| The Apache Software Foundation |
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| Board of Directors Meeting Minutes |
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| January 21, 2015 |
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| 1. Call to order |
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| The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:34 |
| when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was |
| recognized by the chairman. |
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| Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2ryx |
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| The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting |
| and Cloudera. |
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| IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. |
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| 2. Roll Call |
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| Directors Present: |
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| Rich Bowen |
| Doug Cutting |
| Bertrand Delacretaz |
| Ross Gardler left at 11:04 |
| Jim Jagielski |
| Chris Mattmann |
| Brett Porter |
| Sam Ruby |
| Greg Stein |
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| Directors Absent: |
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| none |
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| Executive Officers Present: |
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| Craig L Russell |
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| Executive Officers Absent: |
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| none |
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| Guests: |
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| Sean Kelly |
| Jake Farrell |
| Daniel Gruno |
| Shane Curcuru |
| Kevin A. McGrail |
| Hadrian Zbarcea |
| Tom Barber |
| Tom Pappas |
| David Nalley |
| Henri Yandell |
| Marvin Humphrey |
| Andrea Pescetti |
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| 3. Minutes from previous meetings |
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| Published minutes can be found at: |
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| http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html |
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| A. The meeting of December 17, 2014 |
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| See: board_minutes_2014_12_17.txt |
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| Approved by General Consent. |
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| 4. Executive Officer Reports |
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| A. Chairman [Brett] |
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| Happy New Year! |
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| Following on from the discussion about budget timing, an early Annual |
| Members Meeting has been suggested. This would require starting the |
| process in the next week or two. We will also need to work through the |
| questions about quorum raised at the 2014 meeting. |
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| Several other discussions have started among the board this month, but |
| have been pushed out to committees such as Community Development and |
| the Incubator. |
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| We have a higher than normal number of reports missing this month, |
| likely due to the missing reminder emails and the holiday period. |
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| B. President [Ross] |
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| It's budget planning season. All officers should send their request to me |
| ASAP. The current timeline is: |
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| - Jan: Deliver a draft budget based on 2014 budget actuals (Virtual) |
| - Feb: Deliver a draft budget adjusted based on Officer input |
| (President) |
| - March: Deliver a draft budget for comment by the outgoing board |
| (President) |
| - April: Deliver final budget for approval by the incoming |
| board (President) |
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| In the March and April deliverables I plan to also provide a 5 year budget |
| proposal. This will be used for planning purposes only and will not be voted |
| on by the board (though comments will be incorporated wherever appropriate). |
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| EA contract has been renewed. This again brought the issue of contractor vs |
| employee to the fore. From a management perspective we are in good shape |
| (though I'm working with Virtual to change the contract to reflect this). |
| However, since Melissa is working 40 hours per week and has no other job it is |
| hard to argue that, under IRS rules, she would be considered a contractor. |
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| My previous recommendation was to use Virtual services to resolve this issue. |
| This was not supported by the board, however the problem still exists today. |
| Furthermore, VP Infrastructure has a couple of similar contracts due for |
| renewal. Greg is looking at a proposal to address this and will hopefully be |
| able to provide an update today. In the interim I again recommend that we use |
| virtual to resolve this problem, even is this is a short term solution while a |
| long term one is identified and implemented. |
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| Brand manage report is missing at the time of writing. I am not aware of any |
| significant issues. The move to allowing PMCs to manage requests clearly |
| within the policies identified by VP Brand Management seems to be taking |
| effect, with less trivial requests reaching the brand mailing list and thus a |
| seemingly more rapid response to more complex issues. |
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| The fundraising report is missing at the time of writing. The new VPs are |
| getting up to speed and communications with sponsors are being managed well. |
| With Hadrian's engagement our EA is pushing forward to formalize a proposal |
| for an OfBiz based CRM solution for the fundraising team. At the same time a |
| member of the OfBiz community has expressed interest on the ComDev list in |
| helping the foundation. I've made everyone aware of the interest and |
| encouraged discussion on the fundraising lists. in the meantime we are |
| continuing to spec and cost a service. |
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| Sally (VP Marketing) has provided some mock-ups for an alternative to the |
| "fork me on GitHub" banners in response to discussions on the board@ list. |
| These are intended to progress the discussion and will be shared with the |
| Wicket PMC for feedback first. Sally is also finalizing the first draft of the |
| quarterly report. This is due for publication before the next board meeting. |
| Other Marketing items are "business as usual". |
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| Infrastructure report is missing at the time of writing. There are two items |
| I'm aware of, the first is the contract status for renewals (discussed above), |
| the second is the budgeting process. David (VP Infrastructure) and I are |
| working on classifying services and budgeting according to their importance |
| and the expected growth of the foundation. |
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| Travel Assistance Committee report is missing at the time of writing. EA |
| reports that TAC applications are underway for ApacheCon NA (close Feb 6th) |
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| Directed Sponsorship |
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| As discussed on the board@ list I would like to proceed with a limited |
| experiment allowing directed sponsorship, that is sponsorship that is only |
| used to support a specific project. My motivation is that a PMC has claimed |
| they were unaware of the willingness of the board to entertain the concept of |
| directed sponsorships. This has, arguably, resulted in a lost opportunity to |
| empower a PMC through directed sponsorships. My goal here is to remove all |
| doubt about the willingness of the ASF Board to conduct a controlled |
| experiment in order to inform a future policy for all PMCs. I do not intend |
| for this experiment to set a precedent, only to provide valuable data. Note, |
| there is currently no PMC in a position to take advantage of this. If this |
| remains the case that will be valuable data in itself. |
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| I have consulted with Virtual and have been informed that there are no |
| concerns relating to our 501c(3) status (although we would still need to |
| ensure a projects use of directed sponsorship is appropriate). Virtual have |
| also confirmed that they can support this proposed experiment with no |
| additional cost. |
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| One important item to note is that this proposal does not enable a PMC to have |
| a "donate" button for small contributions. The overhead in dealing with small |
| donations is too high. |
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| Proposal: |
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| - The ASF will continue to provide essential services for core funding using |
| the existing sponsorship model, this proposal does not change that arrangement |
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| - During this experiment a maximum of two PMCs will be given permission to |
| solicit directed sponsorships with a minimum donation level of $50,000. |
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| - Projects are free to use directed funds to deliver additional services |
| not provided from core ASF funds if, and only if, VPs Fundraising have |
| approved this use |
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| - Any directed sponsorships will have a total of 15% contributed to ASF |
| central funds to pay for essential maintenance of core services |
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| - Where the sponsor is already a foundation sponsor the 15% core |
| contribution will be reduced by the total of the existing sponsorship amount |
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| - Existing sponsorship of the foundation cannot be reclassified as a |
| directed sponsorship |
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| - Directed sponsorships will (optionally) receive credit on the “thanks” page |
| at the level of their 15% core donation with a note that they are also a |
| project sponsor |
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| - Receiving projects may choose to manage their own thanks page under |
| guidelines drawn up by VP Fundraising and VP Brand Management |
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| - Sponsorships will be assumed to be for 12 months, any unspent funds at the |
| end of 12 months will become ASF foundation funds if the ASF chooses. Sponsors |
| will agree to this in writing. |
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| - Sponsorships are not refundable if the project leaves the ASF, retires |
| to the Attic or fails to use the funds. All unspent funds will be transferred |
| to core ASF funds. |
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| - Sponsors can dictate which PMC the money is directed towards but not what |
| the money is to be used for, it is the PMC that decide what it is used for. |
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| - Any requested use by the PMC must be in conformance with the policies and |
| practices of the ASF, where policy is not clearly defined VPs Fundraising |
| approval will be required (for example, directed sponsorships cannot be used |
| to develop code). |
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| - The President, VPs Fundraising and PMC Chair will work directly with |
| potential sponsors to ensure they are fully aware of what is and is not |
| possible with their donated funds (for example, code development is explicitly |
| prohibited ) |
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| - Any service that adds to the workload of the ASF contractors or VPs will |
| require an appropriate contribution to ASF funds to cover these costs |
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| - No use of the funds that would put the ASF 501c(3) status at risk will be |
| permitted |
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| Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. |
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| C. Treasurer [Chris] |
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| The Treasurer’s Office worked with Virtual to get the Apache 990 |
| and Client Organizer submitted and Taxes filed. |
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| New Credit Cards from Citizen’s Bank have been received by the |
| Treasurer, VP Infrastructure, the President, the EVP, the EA and |
| the ASF Secretary. |
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| There are a few outstanding actions, including closing down the WF |
| accounts. Chris and Tom from Virtual will meet in the coming month |
| and report back. |
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| VP, Press and Marketing has asked for Quarterly Financial Reports |
| - Virtual is picking up this action and coordinating with Sally on |
| this front. |
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| Income and Expenses for December 2014 CASH BASIS |
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| Current Balances: |
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| Citizens Checking $148,022 |
| Amazon- ASF Payments $17,146 |
| Paypal - ASF $49,569 |
| Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $906,658 |
| Wells Fargo Savings $288,128 |
| Total Checking/Savings $1,409,523 |
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| Income Summary: |
| Public Donations $10,786 Amazon and Paypal |
| Sponsorship Program $20,000 |
| Interest Income $24 |
| Total Income $30,811 |
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| Expense Summary: |
| Infrastructure $50,736 |
| Sponsorship Program $- |
| Programs Expense $- |
| Publicity $5,994 |
| Brand Management $- |
| Conferences $- |
| Travel Assistance Committee $2,347 |
| Treasury Services $2,850 |
| General & Administrative $7,753 |
| Total Expense $69,680 |
| Net Income $(38,869) |
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| D. Secretary [Craig] |
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| Secretary is running well. An issue with submissions of modified license |
| agreements was resolved to everyone’s satisfaction, with no changes to license |
| agreements necessary. |
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| In December, 57 iclas, eight cclas, and one nda were received and filed. |
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| E. Executive Vice President [Rich] |
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| This month I've been working on finding keynotes for |
| ApacheCon, and trying to get various project communities to |
| promote the CFP and seek speakers. Thus far, we have less than |
| 50 talks proposed, however, we've traditionally seen half to |
| two thirds of proposals come in during the last week. |
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| The CFP closes on Feb 1, so the coming month will be spent in |
| the selection process and other logistics around planning the |
| event. |
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| I've also been working with the people at OpenSource.com (as |
| has Sally) to identify people within the Apache community to |
| write for the 'Apache Quill' series that they'll be running |
| for as long as we cam provide content. |
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| F. Vice Chairman [Greg] |
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| Options for handling our service provider contracts have been gathered from |
| discussions and placed into version control. Refinement is now occurring, and |
| expansion on the best options. |
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| At the moment, the two best options are to use Virtual's PEO (Professional |
| Employment Organization) or to contract with a (corporate) third-party for our |
| services. |
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| Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. |
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| 5. Additional Officer Reports |
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| A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Ross] |
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| See Attachment 7 |
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| B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] |
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| See Attachment 8 |
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| C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Chris] |
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| See Attachment 9 |
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| Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. |
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| 6. Committee Reports |
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| A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Rich] |
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| See Attachment A |
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| B. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Greg] |
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| See Attachment B |
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| C. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Brett] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| D. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Jim] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| E. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Sam] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| F. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Bertrand] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| G. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Doug] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| H. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Jim] |
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| See Attachment H |
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| I. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Chris] |
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| See Attachment I |
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| J. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Doug] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| K. Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly / Brett] |
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| See Attachment K |
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| L. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Bertrand] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| M. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Greg] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| N. Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid / Sam] |
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| See Attachment N |
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| O. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Ross] |
