller] 1 [archiva] 1 [shiro] 10 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 2 [tomcat] 2 [camel] 2 [struts] 1 [cloudstack] 2 [aoo] 1 [hadoop] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako] Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters. Since the last report in Jan 2013, Ambari released 1.4.3 which included resolution of 238 JIRAs. Mailing Lists: * user@ambari.apache.org: 201 subscribers (+6 since last report) * dev@ambari.apache.org: 126 subscribers (-1 since last report) Releases: * 2014-01-21 1.4.3 * 2014-01-03 1.4.2 * 2013-10-21 1.4.1 * 1.4.4 release vote underway Committers: * 2013-12-23 Added Jeff Sposetti PMC: * 2013-11-20 Added 37 initial PMC members upon establishing TLP Issues: * There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It consists of 4 main projects: - Ant core and libraries (Antlibs) - Ivy - Ant based dependency manager - IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse - EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes o Release Status Core --------- Ant 1.9.3 was released on December 29, 2013 Ant Compress Antlib 1.4 was released on January 29th 2014 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013 Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013 A release candidate has been proposed for Ivy 2.4.0 but is not yet available. EasyAnt ------------- The current release is still from the Incubator 0.9-Incubating. o Committers and PMC Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013 Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013. o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert] ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 2.0.3 25 Nov 13 1.2.12 25 Nov 13 1.2.13 20 Dec 13 2.0.4 30 Dec 13 1.2.14 3 Feb 14 Development: Work on 2.1 continues. User-defined types [1] and collection indexing [2] are complete, and internal optimization is ongoing: we have added a persistent, atomic b-tree that saves 60% heap space compared to SnapTreeMap [3]. Community: The January 2014 Cassandra Summit Japan [4] [5] saw about 100 attendees, a small increase over December 2012. About 2/3 of the audience were running Cassandra in production. There was widespread agreement that the English language is the largest barrier to Cassandra use in Japan, and growth will not take off until Japanese documentation is available. Mikhail Stepura was added as committer 16 Jan 2014. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511 [3] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree;f=src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/btree;h=20bf514a69d2ba368adea16388670b7b2ee257bf;hb=HEAD [4] http://b-rabbit.jp/cassandra/cstk2014/ [5] http://d.hatena.ne.jp/oranie/20140127/1390798275 ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: 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 (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013 ACTIVITY Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including: - Storage Provider: - Integration of Virtuoso: improved bnode handling, improved handling of very long literals and literals with non-ascii characters - SPARQL - Bug fix of SPARQL PreParser - Improved SPARQL engine by acquiring read locks to prevent Concurrent Modification Exception - Replaced deprecated TcManager method for SPARQL queries - Improved error reporting in processing InfoDiscobit - Improved graph management (added delete graph functionality) - New editor to fix webpage, support graph assert/revoke in various serializations in editor backend - Improved JenaSerializerProvider to get a readlock before serializing graphs - Fixed encoding issue with SRenderlets/XmlResult - Continue creation of various Karaf features and Sling Launcher PartialBundleLists to ease usage of Clerezza functionalities in other projects COMMUNITY Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013 INFRASTRUCTURE - Source codes have been migrated to Git - Jenkins configuration fixed - Webpages require update. Minor update to the download section as requested by sebb@apache.org has been made (removing link to snapshot version) ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar] ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: 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. Some users asked about different issues in the different versions of cocoon. Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions. David Crossley pointed out that I was not subscribed to the board mailing which I fixed. Further I updated irs-disclosures.txt to my best knowledge however Simone had not been in this doc so I used a approx. date. Releases 2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20. Development None Security issues reported:  None. Progress of the project:  We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 and cocoon 2.2 but still no committer has stepped up yet to do so. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende] ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API. Releases No releases in this time period. Release has been blocked on a number of issues, but is actively being worked on. Recent Activity - Number of the core devs met in Vienna to discuss the pending merges. - Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork. - Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant. - Created a replication list to discuss specific replication topics. - New marketing list about to be created for new marketing team. - Confluence wiki set up, and migration being planned. - Review Board instance set up, and discussion about review ongoing. - Translation work going well. - Community-provided packages added for Ubuntu Precise and upcoming Trusty release. - Community Including the following additions, CouchDB has 31 committers and 9 PMC members. New committers: Nick North No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012. Mailing list stats: announce - 151 subscribers (+20) - 1 message since May (-1) user - 1405 subscribers (-26) - 1086 messages since May (+280) erlang - 154 subscribers (+8) - 14 messages since May (-8) dev - 602 subscribers (-4) - 1977 messages since May (+1097) commits - 104 subscribers (-1) - 2735 messages since May (+1694) l10n - 31 subscribers (+10) - 207 messages since May (+104) replication - 47 subscribers - 35 messages since May Issues None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin] ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg] Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which are missing in the CDI core spec. DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers! DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans. Project Status: Bugfixing goes on in the current code base. Community is stable and active. Gerhard Petracek will present DeltaSpike on the JavaLand conference. Releases: last release: deltaspike-0.5 on 2013-09-11. As the JSF-integration module is now pretty much production ready we will probably ship 1.0 pretty soon. Community: Last Committer: Thomas Andraschko (tandraschko) on 2013-12-14 Mailing list activity was high and we had many different committers contributing to our jsf module improvements. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: 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. Progress of the project The last three months have been quite calm, nothing specific to mention. Changes in committers or PMC members There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last months. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases NONE ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: 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 * Apache Etch 1.3.0 was released on September 26, 2013. ACTIVITY * We have had some users on the lists but activity on the mailing list is still rather low. * We got some patches for the cpp-binding from external contributors which have been merged. COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation in January 2013. * Our committer and user base is still quite small. We were able to get exactly three PMC votes for the last release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: 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 1.4.0, released on July 2, 2013. * Discussions around the next release are currently underway. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being logged and resolved. * A total of 76 issues have been filed, and 37 issues have been resolved between the period starting November 2, 2013 and January 29, 2014. * Approximately 1135 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 289 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the project on September 24, 2013. * No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it graduated from Incubator. * Currently there are: - Total of 226 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 523 subscribers to the user list - Total of 24 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: 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: None. 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. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was me doing a few issue tracker comments to show people some easy things that they could do to help the project to move forward. We received a request from a maintainer endeavouring to enable the Homebrew package manager to handle Forrest, beyond their current workaround. I did explain to our project what needs to happen. There has been no response. The project was asked to review our situation regarding the recently revised branding guidelines. No-one commented that they have done so. At this quarter, eight PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. The draft report did re-start a small discussion on private@ list about the state of the project. People were reminded about the outcome of the last time that this arose, i.e. it is okay for the project to be quiet, as long as it is still able to make decisions. People were asked to make effort on the dev mail list, and to assist with project tasks, and reminded about the need for a release. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Enabled per-project configuration of Cocoon error handling. Updated our JSch supporting product. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: 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 last release of Gora (0.3) was on 8th May 2013. Overall Project Activity since last report Project activity has been good. We've received a number of contributions from non-pmc/committers which is really positive. Work is ongoing on GORA_94 a branch of the trunk code which focuses on a long-overdue upgrade of our legacy Avro dependencies from 1.3.3 to 1.7.X. As this is a major undertaking therefore once this is addressed we will be pushing a release candidate for 0.4. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Apostolos Giannakidis as PMC member and committer on 2014-01-17 (yyy-mm-dd). How has the community developed since the last report? Shadowing overall project activity the community mailing lists and Jira have seen contributions from new faces and new names. This is very positive for the project showing that people are not only using Gora but are keen to engage in development. Mailing list numbers are as follows user@: from 49 --> 57 dev@: from 60 --> 64 commits@ from NA --> 26 Changes to PMC & Committers Apostolos Giannakidis joined as PMC member and committer on 2014-01-17 (yyy-mm-dd). Apostolos is the second GSoC student who has been VOTE'd by the Gora PMC to join our ranks. Sebb kept us on our toes during the board@ 72hr NOTICE period so thank you to him for that. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop, Any23 & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon] Apache Hama is a 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. Releases The last release of Hama (0.6.3) was on 11th October 2013. Overall Project Activity since last report Traffic on the lists is stable, and we're continuously receiving contributions and questions from new users and committers. Developers are working on scalability issues. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013 The last committer addition: Sep 9, 2013 How has the community developed since the last report? No significant difference since the last report. dev@ subscribers: from 94 -> 97 (+3 since last report) user@ subscribers: from 173 -> 176 (+3 since last report) ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna] Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault tolerance and elasticity. Development =========== Fixed minor bugs and added new features. - Initial provisioning work to integrate with Resource managers like YARN and Mesos - Controller pipeline performance improvements. - Task framework for tasks associated with resources - Design and initial code for monitoring with Helix - Atomic API to support admin operations like cluster creation etc. - 150 new JIRAS since last report. - 220 issues resolved. - Redesigned website. Added version specific docs. - Completed most of the work related to graduation Community ========= - 550+ emails on the dev list - 100+ emails on the user list Releases ========= - Released 0.6.2 with critical bug fixes and security patches. [Stable] - Released 0.7.0 with new high level api. [Alpha] - Plan to release 0.7.x stable version. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: 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 ======== We've had one maintenance release of each in-service stream since the last reporting period: * 2.2.26 was released Nov 18, 2013 * 2.4.7 was released Nov 25, 2013 Bug reports =========== 185 bugs had activity, 81 new, 90 resolved. Community ===================== Yann Ylavic and Mike Mrumph were accepted as new committers. IRC and mailing list activity is steady. Development activity is relatively low. There has been a hint of interest in SPDY and HTTP/2.0 and how we could adjust our architecture. A few interesting netcraft posts came out in this period, but not much community discussion on them yet. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: 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 - HttpComponents 4.3.1 GA was released on the 28th of December 2013 - HttpClient 4.3.2 GA was released on the 21st of January 2014 Community - Gary Gregory was voted into the PMC on the 27th of Jan 2014. - The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey] The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are 36 podlings currently under incubation. * Community New IPMC members: Suresh Srinivas Carl Steinbach People who left the IPMC: Dennis Lundberg * New Podlings (None) * Graduations The board has motions for the following: Open Climate Workbench At time of writing, graduation votes were underway for the following: Knox Spark * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: Jan 21 Apache Metamodel 4.0.0-incubating It took 9 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive. Release RC VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Metamodel 4.0.0-incubating Dec 12 Dec 21 9 * IP Clearance * Salesforce donated the code for Phoenix, an open source SQL query engine for Apache HBase, a NoSQL data store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying and managing HBase tables using SQL. * Miscellaneous * The issue of how best to integrate with GitHub is a recurring topic of discussion. Infra added a new feature -- forwarding of comments on pull requests to dev lists -- which was well received. However, as GitHub's interface is an external commercial service rather than something we run on our own hardware, it is difficult to ensure that communications will be archived, requiring additional vigilance from PMCs. * A proposal for Hoya, an application to deploy and manage existing distributed applications in a YARN cluster, was discussed at length but has not yet been voted on. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator DataFu * Not yet ready to graduate No release: Hadoop Development Tools log4cxx2 Phoenix Usergrid Community growth: Blur Tez Twill Low activity: Droids * Ready to graduate Open Climate Workbench Knox * Did not report, expected next month BatchEE DeviceMap NPanday Sirona ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Blur DataFu DeviceMap Droids Hadoop Development Tools Knox log4cxx2 Open Climate Workbench Phoenix Tez Twill Usergrid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- 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. We received the Trademark assign document from trademarks@ and are pursuing getting it signed by Near Infinity. 2. Another Release 3. Another Release 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? We continue to be small but active. - Subscriptions: user@ - 54[+3]; dev@ - 61[+1] How has the project developed since the last report? The majority of effort has been around bug fixes that were needed. The code is now solid and tested at scale now so we anticipate a bug fix release soon. Date of last release: 2013-10-09 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-08-30 Signed-off-by: [ ](blur) Doug Cutting [X](blur) Patrick Hunt [X](blur) Tim Williams -------------------- DataFu DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce. DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Building ASF community 2. Release 3. Remaining incubator paperwork 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? Since initial incubation, have received contributions from two new contributors. How has the project developed since the last report? First report. Have obtained all the necessary infra (git/jira/wiki,etc). Thirty JIRAs have been opened, 14 have been closed. Active discussion on mailing list as to community development, etc. Date of last release: None. First month of incubation. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None. First month of incubation. Signed-off-by: [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning Shepherd/Mentor notes: Dave Fisher (wave): New community to the incubator just getting started. Good guidance from Mentors. Needs Apache trademark attribution on site. Should have links to Mailing lists on the site. -------------------- DeviceMap Shepherd/Mentor notes: Marvin Humphrey (marvin): A draft report was posted to the DeviceMap mailing list on Friday February 7th for review, but it was never added to the official report. -------------------- 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, beside the real low traffic on mailing list and source code commits. How has the community developed since the last report? No changes to community. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has been very quiet / dormant for the past half year. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [X](droids) Thorsten Scherler [X](droids) Richard Frovarp Shepherd/Mentor notes: John Ament (johndament): Droids is a long standing podling, with a robust code base but without much need for frequent releases. I think graduating into an existing TLP (not their own TLP) would be a good resolution, it helps avoid some of the over head of many binding votes to carry on while still maintaining an area to work in. The people working on droids were fast to respond and give feedback on what's happening, but like is mentioned the list is not very active (in the past 6 months, the main conversations going on were around status of the project). -------------------- Hadoop Development Tools Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09. 1. we have to finish the release of version 0.0.1, the main issue being resolving source and binary license and notice files. 2. we have to define and implement an effective approach to manage the "client connections" to multiple clusters. 3. Build 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? - Srimanth Gunturi joined as committer and PPMC member How has the project developed since the last report? - Two additional 0.0.1 release candidates as we worked through issues - Jenkins job setup Date of last release: - None When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - November 2013 Signed-off-by: [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik Shepherd/Mentor notes: Dave Fisher (wave): I don't see any on dev list activity since their release in November was held up due to dependency issues and LICENSE issues. Are these guys talking somewhere else? -------------------- 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. Review and complete all graduation readiness items. 3. Begin the process! 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. Two new committers added. 2. More user questions on user list trickling in. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Internally agreed to being graduation processes. 2. Working toward a 0.4.0 release. 3. A few IP issues found and resolved. 4. Resolved 142(+42) of 242(+52) total issues currently in JIRA. Date of last release: 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-12-19: Added Vladimir Tkhir as new committer 2013-12-19: Added Maksim Kononenko as new committer Signed-off-by: [ ](knox) Owen O'Malley [X](knox) Chris Douglas [ ](knox) Mahadev Konar [X](knox) Alan Gates [ ](knox) Devaraj Das [ ](knox) Chris Mattmann [X](knox) Tom White -------------------- log4cxx2 Logging for C++ log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. We probably need to decide what's an acceptable platform/compiler list, sort out any remaining hiccups, and then move towards a release. 