The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes October 26, 2005 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00 PST -0800 and was begun at 10:05 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. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Ken Coar Justin Erenkrantz Stefano Mazzocchi Sam Ruby Greg Stein Sander Striker Directors Absent: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Ben Laurie Jim Jagielski Guests: Geir Magnusson Jr. Eddie O'Neil Cliff Schmidt 3. Minutes from previous meetings Minutes in Subversion are found under the URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board/ Append the minutes URIs to that to access them through the Web. A. The meeting of July 28, 2005 SVN - board/board_minutes_2005_07_28.txt [not yet available] B. The meeting of August 17, 2005 SVN - board/board_minutes_2005_08_17.txt Approved by General Consent. C. The meeting of September 21, 2005 SVN - board/board_minutes_2005_09_21.txt Approved by General Consent. D. The meeting of September 29, 2005 SVN - board/board_minutes_2005_09_29.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Officer Reports A. Chairman [Greg] Apache activities and processes appear to be operating as we would expect and hope. Most items are being handled by the PMCs and other committees as appropriate. The Board has a couple major outstanding items to take care of (working with the Geronimo PMC and the Treasurer transition). B. President [Sander] An observation this month is that the ASF is not using the potential it has for exposure optimally. At several conferences multiple ASF members are present and it would be not too hard to have flyers present at conferences. An option could be to pre-distribute flyers to known frequent conference go-ers. Infrastructure is still operational. It is clear that the knowledge of the infrastructure of a whole is not centrally available. It is hard to create a job description that includes all the ins and outs of managing our infrastructure. Due to this fact, the Infrastructure Search Committee is now focussing on first making a decent inventory of what we do and how we do it. This by defining an RFP to have an external party do the inventory, documentation and possible automation over a period of 3 months time. The RFP is still a work in progress. David Reid has excused himself from the Infrastructure Search Committee. Theo Schlossnagle has reiterated that OmniTI is offering their software to run the mailservers of the ASF. Apple has donated two machines for the purpose of running our mail. Once both machines are hooked up, we can pursue this offer. C. Treasurer [Justin] As seen below in our balances, the PayPal limits have now been removed and I have rebalanced our accounts to try to generate as much interest as possible while minimizing bank fees. At the special meeting on the 29th, we passed a set of authorizations which should allow operation of the foundation until the end of the year. Sander has now received his credit card, key fob, and signature paperwork. Messages have been left to our WF contact regarding the set up of our lockbox, QuickBooks access, and various other minor topics. Hopefully, these will be resolved shortly. One notable short-term high-priority item is to start drafting the 2006 budget so that the Board can set the relative budget priorities for the next year. One final item is to close out the Treasurer transition and to consequently work in coordination with the Audit Committee to certify our past books. Current Balances as of 10/25/2005: Paypal $ 18.68 (-$ 7,118.75) Checking $15,001.23 (-$12,911.69) Savings $119,108.55 (+$18,167.19) Total $134,128.46 (-$ 1,863.25) D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim would like to schedule the annual ASF Member's Meeting to coincide with ApacheCon, as we have done in the past. Once a date is approved, Jim will start the normal process for the meeting (eg: notices to members, request for new member nominations, etc...). There has been no letters or deliveries sent to the ASF office requiring board attention. E. V.P. of Legal Affairs [Cliff Schmidt] ADDITIONAL COUNSEL: I have signed an agreement with Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center to have them offer the ASF pro bono legal services. The first job will be to work with Justin on renewing our 501(c)(3) status and some of the thorny issues we need to resolve to get our books in order. BXA/CRYPTO: While I was working on a draft crypto policy, I was notified that the Perl PMC (and Tomcat?) may not have sent notification to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS, formerly known as BXA). This has required me to try out specific guidance on these two projects, which will hopefully make the formal policy more robust. I'm still working with the Perl and Tomcat PMCs to help solve their immediate issues. Most of the relevant discussion has been cc'd to legal-internal. COPYRIGHT NOTICES: Last month I reported that I was getting general agreement from our counsel to move to a policy that requires only a licensing notice, but not a copyright notice at the top of each source file. I regret to say that I have made very little progress on this issue