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| See Attachment O |
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| P. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Rich] |
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| See Attachment P |
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| Q. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Bertrand] |
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| See Attachment Q |
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| R. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Brett] |
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| See Attachment R |
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| @Brett: Request a better report for next month |
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| S. Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi / Ross] |
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| See Attachment S |
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| T. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Doug] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| U. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Greg] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| V. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Jim] |
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| See Attachment V |
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| W. Apache Falcon Project [Srikanth Sundarrajan / Chris] |
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| See Attachment W |
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| X. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Sam] |
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| See Attachment X |
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| Y. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Rich] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| Z. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Chris] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AA. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Rich] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AB. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Greg] |
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| See Attachment AB |
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| @Greg: Please don't include mentors who didn't sign off |
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| AC. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Ross] |
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| See Attachment AC |
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| @Bertrand: Follow up with PMC regarding commercial sponsoring |
| and external repository |
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| AD. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Sam] |
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| See Attachment AD |
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| AE. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips / Bertrand] |
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| See Attachment AE |
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| AF. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Doug] |
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| See Attachment AF |
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| AG. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Jim] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AH. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Brett] |
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| See Attachment AH |
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| AI. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Chris] |
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| See Attachment AI |
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| AJ. Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell / Jim] |
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| See Attachment AJ |
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| AK. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Greg] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AL. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Brett] |
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| See Attachment AL |
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| AM. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Ross] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AN. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Rich] |
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| See Attachment AN |
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| AO. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Sam] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AP. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Doug] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AQ. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Bertrand] |
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| See Attachment AQ |
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| AR. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Bertrand] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AS. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Doug] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AT. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Greg] |
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| See Attachment AT |
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| AU. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Rich] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AV. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Chris] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| AW. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Ross] |
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| See Attachment AW |
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| AX. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Brett] |
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| See Attachment AX |
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| AY. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Sam] |
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| See Attachment AY |
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| @Sam: Is the project ready for retirement? |
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| AZ. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Jim] |
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| See Attachment AZ |
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| BA. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett] |
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| See Attachment BA |
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| BB. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] |
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| See Attachment BB |
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| BC. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Sam] |
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| See Attachment BC |
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| BD. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Bertrand] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| BE. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Greg] |
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| See Attachment BE |
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| BF. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Rich] |
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| See Attachment BF |
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| BG. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Jim] |
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| See Attachment BG |
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| BH. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Ross] |
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| See Attachment BH |
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| BI. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Chris] |
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| See Attachment BI |
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| BJ. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Doug] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| BK. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Ross] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| BL. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Bertrand] |
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| See Attachment BL |
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| BM. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Greg] |
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| See Attachment BM |
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| @Greg: Is it time to retire the project? |
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| BN. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Brett] |
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| See Attachment BN |
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| BO. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Sam] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| BP. Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer / Jim] |
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| See Attachment BP |
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| BQ. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Doug] |
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| See Attachment BQ |
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| @Doug: Is the project ready to retire? |
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| BR. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Rich] |
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| No report was submitted. |
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| Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. |
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| 7. Special Orders |
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| A. Establish the Apache Samza Project |
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| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of |
| the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish |
| a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance |
| of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, |
| related to low-latency, distributed processing of streaming data. |
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| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), |
| to be known as the "Apache Samza Project", be and hereby is established |
| pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further |
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| RESOLVED, that the Apache Samza Project be and hereby is responsible for |
| the creation and maintenance of software related to low-latency, |
| distributed processing of streaming data; and be it further |
| |
| RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Samza" be and hereby |
| is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of |
| the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Samza Project, and to |
| have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope |
| of responsibility of the Apache Samza Project; and be it further |
| |
| RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are |
| appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Samza Project: |
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| * Chinmay Soman <cpsoman at apache dot org> |
| * Chris Riccomini <criccomini at apache dot org> |
| * Garry Turkington <garryturk at apache dot org> |
| * Jakob Homan <jghoman at apache dot org> |
| * Jay Kreps <jkreps at apache dot org> |
| * Martin Kleppman <martinkl at apache dot org> |
| * Sriram Subramanian <sriramsub at apache dot org> |
| * Yan Fang <yanfang at apache dot org> |
| * Zhijie Shen <zjshen at apache dot org> |
| |
| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chris Riccomini be |
| appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Samza, to serve in |
| accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors |
| and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, |
| removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be |
| it further |
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| RESOLVED, that the Apache Samza Project be and hereby is tasked with |
| the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Samza |
| podling; and be it further |
| |
| RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator |
| Samza podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are |
| hereafter discharged. |
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| Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Samza Project, was |
| approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. |
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| B. Resolution to Change the Apache Labs Chair |
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| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tim Williams |
| to the office of Vice President, Apache Labs, and |
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| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation |
| of Tim Williams from the office of Vice President, Apache Labs, |
| and |
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| WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Labs |
| project has chosen by vote to recommend Jan Iversen as the |
| successor to the post; |
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| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tim Williams is relieved and |
| discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office |
| of Vice President, Apache Labs, and |
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| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jan Iversen be and hereby is |
| appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Labs, to |
| serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the |
| Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until |
| death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or |
| until a successor is appointed. |
| |
| Special Order 7B, Resolution to Change the Apache Labs Chair, |
| was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. |
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| C. Resolution to Change the Apache Tiles Chair |
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| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Greg Reddin |
| to the office of Vice President, Apache Tiles, and |
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| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation |
| of Greg Reddin from the office of Vice President, Apache Tiles, and |
| |
| WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tiles |
| project has chosen to recommend Michael Semb Wever as |
| the successor to the post; |
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| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Greg Reddin is relieved and |
| discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office |
| of Vice President, Apache Tiles, and |
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| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Semb Wever be and hereby is |
| appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tiles, to |
| serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the |
| Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until |
| death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or |
| until a successor is appointed. |
| |
| Special Order 7C, Resolution to Change the Apache Tiles Chair, |
| was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. |
| |
| D. Change the Apache ZooKeeper Project Chair |
| |
| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Flavio |
| Junqueira to the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, and |
| |
| WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation |
| of Flavio Junqueira from the office of Vice President, Apache |
| ZooKeeper, and |
| |
| WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ZooKeeper |
| project has chosen by vote to recommend Michi Mutsuzaki as the |
| successor to the post; |
| |
| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Flavio Junqueira is relieved |
| and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office |
| of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, and |
| |
| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michi Mutsuzaki be and hereby is |
| appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, to |
| serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the |
| Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until |
| death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or |
| until a successor is appointed. |
| |
| Special Order 7D, Change the Apache ZooKeeper Project Chair, |
| was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. |
| |
| 8. Discussion Items |
| Looks like March 24-26 would be a good time for the meeting. |
| |
| 9. Review Outstanding Action Items |
| |
| * Brett: Remind PMCs to report on dates |
| Status: still to reach out based on updated guidelines |
| |
| * Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers, |
| new PMC members |
| Status: sorry :( Will do. |
| |
| * Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts [ Flex ] |
| Status: Still ongoing. There is still some tension there. |
| |
| * Chris: does the project have enough committers to make releases? [ BVal ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Greg: the report states a problem but no plan to address it [ Deltacloud ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Sam: follow up with PMC for clarification on the relationship |
| between the addons and the project [ Isis ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Sam: pursue a report for Abdera |
| Status: present |
| |
| * Chris: Summarize comments and follow on the dev list. [ Lenya ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Rich: Ping them to make sure they've got enough people active. [ Velocity ] |
| Status: Got a sort of non-committal response, but they seem |
| to be still there. |
| |
| * Brett: pursue a report for Axis |
| Status: not done |
| |
| * Sam: Follow up with a more complete report next month [ DirectMemory ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Rich: Discuss concerns about mentor sign-off with the Incubator chair |
| Status: Discussion has resulted in hundreds of messages, and |
| there are several things underway. |
| |
| * Ross: Discuss with comdev how to get projects to engage with them more |
| Status: |
| |
| * Greg: pursue a report for MRUnit |
| Status: |
| |
| * Ross: Bring statistics in line with reporting period [ OODT ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Chris: Discuss leaving out individual names from reports [ OpenNLP ] |
| Status: COMPLETE |
| |
| * Brett: Discuss how to work with Axis to make a release [ Synapse ] |
| Status: not done |
| |
| * Ross: Discuss the "fork me" banner issue with the project [ Wicket ] |
| Status: |
| |
| * Jim: pursue a report for Wink |
| Status: done |
| |
| 10. Unfinished Business |
| |
| 11. New Business |
| |
| 12. Announcements |
| |
| 13. Adjournment |
| |
| Adjourned at 11:34 UTC |
| |
| ============ |
| ATTACHMENTS: |
| ============ |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] |
| |
| Fundraising/Virtual: |
| • Credit cards have all been received and activated |
