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| title: 'Apache Month in Review: August 2020' |
| id: dc43843c-db4c-471a-858f-b9a50e2b4e31 |
| date: '2020-09-01 09:11:10 -0400' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - apache |
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| - summary |
| - round-up |
| - community |
| - initiatives |
| - august |
| permalink: foundation/entry/apache-month-in-review-august |
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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 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> -<br /> |
| "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF<br /> |
| filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019. <br> -- “Apache<br /> |
| 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<br /> |
| seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our<br /> |
| highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP<br /> |
| Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein.<br /> |
| ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities<br /> |
| across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, 5-6PB in traffic<br /> |
| annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+<br /> |
| lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are<br /> |
| 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<br /> |
| commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in<br /> |
| 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> |
| <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>The<br /> |
| Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review<br /> |
| 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> |
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