since last month. I'll have this ready for next board meeting. LGPL: Last month I reported that this issue needs to be addressed within the context of an overall policy stating what licenses are acceptable for ASF distributions to take dependencies on and distribute (see "Third Party IP" issue below). Ten days ago, I sent Eben Moglen (in his role as general counsel for the FSF) a five-page document (including a developer-focused FAQ) on my interpretation of exactly what the LGPL allows and does not allow related to Java dependencies and distribution requirements. He has not given me feedback on this yet, but has been talking about releasing a similar position paper on behalf of the FSF. THIRD-PARTY IP: Last month I reported that most of the licenses we thought we could sublicense under the Apache License (including the CPL) can really only be distributed under their own license. So, we now need to figure out what makes a license okay to include in an Apache distribution. I've made very little progress on this in the last month, but I hope to have a policy written, discussed, and ready for approval by the December board meeting. ASF LEGAL POLICY DOC: Although I did not make as much progress as I'd hoped on the copyright notice and third-party IP issues over the last month, I did write up and outline for an overall legal policy doc to address these issues and others. The outline (including a brief preview of where the document was probably headed) was sent to legal-discuss. 5. Committee Reports A. Conference Planning Committee [Ken Coar] See Attachment A Approved by General Consent. B. Apache DB Project [Brian McCallister / Stefano] See Attachment B Approved by General Consent. C. Apache Directory Project [Alex Karasulu / Ken] See Attachment C Approved by General Consent. D. Apache Geronimo Project [Geir Magnusson Jr. / Jim] See Attachment D Approved by General Consent. E. Apache Incubator Project [Noel Bergman / Ben] See Attachment E Approved by General Consent. F. Apache James Project [Serge Kynstautas / Sam] See Attachment F Action Item: Sam to chase down minutes G. Apache Maven Project [Jason van Zyl / Dirk] See Attachment G Action Item: Stefano 1) PMCs are to notify the PRC when there are press releases 2) PRC should monitor for ASF related press Approved by General Consent. H. Apache MyFaces Project [Manfred Geiler / Sander] See Attachment H Approved by General Consent. I. Apache Struts Project [Martin Cooper / Justin] See Attachment I Approved by General Consent. J. Apache TCL Project [David Welton / Greg] See Attachment J Action Item: Greg to track down report K. Apache Security Team [Ben Laurie] See Attachment K Action Item: Sander to track down report L. Apache Excalibur Project [J Aaron Farr / Dirk] See Attachment L Approved by General Consent. M. Apache Web Services Project [Davanum Srinivas / Sander] See Attachment M Approved by General Consent. N. Apache Xalan Project [Brian Minchau / Justin] See Attachment N Approved by General Consent. 6. Special Orders A. Update Public Relations Committee Membership WHEREAS, the Public Relations Committee (PRC) of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) expects to better serve its purpose through the periodic update of its membership; and WHEREAS, the PRC is a Board-appointed committee whose membership must be approved by Board resolution. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the following ASF members be added as Public Relations Committee members: Ian Holsman Yoav Shapira Special Order 6A, Update Public Relations Committee Membership, was Approved by Unanimous Consent. B. Changing the Apache Geronimo Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Geir Magnusson Jr. to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Geir Magnusson Jr. from the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo; and WHEREAS, it is the Board's belief that the Apache Geronimo project requires careful monitoring and guidance at this time; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Geir Magnusson Jr is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ken Coar be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, 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 6B, Changing the Apache Geronimo Project Chair, was Approved with five yes votes and one abstention. 7. Discussion Items A. Apache Geronimo B. Set date for Annual ASF Member's Meeting @ ApacheCon. Proposed date: Dec. 11, 2005 (Sunday evening) Action Item: Greg to direct Jim to make Sunday evening official C. Courier Service Action Item: Justin and Greg to send plan by next board meeting. D. Infrastructure search committee candidate funding 8. Review of Current Action Items 9. Unfinished Business 10. New Business Request was made for $1200 for press releases, Justin is OKed for $1500 11. Announcements 12. Adjournment Scheduled to adjourn by 12:00 PDT -0700. Adjourned at 12:04. ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Conference Planning Committee The ApacheCon 2005/US conference is moving along well. FCP is doing an impressive job of arranging for sponsors and other support; it's quite refreshing. At the moment there are approximately 100 paid registrants. The delay in payments and information from S&SV for ApacheCon 2005/EU has been blamed on personnel disruptions and vacations in their organisation. There have been ongoing problems with funds being wired from Germany; at this point I'm only aware of one person who has yet to be reimbursed. In the future, we (the ASF) are probably not going to run the conference Web site. (Which comes as a huge relief to lots of people, not least me.) What other restructuring of our operations will happen remain to be discussed and seen. There have been agitations that we do things in significantly different ways, but very little in the way of followup from the proponents. One person has suggested that we contract FCP for all conferences worldwide for the next few year, with a suitably edited (and penalty-barbed) agreement. It's certainly the easy way out, and absent serious discussion of alternatives on the concom@ list I may take it. The issue of whether S&SV should do the next European conference has come up; S&SV themselves seem to think they're going to be doing it. That's still being discussed. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache DB Project With Derby's graduation from the incubator the DB project has three products on which to report. Derby added 3 new PMC members immediately: Jean T. Anderson, Daniel John Debrunner, and Tomohito Nakayama. Recently a fourth was nominated and David Van Couvering is awaiting acknowledgement by a board member. Three new Derby committers were added in July: David Van Couvering, Bernt Johnsen and Oyvind Bakksjo. Derby graduated out of the Apache Incubator at the end of July to join the DB Project, and it made its first official release, 10.1.1.0, available on August 3. The developer and user communities are both thriving with 242 and 356 subscribers, respectively. There has been a increase in proposal collaboration since the creation of the Derby wiki in September. OJB has added a committer, Vadim Gritsenko, and is preparing for a release in the near future. They are delaying conversion to svn until the 1.0.4 release can be made. The Torque project is busily working towards its 3.2 release. It has put out two RCs and a final release is expected near the end of October. The code repository has been moved from CVS to Subversion. The project is currently encouraging longtime contributors to become committers; Thomas Vandahl has been voted in as a committer. The users list shows an active and growing community around Torque. There has been some restructuring of documentation, though that is still seen as an area needing improvement. Finally, at my request that someone else be given the helm, the DB PMC voted that Brian McCallister be appointed Chair and I submitted a draft proposal to that effect in August. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Directory Project On the people front we added the following new committers: * Stefan Zoerner * Ersin Er We also added a new member to the PMC who has been a long time committer on the project (since graduation): * Emmanuel Lecharny Besides this we're working towards a 1.0 release as rapidly as we can. We have released two feature releases since our last report: 0.9.1 and 0.9.2. We have a few more of these to go until a 1.0. Generally speaking everything is going well with the project which seems to be growing steadily. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Geronimo Project Achievements ============ 1) M5 release - this is the first fully J2EE 1.4 certified release of Apache Geronimo. This was the basic goal of the project since it's founding, and we are very proud to have achieved this in only a little over 2 years. 2) Apache Tomcat is fully supported and certified - as part of the M5 release, we now offer Apache Tomcat as an option as the web container in the server. Along with Jetty, this is fully certified as compatible. 3) Added two new committers, Sachin Patel and Matt Hogstrom. These are two great developers who are adding quite a lot in the areas of tooling and performance. 4) Added Eclipse plug-in to project - we now have our tooling efforts off to an excellent start with Eclipse support for creating, deploying and debugging applications for Geronimo 5) Added "DayTrader" performance application - DayTrader is a J2EE application designed to test the real-world usage of J2EE functionality. We expect to use DayTrader to help improve performance and tune Apache Geronimo 6) Addition of XDoclet2 plug-in - another addition to our tooling effort, we now have work underway to supply a XDoclet2 plug-in for Geronimo 7) Create new subproject - dev tools - home for our tooling efforts, this subproject contains the new eclipse plug-in and XDoclet2 plug-in. 8) Logo contest - we have run and completed a contest for the project logo. We are currently finalizing formal contribution of all rights to the logo to the ASF by the creator. 9) General steady progress made in community growth as evidenced by downloads and mail list traffic and diversity Upcoming ======== 1) Major effort will be focused on upcoming 1.0 release, targetted for ApacheCon 2005 2) Expect our community to continue to grow now that we've reached the certification milestone. The server now is usable as a J2EE server, and this will garner both users and contributors. For example, we're expecting new contributions to the project, such as code forming a starting point for a new CORBA implementation to get us free of the Sun JDK ORB. 3) Continued work on project guidelines and governance, such as outstanding discussions surrounding PMC chair succession. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects and their communities. This quarter saw continued development of our communities. A major and happy surprise was the resurrection of the ftpserver project from total quiescence. One general issue has come up with a certain amount of contention. What do we do when we have outside communities and ASF Members who want to establish a project in some problem domain, and some third party feels that we are invading their turf. I have my own view --- even internally, we do little about inter-project competition, e.g., Ant and Maven --- but we can probably expect to have this issue come up now and then. Continued thanks to our manual ForrestBot, David Crossley, for helping to keep the web site built, and to others contributing their time. - 0 - The list of projects in the Incubator is at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/. Here are the STATUS reports from the PPMCs. The drafts were collected at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorBoardReport2005Q4. All but WSRP4J provided a status report. On a related note, I and other members of the infrastructure team remain rather displeased that e-mail sent by us to more than a few ASF lists as necessary to notify them of something, bounces because the projects have had moderated posting disabled for their list(s). We must correct this problem, either by adding every ASF Officer, Director and infrastructure team member to the allowed list for every mailing list, or by requiring moderated lists. === Agila === * Moving very slowly, I hope to inject some activity in the upcoming months. * No new recent committers === AltRMI === Perhaps moving out of Incubator (and Apache). Destined for /archive ? === Felix === * Name was changed from Oscar to Felix * Mailing list, svn and other resources modified to reflect the name change * Accepted contribution from TBennet for maven 2 OSGi plugin * Evaluating offer by Domoware to donate Universal plug-and-play OSGi service * Since inception several people have joined the mailing list * Committer involvement and activity needs to improve however this is just the first quarter * [OT] OSGi R4 released at OSGi World Congress === FtpServer === Much interest and new life. Rana is back and making changes. Three or four non-committers are contributing in mind share and patches. Healthy debate on component architecture reminiscent of traditional Apache conversations. === Graffito === Lot of work underway : * working on JCR mapping for Graffito objects * port under way for using Graffito for storing Jetspeed page descriptions in a Graffito managed repository (effort lead by Jetspeed team) * several new names have appeared on mailing-list and start contributing patches and join the design discussions We plan to have a Graffito binary bundled with upcoming Jetspeed 2 M4 release (required if PSML integration is complete for M4). If community development continues its progress as expected, I think we'll add couple of new committers this quarter and probably ask for exiting Incubator early next year. === Harmony === Project is moving along. Recent quarter has focused on creating the contribution and committer process for the project. The result has been the creation of an "Authorized Contributor Questionnaire" to allow contributors to declare what portions of the project codebase they could have problems working in due to contraints imposed on them through prior work. (For example, being under NDA to an employer.) We also have worked out the process for accepting "bulk contributions", those works that have been created elsewhere and are being donated to Harmony. This process builds on the standard Apache Incubator process - a CCLA or SG is still required and registered. Other highlights : * We have accepted 3 new code contributions * Componentization proof of concept * "bootVM" a new basic VM nucleus * "JCHEVM", a re-licensing of JCVM * We have added two new committers * We expect to continue to add new committers and new code at an accelerating rate === Jackrabbit === The Apache Jackrabbit podling is slowly recovering from the impact of finalizing JSR 170, initializing JSR 283 (the next JCR specification revision EG), and the summer holiday schedule. We are in the process of reconfiguring our source directories for an eventual 1.0 release and Maven 2 support. No new committers were added this quarter, though we expect more to be added soon. === JDO === Project is doing very well. There is ample activity and I expect that JDO will be able to graduate from the Incubator in the upcoming quarter. * Project has active committers from 4 different companies, and 2 with unknown affiliation. * Project has an active contributor from an unknown affiliation. * Project status information is up to date. * Project is discussing near-term release of code. === JuiCE === No signs of life. There