The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes April 27, 2005 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00 PST -0800 and was begun at 10:04 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held by teleconference, hosted by Jim Jagielski and Covalent. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Brian Behlendorf Ken Coar Dirk-Willem van Gulik (arrived at 10:13) Jim Jagielski Geir Magnusson Jr. Stefano Mazzocchi Sam Ruby Greg Stein Sander Striker Directors Absent: none Guests: Davanum Srinivas (arrived at 10:22) 3. Minutes from previous meetings A. The meeting of December 15, 2004 SVN - foundation/board/board_minutes_2004_12_15.txt Minutes board/board_minutes_2004_12_15.txt approved by general consent. B. The meeting of February 23, 2005 SVN - foundation/board/board_minutes_2005_02_23.txt Minutes board/board_minutes_2005_02_23.txt approved by general consent. C. The meeting of March 30, 2005 SVN - foundation/board/board_minutes_2005_03_30.txt Minutes board/board_minutes_2005_03_30.txt approved by general consent. 4. Officer Reports A. Chairman [Greg] Greg reported that the foundation was moving along "fine" with a good separation of concerns. B. President [Dirk] Dirk reported that he is following AxKit and how it is playing out (has never yet had a release under the ASF "banner," and currently extensively uses non-ASF infrastructure). Dirk indicated that he would also like to discuss some CLA-like mechanism for ASF officers who are not members. C. Treasurer [Chuck] No report. D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Other than the steady trickle of incoming iCLAs and CCLAs, there is nothing to report. Jim reminded the board that we are due for the annual ASF Member Meeting and the election of a new board. Jim was to handle the coordination and scheduling of the meeting on the members@ list. 5. Committee Reports A. Apache DB Project [John McNally] See Attachment A Apache DB Project report approved as submitted by general consent. B. Apache Directory Project [Alex Karasulu] See Attachment B Apache Directory Project report approved as submitted by general consent. C. Apache Geronimo Project [Geir Magnusson Jr] See Attachment C Apache Geronimo Project report approved as submitted by general consent. D. Apache Incubator Project [Noel Bergman] See Attachment D There was discussion over the continued growth of the ASF via the Incubator and whether some control or limit was required. The general consensus was that unless the Incubator Project felt that this was a concern, the board was premature is making it a concern at this point. Apache Incubator Project report approved as submitted by general consent. E. Apache James Project [Serge Knystautus] See Attachment E Apache James Project report approved as submitted by general consent. F. Apache Maven Project [Jason van Zyl] See Attachment F No report. G. Apache MyFaces Project [Manfred Geiler] See Attachment G Apache MyFaces Project report approved as submitted by general consent. H. Apache Struts Project [Martin Cooper] See Attachment H Apache Struts Project report approved as submitted by general consent. I. Apache TCL Project [David Welton] See Attachment I Apache TCL Project report approved as submitted by general consent. J. Conference Planning [Ken Coar] See Attachment J Apache Conference Planning report approved as submitted by general consent. K. Security Team [Ben Laurie] See Attachment K No report. The board expressed serious concern that no report from the Security Team has been submitted for several times in a row. Greg asked for volunteers to contact Ben Laurie to determine why this is the case. Sander agreed to contact Ben and report back to the board. L. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cliff Schmidt] See Attachment L Apache DB Project report approved as submitted by general consent. 6. Special Orders A. Establish a new Excalibur PMC Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Leo Simons to the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Leo Simons from the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Leo Simons is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that J. Aaron Farr be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, 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 A, a Resolution to Establish a new Excalibur PMC Chair, was passed by Unanimous Vote. B. Establish the Apache Tomcat Project 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 related to the implementation of the Java Servlet and Java Server Pages specifications, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Tomcat PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Tomcat PMC be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the implementation of the Java Servlet and Java Server Pages specifications based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tomcat" 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 Tomcat PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Tomcat PMC; 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 Tomcat PMC: Jean-Francois Arcand (jfarcand@apache.org) Bill Barker (billbarker@apache.org) Kin-man Chung (kinman@apache.org) Jean-Frederic Clere (jfclere@apache.org) Ian Darwin (idarwin@apache.org) Tim Funk (funkman@apache.org) Henri Gomez (hgomez@apache.org) Filip Hanik (fhanik@apache.org) Larry Isaacs (larryi@apache.org) Jim Jagielski (jim@apache.org) Jan Luehe (luehe@apache.org) Costin Manolache (costin@apache.org) Remy Maucherat (remm@apache.org) Kurt Miller (truk@apache.org) Glenn Nielsen (glenn@apache.org) Amy Roh (amyroh@apache.org) Peter Rossbach (pero@apache.org) Yoav Shapira (yoavs@apache.org) Mark Thomas (markt@apache.org) Mladen Turk (mturk@apache.org) Keith Wannamaker (keith@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Remy Maucherat be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tomcat, 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 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Tomcat PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Tomcat Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Tomcat PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Jakarta PMC Tomcat subproject; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Jakarta Tomcat sub-project and encumbered upon the Apache Jakarta PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order B, a Resolution to Establish the Apache Tomcat Project, was tabled to allow the board to investigate some concerns. C. Estalish the Apache iBATIS Project 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 related to the iBATIS DataMapper, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache iBATIS PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache iBATIS PMC be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the iBATIS DataMapper, based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache iBATIS" 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 iBATIS PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache iBATIS PMC; 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 iBATIS PMC: Clinton Begin (cbegin@apache.org) Gilles Bayon (gbayon@apache.org) Ted Husted (husted@apache.org) Brandon Goodin (bgoodin@apache.org) Larry Meadors (lmeadors@apache.org) Roberto Rabe (roberto@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Clinton Begin be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache iBATIS, 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 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache iBATIS PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache iBATIS Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache iBATIS PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the incubating Apache iBATIS project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the incubating Apache iBATIS project encumbered upon the incubator PMC be hereafter discharged. Special Order C, a Resolution to Estalish the Apache iBATIS Project, was tabled to allow the board to investigate some concerns. 7. Discussion Items A. J2SE Project Geir noted that he had sent an Email to member@ regarding the possibility of the ASF taking on a new project to create a compatible, open-source implementation of the Java Runtime Environment, allowing for a "complete" open source stack. B. Fair Use of Java Specifications from Sun. This item was tabled. 8. Unfinished Business None 9. New Business None 10. Announcements None (Dirk's ECN/CCN discussion omitted) 11. Adjournment Scheduled to adjourn by 11:30 PDT -0700. Adjourned at 12:13. ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Apache DB Project Torque did not have any releases this quarter but bug fixes, unit tests, and refactoring continue. User questions get asked and answered. OJB released 1.0.2 followed quickly by 1.0.3 to solve some bugs. OJB also switched to JIRA during the quarter. The Jakarta and DB PMCs agreed to move the Jakarta commons sandbox project "sql" to DB as "ddlutils" subproject. As it is used primarily by OJB and has its roots with Torque, it was felt it would be a good place to have some collaboration between the groups. This transition is still in process. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache Directory Project There are no significant changes since last months report really. Everything is operating smoothly. Some significant notes on our present objectives ... We are trying to get the site up to par with a TLP site outside of the incubator before our next release. That is in terms of quality. We all do not want to draw too much attention until everything is in order for our users. The 0.9 code is ready to go but the docs and site are the only factors holding us back. We really want to make sure everything is right with this first release of apacheds outside of the incubator. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Geronimo Project The Apache Geronimo project has generally been fairly quiet due to concentrated effort at completing the J2EE 1.4 spec feature set, and testing via the J2EE TCK. 1) We are making good progress on the committer front with three new committers. This was an issue we were going to focus on coming out of incubation, and we're starting to see dividends from that effort. We do still believe that it's more difficult than we would like for new people to engage on the codebase at the moment due to the complexity of what we are currently working on, but we think that once we get past certification, and can focus on other issues like usability and such. That phase of the project will create lots of opportunity for those that aren't hard-core spec geeks to get involved. We have two individuals that have been offered committer status, have accepted, and are active : - Jeff Genender - Mark DeLaFranier We also have on individual who has been offered committer status and is working through the ICLA and CCLA issues with his employer. He still continues to participate during this process : - John Sission 2) We believe that we are now feature complete (or darn close) with the codebase, to the point that for the most part, TCK testing is driving the development now. 3) Certification testing with the TCK has been going on for some months now at a focused steady pace, and we are making fantastic progress. We're now mired in the Swamp of Web Services Pathos, and finding our way out of the Dark Dungeon of Interop, but the efforts are well handled, the problems understood, and it's now just a matter of working things out to the end. :) 4) We continue to collaborate with other projects as much as we can (due to laziness mostly...). We are working with the Maven 2 project as a good example of a complicated project to ensure that Maven 2 can support our build complexity, and continue to examine ways we can work more with the ObjectWeb projects. Progress in solving the ASFs LGPL issues would help us a great deal, and continue to support and applaud progress in that area. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects and their communities, with more projects graduating to TLP status, or to existing TLPs. This quarter saw healthy discussion of what constitutes a healthy community. The issue came up in regard to Derby (the Derby PPMC has exhibited a welcome response to addressing the issue), but really is generic to all projects, incubator and otherwise. As an aside, I try to keep track of recent Incubator graduates, and am generally pleased with how well they continue to do after leaving. Derby is actively trying to expand the number and independence of their Committers, with an eye towards graduating from the Incubator. The Incubator PMC will take a look this quarter at what to do with projects that have grown quiet. Some sort of hibernation status is one thought. Resource related issues have eased somewhat. Although, we still lack a sufficent level of automation, things have improved considerably, due in no small measure to Roy helping out with mailing lists, David Crossley helping to keep the web site built, and others contributing their time. - 0 - The list of projects in the Incubator is at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/. Attached are the STATUS reports from the PPMCs that have provided one. Other projects did not submit a status report to the PMC, or submitted one too late for inclusion in this quarter's report. Status Report from the JDO PPMC =============================== The Apache JDO project is chugging along. The 1.X reference implementation, API spec (javax.jdo interfaces), and TCK have been migrated to the ASF subversion repository, and the 2.0 API spec and TCK are under development. Expert Group communication is being migrated or mirrored to the ASF mailing lists as much as possible, including the regular conference call minutes. Two additional committers, Matthew Adams and Erik Bengtson, have been added to the project this quarter, in addition to the initial project committers. Both Matthew and Erik are members of the JSR 243 expert group, as well. Status Report from the Nutch PPMC ================================= Nutch is nearly ready to attempt graduation. Recently we ported our wiki from Sourceforge, so now the project is entirely hosted at Apache. All committers are active. We disabled several components when we moved to Apache, due to license compatibility problems, but nearly all of these have now been resolved. The Nutch Organization filed a Software Grant with the Apache Software Foundation, formally giving all Nutch software to Apache. Status Report from the Jackrabbit PPMC ====================================== http://incubator.apache.org/jackrabbit/ http://incubator.apache.org/projects/jackrabbit.html Jackrabbit is doing well as a project and is attracting interest both within other Apache projects (Lenya and Graffito in particular) as well as from new folks in the Java community. We added two new committers, Jukka Zitting and Dominique Pfister, and have received sustained contributions from Serge Huber, Edgar Poce, Angela Schreiber, Felix Meschberger, and others. Jackrabbit's only problem right now is continued reliance on JCP EG private discussions due to the unfinished nature of the JSR 170 Content Repository for Java