The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes November 20, 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: Shane Curcuru Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Sam Ruby Directors Absent: Greg Stein Executive Officers Present: Ross Gardler Rich Bowen Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Sean Kelly Daniel Gruno Lewis John McGibbney Marvin Humphrey Hadrian Zbarcea Noah Slater Daniel Kulp Henri Yandell 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of October 16, 2013 See: board_minutes_2013_10_16.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] Over the last month, we've seen a number of threads spill over to the board mailing list, which were at times quite heated. These all appear to have been resolved, with the relevant committees able to take the next action where necessary. One encouragement I took from the threads was seeing a few new faces among our members and officers contributing helpfully. The status of the audit, which we discussed last month, remains a prominent topic. It appears positioned well to move forward. Overall, projects at the ASF are going well and the reports list no major issues. Information on community health in the reports is steadily improving. B. President [Ross] A whirlwind month for me personally, but good progress is being made across the foundation. EVP has made some good progress on ApacheCon negotiations, although LF are now asking for a long running contract. This is understandable since we are not taking any financial responsibility for the event. However, we need to discuss the implications of this. Rich intends to raise this during the board meeting. Martin van den Bemt has uploaded the videos from the previous two Apache Cons to YouTube. He was assisted by many people but the vast majority of the work was done by Martin. This was no easy task for a number of technical reasons along with a significant time investment. Thank you Martin. EA and VP Fundraising have successfully cleared the fundraising backlog (with help from others). Thank you to Upayavira for firstly reaching out for help when it was needed and secondly helping Melissa be productive in this role. Focus is now turning to making it easier for additional volunteers to take on specific fundraising activities. This is centering around adding further detail to the process documents drawn up by Upayavira and Melissa. VP Fundraising is considering some new fundraising activities (see Attachment 3). I have asked Upayavira to provide an outline of his proposal and will provide some initial feedback before bringing it to the board for consideration. As ever early feedback is welcome. Thanks also go out to Chris and Upayavira for finally resolving the PayPal issues. We also have (thanks to Phil Steitz) an alternative payment method through Amazon. EA has also made good progress merging her observations with respect to trademark handling with the documentation VP Brand Management has been creating. The next step is to ensure there are clear boundaries between "first level support", i.e. activities that anyone can undertake and more sensitive issues that require careful handling. This will reduce some workload but as Shane observes the bigger problem is "the growth and popularity of our 130+ projects". I intend to work with Shane and Melissa to address this growing problem in the coming months. Jim has stepped up to lead the Audit process with EA and Treasurer available to assist. As far as I am aware work has not yet commenced but I will be asking Melissa for a weekly update so that I can assist in any way appropriate. I have sent a proposal to the board (privately) to change Melissa's contract to increase her hours to accommodate the increasing workload she is taking on. I encourage the board to consider this in light of Melissa's critical role in reducing the fundraising backlog and ongoing efforts to identify additional supporting roles for our volunteers. I welcome suggestions from the board about how best to use this time and will continue to report plans as appropriate. The initial use of this time will be to accelerate the Event in a Box work and to ensure sufficient time is available to assist with the Audit. I signed an NDA with Symantec with respect to infra's code signing work. I'm aware that my reports have been at the last minute (including this one). I've agreed with our Chair that my reports will be submitted the weekend before the board meeting in future. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] VP, Fundraising the EA and Treasurer's Office worked together to fix an issue with PayPal that was preventing our donations from going through. The issue is addressed now and the Treasurer has an action item in progress to move the majority of our PayPal funds into our WFS account. Treasurer's Office confirmed payment made to PR Newswire account at request of VP, Press/Marketing. In addition, responded to several requests from EA to confirm sponsor delivery of funds on several fundraising items. Phil Steitz worked with VP, Fundraising and Treasurer's Office and led the way to set up Amazon Simple Pay as another mechanism outside of PayPal for receiving donations. An audit list is being set up and will be used for communications related to the impending audit. Jim Jagielski will lead the audit and push it forward. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 902,869.44 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,791.84 PayPal: 183,800.24 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 1,374,461.52 Income Summary: Lockbox 696.05 Fundraising 169,950.00 Paypal 40.00 misc deposits 2,205.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 172,891.05 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- EA 7,107.90 Press 13,590.90 Trademarks 2,205.00 hardware 28,450.00 Sysadmin 65,433.33 misc expense 285.57 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 117,072.70 Amazon payments are not reflected anywhere since this is a new account and the report reflects activity through the end of October. Seems like a lot of money in checking not earning any interest. AI: Chris look into getting a better rate of return on the assets of the corporation. D. Secretary [Craig] October was another busy month for Secretary. There were 76 iclas, nine cclas, and four grants received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] I'd like to give a verbal report on the progress of ApacheCon, as I should be receiving some information on Monday or Tuesday, making it difficult to get a report in on time. Draft agreement for ApacheCon run by the Linux Foundation is not yet available. Could not find a venue in Las Vegas; a venue is on hold for Denver for the 2014 conference. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] No report was submitted. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Roy] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Jim] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Doug] No report was submitted. B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Chris] See Attachment B C. Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda / Greg] See Attachment C D. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Shane] See Attachment D AI Chris: When was the last PMC member added? E. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Bertrand] See Attachment E AI Bertrand: please submit a more complete report next month. F. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Brett] See Attachment F G. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Sam] See Attachment G H. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Shane] See Attachment H I. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim] See Attachment I J. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Roy] No report was submitted. AI: Brett: look at project to see if it is still viable. K. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Chris] See Attachment K L. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug] See Attachment L M. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Continuum N. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Sam] See Attachment N O. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Greg] See Attachment O P. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Brett] See Attachment P Q. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Brett] See Attachment Q R. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Jim] See Attachment R S. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Chris] See Attachment S T. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Greg] See Attachment T U. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Shane] See Attachment U V. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Roy] See Attachment V W. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug] See Attachment W X. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam] See Attachment X Y. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Bertrand] See Attachment Y Z. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Doug] See Attachment Z AA. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Chris] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Bertrand] See Attachment AB AC. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Shane] See Attachment AC AD. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Brett] See Attachment AD AE. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Jim] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Greg] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Roy] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Sam] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Doug] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Jim] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Chris] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Sam] See Attachment AL AM. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Greg] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Shane] See Attachment AN AO. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Brett] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Roy] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Bertrand] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Greg] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Brett] See Attachment AS AT. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Chris] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] No report was submitted. AV. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Shane] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Bertrand] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Sam] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Doug] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Jim] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Roy] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Jim] See Attachment BB BC. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Roy] See Attachment BC Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Commons Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Luc Maisonobe to the office of Vice President, Apache Commons, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Luc Maisonobe from the office of Vice President, Apache Commons, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Commons project has chosen by vote to recommend Gary Gregory as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Luc Maisonobe is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Commons, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gary Gregory be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Commons, 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 Commons Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Vice President of Legal Affairs WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sam Ruby to the office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sam Ruby from the office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, and WHEREAS, Sam Ruby has recommended Jim Jagielski as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sam Ruby is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, 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 Vice President of Legal Affairs, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish the Apache Marmotta Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to an open platform for Linked Data. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Marmotta Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Marmotta Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an open platform for Linked Data; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Marmotta" 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 Marmotta Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Marmotta 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 Marmotta Project: * Peter Ansell * Fabian Christ * Sergio Fernández * Jakob Frank * Dietmar Glachs * Thomas Kurz * Nandana Mihindukulasooriya * Raffaele Palmieri * Sebastian Schaffert * Rupert Westenthaler NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jakob Frank be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Marmotta, 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 Apache Marmotta Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Marmotta podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Marmotta podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Marmotta Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache Ambari Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to Hadoop cluster management. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Ambari Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Ambari Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to Hadoop cluster management; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Ambari" 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 Ambari Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Ambari 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 Ambari Project: * Babiichuk Andriy (ababiichuk) * Arun Murthy (acmurthy) * Aleksandr Kovalenko (akovalenko) * Antonenko Aleksandr Igorevich (alexantonenko) * Andrii Tkach (atkach) * Bernd Fondermann (berndf) * Billie Rinaldi (billie) * Christopher Douglas (cdouglas) * Chad Roberts (croberts) * Devaraj Das (ddas) * Dmitry Lysnichenko (dmitriusan) * Dmytro Sen (dsen) * Eric Yang (eyang) * Hitesh Shah (hitesh) * Jagane Sundar (jagane) * Jaimin Jetly (jaimin) * Jitendra Pandey (jitendra) * John Speidel (jspeidel) * Kan Zhang (kzhang) * Mahadev Konar (mahadev) * Papirkovskyy Myroslav (mpapirkovskyy) * Nate Cole (ncole) * Oleksandr Diachenko (odiachenko) * Owen O’Malley (omalley) * Oleg Nechiporenko (onechiporenko) * Ramya Sunil (ramya) * Varun Kapoor (reznor) * Subin Modeel (subin) * Sumit Mohanty (smohanty) * Srimanth Gunturi (srimanth) * Siddharth Wagle (swagle) * Thomas Beerbower (tbeerbower) * Suhas (vgogate) * Vikram Dixit K (vikram) * Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli (vinodkv) * Xi Wang (xiwang) * Yusaku Sako (yusaku) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Yusaku Sako be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Ambari, 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 Ambari 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 Ambari Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Ambari Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Ambari podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Ambari podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Ambari Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Greg: email to multiple PMCs to ask for dates on releases. Status: Brett will help Greg on this task. * Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: Still not done. * Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is to be done at the "ASF level" Status: * Sam/MarkT: Make formal statement regarding TCK access. Status: Done. http://s.apache.org/IOR * Sam: see whether there is continuing development and goals for Whirr Status: * Chris: follow up on future of the Any23 Status: Worked with Lewis to engage Tika community. Any23 just made a release, primarily led by Lewis. Any23 has life and will continue to monitor it. * Brett: ask for community health information from Aries in next report Status: * Greg: pursue a report for Attic Status: report is there * Chris: follow up on bringing on new committers and PMC members to DB Status: No progress yet. * Roy: pursue a more complete report for Tapestry Status: report is there 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:27 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] * Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@, treasurer@, comdev@, and board@) and following-up with appropriate personnel * Fundraising: * Fundraising has been progressing very well. The backlog of sponsorship renewal invoices to be sent out have all been sent out, so now it's a more manageable system of "maintaining". * Upayavira and I have agreed upon a three-strike system. 1) Renewal invoice sent out; 2) send a f/u email three weeks after the invoice was sent for a status update; 3) three weeks after the first reminder, another reminder will go out for another status update. In this reminder, we will be advising them that their sponsorship info will be removed from the "thanks" page as a sponsor. * The "How-To" manual continues to be a WIP; we (Upayavira and I) add to this document as we go along. * ApacheCon: * Progressing well - Rich will provide more information * Treasurer's Office: * Will be creating a "How-To" manual for the Treasurer's Office (this has been put as a low priority for now) * Will be assisting in the Audit in parallel with taking notes to incorporate into the manual * Weekly status calls with Ross and Rich * Event-in-a-Box: * Received a lot of valuable feedback from the community * Started a "How To Guide" * Will need two boxes; one for the US, and one for the UK * Will be getting an estimate for materials of two boxes (minimal list and maximum list); the estimate will also include shipping/insurance charges, etc. * ApacheCon EU & NA videos: * The recordings from Portland are done and posted online at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation * Martin working on the ApacheCon EU (Germany) videos * Trademarks: * Working with Shane to create a "How-To" manual for Trademarks ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] No current board level issues. Stepped up trademark enforcements for several projects with good results. Added ea@ to the trademarks@ list and reviewed our two runbooks as we start to find ways the EA can assist with organizing answering issues on trademarks@. Sent [ACTION] Review your Apache project's brand use to pmcs@ with pointers to various updated and clarified PMC-related branding requirements to ensure that PMCs are aware of their responsibilities. Oddly, there were no comments directed back to trademarks@. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] The main thing to report this month is that Melissa has got a handle on contacting our outstanding bronze/silver sponsors. This is excellent, as we can now be sure that things will progress as they need to with the necessary follow through. We shall contact sponsors three times, and if we hear nothing, we shall be removing people from the thanks page. As noted in the treasurer's report, we also managed to resolve the issue at PayPal, meaning funds are flowing into paypal once more. Thanks to Chris for his help providing the information required. We also established, with the help of Phil Steitz, the ability to receive donations via Amazon's payment service. We hope to extend our donation services to send immediate thank you letters, with the intention that this will meet US tax payer's need for proof of a tax-efficient donation. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain on schedule and under budget. No vendor payments are due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 16 October: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache(tm) Hadoop(tm) 2 IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were announced on @TheASF and 6 new posts were made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feeds. Hearty thanks to Martin van den Bemt for uploading 98 presentations from ApacheCon North America 2013 on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. There remains no working plan on publishing the presentations from ApacheCon Europe 2012, however. V. Future Announcements: Sally Khudairi has been reviewing podling and TLP promotion processes and tactics. PMCs wishing to announce major project news, as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator, are welcome to contact Sally at for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 9 media requests, including several process queries. The ASF received 1,400 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 1,090. VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 13 reports by Gartner, 13 write-ups by GigaOM, 23 reports by Yankee Group, and 8 reports by IDC. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally will be working with Rich Bowen and Melissa Warnkin on any issues needed for planning the next ApacheCon, with particular focus on sponsor-related activities. She is also fielding several questions regarding the next ApacheCon. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: the ASF has been selected to win an award at SC13, and will be represented again this year by Marlon Pierce and Suresh Marru, who will attend the award ceremony. We have been nominated for a Design for Experience Award in the "Bringing Order to Big Data" category, and invited to participate in Data Innovation Day 2014 (responses received from the Apache Gora and Apache cTakes PMCs thus far). Apache OpenOffice also received a "Trusted Seal of Approval" award from PCMagazine. Sally is also following up on two queries in the government and enterprise data space. X. Newswire accounts: we have 10 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 17 pre-paid press releases on the PRNewswire account through May 2014. Our donation of free press release distribution by UK-based service Pressat has no pre-established distribution timeframe(s). ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] Discussed funding a pair of contractors to attend a Cloudstack conference to gain additional skills- approved by VP Infra. Only one will actually attend. Acquired a free license for Jira Help Desk - rollout forthcoming. Installed wildcard SSL cert for *.openoffice.org. In pursuit of outsourced code-signing capability for project releases. Negotiations have reached the NDA phase. Migrated the bulk of our SQL infra to a centralized database server. Discussed replenishing our Mac build infra. Purchased a wildcard cert for *.incubator.apache.org. 3 years at $475 per year. Began holding informal weekly meetings via google hangouts. Open to all infra-team members. Had a configuration regression regarding the PIG and DRILL Confluence wikis, which allowed additional spam to reappear on those spaces. Apachecon.eu DNS reacquired from our registrar. Somehow it wasn’t configured to autorenew so we lost that domain for a few days. We are still considerably behind the curve in our Jira workload and that is starting to inform some of the reporting at the board level. Please be patient while we continue to ramp up with existing personnel to support the org’s continued growth. In response we have organized a monthly jira walkthrough day dedicated entirely to outstanding jira requests. Raw jira stats show we have made significant progress over the past month and we expect that trend to continue, with 116 opened vs. 166 closed. Aegis is reporting a bad disk and it needs to be replaced as the host is seriously underperforming in its current state. Dell has solicited a warranty renewal offering for arcas, our jira server. We need to sort out licensing for our VMWare infra as we are currently in a holding pattern for new VM’s until this gets resolved. We’ve disabled the user ability to edit their profile page in confluence, eliminating another common source of spam. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] The committee is getting ready to help with ApacheCon North America 2014, as best as it can with the current information shared. We are currently reviewing our Applications webapp, to see if any changes or additions will be needed to it, and we'll select judges as soon as the venue and dates are announced. In general, to secure the best prices, we like to have all flights booked 90 days before the event. It normally takes a few weeks to work out the best flights, then get approval from everyone to book them, and the scoring and selection is typically about 2 weeks too. That means we normally want to close applications 120 days out from the event. A typical application period is about 1 month, giving a 5 month lead time. If the event is to happen in early April, that means we're already behind! The committee will do its best to work within compressed timescales, but it may mean we don't get quite as many people as we'd hope for, and may mean more expensive flights due to shorter notice bookings. We will continue to watch the board list for updates, but we wouldn't object if someone involved in the conference could talk to us about timescales, bookings, but most importantly how best we can help support the conference! ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] ASF is no longer represented on: * Patents and Standards Interest Group * Push API Patent Advisory Group (ASF was also represented on the Widgets Patent Advisory Group - this PAG is now closed.) ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] There was a request to classify CC-BY as a category A license, in support of a W3C HTML WG experiment. As no ASF projects are known to be affected by this experiment, this request was resolved as Not A Problem. In the process, the entire Third Party Licensing Policy was called into question. I thank everybody who helped resolve this. Notable other discussions: ODC-By was approved for use by VXQuery. Distribution by ASF PMCs of ASF Projects as iOS Applications is stalled by an Apple imposed requirement that precludes other distributions. After over five years as VP, Legal Affairs I have decided to step down and recommend Jim Jagielski as my replacement. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds arriving at security@ in October. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. 