is some interest in WSS4J to use parts for the code with a modified version of Bouncy Castle to speed things up. Let's see the people involved start contributing. === log4net === * Log4net has elected Rob Grabowski (rgrabowski@apache.org) as a new committer. This brings the number of active committers to 3, helping meet incubator exit criteria. * We have recently migrated from CVS to SVN. * We are working towards the next maintenance release with a focus on code quality and improving the available end user documentation. === log4php === * All reported bugs have been fixed so it's time to prepare the first stable release. * The new php5 version of log4php is ready for the initial import into svn repository. At first, it will support only a minimal set of functionalities. === Lucene === The latest release is still 1.4.3. We are preparing for release of version 1.9. A LOT of good contributions and patched have been submitted to JIRA and the lists are increasingly more active. We/I plan on going through as many contributions and patches in the coming weeks (October/November), reviewing and committing them, and then making a release. === Lucene4c === Not much has happened in the last few months. Most participants have been off working on other things. Considering the lack of interest in the project recently, we may want to think about closing it down until such time as developers have the time and energy to turn it into a more useful product, which seems to be a necessary first step in order to turn it into a sustainable community. === mod_ftp === The infrastructure work has been completed: mailing lists and SVN repos have been requested and created. The IP clearances for the module codebase have been received and filed, and the source code has been imported into the mod_ftp SVN repo. Work has started on changing the build environment to a more "normal" ASF module setup. === Roller === * Developed minor Roller 1.3 release and voted to release it * Developed major Roller 2.0 release with group blogging an new UI * Added new committer Elias Torres * Added status page on incubator site: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/roller.html === stdcxx === Stdcxx status report for the calendar quarter ending in 9/2005: This is the first quarterly report for stdcxx. Since the inception of the stdcxx podling the stdcxx community has substantially completed the migration of the project from the Rogue Wave infrastructure to the Apache infrastructure. Notably, the source code of the library, the accompanying utility programs, a comprehensive set of example programs, as well as the complete project documentation in HTML have been transferred to Subversion. All source files have been modified to reflect the Apache license. A bug tracking database has been created in Jira and is being actively and extensively used to track issues and tasks. The appropriate mailing lists have been created. All new stdcxx committers have submitted their Contributor License Agreements. In September the stdcxx development community with the approval of the Incubator PMC published the first and final snapshot of the initially contributed sources, labeled version 4.1.2. At this time the stdcxx community is working toward version 4.1.3 of the project. The goals of this effort are to migrate the project test suite from the Rogue Wave test harness to the new stdcxx test driver, to complete the transfer of the tests from the Rogue Wave source code repository to Subversion, and to complete the implementation of the configuration and build infrastructure for Microsoft Windows. The estimated time-frame for reaching these goals is the first half of 2006. The objective of the stdcxx community for the next quarter is to work on further increasing the visibility of the project, attracting additional contributors, and growing the active community of developers around it. === Synapse === The Synapse project had a F2F meeting in Cupertino, CA to get initial views on direction and overall relationship to Axis2 etc.. The notes are [http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse/200509F2F here]. The community is slowly starting to discuss stuff and get going in the synapse-dev@ws.apache.org mailing list; since its only been a few weeks since the start it will take more time to get fully functional and effective. We expect to have a much more interesting report by the next F2F. === TSIK === While the TSIK project has not gained momentum as quickly as initially hoped, there has been some usable interaction with ws.apache.org on how to modularize TSIK, to both break out components for potential common use, as well as reuse existing ASF code (SOAP messaging stack, for example). The next few months will be crucial for TSIK. There is increasing interest in various types of identity protocols -- federated or not -- and how they are usable within web services (see TSIK road map for further discussion). This could be an area where TSIK could be a driving force. === Woden === We posted a Woden milestone plan in September covering M1 at end-Sept through to M5 in Jan 2006. Completion of the initial project objective, full WSDL 2.0 functionality, is targetted for M4 end-Nov. M1 was