| • $65k received in sponsorship payments; Obtained a new silver sponsor this |
| past month, and there are two new requests for info on becoming a sponsor (one |
| silver, the other not specified) |
| • CRM for Fundraising – Hot Wax Media putting together a team to start working |
| on the CRM this week Misc: |
| • Stickers ordered for Jan I for FOSDEM and European events |
| • Apache Bigtop stickers ordered for Kostantin |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] |
| |
| The Apache CloudStack PMC is working with the Linux Foundation (LF) directly |
| with the aim of setting up a CloudStack Marketing Alliance, outside of the |
| ASF, to help promote the use and development of CloudStack. The PMC and LF |
| representatives are working within our published brand policy, and are working |
| with relevant ASF officers when needed. This looks to be a very productive |
| start to this PMC's long-running broader work around showcasing CloudStack to |
| the public, and should provide good experiences and models for other PMCs |
| wishing to broaden their outreach. |
| |
| Several other PMCs have begun directly issuing permissions for small/mid scale |
| events using their marks, so the process of PMC permissions is starting to be |
| used, although more education and clearer documentation is still very much |
| needed. |
| |
| Submitted a USPTO registration for FLINK at the request of the newly graduated |
| PMC. |
| |
| The ASF received the formal trademark registration paperwork for our HADOOP |
| registration in Japan. |
| |
| With assistance of counsel and many other ASF'ers, updated and signed an event |
| MOU with Cloudera for their ongoing Hadoop World conference. |
| |
| trademarks@ lost Jukka as a moderator. While Henri volunteered to fill in, |
| the lack of any other volunteers is concerning for the long term with the |
| relatively small number of Members who regularly step up to help productively |
| work on trademarks@ matters. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Jim Jagielski] |
| |
| Much of what happened in the Fundraising realm is captured on Melissa's report. |
| |
| * We had a few discussions about the CRM issue with Melissa and Rob. I am |
| waiting on the HotWax Media response, but it's very likely that I will |
| reach out to the Ofbiz community for a pilot project. |
| * We started a conversation about improving the Thanks page. Daniel came up |
| with a nice proposal. Looks like we'll soon declare lazy consensus and go |
| with his rendering. |
| * We are continuing the renewal process normally. |
| * We identified new potential sponsors (a CRM, again, would help) |
| * We are looking into ways to conduct fundraising campaigns in ways |
| compatible with ASF's values. |
| * Hadrian asked to be associated with the ASF on GuideStar (don't know yet if |
| their GS Exchange is an appropriate avenue). |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] |
| |
| I. Budget: Sally Khudairi submitted two NASDAQ GlobeNewswire invoices to the |
| ASF/Virtual accounting team for payment for press releases that fell out of |
| the pre-paid contract timeframe (two week period between contract termination |
| and renewal). She has also been working with Melissa Warnkin on production of |
| several promotional projects (such as stickers for FOSDEM and SCALE |
| conferences), for which Melissa has forwarded the credit card receipts for |
| ASF/Virtual's deduction from the M&P budget. |
| |
| II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no new formal projects or |
| developments at this time. Sally continues to liaise with Trademarks & Brand |
| Management with usage requests. She is also working on the first of the ASF's |
| quarter annual reports, which is scheduled to be published at the end of |
| January. |
| |
| III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the |
| newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this |
| timeframe: |
| |
| - 19 January 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Falcon™ |
| as a Top-Level Project |
| - 12 January 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Flink™ |
| as a Top-Level Project |
| |
| |
| IV. Informal Announcements: 10 items were published on the ASF "Foundation" |
| Blog and tweeted on @TheASF, including the ASF's new Code of Conduct |
| http://s.apache.org/dGR and the addition of Apache sub-projects being added to |
| the Foundation's official activity count http://s.apache.org/fs5 . An |
| additional 13 items were tweeted on @TheASF. Six Apache News Round-ups were |
| issued, with a total of 18 weekly summaries published thus far. |
| |
| V. Future Announcements: two announcements are in development, one for a new |
| TLP and the other for Apache PDFBox. Sally is working on new promotional |
| guidelines for podlings both entering as well as those ready to graduate from |
| the Incubator, and will be coordinating with Roman Shaposhnik on publishing |
| them when ready. Those PMCs wishing to announce major project news are welcome |
| to contact Sally at <press@apache.org> for more information. Kindly provide at |
| least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. |
| |
| |
| VI. Media Relations: we responded to 7 media requests. The ASF received 696 |
| press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 2,271. |
| |
| VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 4 analyst queries. Apache was |
| mentioned in 26 write-ups by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 3 write-up by |
| GigaOM, 3 reports by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and 6 reports by IDC. Sally is |
| working with Forrester on a new report on Apache Spark. |
| |
| VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally continues to work with Ross Gardler on creating |
| an ASF-wide marketing campaign that can be mapped against the tracks at |
| ApacheCon. They are also working with Rich Bowen with targeting possible |
| keynote themes and speakers. |
| |
| IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal activities at |
| this time. |
| |
| X. Newswire accounts: we have 29 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ |
| GlobeNewswire through the end of 2016, and continue to receive gratis news |
| release distribution in the UK by Pressat. |
| |
| # # # |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] |
| |
| New Karma: |
| ========== |
| |
| |
| Finances: |
| ========== |
| 1429.14 - Amazon Web Services |
| 3969.00 - Carbonite/Zmanda |
| |
| As a side note, the new cards have arrived, which provide a much |
| better level of insight into spending; many thanks to the office |
| of Treasurer and EA for chasing this. |
| |
| Operations Action Items: |
| ======================== |
| |
| N/A |
| |
| Short Term Priorities: |
| ====================== |
| |
| Codesigning |
| ----------- |
| Another project has requested code signing functionality. (UIMA |
| INFRA-9002). |
| Four signing events occurred in the month. Two events each for Tomcat |
| 8.0.16 and 8.0.17. |
| |
| Machine deprecation |
| ------------------- |
| Work continues (and was slightly hindered by the holidays) on |
| deprecating the host the runs the writable git service and bugzilla. |
| |
| Backups |
| ------- |
| Over the past several months we've found a number of services where |
| backups were either failing or not happening at all. We've spent a |
| good deal of time focusing on auditing backups and looking for a new |
| solution that gives us better visibility into the success or failure |
| of backup jobs. To that end we've selected Zmanda as our platform |
| of choice and have begun deploying it. |
| |
| LDAP |
| ---- |
| |
| LDAP has emerged as a priority during this month. The loss of the |
| machine that served as the svn master last month reduced the number of |
| LDAP servers in our Oregon Colo to 1, and that instance is |
| consistently under heavy load, and logins to most services are taking |
| significantly longer as a result. We've had a lot of work in process, |
| and only recently began tackling the issue. |
| |
| Long Range Priorities: |
| ====================== |
| |
| Monitoring |
| ---------- |
| |
| Work is continuing on monitoring, with a good leap forward this month. |
| We are taking advantage of (and contrbuting to) a project by the name |
| of dsnmp that queries the Dell OpenManage SNMP/WBEM frameworks as well |
| as the overall operating system health for machine. This provides |
| status checking to alert us to issues that have frequently resulted in |
| outages or service degradation. This month we were alerted to multiple |
| issues that we were able to address before they resulted in outages. |
| This is not a panacea, nor are we done with monitoring efforts, but we |
| are in a much better position now. |
| |
| Automation |
| ---------- |
| Automation progress continued, though slowed somewhat by the holidays. |
| The writable git service is now handled by configuration management. |
| |
| Currently the following services are in progress or in final stages of |
| testing: |
| blogs.a.o |
| Bugzilla |
| |
| Resilience |
| ---------- |
| |
| We haven't made much progress on this front in the past month, aside |
| from th ongoing automation efforts. |
| |
| Technical Debt |
| -------------- |
| |
| As part of our automation efforts, we've been able to generate |
| recreatable Debian packages for our customized version of Bugzilla. |
| The long term plan is for us to have a private build job that builds |
| new packages anytime the source code in our tree for Bugzilla is |
| modified. |
| |
| General Activity: |
| ================= |
| |
| We continue to explore the package repository service and have folks |
| from Cassandra currently working on moving their existing deb |
| repository from www.a.o/dist to this service as a pilot. Traffic about |
| the pilot has generated interest from other projects. |
| |
| Addressing a long standing todo that came out of the Heartbleed |
| vulnerability, we now have an enterprise account with Symantec |
| that will allow us to provision certs on demand with no interaction |
| required for apache.org and openoffice.org. |
| |
| We've migrated a traffic intensive service from one provider to |
| another to minimize our cloud hosting expenses. (Currently 3/4 of our |
| cloud infrastructure expense is from egress traffic). The new provider |
| has a different fee structure that should result in noticeably lower |
| service charges. |
| |
| Maven has requested, and we've agreed to host, an ASF copy of the |
| Maven Central repository from Sonatype. Work is starting around that, |
| but is still early. This is expected to cost in the range of $600 per |
| annum. |
| |
| We began discussing deprecating translate.apache.org as the service is |
| provided for only 4 projects, and has only one volunteer doing the work |
| of administering the service. Additionally, a number of l10n services |
| advertise free l10n hosting for OSS projects. Many of our projects are |
| already making use of those free offerings. |
| |
| Uptime Statistics: |
| ================== |
| We have revamped our uptime charts a bit, added some services and removed some |
| deprecated ones. Our current overall target is 98.59% for these samples. This |
| month, the overall uptime was 99.61% with critical services achieving 99.81%. |
| All of the downtime here was due to moving the writeable git repos to a new |
| machine. |
| |
| |
| Type: Target: Reality: Target Met: |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Critical services: 99.50% 99.81% Yes |
| Core services: 99.00% 99.66% Yes |
| Standard services: 95.00% 99.18% Yes |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Overall: 98.59% 99.57% Yes |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| |
| |
| Contractor Details: |
| =================== |
| |
| Geoffrey Corey: |
| - Resolved 26 Jira Tickets |
| - Clean up some TLP server realted puppet modules to require no input |
| and make sure deployment is a 1 step process (also allows svnwcsub |
| use for services such as status.apache.org) |
| - Add logic to puppet that deploys Dell OMSA to physicall Dell hosts for monitoring |
| - Fix svnpubsub not updating www.apache.org/dist entries (related to svn master rebuild) |
| - Coordinate with OSUOSL to replace disk in Arcas |
| - Research fpm to build an ASF bugzilla Debian package whenever the source tree changes |
| - Create bugzilla puppet module to deploy ASF's different bugzilla instances |
| - Complete TLP graduation for Falcon and Flink |
| - Various on-call duties |
| |
| Chris Lambertus: |
| |
| - Resolved 2 Jira Tickets |
| - On call (xmas) |
| - Resolved a number hardware issues with erebus (bad dimm) |
| - Installed and coordinated restarts for OMSA on Eirene |
| - Cleanup of collectd configuration in Puppet to apply collectd to any system |
| - Deployed new status.a.o at RAX |
| - Installation, configuration and evaluation of Zmanda and other backup |
| tools |
| - Initial documnetation of zmanda license count and tally of existing |
| storage |
| - Oceanus troubleshooting and coordination with Dell/Dell Germany to get |
| warranty location updated and parts shipped to the right place (FUB) |
| - Initial ESXi configuration to enable WBEM monitoring (eirine) |
| |
| Gavin McDonald: |
| |
| - Worked on 53 tickets closing 34 |
| - Work on puppetising TLP VMs and Blogs |
| |
| Daniel Gruno: |
| |
| - Assisted Tony in moving the writeable git repos |
| - Orchestrated the move of projects.apache.org from Infra to ComDev |
| - Improved monitoring of ZFS pools |
| - On-call duties |
| - Ongoing discussions on svn redundancy setup, corporate offers and DNS setup |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] |
| |
| Joined Antonio Perez Morales (adperezmorales@, a committer on Apache |
| Stanbol) to RDF Data Shapes Working Group. This is the first Apache rep on |
| the WG. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] |
| |
| There was some discussion regarding cleaning-up our external documentation, |
| regarding 3rd party license capability and ensuring that people are directed |
| to the latest official policies; This effort is in the process of being |
| completed. |
| |
| JIRA-based issues are being handled as required. |
| |
| Nothing at this time for board action. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] |
| |
| We see a number of confused messages come to security@ every week |
| where people say they have been hacked, or they never installed our |
| software. These were different to what happened in previous years |
| when people saw "powered by Apache" on a web page that was in outage |
| and thought we'd hacked them. |
| |
| In December we emailed a number of these people (we usually ignore |
| them) to try to figure out what they were seeing. Only one responsed |
| to me, and we figured out that what they saw was a license page for |
| "Guava" on their Android mobile. The Guava license mentions it's |
| under the Apache License. The user didn't know what Guava was, didn't |
| remember installing it (they didn't), and assumed that whatever other |
| things were happening on their handset was the result of this |
| software. |
| |
| Aside from these; there continues to be a steady stream of reports of |
| various kinds arriving at security@. These continue to be dealt with |
| by the security team. |
| |
| December 2014 |
| |
| 2 Support questions |
| 5 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or Android |
| license bundle |
| |
| 8 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org |
| 2 [httpd] |
| 2 [site] rejected |
| 1 [cxf] |
| 1 [camel/dozer] |
| 1 [qpid] |
| 1 [xerces] |
| |
| 3 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists |
| 1 [oo] |
| 2 [tomcat] (1 rejected) |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] |
| |
| Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom |
| Syndication Format and Publishing Protocol specifications. |
| |
| Abdera is very very quiet with no activity for months, and I've been |
| missing doing the board reports for it. A few months ago i asked if |
| someone else would volunteer to be chair but had no offers, I've asked |
| again now and if no one steps up again by the next report i'll propose |
| the project is moved to the Attic. |
| |
| No board issues. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment B: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi] |
| |
| The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, |
| scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based |
| access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on |
| Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, |
| Zookeeper, and Thrift. |
| |
| Releases |
| Version 1.6.1 was released on 9/24/2014. |
| No releases have been made since the last report. |
| |
| Activity |
| For the first time, the numbers of subscribers to both the dev and user |
| lists have decreased slightly. The dev and commits lists are |
| maintaining steady activity, while the user list activity has decreased. |
| The average number of messages per month for August - December 2014 is |
| roughly half that of the preceding six months. Most months, we are |
| still seeing upwards of 70 messages per month to the user list. |
| |
| We are planning to release 1.6.2 very soon and 1.7.0 moderately soon. |
| |
| Community |
| Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014. |
| No new committers have been added since the last report, but we are |
| actively discussing how to grow our community. |
| |
| The second annual Accumulo conference has been scheduled for April [1]. |
| |
| In late November into December we experienced what might have been our |
| first vehement disagreement over a code change. The issue was |
| ultimately resolved amicably. One notable outcome of the process was a |
| decision by our community to adopt semantic versioning 2.0 for our |
| releases. |
| |
| [1]: http://accumulosummit.com/ |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment C: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment D: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment E: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment F: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment G: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment H: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell] |
| |
| No activity in the last quarter, within the Attic or for the Attic. |
| |
| One issue is open in Jira that needs closing out (retired note needs |
| adding to some WS projects). |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment I: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White] |
| |
| Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system. |
| |
| == Issues == |
| |
| There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. |
| |
| == Community == |
| |
| Since the last board report in October, 36 Jira issues were filed and 27 |
| resolved. Committer activity continues to be steady, but low, with just a |
| few commits per month. |
| |
| Mailing list activity is steady, with a few hundred messages total per month. |
| |
| Ryan Blue was added as a new committer this month (January 2015). |
| |
| No new PMC members have been added since September 2012. |
| |
| == Releases == |
| |
| There have been no releases this quarter, but the 1.7.8 and 1.8.0 |
| releases are under discussion. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment J: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment K: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly] |
| |
| BookKeeper is a distributed, reliable, and high performance |
| logging service. The project also includes Hedwig which is |
