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| title: 'Apache Month in Review: October 2021' |
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| display_name: Swapnil M Mane |
| login: swapnilmmane |
| email: swapnilmmane@apache.org |
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| author_email: swapnilmmane@apache.org |
| id: 78251924-1cdf-4152-8449-09e2b7aba05a |
| date: '2021-11-01 20:07:29 -0400' |
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| - Newsletter |
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| - community |
| - software |
| - summary |
| - projects |
| - round-up |
| - october |
| - '2021' |
| - news |
| - initiatives |
| - foundation |
| - apache |
| - monthly |
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| permalink: foundation/entry/apache-month-in-review-october1 |
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| <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 October [<a href="https://youtu.be/3rPR6tNt-dg" target="_blank">video highlights available</a>] </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 700;">:</span></i></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">New This Month --</span></p> |
| <p><span class="il">- </span>Apache Software Foundation moves to <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-moves-to" target="_blank">CDN distribution</a> for software.</p> |
| <p>- </p> |
| <p> The Apache Software Foundation Announces <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces79" target="_blank">Apache® OpenOffice® 4.1.11</a></p> |
| <p>- Presentations from ApacheCon 2021 events are available on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/playlists" target="_blank">ASF's YouTube channel</a>. <br></p> |
| <p>- Apache Month in Review: <a href="https://s.apache.org/September2021" target="_blank">September 2021</a><br></p> |
| <p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p> |
| <p>- Next Board Meeting: 17 November 2021. <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html" target="_blank">Board calendar and minutes</a> <br></p> |
| <p>-<br /> |
| <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-2021-november" target="_blank">Apache CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021</a> - 8-12 November 2021 </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 October was 100.00%. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/" target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a><a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/" target="_blank"></a></div> |
| <div><br></div> |
| <div><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Committer Activity --</span></div> |
| <p>In October, 643 Apache Committers changed 47,071,028 lines of code over 11,309 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, and Alex Herbert. <br></p> |
| <p><br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Project Releases and Updates --</span></p> |
| <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">New releases from Apache Airflow (Big Data); Ant (Build Management); APISIX (API); Bigtop (Big Data); Calcite (Big Data); Camel (Integration); CouchDB (Big Data); DB (Database); Flink (Big Data); Geode (Database); HBase (Big Data); Hop (Orchestration); HttpComponents (Servers); HTTP Server (Servers); Jackrabbit (Content); James (Mail); Kyuubi (Incubating; Big Data); Log4cxx (Libraries); Lucene (Search); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenOffice (Content); PLC4X (IoT); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); ShenYu (Incubating; API); SIS (Geospatial); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Solr (Search); Storm (Big Data); Syncope (Identity Management);Tomcat (Servers); Traffic Control (Servers); XMLBeans (Library).</p> |
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| <p>Apache <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date" target="_blank">Project Anniversaries</a> in October: Apache <span class="il">Ant</span> (19 years); HttpComponents (14<br /> |
| years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, and Qpid (13 years); Community<br /> |
| Development ("ComDev", 12 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (11 years); Kafka<br /> |
| and Syncope (9 years); Ambari (8 years); BookKeeper, Drill, and<br /> |
| MetaModel (7 years); Brooklyn, Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (6 years); Geode<br /> |
| (5 years); Guacamole, Impala, and Mnemonic (4 years); Griffin (3 years);<br /> |
| Petri (2 years);<br /> |
| and Superset and TVM (1 year). Many happy returns!</p></p></p> |
| <p>The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. More than three dozen projects are currently undergoing development in the <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache Incubator</a>.<br></p> |
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| <p># # #</p> |
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