release on Mon 3 Oct and included most but not all of the planned scopd. M3 and M4 will be busy periods. M5 and future plans will emerge as we approach M4 and start thinking about other Woden objectives like WSDL 1.1 conversion and StAX XML parsing for the Axis community. We are using the woden-dev mailing list for communication and discussion and recently held our first conference call - although not all participants could make the call, it helped confirm the Milestone plan and resolve some technical issues. Most of the development is currently being done by 2 committers and this may continue up to M3/M4, by which time we will have a suitable base for others to start building on. === WSRP4J === NO REPORT PROVIDED However, Santiago Gala provided a report to the Board last month as part of the Portals quarterly report (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-wsrp4j-dev/200509.mbox/%3c11272 04512.30199.26.camel@localhost%3e). From what I can see on the mail archives, essentially nothing has happened since. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache James Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Maven Project New projects No new projects New PMC members No new PMC members New Committers * Fabrizio Giustina * Vincent Siveton * Lukas Theussl Releases * Maven 2.0-beta-1 * Maven 2.0-beta-2 * Maven 2.0-beta-3 * Maven 2.0-RC * Maven 2.0 * Continuum 1.0-alpha-4 * Continuum 1.0-beta-1 * A raft of Maven 2.x plug-ins which are now being tracked here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Maven+Plugin+Matrix Goings On Things cruised along nicely toward the release of Maven 2.x. Our mailing lists are going ballistic and we have more involvement from volunteers then we've ever had in the history of the project. In doing the documentation for the release, for example, five different people contributed significant amounts of documentation and we simply can't keep up with the number of patches coming in. Our JIRA issues for Maven 2.x has pretty much caught up to our issue count for Maven 1.x which is well over 1200. We've closed out several hundred issues over the last couple months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache MyFaces Project Summary ======= * TCK tests passed successfully for the very first time. * First official final release 1.1.0 published. * Growing and healthy community. * New component set ("Tobago") to be incubated. Latest News =========== * August 25: We finally got access to the JSF 1.1 TCK (Thanks to Geir Magnusson for his sedulous efforts!) * September 12: We passed all TCK tests successfully for the first time. * September 19: We were able to publish our first official final release 1.1.0. Community ========= * Still growing: 8 new committers since the last status report and many contributors sending patches. * Healthy: 636 subscribers and 40 mails per day on our user list. Peak of 100000 hits per day on our website. * Efficient: After just two weeks of good teamwork we where able to pass all TCK tests. Tobago ====== The company Atanion (http://www.atanion.com) wants to contribute their component set named "Tobago" (http://tobago.atanion.net/site/) to the ASF. They will go through the Incubator process (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TobagoProposal). As the developers of Tobago have already been very active in our community, we have already granted them committer rights to MyFaces. The sourcebase will be reviewed in the incubator process. Domain ====== Transfer of domain "myfaces.org" to Apache Dotster has not yet happend due to lack of time. We will contact @infra again on this. Infrastructure ============== The restructuring payed off. We now have a clear separation between API, implementation, examples, component set ("Tomahawk") and sandbox. Release ======= * Latest release 1.1.0, published on September 19 was... Well, let's call it a little "bumpy". Although stable and TCK tested there was a showstopper due to a missing configuration file. A workaournd is available, but the problem could have been avoided with more careful release candidate testing. Perhaps we where a little bit too euphoric after having passed the TCK. ;-) * Release candiate testing for next release (1.1.1) is currently in progress. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Status report for the Apache Struts Project The Struts community continues to make steady progress toward the 1.3.0 release of "Struts Classic" and the 1.0.0 release of "Struts Shale", our offering for JavaServer Faces developers (JSR-127). We've added three new committers: Greg Reddin, Laurie Harper and Sean Schofield. Greg has been working on Standalone Tiles, Laurie has been working with on the Struts Classic release, and Sean is an Apache MyFaces committer who also been working on Struts Shale. We've moved our website and development infrastructure to Maven as our primary build, and the initial draft of our Mavenized website is online at struts.apache.org. Our nightly builds are now running on our Solaris 10 zone on helios. Active development is also taking place on our Standalone Tiles and Struts Ti efforts in the sandbox, including a substantial contribution to Struts Ti from the Beehive PageFlow