1 Support question 5 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 2 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 9 Vulnerability Reports 1 [httpd, via security@] 1 [aoo, via security@openoffice] 1 [cloudstack, via security@cloudstack] 4 [tomcat, via security@tomcat] 2 [hadoop, via security@hadoop] Microsoft, Facebook, and others launched a program offering a bug bounty for flaws found in Apache httpd, https://hackerone.com/ibb designed to run without interaction or endorsement by the ASF, but we'll report how that actually works out in future months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] Apache Ant is a Java based build tool and associated tools. It consists of 4 main projects: - Ant core and libraries - Ivy - Ant based dependency manager - IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse - EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes o Release Status Core --------- Ant 1.9.2 was released on July 12, 2013 Ant Compress Antlib 1.3 was released on 7th November bringing it into line with the underlying Apache Commons Compress library 1.6 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013 Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010 Ive-DE 2.2.0 is currently under vote for release EasyAnt ------------- The current release is still from the Incubator 0.9-Incubating. o Committers and PMC No committers or PMC members have been added since the previous report. The last committer was added on April 5th, 2013. The last PMC member was added on Jun 21st, 2010. I note with sadness the passing on September 5th of long-time committer and PMC member, Bruce Atherton http://www.apache.org/memorials/bruce_atherton.html o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda] Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. Project Releases The last release of Any23 (0.9.0) was on 3rd November 2013. Overall Project Activity since last report Project activity has actually picked up since last month. We were able to engage more members of the community in VOTE'ing for the 0.9.0 release candidate which subsequently enabled us to make the release. We have had positive feedback from both within the Any23 community and over on dev@tika for possibly branching Tika and gradually merging in the aspects of the Any23 codebase from which Tika could benefit. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Chris Mattmann was added back to the PMC on Wed, 15th May 2013. How has the community developed since the last report? We have had some users on the list but lists are far from busy. We remain positive that the 0.9.0 release and the initiative to take Any23 over to Tika will help to reinvigorate the project for the benefit of a wider audience. Changes to PMC & Committers Nothing to report. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Gora, Jena and Maven (this is not an exhaustive list). ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino] The Attic is currently experiencing a lack of volunteer time. We have two projects in the pipeline (stdcxx and ESME) who’s archival process looks stuck – and actually even never started for stdcxx. I guess it’s time for the Attic PMC to do an open enrollment and see if we can secure more helping hands. On a somewhat unrelated note, I think the board should actively be aware of the following tidbits, which don’t apply directly to the Attic but may well have impact one way or another: 1. Two projects (XMLBeans and DDLUtils) have theoretically moved to the Attic. However, both archival processes have been stopped as the community decided to try and revive them. Work hasn't been started on the Attic side, waiting to see what happens. XML beans is currently beginning an incubation process. 2. Axis is expected to start moving inactive projects to the Attic. No concrete follow-up yet as of today and we hope that when they do, they come with volunteers ready to help out. 3. A long thread on dev@click.a.o and board@ happened in September, moving quickly from retirement of Click into a general discussion on creating a new category of "finished" projects with no real community but still not attic-worthy. I assume there is no action for the Attic at this point in time, but the thread may well be revived in the near future. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: 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 == There has been work across most language implementations, and healthy interest in new features / enhancements. User and Developer mailing list activity has been down about 10% this quarter. == Releases == Avro 1.7.5 was released on August 26, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert] Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We've made 3 minor releases (1.4.13, 1.4.14, 1.4.15) since September. Development activity has been fairly high compared to our average for the past 2 years, with about 140 commits including a few bug fixes, dependency updates and better support for Ruby 2.0. Collectively, these releases contained 8 external contributions. In October, we voted a new committer (Tammo van Lessen) and a new PMC member (Peter Donald) into the project. Our mailing lists remain relatively quiet. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 1.2.6 25 Jun 13 1.2.7 25 Jul 13 1.2.8 27 Jul 13 1.2.9 29 Aug 13 2.0.0 02 Sep 13 1.2.10 22 Sep 13 2.0.1 22 Sep 13 1.2.11 21 Oct 13 2.0.2 27 Oct 13 Development: Cassandra 2.0.x is improving with the expected maintenance releases [1]. Work is proceeding on 2.1, which aside from user-defined types [2] and collection indexing [3] is focusing on performance and stability [4] [5]. Community: The 2013 Cassandra Summit Europe [6] in October sold out with 350 attendees, more than double 2012's figure. [1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-2-0-1-2-0-2-and-a-quick-peek-at-2-0-3 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511 [4] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg06682.html [5] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg06731.html [6] http://www.planetcassandra.org/blog/post/cassandra-summit-eu-2013---video-recordings-and-slideshare-sessions ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang] Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop Clusters. Project Status: * The Chukwa project has open INFRA-6801, waiting for infrastructure to respond. Releases: * Planning for Chukwa 0.6 release. Community: * The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013 * The last Chukwa committer addition: Oct 16, 2013 Mailing lists: * 103 subscribers on dev * 168 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- 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 Latest release (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013 ACTIVITY Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including: - Provision of Karaf features and Sling Partial Bundle Lists so that features of Clerezza can more easily be integrated - Solution to problems with Scala compiling - Improvement of smushing to allow "smushing" of owl:sameAs resources with a flexible API that allows client customizations (as for choosing the preferred IRI of a resource) - Improvement of memory usage when creating zipped backup - Several locking issues, however some more fundamental problems with the single-dataset tdb provider are still to be addressed. - Initial commit of the Virtuoso/Clerezza storage adapter, an implementation of the storage API of Clerezza to use Virtuoso as storage. - Work on the lean Apache jena ext wrappers - Completion of the implementation of SPARQL 1.1 Preparser COMMUNITY Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013 INFRASTRUCTURE SVN branches are cleaned up (for moving to git). Two issues are awaiting INFRA: - Source codes migration to Git (INFRA-5976) - Mailing list archive of Clerezza incubation to be merged to Clerezza TLP (INFRA-6253) ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar] ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler] Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available platform for RESTful webservices and web applications. Issues needing board attention:  None. Changes in the PMC membership:  None.  Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair) Community Traffic on users and devs list continues be light. Some users asked about the different versions of cocoon. Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions. Releases 2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20. Development None Security issues reported:  None. Progress of the project:  We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 and cocoon 2.2 but no committer has stepped up yet to do so. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende] The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects Project Status -------------- No issues require board attention at this time. PMC changes ----------- No Changes. The latest addition has been Suresh Marru on 2013-04-26. Google Summer of Code --------------------- GSoC is over. Of the initial 51 students, 45 passed the midterm evaluations and 44 passed the final evaluations. The ComDev PMC initially decided to send Lewis John McGibbney and Ulrich Stärk to the GSoC Mentor Summit in Mountain View in October. Uli could not attend and we haven't contacted Lewis for a summary yet so there is nothing we can report on the summit. A blog post featuring 5 of our student's projects has been published in Google's Open Source Blog. Several other blog posts, most notably from the Apache CloudStack community have been written as well. Overall, GSoC seems to have been a success again. ASF-ICFOSS Mentoring Programme ------------------------------ The ASF-ICFOSS mentoring program has finished as well. The results are disappointing. It seems that no student actually finished their project. There is a discussion going on on mentors@community.apache.org (formerly known as code-awards@apache.org) exploring possible reasons for this failure. ComDev & Events --------------- The ComDev PMC is now a "home" for some of the ConCom responsibilities. Recently there have been discussions about the planned "Event-in-a-Box" and some progress