The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes April 17, 2013 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at 10:32 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 Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Chris Mattmann Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Sean Kelly Daniel Gruno Shane Curcuru 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of March 20, 2013 See: board_minutes_2013_03_20.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] I announced this year's members meeting, which will be held on IRC this May 21st and 23rd at 10:30am Pacific. B. President [Jim] I presented a Keynote at POSSCON 2013 regarding "Licensing, Governance, Community and more". Copies of the slides can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/jimjag/three-shallbe At present there are no issues with the running of the foundation. All presidents' committees are working well, with the normal expected delays due to volunteer cycles. To alleviate this I plan on ramping up the involvement of our EA to better track and assist these cmmts. I will work with Upayavira and Chris to ensure that Upayavira has the view into payment's rec'd to support his fundraising activities (as requested by Upayavira). The proposed ASF 2013-2014 budget is ready for discussion and approval. The board will note that our overall expenses are slightly down from last year. Branding is quite busy but handling the load well. Fundraising has an issue which I'll be tracking, and it's referred to above. Concom is taking the number of suggestions and comments provided by the board and the President/EVP into consideration, and are making the required changes to implement those, including a "refocus" of the cmmt and a clean-up of the mailing lists. I anticipate some discussion of all this at the board meeting. There are no issues with TAC. I received no report from Infra. This follows a somewhat disappointing reaction to the budget call. As per the agreed upon work-flow, I ask the VP of Infra to see where the problems are and to address the problems. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] Fairly low activity this month. Contracted Natasha Livingston with CSC to bring Delaware Annual Report in good standing for the Foundation, and to pay for their annual service. Annual report checked into the SVN financials repo. Obtained account information and forwarded to Jim for yet another inquiry into the SVN trademark -- Jim told them that according to our records the funds were sent. On the first inquiry, the law firm registrant claims that a wire transfer was sent to their account at HSBC Bank which is closed since 2011. On the second inquiry, the registrant claims that the wire transfer was sent to the intermediary account at Citibank NY, not to the beneficiary account at Citibank SA Brasil. Obtained 1099 forms from IRS - 5 copies in case anyone else needed one - for Melissa. Forms will be en route to IRS. Sam processed an ACNA 2013 registration reimbursement. Redhat notified us of an address change to their corporate office. Sam processed Bill pay for InterVision Systems. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 511,399.29 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,593.61 PayPal: 158,271.13 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 957,264.03 Income Summary: Lockbox 25,204.58 Paypal 3,277.19 Misc Deposits 109,596.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 138,077.77 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 1,567.27 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 1,537.42 EA 2,308.00 misc expense 379.48 Network services - Traci.net 518.00 Press 4,545.45 Sysadmin 30,000.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 41,355.62 D. Secretary [Craig] March was a busy month for document recording, with 69 ICLAs, four CCLAs, and four grants received and filed. There are still people who believe that they can write additional terms on Schedule A or Schedule B of CCLAs and these need special handling. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] A little work helping VP ComDev evaluate a mentoring programme proposal referred by Sam. Luciano quickly took over discussions and recently indicated they are nearing completion. I was scheduled to participate in a panel at OSCON discussing the various foundation models. However, Noirin Plunkett had also signed up to represent the ASF. I therefore stepped down in order to make way for Noirin. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report for this month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Jim] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 8 Takedown requests per DMCA should be sent to VP, Legal Affairs. More discussion on legal internal. Technically the TCK contract has expired but neither side is interested in abandoning the contract. C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Roy] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Greg] See Attachment A B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Doug] See Attachment B C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Brett] See Attachment C D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Sam] See Attachment D E. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Ross] See Attachment E F. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Bertrand] See Attachment F G. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Rich] See Attachment G H. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Jim] See Attachment H I. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Bertrand] See Attachment I J. Apache CloudStack Project [Chip Childers / Greg] See Attachment J K. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Brett] See Attachment K L. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Ross] See Attachment L M. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen / Doug] See Attachment M N. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Sam] See Attachment N O. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Roy] See Attachment O P. Apache Deltacloud Project [David Lutterkort / Rich] See Attachment P Q. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Jim] See Attachment Q R. Apache ESME Project [Richard Hirsch / Sam] See Attachment R S. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Rich] See Attachment S T. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Brett] See Attachment T AI: Ross: discuss "documentation" with PMC U. Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller / Roy] See Attachment U V. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Bertrand] See Attachment V W. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Greg] See Attachment W X. Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies / Ross] See Attachment X Y. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Doug] See Attachment Y Z. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Greg] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Doug] See Attachment AA AB. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Brett] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Lucy Project [Nick Wellnhofer / Jim] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Ross] No report was submitted. AI: Ross to pursue a report for Mahout AE. Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy / Sam] See Attachment AE AI: Sam discuss reason for rejecting the report AF. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Bertrand] See Attachment AF AG. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Roy] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Rich] See Attachment AH AI. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Greg] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Roy] See Attachment AK AL. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Jim] See Attachment AL AI: Jim: clarify the Infrastructure comment AM. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Sam] See Attachment AM AN. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Doug] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Bertrand] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Ross] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Rich] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Ross] See Attachment AR AS. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Sam] No report was submitted. AT. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Rich] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle / Roy] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Bertrand] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Brett] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Thrift Project [Bryan Duxbury / Doug] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Jim] See Attachment BA BB. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Greg] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Brett] See Attachment BC BD. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Jim] See Attachment BD BE. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Sam] See Attachment BE BF. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Roy] See Attachment BF BG. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AI: Doug: is this project still viable? Committee reports, excluding Maven and MyFaces, approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Pivot Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sandro Martini to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sandro Martini from the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pivot project has chosen by vote to recommend Roger Whitcomb as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sandro Martini is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Roger Whitcomb be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Pivot Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache ZooKeeper Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Mahadev Konar to the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Mahadev Konar from the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ZooKeeper project has chosen by vote to recommend Flavio Junqueira as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Mahadev Konar is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Flavio Junqueira be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache ZooKeeper Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish Apache Onami Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to extensions to Google Guice and to adding functionality not provided by Google Guice itself, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "The Apache Onami Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that The Apache Onami Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software components which serve as extensions to Google Guice and provide functionality not provided by Google Guice itself; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Onami" 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 Onami Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of The Apache Onami 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 Onami Project: * Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier) * Daniel Manzke (danielmanzke) * Eric Charles (eric) * Ioannis Canellos (iocanel) * Jordan Zimmermann (randgalt) * Jordi Gerona (jordi) * Marco Speranza (marcosperanza) * Mikhail Mazursky (ash2k) * Mohammad Nour El-Din (mnour) * Nino Martinez Wael (nmwael) * Olivier Lamy (olamy) * Simone Tripodi (simonetripodi) * Stuart McCulloch (mcculls) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Simone Tripodi be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Onami, 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 Onami Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Onami podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator Onami podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish Apache Onami Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache DeltaSpike Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to creating a set of portable CDI (JSR-299) Extensions for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache DeltaSpike Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache DeltaSpike Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to creating a set of portable CDI (JSR-299) Extensions; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache DeltaSpike" 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 DeltaSpike Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache DeltaSpike 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 DeltaSpike Project: * Gerhard Petracek (gpetracek) * Mark Struberg (struberg) * Pete Muir (pmuir) * Jason Porter (lightguardjp) * Shane Bryzak (sbryzak) * Rudy de Busscher (rdebusscher) * Christian Kaltepoth (chkal) * Arne Limburg (arne) * Charles Moulliard (cmoulliard) * Cody Lerum (clerum) * Romain Manni-Buccau (rmannibucau) * Matthew Jason Benson (mbenson) * Jim Jagielski (jim) * David Blevins (dblevins) * Ken Finnigan (kenfinnigan) * John D. Ament (johndament) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mark Struberg be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache DeltaSpike, 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 DeltaSpike PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache DeltaSpike Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache DeltaSpike Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator DeltaSpike podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator DeltaSpike podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache DeltaSpike Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Approve the 2013-2014 FY ASF Budget Call for Board approval of proposed 2013-2014 FY budget for the ASF. See https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/Finances/budgets/2013-budget.txt. /* private also Attachment BH */ Special Order 7E, Approve the 2013-2014 FY ASF Budget, was Tabled. AI: Greg update board meeting template to include visibility into the EA activity AI: Jim update Chairman/President's