folks. Members of our community have also been invited to particpate in two Java web framework working groups. One group, "Clarity", would like to create a best-of-breed framework that combines the features of Spring MVC, Struts Classic, Struts Ti, Beehive and WebWork. The "Java Web Alignment Group" has a similar charter, but they are trying to involve a broader range of frameworks. Both groups are still at the "hand waving" stage, and there is nothing concrete to report. The groups are already intermixing, and we hope the consolidation efforts will themselves consolidate. :) The underlying issue is that there is not a clear migration path to JSR-127 from frameworks like Struts Classic. Since many teams have several years of development vested in "classic" frameworks, it may be some time before the new formal standard displaces the entrenched de facto standard. These working groups would like to consolidate the classic frameworks so as to clear the road toward "next generation" web applications. Despite these "interesting times", the Struts community remains united and amicable. Some of us are "scouting ahead" with Strut Shale and Struts Ti, while others trudge along with Struts Classic, but we all share the same path. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Apache TCL Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status Report for the Security Team ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status Report for the Apache Excalibur Project This is a belated Excalibur report (originally scheduled to report in September). Items of note * No new committers. * No new PMC members. * Releases: Fortress 1.2 and related components. [1] We finally got a full release out thanks to Shash Chatterjee. In general, activity is still relatively low and the mailing lists relatively quiet. Excalibur, for the most part, remains in maintenance mode at the moment. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Status Report for the Apache Web services Project - Added 3 new PMC Members (Eran Chinthaka, Sal Campana and Samisa Abeysinghe - Axis2/C effort was initiated last month. The discussions with this regard are taking place over the axis-c-dev list. There has been some active development implementing AXIOM in C. Like in the Java Axis front, Axis2C effort would run in parallel with Axis C++ 1.x effort. - Apache Axis released v1.3 on Oct 11 - Apache Axis2 released v0.92 on Sept 26. Cranking on towards a 1.0 release. - JaxMe: Build system was changed from Ant to Maven by Nacho McDowell. Two Gump issues have been resolved with the help of Stefan Bodewig. - XML-RPC: No active development. Bug reports are handled, though. - WSIF: No active development. Maintenance mode, minor patches, and updates (to the latest Axis, WSDL4J etc.) - WSRF/Pubscribe: Working towards 1.1 releases - Muse: announced a new MUWS client library which will be included in the next release of Muse - For reports on Woden/TSIK/Synapse, please see Attachment E. - Kandula and Sandesha folks are working on Axis2 based versions of the respective specifications - Scout: There is debate on how closely this project should depend on juddi project. Jonas folks have patches against Scout for using xmlbeans (instead of juddi) - Addressing: May have to be updated after the W3C spec is finalized. Axis2 has its own WS-Addressing implementation based on AXIOM in Axis2 ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Status Report for the Apache Xalan Project Xalan ===== In the last report (Aug 12, 2005) it was reported that Matt Hoyt and Berin Lautenbach had resigned their Xalan PMC membership. Since then Christine Li, an active committer was unanimously voted in by the Xalan PMC members, and she became a new Xalan PMC member on Oct 13, 2005. This was announced publicly at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=112921544427842&w=2 The PMC now has these members: Arun Yadav Brian Minchau (Chairperson) Christine Li Dmitry Hayes Henry Zongaro John Gentilin Ramesh Mandava Santiago Pericas-Geertsen Brian Minchau's tenure as Chairperson is up. He has been Chairperson for over one year. The process has started to pick a new PMC Chairperson from among the PMC members. That process should be complete within three weeks and the person elected by the Xalan PMC will be recommended to the ASF board for approval for the next one year term. Xalan-C ======= Xalan-C 1.10 was released on October 22, 2005. The release inlcudes: > Support for XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 > Improved and stabilized C pluggable memory management functionality > Xalan XML serializer redesign for better performance ans stability > performance fixes > Upgrade from Xerces-C 2.6 to Xerces-C 2.7 > Support for IBM XLC 7.0 compiler on Linux. > the usual bug fixes For more details please refer to : http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/whatsnew.html Xalan-J ======= There has been no significant increase in JIRA issues since the new Xalan-J 2.7.0 release on Aug 8 2005. It is possible that a few regressions will be fixed in a 2.7.1 release, but that point-release is not yet in plan. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the October 26, 2005 board meeting.