Technology API. JSR 170 is expected to be submitted for final draft status in early May, after which all of the discussion can be moved to Apache lists. We anticipate graduating from Incubator sometime soon after that. Status Report from the Graffito PPMC ==================================== 1) Any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be addressed? no 2) What has been done for incubation since the last report? * The most important work was made on the Jetspeed 2 integration & building some JSR-168 portlets. There is a content tree view, a document viewer and an admin browser portlet. Futhermore, we have integrate an HTML editor (Kupu). * Some work has been done for the security management (fine grain access control, permission management, JAAS support, ...). * We have started raising awareness and promoting the project on some other Apache and non-Apache lists in order build further the community. * New developers have started collaborating with the core team on Graffito work, especially JCR mapping tools. 3) Plans and expectations for the next period? * Implementing our JCR mapping framework with Jackrabbit. * XML editor integration. * A Graffito implementation for the Jetspeed 2 page manager. * Continue our work on the JSR-168 portlets (search & version management). * Start a site demo with a Jetspeed integration * We expect the committer base to expand during next period given the current developer participation on the dev mailing-lists. 4) Any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? None so far. Status Report from the Agila PPMC ================================= Agila is going slower than hoped for various reasons, but recent addition of the BPEL engine Twister should help. Matthieu Riou is bringing Twister, and we hope this can rekindle spark and interest in the combined project. Status Report from the Beehive PPMC =================================== Beehive is in the home stretch of its 1.0-level release; we declared a beta release in March, and are on track to deliver a 1.0 in the late May timeframe. Posting automated daily builds continues to be an challenge, but otherwise infrastructure is well in place. At this point we are largely focused on fit'n'finish issues in the code, as well as a polished set of samples and documentation. The Beehive community added Bryan Che as a new committer in 2/05. With the beta release and open planning on features for the next version, we are seeing increased dev/user list activity -- we anticipate that the 1.0 release will be even more significant in building the community, and hope to graduate from the Incubator sometime soon after the 1.0 release. Certain Beehive components have a very clear affinity with the Apache Struts and AXIS projects, and those projects may play a role in graduation (pending further discussion). Status Report for WS sponsored incubation (Apollo, Hermes, Muse) ========================================================================== - Reviewed and updated Status for Apollo/Hermes/Muse on incubator svn/wiki. - Apollo, Hermes and Muse are actively considering petitioning an exit from incubation. - Apollo and Muse participated in the OASIS interops for WSRF and WSDM respectively - Hermes is considering a name change to Apache PubSub - Apollo is considering a name change to Apache WSRF - Added two new committers to Apollo and one each to Muse and Hermes - Working on getting Hitachi to help with Apollo/Hermes/Muse. Status Report for Juice ======================= - Juice is not active at all. We need to consider shutting down this project - Folks lost interest as our iCLA/CCLA process problems caused too much delays. #1: One of the main developers did not get his apache id because i lost track of his iCLA and did not request root for id as soon as his iCLA got registered. #2: We did get their CCLA a while back which had an extra addendum (U of Memphis) but we took too much time for legal review. Got resolved 2004-12-30 according to the svn:foundation/legal/STATUS file. Status Report from Derby PPMC ============================= - Recently, IBM posted a contribution of a JDBC network client driver. The community voted to accept the submission, but there was some question as to whether or not such a significant contribution is covered by the original Derby CCLA or whether it will require a new one. This was resolved by IBM submitting an amendment to the original CCLA/software grant listing the files in the new contribution. The amendment has been faxed to Noel and is being snailed to the ASF secretary. [Update: On 27-April-2005, the ASF received an addendum to the Derby CCLA and Software Grant via the Incubator PMC Chair] - The Derby logo vote was temporarily shelved due to voting irregularities. - Derby has satisifed all requirements necessary to graduate from incubation except for diversity of committership. Recent discussions on general@incubator seem to point to this being the only barrier to graduation that needs to be overcome. Jeremy Boynes was added as a committer earlier this year, but he remains the only non-IBM committer. New developers are getting up to speed, however, as evidenced by the acceptance of recent contributions by non-IBM developers Tomohito Nakayama and Shreyas Kraushik. - mailing list activity continues to grow steadily, both in number of subscribers and in overall activity. Recent stats show about 1000 posts to derby-dev in the last 3 months, around 2700 total in the nine months since inception, and about 500 posts to derby-user since inception. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache James Project Nothing that needs board guidance here. One new PMC member (just ack'd by board today), no new committers, and no releases. Developer talk is increasing and positive by both committers and others, and we're sorting out a strategy for getting off of Avalon. We'll be slowly refactoring the codebase into container-neutral POJO's and will down the road decide what container/platform(s) we'll support. The evolutionary approach has gained a lot of support, and seems to have much more chance at success than the revolutionary alternatives. Been a frustrating year or so, but looks like things are starting to pickup again. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Maven Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache MyFaces Project Latest News =========== We are currently having an exciting discussion with Oracle. Oracle has expressed serious intentions to support MyFaces. They want to make their ADF components open source and are willing to donate them to the ASF. http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/jsf/doc/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/jsf/doc/tagdoc/core/imageIndex.html In addition to that, Oracle will provide assistance with two JSF experts (Adam Winer and John Fallows). They will help us with the integration and the support for the new components. The exact roadmap for the integration is not yet fully discussed, but we have come to an agreement, that a step-by-step approach is the best solution in this case. Please bear in mind that - at the request of Oracle - this information should be kept confidential until their legal department has approved things. They also like to make some kind of announcement at JavaOne (June 27 - 30). So, at the latest we will have an exact plan then and - of course - we should not steal the show now. ;-) Community ========= We have a strong community and the user list (users@myfaces.apache.org) is frequently used: about 10 new threads a day, 3 replies at an average, almost no thread with no reply at all. Management ========== As resolved by the board the MyFaces PMC consists of the following initial members: Manfred Geiler (manolito@apache.org) Thomas Spiegl (tomsp@apache.org) Martin Marinschek (mmarinschek@apache.org) Matthias Wessendorf (matzew@apache.org) Sylvain Vieujot (svieujot@apache.org) Grant Smith (grantsmith@apache.org) Bill Dudney (bdudney@apache.org) Anton Koinov (anton@apache.org) Travis Reeder (treeder@apache.org) Ted Husted (husted@apache.org) Oliver Rossm?ller was already a PPMC member of MyFaces in Incubator. Because of an unfortunate mistake he did not appear in the board resoltion draft. Oliver was voted into PMC ex post and is now an official member as well. Domain ====== I'm still owner of the myfaces.org domain and would like to point it to myfaces.apache.org if there is nothing to be said against this. It expires in february 2006 and we could discuss later if it makes sense to renew. Infrastructure ============== The mailing lists have been successfully moved from Incubator to top level. Moving the depository from Incubator CVS to top level SVN has not been done yet, but infrastructure is already informed about this pending Task. We have a current discussion about the future project structure. FYI, MyFaces consists of some parts that need to be separated and rearranged: the JSR-127 API, the base JSF implementation, common classes, additional non-standard components and extensions, a sandbox (not yet)... Release ======= We have successfully released our first top level release "MyFaces 1.0.9 (m9)", but there where legal difficulties we had to solve. The release ran through the ordinary process with 3 release candidate and was voted "stable" by the community. Nevertheless, according to JSF license restrictions we are not allowed to call our releases "final" until we have passed the JSR-127 TCK. There was a discussion on how we should label this stable release ("beta", "non-final", ...). IMHO, we found a good tradeoff: Our current release is called "MyFaces 1.0.9(m9)". "m9" stands for "milestone 9". In addition to this label there is a detailed explanation on our page. Craig McClanahan and Ed Burns from Sun where both involved in this dicussion and consider this solution reasonable. Tasks ===== (Current status of all our tasks are tracked at http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/ProjectManagement) Finished: * Move website from http://incubator.apache.org/myfaces/ to http://myfaces.apache.org * Organize the nightly builds * Adapt our status on the