| a highly scalable Pub/Sub service built on top of ZooKeeper |
| and BookKeeper with strong durability guarantees. |
| |
| = Project Status = |
| Development activity has been low over the last month due to the holiday |
| season. We have been having discussions on how to improve the project |
| visibility and attract new contributors. One angle we will take is to improve |
| our documentation to flatten the learning curve for new comers to the |
| project. We also intend to do more public talks and blog posts, publicizing |
| the production usecases that already exist. |
| |
| We plan to submit one talk to ApacheCon NA. We have also been working with |
| press@a.o to create a press release announcing the BookKeeper TLP. All that |
| is required now for this, is approval from the relevant press offices in the |
| companies mentioned, and it's ready to go. |
| |
| = Releases = |
| Our last release was 4.3.0, released on 2014-10-14. |
| |
| Release 4.2.4 is currently being voted on, so we expect it to be released in |
| the next week. |
| We are currently working on the 4.3.1 release also, which should follow soon |
| after 4.2.4. |
| |
| = Community Status = |
| There have been no committers added since we became TLP (2014-11-19). |
| |
| The last committer added, when we were a subproject, was Rakesh |
| Radhakrishnan on 24th July 2014. |
| |
| 49 subscribers in dev@bookkeeper.apache.org |
| 66 subscribers in user@bookkeeper.apache.org |
| |
| 824 issues opened to date, 10 since 2014-12-12 |
| 563 issues resolved to date, 4 since 2014-12-12 |
| 50 people have reported issues, 4 since 2014-12-12 |
| 24 people have contributed patches, 3 since 2014-12-12 |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment L: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment M: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment N: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid] |
| |
| Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running |
| MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop. |
| |
| Project Status |
| -------------- |
| |
| The project has been moving at a slightly slower pace than in past quarters. |
| Since the last board report there have been 15 new issues logged in Jira, with |
| 8 of them being closed in that time. Similar to the previous couple of board |
| reports, the majority of recent work has been focused on minor improvements |
| and bug fixes. |
| |
| A particularly interesting recent jira ticket was the donation of a number of |
| Crunch utilities from Spotify (CRUNCH-484). Spotify also posted an interesting |
| blog post about how they currently use Crunch for analytics pipelines [1]. |
| |
| There are no board-level issues at this time. |
| |
| Community |
| --------- |
| |
| Community activity has been similar, although slightly lower, in comparison |
| with recent quarters, with an average of several mails on the developer list |
| per day and an average of a message every two or three days on the user list. |
| |
| Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014. |
| Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013. |
| |
| Releases |
| -------- |
| |
| There were no releases made in this quarter. |
| |
| |
| 1. https://labs.spotify.com/2014/11/27/crunch/ |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment O: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman] |
| |
| Please accept my apology for the tardiness of this report. |
| |
| The Apache Curator Java libraries make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and |
| more reliable. |
| |
| Community |
| ========= |
| The Curator community is active and healthy. We have regular and active |
| participation on the mailing list, Jira and github. |
| |
| Adoption continues to grow. Notably: Apache Hive and Apache Yarn |
| are now using Curator. |
| |
| Development |
| =========== |
| Since our last report Curator has had two successful releases by different |
| build managers. |
| |
| Issues for board consideration |
| ============================== |
| None currently |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment P: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp] |
| |
| Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and |
| develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and |
| JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, |
| XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports |
| such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. |
| |
| Releases: |
| 2.7.13/2.7.14 |
| 3.0.2/3.0.3 |
| |
| Committer/PMC: |
| No changes this period. |
| Last committer added 9/2014 (Jan Bernhardt) |
| Last PMC added 9/2014 (Andriy Redko) |
| |
| Community update: |
| With the release of the 3.0.x versions of CXF, there has been a steady stream |
| of questions and reports from users as they upgrade. The community has done a |
| good job resolving issues and trying to push new versions out. |
| |
| CXF was represented at ApacheCon EU with 6 talks about CXF. |
| |
| Security update: |
| 2 new security advisories were made public at: |
| http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.html |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren] |
| |
| The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects: |
| o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with |
| Database Definition (DDL) files. |
| o Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. |
| o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility |
| testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data |
| persistence. |
| o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java. |
| |
| == Status == |
| There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. |
| |
| Activities over the last quarter |
| a) The Derby community is adding features and fixes and working towards a |
| 10.12 release |
| b) Rick Hillegas of the Derby community created a 'Powered by Apache' Logo for |
| Derby. The other sub-projects have not created such logos. |
| c) Activity review; the overall DB project is healthy and alive. Various |
| projects do seem to show a slowing down compared to a few years ago: |
| - an attempt a few years ago to move DdlUtils to the attic was called off by |
| its user community, but not much further activity has ensued. |
| - Derby user-list activity is still lively, but activity on the developer |
| list has recently appeared slower (e.g. 175 posts in Nov, vs. 524 posts in |
| Nov last year). |
| - Overall JDO postings have gone down, but development activity is ongoing. |
| - Torque list postings are down from a few years ago, but still show regular |
| activity. |
| |
| === Community === |
| No PMC changes since January 2014. |
| No new committers since August 2010. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment R: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou] |
| |
| Apache Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud |
| service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In |
| addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the |
| most popular clouds. It also provides an implementation of DMTF CIMI, |
| and tools around that API to help make it more easily consumable. |
| |
| -- Releases/Development -- |
| |
| 1.1.4 - in progress |
| 1.1.3 - 2013-04-22 |
| 1.1.2 - 2013-03-13 |
| 1.1.1 - 2013-02-13 |
| 1.1.0 - 2013-01-15 |
| |
| -- Overall activity in the past quarter -- |
| |
| There has been relatively little activity this quarter. The mailing list |
| continues to see some activity but it would appear the bulk of the PMC no |
| longer has the resources to dedicate the required attention (e.g. there |
| are still contributions pending approval - the latest in November 2014). |
| |
| -- Last committers and PMC members elected -- |
| |
| Change of PMC chair 29 May 2013 |
| (Marios S. Andreou takes over from David Lutterkort) |
| |
| Tomas Sedovic (August 2012) and Dies Koper (December 2012) voted in as |
| committers. |
| |
| Dies Koper was voted into the Deltacloud PMC in July 2013. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment S: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi] |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| |
| Apache Devicemap is a data repository containing devices attributes, and their |
| related browsers, and operating systems. The project also maintains an api |
| to classify these attributes. |
| |
| CURRENT ACTIVITY |
| |
| * Working on 1.0.2 release of device data |
| * Work has begun on 2.0 data specification. Feedback has been positive from |
| PMC members. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| * DeviceMap Java Client 1.2.0 was released on December 22nd 2014 |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| * As 2.0 will expand the reach of the DeviceMap project, several people |
| have expressed interest in joining the project via the mailing list. |
| * Last new committer was Eberhard Speer Jr on May 13th 2013 |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| * No issues to report at this time |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment T: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment U: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment V: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau] |
| |
| Description: Apache Drill is a distributed query layer that supports querying |
| JSON, NoSQL and Hadoop using SQL. |
| |
| Current Activity: Drill continues to see positive energy and discussion on the |
| mailing lists. One of the great things we are now seeing is a broader set of |
| users answering new user queries on the mailing list. This is a positive sign |
| towards further diversification and health of the community. The website also |
| has moved to be being based on Jekyll and markdown, which has reduced the |
| burden for update and thus increased the number of updates and freshness of |
| the content. |
| |
| Releases: |
| * The 0.7 release of Drill was released on 12/23/2014. This was Drill's first |
| TLP release and included more than 230 closed JIRAs. |
| |
| Community: |
| * 334 emails on the dev mailing list in December |
| * 177 emails on the user mailing list in December |
| * The PMC has 16 members |
| * No new committers or PMC members added since graduation |
| |
| Issues: |
| * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment W: Report from the Apache Falcon Project [Srikanth Sundarrajan] |
| |
| ABOUT |
| ----- |
| Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop |
| designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, |
| lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end |
| consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated |
| processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. |
| |
| |
| ISSUES |
| ------ |
| There are no issues that require board's attention at this time. |
| |
| |
| STATUS |
| ------ |
| Falcon was accepted as a TLP in December 2014. Infrastructure |
| migration for the project to TLP is still in progress and tracked |
| via INFRA-8906. During the last 30 days (as of 5, Jan 2015) 42 |
| new issues were created and 35 were closed. Community is working |
| on building few key features in the upcoming release a) UI & |
| Administration dashboard, b) Pipeline designer, c) Extensibility |
| to data management functions via recipes and d) Improvements to |
| lineage. The project team is also working with ASF marketing to |
| announce the project as TLP in the foundation blog. |
| |
| |
| RELEASES |
| -------- |
| * 2014-12-05: Released 0.6-incubating |
| * 2014-09-22: Released 0.5-incubating |
| |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| --------- |
| * 14 PMC members (No additions since last report) |
| * Last addition: 2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk |
| * 14 Committers (No additions since last report) |
| * Last addition: 2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk |
| * 42 New issues created in last 30 days |
| * 35 issues resolved in the last 30 days |
| * 116 - Subscriptions to dev@ |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment X: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen] |
| |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Flink is a distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, |
| and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis. |
| |
| Flink’s stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in |
| Java and Scala, a type analysis and serialization framework, a library of |
| out-of-core enabled operators, distributed task scheduling, and a data |
| streaming network subsystem. |
| |
| Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts with HDFS, YARN, |
| MapReduce, HBase, and Tez. |
| |
| |
| ISSUES |
| ------ |
| There are no issues that require board attention. |
| |
| |
| STATUS |
| ------ |
| Flink recently graduated in December from the Incubator. The infrastructure |
| for becoming a top-level project has been set up, the renaming of the mailing |
| lists is partially done (as of the time of writing this report). |
| |
| The Apache press team announced the graduation on January 12th. There is a |
| decent media echo. |
| |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| --------- |
| * Last committer was voted in November 20th, 2014 (Timo Walther) |
| |
| * When graduating to a TLP (December 17, 2014), all committers and |
| a subset of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC |
| |
| * The project community is active and growing |
| (January 1st to 11th: 25 messages in user mailing list, |
| 180 messages in dev mailing list, 126 messages in commits list, |
| 314 messages in issues mailing list) |
| |
| * Community is actively developing the software. |
| JIRA reports 72 new issues and 54 solved issues in the last 30 days |
| |
| * The issue of trademarking Flink is still ongoing. The process has started. |
| |
| * December and January have various Flink-related meetups (sample below): |
| - December 11th – Netherlands Hadoop User Group |
| - January 21st – Bay Area Hadoop User Group |
| - January 28 – Bay Area Tez User Group |
| - January 28th – Berlin Flink User Group |
| |
| |
| COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES |
| -------------------- |
| * Defining and agreeing upon a new 6-12 months roadmap (currently discussed |
| on the mailing lists) |
| |
| * Growing the user community further |
| |
| * As a special case of the community growth, Flink would like to interact |
| stronger with other Apache projects (TLP and Incubator). Roadmap draft |
| includes integrating for example with Zeppelin, SAMOA, Tez, and Mahout. |
| Integration with Hive is under discussion. |
| |
| |
| RELEASES |
| -------- |
| * Date of last release: Oct 26th (0.7-incubating), |
| while Flink was still in the incubator. |
| |
| * Release candidates for version 0.8 have been created |
| (RC1 rejected by PMC vote, RC2 validation happening as of the |
| time of writing this report) |
| |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AA: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik] |
| |
| The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and |
| codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. |
| |
| There are currently 36 podlings undergoing incubation. One podling |
| joined us this month (Corinthia). One member joined and two members |
| left the IPMC. |
| |
| IPMC has recognized the need for tightening up mentorship requirements |
| and overall structure of the incubation process. Active discussions |
| on how to this in the best possible way are on going and the recommendation |
| is expected to be available in a few weeks. |
| |
| * Community |
| |
| New IPMC members: |
| |
| Hyunsik Choi |
| |
| |
| People who left the IPMC: |
| |
| Sean Owen |
| Marvin Humphrey |
| |
| * New Podlings |
| |
| Corinthia |
| Zeppelin |
| |
| * Graduations |
| |
| The board has motions for the following: |
| |
| Samza |
| |
| |
| |
| * Releases |
| |
| The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: |
| |
| Dec 05 2014 Apache Falcon 0.6-incubating |
| Dec 08 2014 Apache Samza 0.8.0-incubating |
| Dec 22 2014 Apache Brooklyn 0.7.0-M2-incubating |
| |
| * IP Clearance |
| |
| * Corinthia initial source grant |
| |
| * Legal / Trademarks |
| |
| |
| |
| * Infrastructure |
| |
| |
| |
| * Miscellaneous |
| |
| * NPanday community seems to be in agreement that retirement is the best |
| option at this point. The only outstanding issue before formally |
| recommending graduation VOTE is to decide whether there's enough cycles |
| available for one last release before retirement. |
| |
| -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- |
| |
| * Still getting started at the Incubator |
| |
| SAMOA |
| Corinthia |
| Kylin |
| NiFi |
| Taverna (delayed software grant) |
| Zeppelin |
| |
| * Not yet ready to graduate |
| |
| No release: |
| |
| DataFu |
| HTrace |
| Ignite |
| Kalumet |
| Lens |
| Tamaya |
| |
| Community growth: |
| |
| Aurora |
| Brooklyn |
| Calcite |
| MRQL |
| ODF Toolkit |
| Parquet |
| Ranger |
| Usergrid |
| |
| * Ready to graduate |
| |
| The Board has motions for the following: |
| |
| Samza |
| |
| * Did not report, expected next month |
| |
| NPanday |
| Ripple |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Table of Contents |
| Aurora |
| Brooklyn |
| Calcite |
| Corinthia |
| DataFu |
| HTrace |
| Ignite |
| Kalumet |
| Kylin |
| Lens |
| MRQL |
| NiFi |
| NPanday |
| ODF Toolkit |
| Parquet |
| Ranger |
| SAMOA |
| Samza |
| Tamaya |
| Taverna |
| Usergrid |
| Zeppelin |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Aurora |
| |
| Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos. |
| |
| Aurora has been incubating since 2013-10-01. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Expanding the community's diversity and adding new committers. |
| 2. Third Apache release, progress being tracked in ticket AURORA-872 |
| 3. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| * None at this time. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| Latest Additions: |
| |
| * PMC addition: |
| * David McLaughlin, 2014-08-20 |
| * Contributor additions: No additional contributors had code committed |
| since the last report, however three new contributors currently have |
| code under review that was submitted within the past 6 weeks. At least |
| one of these contributions is a large feature addition, which is |
| promising. |
| |
| Issue backlog status since last report (Oct 1, 2014): |
| |
| * Created: 212 |
| * Resolved: 177 |
| |
| Mailing list activity since last report: |
| |
| * @dev 480 messages |
| * @issues 1085 messages |
| * @reviews 2235 messages |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| * Increased participation from new contributors within the Aurora core and |
| ecosystem, for example a Chef cookbook and Docker support under |
| development. |
| * Continued to hold weekly IRC meetings, digests sent to dev@ list |
| * Large improvements to project documentation and website. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| * Apache Aurora 0.6.0 (incubating) - 2014-11-21 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| * David McLaughlin, 2014-08-20 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](aurora) Jake Farrell |
| [ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman |
| [X](aurora) Chris Mattmann |
| [X](aurora) Henry Saputra |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): |
| |
| Podling looks very healthy. 3 of 4 mentors engaged since last report. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Brooklyn |
| |
| Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing applications |
