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| title: 'Apache Month in Review: March 2021' |
| date: '2021-04-01T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: foundation |
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| <p></p><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 March (</span></i><b><i>video highlights available at <a href="https://s.apache.org/exppv" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/exppv</a>)</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 700;">:</span></i></p><span style="font-weight: 700;">New this month --</span><br><p> - It's our anniversary! The <span class="il">Apache</span>® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’<span class="il">s</span> largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation "The<span class="il"> Apache</span> Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay</a> </p><p> - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors <a href="https://s.apache.org/NewBoard2021" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/NewBoard2021</a> </p><p> - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br> -- CFPs open for ApacheCon@Home AND ApacheCon Asia <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/" target="_blank">https://www.apachecon.com/</a> <br> -- Event Sponsorship available for both ApacheCon@Home and ApacheCon Asia <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf</a><a href="https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf" target="_blank"></a></p><p> - The <span class="il">Apache</span> Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 - January 2021) <a href="https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021</a> + Video highlights <a href="https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M</a></p><p> </p><p> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Daffodil™ as a Top-Level Project <a href="https://s.apache.org/18vob" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/18vob</a></p><p> - Apache Month in Review: February 2021 <a href="https://s.apache.org/Feb2021" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Feb2021</a> + Video highlights <a href="https://youtu.be/6TMuYglu2Cc" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/6TMuYglu2Cc</a></p><p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span> - Next Board Meeting: 21 April 2021. 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><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Infrastructure --</span></p><div>Our
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| seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our
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| highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP
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| Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein.
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| ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities
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| across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, 5-6PB in traffic
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| annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+
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| lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are available around the clock. The average uptime in March was 99.75%. <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 March, 783 Apache Committers changed 12,041,653 lines of code over 16,037 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in
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| order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, and Gary Gregory.<br><br></p><p><b>Project Releases and Updates --</b></p>New releases from Apache APISIX (API); Avro (Big Data); Camel (Integration); CloudStack (Cloud Computing); Commons Lang and Numbers (Libraries); Daffodil (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); HttpComponents (Servers); Jackrabbit (Content); Karaf (Application Servers/Middleware); Log4j (Libraries); NetBeans (Integrated Development Environment); NiFi (Big Data); OFBiz (Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); Parquet (Big Data); PDFBox (Content); Qpid JMS (Messaging); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); SpamAssassin (Mail); Teaclave (Incubating; Computing); Tomcat (Servers); Velocity (Library); XMLBeans (Library).<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The
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| Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. 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> .<br></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p># # #</p><p>To see our Weekly News Round-ups (published every Friday), visit <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/</a> and click on the calendar or hop directly to <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/Newsletter" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/Newsletter</a> .
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