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| title: 'Apache Month in Review: April 2020' |
| id: 7c100a1a-70e4-4838-9f34-96509995c1d3 |
| date: '2020-05-30 07:51:25 -0400' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - '2020' |
| - news |
| - apache |
| - community |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
| - foundation |
| - monthly |
| - summary |
| - software |
| - april |
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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 April:</span></i></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">New this month --</span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors </span><a href="https://s.apache.org/Board2020" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Board2020</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p> |
| <p> - ASF Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak <a href="https://s.apache.org/COVID-19" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/COVID-19</a> </p> |
| <p> - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences <a href="https://s.apache.org/zgm8m" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/zgm8m</a> </p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> - Success at Apache: Welcoming Communities Strengthens the Apache Way </span><a href="https://s.apache.org/tcs0m" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/tcs0m</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br></p> |
| <p> - Apache Month in Review: March 2020 <a href="https://s.apache.org/Mar2020" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s.apache.org/Mar2020&source=gmail&ust=1590911385019000&usg=AFQjCNGWSYuDncOuuOgiHSKBaF3dpcQiHg">https://s.apache.org/Mar2020</a> </p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p> |
| <p> - Next Board Meeting: 20 May 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a> <br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> - CFP EXTENDED for ApacheCon North America: submissions due 1 June </span><a href="https://www.apachecon.com/" target="_blank">https://www.apachecon.com/</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br></span></p> |
| <p><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 April was 99.94%.</div> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Committer Activity --</b></span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In April, 783 Apache Committers changed 4,753,944 lines of code over 14,634 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: </span>Hervé Boutemy, Andrea Cosentino, Tellier Benoit, Mark Thomas, and Alex Herbert.<br><br></p> |
| <p><b>Project Releases and Updates --</b></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">New releases from Apache Apache Arrow (Big Data); Commons Lang and Numbers (Libraries); </span>Directory (Servers); Druid (Big Data); Flagon (Incubating; Libraries); Flink (Big Data); Groovy (Programming Languages); HBase (Big Data); HTTP Server (Servers); Jackrabbit (Content); Kafka (Big Data); Libcloud (Cloud Computing); Lucene (Search); MyNewt (Embedded OS); NiFi (Big Data); Qpid (Messaging); Pulsar (Messaging); SAMOA (Big Data); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Subversion (Version Control); Tika (Big Data); Tomcat (Servers); Traffic Control (Servers); Traffic Server (Servers); Tuweni (Blockchain); Wicket (Web Frameworks).</p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. Congratulations to Apache ShardingSphere for graduating as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/315iv . </span>No new podlings have entered the Incubator over the past month, but we invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://incubator.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"># # #</span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">To see our Weekly News Round-ups, visit </span><a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and click on the calendar in the upper-right side (published every Friday) or hop directly to </span><a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/Newsletter" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/Newsletter</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> . 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!</span></p> |
