| --- |
| layout: post |
| title: 'Apache Month in Review: August 2020' |
| date: '2020-09-01T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: foundation |
| --- |
| <p></p><p><i><span style="font-weight: 700;">Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in August:</span></i></p><p><span style="font-weight: 700;">New this month --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span>- ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year<br> -- Press release <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR</a><br> -- Full report <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span> </p><p> - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br> -- ApacheCon @Home 2020: ApacheCon North America and Europe have been combined and will be held online and free of charge 29 September - 1 October 2020. Sponsorship opportunities available. Join us! <a href="https://apachecon.com/acah2020" target="_blank">https://apachecon.com/acah2020</a></p><p> -
|
| "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF
|
| filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019. <br> -- “Apache
|
| Innovation”, the fourth and final segment of the series now available <a href="https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation</a> </p><p> - <span class="il">Success</span> at <span class="il">Apache</span>: the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".<br> -- I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster! by Eric Pugh <a href="https://s.apache.org/hney3" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/hney3</a></p><p> - Apache Month in Review: July 2020 <a href="https://s.apache.org/July2020" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/July2020</a></p><p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p><p> - Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html" target="_blank">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p><p> - ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020 <a href="https://apachecon.com/acah2020" target="_blank">https://apachecon.com/acah2020</a></p><p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Infrastructure --</span></p><div>Our
|
| seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our
|
| highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP
|
| Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein.
|
| ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities
|
| across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, 5-6PB in traffic
|
| annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+
|
| lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are
|
| available around the clock. The average uptime in August was 99.79%. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/" target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Committer Activity --</b></div><p>In August, 822 Apache Committers changed 16,077,266 lines of code over 14,003
|
| commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in
|
| order, were: Mark Miller, Daniel Klco, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, and Andrea Cosentino. <br> <br></p><p><b>Project Releases and Updates --</b></p>New releases from Apache Calcite (Big Data); Cocoon (Web Frameworks); Commons Imaging (Libraries); Commons NET (Libraries); Commons Pool (Libraries); Commons Validator (Libraries); Commons JCS (Libraries); CXF (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); HBase (Big Data); HTTP Server (Servers); Kafka (Big Data); Log4cxx (Libraries); Lucene (Search); NiFi (Big Data); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenNLP (Machine Learning); Parquet (Big Data); PDFBox (Content); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); and Solr (Search).<p></p><p></p><p>The
|
| Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review
|
| the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://incubator.apache.org/</a><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank"></a> . New releases from incubating podlings include: Apache APISIX (API) and IoTDB (IoT). <br></p><p># # #</p><p>To see our Weekly News Round-ups, visit <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/</a> and click on the calendar in the upper-right side (published every Friday) or hop directly to <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/Newsletter" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/Newsletter</a> .
|
| For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail
|
| to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. We
|
| appreciate your support!</p><p></p> |