| through autonomic blueprints. |
| |
| Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Grow the community |
| 2. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards |
| employees of a single organization) |
| 3. Following up our first release with further, regular, releases |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received |
| interest and contributions from new community members. |
| |
| We had the opportunity to talk about our project at ApacheCon Europe |
| recently, which has introduced Brooklyn to a wider audience within |
| Apache. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| Code continues to be proposed and merged at a high rate. We are |
| satisfied with our technical velocity. |
| |
| We recently completed our first release as an Apache project, and |
| look forward to following this up with regular releases from now on. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| 2014-12-23 (apache-brooklyn-0.7.0-M2-incubating) |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| No change since 2014-07-02. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom |
| [ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu |
| [X](brooklyn) David Nalley |
| [ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans |
| [X](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré |
| [ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy |
| [X](brooklyn) Chip Childers |
| [ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu |
| [X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier |
| [X](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Chip Childers (chipchilders): |
| |
| The Brooklyn community is doing very well in learning the rules / |
| policies / nuances of working at the ASF. It still needs a bit more time |
| to build up a diverse community IMO, but things are looking good. |
| |
| David Nalley (ke4qqq): |
| |
| The Brooklyn folks kicked out their first release during this reporting |
| cycle, which is an important milestone. Work still remains in terms of |
| building a diverse community. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Calcite |
| |
| Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on |
| data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in |
| particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not |
| residing in a traditional database. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.) |
| |
| Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Continue to build community |
| 2. Add more committers and PPMC members |
| 3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among |
| multiple project members |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| In December, there were 84 messages on dev@, 45 commits, 50 issues |
| created, 27 issues resolved by 7 contributors. |
| |
| Julian Hyde gave a talk "SQL on everything, in memory" about Calcite |
| at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in October, and held an |
| "office hour" with interested community members. He also spoke at |
| a Hive meet-up in New York and a Kylin meet-up in San Jose about |
| how those projects integrate with Calcite. |
| |
| Collaborations are under way with other Apache projects: with Drill |
| to make implementation convention more neutral; with Hive for join |
| algorithm selection, and leveraging sorted data; and with Phoenix |
| to create a Calcite adapter for Phoenix. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| We have completed the rename from Optiq to Calcite. We have also |
| re-organized the code into the org.apache.calcite namespace. We are |
| planning to make a 1.0 release in January with the re-organized |
| code. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| 2014-11-05 (0.9.2) |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| PPMC member elected in December (but has not yet accepted). |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](calcite) Ted Dunning |
| [X](calcite) Alan Gates |
| [X](calcite) Steven Noels |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Corinthia |
| |
| Corinthia is a toolkit/application for converting between and editing common |
| office file formats, with an initial focus on word processing. It is |
| designed to cater for multiple classes of platforms - desktop, web, and |
| mobile - and relies heavily on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and |
| JavaScript for representing and manipulating documents. The toolkit is |
| small, portable, and flexible, with minimal dependencies. The target |
| audience is developers wishing to include office viewing, conversion, and |
| editing functionality into their applications. |
| |
| Corinthia has been incubating since 2014-12-08. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. complete the move to ASF infrastructure |
| 2. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap |
| 3. Grow the community |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| none |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| This is our first podling report. |
| |
| We have spend a lot of mail on getting acquainted and finding the strength |
| of each other. |
| |
| Now discussion are flowing freely. We have consensus on PPMC == Committer |
| as long as we are in incubator. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| This is our first podling report. |
| |
| We are at work making a stable kernel so we can more easily add more |
| developers. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| There have been no releases. |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| Andrea Pescetti 2014-12-31 added as committer/PPMC |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](corinthia) Daniel Gruno |
| [X](corinthia) Jan Iversen |
| |
| -------------------- |
| DataFu |
| |
| |
| DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher |
| level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions |
| for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream |
| sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs |
| for incremental data processing in MapReduce. |
| |
| DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Grow user and contributor base. |
| 2. Make first release. |
| 3. Increase activity for initial committers. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| 1. Has not yet made a release, but is in process of preparing first. |
| 2. Need to dramatically grow the contributor base. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| New committer and PMC member. Several JIRAs filed by new users. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| 1. 16 issues created, several from new contributors. |
| 2. 8 issues closed. |
| 3. Reasonable amount of mailing list traffic. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| None yet. Currently preparing release: DATAFU-53. |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| Nov 2014, Russell Jurney, both committer and PPMC. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan |
| [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik |
| [X](datafu) Ted Dunning |
| |
| -------------------- |
| HTrace |
| |
| HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems |
| written in java. |
| |
| HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Make our first release from incubator |
| 2. Move dependent projects over to the incubator version |
| 3. Continue to grow user and contributor base; i.e. grow the community. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| * 141 messages on dev@htrace |
| * 42 issues resolved and 11 open |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| * This is our first report. |
| * We are fully moved over to Apache Infrastructure now (thanks in |
| particular to Jake Farrell for help here). |
| * We have our first htrace website published. |
| * Development of an easy to deploy htraced trace sink and visualization is |
| moving along nicely. |
| * An htrace receiver for Apache Flume was contributed. |
| * We have put up 5 release candidates for our 1st podling release with a |
| 6th on its way. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| None as yet. |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| None since initial setup. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](htrace) Jake Farrell |
| [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon |
| [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney |
| [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell |
| [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi |
| [X](htrace) Michael Stack |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| John D. Ament (johndament): |
| |
| The podling is working through its first release slowly. First release |
| is always the hardest. Good activity for a new podling on the lists, |
| still waiting on the board report though. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Ignite |
| |
| A unified In-Memory Data Fabric providing high-performance, distributed in- |
| memory data management software layer between various data sources and user |
| applications. |
| |
| Ignite has been incubating since 2014-10-01. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Finish migration to Apache process. |
| 2. Grow active and healthy community around Apache Ignite product. |
| 3. Get on a stable release schedule and have 3 successful product |
| releases. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None at the moment. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| Several contributors expressed interest in contributing. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| - Started the implementation of JCache (JSR 107) specification. |
| - Integrated JCache (JSR 107) TCK test suite into project lifecycle. |
| - Made significant improvements to Apache Ignite (incubating) website. |
| - Submitted SGA from GridGain to Apache Ignite (incubating) for In-Memory |
| Hadoop Accelerator. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| No releases yet: the code is still in the migration phase |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| 10/01/2014 Initial committers were added. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [x](ignite) Branko Čibej |
| [x](ignite) Konstantin Boudnik |
| [X](ignite) Henry Saputra |
| [X](ignite) Roman Shaposhnik |
| [X](ignite) Michael Stack |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Alan Cabrera (adc): |
| |
| This podling is off to a great start. Mentors are extremely active |
| participants with most of the non-Jira chatter being between Dmitriy |
| Setrakyan and the mentors; look to the Jira issue to see the rest of the |
| community "getting it done". The "issues to be addressed" section seems |
| reasonable. |
| |
| Branko Čibej (brane): |
| |
| I agree with Alan's assessment, but I'd really like to see more |
| activity on the dev@ list; especially more of the initial committers |
| getting involved in discussions there. Whilst Jira notifications are |
| nice, I have a nagging feeling that most of the discussions within |
| the community are happening off-line, which leaves a rather large |
| hole in the community's collective memory (i.e., mail archives). |
| This will have to be addressed before graduation. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| |
| Kalumet |
| |
| Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE |
| environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and |
| resources. |
| |
| Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20. |
| |
| Community Developement: |
| |
| Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released. However, due to |
| some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been completed by 3 IPMC. |
| Especially, some legal files issues have been raised. |
| |
| We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and |
| submit to IPMC vote. |
| |
| We are in the way of promoting the documentation on the website. |
| |
| Project Development: |
| |
| We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for December, 27) to fix the |
| legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete |
| IPMC vote. |
| |
| We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes. |
| |
| A new contributor has been identified and started to work on some issues |
| and refactoring of the webconsole (mockup provided using Vaadin). |
| |
| Local branches have been created containing: |
| |
| - new model and REST API |
| - new webconsole (remove of Echo framework) |
| |
| These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master). |
| |
| Before Graduation: |
| |
| - The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating |
| release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked" |
| in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has been |
| voted. |
| - The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially in |
| term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI). |
| |
| Post Graduation: |
| |
| - Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept globally |
| to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom |
| deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware |
| of: |
| |
| None so far. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| 2013-11-22 |
| |
| Date of next release: |
| |
| 2014-12-27 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| None |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](kalumet) Jim Jagielski |
| [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez |
| [X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre |
| [ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Kylin |
| |
| Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to support |
| extremely large datasets. |
| |
| Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Migrate source code and issue tracking from github.com to Apache Git |
| and JIRA |
| 2. Make the first release from apache |
| 3. Make project website available on apache |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| * Nothing |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| The community is growing. Several new members have started actively |
| contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant |
| contribution in develop new feature, fix bugs, refine web experience. The |
| Kylin meetups at Bay Area and Beijing was well attended. Apache Kylin has |
| been presented at Big Data Technology Conference 2014, Beijing which is |
| one of biggest Big Data conference in China. Interest of people during |
| that event was great and engaged a lots of organizations and individuals, |
| many of them started to evaluate and joined Kylin community. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| 1. The project setup is going quite well. Initial committers are |
| onboarding, JIRA, mailing list were successfully done, Web content has |
| been migrated to Apache Git but need tuning. Main source code migration |
| will be done in January 2015. |
| 2. Bug fixing, enhancement are happing on current branch which |
| will be the target v1.0 release. |
| 3. Work toward next gen version (supports inverted-index) is |
| progressing substantially. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| None yet. We are preparing to release 1.0-incubating (MOLAP) within |
| the next 1 month. |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| NONE |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [x](kylin) Owen O'Malley |
| [x](kylin) Ted Dunning |
| [X](kylin) Henry Saputra |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Lens |
| |
| Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way |
| over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive |
| with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data |
| cubes. |
| |
| Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Make the first release from apache |
| 2. Make project website available on apache |
| 3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| We are still waiting for project website creation via |
| https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549 |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| * Logo of the project has been finalized and published. |
| * Added one new committer/PPMC - Rajat Khandelwal |
| * Had contributor meetup in Bangalore, India |
| * Mailing list subscription (as on 2015-jan-03): |
| * Dev list: 29 members |
| * Commits list: 14 members |
| * User list: 21 members |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| * Main activities include |
| * Podling setup wrt jenkins and pushing docs |
| * Improving documentation |
| * Stabilizing the code for first stable release |
| * Feature additions - Join chains in OLAP cube |
| * Mailing list activity : |
| * Dev via mail-archives.apache.org: |
| * December - 1380 messsages |
| * Commits via mail-archives.apache.org: |
| * December - 50 messages |
| * User mailing list activity - None |
| |
| * Issues 101 created and 62 resolved (via 30 day summary from LENS Jira) |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| NONE |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| 2014-12-24 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](lens) Christopher Douglas |
| [X](lens) Jakob Homan |
| [X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Alan Cabrera (adc): |
| |
| Very good report; an exemplar of how reports should be done. The |
| community seems very active and healthy. IMO, only items 1 & 2 are |
| required for graduation. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| MRQL |
| |
| MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, |
| distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and |
| Flink. |
| |
| MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Increase the number of active committers |
| 2. Increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list |
| activity |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| The project is not making much progress on the level of increasing the |
| number of active committers and expanding the users community. |
| |
| This is already being discussed inside the project community and the main |
| active committer asked to give the project more few months as he will try |
| spreading the word more about the project through some public events |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| None |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| During the last three month, 12 jira issues were reported, from which 10 |
| were fixed. Most of these issues were related to MRQL query evaluation in |
| Flink mode. Finally, we have set up MRQL on ASF Jenkins, which is a CI |
| server that continuously checks the integrity of our builds and validates |
| our tests. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| 2014-06-26 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| 2014-04-17 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](mrql) Alan Cabrera |
| [ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu |
| [X](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Konstantin Boudnik (cos): |
| |
| Very light email list traffic compare to prev. month. Mentors are |
| active. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| NiFi |
| |
| NiFi is a dataflow system based on the concepts of flow-based programming. |
| |
| NiFi has been incubating since 2014-11-24. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Produce an initial release. |
| 2. Grow our community beyond the initial set of committers. |
| 3. Establish rhythm for releases, review processes, and document how to |