has been made thanks to Melissa. Several events have been added to the event calendar and Melissa has been granted access in order to help with maintenance. Other ----- There is uncertainty among our projects due to upcoming changes to Google's Google Code platform. In the future, projects won't be able to host files there anymore. It is unclear how that will affect PMCs that rely on file hosting on apache-extras.org which runs on Google Code. Luciano said he'd check with Google. Invoices -------- ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API. Releases 1.4.0 (2013-09-04) http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.4.0/apache-couchdb-1.4.0.html 1.5.0 (2013-11-06) http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.0/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.html Recent Activity - Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork. - Preparation of CouchCamp Vienna, a community run weekend hackathon. - Successful run of CouchDB Conf Vancouver with ~80 attendees, 13 speakers. Videos will be available. Details are at http://conf.couchdb.org. - Created an I18N list and translation team to drive translation efforts. - Passed a proposal on using Influitive to boost our community engagement. Community Including the following additions, CouchDB has 29 committers and 9 PMC members. New committers: Andy Wenk No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012. Mailing list stats: announce - 131 subscribers (+37) - 2 message since August (+1) user - 1431 subscribers (-10) - 806 messages since August (+310) erlang - 146 subscribers (+25) - 22 messages since August (15) dev - 606 subscribers (+7) - 880 messages since August (-130) commits - 105 subscribers (-2) - 1041 messages since August (+344) l10n - 21 subscribers (+21) - 103 messages since August (+103) Issues None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin] Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Status ------ The mailing lists were quiet in October. There are no Board-level issues at this time. Community --------- Last committer was elected in August, 2012 and no new PMC members have been elected since graduation. Releases -------- Rat 0.10 was released in September. Whisker 0.1 release is being prepared. Community Objectives -------------------- * Release Apache Whisker 0.1 * Merge Manuel's GSOC code from GitHub into trunk ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman] The Apache Curator Java libraries make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. Project Status: * Most of the TLP INFRA tasks have been completed * INFRA-6774 was re-opened and is waiting for completion * INFRA-6955 is waiting for completion Releases: * Apache Curator 2.3.0 was released on Nov. 7, 2013. This is the first TLP release Mailing lists: * 32 subscribers on dev * 66 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg] Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which are missing in the CDI core spec. DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers! DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans. Project Status: Bugfixing goes on in the current code base. Community is stable and active. Mark Struberg did present DeltaSpike on the OpenBlend and W-JAX conferences. Releases: last release: deltaspike-0.5 on 2013-09-11. There are discussions whether to ship 0.6 next or to go straight to 1.0. Community: Last Committer: Thomas Hug (thug) on 2013-06-20 Mailing list activity was ok. Users have been asking for a 1.0 release. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information DirectMemory is being evaluated by project jackrabbit for integration of off-heap memory into OAK. Another, more performant back-end implementation is being contributed by noctarius * Issues Development is not moving really fast and adoption is still quite limited to other apache projects - although more than some interesting integrations have been contributed. Any help would be appreciated, though, in suggestions, spreading the word, testing and facilitating the adoption of the platform * Committers or PMC members change Noctarius has been added as a new PMC member on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17 - this is the first one since we left incubation ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere] Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. Project Status After several improvements and bugfixes have been accomplished during the recent months, we have published a new release on October, 16th. Some more complex decisions have been postponed for a further release. Changes in committers or PMC members No committers have joined or left the project. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Latest Release Apache-Empire-db 2.4.2 was released on Oct 16, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: 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 * Apache Etch 1.3.0 was released on September 26, 2013. This is the first TLP release of Etch. ACTIVITY * We have had some users on the list but activity on the mailing list are still rather low. * In order to get a better feeling about how many users we have we are still planning to do some analysis on download counters/page visits. * From a development prospective the next step is to stabilize the new C++ binding and publish it as stable. * Furthermore some tutorials or other help for new users are planned to increase both user and developer base. COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation in January 2013. * Our committer and user base is still quite small. We were able to get exactly thre PMC votes for the release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar] DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July 2, 2013. * No further releases are planned at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being logged and resolved. * A total of 81 issues have been filed, and 29 issues have been resolved between the period starting August 8, 2013 and November 1, 2013. * Approximately 870 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 446 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the project on September 24, 2013. * No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it graduated from Incubator. * Currently there are: - Total of 213 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 478 subscribers to the user list - Total of 24 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was me making the progress that is described below. That will hopefully continue the efforts to re-vitalise this community. Soon after my almost-late board report in August, two PMC members responded. At this quarter, four PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Upgraded some of our supporting products, in particular Cocoon-2.1 and Batik and FOP and XML Graphics Commons and Xerces. In conjunction, upgraded our PDF output plugin to utilise FOP-1.0 version. (Note that Cocoon uses an old version of Java so we cannot do FOP-1.1). Finished configuring Gump. This utilises whatever products that Gump does provide, and uses our packaged supporting products for the rest (including Cocoon-2.1.*). So now we have various jobs for Forrest that also test some of our key plugins. This is great news, as we are now back to getting potential notifications from the head of some of our key supporting stuff and potential project interaction. Thanks to Gump. Improvements to some documentation, especially regarding building plugins and utilising extra JavaScript and CSS in project sites. Added some examples of the latter, and some tweaks to the system to better enable such. Last quarter i missed reporting that another of our PMC members did the follow-on upgrade work on our jail server following the machine upgrade by ASF Infra. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project Status -------------- Releases: 1.1.0 - Being discussed now (coordinated by Roman Shaposhnik) Community --------- * Roman Shaposhnik volunteered to coordinate the release of Giraph 1.1 * In the past 30 days we have resolved 11 issues. * Facebook published an article on Giraph usage scaling to 1 trillion edges - https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scaling-apache-giraph-to-a-trillion-edges/10151617006153920 Mailing lists: 204 subscribers on dev 326 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney] The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support. Project Releases The last release of Gora (0.3) was on 8th May 2013. Overall Project Activity since last report Project activity has been reasonably quiet with much less mailing list activity than the summer quarter. There has however been promising activity from a new member of the community Yasin Tamer. We are currently working on GORA_94 a branch of the trunk code which focuses on a long-overdue upgrade of our legacy Avro dependencies from 1.3.3 to 1.7.5. As this is a major undertaking therefore once this is addressed we will be pushing a release candidate for 0.4. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Roland von Herget joined as PMC member and committer on Thu, 7th Mar 2013. How has the community developed since the last report? Gora again participated in this years Google Summer of Code program. Our student Apostolos Giannakidis successfully completed his project and Renato Marroquin (already a member of the Gora PMC) was also successful in integrating Gora into Apache Giraph as part of his GSoC project. Mailing list numbers are as follows user: from 46 --> 49 dev: from 62 --> 60 Changes to PMC & Committers Nothing to report. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop, Any23 & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon] Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. Project Status: * The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time. Releases: * October 11, 2013 - Hama 0.6.2 has released. Community: * The last Hama PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013 * The last Hama committer addition: Sep 9, 2013 * Kenneth Xian's presentation have been accepted for China Hadoop Summit 2013 * Edward's presentation have been accepted for The 10th Advaned Computing Conference 2013 Mailing lists: * 94 subscribers on dev * 173 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener] Project Description =================== The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. Issues for the Board ==================== There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention. Releases ======== No new releases since last board report. Last release was httpd 2.4.6 on July 22nd, 2013. Commit activity is steady, albeit not as heavy as earlier in the year, when 2.4.1 was released as the first in the 2.4 branch. We expect httpd 2.2.26 and 2.4.7 to be T&R'ed in November. Bug reports =========== 153 different bugs were discussed, 61 new bugs created, 34 were closed/fixed. Community ===================== Ubuntu 13.10 released with Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x. There are two recently publicised "bounty" programs that include Apache HTTP Server. Both are very hands-off wrt project involvement. The PMC is dicussing procedures/policies. Ben Reser was added to the PMC on September 8th, 2013. Jan Kaluza was added as a committer on September 16th, 2013. IRC and mailing list activity are steady. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera] The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols. Status Overall the project remains active. Releases HttpClient 4.2.6 was released on the 12th of September 2013 HttpClient 4.3 GA was released on the 12th of September 2013 HttpClient 4.3.1 GA was released on the 8th of October 2013 HttpAsyncClient 4.0 GA was released on the 31st of October 2013 Community Simone Tripodi was voted in as a HttpComponents committer on Aug 23rd 2013. The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey] The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are 36 podlings currently under incubation. * Community New IPMC members: Daniel Gruno People who left the IPMC: (None) * New Podlings * Sirona is a library around monitoring of Java application. It aims to stay simple, easy and efficient. * Graduations The board has motions for the following: Marmotta * Retirements: The Tashi podling has retired. * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: Oct 11 Apache Open Climate Workbench 0.3-incubating Oct 16 Apache Olingo (incubating) 1.0.0 Oct 21 Apache Knox Gateway 0.3.0-incubating Oct 23 Apache Ambari 1.4.1-incubating Oct 31 Apache MRQL 0.9.0-incubating Nov 08 Apache Stratos 3.0.0-incubating It took 2-22 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive. Release VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache OCW 0.3-incubating Sep 24 Oct 10 16 Apache Olingo (incubating) 1.0.0 Oct 07 Oct 11 4 Apache Knox Gateway 0.3.0-incubating Oct 09 Oct 14 5 Apache Ambari 1.4.1-incubating Oct 17 Oct 19 2 Apache MRQL 0.9.0-incubating Oct 08 Oct 30 22 Apache Stratos 3.0.0-incubating Oct 16 Oct 27 11 * IP Clearance * Rcouch, an alternative distribution of Apache CouchDB based the 1.3 release, has been accepted by the CouchDB PMC. * Juniper Networks, Inc has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to work with their Contrail networking software. * Citrix has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to support RDP connectivity for virtual machines running within Hyper-V hypervisors. * Miscellaneous * Several discussion threads on project bylaws, initiated by Flex community pursuing refinement of their own, have made it clear just how difficult it is to draft good bylaws. A number of people expressed a desire for a set of well-crafted, official project bylaws which all projects would "inherit". Since that's hard, though, for the time being we're muddling through with patches to the existing ramshackle documentation. * The Incubator's perpetual difficulties getting podling releases approved has spawned another lively discussion. We seem to have reached agreement that we can mitigate the problem by entrusting meritorious podling contributors with a binding vote on incubating releases; debate continues about what implementation to try. At time of writing, the stratagem with the most popular support seems to be electing more podling contributors directly onto the IPMC, but the thread has not yet tailed off. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator Aurora BatchEE Sirona Storm Usergrid * Not yet ready to graduate No release: DeviceMap Hadoop Development Tools Ripple Tez Community growth: Blur Knox Sentry Activity: Droids * Ready to graduate Ambari Open Climate Workbench * Did not report, expected next month NPanday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Ambari Aurora BatchEE Blur DeviceMap Droids Hadoop Development Tools Knox Open Climate Workbench Ripple Sentry Sirona Storm Tez ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Ambari Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari has been incubating since 2011-08-30. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: None. Community graduation vote has passed. 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? Users have been active on the lists and contributions from folks outside of Hortonworks has accelerated. users@ - 187 (was at 156 in last report) dev@ - 130 (was at 113 in last report) Meetup was organized for the users/developers on Sep 25th: http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group/events/134373312/. It was well attended. How has the project developed since the last report? New features have been added to newer Ambari Releases. Support for Apache Hadoop 2.0. Date of last release: 2013-09-10 ambari-1.2.5-incubating 2013-10-21 ambari-1.4.1-incubating When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-09-03 Alex Antonenko 2013-09-03 Aleksandr Kovalenko 2013-09-19 Andriy Babiichuk 2013-09-30 Dmitry Sen 2013-09-30 Myroslav Papyrkovskyy Signed-off-by: [X](ambari) Owen O'Malley [ ](ambari) Chris Douglas [X](ambari) Arun Murthy Shepherd notes: Roman Shaposhnik (rvs): Project should be pretty close to a well deserved graduation. Kudos to the community building effort! -------------------- Aurora Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos. Aurora has been incubating since 2013-10-01. Three most important issues - Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website - Expanding the community and adding new committers - 1st release 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? - All initial committers have submitted ICLAs and the accounts have been created. The mailing lists have been setup and we have started using them for communication. How has the project developed since the last report? - We have setup the incubator status page and are working with infrastructure to get everything setup, more details are available in INFRA-6819. Date of last release - No releases as of yet. Working on IP clearance. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - N/A, still bootstrapping the project. Signed-off-by: [X](aurora) Jake Farrell [ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman [ ](aurora) Chris Mattmann [X](aurora) Henry Saputra -------------------- BatchEE Apache BatchEE is an implementation and a set of extensions of JBatch specification (aka JSR 352). The extensions are of course JBatch components but a little GUI, a JAXRS front and a maven plugin too. The implementation itself of JBatch is a fork from the IBM implementation (the Reference Implementation of JSR 352). BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: - Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website - Expanding the community and adding new committers - 1st release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - No How has the community developed since the last report? - infrastructure (git, nexus, list...) is set up (since few days). We start to get some interaction on the list and exchanges on IRC. How has the project developed since the last report? - the project has initially forked a project from IBM which was then imported on github (waiting our Apache git repository). It is now in Apache git repository. Date of last release: - we are working on getting everything ready to be able to release When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - X Signed-off-by: [X](rmannibucau) Romain Manni-Bucau [ ](batchee) FIXME [ ](batchee) FIXME