The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes July 25, 2012 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am (Pacific) and began at 10:04 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Doug Cutting Roy T. Fielding Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: Bertrand Delacretaz (on vacation) Executive Officers Present: Noirin Plunkett Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Chris A. Mattmann Upayavira Shane Curcuru Daniel Kulp 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of June 20, 2012 See: board_minutes_2012_06_20.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] Nothing to report this month. B. President [Jim] Welcome to the following new members, elected in at May's annual meeting: Andrew Hart Andy Seaborne Arvind Prabhakar Ashutosh Chauhan Bert Huijben Billie Rinaldi Brian Foster Cameron Goodale Chris Bowditch Daniel (Jianyong) Dai David Fisher Devaraj Das Eric Charles Francesco Chicchiriccò Jakob Homan Jan Lehnardt Jochen Wiedmann Johan Corveleyn Karl Wright Kristian Rosenvold Kristian Waagan Lewis John McGibbney Lukasz Lenart Mahadev Konar Malcolm Edgar Marshall Schor Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov Massimo Manghi Matt Franklin Maurice (Mike) L. Kienenberger Michael Dürig Noah Slater Ron Grabowski Sandro Martini Scott Carey Sean R. Owen Sebastian Schelter Stefan Fritsch Stefan Fuhrmann Stephen Connolly Suresh Marru Thomas Müller Todd Lipcon Tom Hobbs Tomaž Muraus Torsten Förtsch From what I was able to see, the ASF booth at OSCON had a great deal of traffic and activity. Special thanks goes to Sally and Melissa for doing a great job in coordinating the booth and in manning it. Also thanks to all ASF members and committers who helped man the booth, especially Justin who was there *a lot*. Although I still have some concerns about Concom, and especially about ApacheCon EU 2012, I am happy to see renewed efforts and energy in the cmmt. Even though I have asked to be voted in as a Concom developer, I will likely also request weekly reports from Concom, as we get closer and closer to the event. I am working on the D&O renewal. I've been informed that this year's rate will likely be more expensive than the previous years (by potentially as much as 50%). Our agent is looking into other policies but in any case, we will be easily under budget on this line item. C. Treasurer [Sam] Income and Expenses - June 2012 Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 403,932.73 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,226.28 PayPal: 120,673.26 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $811,832.27 Income Summary: Sponsors 64,992.50 SPI (for AOO PPMC) 21,857.84 Other 6,954.18 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 93,804.53 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- Concom 3,337.34 Executive Assistant 2,308.00 Infrastructure 518.00 Infrastructure Contractors 28,700.00 Treasurer 438.55 Uncategorized/Multiple 103.68 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 35,405.57 Discussion: * As previously discussed, the nearly $22K from Software in the Public Interest, Inc. consists of donations collected for the Open Office project, and we will need to spend those funds in a manner consistent with the expectations under which they were collected. * I have yet to transfer the funds from PayPal to Wells Fargo. D. Secretary [Craig] June was a relatively light month for Secretary. 42 ICLAs, seven CCLAs, two grants, and seven membership applications were received and filed. During processing of ICLAs, ten requests were made for new accounts. E. Executive Vice President [Noirin] No report was submitted. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report for the month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru / Rich] See Attachment 1 B. VP of Fundraising [Upayavira / Sam] See Attachment 2 C. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Doug] See Attachment 3 D. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett] See Attachment 4 E. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] No report was submitted. Extremely quiet this month. Only item of interest is continuing discussion of TCKs. F. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg] See Attachment 6 G. Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch / Ross] See Attachment 7 ACEU activities are now progressing apace, but perhaps not fast enough to make it a success. The assignment of OpenBastion for some ACEU tasks appears to be a surprise for many folks. The board needs more insight into the production of ACEU. Perhaps weekly reports and request Nick's attendance at the next board meeting. Surprisingly, OpenBastion has apparently signed a hotel contract but no contract with ASF. Need to have more dialog on the concom list instead of private discussion. H. Apache Infrastructure Team [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 8 I. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Roy] No report was submitted. Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Bertrand] See Attachment A (Accumulo) AI Greg: any problems anticipated, considering U.S. Senate hearings? B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Jim] See Attachment B (ACE) C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Brett] See Attachment C (ActiveMQ) AI Brett: follow up to get trademark attribution sorted. D. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Roy] See Attachment D (Aries) E. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Sam] See Attachment E (Attic) F. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Doug] See Attachment F (Avro) G. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Ross] See Attachment G (Creadur) H. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Bertrand] See Attachment H (CXF) I. Apache DB Project [Kristian Waagan / Rich] See Attachment I (DB) J. Apache Deltacloud Project [David Lutterkort / Greg] See Attachment J (Deltacloud) AI Greg: download page still refers to incubator. K. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Jim] See Attachment K (Directory) L. Apache ESME Project [Richard Hirsch / Sam] See Attachment L (ESME) M. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Bertrand] See Attachment M (Flume) N. Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller / Jim] See Attachment N (Geronimo) O. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Roy] See Attachment O (Giraph) P. Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy / Rich] See Attachment P (Hadoop) Q. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Greg] See Attachment Q (Hama) R. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Brett] See Attachment R (HBase) S. Apache Incubator Project [Jukka Zitting / Doug] See Attachment S (Incubator) AI Doug: ask that shepherd comments be put into the report. T. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Ross] See Attachment T (James) U. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Jim] See Attachment U (Jena) V. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Doug] See Attachment V (JMeter) W. Apache Lucy Project [Peter Karman / Rich] See Attachment W (Lucy) X. Apache Mahout Project [Jeff Eastman / Sam] See Attachment X (Mahout) Y. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Roy] See Attachment Y (ManifoldCF) Z. Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy / Bertrand] See Attachment Z (Maven) AI Jim: what is the status of Sonatype issue? AA. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Brett] See Attachment AA (MINA) AB. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Greg] See Attachment AB (MRUnit) AC. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Ross] See Attachment AC (MyFaces) AI Ross: are there any problems with adding new PMC members? AD. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Greg] See Attachment AD (Nutch) AE. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett] See Attachment AE (ODE) AF. Apache OpenEJB Project [David Blevins / Rich] See Attachment AF (OpenEJB) AI Ross: look into TCK issue with infra. AG. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam] See Attachment AG (OpenJPA) AH. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Jim] See Attachment AH (PDFBox) AI. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Doug] See Attachment AI (Rave) AJ. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Bertrand] See Attachment AJ (Shindig) AK. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Ross] See Attachment AK (Shiro) AL. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Roy] See Attachment AL (Sqoop) AM. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Greg] See Attachment AM (Struts) AN. Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle / Bertrand] See Attachment AN (Synapse) AO. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Ross] See Attachment AO (Tapestry) AP. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Doug] See Attachment AP (Tcl) AQ. Apache Thrift Project [Bryan Duxbury / Roy] See Attachment AQ (Thrift) AR. Apache Tika Project [Chris A. Mattmann / Sam] See Attachment AR (Tika) AS. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Rich] See Attachment AS (Traffic Server) AT. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Brett] See Attachment AT (VCL) AU. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Jim] See Attachment AU (Web Services) AI Jim: ask for a project description in board reports. AV. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Greg] See Attachment AV (XMLBeans) Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Steve 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, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to voting systems. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Steve Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Steve Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to voting systems; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Steve" 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 Steve Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Steve 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 Steve Project: * Jim Jagielski * Chris A. Mattmann * Sam Ruby * Greg Stein NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Steve, 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 Steve Project be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Steve Project. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Steve Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items 9. Review Outstanding Action Items 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 10:40 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management Operations And Community ======================== I gave a talk "Managing Community Open Source Brands" at OSCON which was well received. I was surprised at how many OSCON attendees commented on the importance of this talk: a half-dozen people each said "wow, yeah, this is something we really need to do better". One attendee with legal experience noted that the outline in the talk (based on our brand management) was spot on with their experience with other trademark management processes. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/24228 External Requests ================= AOO continues to be the most active project in terms of brand issues, working on both repackagers for portable software (USB sticks) as well as various media (movies, TV shows) requests for licenses. The previous user of an OpenMeetings domain name has responded favorably to requests to provide credit to the Apache OpenMeetings podling. Granted permission for use of the feather in a graphic for a small scale Lucene/Solr event. This is one of the cases where it makes sense to be flexible with logo use for the benefit of our communities. Trademark Registrations ======================= Completed agreement assigning "FLEX" registered marks from Adobe to the ASF. DLAPiper is completing work to fully track all dockets for our various registrations. They have a draft chart showing fees we would be responsible for if we choose to either renew or update the ownership of various trademark registrations we have inherited around the globe. While DLAPiper is working to cover many of these fees as pro bono, there are still many cases where there will be actual expenses in the $500 - $1000 range per jurisdiction. trademarks@ will soon need to better define our strategy re: where we plan to maintain registrations per project, so that we can better request the required budget in the future. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising I have resolved payment dates/cycles for each of our non-platinum sponsors. Three platinum sponsors and one gold sponsor have as yet uncertain payment dates. I hope to clarify these shortly. We are awaiting payment for two platinum sponsorships. RedHat has purchased FuseSource, and has agreed to upgrade their sponsorship, although we are still awaiting to hear to what level. Wandisco has agreed to upgrade to silver, they have been invoiced. We have a new bronze sponsor, Object Engineering GmbH - payment received and website updated. There have been various discussions around Packt Publishing, and the royalties they pay to the ASF on books covering ASF projects. We are in the process of clarifying exactly what has been paid for what title, however, we have recognised that payments have been arriving. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity I. Budget: the invoice for the second/final payment for our pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire was approved and forwarded to ASF Treasurer Sam Ruby this week. No other payments are due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi has been working with several ASF Sponsors and contributors to projects in the Apache Incubator to ensure their publicity activities comply with our guidelines. In addition, Sally has been in touch with a Sponsor regarding budget planning and their intentions to participate in both ApacheCons. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org -- - 10 July 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Nutch(tm) v2.0 - 26 June 2012: MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Software Foundation Announces "Apache @ OSCON" - 21 June 2012: MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Traffic Server v3.2 IV. Informal Announcements: the following items were announced on @TheASF Twitter feed -- - 10 July: Join #Apache @ #OSCON - Room E142 for Hackathons/BarCamps/MeetUps on #Shindig #Rave #Chemistry #OpenOffice #DeltaSpike #Shiro #HTTP + more! - 10 July: The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #Nutch™ v2.0 http://s.apache.org/wpS #OpenSource #search #Java #crawling #parsing #linkgraph - 26 June: Announcing Apache @ OSCON http://s.apache.org/qE #Apache #TheApacheWay #OSCON #OpenSource #Conference #MeetUp #BarCamp #Hackathon #PDX - 23 June: Congrats to ASF Chairman Doug Cutting for being named one of the 50 most influential people in enterprise tech! #Apache http://s.apache.org/j9 - 21 June: The Apache Software Foundation announces #Apache #Traffic #Server v3.2 http://s.apache.org/2Po #TheApacheWay #CloudComputing #OpenSource - 20 June: Did you know that #Apache #OpenOffice v3.4 was downloaded over 5M times since going live 6 weeks ago? http://s.apache.org/VgP #TheApacheWay No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: Press releases for Tuscany v2.0 and ApacheCon are being planned. A press-analyst briefing is underway for a feature on CouchDB. Those PMCs wishing to announce major project news --as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator-- please contact Sally at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: an addition to select pre-announcement briefings, 17 media requests were responded to, and coordinated 9 interviews for various projects. The ASF received 1,385 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 873. VII. Analyst Relations: RedMonk have rescheduled their briefing on CouchDB to support our planned press feature. Apache was mentioned in 17 reports by 451 Research, from SAAS to enterprise search, and featured in 12 Gartner reports, from Big Data to the Magic Quadrant on SOA infrastructure projects. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is still waiting for the Website, CFP, and related details to be in place in order to formally announce ApacheCon Europe 2012 and North America 2013. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally has finalized work on the ASF's presence at OSCON, and will be working with Melissa Warnkin onsite. We will have booth support from Ross Gardler, Leif Hedstrom, Rich Bowen, Justin Erenkrantz, Jim Jagielski, Matt Franklin, Jeff Potts, Lennard de Rijk, Dan Allen, Les Hazlewood, Ryan Baxter, David Nalley, and Kevin Kluge. X. Newswire accounts: we have 5 pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account and 20 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of the Fiscal Year. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of W3C Relations Andy Seaborne took over from Sam Ruby as VP of W3C Relations. Henry Story joined the Linked Data Platform Working Group. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project For June 2012: 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. 2 Support question 2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 1 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 8 Vulnerability reports of which: 1 [tomcat, via security@tomcat.apache.org] 1 [apacheds, via security@apache.org] (already resolved in latest) 1 [tomcat, via security@tomcat.apache.org] (not an issue) 1 [struts, via security@struts,apache.org] 1 [sling, via security@sling.apache.org] 3 [infrastructure, via security@apache.org] all 3 reported that apache.org/server-status was public (deliberate) Reminder: vulnerability handling process explained at http://apache.org/security/committers.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project Small Events ------------ A number of projects held events at OSCON last week, which from the feedback received so far were well received. We'll hopefully have more for next month on this. Thanks to all those who were involved in running the various parts of it! There are currently no known cross-project small events in the planning stages, and none on the horizon either. We hope that activity will pick up later in the summer. A number of project specific events are in progress, but these haven't required much in the way of ConCom support (though it has been offered). There have been a few queries recently about branding / logos / giveaways for smaller events that don't have direct ConCom involvement, such as small project events and project booths at conferences. It's not currently clear where the responsibilities lie between Trademarks and ConCom for this sort of thing. We have proposed something to clarify this, we're waiting to hear back from Trademarks on it. A draft policy on direct sponsorship for small events has been drawn up, based on the feedback from the board, fundraising and discussions on the mailing list. It's expect we'll vote on this fairly soon, and once approved will be posted on events.apache.org (hopefully along with some of the surrounding advice for event organisers) ApacheCon North America ----------------------- OpenBastion signed the contract with the hotel in Portland for the 24th February - 2nd March 2013, with the main conference 26th-28th February. Steve from OpenBastion has worked with Sally to get an announcement out about this. Nick and Steve have worked to put up basic details on all the likely websites, and a holding page with key details is available on the final site, http://na.apachecon.com/. A full site is expected over the next month, and the CFP is set to open on the 3rd of September. The proposed contract with OpenBastion has been tweaked following feedback from a number of committee members, and the legal committee. Assuming no unexpected snags, we expect to sign the final version this week. In the mean time, OpenBastion continue to work on the contract, and engage with the community. ApacheCon Europe ---------------- The Call For Papers opened last week, and was announced along with the website by Sally and at OSCON. The CFP is currently set to end on the 3rd of August, but may be extended if we feel there's need, and if we feel we can compress the review/selection progress. The aim is currently to have the sessions chosen+announced by mid August, and the final schedule published shortly after. Details of the reviewing process, both for track chairs and for interested volunteers, should be available within a week. (We're awaiting confirmation from Eldarion of the exact process, but it expected to be very similar to the PyCon one) A site visit is planned for this Thursday, 27th July. A number of questions have been put together which are to be answered during this visit. Amongst this will be confirmation of details around the venue layout and rooms, which will allow finalising of the tracks, and the catering, which is needed to finalise the ticket costs. The aim is for early bird ticket sales to being on Monday 6th August. There are a number of gaps in the budget spreadsheet which need to be filled in before the ticket prices can be finalised, but it is expected that the missing details for this will be found during/just after the site visit. (The prices are needed a few days in advance of this, so they can be fed into the website and the ticketing system) At the moment, the bulk of the discussions and planning remains on the public apachecon-discuss list. An attempt is being made to keep things public and open for as long as possible, but it's anticipated that a private planners list will be needed fairly soon. Each proposed track nominated one or two track chairs, who will make up much of the planners list, along with ConCom volunteers, OpenBastion and the EA. Sally has come up with an interesting plan for sponsorship, which promises to be simple, easy to organise/arrange, and feed well into potential joint ACEU/ACNA sponsorship. This would have the advantage of not needing such a large sponsor co-ordinator volunteer, who thus far hasn't been found. (ACNA sponsorship responsibility lies with the producer, so needs confirming with them before it could be announced) The plan is for OpenBastion to take on many of the supporting/organising roles for the event, supported by volunteers and the EA where appropriate / available. This should provide a chance to try out ideas before ACNA, for OpenBastion to learn more about the community, as well as to minimise dropped balls / problems / etc. A contract for this is expected shortly after the ACNA one, but it is intended that they'll be looking after the website, registration/ticketing, publicity, on-site, and helping with sponsorship and speaker admin. After the site visit, and with the OpenBastion contract, it is expected that all of "Sally's Questions" on the event will be fully answered. (Many of the questions are already answered, or partially answered pending these details). Over the next month, the key tasks to be completed (by a mixture of volunteers, OpenBastion and Melissa) are: * Site Visit, get answers to lots of outstanding questions * Finish budget, finalise ticket prices * Open ticket sales * Review submissions, select talks * Draft schedule * Finalise sponsorship plan, follow up on existing leads Committee --------- Jim Jagielski has expressed an interest in getting more involved in ConCom, and a vote is underway. Matt Franklin is a new volunteer this month, helping out with OSCON, we hope he enjoyed the experience enough to stick around for future events! ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team Updated the mailing list creation process- see https://infra.apache.org/officers/mlreq Determined that eve.apache.org, one of our Apple Xserves, is no longer capable of productive service due to various hardware faults. Discussed acquiring additional "cloud" services for our projects to use, ostensibly thru some unspecified bidding process. Nothing much came of it. Approached by Dell regarding warranty renewal for selene and phoebe (Geronimo TCK build farm). We declined. More discussion, much of it less than constructive, about providing a digital signature service to Apache project releases. Worked out a deal with Calxeda to provide a few ARM-based build servers for our projects to use (at no cost to us other than admin time). Granted Philip Martin of the Subversion project access to eris (US svn server), mainly for his offer to help with some svn server debugging. Working with our main DNS provider no-ip.com to stabilize our account services to better deal with the dozens of extra domains the AOO project needs us to host. We've been getting gratis service to this point, but we are willing to pay for better responsiveness and additional features only available with a paid support plan. Discussed plans for an infra meetup to roughly coincide with ACEU. Work on the backup system migration from bia (in Los Angeles) to abi (in Fort Lauderdale) is nearing completion. Some progress was made on getting the number of outstanding jira tickets down to normal levels. We've reclassified tickets based on whether they are "waiting for user" input or "waiting for infra", which has helped, but the bulk of the open tickets still are "waiting for infra". We expect to continue to make progress on this over the coming days and weeks, and will continue to report on it until we are satisfied things have returned to an acceptable state. Daniel Gruno put together a nice comments service at comments.apache.org for project websites to take advantage of. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Apache Accumulo Project 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 1.4.1 and 1.3.6 were released since the last report. Activity The mailing lists have been active and there has been an increase to 156 subscribers to the user list and 127 subscribers to the dev list. Development is active and major features are still being added to the trunk (1.5). We anticipate releasing 1.5.0 in early autumn. Community No new contributors since the last report. Issues None at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache ACE Project Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems. Releases: * December 11th, 2011: ACE 0.8.1-incubator Activity: * Accepted patches that improve our cloud support. * Reworking the build structure to support Bndtools. * Lots of work done to improve stability and increase performance. * We are working towards the first TLP release. Changes in committers/PMC members: * We welcomed a new committer: Paul Bakker. Committer/PMC diversity: * No concerns, we have 11 committers that work for 7 different unique organizations. Branding/naming issues: * No issues. Legal issues: * No issues. Trademark policy issues reported last time should have been resolved. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Community: * The development and user lists continue to stay active. * No changes in the committer or PMC membership rosters Development: * It was a busy quarter in which we finally released ActiveMQ 5.6.0 along with server native client releases and a couple of Apollo releases. * ActiveMQ 5.7 and Apollo 1.4 is under development Trademark / Branding Status: * The activemq.org and activemq.com TLD's are owned by other entities * Need to investigate if we should be using (R) instead of (TM) for the ActiveMQ mark * Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant * Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance Releases: * Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.5.6 * Apache.NMS 1.5.1 * Apache ActiveMQ-CPP v3.4.4 * Apache ActiveMQ-CPP v3.4.3 * Apache Apollo 1.3 * Apache ActiveMQ 5.6.0 * Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.5.5 * Apache ActiveMQ-CPP v3.4.2 * Apache ActiveIO 3.1.4 * Apache Apollo 1.2 * Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.5.4 ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Aries Project Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. Releases The following bug fix releases: * Apache Aries Proxy 0.3.1 * Apache Aries Proxy 0.4.1 As indicated in the last report, bundles and packages are now being brought up from 0.x to 1.0 to better reflect the stability and level of confidence we have in them. This will also bring our versioning policy inline with that described in the OSGi Alliance semantic versioning whitepaper. The 1.0 releases have started. We have approx 118 OSGi bundles so these are being done in logical phases. These have completed: * Apache Aries Test Support 1.0.0 * Apache Aries JNDI API 1.0.0 * Apache Aries JMX API 1.0.0 * Apache Aries JPA Container API 1.0.0 * Apache Aries Quiesce API 1.0.0 In addition there has been significant activity in the Aries Subsystems module which will be an implementation of the OSGi Subsystem Service Specification. Project Branding Board Report Checklist * Project Website Basics : homepage is aries.apache.org (done) * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. (pending) * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included (pending - feather link done) * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. (pending) * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site (pending) * Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date (done) Community update No new committers since the last report. The user/dev lists and JIRAs continue to be moderately active, with new patches being posted by contributors. There are no board level issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Attic Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Avro Project Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system. == Issues == There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. == Community == No committers or PMC members were added. User and developer mailing list activity was average throughout April, May, and June 2012. We had strong activity in most language implementations. == Releases == Avro 1.7.0 was released on June 8, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Creadur Project Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Project Status -------------- Creadur graduated from the Apache Incubator in April, 2012. Except for tasks performed after the first release as a top level project, handover is now complete. Issues ------ We have no issues requiring board attention at the moment. Branding and Trademarks ----------------------- The site has now been checked and updated against the branding policy. In particular: * Project Website Basics * Website Navigation Links * Trademark Attributions * Logos and Graphics * Project Metadata * Read PMC Branding Responsibilities Community --------- Interest seems to be slowly building, which is encouraging. We hope to focus on continuing to improve the documentation and creating a first release for Apache Whisker. Infrastructure -------------- We are still trying to discover the best way to maintain a mix of subsites generated by and hand maintained content in Apache CMS. Thanks to Infrastructure for their help and advice. Releases -------- None (yet). The last release happened while the project was incubating: RAT 0.8 released in November 2011. We hope to cut the first release of Apache Whisker very soon. Community Objectives -------------------- * Improve quantity of documentation on site * Release Apache Whisker 0.1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache CXF Project Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using front-end 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: 2.3.10 2.3.11 (*) 2.4.7 2.4.8 2.5.3 2.5.4 2.6.0 2.6.1 We announced to the community that 2.3.11 will be the last scheduled 2.3.x release. Apache CXF DOSGi 1.3.1 was released to correct some issues found with the OSGi compatibility tests. Apache CXF Fediz - 1.0.0 released. New subproject to implement WS- Federation Passive Requestor Profile and claims based access control along with role based. Committer/PMC - no new committers or PMC members this quarter. Last committer added in Jan 2012 Last PMC added in Apr 2012 Community updates: The community really came together nicely to get all the releases out the door. It was a very busy quarter with many releases, including releases in both of CXF's sub-projects. There has been quite a bit of discussions and issues on the mailing lists about the new Fediz release from people testing it and getting it to interoperate with other products. From a community diversity standpoint, RedHat acquired FuseSource last month. This changes the makeup of the PMC slightly as RedHat (the #3 company by number of PMC members) acquired Fuse (#1 company). RedHat now employs exactly 50% of the PMC (10 out of 20). ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Status report for the Apache DB Project 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 JDO API and the TCK for compatibility testing of JDO implementations. o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java. == Status == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Activities over the last quarter, which has been very quiet for the PMC: 1) Two students were selected for their GSoC 2012 proposals for Derby. 2) Derby posted Maven artifacts for the latest release on repository.apache.org (people.a.o phased out). 3) Issue regarding distribution of a file without redistribution rights in Derby has been addressed. Outstanding work: a) Wrap up branding requirements compliance check. b) Address the svnpubsub migration for the web sites. == Community == No PMC changes since August 2011. No new committers since August 2010. Traffic on the user lists is pretty low. User questions are generally being answered. A few unanswered questions on one (very low-volume) list, will follow up. == Releases == Derby: feature release 10.9.1.0 (June 25, 2012) ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Apache Deltacloud Project 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. Their are no issues for board consideration Community --------- No new committers Releases/Development -------------------- Release Deltacloud 1.0.0 on 2012-06-15 Added EC2 front-end in addition to DMTF CIMI and 'classic' Deltacloud front-end. Work on DMTF CIMI frontend continues to progress. Addition of one new driver (Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform); updates/improvements to various drivers (OpenStack, OpenNebula) Major revamp of website to make it more accessible. Lots of bug fixes and smaller improvements. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status report for the Apache Directory Project The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAP v3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools (Apache Directory Studio) and a client API that can be used to communicate with any directory server (Apache LDAP API). -- Community -- * One new committer * Aleksander Adamowski (aadomowski) * No new PMC members. -- Development -- * Apache Directory LDAP API: * One new release during this quarter. * Important bug fixes in low level classes taking care of LDAP decoding and entries handling. * ApacheDS: * One new release during this quarter. * Work continued on our MVCC BTree branch and we're trying to merge it to the current trunk, but the divergence since the branch was created (8 months ago) makes it a little more complicated. * The removal of 2 unnecessary system indices has allowed us to boost the search performance of ApacheDS by a 2x to 4x factor (depending on the type of search). We're not back to the level of performance we had on versions 1.5.x but we're getting closer. * Bug fixes and small additions to previously released milestones versions. * Apache Directory Studio: * No new releases during this quarter. * A discussion in a Jira issue raised the problem that Apache Directory Studio contained sources of some classes released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). While it's OK to include a EPL binary (as a library for example) in a release of an Apache project, it isn't the same for EPL source files. We cleaned Apache Directory Studio sources and removed/rewrote any of these files. The situation is now clear. * Minor bug fixes. * Website: - Work has started to migrate our website. Svnpubsub has been activated with a staging website and we're in the process of migrating pages from Confluence to SVN. -- Releases -- * One release for Apache Directory LDAP API: * 1.0.0-M12 (May 11th 2012) * One release for ApacheDS: * 2.0.0-M7 (May 21st 2012) * No releases for Apache Directory Studio ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status report for the Apache ESME Project Apache ESME's mission: Enterprise Social Messaging Environment (ESME) is a secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of information, all in a business process context. Releases: 2011-08-29 1.3 Development: We are continuing work on our 1.4 release. We hope to focus on Akka and Apache Camel integration. The level of development activity has remained stable the last 3 months We just had a few commits dealing with the 1.4 release. We are trying to refresh the community with new developers but this is proving more difficult than expected. We started a mail thread about future developments of the project which received a few responses but it looks like the project will remain on the back-burner for a while. Community: * No new committers * No new PMC members. Issues: No Board level issues at this time TRADEMARKS / BRANDING * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc -> Done * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included -> Done * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. -> Done * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site -> In progress * Project Metadata : DOAP file checked-in and up to date -> Done ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Status report for the Apache Flume Project DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Flume was version 1.1.0-incubating, released on March 27, 2012 while in Incubation. * The release candidate for the upcoming release - version 1.2.0 is currently under vote. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/OzO * Post-graduation tasks are under way with a majority of them completed already. Details at: http://s.apache.org/QNW COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has changed due to some PMC member changing affiliations. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: Apple (1), Cloudera (13), CyberAgent (1), Independent (2), Intuit (2), WibiData (1). * A Flume User Meetup was organized on June 13, in San Jose and was attended by 28 people. * Currently there are: - Total of 109 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 261 subscribers to the user list - Total of 20 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Status report for the Apache Geronimo Project Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators. The community is currently voting on a Geronimo 3.0 server release along with release votes for Samples and DayTrader. The community also released XBean and several bundle releases in preparation for these releases. There are also discussions for a 3.0 release of the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin. Both the dev and user mailing lists remain active. There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Status report for the Apache Giraph Project Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project Status -------------- Releases: 0.2.0 - expected 7/31 * Reduce memory consumption * Improve support for the Green-Marl project. The transition to being a full Apache project is nearly complete (still a few references to incubator on the website). Community --------- Activity has picked up on Apache Giraph and more contributors seem to be gaining interest and we had 24 commits for the month of June. We should try to convert some contributors to committers soon. Mailing lists: 116 subscribers on dev 155 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Status report for the Apache Hadoop Project Apache Hadoop status report for July 2012 Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. On the people side, we have new people joining our ranks. * We've added two new committers - Daryn Sharp, Jonathan Eagles * We've added one new PMC member: Alejandro Abdelnur On the project side, we have made 1 bug-fix release in the stable line and 1 major new release: - hadoop-1.0.3 was released on 16th May, 2012 - hadoop-2.0.0-alpha was released on 23rd May, 2012 - Work on further Hadoop 2.0.1-alpha (a security bug-fix release) is done, and is currently under vote. - Work on hadoop-1.1.0 is nearly done. COMMON Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce. Releases: - hadoop-1.0.3 was released on 16th May, 2012 - hadoop-2.0.0-alpha was released on 23rd May, 2012 Community: * 48 committers * 1613 subscribers on common-dev * 3151 subscribers on common-user * 1533 subscribers on general New committers: * 2 new committers have been added to this project. HDFS HDFS is a distributed file system that supports reliable replicated storage across the cluster using a single name space. Releases: - hadoop-1.0.3 was released on 16th May, 2012 - hadoop-2.0.0-alpha was released on 23rd May, 2012 New committers: * 1 new committer has been added to this project. Community: * 43 committers * 668 subscribers on hdfs-dev * 1205 subscribers on hdfs-user MAPREDUCE MapReduce is a distributed computation framework for easily writing applications that process large volumes of data. Releases: - hadoop-1.0.3 was released on 16th May, 2012 - hadoop-2.0.0-alpha was released on 23rd May, 2012 New committers: * 1 new committer has been added to this project. Community: * 46 committers * 689 subscribers to mapreduce-dev * 1354 subscribers to mapreduce-user ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache Hama Project Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. Releases: * Hama 0.5 released on 05 July, 2012. Community and Development: * Apurv Verma has been elected as a new committer. * Finished Hama migration to TLP. * Mailing list activity decreased during TLP migration. * User subscribers are increased, Dev subscribers are same. Issues: None at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Status report for the Apache HBase Project HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION None. RELEASES 0.94.0, a major release, on May 2nd. A release candidate for 0.92.2 was posted and retracted with another candidate to follow. 0.94.1 and 0.90.7 release candidates should be going up in the next week or so. COMMITTERS We changed our policy where a committer automatically was also made a member of the PMC. Now you become a committer first and then after a period, you are invited by the PMC to become a member. The general consensus was that such a policy would lower the barrier minting new hbase committers [1]. Nicolas Liochon (Scaled Risk) -- nkeywal@apache.org Jimmy Xiang (Cloudera) -- jxiang@apache.org Liyin Tang (Facebook) -- liyin@apache.com Nicolas and Jimmy are committers only. Liyin was the last to make it as a committer+PMC member before the policy change. COMMUNITY We had our first hbase conference on May 22nd in San Francisco, hbasecon [2]. It seems to have gone over well (600 attendees). A Birds-of-a-feather session on the day after the hadoop summit was less well attended, ~30 [3]. 20 committers [4] (Was 17 in last report) 759 subscribers to the dev list (Was 703 at last report) 1734 subscribers to the user list (Was 1632 at last report) 1. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201205.mbox/%3CCADcMMgHy+TdZyefkruAQog1n8CEY6ajrf=sTh1wR4J+dtEKHFg@mail.gmail.com%3E 2. http://hbasecon.com 3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/59829652/ 4. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project This is the sixth Incubator report since we started putting more effort into overseeing our podlings and keeping better track of their progress towards graduation. Over that time we had 51 podlings reporting twice on normal schedule. Of those podlings, one was stuck at IP clearance, four continued without a release, seven had a low level of activity for the whole quarter, and another seven were in various other stages without significant progress towards graduation. Many of these cases are already resolved, and the remaining are being looked at in more detail. Over the same six-month time period we saw thirteen projects graduate, three retire, and five enter the Incubator as new podlings. There are currently 49 podlings in the Incubator. o Community Jörn Kottmann and Rich Bowen joined the Incubator PMC since our last report. The Lucene.Net podling is currently preparing for graduation. The following proposal for a new incubating project was accepted: - Apache Allura A proposal for a new project called Blur was brought up for discussion. Various inactive podlings are being retired. We decided to retire the Kato podling as mentioned in last month's report. This month both the AWF and Kitty podlings are being considered for retirement due to inactivity. See the relevant cursory reports for details. The proposed resolution to establish the Apache Steve project was briefly discussed, and the general consensus was that there is no specific need for the project to first go through incubation as the codebase and the development community around it already exists within the ASF. The role of a Sponsor, i.e. an existing TLP that plans to take a podling up as a subproject upon graduation, came up in discussion related to the EasyAnt podling. Such a role reflects the concept of an umbrella project and is thus no longer that relevant. Whether to discontinue or redefine the Sponsor role remains to be decided. o Releases The following incubating releases were made since our last report: - June 21st, 2012: Apache Airavata 0.3-incubating - June 22nd, 2012: Apache Wookie 0.11.0-incubating - June 25th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC2-incubating - June 27th, 2012: Apache Kafka 0.7.1-incubating - July 9th, 2012: Apache DirectMemory 0.1-incubating - July 10th, 2012: Apache Stanbol Entityhub 0.10.0-incubating In addition the release of Apache Any23 0.7.0-incubating is imminent, as the release vote has just passed. o Legal / Trademarks The instructions on checking project names for suitability as trademarks are a bit inconsistent and partially outdated. We're working on fixing that. o Infrastructure Some of the recently graduated podlings have had trouble clearly communicating to the infrastructure team everything that's needed for migrating project infrastructure to a TLP. We'll need to find a way to better instruct podlings on this as they prepare to graduate. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings) Allura, CloudStack, Crunch, cTAKES These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Not yet ready to graduate (12 podlings) No release: Any23, Celix, JSPWiki, VXQuery Low activity: AWF, DeviceMap, EasyAnt, Kitty, ODF Toolkit Low diversity: Chukwa, Mesos, Tashi We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues. Ready to graduate (3 podlings) DirectMemory, Kafka, Oozie We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter. -------------------- Allura The Allura Project is forge software for the development of software projects, including source control systems, issue tracking, discussion, wiki, and other software project management tools. Allura entered incubation on 2012-06-25. Allura only got its mailing lists a couple of hours ago. There is nothing more to report yet. Signed off by mentor: rbowen -------------------- Any23 Anything To Triples (any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. Any23 was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on October 1, 2011. Three most important steps moving towards graduation - Grow the Any23 PPMC and community - Ensure at least one Any23 release - Identify and liaise with other semantic web/linked data projects within the ASF to establish common goals and objectives. The Any23 PPMC was delighted to extend an invitation to Peter Ansell during June. The invitation was subsequently accepted and we are happy to say that Peter is now on board. During June/July the community has focused on constructing the 0.7.0-incubating release candidate. We have experienced several problems along the way which have delayed this significantly, however as of writing the community is now VOTE'ing on the 0.7.0-incubating (release candidate #2) release thanks to Simone Tripodi, we anticipate a release shortly. Since last reporting we have integrated a number of commits to the project from a range of people. The total number of commits sitting at >1174 since Any23 entered the Apache Incubator. The website at http://incubator.apache.org/any23/ is also up and functioning, and appears to be in line with the Apache branding requirements. Lewis John McGibbney worked with ASF infrastructure to get a zone VM up and running to host the Any23 web service. The community has again been in touch with members from Stanbol, Jena and Clerezza and we have already discussed a committer meetup and liaison with the aforementioned sister projects at the forthcoming ApacheCon Europe. Signed off by mentor: mattmann Shepherd: Dave Fisher -------------------- AWF AWF is a non-blocking, asynchronous, event driven high performance web framework running on the JVM. AWF, originally named Deft, entered incubation on 2011-07-08. - AWF is about to retire from the Apache incubation - No community development since last report - No commits since last report. A vote to retire the AWF podling is in progress. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Jukka Zitting -------------------- Celix Celix is an implementation of the OSGi Specification in C. Celix entered incubation on November 2, 2010. Over the last months we have started working on "Native-OSGi" which is an effort to make a specification for a C and C++ bases OSGi implementation. As detailed in the graduation plan [1] in the previous report we hope to attract more community members with this move. Details for Native-OSGi can be found at [2]. Also the donation of the Device Access code has been finished and committed to the SVN repository. This has been a good experience from both a technical and a process point of view. Furthermore there has been a slight increase on the mailing list, hopefully this is a trend that will continue in the coming months. Most important issues to address before we can graduate: Make a first release and grow a larger community. It is also needed to attract some more committers, there are currently 2. Any issues the Incubator PMC or ASF board need to be aware of: None at this time How has the community developed since the last report: There has been an increase on the mailing list, furthermore with the start of the Native-OSGi project we hope this will increase in the coming months. How has the project developed since the last report: From a technical point of view, we are working towards a first release. The build files have been updated to support a more modular project structure. Since the implementation is moving forward (al be it slowly), the community growth is the biggest concern for Celix. [1]: http://incubator.apache.org/celix/community/boardreports/boardreports.html#2012-04 [2]: https://github.com/abroekhuis/NativeOSGi Signed off by mentor: marrs Shepherd: Matt Franklin -------------------- Chukwa Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), HBase and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop’s scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a flexible and powerful toolkit for displaying, monitoring and analyzing results to make the best use of the collected data. - Mailing list is picking up some activities. - 3 new contributors submitted patches since last report in April. Most important issues to address: Growing the community, especially attracting new developers Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report: Plan to release version 0.6 to fix some of the major bugs in version 0.5. How has the project developed since the last report: Prior to Hadoop summit, there was a thread discussion of retiring Chukwa because there does not seem to be much activity in the community. All PPMC members seem to agree to this idea. There were some free advertisement for Chukwa in Hadoop summit from word of mouth and speakers mentioned Chukwa in their talks. There seems to be some contribution activities happening after Hadoop summit. Discussion continued for retiring Chukwa because mentor does not think a community is developing. We plan to open enrollment for Chukwa committers for people who are interested to continue development for the next quarter. If activities generate a active community, then we will apply for becoming top level project. If no activities happen, then we will retire Chukwa. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Benson Margulies -------------------- CloudStack CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud orchestration platform. CloudStack has been in incubation since 2012-04-16 The top 3 issues to address to move towards graduation: - CloudStack's source still contains works that are prohibited for release under ASF guidelines - Performing a release - Migration of infrastructure (bug tracker, CI, websites, etc) How has the community developed since the last report: As of the time of this report at least one new committer has been added. Additionally, a number of previously unknown developers have begun making substantial quantities of bug fixes and even working on new functionality. How has the project developed since the last report: The project itself continues to deal with process questions as well as learning how to operate in the new environment. A good deal of work has been happening on resolving the problems in the code base around licensing, though not currently close to finishing. Signed off by mentor: jim -------------------- Crunch Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running pipelines of MapReduce jobs on Apache Hadoop. Crunch entered incubation on May 27, 2012. The most important steps towards graduation: - Infrastructure setup (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) - CCLA licensing of the existing Crunch code - Adding new contributors - Creating a release Nothing that currently requires IPMC attention. Community: The developer mailing list has been very active with bug fixes, new features, and discussions of infrastructure setup and project policies, both from the existing committers and other developers with an interest in the project. The first patch from a non-committer is currently being prepared for submission: the code is written, but we were blocking on getting JIRA setup so that the copyright on the code could cleanly be assigned to the ASF. The JIRA issues were resolved earlier this week. All ICLAs are in place. Cloudera has gathered all of the copyright assignments for the existing Crunch code from non-Cloudera developers and is preparing the CCLA to assign the copyrights on the existing Crunch code to the ASF. Development: The 15 commits on the project this month were primarily for documentation and bug fixes, although we are evaluating two larger patches that bring additional functionality to the library: 1) adding map-side joins and 2) supporting interactive pipeline creation and execution via the Scala REPL. Signed off by mentor: phunt, tomwhite -------------------- cTAKES cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. cTAKES was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on Monday, June 11, 2012. Three most important steps moving towards graduation - Attract new contributors - Make at least one cTAKES release - Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache and using the infrastructure Anything required IPMC attention? No Community: We are still wrapping up getting a few ICLAs for Guergana Savova and for Sean Finan. So far, little mailing list discussion, but the project is getting bootstrapped. The next step will be to start developing on list and getting the project going. Jörn Kottmann who originally volunteered to Champion the project, was elected to the IPMC and can now officially be our Champion. Congrats Jörn! The light discussion on the mailing list is because there will be another release on the old sourceforge site before the migration to the apache svn and name space updates. Development: So far, nothing much other than getting mailing lists set up, and other infrastructure tasks that can be tracked at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4910 Signed off by mentor: mattmann -------------------- DeviceMap Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g. smartphones and tablets. Entered incubation on January 3rd, 2012. There are no issues that require the Incubator PMC's or the board's attention. Little has happened since our last report in April, a prototype of client-side device probes has been created [1], a few messages have been exchanged about that but that's all. At this point the future of the project is unclear, we should re-evaluate the situation for the next report in October to see if activity has picked up. [1] http://markmail.org/message/3bd63yqmuixn6co6 Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, kevan Shepherd: Matt Hogstrom -------------------- DirectMemory (incubating since October 2011) Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. There is only one important issue to address in the move towards graduation Understanding process/decision making guidelines (new committer process is undergoing testing, release process still yet to be worked out) Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of None How has the community developed since the last report Tasks and proposals contributed by non-committers How has the project developed since the last report. - A first public release 0.1-incubating has been done. - A talk of DirectMemory has been presented at DevoXX France (thanks to Olivier Lamy and Benoit Perroud). Slides (in French) are available at http://www.slideshare.net/benoitperroud/direct-memory-3devoxxfr201220418-12607286 - A talk of DirectMemory has been presented (thanks to Benoit Perroud) at Java User Group Lausanne. Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/benoitperroud/direct-memory-jugl20120308-12607297 - A talk of Direct has been presented at BreizhCamp (thanks to OlivierLamy). Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/olamy/heapoff-wtf Signed off by mentor: Olivier Lamy Shepherd: Benson Margulies -------------------- EasyAnt EasyAnt is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy. Incubating since 2011-01-31. Towards graduation, we need to: - Create a release - Build a community Since the last report: There was very low activity on the project. There was actually no commit on the project. Some work has been done though a bug was found on a dependency, Apache Ant, and a bug was reported, and a patch committed since one of the EasyAnt committer happens to have commit rights there. After acknowledging this, a mail was sent on the dev mailing to re-motivate people to focus on doing a release. A positive response and some commits were following. Signed off by mentor: bodewig Shepherd: Dave Fisher -------------------- JSPWiki JSPWiki has been incubating since September 2007. JSPWiki is a JSP-based wiki program. Still following the objective of making the first Apache release: 4 JIRA issues were fixed since last period, the project website has been revamped, and few other niceties & fixes have got into trunk (for example lucene library was upgraded to 3.6.0). 2 Release candidates have been made, but they didn't succeed because of technical issues. Hopefully the third RC will become the first ASF release. The main issues blocking graduation keep being the same as in the last report: resolution acceptance, community and IPMC graduation vote. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Jukka Zitting -------------------- Kafka (introduced to Apache incubator on Jul 4, 2011) Kafka provides an extremely high throughput distributed publish/subscribe messaging system. Additionally, it supports relatively long term persistence of messages to support a wide variety of consumers, partitioning of the message stream across servers and consumers, and functionality for loading data into Apache Hadoop for offline, batch processing. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: None. Previously, there was some concern about the diversity of the project that we believe has been addressed: - The project now has active committers from four companies - and continues to receive patches from other contributors from various institutions. We are considering whether to pursue graduation immediately or focus exclusively on the development of 0.8. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: None. How has the community developed since the last report: - The mailing list continues to be very active with bug reports, patch submissions, feature requests and use cases. [(Apr,May,Jun): kafka-users (151, 261, 251); kafka-dev (142, 195, 380)]. - Added two new committers. - Conducted the first Kafka user group meeting with over 50 attendees (archived video link available here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+papers+and+presentations). This was a very successful event that gave users and contributors an opportunity to meet and discuss Kafka usage at various companies, ongoing development efforts, feature requests, etc. - Received and reviewed several major patches (including contributions from non-committers). How has the project developed since the last report: - Intra-cluster replication (KAFKA-50) - Considerable progress has been made on the design and implementation of this much-anticipated feature. - Regular status updates are being sent out on the kafka-dev mailing list. - Another significant project that is under discussion and development is the consumer redesign (KAFKA-364) and consumer coordinator implementation (KAFKA-264). - Released Kafka 0.7.1 in June. This is the second Kafka release since its introduction to Apache incubator Signed off by mentor: Alan Cabrera Shepherd: Matt Franklin -------------------- Kitty Kitty is a lightweight, production focused, Java-based application server performance diagnostic and management utility. Kitty entered incubation on October 3rd, 2010. A vote to retire the Kitty podling due to inactivity is in progress. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Mohammad Nour -------------------- Mesos Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources between multiple computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark, and MPI. Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010. Progress since the last report: - Released 0.9.0! - Added support for Hadoop CDH3u3 and updated the tutorial. - Revamped MPI framework support (thanks Harvey Feng!). - New JS based web interface (thanks Jon Fuchs!). - Initial cgroups abstractions/interfaces for better resource isolation on Linux (thanks Jie Yu!). - Refactor of allocator for more sophisticated allocations (thanks Thomas Marshall!). - Numerous bug fixes (FD_CLOEXEC, JSON escaping, killtree.sh issues, etc). Top priorities prior to graduation: - Same as before, finalize addition of new committers to the project! - Do another release. Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board: - None at this time. Signed off by mentor: tomwhite Shepherd: Benson Margulies -------------------- ODF Toolkit The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. Our last release was January 14th, 2012. We voted in our most recent committer on November 16th, 2011. Most important issues to address: Growing the community, especially attracting new developers Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report: - We are mentoring two GSoC students on ODF- Toolkit related projects - One of our leading developers has had a job change and is no longer involved with the project - Considering content-related track at ApacheCon, perhaps with other related projects like OpenOffice and POI How has the project developed since the last report: Working on next release, to feature the new document encryption support Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Ross Gardler -------------------- Oozie Oozie is a workflow management and scheduler primarily for Hadoop based jobs. Oozie entered the incubation on July 11, 2011. The three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: - Improve the documentations: user and development for quicker adoption - Automate the formal release process. - Diversify the dev and committer base. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: No issues. How has the community developed since the last report: - 88 JIRAs were resolved and 145 JIRAs were closed in last quarter. - 103 JIRAs were created since last report. - Oozie dev/users are active in the email lists (around 1000 emails in oozie-dev and 250+ in oozie-user). - Around 6 new developers are contributing to the process and coding. How has the project developed since the last report. - The second Oozie release (3.2.0) from Apache incubator has been successfully accomplished. - A lot of new features are added. Fixed a lot of bugs too. Nearly 230 JIRAs were closed/resolved in last three months. - Oozie contribution process in now more stream-lined. Further improvement is going on. Signed off by mentor: ddas Shepherd: Matt Hogstrom -------------------- Tashi Tashi has been incubating since September 2008. The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud computing on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored in a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on by remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner. Tashi originally encompassed just the tools to manage virtual machines using Xen and QEMU, but has been merged with Zoni, which manages the physical aspects of a cluster like power control, network settings and handing out physical machines. In the period from April to July, the project did not ask to make another incubating release, but is ready to start the process for a new release incorporating the development efforts of this period. Development efforts this period have included making user actions display assurance messages via the client in case of successful operations, extending the SQL database backend to support all Instance and Host fields that are already recorded via the alternative "pickled" backend. The primitive scheduler gained additional resilience to refrain from scheduling load on hosts that are down transiently. The node manager service now tries to ensure that undelivered messages to the cluster manager are resubmitted regularly. Virtual machine migration was revised to ensure stale state wasn't being shadowed by new data, only to reappear when the migrated VM was shut down. The code underwent a complete automatic analysis, fixing several issues. Furthermore, a few other minor additions, fixes and documentation updates were made. The project has received code contributions from two non-committers in this period. MIMOS via Luke Jing Yuan have contributed "convertz" to the code base, a utility to convert a VM image to an image deployable to a physical machine provisioned by Zoni. Alexey Tumanov of CMU provided a communications timeout wrapper to handle the problem of threads hanging forever, trying to communicate over a broken network connection. Upcoming software goals are to separate the client into an administrative and a user interface, to investigate what is needed to support IPv6, replace RPyC, and to provide the ability to hand out server slices (operating system level virtualization). Besides CPU and memory, disk storage should also be a schedulable resource. The project has a user community, but it is small. Growth mostly has happened by word of mouth. To show potential users at large the utility of this project, the author of this report is creating web pages to demonstrate how to accomplish distributed computing tasks. Base images of (free) OS installs will be provided to allow new users to get started quickly. Hopefully this will increase visibility of the project. Items to be resolved before graduation: - Generate more publicity for the project. - Develop members of the user community to submit feature extensions. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Jukka Zitting -------------------- VXQuery The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor for parallel evaluation. It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06. VXQuery changed its focus from being a pure library implementation of XQuery in Java to being an engine for parallel XQuery evaluation. For the runtime VXQuery now leverages the Hyracks system which is an Apache-licensed parallel execution engine developed at UCI. So far the top issues were 1) low activity 2) small community 3) create a release. The activities on these issues are: ad 1) Since this change of focus - and the start of a GSoC project with this new focus - development activity has picked up significantly. This due to both activity of the GSoC student (Preston Carman) and of the existing committers. ad 2) Preston Carman a) has provided good patches for VXQuery and b) interacts very well with the existing community. Consequently he is a candidate to be the next committer for VXQuery. After the initial vote on vxquery-private failed (all committers voted +1, but there was no mentor/IPMC member vote), Jukka Zitting voted +1. The next step is to finalize the administrative part to make Preston a committer. Further, there is a plan to publish a paper to show the projects utility and to increase the visibility of the incubation effort. ad 3) After the change of focus some things work, but not enough to build a release that is easily consumable. VXQuery should be released before a paper is published to enable readers or the paper to run the software. Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Matt Franklin ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Status report for the Apache James Project 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. CURRENT ACTIVITY We regularly see users coming with questions on our latest mail Server 3.0-beta4. This gives opportunity to fix the last bits. Some users also show they develop with our Mailbox framework their custom implementation integrated in the Server. This is great as James is chosen as a development Mail server platform. Some work has been done on Apache James Postage (now uses maven and upgrade from server 2.3 to server 3) and a new module (mbox-iterator) has been added to Apache James Mime4J. Documentation has been further refined but we still need to continue working on it to keep it updated and give all useful information to users and developers. Manolo has deployed a Hupa demo (WebMail) on http://james.zones.apache.org. Our website is now published via svnpubsub. We made an attempt to use the Apache CMS but this is still under investigation. COMMUNITY PMC Chair has been handed-over from Norman Maurer to Eric Charles. Ioan Eugen Stan has been voted as new PMC member. Two GSoC projects are on their way: - Hupa Evolution (Echo). - Distributed mailbox indexing over HBase/HDFS (Mihai Soloi). Ioan has given a presentation on Apache James Mailbox at BerlinBuzzWords 2012. RELEASES We did the following releases during this period: * Apache James Hupa 0.2 (Hupa is a Web mail interface developed in GWT) TRADEMARKS / BRANDING Still to do: Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on your site) [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/echo/1 [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/mihaisoloi/1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Status report for the Apache Jena Project Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web applications based on W3C and community standards. Jena became a TLP April 2012. There are no issues to raise with the board. Status: The project has executed the graduation process. Community and activity: The project has made two TLP releases using svnpubsub to release the approved bits to the dist/ area. The release of Jena 2.7.1 was then followed by a maintenance release 2.7.2 to correct an issue discovered after release. users@ and dev@ mailing lists had approximately 250 and 400 message respectively. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Status report for the Apache JMeter Project The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. JMeter 2.7 was released at the end of May; this included several new features and various bug fixes. Work continues on fixing bugs and implementing new features and generally tidying up the code. There have been no changes to the PMC or committers since the last report. The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter developers. Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by the committers. There are no board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Status report for the Apache Lucy Project The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. RELEASES * Version 0.3.2 was released 9 July 2012. COMMUNITY * No change to committer/PMC membership ranks during this period. * The user and dev lists have been active. * Commit diversity within the existing community is satisfactory and continues to improve. ISSUES * None requiring board-level attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Status report for the Apache Mahout Project Apache Mahout provides implementations of machine learning algorithms (collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, and more) for large-scale data, mostly via Hadoop-based implementations. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY Activity has remained high during the past 3 months. We completed our 0.7 release on June 16th that closed 63 JIRA issues. The user@mahout.a.o mailing list has 1379 current subscribers Now we are embarked upon a new 0.8 release. A goal of 0.8 is to continue clean up of existing functionality to improve consistency and improve user experience. In this release, some new additions to Mahout functionality are also planned. Code freeze for 0.8 is targeted for Nov 15. A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon. COMMUNITY We have no new committers since our April report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache ManifoldCF Project ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: July 2012 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012, one day after the latest major release on May 15, 2012. Since then, there has been a limited point release as well (on May 22, 2012), and the next major software release is planned for the first two weeks of July. Mailing list activity ============== The mailing lists have been relatively quiet for the latter part of June. Vacation time has started in Europe and this has reduced MCF's dev and user list activity, as it always does. There has been some activity following up on the SharePoint 2010 issues and the session-based web crawling. Also, dev list discussion has taken place about how to store exported configuration information securely, and invaluable testing contributions made by certain individuals who work for qBase, Inc., who donated their time to this endeavor to further the project. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== The last new committer signed on was in February, 2012. Since then we've had a number of offers for contribution from outside the community but insufficient demonstrated commitment to offer committership or PMC membership to any individual. We are actively working to have a broader committer base, as always, and try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== The only outstanding legal issue we had pertained to how we interface to .NET services. The ticket was LEGAL-137, which has now been resolved. As a result, ManifoldCF trunk code has been updated accordingly. Infrastructure ========== All infrastructure issues related to graduation have been satisfactorily resolved. The build and release process has been successfully updated (CONNECTORS-474) to take into account Apache requirements for availability of proprietary software to release engineers. We are no longer using any Incubator resources. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache Maven Project 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 * We release a lof of plugins and component. Noting yet scheduled for a new core release. * A community effort has build a nice improvement with the support of java 1.5 annotations for plugins. * Tony Chemit provides a ton of patches that's why he was proposed as a committer. * Benson/Herve start to work on plugin to be able to publish maven site generated to Apache CMS (still a work in progress) * Some discussions has started to write a new dependency resolution mechanism hosted at Apache. * Stephen write a nice blog entry on how to be a Maven committer (can apply more generally on all Apache projects): http://javaadventure.blogspot.ie/2012/07/do-you-want-to-become-maven- committer.html * New PMC Members * Mark Hobson (2012-06-07) * Milos Kleint (Reinstated) (2012-06-07) * New Committers * Tony Chemit (2012-07-09) * Releases * Plugins * Maven Site Plugin 2.4 (2012-04-26) * Maven Compiler Plugin 2.4 (2012-04-30) * Maven Changes Plugin 2.7 (2012-04-30) * Maven Site Plugin 3.1 (2012-04-30) * Maven Release Plugin 2.3 (2012-05-11) * Maven Remote Resources 1.3 (2012-05-11) * Maven Invoker Plugin 1.6 (2012-05-24) * Maven Release Plugin 2.3.1 (2012-05-25) * Maven Clean Plugin 2.5 (2012-05-26) * Maven Compiler Plugin 2.5 (2012-05-27) * Maven Shade Plugin 1.7 (2012-06-01) * Maven Changes Plugin 2.7.1 (2012-05-10) * Maven Compiler Plugin 2.5.1 (2012-06-04) * Maven Release Plugin 2.3.2 (2012-06-15) * Maven Shade Plugin 1.7.1 (2012-06-30) * Other * Maven Doxia (base) 1.3 (2012-04-13) * Maven Doxia Sitetools 1.3 (2012-04-17) * Maven SCM 1.7 (2012-04-29) * Maven Enforcer 1.1 (2012-05-14) * Maven Runtime 1.0-alpha-3 (2012-05-28) * Maven plugin testing 2.0 (2012-05-27) * Maven Plugin Tools 3.0 (2012-05-31) * Maven Plugin Tools 3.1 (2012-07-03) * Apache Source Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.4 (2012-07-07) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Status report for the Apache MINA Project Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. Releases -------- * Apache MINA SSHd 0.7.0 has been released on june, 19th. Community --------- * MINA 3 has been improved, but it's still moving slowly. * Some bug fixes have been provided for Vysper and FtpServer this quarters. * No new committers or PMC changes Development ----------- * MINA 3 remains in a preliminary state, with a lot to do to get it alive and kicking. * The web sites have to be moved to the new Apache CMS before the end if this year, we need to find some time this sumer to initiate the migration. * Many issues have been fixed i order to get ready for a 2.0.5 release Issues ------ No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache MRUnit Project MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Unit testing is a technique for improving project quality and reducing overall costs by writing a small amount of code that can automatically verify the software you write performs as intended. This is considered a best practice in software development since it helps identify defects early, before they're deployed to a production system. RELEASES * The last release of Apache MRUnit was version 0.9.0-incubating, released on May 12, 2012 while in Incubation. * No new releases are planned currently for the project. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/7Cj * Work continues on MRUNIT-69 which is a new/easier to use API COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 13 subscribers to the developer list. - Total of 12 subscribers to the user list. - Total of 10 committers - Total of 10 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache MyFaces Project Apache MyFaces is a project of the Apache Software Foundation, and hosts several sub-projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. Community --------- * No new Committers * No new PMC Members * No new Contributors Releases -------- MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report: * MyFaces Core v2.0.13 * MyFaces Core v2.0.14 * MyFaces Core v2.1.7 * MyFaces Core v2.1.8 * MyFaces Extensions CDI (CODI) 1.0.5 * MyFaces Tobago 1.5.5 * MyFaces Tobago 1.5.6 * MyFaces Portlet Bridge 3.0.0-alpha * MyFaces Tomahawk 1.1.13 Project Branding ---------------- * Started (ongoing) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache Nutch Project DESCRIPTION Apache Nutch is an open source web-search software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene, it now builds on Apache Solr adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database and parsing support handled by Apache Tika for HTML and an array of other document formats. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY We have been very active lately. Nutch 1.5 has been released since the last report and we have just released 1.5.1 which addresses some blocking issues in 1.5. We have also released Nutch 2.0 on the 7th July which is a major milestone. We are working on a press announcement with Sally. The Apache Nutch PMC has voted Sebastian Nagel to become a Nutch committer and PMC member in April. COMMUNITY The traffic on the user and dev mailing lists has kept a relatively high level in the last quarter. There have not been any meetings or talks related to Nutch since the previous report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Status report for the Apache ODE Project DESCRIPTION Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This was again a quiet development period. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. We have started to work on both, web site migration to Apache CMS and a cutting maintenance release, which will fix a small number of minor bugs but will also bring back compatibility to recent ServiceMix versions. RELEASE No release to report in this quarter. DEVELOPMENT No significant progress to report. Unfortunately the GSoC had to withdraw his application due to personal reasons. COMMUNITY Nothing significant to report. PROJECT BRANDING BOARD REPORT CHECKLIST We are planning to address the requirements with the migration from confluence to the CMS. Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org ✔ Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✘ Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✘ Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✘ Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date ✔ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache OpenEJB Project Apache OpenEJB is an enterprise application containers and object distribution services based on, the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Web Profile. Major event for the quarter was the long awaited release of OpenEJB 4.0.0 final and TomEE 1.0.0 final on April 30th. Foundation announcement made with the great might of Sally, as usual. We had the highest website traffic of all time for the following two weeks. Thanks so much to everyone who has helped with that undertaking. Primary activity has been on keeping up with the flood of issues reported and user requests. Feature development around a console for TomEE, ways to improve migration and a new multicast server discovery approach have also been focal points. Effort to release OpenEJB 4.1.0 and TomEE 1.1.0 has just begun and will likely be the focus of the next several weeks. Further effort to "tool" the release process has been undertaken including a tool to create a jira issue with several subtasks. The goal being to better document and spread out release tasks. We might have something to share there at some point. The Infra anonymous edit feature for the CMS has been a boon for the project. The feature coupled with a nice javascript-powered edit button on nearly every page has dramatically improved user contribution to the documentation/website. We've had at least 4 different users contribute to the documentation over the last two weeks or so, which is about 4 times as many as we had with Confluence. One of them as started contributing code. We strongly encourage other projects to add this to their quiver of power tools. Potential concern was raised on running the JavaEE TCK on Amazon-controlled hardware (EC2) [1]. The concern was subsided, but we bring it to the board's attention for maximum transparency as we have done since the start of our EC2 usage. Were we to not use EC2 for TCK testing we would need dedicated hardware for the task. It wouldn't be quite as much as Geronimo, but would be in that ballpark. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5044 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Status report for the Apache OpenJPA Project There are no items requiring board attention at this time. * Highlights Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat, Spring or OSGi. * Community Mailing lists continue to be very active and many instances of developers migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA can be cited. The developer community had maintained steady rate of defect resolution and support for previous releases. New features (auditing, access pattern tracker) are regularly proposed and implemented by the community of developers. * Governance We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and PMC members. * Releases No new releases since last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache PDFBox Project 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. Wolfgang Glas offered to contribute some code to improve the unicode support when creating documents, one of the most asked features. Releases -------- PDFBox 1.7.0 was released on 29 May 2012 We didn't officially release preflight and xmpbox, as the refactoring isn't finished yet. We didn't remove the source but disabled the maven build for it. We are planning to cut a 1.7.1 bug fix release in the near future. Development: ------------ The development on the next release is still in progress. We are currently working on - improved font handling - improved rendering - refactoring + improved integration of preflight - bug fixing We just started a discussion on how to proceed with the next release(s), it looks like the next release will probably be a major one. The new conforming parser works well and will replace the old one at least in the next major release. Eric and Guillaume are making progress on the refactoring of preflight and xmpbox. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache Rave Project Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. ISSUES There are no issues requiring the board's attention at this time. COMMUNITY The meetup in Utrecht, The Netherlands was a success with ~25 participants and renewed interest from organizations aware of, but not directly contributing to, Rave. Rave will be participating in the Apache@OSCON events. The OpenSocial Foundation is also sponsoring a combined meetup with Apache Shindig. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES No committer or PMC changes since the last report. RELEASES A release was planned, but canceled due to a critical bug. ACTIVITY Activity remains high and continues to be centered around cleanup. The beginnings of the roadmap have been started, but nothing solidified. PRESS Nothing to report. BRANDING The PMC has executed the suitable name search again and has not found anything of concern. http://wiki.apache.org/rave/BrandingSearches/July2012 LEGAL Nothing to report. INFRASTRUCTURE Nothing to report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Status report for the Apache Shindig Project 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 and contributions remain healthy. We have seen some new contributors and have spread out the build-release responsibilities. Shindig will be participating in the Apache@OSCON events. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES No new PMC members or committers were approved. RELEASES * 2.5.0 beta-2 released June, 2012 * Work continues on a finalized 2.5.0 version. INFRASTRUCTURE * The http://shindig.apache.org website is moving to CMS. See http://shindig.staging.apache.org/ * We now support deploying release artifacts using svnpubsub. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Status report for the Apache Shiro Project Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Releases: - We released Shiro 1.2 last quarter and we are currently planning on releasing a 1.2.1 bug fix release hopefully sometime this or next week. Community & Project: - Shiro continues to grow, both in the number of downloads and the size of its community. We've received a lot of feedback lately on integration with other protocols like OAuth, OpenID and open-source frameworks like Scribe (for OAuth). The development team will continue to work with the community to provide the best Java security experience possible. - We're excited to represent Shiro at OSCON this year with the rest of the ASF team. One of our team members, Les Hazlewood, will be at the Apache hackathon helping anyone wishing to use or integrate with Shiro. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Status report for the Apache Sqoop Project 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 1.4.1-incubating, released on February 16, 2012 while in Incubation. * No new releases are planned currently for the project. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/5pU * Weekly conference calls are being hosted to facilitate discussion about the development work for Sqoop 2. These calls are announced in advance on the dev list; are open for anyone to participate provided they RSVP on time; no decisions are made in these calls; all items discussed in these calls are brought back to the dev list, wiki and Jira as necessary; the call minutes are recorded and made available at: http://s.apache.org/SJf. COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has changed due to one PMC member changing affiliation from AVG Technologies to Cloudera. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at Cloudera (7), JPL (1), Quest (2), Talend (1), WibiData (1). * A Sqoop User meetup was organized on June 13, 2012 in San Jose, and was attended by 13 participants. * Currently there are: - Total of 71 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 134 subscribers to the user list - Total of 14 committers - Total of 12 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Status report for the Apache Struts Project Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework. The Struts team made two releases in the last quarter, both of which addressed feature enhancements and bug fixes: * Struts 2.3.2 * Struts 2.3.4 We have been approached with two minor security issues in the last quarter, one for Struts 2 allowing CSRF attacks when using an undocumented feature and one for Struts 1 allowing to view server side web application files when using an experimental yet released feature. We are in the process of evaluating possible impacts and solutions. In the last quarter we added Johannes Geppert (jogep) to the PMC. No committers were added in this period. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Trademarks and Project Branding (fixed) ---------------------------------------- Trademark Attributions: there are currently no missing attributions the PMC is aware of (all other topics were marked as fixed already previous reports) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Status report for the Apache Synapse Project Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period, but new users continue to appear on the mailing list During the reporting period there have been 29 commits from 6 committers. Releases No new releases during this period since we just did a release last period. Board issues None identified. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Status report for the Apache Tapestry Project Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and great performance. We've had a bug fix release on the 5.3 branch that addressed some broken functionality and enhanced performance, especially under very heavy load. A further bug fix release is currently being voted on. Tapestry switched to Git as its source code repository, and that has greatly enhanced our ability to backport fixes from the master development branch to the 5.3 branch. This is a great service for our user community. In the master branch (which will be 5.4), work is well underway on significant improvements to Tapestry's JavaScript support on both the client and the server. There have been some interesting releases of late from the community: * Portlet support * jQuery integration * Twitter Bootstrap integration * cometd integration * Highcharts integration (client-side JavaScript charting) * ... and several more. Mailing list traffic seems to be in the summer doldrums, but still running around 1000 messages per month. We are considering options for documentation, given that the Confluence Wiki approach we currently use is being end-of-lifed. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Status report for the Apache Tcl Project Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. These projects combine the power of the Apache web server with the capabilities of the mature, robust and flexible Tcl scripting language. Subprojects of Apache Tcl are - mod_tcl - Rivet - Websh Apache Rivet released 2.0.5 in June [1] with bug fixes [2][3][4] and a few improvements contributed by Rivet users ('http_accept' command, new shorthand syntax [5], cookies 'HttpOnly' flag handling [6]). Some planning was laid down for a 2.1.0 release from the code currently in 'trunk'. Maintenance continues as usual for the other subprojects in Apache Tcl. [1] http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/static/rn-2-0.html [2] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53222 [3] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53221 [4] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52650 [5] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53217 [6] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53224 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Status report for the Apache Thrift Project Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. Community The Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with submissions from new contributors for bug fixes and new feature requests. I am also happy to announce the addition of a new committer to the Apache Thrift project, Henrique Mendonca. Releases We are finalizing preparation for our 0.9rc and are planning for the release later this month. Website Updates to documentation and examples are in progress to go out with our 0.9 release. We will also be finalizing the svnpubsub switch over for the website this month (INFRA-5031 and INFRA-5032). ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Status report for the Apache Tika Project 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 recognized by IANA and other standards bodies. Releases ========================= Progress towards the 1.2 release continues. There have been a few recent threads discussing making an RC ([1 and [2]). We anticipate the 1.2 RC and official release arriving in the next month or so. The 1.2 RC addresses 63 issues [3] including new features (e.g., Tika JAX-RS network server [4]), bug fixes (e.g., misuse of HTTP content-encoding header [5]) and a enhanced approach to dealing with metadata key naming and representation [6] including XMP support. Community ========================= The Tika PMC added Ray Gauss as a Tika PMC member and committer in May 2012. The Tika PMC is still sponsoring the Any23 incubator project [7], which is progressing along nicely and getting ready to make their first Incubator release. Chris started a thread [8] on private to discuss potentially rotating the chair. So far there hasn't been strong positive or negative reception to this suggestion. Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 174, 102 and 134 messages in May, June and July 2012, respectively. user@ was at 26, 28 and 45 messages, during the same timeframe. [1] http://s.apache.org/MFq [2] http://s.apache.org/AMZ [3] http://s.apache.org/w9 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-593 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-431 [6] http://wiki.apache.org/tika/MetadataRoadmap [7] http://incubator.apache.org/any23/ [8] http://s.apache.org/P7c ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Status report for the Apache Traffic Server Project 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 boards attention. Community ========= Two new committers were added since the last report, bringing us to a total of 29 committers. The mailing lists are seeing normal steady growth, the current tallies are: users@ - 301 subscribers (up 16% since last report) dev@ - 203 subscribers (up 9% since last report) A new "who's using" page was created, to show some of the users and supporters of our software and community: http://trafficserver.apache.org/users.html A Traffic Server Hackathon and get-together is planned for the upcoming OSCON in Portland, for both Monday and Tuesday. Many of the core Traffic Server developers will be there, and we look forward to meet many of our users. Releases ======== Three releases have been made since the last status report: 3.2.0 - Our latest, greatest stable release 3.0.5 - Patch release for our 3.0.x stable release 3.1.4 - The final development release before 3.2.0. A press announcement was made for the v3.2.0 release, for more details see https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/media_alert_the_apache_software2 Many thanks to Sally and the PR team for helping us with this milestone release. A year in the making, v3.2.0 fixes hundreds of bugs and adds many significant new features. Development on the v3.3.0 branch has begun already, and we will use the OSCON sessions to work on several interesting new projects. Of particular interest is the new Lua plugin, which will (hopefully) make it into either v3.3.0 or v3.3.1. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Status report for the Apache VCL Project DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community is working to complete the post-graduation tasks with the help of Infrastructure. [1] * Mailing lists have been moved to vcl.apache.org. * PMC and private list have been established. * Repository has been moved. * Project website will be migrated from Confluence to the CMS. * Attempted to release VCL 2.3 in June but bugs were found which required new release candidates. Decided to hold off until after graduation. A vote to release VCL 2.3 is currently underway. It will likely be released before the board meeting. RELEASES * None at the time this report was written. A vote to release VCL 2.3 is currently underway. COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 152 * Subscribers to the dev list: 140 * Committers: 9 * PMC members: 6 COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES * New committer: Dmitri Chebotarov (2012-5-30) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4761] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Status report for the Apache Web Services Project Web Services Report for July 2012 Releases within this quarter: * Axiom 1.2.13 (RM - Andreas Veithen) * WSS4J 1.6.6 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * Neethi 3.0.2 (RM - Daniel Kulp) * XmlSchema 2.0.2 (RM - Daniel Kulp) Last releases for other subprojects: * Woden : Feb 2011 * XML-RPC : Feb 2010 Projects moved to WS attic within this quarter. * WSIF * Muse * Jaxme Development. * WSS4J was very active during recent past with new streaming support activities. * Apache Woden dropped its Axiom based implementation due to less user attraction and maintaining cost and will continue with DOM based development. * Axiom also performing number of restructuring activities. Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters (Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J ): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos) * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * XmlSchema * Woden - ( A new site for Woden is under development.) * XML-RPC * Project homepage - (needs review and fresh look.) Community: * Small but active community on development and mailing lists. Issues for board consideration None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Status report for the Apache XMLBeans Project About XMLBeans: XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. XMLBeans missed the reports to the board since March, I'm fully responsible for this. For the last six months, the traffic on mailing list went down with the exception of this month. The traffic in the last month is due to the proposed new release, release candidate 2 is already out 3 should come soon. Our last release was more than one year ago. Even though the traffic is low, there are non-committer people participating on the mailing list and even submitting patches. The involvement of many XMLBeans committers is very low or absent for the last six months. We're looking to attract new committers, I hope we'll have at least one proposal soon. There were no changes in PMC or new committers since last report. There are no other issues requiring board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the July 25, 2012 board meeting.