| most effectively bring on new committers. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| Nothing we wish to raise at this time. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| The dev mailing list has picked up 20 new e-mails since the last report |
| and is now at 62 (commits has grown to 25). |
| |
| At the suggestion of the community we've adopted a review-then-commit |
| strategy which is designed to among other things help with community |
| development. |
| |
| We've received several patches from members outside the initial committer |
| list including changes which dramatically improved our build process and |
| provide new extensions. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| All of our current infrastructure needs are setup and things are working |
| really well. Our focus now is on working towards our first release which |
| is 0.0.1 and presently comprised of 85 JIRA issues the vast majority of |
| which are resolved. We've conducted a thorough review of all source files |
| to ensure proper license headers/notices/disclaimers are present. We've |
| completed a thorough review and modification of the overall LICENSE and |
| NOTICE files in preparation for release. We've conducted the initial |
| podling name search and submitted the ticket for that analysis to be |
| verified and confirmed. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| N/A |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| We have not grown the official committer list beyond the initial committer |
| list. Though there are a couple of folks who are committing fairly |
| consistently now and a new member to join the dev mailing list that is |
| very promising. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi |
| [x](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar |
| [ ](nifi) Sergio Fernandez |
| [x](nifi) Benson Margulies |
| [x](nifi) Brock Noland |
| [ ](nifi) Drew Farris |
| [X](nifi) Andrew Purtell |
| |
| |
| Shepherd notes (Tim Chen): |
| |
| Project is still setting up and in the early phase. Mailing list and commits |
| are fairly active. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| NPanday |
| |
| NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache |
| Maven. |
| |
| NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): |
| |
| NPanday has missed the last two reports (last report August 2014). One |
| of two mentors are engaged and encouraging the podling to make a final |
| release before retiring (last release was on 2011-05-17). However, there |
| is little PPMC/Committer involvement with only 2 PPMC members showing |
| involvement on the dev@ list in the past year. Also confirmed that a |
| report reminder email was received by the dev@ list for each of the last |
| missed reporting periods as well at the current period. |
| |
| It's clear that mentors past and present have attempted to help the |
| NPanday project grow to a viable size -- at least enough to approve a |
| release, new Committer/PPMC Member, or even decide to retire -- without |
| success. |
| |
| The main warning signs appear to be: |
| |
| * Inability to reach community consensus (barely 2 acive Committer/PPMC |
| Members, making 3 +1s for any vote very difficult) |
| * Inability to perform releases |
| * Inability to grow the community to a viable size |
| |
| The issues listed above do not indicate a lack of mentor involvement, |
| but rather a community in decline. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| ODF Toolkit |
| |
| Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of |
| OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents |
| |
| ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Grow the community in terms of committers |
| 2. Have regular releases |
| 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing |
| project, or move to the attic. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| No new. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| We have made a release but there has been little activity since then. |
| |
| We still need to attract more members and publicizing the project in the |
| ODF. |
| |
| Our validator was used on the ODF Plugfest, ahead a patch was provided by |
| a new contributor. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| Update of ODF validator before the ODF Plugfest (London). |
| |
| There have been some user issues reported and responded to. |
| |
| ODF Toolkit part of presentation on the Apache Con Europe. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| 2014-06-02 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| 2012-10-29 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir |
| [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby |
| [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch |
| [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Additional mentor comments (from robweir) here: |
| http://s.apache.org/bUW |
| |
| |
| (Tim Chen) |
| It seems like the project is active in release and code (towards the low |
| activity side). However the mailing list traffic and engagement has decreased |
| overtime and the dev list even with jira notifications is still very low |
| traffic. |
| |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Parquet |
| |
| Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. |
| |
| Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20 . |
| |
| Three most important issues |
| |
| - Expanding the community and adding new committers |
| - 1st releases toward org.apache Parquet 1.6.0 GA |
| - Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| - None at this time |
| |
| Latest Additions: |
| |
| * PMC addition: None |
| * Contributor addition: Dan Weeks and Alex Levenson |
| |
| Issue backlog status since last report: |
| |
| * Created: 45 |
| * Resolved: 20 |
| |
| Mailing list activity since last report: |
| |
| * dev 310 messages: 90 in Oct, 126 in Nov, and 94 in Dec |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| - Completed first release, Apache Parquet Format (incubating) 2.2.0 |
| - Established a by-law for adding committers |
| - Added 2 new committers |
| - Parquet presentation accepted for Strata San Jose |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| - parquet-format released 14 November 2014 |
| - Not yet released: parquet-mr and parquet-cpp |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [ ](parquet) Todd Lipcon |
| [X](parquet) Jake Farrell |
| [X](parquet) Chris Mattmann |
| [X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik |
| [ ](parquet) Tom White |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Mailing lists are active; most mentors are active. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Ranger |
| |
| The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage |
| comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. |
| |
| Apache Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| * Increase the Ranger contributors/committers across industry verticals |
| * Establish a automated git check-in process to validate the check-in |
| patches for quality control (similar to Hadoop QA) |
| * Add more documentation to support new users and contributors. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| * None |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| * Added few more contributors |
| * Vote for adding an additional committer is in progress with |
| private@ranger.incubator |
| * Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Oct-01-2014 |
| before Dec-30-2014): |
| Created: 115 |
| Resolved: 100 |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| * Project Name has been renamed from "Apache Argus” to “Apache Ranger” |
| * Three Release candidates were voted in dev community for Ranger-0.4.0 |
| version and RC3 has been voted to be released in IPMC |
| * First release of Apache Ranger 0.4.0 on Nov-17,2014 |
| * Apache Ranger 0.4.0 Release artifacts are published in |
| official dist directory. |
| * Ranger Documentation wiki Site |
| (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER) has been added. |
| * Working on release of Apache 0.4.1 to avoid compilation issues related |
| to SNAPSHOT libraries in HBase and Hive dependencies |
| * Working on adding more security functionalities for the next release, |
| Apache Ranger 0.5.0 |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| Nov-17-2014 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| none yet |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](ranger) Alan Gates |
| [X](ranger) Daniel Gruno |
| [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das |
| [X](ranger) Jakob Homan |
| [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| John D. Ament (johndament): |
| |
| Ranger suffered a bit from a renaming issue that came up. Activity on |
| the lists is a little bit lighter since, but I'm sure will bounce back. |
| I'm concerned over inability to access the wiki though, sent a note to |
| the podling to request proper access. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| SAMOA |
| |
| SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most |
| common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, |
| clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop |
| new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines |
| (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on |
| several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza. |
| |
| SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15 and is not fully functioning as a |
| project yet. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Get IP clearance (SGA) from Yahoo |
| 2. Move the current code into ASF's git repository |
| 3. Start working as an Apache project |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| This is the first report. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| This is the first report. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| No incubator release yet. |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| We just established the initial PPMC. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [ ](samoa) Alan Gates |
| [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan |
| [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar |
| [X](samoa) Ted Dunning |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Samza |
| |
| Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on |
| infinite streams of data. |
| |
| Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| None. PPMC and IPMC have voted for graduation. Waiting on Board meeting |
| to pass final resolution. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| Continued growth in mailing list, particularly from new users. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| Released version 0.8. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| 2014-12-09 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| Chinmay Soman, 2014-08-13, PPMC and committer. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](samza) Chris Douglas |
| [ ](samza) Arun Murthy |
| [X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Tamaya |
| |
| Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular, |
| extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a |
| minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE |
| environments. |
| |
| Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Project web site must be setup (done). |
| 2. Establish a solid code base for a release. |
| 3. Continue to grow the community. |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| There are many discussions about how simple the API and or code should be. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| We got a new contributor, Reinhard Sandtner who already shipped a patch |
| and is participating in some discussions. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| The project setup is going quite well. The initial code donation is under |
| ongoing review. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| None yet. |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| None yet. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](tamaya) John D. Ament |
| [X](tamaya) Mark Struberg |
| [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek |
| [ ](tamaya) David Blevins |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| John D. Ament (johndament): |
| |
| Podling is struggling a bit with some growing pains. Hope it will |
| straighten out soon. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Taverna |
| |
| Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute |
| data-driven workflows. |
| |
| Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. IP clearance to be signed by Univ of Manchester |
| 2. Move source code, wiki, issues to apache.org. |
| 3. Re-awake community after migration, prepare a release |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be |
| aware of? |
| |
| None. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| Quiet month - dominated by migration issues. |
| |
| Involvement with students who are combining Taverna and Apache Storm. |
| |
| Email traffic December 2014: |
| |
| * dev@taverna: 50 messages |
| * users@taverna: 12 messages |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| The project is waiting for the Software Grant from Univ of Manchester |
| Solicitor and Contracts Manager as he needed to retrieve the existing CLAs |
| from archive. He has replied (2015-01-05): "They should arrive back from |
| storage this week and we can proceed with the [software grant] transfer" |
| |
| Taverna's WSDL-support modified to work with Apache Woden. |
| |
| About 45% of code base ready to be migrated (moved to slimmer git layout, |
| modified to org.apache.taverna groupId and build). |
| TODO: LICENSE and NOTICE plugins for Maven. |
| |
| Apache Taverna website live at |
| http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/ |
| -- not yet migrating content from |
| http://www.taverna.org.uk/ until IP clearance sorted |
| |
| Discussions around packaging / Debian |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| None |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| None since incubation |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](taverna) Andy Seaborne |
| [X](taverna) Chris Mattmann |
| [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas |
| [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru |
| [X](taverna) Marlon Pierce |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| Andy Seaborne (andy): |
| |
| Given the podling has not yet got the software grant on ASF file, |
| through no fault of the podling, I suggest keeping reporting Taverna |
| monthly. |
| |
| Justin Mclean (jmclean): |
| |
| Off to a good start, with discussions about making builds and assembling |
| LICENSE and NOTICE. Mentors (very) active. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Usergrid |
| |
| Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database |
| (Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers. |
| |
| Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Continue to build community |
| 2. Perfect release process |
| 3. Exclude unnecessary dependencies from release |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware |
| of? |
| |
| No. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| We added a couple of new committers: Alex Muramoto, Ryan Bridges and John |
| Ament. We are working on our second release from the Incubator, Usergrid |
| 1.0.1 and are creating release candidates now for voting. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| Much work has been done in the "two-dot-o" version of Usergrid with a new |
| persistence and query engine. Bugs have been fixed in the master branch |
| and it is now being prepared for a Usergrid 1.0.1 release. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| Back in September: 2014-09-10 |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| Just last week - 2014-12-19 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [X](usergrid) Dave Johnson |
| [X](usergrid) Jake Farrell |
| [X](usergrid) Jim Jagielski |
| [X](usergrid) John D. Ament |
| [ ](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney |
| [ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende |
| |
| Shepherd/Mentor notes: |
| |
| John D. Ament (johndament): |
| |
| The group is still getting accustomed to the Apache Way. Special thanks |
| to those in the incubator who have helped with licensing issues in the |
| current release attempt. |
| |
| -------------------- |
| Zeppelin |
| |
| Zeppelin is a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool |
| for distributed, general-purpose data processing systems such as |
| Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc. |
| |
| Zeppelin has been incubating since 2014-12-23. |
| |
| Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: |
| |
| 1. Complete the SGA |
| 2. Migrate to ASF infrastructure |
| 3. Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64 |
| |
| Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware |
| of? |
| |
| No. |
| |
| How has the community developed since the last report? |
| |
| Zeppelin has just entered the ASF Incubator and the onboarding |
| is progressing nicely. All initial committers have been issued |
| ASF accounts and the basic INFRA has been setup. |
| |
| How has the project developed since the last report? |
| |
| This is the first report. |
| |
| Date of last release: |
| |
| N/A |
| |
| When were the last committers or PMC members elected? |
| |
| N/A |
| |
| Signed-off-by: |
| |
| [x](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik |
| [X](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi |
| [X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning |
| [X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra |
| [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood] |
| |
| Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using |
| domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked |
| objects architectural pattern |
| |
| |
| == Activity == |
| |
| Mailing list activity has been steady; user mailing list subscriptions |
| are unchanged (some turnover) but the number of mailing list messages is |
| increasing with some good contributions from the user community. |
| |
| We have also started to get more code contributions from the community, one of |
| which has been quite substantial. |
| |
| In the last report we described how we are have created a new "Isis Addons" |
| website [1] and have moved some components out of the framework's codebase. To |
| clarify the relationship, these are external to the framework for several |
| reasons: |
| * they tend to be code that either runs on top of Isis (reusable domain logic |
| entities) or implementations of optional hooks that Isis exposes (services |
| such as auditing, security). |
| * as such, they have a different cadence to the framework "proper" |
| * we wanted less formality, leveraging github collaboration capabilities |
| * also, to allow for contributions that would not be compliant with ASF |
| license restrictions, eg if dependent on LGPL. |
| * (as noted previously) to reduce the size of the Isis codebase so that it |
| can be more clearly focussed on its core responsibilities. |
| |
| == Development and Releases == |
| |
| Isis rate of development has increased this quarter. As noted in the previous |
| report, Eurocommercial Properties NV are sponsoring the development of Isis |
| for two Isis committers, Martin Grigorov (also a Wicket committer), and myself. |
| |
| In addition, there is another small client that is now sponsoring our time to |
| implement some additional capabilities of the framework. This client was |
| introduced to us by Oscar Bou, another Isis committer. |
| |
