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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 January 2018' |
| id: 9df95759-290e-43e8-9f8e-f9f63ea696dc |
| date: '2018-01-05 15:46:15 -0500' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - community |
| - software |
| - summary |
| - round-up |
| - weekly |
| - news |
| - apache |
| - foundation |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
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| <div>Welcome, 2018! We hope that you have had a festive holiday season and are excited to kick off the new year. Here's what happened over the past week:</div> |
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| <p>Apache in 2017 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 17 January. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield cracking performance at 99.29% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 95 Apache contributors changed 111,245 lines of code over 406 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Tellier Benoit, Gary Gregory, Martin Grigorov, Xiao Li, and Francesco Chicchiriccò.</p> |
| <p>Apache DeltaSpike™ –a suite of portable CDI (Contexts & Dependency Injection) extensions intended to make application development easier when working with CDI and Java EE.<br /> - Apache DeltaSpike 1.8.1 <a href="https://deltaspike.apache.org/">https://deltaspike.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Edgent (incubating) –a stream processing programming model and lightweight micro-kernel style runtime to execute analytics at devices on the edge or at the gateway.<br /> - Apache Edgent 1.2.0-incubating released <a href="https://edgent.apache.org/">https://edgent.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.7.14 and Jackrabbit 2.8.7 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache MADlib™ –an Open Source library for scalable in-database analytics. <br /> - Apache MADlib v1.13 released <a href="https://madlib.apache.org">https://madlib.apache.org</a></p> |
| <p>Apache NiFi™ Registry –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.<br /> - Apache NiFi Registry 0.1.0 released <a href="https://nifi.apache.org/">https://nifi.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OFBiz™ –an Open Source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications.<br /> - Apache OFBiz 16.11.04 released <a href="http://ofbiz.apache.org/">http://ofbiz.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OpenOffice™ –the leading Open Source office document productivity suite.<br /> - Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 released <a href="https://www.openoffice.org/">https://www.openoffice.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that over the past year the top 5 Apache project repositories by commits are, in order: Hadoop, Ambari, Lucene-Solr, Camel, and Ignite? <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p> |
| <p>- Did you know that you can help members of the Apache Community welcome newcomers and mentor them on The Apache Way as a participant in ASF's Community Development (ComDev) project? <a href="http://community.apache.org/">http://community.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month: Cocoon, James, and Web Services (15 years); Lucene (13 years); ActiveMQ (11 years); Hadoop (10 years); River (7 years); Empire-db and Gora (6 years); Oltu and OpenMeetings (5 years); Samza (3 years); Arrow (2 years); and Ranger (1 year)? Many happy returns! <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p> |
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| <div><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></div> |
| <p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p> |
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". 1) Project Independence <a href="https://s.apache.org/CE0V">https://s.apache.org/CE0V</a> 2) All Carrot and No Stick <a href="https://s.apache.org/ykoG">https://s.apache.org/ykoG</a> 3) Asynchronous Decision Making <a href="https://s.apache.org/PMvk%20">https://s.apache.org/PMvk</a>4) Rule of the Makers <a href="https://s.apache.org/yFgQ">https://s.apache.org/yFgQ</a> 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors <a href="https://s.apache.org/4pjM">https://s.apache.org/4pjM</a> 6) Meritocracy and Me <a href="https://s.apache.org/tQQh">https://s.apache.org/tQQh</a> 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community <a href="https://s.apache.org/x9Be">https://s.apache.org/x9Be</a> 8) Meritocracy. <a href="https://s.apache.org/DiEo">https://s.apache.org/DiEo</a> 9) Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation <a href="https://s.apache.org/dAlg">https://s.apache.org/dAlg</a> 10) All My Roads Led to Apache <a href="https://s.apache.org/l9OO">https://s.apache.org/l9OO</a> 11) Scratch Your Own Itch. <a href="https://s.apache.org/7Amk">https://s.apache.org/7Amk</a> 12) What a Long Strange (and Great) Trip It's Been <a href="https://s.apache.org/gVuN">https://s.apache.org/gVuN</a></p> |
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| <p> - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation">https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation</a> </p> |
| <p> - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/</a>and Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity</a></p> |
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| <p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p> |
| <p> - The ASF will be back at FOSDEM in Brussels 3-5 February 2018. We'll see you there! <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/">https://fosdem.org/2018/</a></p> |
| <p> - Meet members of the Apache community at Open Expo Madrid 6-7 June 2018 <a href="http://www.openexpo.es/en/">http://www.openexpo.es/en/</a></p> |
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| <p> - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q2 FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/j1GJ">https://s.apache.org/j1GJ</a></p> |
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| <p> - ASF Annual Report is available at <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport</a></p> |
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| <div> - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></div> |
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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetApache">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div> |
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