2. We need to publish the project site with updated content to reflect the new status and fix documentation bugs. 3. We need to make a broader use of the ASF infrastructure (notably the CI, as well as improved management of the Jira site - notably with triaging), and establish a roadmap for the next releases. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We are stuck on INFRA-7209 and how to properly publish the project site. How has the community developed since the last report? The committers are still getting acquainted with each other and the foundation. There have been some discussions about how to develop within the team of committers already, like using a CI, how to deal with issues regarding a changelog, which fixes should be covered by our first incubation release etc. Moderation of the list seems to work, there were some support requests which were answered and problems introduced by commits on trunk discussed. How has the project developed since the last report? Some known bugs were fixed already and available patches applied, which is work in progress for the new release. It has been suggested to schedule most of the remaining available patches for an upcoming release of 0.11.0 to include as much content which has been provided over the years as possible. Date of last release: 2008-04-03 was the official, pre-incubation 0.10.0 Many post-0.10.0 commits exist on trunk which we intend to get out as 0.11.x. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? N/A Signed-off-by: [X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier [ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy -------------------- Open Climate Workbench Shepherd/Mentor notes: Justin Mclean (jmclean): Report not submitted. Project is up for graduation at board meeting. -------------------- Phoenix Phoenix is an open source SQL query engine for Apache HBase, a NoSQL data store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying and managing HBase tables using SQL. Phoenix has been incubating since 12/11/2013. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1) Perform initial release out of apache incubator followed up quickly by two new releases 2) Make our customers successful and prove value of Phoenix+HBase over other alternatives 3) Attract new committers to the project Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The below is informational for the IPMC (no need to forward the board): We've been waiting for our Github issues to be imported into our Apache JIRA but it is taking a while. We're considering doing the import ourselves, as we're starting to see duplicate JIRAs and continue to have to point users back to our old Github issues. [[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7179|INFRA-7179]] How has the community developed since the last report? We've cut over from our former Github-based open source project to our new Apache home and dev and user lists are busy. No new committers. How has the project developed since the last report? * Apache Brand Management has ok'd our name of Apache Phoenix [1] * IP Clearance is nearly complete: software grant has been submitted and acknowledged. Vote is underway and will close on 2/8. IP-CLEARANCE note has been posted on general. * Reviewing proposed release on dev list and if all looks good, will start a vote for our first release next week. * Working in parallel toward a new 3.0.0 release as well. Date of last release: No release yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new committers or PMC members. 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-44?filter=-2 Signed-off-by: [x](phoenix) Lars Hofhansl [X](phoenix) Andrew Purtell [X](phoenix) Devaraj Das [ ](phoenix) Enis Soztutar [X](phoenix) Steven Noels -------------------- 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. Growing the community 2. 3. 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? No new PPMC members or committers added since the last report. We have had interest from both new users and contributors via mailing lists and JIRA. The Hive project recently merged its native support for Tez into their trunk branch. The Pig community is also working on integrating Tez and we have seen various JIRAs filed as well as some patches from Pig developers. How has the project developed since the last report? Since the first week of November, 2013 (last report), we have had around 180+ jiras filed and 130+ jiras resolved. We made the first release of Tez ( version 0.2.0 ) in the first week of December, 2013. There is currently ongoing work to make Tez work on a secure Hadoop cluster, after which we plan to do a 0.3.0 release. Date of last release: 2013-12-03 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? At project incubation. No new PPMC members or committers added since the last report. Signed-off-by: [ ](tez) Alan Gates [ ](tez) Arun Murthy [X](tez) Chris Douglas [ ](tez) Chris Mattmann [x](tez) Jakob Homan [ ](tez) Owen O'Malley -------------------- Twill Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of developing distributed applications. Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14. Top three items to resolve before graduation: - More committers from different organizations. - Regular Releases. - Increase adoption. 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? - Activity on the dev list up from 141 messages in December to 173 in January. - Subscribers to the dev list up from 24 to 31. - One new contributor in January. How has the project developed since the last report? - IP clearance was completed. - Web site is up and running. - First release is currently under vote on the incubator list. Date of last release: - First release is under vote and expected to happen 2/6/14. What are the plans for the next period? - Establish a cadence of monthly releases - Engage more members of the community to contribute actively - Improve documentation and website When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - No new committers since incubation. Signed-off-by: [ ](twill) Vinod K [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy [X](twill) Tom White [X](twill) Patrick Hunt [ ](twill) Andrei Savu Shepherd/Mentor notes: Roman Shaposhnik (rvs): A brand new community off to a good start -------------------- Usergrid Usergrid is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (“BaaS” or “mBaaS”) composed of an integrated distributed NoSQL database, application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers looking to rapidly build web and/or mobile applications. Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Learning the Apache Way 2. Growing a diverse community 3. Getting project infrastructure and codebase setup at Apache 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? - A couple of new names have appeared on dev@usergrid which is positive. How has the project developed since the last report? - Have imported JIRA issues from pre-Apache project JIRA - Work is continuing on a new "Core Persistence" module - Almost done with Java package renaming to org.apache.usergrid Date of last release: - No releases yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - Alex Karasulu, January 13, 2014 Signed-off-by: [ ] (snoopdave) Dave Johnson [X] (jfarrell) Jake Farrell [X] (jim) Jim Jagielski [X] (lewismc) Lewis John Mcgibbney [ ] (lresende) Luciano Resende ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer] A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API. Project Status -------------- jclouds was confirmed as a TLP in October 2013 and has carried out two successful releases (1.6.3 and 1.7.0) since then. The developer and user community is active, with a sustained number of improvements being contributed by users. The PMC has recently discussed how to encourage some of these users to become committers and is actively reaching out to grow the committer base. Community --------- ''When was the last committer voted in?'' 2013-08-08 (Zack Shoylev) ''When was the last PMC member added?'' 2013-04-29 (initial composition of the PMC when jclouds entered the incubator) There is regular activity on both the user and dev lists. Responses to questions are generally fast, with multiple community members contributing. Community Objectives -------------------- What are the projects main plans and expectations for the community in the next period? * Growing the committer base by encouraging regular contributors * Encouraging involvement and contributions by vendors of supported providers * Improving the user and new developer experience through revamped documentation * "Freshening up" the project's image via a new site design * Finishing ongoing architectural changes in preparation for the next major version Releases -------- Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter? * 1.6.3 (2013-11-30) * 1.7.0 (2013-12-23) * 1.7.1 (2014-02-11) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: 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 - Very low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter. - Release 3.2.0. For full announcement see http://apachejuddi.blogspot.com/2014/02/juddi-320-released-now-with-full-gui.html. Scout - No release this period, not really any development took place. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree) Last Release jUDDI-3.2.0, Feb 5, 2014 There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: 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 released Kafka 0.8.0 and have since improved existing admin tools. An 0.8.1 release branch has been created and we intend to release 0.8.1 in a few weeks. We are actively working on a new version of the producer client, which provides better performance and a cleaner api. After that, we expect to rewrite the consumer client for the same reasons. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 538, 461, 436 emails in Jan, Dec and Nov, respectively (slightly less than 582 in Oct). kafka-dev has 540, 509, 540 emails in Jan, Dec and Nov (slightly less than 581 in Oct). At least one Kafka talk is submitted to ApacheCon 2014. We last elected two committers in Oct. 2013. Releases =========== 0.8.0 was released on Dec 3, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: 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 Community: Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: 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 0.14.0 has been released on January 22nd, 2014 - Libcloud 0.13.3 (security release) has been released on December 31st, 2013 - Libcloud 0.14.0-beta3 has been released on November 25th, 2013 Community - Brian Curtin joined as a committer on November 25th, 2013 - Latest PMC addition - John Carr On August 4th, 2013 - I (Tomaz Muraus) have attended CloudStack Collaboration conference in Amsterdam in November where we had good collaboration with CloudStack people Miscellaneous - We have launched a new website - https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2014/01/23/welcome-to-the-new-website.html - We have issued a security release for CVE-2013-6480 (https://libcloud.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2013-6480) in December. The security release was out on the same day that the security issue has been reported. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: 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. Currently there are no issues, which require the board’s attention. - Community Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall community is healthy and friendly. We expect to add new committers in the coming weeks. Log4j2 talks were submitted to the ApacheCon US CFP. Log4cxx returned to the incubator and was active for a few weeks. A Chainsaw release is currently blocked because we don't have access to a code signing certificate. We consider this very important for Chainsaw. Our Infra request showed that other projects need access to that certificate as well, like: OpenOffice, jUDDI, Tomcat. The ticket is unresolved since 05/Oct/2011: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991 In general, the project is healthy and growing. - Project Branding Requirements All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We are still planning for a new Chainsaw release. - Last three community changes * Remko Popma joined the PMC on Sep 28 2013. * Dominik Psenner joined the PMC on Jun 03 2013. * Nick Williams joined as a Committer on May 11 2013. - Releases * Log4j Extras 1.2.17 (Oct 20, 2013) * Log4j 2.0-beta9 (Sep 21, 2013) * Log4net 1.2.12 (Sep 13, 2013) - Subproject summaries Log4j 2: Very active. We are discussing a new beta or release candidate and the GA release. Log4j 1: Almost no activity. Log4net: Less active, but healthy and maintained. Log4cxx: Returned to the incubator, very active since then. Log4php: Less activity. Chainsaw: The ticket INFRA-3991 is blocking a new release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: 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 five major releases, including a 1.4 release on October 28, 2013, and a point release 1.4.1 on November 16, 2014. A new major release (1.5) is being voted on at this time. Committers and PMC membership ======================== The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Other contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these encounters took place in September. We are still not entirely sure why people who are obviously interested and to some degree committed to the project seem unwilling to become full committers. I suspect that corporate restrictions make this a challenge in some cases. Also, we seem to be interacting more with contractors than with employees recently, and it may well be that contractors have less interest in a long-standing relationship with our project. Nevertheless, we have rumors of significant contributions being prepared by at least three individuals; if any of these contributions are made, then we will likely offer the individuals involved committerships. 