discretionary budget AI: Sam update infrastructure budget; discuss with Jim AI: Jim revise budget by middle of next week to approve before start of May AI: Jim where is budget for outside audit? F. Change the Apache Thrift Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Bryan Duxbury to the office of Vice President, Apache Thrift, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Bryan Duxbury from the office of Vice President, Apache Thrift, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Thrift project has chosen by vote to recommend Jake Farrell as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Bryan Duxbury is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Thrift, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jake Farrell be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Thrift, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7F, Change the Apache Thrift Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. G. Rename Conference Planning VP and committee to Events Planning WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has previously appointed the position of Vice President, Conference Planning, to serve at the direction of the President; WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems that the name no longer matches the main focus of the role, and the main work done by the associated officers committee; WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems that the name Events Planning would better match and describe the role; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the office of Vice President, Conference Planning, be renamed to Vice President, Events Planning, to continue to serve at the direction of the President; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the associated Officers Committee for the role be likewise renamed. Special Order 7G, Rename Conference Planning VP and committee to Events Planning, was Tabled. AI: Ross discuss future of Concom with VP Concom and Comdev PMC. 8. Discussion Items 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Daniel: Draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle other Apache projects. Status: * Doug: follow up with XMLBeans PMC to see if project is still viable. Status: * Greg: Contact all PMCs to ask for dates on releases in board reports. Status: * Greg: Let Flume PMC know that affiliations are not needed in the board report. Status: * Jim: Contact Oozie PMC with comments about affiliations and JIRA queries. Status: in process. * Jim: Follow up with Perl PMC to see if project is still viable. Status: done. * Rich: Communicate submodule concerns with Hive PMC Status: done. * Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:54 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] No board level issues. The trademarks@ list has had a very busy month. Along with a number of podling name searches with a variety of questions, Christian Grobmeier and others worked to centralize an ASF-wide name search procedure. With the growth of the ASF and the wide number of ASF products and even sub-projects having such a large impact on the technology industry, we will need to be correspondingly careful when selecting new product brands for our many Apache projects. Early draft merchandising guidelines are being discussed; with so many projects in different areas we need to provide much better and simpler guidelines for the many volunteers and respectful organizations that simply want to give away t-shirts and swag with Apache project logos on them. This is a recurring question that we need a better way to answer. Infra created the vp-brand@ alias which is saved to a restricted archive, which will be used for legal privileged conversations with counsel. Brand Management submitted the same budget request as last year. While we under-ran our budget last year, we do expect (now that we have experience with how long things take) to use most of the budget this year. The Apache UIMA project has agreed to change the name of their newly created TextMarker sandbox component to avoid a potential legal conflict with a long-established and registered product name from the European company SoftMaker. It is important to understand that this is a unique situation, and in *no* way serves as a precedent for other Apache project name choices. It is clear from the wide variety of third party software products using the Hadoop name that we need to work with the vendor community to make some changes to ensure the Apache Hadoop project gets the credit it deserves. Apologies to the Apache Hadoop PMC for the delay in working through a plan with them after conferring with counsel from DLAPiper; I've been quite sick on and off for a few weeks. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] We have been approached by two companies offering us new sponsorships, one gold, one silver. I have been considering the operation of ASF fundraising, and some of the issues that I see with it. I wish to address them here. The most significant issue in fundraising is the lack of visibility into incoming payments. As VP Fundraising, I need to have real-time access to payment information. Without such real-time access of some kind, I am coming to the conclusion that it is not viable for me to continue in this role. Also, whilst we have some basic tools for tracking sponsors, they require quite a bit of attention, and the information we keep needs a lot of updating. I am finding it very hard to both keep the information up-to-date, and follow up sponsor renewals. I am therefore going to suggest that I focus on keeping info up-to-date, whilst soliciting volunteers to actually chase sponsors for renewal. I will happily undertake the invoicing and payment tracking part of the process, and will aim to keep complexity for volunteers to a minimum. I will seek volunteers for each sponsor as their renewal becomes needed. If you are prepared to take on contacting a single sponsor on occasion, please let me know. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain ahead of plans and under budget. No vendor payments are due at this time. The proposed budget for FY 2013-2014 was submitted to Jim Jagielski on 13 March. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi has spoken with an existing Sponsor regarding a possible submission to the Incubator, as well as a possible new ASF Sponsor who is also interested in submitting a project to the Incubator. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this time period: -9 April: The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google Summer of Code 2013 -9 April: MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Struts Project Announces Apache Struts™ 1 End-Of-Life -9 April: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache cTAKES™ as a Top-Level Project -2 April: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Bloodhound™ as a Top-Level Project -25 March: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack™ as a Top-Level Project IV. Informal Announcements: 6 items were announced on @TheASF Twitter feed. No new posts were made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed or "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: no announcements are currently planned. PMCs wishing to announce major project news —as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator— are welcome to contact Sally at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: Sally responded to 11 media requests and 3 requests for project graphics/logos (she created new "Community Partner" graphics for a request from an Apache project training event). The ASF received 1,615 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 1,203. VII. Analyst Relations: no formal briefings are planned. Apache was mentioned in 9 reports by Gartner, 1 report by Forrester, 11 write-ups by GigaOM, and 14 reports by 451 Research. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: no activities are planned at this time. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally continues to work with O'Reilly regarding our participation at OSCON 2013; Melissa Warnkin is assisting with booth tactics. X. Newswire accounts: we have 15 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 7 pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account through May 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch] Small Events ------------ A BarCamp was held in Bangalore a few weekends ago, which was largely a success, especially considering it was our first event in India. It is hoped that more events will happen in the area in future, and that other organisers can learn from what went well, and less well Planning continues for a number of US events for later in the year. An email was sent out to all committers about upcoming BarCamps, from which a few new volunteers for planned events have been found Spare mentor capacity exists for when any of these events feel they have reached the point of needing it. It seems to be generally felt that the current documentation is holding back potential small event organisers from reaching the point of requesting mentors, and means extra mentor work for those rare few who do get there. In addition, an emphasis on finding supplies and sponsorship for the first event in an area/of a type has been identified as putting a lot of people off. Because of this, the budget proposal for this coming year is a little different to in the past, as we hope to make it easier for the first event of a type/location to occur. (The hurdle is the first one). In addition, we are planning a mixed in-person + online weekend to try to turn the current incomplete "event in a box" documentation on the wiki into a finalised and ready-to-use set of instructions on our website. We hope this all combined will lead to many more small events occurring ApacheCons ---------- A number of ACNA sponsors were incorrectly given the full attendee list, due to a mixup at The Open Bastion, which lead to a number of emails going out to attendees. TOB believe all sponsors have now got rid of the list and won't use it going forward. TOB have implemented tweaks to prevent this occurring again, and intend to send out an apology soon. Final numbers have yet to be produced for ACNA, but are expected soon. Very little feedback has been received on the discussions + minutes on the future of ApacheCon meeting from Portland. The plan will therefore be to produce a new RFP for a producer for Europe, building on the experiences of ACEU12+ACNA13, hopefully over the next few weeks, and work with TOB on a future ACNA. Committee --------- Several years after first suggested by the board, we are planning to massively cull the number of lists we have. A plan for what goes where has been discussed by the committee and approved. We intend to document the new structure and ask Infra to make the required changes soon A special order has been submitted to the board to rename the VP position and associated committee, to better match what the roles are (and aren't!) covered by them. Following discussions, several people who helped with ACEU12 and ACNA13 have been approached to see if they have the cycles+interest in joining the committee ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) exists to help those that would like to attend ApacheCon events, but are unable to do so for financial reasons. Committee --------- No new members or changes to TAC. ApacheCon NA 13 Follow up ------------------------- Formal post-event surveys were issued and are now being chased up. The idea here is to gather feedback from TAC recipients in an effort to improve process organization and execution within TAC. This will be on going over time and we hope to report on the feedback at next reporting window. Future Events ------------- There are no future events we're currently committed to helping. We stand ready to help once ConCom finalise their future ApacheCon plans, and we have the budget + volunteer energy to help with a smaller event, if the organisers of such a gathering need our help. Budget ---------- We are awaiting figures from EA on what we spent at ACNA (in turn the EA may be waiting). Either way, we'll have a budget projection ready in time for the requests deadline. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] The SPARQL Working Group, in which ASF participated, has closed. The implementation reports included a report from Apache Jena. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] Activity is up this month. Nothing requiring board attention. Two highlights: * Some general and some specific discussion on takedown notices. No policy changes have been made to date. * Review of the TCK contract is proceeding slowly. We likely will be passing the comments received past the SFLC and back to Oracle this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] For Mar 2013: 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. 5 Support question 4 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 9 Vulnerability reports 1 [rave, via security@httpd] [CLOSED, CVE-2013-1814] 2 [ActiveMQ, via security@] [CLOSED] 1 [axis, via security@] 1 [tomcat, via security@] 1 [qpid, via security@ and private@qpid] 1 [httpd, via security@] 1 [subversion, via security@ and private@subversion] 1 [openoffice, via officesecurity@lists.freedesktop.org] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi] The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift. Releases Version 1.4.3 was released on 3/18/2012. Activity The mailing lists have been active. The dev list has increased by 15 subscribers to 165, and the user list has increased by 20 subscribers to 246. Note that I accidentally switched the user and dev list numbers in my last report. Development is active. New features are no longer being added to the 1.5 branch and 1.5.0 is undergoing heavy testing in preparation for release. January, March, and February 2013 (in that order) mark our highest ever number of commits per month. Community Brian Loss was added as a committer on 2/12/2013. There have been 7 new contributors since the last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans] 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: * Cleaned up the backlog of open issues. * Migrated to Bndtools 2. * Some bugfixes for problems when running on Windows and other issues. * We expect our next release in May. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino] 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. Development: * Migration to svnpubsub was completed. * Development on ActiveMQ 5.9 is underway Trademark / Branding Status: * The activemq.org and activemq.com TLD's are owned by other entities * Need to investiate 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 ActiveMQ-CPP 3.6.0 (Mar 7/2013) * Apache Apollo 1.6 (Feb 25/2013) * Apache ActiveMQ 5.8.0 (Feb 11/2013) ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru] Apache Airavata is a software framework to construct, execute, and manage long running applications and workflows on distributed computing resources. == Releases == Airavata 0.6 was released on January 30th 2013. The release vote for Airavata 0.7 version was called on April 11th 2013. The VOTE is called after extensive testing on 5 RC's. == Activity == The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high. Community is currently voting on two policies for following a 6 week release cycle and to adopt Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology. == Community == Airavata experimenting to better align GSoC projects with mainstream development. During the GSoC community bonding period, the students are being encouraged to first follow along the tutorials and get fully comfortable with the code base. Secondly a release is called out with a focus on JIRA competition. All potential GSoC students are encouraged to bring out as many bugs as possible and the PMC is committed to do virtual hackathon's to close out these JIRA's teaching students along the way to contribute patches and documentation. These approaches are nicely helping to identify students who have interest in the project itself and not just the GSoC program. == Outreach == Co-ordinated by Google India University Programs, Suresh Marru has given virtual google hangout talks on Apache, GSOC and Airavata. The focus of the talks is to encourage students to apply for GSOC at Apache and make use of the opportunity to go beyond the summer projects and contribute to open source. The response is good with Airavata attracting interest from 15 students from premier academic institutions. Sample slides are at - http://www.slideshare.net/smarru/gsoc-iiitkgp. == Infrastructure == There are no infrastructure issues. == Other Issues == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes] Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. ## Releases * Apache Aries Subsystem 1.0.0 This is the reference implementation of the OSGi Subsystem Service Specification which "provides a declarative model for defining resource collections, including bundles, and an API for installing and managing those collections of resources." See OSGi Enterprise Release 5 specification chapter 134. subsystem-api, subsystem-core, and subsystem-obr 1.0.0 were released. * Apache Aries SPI-Fly 1.0.0 This is the reference implementation of the OSGi Service Loader Mediator Specification which "defines a mediator that ensures that the Java SE 6 Service Loader is useful in an OSGi Framework, allowing programs that leverage the Service Loader to be used in OSGi frameworks almost as-is." See OSGi Enterprise Release 5 specification chapter 133. All the spi-fly bundles were released. * Apache Aries Blueprint no-OSGi 1.0.0 Provides the ability to use Blueprint Schema, xml and injection outside of the OSGi environment. * Apache Aries Blueprint Web 1.0.0 Provides a web context listener to bootstrap the no-OSGi Blueprint container inside a WAR. * Apache Aries JMX 1.1.0 & 1.1.1 This implements the OSGi JMX Management Model Specification and has been updated to V1.1 of that spec (which requires V1.2 of JMX). * Apache Aries Semantic Versioning Checker 0.1.0 This compares the bytecode of a module's previous release, with that being built to determine whether the package and bundle versions are semantically versioned correctly. ##Project update No new committers since the last report. Contributions are coming through on the dev list through git pull requests and patches to JIRAs and we continue to have varied discussions across the variety of our sub components. There are no board level issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino] No issues requiring board attention. No activity in the past two months in the Attic project, although mailing lists have been responsive. Looking forward to more projects seeking Attic support. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey] Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system. == Issues == There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. == Community == Martin Kleppmann became a committer on March 28, 2013. There was broad work across languages in the project, with significant traffic in places that had been quiet for a while, such as our Python implementation. C, Csharp, Ruby, Java, are all active. User mailing list activity was similar to the last two years for January, February, and March. Developer mailing list activity was also near the average of the last couple years. == Releases == Avro 1.7.4 was released on February 26, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin] What is Bloodhound? ========================= Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing. Issues ========================= There are no issues that need the board's attention. Releases ========================= There have been two releases this month: * apache-bloodhound-0.5.2-incubating (1st April 2013) * apache-bloodhound-0.5.3 (15th April 2013) Community & Development ========================= Bloodhound graduated to TLP based on a resolution passed by the board at the meeting of 20th March 2013. Common tasks for migration to TLP have been completed by INFRA. Updates to websites to conform to Apache standards are ongoing. In addition to the new committee members added at the point of graduation, one further committee member was voted in on 10th April 2013. Bloodhound has also submitted projects for GSoC. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan] DESCRIPTION Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASE Clerezza bundles are released individually. Parent bundle: version 0.3 (04.04.2013) jaxrs.utils: version 0.7 (being voted) ACTIVITY Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including: - update to lucene 4.1.0, - support of application/sparql-results+xml in ResultSetMessageBodyWriter - initial implementation of a SPARQL 1.1 preparser to enable fastlane query execution, - porting xhtml2html filter from wrhapi to servlets, - considering media type without parameter when choosing a renderlet, - removing internally used "org.apache.xerces.util" from bundle import-package/export-package in jena.tdb - fixing class names in META-INF/services in bundle rdf.rdfjson Furthermore, the code for website generation is now implemented as a submodule of the reactor and the launcher pom is improved to support better debugging of clerezza instance. COMMUNITY New committer and PMC member: Minto van der Sluis since 26.03.2013 BRANDING No issues LEGAL No issues INFRASTRUCTURE Transfer of source codes to Git is in progress (status: waiting for INFRA) Folders for source code distribution under https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/ are requested (status: waiting for INFRA) Clerezza Website as TLP is setup. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Chip Childers] Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. RELEASES * The last release of Apache CloudStack was 4.0.1-incubating (Feb 12, 2013) * The community is currently finalizing two new releases: 4.0.2 and 4.1.0 CURRENT ACTIVITY Our graduation checklist is mostly complete, pending some final resource transfers from Citrix to the ASF. We had positive press coverage of the graduation announcement (examples: [http://s.apache.org/csgradpress]). Special thanks to infra@ for their rapid response to our graduation related change requests and press@ for the release announcement support. * New features continuing to merge into master for our 4.2.0 release. * Post 4.1.0, the community plans to begin outreach to various Linux distros for official packaging. * Improved automated unit and integration test coverage is a major area of community focus. * Lots of marketing related activity is in progress this month (website redesign, CloudStack University initiative, community member talk submissions) COMMUNITY Five new committers were added to the project since graduating: * Hiroaki Kawai * Ahmad Emneina * Geoff Higginbottom * Animesh Chaturvedi * Ilya Musayev The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community: * dev@ 566 subs / ~2000-3000 msg/month * users@ 732 subs / ~800 msg/month * issues@ 93 subs / ~3400 msgs in Mar * commits@ 163 subs / >2500 msg/month * marketing@ 79 subs / ~460 msg in Mar * users-cn@ 279 subs / ~140 msgs in Mar ISSUES * The community is currently working to improve the way that individuals that happen to be managers of other community members interact with the community as a whole, ensuring that there is plenty of opportunity for managers to help support the project in an employer agnostic way. No board action is requested for this issue at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux] Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. STATUS Work continues on plugin architecture, and tooling. COMMUNITY * Lorin Beer voted as committer. * Don Coleman voted as committer. * James Jong voted as committer. * Max Woghiren voted as committer. * Ian Clelland voted as committer. * Old incubator mirror repos on Github still need to be deleted by infra! https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2417 RELEASES * 2.4.0 released 05/Feb/13 * 2.5.0 released 28/Feb/13 * 2.6 released 9/Apr/13 ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills] Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop. ISSUES * There are no issues to raise with the board. COMMUNITY * We added two new committers to the Crunch project since our last board report. These are our first new committers since graduation. * Activity on the dev mailing list is stable and healthy. The user mailing list saw some questions from new users and roughly the same number of threads, but the overall volume of messages fell by about half. * We completed an overhaul of the Crunch website and added an About page. * Two Crunch PMC members are working on third-party projects that build on Crunch. Cloudera ML [1] integrates Apache Hive, Apache Mahout, and Crunch to perform data preparation and model evaluation tasks on Apache Hadoop. Also, work began to integrate Crunch with ElasticSearch's Hadoop libraries. [2] RELEASES * No new releases since our February 2013 release just before graduation. We expect to perform our first TLP release within the next few weeks. [1] http://github.com/cloudera/ml [2] http://github.com/tzolov/elasticsearch-hadoop#crunch ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen] Apache 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. Issues: No Board level issues at this time Releases: Last release was created on 22.02.2013 (ctakes-3.0-incubating) Development: cTAKES has graduated to TLP per board meeting on 20.03.2013. The common tasks for migration to TLP has been done by Infra. We are currently in the process of updating incubator links and references. The committee is also working on future releases of cTAKES. Community: No new committers or PMC members are added. There has been an increase in activity on the user and dev mailing lists from users since graduation presumably indicating more interest in the project and community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp] Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. Releases: 2.5.9 (Feb 1, 2013) 2.5.10 (Apr 2, 2013) 2.6.6 (Feb 1, 2013) 2.6.7 (Apr 2, 2013) 2.7.3 (Feb 1, 2013) 2.7.4 (Apr 2, 2013) Apache CXF Fediz - 1.0.3 released. (Feb 22, 2013) Apache CXF DOSGi 1.4 released. (Jan 22, 2013) Committer/PMC: No changes this period. Last changes: 2 new PMC members and 1 committer were added for our January 2013 report. Security updates: Two security vulnerabilities were made public this quarter and added to http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.html * CVE-2012-5633 - was fixed and released last period, but not made public until January. * CVE-2013-0239 - was fixed this quarter and released and made public. Community update: We started some discussions around whether to go with a 2.8 version or jump to 3.0. Some of the reason was due to the uncertainty around the TCK situation and what restrictions and limitations that is going to place on us. Some refactoring is going on in both the Fediz and DOSGi sub projects based on some feedback. Basically, a lot of questions being asked and answered, several discussions going on, lots of new features being working on, and of course lots of bugs being fixed. All good. :-) ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren] The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects: * DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database Definition (DDL) files. * Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. * JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data persistence. * Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java. -- Status -- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. -- Activities over the last quarter -- * Torque has released version 4.0. * Derby is testing version 10.10.1. * Branding: the Derby web pages were checked for the first step of the Branding requirements - links were put in to point to the Apache pages. This was already in place for the top level (DB) project page. * The Derby wiki pages have become a target of spammers. The community has decided to lock the wiki down and only allow changes by approved editors. * The PMC has not take any further action regarding moving DdlUtils to the Attic - it was discussed before the October report. -- Community -- No PMC changes since August 2011. No new committers since August 2010. -- Releases -- - Torque version 4.0 was released - releases testing/voting in progress for Derby 10.10.1. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [David Lutterkort] Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular clouds. It also provides an implementation of DMTF CIMI, and tools around that API to help make it more easily consumable. There are no issues for board consideration -- Releases/Development -- 1.1.3 - in progress 1.1.2 - 2013-03-13 1.1.1 - 2013-02-13 1.1.0 - 2013-01-15 Work on 'classic' Deltacloud API, DMTF CIMI frontend, and related tools continues to progress. Started a Deltacloud-independent test suite; will participate in another interop event around CIMI at the end of April. Added a driver for DigitalOcean. Will present Deltacloud at Openstack design summit next week, and try to get more collaboration between the two projects started. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot] The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAPv3 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 -- * No new committers * No new PMC members -- Current activity -- * Apache Directory LDAP API: * Two releases during this quarter. * Low activity * Very minor bug fixes. * ApacheDS: * Three releases during this quarter. * Good activity * Improved stability, indexing and replication (reliability & better logs) * Good work done on Kerberos layer and documentation * Ongoing work on depending projects (Apache Mina and Apache Labs Mavibot) * A 2.0.0-RC1 release may be expected soon * Apache Directory Studio: * Three new releases during this quarter. * Good activity * Integration and support of the latest version of the Apache Directory LDAP API and ApacheDS * Added new and improved existing value editors + minor bug fixes * A 2.0.0-RC1 release may be expected soon as well -- Releases -- * Two releases for Apache Directory LDAP API: * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M15 (January 29th 2013) * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M16 (March 3rd 2013) * Two releases for ApacheDS: * ApacheDS 2.0.0-M10 (January 29th 2013) * ApacheDS 2.0.0-M11 (March 3rd 2013) * Three releases for Apache Directory Studio: * Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M4 (January 30th 2013) * Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M5 (February 12th 2013) * Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M6 (March 14th 2013) ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache ESME Project [Richard Hirsch] 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: The level of development activity has decreased dramatically the last year. In the last quarter, we had no commits. 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 S: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith] Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services. BOARD ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES There hasn't been any new release since graduation in January 2013. The release planned for this month has been postponed for a couple of weeks due to some more issues in the C++ binding. Besides some bug fixes and code cosmetics in other bindings the C++ binding is the next big feature coming in the next Etch release. ACTIVITY * User activity has increased (in comparison with the past months), we got good patches by users (and possible new committers) which are currently in review and validation phase. * One major patch updates our Java code bases by bringing it to the newest Java APIs. * Most of activity has occurred in the C++ binding. It is now in a beta state, needs some more tweaks before including it in the next release. * As already mentioned in the last two months, more work is still needed to broad both user and developer community. COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation in January 2013. * Our Committer base is still kind of small but where are in a good work mode. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui] Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.1 was released on 2/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13. The next version of the Installer is being voted on as of this writing. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. We moved our code base from SVN to Git in mid-March. It has been a much more difficult transition than expected. Three weeks later, folks are still confused about how to use Git as it has many options for performing tasks that can have significant implications. Git's database model is not suited for partial checkouts like SVN, making the management of our "whiteboard" (a playground for committers) much more difficult as you have to download the entire whiteboard (currently 245MB) first. There is discussion of managing the whiteboard on GitHub, but others feel that it doesn't conform to the Apache way. The move to Git has slowed contributions from some committers as folks aren't sure they have the time to learn to use Git and are afraid of using the wrong options. Hopefully, the net benefit promised by the Git supporters will eventually be realized. The move to Git has also broken our release and build scripts and we are in the process of fixing them. We also need to get the Git mirrors working again, as well as our CI implementation. The FishEye plug-in was added to our JIRA project. COMMUNITY Harbs and Mark Kessler were added as committers. Frederic Thomas was added to the PMC. PRESS Per a request from the Apache Press VP, I was interviewed by a writer from InfoWorld in early February and the article was finally published in March. The link is: http://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/455802/pictures_15_high-impact_apa che_projects/?image=1 Nick Kwaitkowski presented on Apache Flex at the Flex Users Group in Chicago. Mike Labriola also presented on his Randori framework which uses compiler source from Apache Flex. INFRASTRUCTURE * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. In the last report I thought we had a solution, but it appears that we are back to trying to devise a new solution. Tony has been helpful, but his time is limited. Every month we spend a few minutes discussing solutions. JIRA's migration tools are definitely insufficient, and Apache's desire to have one large centralized JIRA DB makes it difficult or impractical to experiment with custom solutions. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller] 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 has had multiple releases in the past 3 months: * genesis 2.1 (March), * xbean 3.13 (March), * aspectjrt and aspectjweaver 1.6.8_2 (March), * commons-httpclient 3.1.2 (March), * geronimo-jsp 2.2 (March), * geronimo-el_2.2_spec 1.0.4 (March), * geronimo-jaxws_2.2_spec 1.2 (April), * yoko 1.4 (April) The community is preparing for a Geronimo 3.0.1 server release. Mark Struberg has joined the Geroimo PMC. Romain Manni-Bucau has joined the Geronimo project as a committer. The Geronimo web site was migrated to svnpubsub. The community remains active. However, there has been some drop off in committer activity. Several Geronimo users have been useful in identifying issues and helping to drive the resolution of certain issues. Hopefully their contributions will continue. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas] Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. Two significant development branches merged to trunk: - Support for Windows ( http://s.apache.org/e7c ) - (HDFS) Fast-path for local reads on Linux (merge vote closing presently) ( http://s.apache.org/gM ) ( http://s.apache.org/7y1 ) Developers have run Hadoop on Windows by emulating its *NIX dependencies, but the former branch effects a cleaner integration. The latter branch removed a performance hack for trusted services, replacing it with a more secure and general implementation for all HDFS clients. Developers on Windows requested that the workaround remain intact while comparable functionality is implemented on that platform. The two merge votes were nearly concurrent, so the development community discussed the tradeoffs in supporting the new platform, particularly given the present example of its impact. The informal consensus laid the burden of support, testing, and monitoring on the subset of developers working on Windows. Concretely, this extracted commitments to set up and maintain CI infrastructure while relieving others of requirements to fix breakage on a platform they may not run. As applied to the HDFS branch being merged, the implementor(s) of the feature restored the workaround. The dev community converged on these banal agreements fairly quickly. Increased collaboration with the Apache Bigtop project in the release process has improved early detection of downstream integration issues. The upcoming release of 2.0.4-alpha (currently being voted on) has benefitted significantly. Hadoop continues to be an umbrella hosting effectively independent projects (HDFS, MapReduce, YARN). The PMC has not discussed its disposition to partition them recently. While one of the prenominate merges is an example of cross-project work, such patches remain rare. No issues require board attention at this time. RELEASES - hadoop-1.1.2 @ 2013-03-06 COMMUNITY (+ PMC Jason Lowe 2013-02-28) auth: 74 committers, 36 PMC members mailing lists @ 2013-04-01 1805 general 3995 user COMMON Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce. mailing lists @ 2013-04-01 390 common-commits 1789 common-dev 378 common-issues HDFS HDFS is a distributed file system that supports reliable replicated storage across the cluster using a single name space. mailing lists @ 2013-04-01 201 hdfs-commits 862 hdfs-dev 258 hdfs-issues MAPREDUCE MapReduce is an implementation of the map/reduce programming paradigm. mailing lists @ 2013-04-01 198 mapreduce-commits 904 mapreduce-dev 256 mapreduce-issues YARN YARN is a distributed computation framework for easily writing distributed applications. mailing lists @ 2013-04-01 57 yarn-commits 221 yarn-dev 81 yarn-issues ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack] HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION Following on from our last report where we raised the issue of MapR Technologies conflating Apache HBase and their M7 offering, we have had no response from MapR to our letter of January 9th -- we just sent them a ping -- and to my untrained eye, their website continues in violation [1]. RELEASES 0.94.5 -- 02/15/2013 0.94.6 -- 03/22/2013 0.94.6.1 which replaces 0.94.6 -- 04/07/2013* 0.95.0, the first in a "Development" Series[3] of releases that preview the coming 0.96.0 -- 04/07/2013 COMMITTERS We added the following new committers over this period: Amitanand Aiyer (Facebook) -- acube123@apache.org Anoop Sam John (Intel, was Huawei at time of vote) -- anoopsamjohn@apache.org Sergey Shelukhin (HortonWorks) -- sershe@apache.org PMC We added the following PMC members over this report's period: Jimmy Xiang -- jxiang@apache.org Nicolas Liochon -- nkeywal@apache.org COMMUNITY Contribution rate is healthy. We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on: 01/23/2013 at WibiData in San Francisco [6] 02/28/2013 at the Intel Mission Campus in Santa Clara [5] 04/11/2013 at adroll in San Francisco [4] We are busy putting together our second annual conference which will happen June 13th, in San Francisco[7]. 30 committers [2] (Was 26 in last report -- I think I counted wrong in the last report) 872 subscribers to the dev list (Was 833 at last report) 1974 subscribers to the user list (Was 1896 at last report) * < 24 hours between discovery of critical issue that broke rolling upgrades, and roll out of the release 1. http://www.mapr.com/products/mapr-editions/m7-edition 2. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html 3. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.development.series 4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/103587852/ 5. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/96584102/ 6. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/91381312/ 7. http://hbasecon.com ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies] April was a month of much email at the IPMC. Two different non-Foundation-member candidates for IPMC membership led to controversy (each in his own way), and exposed the difficulties of achieving consensus in a large, diverse, group. Eventually, the two cases were resolved, and the community proceeded to a public conversation about decision-making process, agreeing to use a 3/4-majority voting rule when considering non-Foundation-member candidates. The voluminous and frustrating email on this subject, combined with the ongoing questions around supervision (are enough mentors paying attention?) led to a renewed debate on the structure, and indeed, existence, of the IPMC as currently constituted. This debate continues. o Community New IPMC members: Henry Saputra David Nalley People who left the IPMC: Felix Meschberger Nicolas Lalevée Stefan Bodewig Jeremias Maerki o New Podlings Curator o Graduations o Releases o Legal / Trademarks o Infrastructure -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- Still getting started at the Incubator These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Not yet ready to graduate Marmotta Not yet ready to graduate, needs attention VXQuery Ready to graduate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Celix Chukwa Curator DeviceMap Falcon Hadoop Development Tools Helix JSPWiki Knox Marmotta Mesos MRQL ODF Toolkit Open Climate Workbench Provisionr Ripple Tajo Tashi Tez VXQuery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Celix Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on interoperability between Java and C. Celix has been incubating since 2010-11-02. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow a community 2. Find more committers 3. .. Celix is maintained by 2 committers and a small group of users. Questions to the mailing list are (most of the time) answered quickly. We are also trying to give talks on Celix or related stuff on conferences. We see and recognise the problem of the small community, but are also confident that Celix and its community will grow. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? There is no active growth, but there is currently one students doing his internship with Apache Celix and we are trying hoping to get some projects in the Google Summer of Code 2013. We hope that this will lead in more activity on the mailing-list and hopefully to extra committers. How has the project developed since the last report? Technically progress has been slow the last months. There was a hackathon organized for remote services in Java [1], which although not directly related to Apache Celix, should eventually work together with the Apache Celix and as result the committers of Apache Celix where present. We also expect an increase in contributions the coming months because of the student internship / GSoC activities. [1] http://lists.amdatu.org/pipermail/dev/2013-March/000020.html Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Celix. Signed-off-by: Marcel Offermans: [ ](celix) Karl Pauls: [ ](celix) Luciano Resende: [ ](celix) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Chukwa Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop clusters. Chukwa has been incubating since 2010-07-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Chukwa wiki is currently hosted in Hadoop subproject, it may be good to move it fully independent of Hadoop wiki. 2. As of late, the overall activity has declined. The podling needs to grow its active community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * The podling is still working on increasing community activity. It's hoped that the addition of three new committers will help. How has the community developed since the last report? * 3 Committers have been added. How has the project developed since the last report? * The project has a few patches and discussion on improving Chukwa architecture design. The main focus is removing Chukwa collectors to reduce deployment complexity. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Chukwa. Signed-off-by: Jukka Zitting: [x] (chukwa) ant: [x] (chukwa) Alan Cabrera [X](chukwa) Bernd Fondermann: [ ](chukwa) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Curator Curator - ZooKeeper client wrapper and rich ZooKeeper framework Curator has been incubating since 2013-03-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. build community 2. create a first release 3. finalize name search/trademarks Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report. There are currently 12 subscribers on the dev list. There are 13 subscribers to the user list. How has the project developed since the last report? Initial resources have been created (Mailing lists, SCCS, Jira, Jenkins, etc...). All mentors are signed up for the mailing lists. All committers have accounts and are also registered for the ML. Mentors have been educating the initial committers/community on the workings of Apache. A first release candidate for a 2.0.0 release has been created and feedback provided by mentors. The community is iterating on new RCs. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Curator. Signed-off-by: Enis Söztutar: [ ](curator) Luciano Resende: [x](curator) Mahadev Konar: [ ](curator) Patrick Hunt: [X](curator) Shepherd notes: -------------------- 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. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs will also be created to use and manage it. DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03. It looks like DeviceMap needs to be rebooted - there's almost zero activity from the initial committers, but a few people have proposed contributions that could help restart with a mostly new set of committers (without kicking existing ones out of course - they're welcome to be more active if they're willing and able). Two committer/PPMC elections are pending, and with two active mentors this can provide the embryo of a new community. The podling could be considered a failure at this point, but giving it another chance does no harm, so we recommend trying that. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for DeviceMap. Signed-off-by: Bertrand Delacretaz: [X](devicemap) Kevan Miller: [ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory: [X](devicemap) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Falcon Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Bootstrap the project (source code, documentation, issue tracking) 2. Add new and diverse committers 3. Build and grow community 4. Releases at frequent and regular intervals Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - No How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report for Falcon since its acceptance into Incubator. We have requested for infrastructure for bootstrapping the podling (awaiting source control, mailing list and issue tracking) - (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6115). We will look to move the source code and make documentation and easy startup-guide available for users to try it out and collaborate. How has the project developed since the last report? N/A. This is the first report being filed for the project. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Falcon. Signed-off-by: Arun Murthy: [X](falcon) Chris Douglas: [X](falcon) Owen O'Malley: [ ](falcon) Devaraj Das: [ ](falcon) Alan Gates: [ ](falcon) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Helix Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault tolerance and elasticity. Helix has been incubating since 2012-10-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Add new committers. 2. Grow community. 3. Better documentation to increase adoption. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None How has the community developed since the last report? There has been significant increase in the activity since last report resulting in good discussions on the mailing list. How has the project developed since the last report? We had our first Apache Incubator release in January and we are in the process of making another release shortly. Lots of new features and bug fixes added. - Issues +58 issues created, 35 resolved. - Additional features to be part of 0.6.2-incubating release -- Standalone Helix agent -- Task execution recipe -- Task scheduling and support for custom re-balancer. - S4 integration with Helix in progress. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Helix. Signed-off-by: Patrick Hunt: [X](helix) Olivier Lamy: [X](helix) Mahadev Konar: [ ](helix) Owen O'Malley: [ ](helix) Shepherd notes: -------------------- JSPWiki Java-based wiki engine JSPWiki has been incubating since 2007-09-17. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. resolution acceptance 2. community vote 3. IPMC graduation vote Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? If the release vote of 2.9.1 is successful, we're thinking on discussing leaving the Incubator + graduate as TLP How has the community developed since the last report? Compared to the last period, the traffic on jspwiki-dev has been halved, whereas the traffic at jspwiki-user has increased slightly. 1 patch has been incorporated into trunk How has the project developed since the last report? 15 JIRAs resolved, ongoing vote to release Apache JSPWiki (incubating) 2.9.1 Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for JSPWiki. Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson: [ ](jspwiki) Craig Russell: [ ](jspwiki) Henning Schmiedehausen: [ ](jspwiki) Sam Ruby: [ ](jspwiki) Siegfried Goeschl: [X](jspwiki) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Knox Knox Gateway is a system that provides a single point of secure access for Apache Hadoop clusters. Knox has been incubating since 2013-02-22. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Complete first release and refine/document release processes. 2. Expand community to include more diverse committers. 3. Clear the project name with legal and pick a new name if required. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? 1. No. How has the community developed since the last report? 1. No new members of the community have shown up or been added. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Now have all infrastructure in in place. 2. Significant increase in traffic on dev mailing list. 3. Significant improvement to website presence. 4. Internal audit of dependencies and creation of LICENSE and NOTICE files. 5. Preparing for first release for 0.2.0-incubating. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Knox. Signed-off-by: Owen O'Malley: [ ] (knox) Chris Douglas: [X] (knox) Mahadev Konar: [ ] (knox) Alan Gates: [X] (knox) Devaraj Das: [X] (knox) Chris Mattmann: [X] (knox) Tom White: [X] (knox) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Marmotta An Open Platform for Linked Data. Marmotta has been incubating since 2012-12-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Ingest code and clear IP. 2. A release 3. Build dev and PMC. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No such issues. How has the community developed since the last report? * The project has been completely setup in the ASF infrastructure, and community starts to evolve healthily (i.e., the monthly evolution of traffic at the dev mailing list is 77, 274, 292, 490 messages, starting in December). * After intensively discussing and reviewing 5 internal release candidates, now, besides little legal details, the first release will be probably submitted to the IPMC in the upcoming days. How has the project developed since the last report? After the publication of LMF 2.6.0, the base code had been imported on February 19th. Since that, the team has been working hard to implement all necessary refactoring and, in parallel, some bug fixing; which in total means almost 200 issues already registered at Jira (70% resolved, the rest mostly planned tasks/features). Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Marmotta. Signed-off-by: Fabian Christ: [X](marmotta) Nandana Mihindukulasooriya: [X](marmotta) Andy Seaborne: [X](marmotta) Shepherd notes: Dave Fisher (wave): This project is doing well and looks really cool. -------------------- Mesos Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation across cluster applications. Mesos has been incubating since 2010-12-23. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? How has the project developed since the last report? Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Mesos. Signed-off-by: Tom White: [ ](mesos) Shepherd notes: -------------------- MRQL MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop and Hama. MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Expand the development community to include more diverse committers 2. Complete the first release 3. Create a wiki to document both the software use and the software development process Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? none How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report for MRQL. We have decided to adopt the review-then-commit policy that requires at least two +1 from committers and no -1 from committer. In addition, we have started the process of creating a new infrastructure for the MRQL podling. We have already created three email lists, mrql-private, mrql-dev, and mrql-user, and we have requested the creation of a new JIRA project and a new wiki site for MRQL. How has the project developed since the last report? We have restructured the original source code and we have modified the in-file copyright notices of the source code to be compliant with the Apache License 2.0, to make it ready for the first release. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for MRQL. Signed-off-by: Alex Karasulu: [ X ](mrql) Anthony Elder: [ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera: [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour: [ ](mrql) Shepherd notes: -------------------- ODF Toolkit Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? How has the project developed since the last report? Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for ODF Toolkit. Signed-off-by: Sam Ruby: [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch: [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov: [ ](odftoolkit) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Open Climate Workbench Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and visualization. Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT) 2. Make an initial release. 3. Add new contributors to the project. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? We're up to 79% (22) of the initial project members having ICLAs on file and accounts. We've got 21% more (6) people still who have yet to submit their ICLA. Chris Douglas and Chris Mattmann have reached out to Chris Jack and Bruce Hewitson and are working on getting those 2 ICLAs so we can process their accounts. How has the project developed since the last report? INFRA-5874 is pretty much done, the big thing we're waiting on now is the SVN import of the RCMES codebase. The SGA is on file as of Thursday March 14, 2013, so we're ready to go there. Infra needed a checksum file and evidence that we have an SGA to do the import, so we provided that information on INFRA-5966, so should be loaded into SVN any day now. There was some limited discussion about others with the Climate name in their software -- after discussion with Shane, this was deemed not a problem. Once we get the code base into SVN, all of the RCMES folks who have been working on the project at JPL will conduct all development at Apache. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Open Climate Workbench. Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru: [X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Provisionr Provisionr provides a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple clouds. Provisionr has been incubating since 2013-03-07. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. release 0.4.0-incubating compliant with the ASF policies 2. develop a community 3. improve support for golden images & cloudstack Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report. Andrei Savu presented the project at the Bucharest JUG meetup (http://www.slideshare.net/savu.andrei/apache-provisionr-incubating-bucharest-jug-10) and we've got our first contribution from Ioannis Canellos. How has the project developed since the last report? We are still working on ASF compliance - mandatory for our first release. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Provisionr. Signed-off-by: Roman Shaposhnik: [ ](provisionr) Tom White: [X](provisionr) Mohammad Nour: [ ](provisionr) Shepherd notes: Provisionr has been incubating for about a month and has made good progress on the initial set up tasks. -------------------- Ripple Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks and the Mobile Web. Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Check if some source modules are not compatible with ASF guidelines and need to be extracted to f. e. GitHub 2. Check license of images and - if necessary - replace them 3. Prepare first release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? No new contributors/committers. Due to changes in the working life of some of the original developers there are no more full-time committers working at the Ripple project. The committers expressed there interest in contributing further in their spare time. How has the project developed since the last report? Less activity Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Ripple. Signed-off-by: Jukka Zitting: [ ](ripple) Christian Grobmeier: [X](ripple) Andrew Savory: [ ](ripple) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Tajo Tajo is a distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop. Tajo has been incubating since 2013-03-07. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make a release 2. Attract users and contributors 3. Foster more and diverse committers Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? * Project infrastructures (i.e., site, jira, wiki, mailing list and git repository) setup has been completed, and the site and the source code are moved to the Apache infrastructure. * All members have submitted necessary CLAs. * There have been no new committers or PPMC members elected. How has the project developed since the last report? * We've applied ALv2 header to all files and adopted maven-rat-plugin to audit them. * We've made and improved developer/user documents, including GettingStarted, Build Instruction, and HowToContribute. * We've resolved 11 jira issues, including bug fixs and improvements. * Discussion is underway to move current site-based managed documentation to the wiki. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Tajo. Signed-off-by: Chris Mattmann: [X](tajo) Owen O'Malley: [ ](tajo) Alex Karasulu: [X](tajo) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Tashi An infrastructure for cloud computing on big data. Tashi has been incubating since 2008-09-04. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? How has the project developed since the last report? Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Tashi. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Riou: [ ](tashi) Craig Russell: [ ](tashi) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Tez Tez is a framework for processing arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks. Tez has been incubating since 2013-02-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Develop collaborations with other Apache projects, including Hadoop, YARN 2. Make an initial Tez release. 3. Grow the Apache Tez community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? The community is still bootstrapping. Chris started a thread on dev@tez to request clarification on who needs ICLAs filed, and who needs accounts set up. Chris can help with this as can the other mentors. Jira is ready, we are beginning to bootstrap work. How has the project developed since the last report? A few jiras have been created and some patches have been filed. Mailing lists for dev, private, and commits are up and running. Please check this [X] when you have filled in the report for Tez. Signed-off-by: Alan Gates: [ ](tez) Arun C Murthy: [X](tez) Chris Douglas: [ ](tez) Chris Mattmann: [X] (tez) Jakob Homan: [ ] (tez) Owen O'Malley: [ ] (tez) Shepherd notes: -------------------- VXQuery A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is still the first release. Two release candidates have been created and rejected so far. Work on the third release candidate is ongoing. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? For RC1 only 2 mentors (Jochen and Paul) voted, for RC2 only Jochen voted. Getting a 3 votes from the IPMC might be difficult. How has the community developed since the last report? no changes How has the project developed since the last report? There has been progress on the rewriting of queries. A larger class of queries is now correctly translated into plans that can be executed in parallel on a Hyracks cluster. Please check this [x] when you have filled in the report for VXQuery. Signed-off-by: Sanjiva Weerawarana: [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro: [ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann: [ ](vxquery) Shepherd notes: ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood] Apache Isis graduated from the incubator in Oct 2012. This is the first of our quarterly reports (as required we provided monthly reports in the three months post-graduation). Project Description: Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked objects architectural pattern Community / Development: Mailing list activity has been steady. We have had a few new correspondents on our users mailing list. We have also had a third party start development on a new integration with Isis. Although this component (the DHTMLX viewer [1]) cannot be integrated with Isis due to licensing restrictions, it is heartening to have such a substantial new piece of work being undertaken. We are hoping that the third party dev team will start to contribute into Isis "proper", and introduce them to the "Apache way" of developing software. Releases: In January we made a further release of Isis [2]. This consisted of our core module, 2 components, and 1 archetype: * Isis Core 1.1.0, * Isis Shiro Security 1.1.0 * Isis Wicket Viewer 1.1.0 * Quickstart (Wicket/Restful/JDO/Shiro) archetype 1.0.2 released. We expect to put out a new release in the next quarter. Project Branding: Compliant as of previous report; no changes. Issues: There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. [1] http://isis.apache.org/third-party/viewers/dhtmlx/about.html [2] http://markmail.org/thread/az745ua4pnt3kygi ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles] The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an advanced enterprise mail server. ISSUES There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. RELEASES We did the following releases during this period: * Apache James Protocols 1.6.3 on 19 March 2013 * Apache James Mailbox 0.5 on 09 March 2013 These releases have been pushed to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/james/ OVERALL ACTIVITY Users continue to regularly ask question on to the mailing list, open JIRA and contribute patches. Third party projects integrates James components in their application which help us to identify and fix bugs. New developments has been achieved to allow James to be run in the Karaf container. Work has also been done to support Guice injection as to have better test tools and library. COMMUNITY There is no new committer (last was on 19 Feb 2012) nor PMC (last was on 17 Jul 2012) voted. We continue to monitor the contributors for any potential candidate. TRADEMARKS / BRANDING Still to do: Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on your site) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne] == Project Description Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data applications based on W3C and community standards. == Issues There are no issues to raise with the board. == Releases Jena 2.10.0 released on 2013-02-24 == PMC Committer/PMC last added: Jan 2013 == Activity dev@ list: 200-300 messages a month users@ list: 200-300 messages a month The 2.10.0 release included close teamwork on dev@ to work through interactions of changes spanning interfaces and changes of implementation. We received a contribution of translation of the tutorials into Portuguese for the web site. We are in discussions over an offer of a Chinese translation for the web site. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley] The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. JMeter 2.9 was released on Jan 28 2013 Work continues on fixing bugs and making improvements which will feed into the next release in due course. 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 AC: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Nick Wellnhofer] The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search engine library for Java. ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES There have been no releases in the last quarter. The last release is version 0.3.2, released on July 10th, 2012. ACTIVITY Development * Work on the stand-alone C library has progressed. It is in a testable state now and scheduled to be released in the next quarter. * Rework of the test infrastructure. * Improvements to the build system. * Minor progress on the Ruby and Python bindings. * Bug fixes. Mailing lists Judging by the number of messages, participation in the lucy-dev mailing list has increased from last quarter but is still below the long-term average. Traffic on lucy-user has been low but all questions have been answered. Lucy Book Club The Lucy Book Club reached a milestone when the participants made it all the way through the book set out to read, Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition by Michael L. Scott. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES The following new committers have been added during the last quarter: * Kurt Starsinic, 2013-02-15 No new PMC members have been added in the last quarter and since Apache Lucy has graduated from the incubator in March 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy] 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 * New PMC Members * New Committers * Andreas Gudian * Michael Osipov * Releases * ASF Parent pom 13 (2013-01-21) * Maven Parent pom 23 (2013-01-21) * Maven Wagon 2.4 (2013-02-11) * Maven Core 3.0.5 (2013-02-22) * Plugins * Maven PMD Plugin 3.0 (2013-02-17) * Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.10 (2013-02-22) * Maven Help Plugin 2.2 (2013-02-23) * Maven Changes Plugin 2.9 (2013-03-07) * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.14 (2013-03-08) * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.14 (2013-03-08) * Maven Surefire Reports Plugin 2.14 (2013-03-08) * Maven PMD Plugin 3.0.1 (2013-03-10) * Maven Dependency Plugin 2.7 (2013-03-13) * Maven Release Plugin 2.4.1 (2013-03-26) * Maven Compiler Plugin 3.1 (2013-04-08) * Other * Maven Shared Utils 0.3 (2013-03-08) * Maven Dependency Analyzer 1.4 (2013-03-13) * Maven Indexer 5.1.1 (2013-03-06) * Maven Shared Incremental 1.1 (2013-04-08) * Security * CVE-2013-0253 Apache Maven 3.0.4 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny] Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. Releases -------- No new release since the last report Community --------- * Nothing worth mentioning this quarter. * Jean-François Maury has been added as a MINA committer Development ----------- * Work on MINA3 is going on, with the completion of the UDP server, plus some new benchmarks. Some first drop of a protocol codec has been injected. We may want to cut a milestone release sooner or later. Issues ------ No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek] 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 v2.0.17 * MyFaces Core v2.1.11 * MyFaces Extensions Validator v2.0.7 * MyFaces Tobago v1.0.40 * MyFaces Tobago v1.5.9 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche] 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 There have been no new releases since the last report but quite a few improvements and issues fixed on both trunk and the 2.x branches, in particular (NUTCH-1047) Pluggable indexing backends, which is a major improvement and gives more flexibility to the indexing. The parsing of robots.txt has been delegated to the Crawler Commons project. Work has been done on improving the WIKI pages and limiting their access as we were getting loads of spam. There is one issue planned for GSOC 2013 [NUTCH-841]. COMMUNITY The traffic on the user and dev mailing lists has kept a relatively high level in the last quarter. No less than 3 new Committers / PMC Members have joined Nutch since the previous report (Tejas Patil / Kiran Chitturi / Lufeng). Chris Mattmann is actively teaching Nutch in his CSCI 572 Search Engines and Information Retrieval class [http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci572/] at USC this semester (Spring 2013) and includes an assignment that uses Nutch to crawl the FBI Vault dataset for students to explore and experiment with. The CommonCrawl project are planning to test-drive Nutch for a future iteration of their dataset. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen] # Apache ODE 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 a rather quiet development period, but we found some time to continue the refactoring of ODE's Jacob component. We moved to Git and separated ODE and JaCOb into two git repositories. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. An ODE 1.3.6 release is still planned and in the works. ## Release No release to report in this quarter. ## Development Some patches have been applied to trunk and the upcoming 1.3.6 release branch. We did some refactoring to JaCOb, could make the code a bit more clean using Java Generics and implemented a first version of an alternative serialization approach using Jackson. ## Community Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar is now a committer and committed a some of his patches. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] DESCRIPTION Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. MILESTONES Oltu graduated from the Apache Incubator on January 16, 2013. Since then, there have been no new releases. CURRENT ACTIVITY The "After graduation tasks" are about to be completed. We have been following the instruction as for http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#transfer. We are tracking our progress in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5772 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBER-76; The previous INFRA blocker (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5777) about JIRA migration has not been resolved. We successfully migrated all our issues to the new OLTU's JIRA We have also migrated and updated the wiki and the website development activity is healthy we started also to implement OpenId Connect and JWT specifications, new contributors are emerging as potential new committers; users activity is almost quiet. COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] 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 active and many applications are migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA. The developer community had maintained the codebase stable, supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects. New features (security, range query optimization in DB2 family databases, bulk update on shards) are implemented by the community of developers. The documentation infrastructure has been upgraded to use Apache BuildBot services. * Governance We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and PMC members. * Releases No new releases since last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. == Releases == The first release was created and announced. Over 165 issues have been resolved including new features, bug fixes, enhancements and new features also around integration with VoIP. == Activity == The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits. The main focus in since the last report have been: - Release and review - Improvements around testing == Community == There are a number of GSoC projects, students and ongoing discussion in Jira and the mailing list. There was some clarification on 3rd party projects hosted at apache-extras.org that should not use the OpenMeetings mailing list. == Infrastructure == All resources have been moved to new infrastructure. == Board == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti] Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms and in dozens of languages. Issues for Board Awareness The project had a long policy discussion on veto powers and code reverts: the discussion was difficult also due to uncertainties about the Apache policy, now clarified after an articulated discussion on the members list; this will reduce the risk of similar discussions to happen again in future. This remained an isolated incident. Community Development/Outreach Progress --------------------------------------- The project added a new committer, Samer Mansour. Blog posts calling for new development, documentation, QA, design volunteers have proved successful, with many new people contacting the mailing lists and some providing sustained contributions to the discussions and activities. Orientation modules for new volunteers were made available, to simplify introduction of new volunteers. Apache OpenOffice participated in FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, with a booth for two days and a dedicated track (devroom) for a full day of technical talks, and in ApacheCon NA in Portland, with presentations and meetings. The OpenOffice Wiki, running on MediaWiki, was very unstable. It has been fresh installed on a new vm and updated to the latest release under the guidance of Infra, and is now stable, documented and maintained. A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2 license was started on the OpenOffice Wiki. A new project logo is currently being selected for version 4.0. A small team of volunteers was created to take care of the LAMP virtual machines used for the OpenOffice Wiki, the OpenOffice Forum and an ASF-wide new Pootle server for software translations. The Apache Infrastructure team is providing guidance and support. The OpenOffice infrastructure needs have been discussed with Infra to allow proper planning and budgeting. Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA and marketing are quite active. As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very active. Product/Project Development Progress ------------------------------------ The project released an update to version 3.4.1 in late January, to include 8 new language translations made available by volunteers. The next OpenOffice release will be labeled 4.0. Plans are to release in June, 2013. New ports, languages and other distribution channels are expected. The new release in June will be provided in many more native languages. New volunteers have come forth to assist with this effort. Build work has started for reinstating OpenOffice into Linux repositories, currently Fedora at this time. The source tree has been cleaned of non en-US messages (these are now kept in external files) allowing normal translation of these parts. A new localization process, eventually leading to a more efficient translation workflow and a massive cleanup of tools and intermediate formats, is being implemented. The toolset is independent of OpenOffice and can be easily adopted by other projects especially in combination with the new translate/Pootle server. Most of the work towards version 4.0 is being done in branches, with integration to trunk expected to begin soon. Buildbots and QA tests cover both trunk and branches, to guarantee optimal coverage. Work is beginning on a Strategic Plan for the project. The plan will likely be sub-divided into various components: Web/Wiki, User Support, Documentation, Project: General, Project: Writer, Project: Calc, Project:Base, etc. We anticipate this will be a rather lengthy process involving both volunteers and our end users. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler] The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. We invited two new committers/PMC-members to our ranks and both accepted: Maruan Sahyoun Thomas Chojecki 351 subscribers on the user@ list 154 subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.0 was released on 23th of march 2013 Version 1.8.1 was released on 10th of april 2013 New modules since 1.8.0: Preflight to validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b ISO standard Xmpbox to handle XMP metadata in PDF file Development: ------------ We decided to use the Apache CMS for our website. Maruan is working on the transition. Next major development cycles: - enhance testing - modularization - parser enhancements ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] -- mod_perl 1.0 -- The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd 1.3.x. No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report. --- mod_perl 2.0 -- mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches. Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along. --- Apache-Test -- Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications, and includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP and Parrot. Apache-Test 1.38 was released on August 6th, 2012 No new Apache-Test releases since the last report. --- Apache-SizeLimit -- Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes based on various environmental triggers. No new Apache-SizeLimit releases since the last report. --- Apache-Bootstrap -- Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy. No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since the last report. --- Apache-Reload -- Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter without completely restarting httpd. Apache-Reload 0.12 was released on March 31st, 2012 -- Apache-DBI -- Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients using DBI. No new Apache-DBI releases since the last report. -- Development -- mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and applied with due consideration for our production userbase. The httpd-2.4 branch has generated more activity recently, with more users reporting a desire to have mod_perl for it. A mod_perl 2.0.8 release is starting to get planned. -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is seeing an increase in activity, with a few bug reports and user questions. More patches for httpd-2.4 are making their way into trunk. Also, more patches to keep supporting newer Perls have landed. -- PMC -- Jan Kaluza was granted committer access. He is an active Fedora contributor and has submitted many patches for httpd-2.4 support. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff] Apache Qpid is a cross-platform Enterprise Messaging system which implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), providing message brokers written in C++ and Java, along with clients for C++, Java JMS, .Net, Python, and Ruby. ISSUES: There are no issues requiring the board's attention. SECURITY: There have been a few CVEs of low severity that the project has worked in the prior period. COMMUNITY: Solid community activity. User list activity continues and here is quite a bit of interaction between project around the AMQP1.0 work from project like ActiveMQ. 0. Some great presentations (user cases) done at ApacheCon on deployments like eBay. 1. Fraser Adams was nominated as a committer. 2. Fraser contributed a Java version of QMFv2 + a web based console. 3. We are in the process of working towards a 0.22 release for Qpid and 0.5 release for Proton. 4. We are in the process of re-vamping our website. RELEASES: 0.20 has is the current release, released since the last report. Project is maintaining its time based release schedule. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin] Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. ISSUES There are no issues requiring the board's attention. COMMUNITY We held a community meetup and hackathon at ApacheCon NA that was attended by most of the active committers. Members of the community plan on attending Apache BarCamp Boston in May. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES 03/25/13 - Erin Noe-Payne was added as a new committer & PMC member. RELEASES 03/12/13 - 0.20.1 was released to address CVE-2013-1814 02/14/13 - 0.20 was released 01/16/13 - 0.19 was released ACTIVITY Activity in the last reporting period has increased over the period prior to it. Most of the work and discussions are related to simplification of all aspects of the software and were initiated by proposals that were the result of conversations held at ApacheCon. In March, a security vulnerability (CVE-2013-1814) was reported to the PMC for which a point release was made. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner] Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the Incubator in January 2010. ISSUES The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention. COMMUNITY Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES No new PMC members or committers were approved. RELEASES March 15, 2013 - Released 2.5.0-beta6 Work continues on an official 2.5.0 version. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar] DESCRIPTION Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. It can be used to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational databases and enterprise data warehouses. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.4.3, released on March 8, 2013. * Work has started towards the next release from sqoop2 branch for version 1.99.2. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues with most work focused on the sqoop2 branch as well as on trunk. * A total of 99 issues have been resolved between the period starting from January 17 2012 and April 5 2013. * A total of 1525 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 198 messages were exchanged on the user list in that period. COMMUNITY * The composition of committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 89 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 213 subscribers to the user list - Total of 16 committers - Total of 13 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a toolset implementing STV voting capability and counting. RELEASES * We are working towards a 1.0.0 release, based on the migration of the old ASF-specific codebases. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Website development is in the process of being finalized. We have an agreed-upon logo that will be used. We need to add 'TM' to the logo however, which is being done. * It is expected to use the formal release of Steve for the annual ASF members meeting in May. COMMUNITY * No change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen] Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework. The Struts team made one release in the last quarter: * Struts 2.3.12 - Improvements and bugfixes (2013-03-06) Currently the Struts 2.3.14 GA release vote is running The Struts community has voted to announce the end of life for the Struts 1.x product line. The official announcement [1] and a related press statement [2] were published on 2013-04-05. Sally Khudairi and the Apache marketing team generously helped us to spread the word. The Struts project web site was successfully moved to the new CMS / SvnPubSub infrastructure with the kind help of the infra team. Our security team has received a notification about a possible security vulnerability from folks at Akamai. We are currently investigating this issue. In the last quarter we saw reasonable community activity on the mailing lists along with rather high development activity. Niall Pemberton (niallp) decided to go emeritus on the Struts PMC. No new committers or PMC members were added in this period. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. [1] http://struts.apache.org/struts1eol-announcement.html [2] http://struts.apache.org/struts1eol-press.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle] Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period During the reporting period there have been 1 commit from 1 committers. Releases No new releases during this period. Board issues The PMC Chair has announced his decision to retire and the committee is looking for a new PMC Chair. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship] Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific performance. The website has been migrated to svnpubsub; users have noticed an improvement in access speed. There has been great progress with Tapestry 5.4, and a further alpha preview release has been made available. We are currently planning a 5.3.7 bug fix release. There have been a number of notable third-party libraries for Tapestry announced recently. However, mailing list traffic is a bit lower than in prior quarters. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi] Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current projects are * Rivet * Websh The PMC decided to remove from the website the link to mod_tcl and advertise the subproject as unmaintained. We took months ago every step needed to move our website to svnpubsub, the infrastructure acknowledged our JIRA ticket and required we fulfilled a few condition for the transition. The issue on JIRA is still open in status 'Waiting for infra' apparently stuck on some step of the process Development and releases: + Rivet: On Feb 21st 2013 Rivet 2.1.1 was released. Rivet 2.1.1 shipped some fixes for bugs that surfaced after 2.1.0 was released. Also the request handling was made slightly more flexible relaxing a few conditions on the 'Content-Type' header field + Websh: no relevant activity to be reported I apologize for the delay in filing this report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Bryan Duxbury] Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. Project Status --------- The Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with an increase in new contributors. The adoption of git as our primary source repository has been extremely well received, over the past 30 days there have been 43 new tickets created and 42 tickets resolved. Community ------- Bryan Duxbury has elected to step down as the Thrift PMC chair. The PMC has voted a new chair and a resolution has been sent to the board. Releases -------- Progress continues towards our 1.0 release with improvements to automated testing, version upgrades, and bug fixes to the client libraries. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle] What is Tika? ========================= Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies. Issues ========================= There are no issues that needs the boards attention. Releases ========================= Version 1.3 was released on the 22nd of January[1]. This release included several important bugfixes and new features, including better handling of embedded files. Work is now underway on version 1.4 with 15 issues resolved and 20 open to date. Community ========================= No new committers or PMC members were added since the last report. We have added a potential new feature as part of the ASFs potential projects within the Google Summer of Code program[2]. Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 174, 70 and 11 messages in February, March and April 2012, respectively. user@ was at 53, 32 and 10 messages, during the same timeframe. [1] http://s.apache.org/PDH [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-605 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications. One of our more quiet periods. Focus continues on more frequent releases and driving stability into the codebase. TomEE 1.5.2 and OpenEJB 4.5.2 were released early April. Work has started on releasing a beta of the current trunk, 1.6.0. The 1.5.2 work has been focused on stability, as mentioned. The coming 1.6.0 has a number of key performance improvements that show big payoff on smaller and slower systems like the Raspberry PI. There is intention of passing the Java EE 6 Web Profile TCK on the Raspberry PI and announcing that in the 1.6.0 release, when that is ready. This may depend on our licensee status. User list traffic spiked up again, March was the second highest month of all time. Contribution to the documentation via the anonymous CMS remains constant. A modest total of 7 contributions came in in the last quarter, which may seem small, but was completely unheard of with Confluence. It's great to see this continue. We've see 2 or 3 "I want to contribute" posts, which is also wonderful and more than normal. The codebase is a big larger now and harder to get into, but fingers crossed we can pull at least one of them into the project. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom] Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid and Varnish in functionality and features. Issues ====== There are no issues that needs the board's attention. Community ========= One new committer was added since the last report, for a total of 33 currently active committers. The mailing lists are seeing an increase in growth on the users mailing list, but flat on the developer list: users@ - 344 subscribers (up 5% since last report) dev@ - 231 subscribers (same as last report) Several ATS or ATS related presentations were given at ACNA-13. Thanks to the conference organizers, and our presenters! We had several ATS Hackathon / Bar Camp events, with participants from all over the world. All in all, it was a great event for the community. There is renewed activity among our committers, with a large number of commits and Jira tickets resolved in the last few months. Overall activity is up about 20% compared to the last 12 months average. It is exciting to see the increased commercial use of Apache Traffic Server. For some examples of who are using ATS, see http://trafficserver.apache.org/users.html Releases ======== Two releases were prepared: Apache Traffic Server v3.2.4 (stable branch) Apache Traffic Server v3.3.1 (developer branch) We are planning one developer release per month going forward, with a new stable release planned for June/July 2013 time-frame. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] Releases within this quarter: * WSS4J 1.6.10 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) Community and development: * Release distributions moved to use Svnpubsub. * Several members are actively contributing to migrate project web sites into Svnpubsub. * Number of discussions initiated on GSoC 2013 project ideas by students and committers, this can be seen as a good sign for community development aspects. 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 * XML-RPC * Project homepage Subprojects ----------- Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically requiring the board's attention this quarter. * Apache Woden Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification. * Apache Axiom Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree. - Project branding guidelines fully implemented. - No release during last quarter. 1.2.13 planned for next quarter. - Community activity: slightly increased JIRA activity over the last quarter. * Apache XmlSchema Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing XML Schema. - no developer activity this quarter, although a user did raise a JIRA that needs to be looks at. * Apache Neethi Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications. - Two minor bugs fixed on trunk, but not yet released * Apache TCPMon Apache TCPMon is a Java-based network trace tool, useful for debugging Web Service interactions. * Apache XML-RPC Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls. * Apache WSS4J Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst] Apache Wicket is a Java framework for creating highly dynamic, component oriented web applications. Things worthy of note: - Missed the March 2013 report due to flu - Released Wicket 6.4.0, 6.5.0, 6.6.0 - Did not release Wicket 6.7.0 - Andrea del Bene created a Wicket guide - Solved security issue CVE-2012-5636 - Apache Wicket XSS vulnerability - No new committers or members were added in this period Releases Our monthly schedule of releasing is really working like a charm. It is really something other projects should consider adopting. We have seen an increase in downloads of our projects (when looking at the Maven Central statistics-we assume most downloads are coming through Maven users) since we adopted our monthly schedule since releasing Wicket 6.0.0 on 5 september 2012. Estimate downloads from Maven Central for all jar files in the group org.apache.wicket: 2012-04/2012-08: slight increase from 60k to 70k 2012-09: 80k 2012-10: 90k 2012-11: 110k 2012-12: 90k 2013-01: 100k The vote to release 6.7.0 was cancelled due to a bug in our code that would prevent Wicket projects from working properly on Windows(r) systems. Almost immediately when the vote was stalled, the release manager got hit by a "mild" flu virus, taking him out for 2 weeks. Work also got the better part of him, only to find the next release date being quite close. So it was decided to skip one month and build the release on our schedule. The vote for 6.7.0 is currently proceeding. Andrea del Bene has created a free Wicket book "Wicket Guide" that is available through google code [1]. This book is a really great asset to our community and we are very grateful for Andrea's work. [1] https://code.google.com/p/wicket-guide/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson] Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications. Issues ========================= There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Releases ========================= We have made a new release, 0.14, since the last report. Activity ========================= We have three issues tagged for GSOC 2013 [WOOKIE-329, WOOKIE-409, WOOKIE-410]. We added one new committer, Steve Lee, since our last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Proposed 2013-2014 Budget [Jim Jagielski] ASF budget for FY May 1 2013 - Apr 30 2014 APPROVED by the board: ------------------- INCOME (projected) == Interest == Interest income : $3,600.00 == Public donations == One-Time (by chk, etc) : $2,400.00 PayPal ($2000 x 12 mos) : $24,000.00 Car Program LLC : $1,600.00 ($400 x 4 contributions) Category total : $28,000.00 == Sponsorship Program == Platinum sponsors (5) : $500,000.00 Gold sponsors (4) : $160,000.00 Silver sponsors (3) : $60,000.00 Bronze sponsors (4) : $20,000.00 Category total : $740,000.00 == Program Income == Google Summer of Code : $10,000.00 Category Total : $10,000.00 == Unrelated Business Income (royalty, licenses, etc.) == Category Total : $0.00 Income Category Summaries: Interest Income : $ 3,600.00 One-time donations : $ 28,000.00 Sponsorship Program : $740,000.00 Program Income : $ 10,000.00 Unrelated Business Income : $ 0.00 INCOME Total : $781,600.00 EXPENSES == Fundraising Overhead == PayPal (@ ~ 3.74%) : $100.00 Car Program LLC : $ 0.00 Category Total : $100.00 == Administrative == Office Supplies (Sec'y) : $0.00 Office Supplies (Treasurer) : $500.00 President Discretionary : $10,000.00 (+100%) Exec. Assistant (PT) : $40,000.00 (+33%) Category Total : $50,500.00 (+31%) == Infrastructure == Staffing System Admin (4FT) : $ 360,000.00 Hosting : $ 8,216.00 Cloud : $ 2,000.00 OSU OSL (OR, USA) : $ 0.00 SURFnet (AMS, NL) : $ 0.00 Traci.net (FL, USA) : $ 6,216.00 Hardware : $ 65,000.00 (+3%) Replacement : $ 20,000.00 (-20%) Expansion : $ 30,000.00 (+50%) Build farm : $ 10,000.00 Disks/RAM : $ 5,000.00 (-36%) Service contracts : $ 000.00 (-100%) Dell : $ 000.00 Silicon Mechanics : $ 000.00 Sun : $ 000.00 Other : $ 000.00 Misc : $ 1,500.00 Spamhaus RBL : $ 0.00 SSL / DNS renewals : $ 700.00 3rd Party Thank yous : $ 800.00 Travel : $ 000.00 (-100%) 4 Staff+VP @ AC Event : $ 000.00 AC Event food 1 mtg : $ 000.00 Category Total :$ 434,716.00 (-6.03%) == Publicity == Outside PR Services : $75,000.00 Press releases (prepaid) : $12,000.00 Travel : $7,500.00 Consultant Expenses : $2,500.00 Conference Participation : $1,500.00 Conference Support : $5,000.00 Conference Signage : $4,500.00 Collateral Printing : $2,500.00 Contact Database : $1,500.00 Clipping Service : $5,000.00 Category Total 2013 : $117,000.00 (-0.9%) == ConCom == Local events & hackathons : $50,000.00 Travel : $5,000.00 Discretionary : $5,000.00 Category Total : $60,000.00 == Travel Assistance Committee == Sponsored Attendees (4 events) : $50,000.00 (-30%) Category Total : $50,000.00 == Legal == Discretionary : $2,500.00 Category Total : $2,500.00 == Brand Management == Register key trademarks : $8,400.00 Register project marks : $2,000.00 Register mark ownership : $3,000.00 Category Total : $13,400.00 == Board == Chairman Discretionary : $5,000.00 Conference Calls : $0.00 Category Total : $5,000.00 == Banking Fees == Checks : $ 150.00 Safe-deposit box : $ 75.00 Monthly fees : $1,000.00 Lockbox : $2,500.00 Category Total : $3,725.00 == Treasury Services == Tax Filing : $2,000.00 Online services : $1,500.00 Category Total : $3,500.00 == Licenses / Insurance == Corp. Service Co. (DE Agent) : $ 299.00 D&O Insurance : $1,500.00 Property/Asset Insurance : $1,000.00 Misc. Insurance : $2,201.00 Category Total : $5,000.00 == Shipping == Federal Express / Courier : $500.00 Category Total : $500.00 == Misc. == Category Total : $0.00 Expense Category Summaries: Fundraising overhead :$ 100.00 Administrative :$ 50,500.00 Infrastructure :$434,716.00 Publicity :$117,000.00 ConCom :$ 60,000.00 Travel Assistance :$ 50,000.00 Legal :$ 2,500.00 Brand Management :$ 13,400.00 Board :$ 5,000.00 Banking Fees :$ 3,725.00 Accounting Services :$ 3,500.00 Licenses / Insurance :$ 5,000.00 Shipping :$ 500.00 Misc :$ 0.00 Expense Total :$745,941.00 === SUMMARY === Income Total : $781,600.00 Expense Total : $745,941.00 (-0.04%) Net Total : $ 35,659.00 ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the April 17, 2013 board meeting.