| This quarter we made one new release, v1.7.0 on 18 Oct 2014 [2]. |
| |
| |
| == Committers and PMC == |
| |
| There has been one new committer added and change to the PMC this quarter |
| * last committer added: Martin Grigorov, 4 Dec 2014 [3] |
| * last PMC change: Martin Grigorov, 13 Dec 2014 |
| |
| |
| == Issues == |
| |
| There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. |
| |
| |
| [1] http://www.isisaddons.org |
| [2] http://isis.markmail.org/thread/rrg27kjhoq7bgndc |
| [3] http://isis.markmail.org/thread/gc3nt3psrquhek75 |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AD: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles] |
| |
| The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and |
| libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an |
| advanced enterprise mail server. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| No new release (last release done on 19 March 2013). |
| |
| OVERALL ACTIVITY |
| |
| Some code has been committed on the mime4j module related to refactoring |
| and patch submission by user. |
| |
| The mailing list activity and patch submission for the server component |
| has been mainly generated by the users. |
| |
| Activity on server code commits remains too low. The discussion at PMC level |
| on this point has not yet been started. |
| |
| We received on 16. October 2014 a vulnerability report followed by a mail from |
| CERT to track the open VU#988628. We will now handle this in an urgent way. |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| No new committer (Last committer was voted on 30 of Nov 2013). |
| |
| No new PMC member (Last PMC member was voted on 17 Jul 2012). |
| |
| TRADEMARKS / BRANDING |
| |
| Still to do: |
| Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on web site). |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AE: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips] |
| |
| A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of |
| supported cloud providers using one API. |
| |
| Project Status |
| -------------- |
| jclouds has carried out one successful release (1.8.1) in the last quarter and |
| is currently discussing the planning of the next major (1.9.0) release. |
| |
| The developer and user community remains active, with a welcome increase in |
| involvement by new contributors. The PMC is trying to streamline the project |
| structure and process for contributions in order to make best possible use of |
| limited core team time and in order to encourage continued interest and |
| involvement from cloud developers. |
| |
| Community |
| --------- |
| Last committer: 2014-07-30 (Andrea Turli) |
| Last PMC member: 2014-11-30 (Chris Custine) |
| |
| As resolved at the October 2014 board meeting, the PMC chair is currently |
| Andrew Phillips. |
| |
| The jclouds PMC would like to express its sincere thanks to Adrian Cole, who |
| recently left the PMC, for his years of work in building jclouds and growing |
| the jclouds community. |
| |
| Community Objectives |
| -------------------- |
| What are the projects main plans and expectations for the community in the |
| next period? |
| |
| * Establish consensus on the core purpose and functionality of the project |
| moving forward and focus on ensuring this continues to be delivered |
| * Establish clear guidance on the expectations around new contributions |
| (technical and in terms of the type of contributions likely to be accepted) |
| * Provide example code demonstrating current best coding and design practices |
| * Create a more predictable "graduation path" for new contributions |
| * Reduce overhead of the project setup to simplify releases and maintenance of |
| core functionality |
| |
| Releases |
| -------- |
| Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter? |
| |
| * 1.8.1 (2014-10-25) |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne] |
| |
| == Project Description |
| |
| Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data |
| applications based on W3C and community standards. |
| |
| == Issues |
| |
| There are no issues to raise with the board. |
| |
| == Releases |
| |
| Jena 2.12.1 released 2014-10-14. |
| |
| == PMC |
| |
| PMC member last added: 26 January 2013 |
| Committer last added: 16 August 2013 |
| |
| == Activity |
| |
| dev@ list: ~ 250 messages a month / 159 subscribers |
| users@ list: ~ 80-150 messages a month / 579 subscribers |
| |
| == Community news |
| |
| Questions from users also appear on StackOverflow and the domain-specific |
| answers.semanticweb.com site where members of the wider jena users |
| community also answer them. |
| |
| Two talks given by PMC members at ApacheConEU. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AG: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AH: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos] |
| |
| JSPWiki is a Java-based wiki engine |
| |
| == Anything the board should be aware of? |
| There are no Board-level issues at this time. |
| |
| == Releases / Development |
| Last release, 2.10.1, on 29th May, 2014 |
| |
| Regarding development, this period involved 7 JIRAs solved, most |
| notable of them Wiki On a Stick functionality being merged into |
| trunk. |
| |
| == Community |
| Last Committer: David Vittor (dvittor), on 23rd Dec, 2014 |
| Last PMC: David Vittor (dvittor), on 23rd Dec, 2014 |
| |
| This quarter we had another decrease on activity on MLs, with ~20 |
| messages per month at dev@j.a.o, when compared to previous period |
| (~50), and user@j.a.o also going back to ~4 messages per month (average |
| of 10 on last period). Questions are being answered, though. |
| |
| 88 (-1) people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 172 (-5) people subscribed at |
| user@j.a.o |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams] |
| |
| Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers. |
| |
| |
| [STATUS] |
| |
| |
| Another typical quiet couple months for Labs. The PMC remains quiet and |
| healthy. The PMC has voted to rotate chairs this month as well - resolution |
| pending. |
| |
| |
| [DETAILS] |
| |
| |
| == Community == |
| |
| A couple researchers had work, otherwise it’s back to being fairly quiet with |
| nothing significant to report. |
| |
| |
| |
| == Labs Statistics == |
| |
| - new: 0 |
| |
| - status changes (last 3 months): 0 |
| |
| - total number: 41 |
| |
| - active: 17 |
| |
| - idle: 15 |
| |
| - promoted: 3 |
| |
| - completed: 8 |
| |
| - labs with commits: panopticon, alike |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell] |
| |
| The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic |
| programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search |
| engine library for Java. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| There are no Board-level issues at this time. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| Lucy 0.4.2 was released on 31 December 2014. |
| |
| Clownfish 0.4.2 was released on 31 December 2014. |
| |
| ACTIVITY |
| |
| Development |
| |
| * Both Lucy and Clownfish releases include a number of bug fixes. |
| |
| Mailing lists |
| |
| User list subscribers: 90 (0) |
| Developer list subscribers: 67 (0) |
| |
| Mailing list activity is average. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy] |
| |
| Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java |
| development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a |
| standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build |
| lifecycle. |
| |
| * General Information |
| |
| * Work on plugin releases to define common 2.2.1 minimum Maven version |
| and Java 5 requirements continues: we created an automated report [1] |
| that shows 33 plugins are ready from 49. Once finished, we expect to |
| start 3.x line of plugins with Maven 3 and Java 6 minimum requirements. |
| |
| * There was a contest to create a new Maven logo and create a mascot: |
| the winning logo is [2] and the winning mascot (officially christened) |
| "The Maven Owl" [3]. Work is now in progress to integrate it to the Maven |
| site. |
| |
| * We're studying Jira migration from Codehaus to Apache for better end-users |
| consistency, since we've got feedback about users lost when requiring to |
| create a Jira account at Codehaus. |
| |
| * Compliance with ASF source header policy |
| |
| We enabled rat check on every build in maven-parent POM 25 to ensure full |
| compliance from now on. |
| Issue closed: this report is the last one with status on this topic. |
| |
| * Community |
| |
| * No new PMC members this quarter (last added on 2014-08-25) |
| |
| * No new committers this quarter (last added on 2014-03-17) |
| |
| * Mailing List activity |
| Oct..Dec 2013 Jul..Sep 2014 Oct..Dec 2014 |
| User List: 959 723 680 |
| Developers List: 704 980 1506 |
| |
| Users mailing list activity has been reduced a little bit in the last three |
| months whereas the developers mailing list activity has strongly increased |
| within the same time frame. |
| |
| * Releases |
| |
| Core |
| |
| * Maven 3.2.5 (2014-12-20) |
| |
| Plugins |
| |
| * Maven Compiler Plugin 3.2 (2014-10-13) |
| * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5 (2014-10-26) |
| * Maven Clean Plugin 2.6.1 (2014-10-26) |
| * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.18 (2014-11-01) |
| * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.18 (2014-11-01) |
| * Maven JXR Plugin 2.5 (2014-11-02) |
| * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5.1 (2014-11-04) |
| * Maven Toolchains Plugin 1.1 (2014-11-11) |
| * Maven PMD Plugin 3.3 (2014-11-14) |
| * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5.2 (2014-11-21) |
| * Maven Ant Plugin 2.4 (2014-12-15) |
| * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5.3 (2014-12-17) |
| * Maven AntRun Plugin 1.8 (2014-12-26) |
| * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.18.1 (2014-12-28) |
| * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.18.1 (2014-12-28) |
| * Maven EAR Plugin 2.10 (2014-12-31) |
| * Maven Plugin Plugin 3.4 (2015-01-04) |
| * Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 2.8 (2015-01-10) |
| * Maven WAR Plugin 2.6 (2015-01-11) |
| * Maven EJB Plugin 2.5 (2015-01-15) |
| * Maven GPG Plugin 1.6 (2015-01-19) |
| |
| Other |
| |
| * Maven Shared Utils 0.7 (2014-10-17) |
| * Maven Shared Filtering 1.3 (2014-10-18) |
| * Maven Parent POM 25 (2014-10-22) |
| * Maven Plugins Parent POM 26 (2014-10-22) |
| * Maven Shared Parent POM 21 (2014-10-22) |
| * Maven Skins Parent POM 10 (2014-10-22) |
| * Maven Archiver 2.6 (2014-10-31) |
| * Maven Repository Builder 1.0 (2014-11-13) |
| * ASF Parent POM 16 (2014-11-16) |
| * Maven Parent POM 26 (2014-11-16) |
| * Maven Plugins Parent POM 27 (2014-11-16) |
| * Maven Wagon 2.8 (2014-11-16) |
| * Apache Maven Plugin Testing 3.3.0 (2014-12-30) |
| * Maven Plugin Tools 3.4 (2015-01-04) |
| |
| [1] https://builds.apache.org/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/dist-tool-prerequisites.html |
| |
| [2] http://maven.apache.org/images/maven-logo-black-on-white.png |
| |
| [3] http://maven.apache.org/images/mascot-large.png |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AN: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen] |
| |
| Apache MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a |
| common interface for exploration and querying of different |
| types of datastores. |
| |
| Releases: |
| * December 12th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.1 |
| |
| Statistics: |
| * Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez) |
| * Last PMC members added: 2014-11-20 (When the project graduated) |
| * Mailing list activity for last 3 months: 412 messages |
| * Mailing list subscribers: 57 |
| * Commits the last 3 months: 41 |
| |
| Activity: |
| * The TLP infrastructure is properly in place now. |
| * A press release about the TLP graduation was published on the |
| Apache Blog. The community showed good cooperation to work with |
| Apache press on this. |
| * In mid-december we made our first release as a TLP with |
| the 4.3.1 release. |
| * Since then it has been quiet. Mostly a few issues with |
| the TLP website was addressed and the community hasn't had |
| any big topics to discuss yet in 2015. |
| * The website was slightly redesigned and made mobile friendly. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AP: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek] |
| |
| The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the |
| Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the |
| JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. |
| |
| Community |
| --------- |
| * No new Committers (since November 2013) |
| * No new PMC Members (since July 2011) |
| * No new Contributors |
| |
| The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases, |
| we discuss upcoming topics. |
| |
| -> Community business as usual (nothing special to report). |
| |
| Releases |
| -------- |
| MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report: |
| * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.3 (12/October/14) |
| * MyFaces Core 2.2.6 (12/November/14) |
| * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.4 (22/November/14) |
| * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.5 (20/December/14) |
| |
| Issues |
| ------ |
| The TCK issue mentioned in our January report for 2014 still exists. |
| There are no new issues that require the board's attention at this time. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AS: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael] |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| |
| Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance |
| of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the |
| library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration |
| with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities. |
| |
| MILESTONES |
| |
| Onami-Persist 1.0.1 has been released |
| |
| CURRENT ACTIVITY |
| |
| PMC are discussing how to manage releases using GIT. And has now setup a trial |
| GIT repo on github (just to experiment with for the release process). |
| |
| Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier) has resigned from PMC but remains a committer. |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| Currently the project are migrating from SVN to GIT. |
| |
| Users community is quite silent. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AU: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AV: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AW: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti] |
| |
| Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity |
| suite providing six productivity applications based around the |
| OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple |
| platforms and in dozens of languages. |
| |
| ### Issues for Board Awareness |
| 1) Andrea Pescetti, the current PMC Chair, gave his availability |
| to resign as soon as a successor can be elected: after 2 years it's |
| time for a rotation. Discussions are still ongoing, so the |
| resolution won't arrive in time for the January Board meeting. |
| |
| 2) The Apache OpenOffice community is still struggling in |
| involving new volunteers who can independently work on big |
| developments. Lack of appropriate mentors is still the main issue. |
| |
| 3) Following the many discussions we had in 2014, OpenOffice now |
| needs a replacement for Apache Extras. SourceForge provided a |
| proof of concept that could work for us, but we prefer that the new |
| location for Apache Extras is decided at an ASF-wide level (i.e., |
| that, as it used to be the case, all Apache projects put their |
| "Extras" in a common space). |
| |
| ### Community Development/Outreach Progress |
| Since the last report, the project added two PMC members: |
| Michael and Mechtilde Stehmann (mikeadvo, mechtilde) in |
| December 2014. The latest committer addition is from May 2014 (tal). |
| |
| We continue to see new volunteers who would like to be involved, |
| but we are able to use them for relatively easy tasks only, since we |
| are still witnessing a reduced level of activity (in terms of both |
| contributed lines of code and e-mails to the dev list) from more |
| experienced developers. |
| |
| The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is now out of the |
| "minimal maintenance" mode and is assigned to Jan Iversen. |
| |
| A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2 |
| licence is stalled, even though new volunteers show up regularly. |
| The problem is still the lack of appropriate coordinators/mentors. |
| |
| The localization community is growing, with new volunteers and new |
| languages. |
| |
| A survey run just before ApacheCon EU showed that we have a lot |
| on unexpressed potential in our volunteers, especially for |
| non-development tasks. The challenge is now to implement the "better |
| tools" and "better guidance" that these volunteers asked for, in |
| several fields, from documentation to marketing to QA. |
| |
| OpenOffice had a dedicated track at ApacheCon Budapest, with |
| talks spanning all the main project areas except core development. |
| OpenOffice will have a dedicated booth and a devroom (shared |
| with other OpenDocument Editors) at FOSDEM 2015, 31 January in |
| Brussels. |
| |
| The mailing lists for user support, localization, development are |
| quite active, the marketing, documentation, QA lists are moderately |
| active. Activity in social media is still good. Community support |
| forums remain popular with users, with an average of over 100 posts |
| per day. |
| |
| ### Product/Project Development Progress |
| Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 is currently in the plans. It will be a |
| bugfix release, but it will contain a major new feature in terms of |
| packaging, with digitally signed installers and executables that |
| will be accepted by modern Windows systems without warnings. |
| Considering the many counterfeited sites offering variants of |
| OpenOffice and the number of our users, this will be a significant |
| milestone for the project. |
| |
| Activities that are still foreseen, but mostly stalled at the |
| moment, include: actions for an easier installation and availability |
| on mainstream Linux distributions; a new localization process, now |
| progressing in the l10n40 branch; a rewritten OOXML filter, |
| allowing import and (later) export. |
| |
| The download trend remains very strong: Apache OpenOffice passed the |
| 130 million downloads at the end of 2014. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AX: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler] |
| |
| The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF |
| documents. |
| |
| General Comments |
| ---------------- |
| |
| There are no issues that require Board attention. |
| |
| Community |
| --------- |
| |
| There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. |
| |
| John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to |
| our ranks in February 2014. |
| |
| 493 (481 last report) subscribers on the user@ list |
| 149 (155 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list |
| |
| 170 JIRA tickets were created and 233 were resolved in the past 3 months. |
| |
| Releases |
| -------- |
| |
| Version 1.8.8 was released on 13nd of December 2014. It is an incremental |
| bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. |
| |
| Development: |
| ------------ |
| |
| The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: |
| |
| - switch to java 1.6 |
| - enhance the parser |
| - code cleanup |
| - enhance rendering |