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 voting, extensions to the SharePoint connector, people looking for integration advice, etc. ManifoldCF also participated in Google Summer of Code, and MCF committers mentored one student developer through end of September 2013. External contributions and even committer contributions have been significant this quarter, despite heavy workload among most of the committer community. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== None. 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. We have not yet scheduled time to address this issue. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank] Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data. Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the Incubator in November 2013. The first maintenance release (3.0.1) was published this month, the next major release is currently blocked by an incompatible transitive dependency (LGPL). Traffic on the lists is stable. Especially users@marmotta.a.o shows promising engagement, we are receiving contributions from users after questions on the list. Subscribers to the projects mailing list: dev@marmotta.a.o: 60 subscribers (+2 since last report, 2014-01) users@marmotta.a.o: 66 subscribers (+5 since last report, 2014-01) Releases 2014-01-21 (3.0.1) 2013-10-03 (3.1.0-incubating) Committers & PMC Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21) Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24) Issues for the Board There are no Board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman] Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation across cluster applications. ## General ## The state of the project seems healthy, lots of releases (5 since the last board report) and continued adoption plus mailing list and development contributions. ## Releases ## * Apache Mesos 0.14.0 (2013-10-09) * Apache Mesos 0.14.1 (2013-10-09) * Apache Mesos 0.14.2 (2013-11-03) * Apache Mesos 0.15.0 (2013-11-25) * Apache Mesos 0.16.0 (2013-01-23) ## Community ## * Added 2 new committers and PMC members: Jie Yu (jieyu) on 2013-01-25 Yan Xu (shortly after becoming a committer he had a baby so he hasn't gotten an Apache account yet!) * 164/117 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days. * 78/49 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days. * 115 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (January - February), with 2188 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from Review Board and JIRA). * Sharethrough hosted a hackathon in their SF office on February 14. * Red Hat announced that Mesos has been officially accepted into their distribution channel. * A large refactor to the isolation and containerization mechanisms in Mesos has driven multiple open source code contributions from new contributors which we're very excited about. ## Issues ## There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: 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 org.apache.oltu.commons 1.0 and org.apache.oltu.jose 1.0 were released on February 7th. CURRENT ACTIVITY The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a standard. New parts of the OAuth specification family (JOSE) have been released this month. Soon we will release a stable version 1.0 of OAuth core. Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got new messages from potential new users) 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 AJ: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi] DESCRIPTION Apache Onami is a project 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. MILESTONES Since last report, there have not been three new releases. CURRENT ACTIVITY Development activity is quite healthy, Onami-Persist proposal has been accepted and contributed, currently in the Onami Sandbox. COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation. Users community is quite silent, development is not really active due to committers engagement in other projects. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam] DESCRIPTION Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). RELEASES * Last release was Apache Oozie version 4.0.0, released on AUG/30/2013. No new release since last report. * Apache Oozie version 4.0.1 is WIP CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/t9c (since last report, Nov 2013) COMMUNITY * PMC composition has not changed since last report. * Committers composition has not changed since last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 338 (+24) subscribers to the user list - Total of 115 (-1) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 14 committers - Total of 12 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] There are no items requiring board attention at this time. * Highlights    Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE      container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,     TomEE, Spring or OSGi.    * Community    Work has started on implementation of new features for JPA 2.1.       Support for Java 7 has been incorporated.    Mailing lists continue to be active and many applications are    migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA.    The developer community had maintained the codebase stable,    supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects.           * Governance     We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and     PMC members. * Releases ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] -- mod_perl 1.0 -- The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd 1.3.x. No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report. --- mod_perl 2.0 -- mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches. Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along. --- Apache-Test -- Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications, and includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP and Parrot. Apache-Test 1.38 was released on August 6th, 2012 No new Apache-Test releases since the last report. --- Apache-SizeLimit -- Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes based on various environmental triggers. No new Apache-SizeLimit releases since the last report. --- Apache-Bootstrap -- Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy. No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since the last report. --- Apache-Reload -- Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter without completely restarting httpd. Apache-Reload 0.12 was released on March 31st, 2012 No new Apache-Reload releases since the last report. -- Apache-DBI -- Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients using DBI. Apache-DBI 1.12 was released on June 12nd, 2013 No new Apache-DBI releases since the last report. -- Development -- mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and applied with due consideration for our production userbase. Work on the http-2.4 branch is ongoing and we are getting closer to being able to merge it to trunk and make an official release supporting httpd 2.4 -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is seeing steady activity, with a growing interest in seeing the httpd-2.4 work complete. Patches and bug reports are few, but keep on coming. -- PMC -- No noteworthy PMC events happened since the last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. Releases -------- Version 3.10-FINAL was released on 8th February 2014 Community ---------  Andreas Beeker (kiwiwings) has been voted in as a POI committer/PMC member Project Status --------- Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been  steady in the last 3 months. Most patches are applied without much delay. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim] Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, and client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python, Perl and Ruby. * Releases: Qpid Proton 0.6 was released on 16th January. Qpid Dispatch Router 0.1 was released on 17th January. The Qpid 0.26 release vote has concluded (we have changed the publishing process we use and publication is currently waiting on infra-7201, but should be complete soon). The previous Qpid release (0.24) was in 7th Sep, 2013. * Community: The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are being raised and addressed. No new committers were added since last report (November 2013). The last committer added was Pavel Moravec on 30th Aug, 2013. The last PMC members to be added were Andrew Stitcher, Chuck Rolke, Justin Ross and Keith Wall, who were originally voted in during September 2011. It was brought to our attention however that there was no record of notification to - or acknowledgement from, as at that time required - the board at that time. This was rectified by a vote in Dec 2013 and an acknowledgement was received from Jim Jagielski. * Development Highlights: AMQP 1.0 continues to be an area of activity as issues are reported (often in conjunction with other AMQP 1.0 implementations) and fixed. Development is underway on a new AMQP 1.0 based JMS client, in line with the JMS Mapping being developed at OASIS. The existing JMS over 1.0 client and the java broker now support WebSockets, tracking the specification for that being developed at OASIS. Though not part of Qpid per se, an AMQP based NMS implementation (using qpid::messaging under the covers) has been developed in conjunction with the ActiveMQ project, increasing options for interoperability between the two projects. Dispatch Router added support for both competing and non-competing patterns, based on patterns specified in the configuration file. (Will be part of 0.2 release). The Dispatch Router is tracking the specification development for AMQP management. Proton Messenger added support for dynamic nodes. (Included in 0.6 release). Some ideas have also been discussed to simplify using the Proton engine API, namely adding an event-oriented interface and some generic container support. * Issues: There are no items requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: 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 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013 Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013. COMMUNITY No new committers have been added since Nov of 2011. 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 Mailing lists and development have been reasonably active months. 11 messages on users@ from Dec-Feb, and over 345 messages on dev@. Four issues have been reported on Jira and eight old issues have been resolved. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: 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 5.0.2. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.2, which was released on October 30, 2013, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. Community The Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that  mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Glenn Mazza in Nov 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. There were three new releases of the Apache XML Security for Java project in the last quarter. Version 1.5.6 contained a minor bug fix, as well as a fix for security advisory CVE-2013-4517. In addition, there were two "beta" releases for the forthcoming 2.0.0 version of the Java project, 2_0_0-beta and 2_0_0-rc1. Release of the final version is anticipated in the next month. Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012. Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: 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: * Investigated datum aliasing for various producers [1] * Investigated using XSLT for processing different versions of XML-based formats like GML [2] * Basic CoordinateReferenceSystem implementations have been committed [3] * Migration from Well Known Text version 1 (WKT 1) formatting to WKT 2, a.k.a. ISO 19162. Community: * First post to the Users@ mailing list [6] Branding: * The talk proposal for ApacheCon 2014 has been submitted. Martin used David Neufeld's text [7], with minor changes. currently waiting to see if ApacheCon accepts this proposal. * The OGC sent Martin a private email suggesting to submit a blog post on the OGC portal [8] about this talk. If accepted, Martin will come back on the mailing list for proposing a blog post for OGC portal. * There is an OGC meeting in March. Of particular interest for SIS there is a CRS WKT SWG (currently scheduled March 26th at 11:00 AM[9]). We hope to have a fully functional WKT 2 implementation before this meeting, so we can share our experience with the group. SIS would be among the first WKT 2 implementations - the only other we are aware of was made by ESRI. Issues: Need to add Martin as a wiki editor [4]. Thread here.[5] Releases: RC SIS-0.4 Press: None [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-145 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-152 [3] http://s.apache.org/Eb8 [4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SIS/SIS+Wiki [5] http://s.apache.org/vhi [6] http://s.apache.org/p4 [7] http://s.apache.org/7Kb [8] http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog [9] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1403tcagenda ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] * Overview No board-level issues at this time, since our report in January. * Community No changes in committers or PMC makeup. Our last committer was added in July 2013. Our last PMC addition was March 2012. * Releases The community is currently voting on a number of releases, at the time of the February board meeting. These candidates consist of an alpha for 1.9.0, for 1.8.8, and for 1.7.16. For those keeping score at home since the prior release numbers, the 1.7.15, 1.8.6, and 1.8.7 version numbers were skipped/pulled. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: 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, new users keep popping in for evaluating the project, existing users get regular support in reasonable time for their issues: currently 82 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. dev@ ML is active, mainly discussing new features: currently 59 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. We have consistently started implementing new features for next version 1.2.0, while still maintaining 1.1.X (next release 1.1.6 is almost done). Some contacts were taken with Logging, CXF and Directory communities via their user@ ML for asking for support with - respectively - log4j2, JAX-RS and Escimo. Last committer addition (Guido Wimmel) is dated January 2014 Last addition to PMC (Jan Bernhardt) is dated November 2012. Releases since last report * 1.1.5 (Nov 28th, 2013) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: 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 again 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. The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2012/09/19). No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30). 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. The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25). Fulcrum component project Some activity has taken place to come closer to a release of the security component. The last released component was fulcrum-parser 1.0.3 (2013/10/11). ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. ISSUES - There are no issues that require the board's attention. RELEASES - Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013. COMMUNITY ACTIVITY - Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012. - Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and continues to be on the lower side, mostly a few questions on the user mailing list. BRANDING - We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project doap file. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] 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. ISSUES The volunteers appear short staffed to shepherd the staging of new patch releases and perform quality assurance activities on the code base. RELEASES - Xalan Java (2.7.1) 27-Nov-2007 - Xalan C/C++ (1.11) 29-Oct-2012 COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Xalan is a mature project with little development activity. There are still persons able to address the issues of developers. The development email has little volume. The Xalan library still has a major presence in commercial software products. PMC MEMBERSHIP No membership changes. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] Xerces-J A new XML parser configuration was developed with enhancements for the JAXP secure processing feature. This will allow applications to set global limits (using system properties) on the number and size of entities that should be processed by the parser. Similar capability was already available programmatically through the XML APIs. Some minor refactoring was done in the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 50 posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of November 2013. No new releases this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010). Xerces-C New project files were added to support Visual Studio 2013. A few other minor changes were made to update copyright years. Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 70 posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of November 2013. No news about when the 3.2 version will be packaged. 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 XML Commons Resolver's classloading code to better align it with the ObjectFactory classes in Xerces-J and Xalan-J. No postings to the mailing list this quarter. Committer / PMC Changes No new committers in the last quarter. A potential new Xerces-J committer is currently being discussed by the PMC. The most recent committers were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J). No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to the PMC were in May 2010. Apache Project Branding Requirements There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project logo. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: 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 == Last new committer: Robert Meyer on 05/08/13 Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 04/03/13 No new committers recently but there are a couple of active contributors that the PMC is monitoring with a view to future committership. == XML GRAPHICS COMMONS == 5 bug fixes committed to SVN, 3 were patches submitted by contributors There were no releases this quarter. The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012) == FOP == Mailing list activity is slightly down due to the holiday season, but is starting to pick up again. Some new bugs logged and several patches have been submitted and processed. 46 separate commits in total to SVN. Significant development of note this quarter; work continues on a whitespace management extension, a basic fo:inline-container implementation was finished and changes checkstyle to rules being applied to the codebase. There were no releases this quarter The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012) == BATIK == Mailing activity remains light, but a couple of bugs have been reported. There were actually 3 commits made by PMC members during this quarter; 1 was a test commit, a 2nd to create a branch for a new feature and a 3rd was a user supplied patch being committed. There were no releases this quarter. The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux] Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. STATUS It was recently brought to our attention that we had not being following Apache releases precisely as desired by policy. There has been lengthy discussion this report will attempt to summarize actions being taken by Cordova. * Archived release artifacts will get a Vote thread for everything here [1] * Current release artifacts Vote happening immediately for everything here [2] * We will follow the Vote policy for all MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH releases moving forward * We have begun investigation of automating releases w/ an eye to improving policy in the future Open discussion to understand how this process should work with package manager distribution. [3] [4] Related, but not directly nor an immediate concern, is App Store distribution. [5] [1] http://archive.apache.org/dist/cordova [2] http://apache.org/dist/cordova [3] https://npmjs.org/package/cordova [4] http://plugins.cordova.io [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-174 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Special report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti] An issue about ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) statements has been opened at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-190 to investigate complaints about ADA compliance of the Apache/OpenOffice web sites. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the February 19, 2014 board meeting.