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| title: 'Apache Month in Review: December 2020' |
| id: 69d59c74-9d6b-4af0-b3ee-bc1ba5ccf579 |
| date: '2021-01-01 10:35:45 -0500' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - foundation |
| - december |
| - software |
| - monthly |
| - '2020' |
| - round-up |
| - community |
| - news |
| - apache |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
| - summary |
| permalink: foundation/entry/apache-month-in-review-december |
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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 December:</span></i></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Support Apache --<br></span><br>When we founded the ASF 21 years ago, we made a commitment to ensure Apache software is freely available to everyone worldwide at 100% no cost. Today the ASF provides more than $21B worth of software developed by an all-volunteer community. </p> |
| <p> - from Individual and Corporate donations to online shopping, Corporate Charitable Giving, Matching Gifts, and Sponsorship, There are many ways to help the ASF with a tax-deductible contribution <a href="https://s.apache.org/2020SupportApache" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/2020SupportApache</a></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br>New this month --</span><br></p> |
| <p> - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br> -- Videos of all ApacheCon@Home sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes, are available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/</a> <br></p> |
| <p> <span class="il">- Apache</span> Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) <a href="https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021</a></p> |
| <p> - "Inside Infra" – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team<br> -- Meet Andrew Wetmore --Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew</a> and Part II <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache Month in Review: November 2020 <a href="https://s.apache.org/Nov2020" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Nov2020</a></p> |
| <p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span> - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 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<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 available around the clock. The average uptime in December was 99.95%. <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 December, 837 Apache Committers changed 11,192,118 lines of code over 18,775 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Xiang Xiao, Hugh Miles, Andi Huber, and Gary Gregory.<br><br></p> |
| <p><b>Project Releases and Updates --</b></p> |
| <p>New releases from Apache Accumulo (Big Data); Airflow (Big Data); APISIX (API); Avro (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Bigtop (Big Data); Camel (Integration); Flink (Big Data); Groovy (Programming Languages); HBase (Big Data); HttpComponents Core (Servers); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); JMeter (Testing); JSPWiki (Content); Kafka (Big Data); Knox (Big Data); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); PDFBox (Content); Pulsar (Messaging); Rya (Big Data); ShardingSphere (Big Data); SINGA (Machine Learning); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Struts (Web Frameworks); Syncope (Identity Management); Tika (Big Data); Tomcat (Servers); Traffic Control (Servers); Traffic Server (Servers); Yetus (Library).</p></p> |
| <p>The<br /> |
| Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. New to the Apache Incubator in December: Wayang (Big Data). 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> .<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> .<br /> |
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| to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/theasf" target="_blank">@TheASF on Twitter</a>. We appreciate your support!</p></p> |