Homepage * New mailing lists dev@myfaces.apache.org, users@myfaces.apache.org, pmc@myfaces.apache.org, commits@myfaces.apache.org * Make decision about CVS vs. SVN Pending: * Move documentation content from tikiwiki at http://www.myfaces.org to forrest XMLs * Point http://www.myfaces.org to http://myfaces.apache.org and close tikiwiki site * Adapt our status on the Incubator Project Homepage * Add a bylaw saying users should subscribe to mailing list(s) and not contact single persons for support * Move/rename repository from CVS incubator-myfaces to CVS/SVN myfaces (after everybody has committed his local changes) * Move/rename site docs (forrest) to new CVS/SVN module "myfaces-site" * Split MyFaces into sub-projects: API, Main, Shared, Components, Sandbox(?) * Customize our Wiki FrontPage ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache Struts Project This has been a busy quarter in the Struts community. We have completed the refactoring of the Subversion repository into subprojects, and added a new master build system using Maven. Two new subprojects have joined the fold; Struts Shale is an alternative approach to web applications based on JSF, and Struts Flow allows complex workflows to be implemented using JavaScript. Our first proposal for a Struts subproject written in C#, named OverDrive, has been introduced in our sandbox area. On the people front, in addition to the change of PMC chair, one new committer, Hubert Rabago, accepted an invitation to join us, and we welcome back David Geary from emeritus to active status. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Status report for the Apache TCL Project This quarter was not very eventful for the Apache Tcl world. Release ------- We released Apache Rivet 0.5.0, which may become 1.0 if there are no problems with it. People ------ No changes with the people involved with Apache Tcl. Projects -------- Some (very) casual/informal discussions with the person behind the Jim interpreter about the potential for working with the ASF, but nothing concrete. It's a neat project - although it's just beginning, it's already getting a community rolling. We'll see in the future. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Conference Planning Conference planning for the 2005 event in Stuttgart is proceeding apace. We have lined up two days of tutorials and three days of conference sessions. There continues to be concern about the apparent increasing focus on Java-specific technologies; I have heard comments from some people that they're not interested in ApacheCon -- or really in the ASF -- anymore because there's very little there for anyone who codes in any other language, or uses technologies that don't involve Java. Activity on the concom proper is increasing gradually. More and more members are getting involved, as lurkers if nothing else. A restricted RFP was offered to Full Circle Productions (Charel Morris), E-vents (Jeffrey Wainhause), Software & Support Verlag, and Terry Deguili's company. The first three returned proposals; the fourth declined to bid. I expect to make a decision this Friday. This RFP was specifically for managing a 2005 event in the US. An unrestricted RFP for ongoing future US conferences will be offered this Summer, and the contract awarded *after* any US show in 2005. This is intended to spur the 2005 contractor (whomever it might be) to extra effort in order to advance their bid. The ApacheCon host system, which was donated several years ago by AMD, suffered a CPU failure and is now dead. For the interim, the site was moved to some old spare hardware provided by Bill Stoddard. AMD has been contacted about possibly donating a replacement system At this point it has been all but decided that the ApacheCon system will move to the ASF colo where it can receive more distributed support. Due to issues of non-profit/for-profit, it has been concluded that the ApacheCon site needs to be on completely separate hardware, so a virtual machine on an existing ASF system is not an option. Reports from multiple sources indicate that at least two of the major sponsors of ApacheCon 2004/US are withholding payment, which has had a direct effect on the payments to the ASF and to some speakers. The issues are between the sponsors and Security Travel. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status report for the Security Team ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status report for the Apache XMLBeans Project Done over last quarter: - release of 1.0.4 (jdk 1.4), 1.0.4 (jdk 1.3), and beta of 2.0 - getting very close to a final v2.0. - discussed RogueWave's proposal for a C++ port/subproject of XMLBeans. The PMC didn't see any blocking issues with it, but we've asked them to propose it on the dev list for a public discussion and vote. If all goes well, we'll be asking the Incubator PMC to take them on. Still on the todo list: - Get XMLBeans charter agreed on and approved - Work with XML community to define XML federation ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the April 27, 2005 board meeting.