| - enhance font handling |
| - add unicode support |
| - reduce memory footprint |
| |
| The long-awaited new major release is still under construction and there is |
| still a lot to do. Most of the bigger parts are done so that we see the light |
| at the end of the tunnel. |
| |
| Software Quality |
| ---------------- |
| |
| There is an ongoing effort to improve PDFBox based on the analysis of |
| different tools such as SonarQube, FindBugs and others. Only last month we |
| reduced the number of issues as reported SonarQube by 20%. |
| |
| We joined our forces with the Tika project. Tim Allison ran some tests on |
| their huge pool of test files pdfs (> 50.000 pdfs) to |
| - avoid regressions when preparing the PDFBox 1.8.8 bugfix release |
| - get clearance for updating Tika to use PDFBox 1.8.8 |
| - find differences/areas for improvements comparing the new major release 2.0 |
| to the current released version 1.8.x |
| - avoid regressions when switching the parser |
| - find areas for improvements/unsupported features and corner case pdfs not |
| exactly following the pdf specs |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin] |
| |
| Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| Low community activity. |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| The community activity has continued to wane. New contributors to the |
| list are being encouraged to contribute more. The existing community |
| needs to expand efforts to engage new individuals. |
| |
| COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES |
| 08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| 01/07/14 - 0.23 released. |
| |
| ACTIVITY |
| The last 3 months have been extremely quiet in terms of list and |
| development activity. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter] |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| |
| Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by |
| both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the |
| Incubator in January 2010. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention. |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady. The community has been |
| working on a plan to develop a deployment guide for Shindig to address recent |
| questions and issues users have been experiencing around properly deploying |
| Shindig. |
| |
| COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES |
| |
| No PMC member changes. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| Apache Shindig 2.5.2 was released the 2014-10-26. The community |
| is currently working towards a 2.5.3 release. |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar] |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| |
| Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data |
| between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational |
| databases. It can be used to import data from external structured |
| datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like |
| Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from |
| Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational |
| databases and enterprise data warehouses. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| * The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.99.4, released on |
| November 25, 2014 from the sqoop2 branch. |
| * No other release is planned at this time. |
| |
| CURRENT ACTIVITY |
| |
| * Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 |
| branches. |
| * A total of 236 issues have been resolved between the period starting |
| from October 1, 2014 to January 1, 2015. |
| * In the past three months, a total of 225 messages were exchanged on the |
| user list and a total of 697 messages were exchanged on the dev list. |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| * The addition of a new committer was done in August 2014. |
| * The last appointment to the PMC was done in August 2014. |
| * Currently there are: |
| - Total of 423 subscribers to the user list |
| - Total of 147 subscribers to the dev list |
| - Total of 21 committers |
| - Total of 14 PMC members |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] |
| |
| Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the |
| ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| * No releases yet. |
| |
| CURRENT ACTIVITY |
| |
| * Things have been extremely slow and quiet. I expect once we need to |
| actually *use* Steve again, things will pick up. |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there |
| has been no new committers or PMC members. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen] |
| |
| The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant |
| and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over |
| configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with |
| plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON. |
| |
| The Struts team made one release in the last quarter: |
| * Struts 2.3.21 - feature, bug fix and security fix release (2014-12-08) |
| |
| The last quarter was dominated by stabilizing and releasing Struts |
| 2.3.20, which is a major feature and bug fix release with more than 140 |
| issues addressed. It also addresses a security issue known as |
| CVE-2014-7809 / JVN#88408929 [1] |
| |
| We have made no progress in releasing a security fix version of the |
| already EOLed Struts 1 framework. However, a workaround now exists which |
| was developed and is provisioned externally. [2] |
| |
| In the last quarter we released a fully reworked web site, including a |
| brand new Struts logo [1]. The design was kindly provided by |
| SoftwareMill, a polish software development shop our fellow PMC member |
| Łukasz Lenart is working for. |
| |
| Within the reporting period we saw a significant rise in discussion and |
| planning efforts regarding a major new framework development line to be |
| released as Struts 3. |
| |
| No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter. |
| Last PMC member addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on |
| 2014-01-06. |
| |
| We have no issues that require board assistance at this time. |
| |
| [1] http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-023.html |
| [2] https://github.com/rgielen/struts1filter |
| [3] http://struts.apache.org/ |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi] |
| |
| Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current |
| projects are |
| |
| * Rivet |
| * Websh |
| |
| Board issues: |
| |
| the Change Audit section on whimsy still shows some discrepancies |
| in the membership data. I will fix the membership dates soon. |
| |
| Community: |
| |
| Two new project members were approved as committers and PMC |
| members. They joined the project in October and November 2014 |
| |
| Current number of subscribers to our public mailing lists are |
| |
| rivet-dev@: 47 subscribers |
| websh-dev@: 16 subscribers |
| |
| + no valid bug reports were filed |
| |
| Releases: |
| |
| + Rivet: we released version 2.2.0 on June 16th 2014 and we are |
| in the process of preparing a 2.2.1 release with a few new features |
| |
| + Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after |
| 3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24) |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah] |
| |
| Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework |
| which can be used to process arbitrarily complex DAGs of |
| data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing |
| primitives which can be used by other projects. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. |
| |
| STATUS |
| |
| Apache Tez graduated from Incubator in July 2014. |
| Over the past 3 months, there have been 2 maintenance releases for |
| the 0.5.x line and the community is working towards the 0.6.0 release. |
| One of the major features being worked on ( the Tez UI in a separate |
| dev branch ) was recently merged to master. |
| Overall, there have been over 270+ jiras created and slightly over |
| 270 jiras resolved. |
| |
| RELEASES ( since last report ) |
| |
| 0.5.2 released on Nov 7, 2014 |
| 0.5.3 released on Dec 10, 2014 |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| Auth: 32 PMC members and 34 committers ( as of Jan 08, 2014). |
| Additions since last report: |
| Committers: |
| Jeff Zhang ( added Oct 16, 2014 ) |
| Prakash Ramachandran ( added Jan 06, 2015 ) |
| PMC: |
| Jonathan Eagles ( added Oct 20, 2014 ) |
| Jira: Last 90 days: 274 jiras created, 271 resolved. |
| Mailing Lists: user@ - 147, dev@ - 146 subscribers. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell] |
| |
| Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. |
| |
| Project Status |
| --------- |
| Since releasing Apache Thrift 0.9.2 the Apache Thrift community has been working |
| on developer velocity, test fixes and minor client library improvements. |
| Discussions around build tooling and multi-system support occurred on the dev |
| list and within jira and we are planning to have a release candidate shortly |
| which will address items from these discussions. |
| |
| Community |
| --- |
| Latest Additions: |
| |
| * PMC addition: Ben Craig, 3.20.2014 |
| Henrique Mendonca, 3.20.2014 |
| * Contributor addition: Konrad Grochowski, 9.22.2014 |
| |
| Issue backlog status since last report: |
| |
| * Created: 154 |
| * Resolved: 120 |
| |
| Mailing list activity since last report: |
| |
| * @dev 2493 messages |
| * @user 96 messages |
| |
| Releases |
| --- |
| Last release: 0.9.2, Release Date: Nov 7, 2014 |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle] |
| |
| What is Tika? |
| ========================= |
| Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and |
| extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a |
| growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major |
| types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science |
| data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies. |
| |
| Issues |
| ========================= |
| There are no issues that need the boards attention. |
| |
| Releases |
| ========================= |
| The last release (1.7) was made in January 2015[1], with many new features |
| including an OCR Parser based on Tesseract, improvements to the Tika JAXRS |
| Server and a number of parser fixes & enhancements. |
| |
| Discussions have now started on the dev@ list to outline a roadmap[2] for what |
| a new 2.X stream could look like for the evolution of Tika. |
| |
| Community |
| ========================= |
| The Tika PMC added Konstantin Gribov as a committer and PMC Member in January |
| 2015. |
| |
| Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 389, 253 and 289 messages in November, |
| December and January 2014, respectively. user@ was at 10, 28 and 29 messages, |
| during the same timeframe. |
| |
| [1] http://s.apache.org/u0p |
| [2] http://s.apache.org/DSm |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin] |
| |
| Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for modern Java |
| applications. Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify |
| the development of user interfaces. |
| |
| This report is almost a carbon copy of the last one. There have been a couple of |
| releases and some discussion of progress, but no real change in the pace of the |
| project. I am submitting with this report a resolution to change the project |
| chair. I am finding that I have less and less time to fulfill the duties and |
| I don't want the project to suffer from my lack of time. I intend to remain on |
| the PMC and provide help to the new chair and oversight of releases, etc. |
| |
| The Tiles project continues to move at a slow pace, but work is ongoing. |
| In the last quarter the project has produced two releases: |
| |
| * Tiles Request 1.0.6 GA |
| * Tiles 3.0.5 GA |
| |
| The community to Tiles remains the same, a largely stable project. |
| The same one or two people have been continuing to do much of the |
| development for Tiles. There remains a little traffic in the users list |
| and in the issue tracker and these are responded to and/or fixed usually |
| within the week. The Spring community, and stackexchange.com, reamain the |
| most active inputs to the community. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BK: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom] |
| |
| Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid |
| and Varnish in functionality and features. |
| |
| Issues |
| ====== |
| |
| There are no issues that needs the board's attention. |
| |
| |
| Community |
| ========= |
| |
| One new committer was added since last report, leaving us with a total of 40 |
| committers. Our last committer and PMC member was added on 12/16/2014. |
| Activity on mailing list is normal, growth in subscriber list is almost |
| identical to the previous quarter: |
| |
| users@ - 457 subscribers (up 3% since last report) |
| dev@ - 298 subscribers (up 3% since last report) |
| |
| In Jira, 168 new tickets were opened and 258 were resolved or closed since |
| the last board report, which had 202 and 103 respectively. 786 changes were |
| committed to our git repository from 31 contributors. Last report had 624 |
| commits from 44 contributors. |
| |
| |
| Events |
| ====== |
| |
| The Fall 2014 ATS Summit was held at LinkedIn's offices in Sunnyvale. It was |
| well received, with participants from committers, developers and users. Slides |
| from most of the topics are available at |
| |
| https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Presentations+-+2014 |
| |
| A Bug Scrub event was held in the Chicago area, going through a large number |
| of issues. |
| |
| We are planning for our next Summit event adjacent to the 2015 ApacheCon |
| NA. In addition to that, we plan on holding "Hackathon" sessions before, |
| during and after the conference. |
| |
| |
| Releases |
| ======== |
| |
| Three new releases were made since last report: |
| |
| Apache Traffic Server v5.2.0 (released 1/14/2015) |
| Apache Traffic Server v5.1.2 (released 12/16/2014) |
| Apache Traffic Server v5.1.1 (released 10/31/2014) |
| |
| The v4.2.x version will be supported until Q3 2015, this is extended by an |
| additional 6 month from the initial plan. We have decided to avoid making |
| releases during the holidays around Thanksgiving and in December, and adjusted |
| our release schedules accordingly. The 5.2.0 release was delayed for a full |
| month as well. Learning from this, we expect release schedules to be further |
| adjusted in the 2015-2016 plans. |
| |
| Planned releases include: |
| |
| * 5.3.0: April 2015 |
| * 6.0.0: July 2015 |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] |
| |
| Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| - Community activity is very low. |
| |
| RELEASES |
| - Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013. |
| |
| COMMUNITY ACTIVITY |
| - Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012. |
| |
| - Mailing list traffic is low with 18 messages on the user list and 12 |
| messages on the dev list in 2014, and one JIRA notification on the dev list |
| in 2015. |
| |
| - There were no commits from the Tuscany committers in 2014, only one commit |
| from Infra adding the Web site to SVN for svnpubsub. There was one commit from |
| a Tuscany committer in 2015 adding a DOAP file to the project. |
| |
| - A discussion thread was started on Aug 16 on both user and dev lists to |
| request community input on new development plans. One response from a PMC |
| member suggesting a new release to pick up updated dependencies. |
| |
| - The PMC chair indicated on Aug 21 on the private list his intention to step |
| out of the PMC and asked for volunteers to replace him as he is too busy with |
| other work. Given the absence of response from any other PMC members, he is |
| continuing for now with the little spare time he has left. |
| |
| - Another discussion thread was started on Sep 17 on the private list asking |
| if there were enough PMC members to get the project going. Three responses, |
| one too busy to continue, another still following the mailing list without |
| seeing a realistic prospect to get involved in a release or commit activity, |
| a third stating that we need enough PMC members willing to review and vote on |
| releases or new committers/PMCs but volunteering to do that. |
| |
| BRANDING |
| - The project needs to update logos with ™. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BN: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann] |
| |
| Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. |
| |
| ISSUES |
| |
| There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. |
| |
| STATUS |
| |
| Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July 2014. Feature development in |
| the last 3 month was slow. Most work went into the paper on performance |
| evaluation (and comparison with other systems). |
| |
| COMMUNITY |
| |
| All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. |
| The community is still small. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in |
| September 2013. |
| |
| COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES |
| |
| - Continued focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. The |
| paper that will hopefully increase the visibility of the project should be |
| finished in January. |
| - Focus on bringing off-list communication back to the mailing list (a number |
| of discussions happened off-list and were not brought back). |
| |
| RELEASES |
| |
| Apache VXQuery 0.4 was released on Sep 7, 2014 |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] |
| |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer] |
| |
| Apache Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the |
| cloud. |
| |
| Releases: |
| No new releases this quarter. Last release was 0.8.2, April 2013. |
| |
| Community: |
| The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since |
| the last report. The last PMC change was the addition of Andrew Bayer |
| in November of 2012, and the last new committer was Graham Gear, also |
| in November of 2012. |
| |
| Issues: |
| No news - we need to start the process of going to the Attic. |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende] |
| |
| Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of |
| REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the |
| JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client |
| runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side |
| runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily |
| integrated into a variety of environments. |
| |
| There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment. |
| |
| Community: |
| The Wink project has a small community which is not very active. We have |
| had discussions on how to increase community activity, but no concrete |
| activity has actually been executed. Having said that, I believe Wink is |
| a mature project with active users and we should not consider any retirement |
| actions at the moment. |
| Last svn activity shows couple patches being applied towards wink website |
| in August, but actually no code change since december 2013. |
| Mailing lists are also slow as usual in the past year. |
| |
| Releases: |
| * Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013 |
| |
| Committers or PMC changes: |
| * Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013. |
| |
| Trademark/Branding: |
| * No known issues. |
| |
| Legal Issues: |
| * None |
| |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson] |
| |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------------ |
| End of minutes for the January 21, 2015 board meeting. |