Shepherd notes: Suresh Marru (smarru): The podling is waiting on website setup. The dev mailing list is not yet setup (or atleast not visible in archives), surprisingly the user and commit lists have archives, is something amiss? -------------------- Blur Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. We are waiting on a Trademark assign document for the Blur name used by Near Infinity to be granted to Apache. The status of the issue is marked as approved but we still haven't received the document to obtain the Trademark assignment. - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-34 2. Another Release 3. Another Release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? We continue to be small but active. - Subscriptions: user@ - 51[+13]; dev@ - 60[+14] How has the project developed since the last report? We had our first release! The majority of effort since then has been around bug fixes and few new features for a point release. This should happen in the next week. Date of last release: 2013-10-09 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-08-30 Signed-off-by: [ ](blur) Doug Cutting [x](blur) Patrick Hunt [x](blur) Tim Williams Shepherd notes: Suresh Marru (smarru): * The podling seems to be very healthy and kudos to PPMC for pulling of their first release and getting ready for second. * A big kudos to couple of mentors for pro-actively engaging. * Blur website does not conform to the branding guidelines and should add the incubator logo and disclaimer prominently. Also, should include the ASF, security and thanks to sponsor links. -------------------- 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. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make a release - progress is slow but we're getting there, expecting our first release around the board meeting. 2. Review PPMC membership and ask who's staying on board 3. Graduate Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No board/IPMC issues at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? No new committers. Minimal activity on the dev list. How has the project developed since the last report? OpenDDR device data updates have been contributed. Extensive testing (hundreds of iterations through full set and various subsets of close to half a million unique user-agent strings) of all versions (java & .Net languages) currently in the repository showed that DeviceMapClient is literally over a 1,000 times faster than any other currently available tool (milliseconds vs microseconds) with a fraction of the code. Accuracy (approaching 98%) can be improved with n-gram tokens in resource data instead of regex patterns. Date of last release: No release yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Last committer election was May 17th. Signed-off-by: [X](devicemap) Bertrand Delacretaz [ ](devicemap) Kevan Miller [ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory -------------------- Droids Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 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 changes to community. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has been very quiet / dormant for the past quarter. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp -------------------- Hadoop Development Tools Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. we have to finish the release of version 0.0.1 and to define the build environment using Jenkins 2. we have to define and implement an effective approach to manage the "client connections" to multiple clusters. 3. Build Community Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None How has the community developed since the last report? - hdt-dev has seen around 118 mails during this period How has the project developed since the last report? - We released RC0 for 0.0.1 on the dev mailing list. There were some feedback points for the release process/artifacts. HDT-44, was also reported for RC0. The issue have been addressed and we can make a new RC sometime soon. - Around 8 JIRA were filed during thing period to complete the migration of hadoop-eclipse source. Date of last release: - None When were the last committers or PMC members elected? June 2013 Signed-off-by: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik -------------------- 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. Expand community to include more diverse committers. 2. Review and complete all graduation readiness items. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? 1. None How has the community developed since the last report? 1. New PPMC member elected. 2. Engaging several interested parties in contributing plugins. 3. Starting to get user questions on user list. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Released 0.3.0 adding support for secure clusters, HBase and Hive. 2. Resolved 99(+69) of 194(+102) total issues currently in JIRA. 3. Received name clearance from legal. 4. Positive discussion about initiating graduation processes. Date of last release: 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-11-01: Dilli Dorai Arumugam elected as PPMC member. 2013-07-31: Dilli Dorai Arumugam elected as committer. Signed-off-by: [X](knox) Owen O'Malley [ ](knox) Chris Douglas [X](knox) Alan Gates [ ](knox) Mahadev Konar [ ](knox) Devaraj Das [ ](knox) Chris Mattmann [X](knox) Tom White -------------------- Open Climate Workbench A tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs, regionally and globally. Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Draft graduation resolution 2. Pick chair 3. 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? Community growth has slowed but development work has continued strong. A number of people on the project attended the International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013 and spoke about research that is being powered by the Open Climate Workbench. How has the project developed since the last report? Quite a bit of development work has continued on the project. Michael Joyce pushed out the 0.3-incubating release on the October 11 which resolved about 85 issues. Denis Nadeau made a huge contribution to the project in the obs4MIPs code base which provides a great deal of utility to the project. Cameron Goodale added tests that run the toolkit through an entire comparison so users can validate dependency installations and get a feel for how to use OCW. Date of last release: 2013-10-11 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-06-21 Signed-off-by: [ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas [ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew [X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru [ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris A. Mattmann -------------------- Ripple Ripple is a browser based mobile platform development and testing tool. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Fix licensing issues, specifically some of the images. 2. Build up the community. 3. Make a release under Apache. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? We are still seeing increased non-committer participation in threads, issues, etc. However, aside from the odd contribution, most of the recent work has been committer based. How has the project developed since the last report? Intel has been doing a lot of work on the project (in a fork)- still waiting for a possible contribution back into the ASF project. http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools Continuing Cordova 3.0 work to get to a stable, releasable product. The Chrome Extension build target was removed altogether from the project, in an effort to simplify and streamline the building/compilation of the project into a usable application, and because the project has been continually moving towards a [more feature-able] NodeJS backend, capable of being run in any Browser. Date of last release? N/A When were the last committers or PMC members elected? When we were inducted into Apache. Signed-off-by: [ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting [X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier [ ](ripple) Andrew Savory -------------------- Sentry Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster. Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Build community and add new committers 2. Continue to release at regular intervals 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? Community development continues. Sentry was presented to various user groups (Hive User Group, New York Hadoop User Group) with great interest. Sentry community hosted its first meetup in NYC. Nearly 20 people attended the meetup. There was great interest and lively discussions. How has the project developed since the last report? A number of new JIRAs have been filed and are being actively worked on. Support for Solr index level authorization is under way. Date of last release: 2013-09-25 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Last committers and PMC members were elected when the project entered incubation. Signed-off-by: [X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar [ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier [X](sentry) David Nalley [ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy [X](sentry) Patrick Hunt [X](sentry) Thomas White -------------------- Sirona Apache Sirona is a library around monitoring of Java application. It aims to stay simple, easy and efficient. It will be composed of several modules which are globally a server very easily extensible (and which will be integrated with other Apache softwares) and several client modules to collect data and push them to any aggregator you want (Sirona one or not). Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: - Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website - Expanding the community and adding new committers - 1st release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - no How has the community developed since the last report? - since our lists and IRC channel are set up we have great discussions about the future of the project and features we want to take care. How has the project developed since the last report? - several committers already pushed features/fixes. Date of last release: - No - we are still bootstraping the project When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - we are still bootstraping the project Signed-off-by: [ ](sirona) Olivier Lamy [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg Shepherd notes: Roman Shaposhnik (rvs): Given that it has been less then a month since project entered incubation I see that the most immediate needs of having a source code repo, JIRA and MLs have been met. Still it would be nice if the bootstrapping were to wrap up as quickly as possible. At this point, for example, there's no website and no wiki, etc. Those are the tools for helping the community growth and it would be very nice to see those coming online in a few weeks. -------------------- Storm Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data. Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Release Storm 0.9.0 with the current github process (the next release, 0.9.1 will be under the Apache process -- we have promised our community a 0.9.0 release prior to moving to the Apache process). 2. Finish bootstrapping the project, migrate github issues to JIRA. 3. Expand the community and adding new committers. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? There has been a delay with some of the committers getting user accounts. This is an impediment to the bootstrap process. How has the community developed since the last report? Several new community members have submitted contributions, but we are largely still bootstrapping the project. How has the project developed since the last report? We have continued to apply bug fixes necessary for the 0.9.0 release and expect one more release candidate before releasing 0.9.0 and migrating to the Apache process. We have adopted aspects of the apache process in anticipation of this. Our dev/user mailing lists have been created and we've notified the community that those lists should be used instead of the google groups list. We will sunset the google groups list shortly. Date of last release: - None. We are sill bootstrapping the project. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - N/A -- We are still bootstrapping the project. Signed-off-by: [ ](storm) Ted Dunning [X](storm) Arvind Prabhakar [ ](storm) Devaraj Das [ ](storm) Matt Franklin [ ](storm) Benjamin Hindman -------------------- Tez Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects. Tez has been incubating since 2013-02-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Making a release 2. Growing the 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? No new PPMC members or committers added since the last report. We have had some interest on the mailing lists both from a user and contributor perspective. There have been a few contributions coming in from new contributors. We are hoping to grow the community once Tez becomes a more mainstream feature in use by Hive and Pig. How has the project developed since the last report? Since the first week of August, 2013 (last report), we have had around 240+ jiras filed and 200+ jiras resolved. There have been multiple meetings with folks from the Hive and Pig projects. Folks in the Hive community have been working on integrating with Tez for quite some time (HIVE-4660 for more details). In the past few months, we have had more interactions with the Pig community on using Tez as one of the execution engines and there is quite a bit of work being done to integrate with Tez (more details on PIG-3446). Date of last release: None yet, we anticipate making one end of November, 2013. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? At project incubation. No new PPMC members or committers added since the last report. Signed-off-by: [ ](tez) Alan Gates [X](tez) Arun Murthy [ ](tez) Chris Douglas [ ](tez) Chris Mattmann [ ](tez) Jakob Homan [X](tez) Owen O'Malley Shepherd notes: Owen O'Malley (omalley): The project is moving very quickly, but needs to make a release soon. -------------------- Usergrid Usergrid is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (“BaaS” or “mBaaS”) composed of an integrated distributed NoSQL database, application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers looking to rapidly build web and/or mobile applications. Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Learning the Apache Way 2. Growing a diverse community 3. Getting project infrastructure and codebase setup at Apache 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? - No changes, we are still waiting for our basic infrastructure to be put in place (for details see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6861) How has the project developed since the last report? - This is our first report. Date of last release: - No releases yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - When we entered incubation Signed-off-by: [X](snoopdave) Dave Johnson [X](jfarrell) Jake Farrell [X](jim) Jim Jagielski [x](lewismc) Lewis John Mcgibbney [x](lresende) Luciano Resende ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: 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 issues requiring board attention at this time. Please accept my apologies for missing the board report last month. RELEASES No new release (last release done on 19 March 2013). We should in the coming months release the different subprojects to rollout the first 3.0 final version. OVERALL ACTIVITY Committer work mainly focused on Hupa subproject (merged Hupa-evolution [1] into Hupa trunk). A GSOC project has been successfully delivered for a basic administration console on top of Hupa Web UI (GWT based). For more details, read the initial proposal [2], the project code repository and info [3] and the final code submission to google [4]. Quite active on the user mailing list where users regularly come with questions and often find answers. We will relaunch the committer work on the server components, on hold for now due to committer being busy with their professional projects. COMMUNITY Dongxu Wang (echo) was voted as a new committer on 29th July 2013. No new PMC member (Last PMC member was voted on 17 Jul 2012). TRADEMARKS / BRANDING Still to do: Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on web site). [1] https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/hupa-evo [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/emma/10001 [3] https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/bond [4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/emma/16001 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer] Apache jclouds is a cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API. Project Status: * Graduated to TLP on 10/16/13! * INFRA-6912 resolved - mailing lists, git repos, website, etc all moved to TLP Issues Needing Board Attention: * None at this time Releases: * Planning underway for 1.6.3 (to come in next week or two) and 1.7.0 (to come by end of year) Community: * Last jclouds PMC addition: 10/16/13 * Last jclouds committer addition: 10/16/13 Security: * No issues reported ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam] jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR). jUDDI - Very low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter. - Working on the 3.2 release which includes a full web based console. We're very close to completing this work. Scout - No release this period, not really any development took place. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree) Last Release jUDDI-3.1.5, May 20, 2013 There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao] Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems. Development =========== We have fixed critical bugs and improved the tools since the Kafka 0.8 beta1 (supports intra-cluster replication). We are in the process of releasing 0.8.0 final. Next, we will be focusing on stablizing trunk and releasing 0.8.1 (including various server side performance improvements). After that, we will start improving the client library. An initial design is in the wiki. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 665, 278, 582 emails in Jul, Jun and May, respectively (up from 425 in Jul). kafka-dev has 581, 509, 595 emails in Oct, Sep and Aug (up from 290 in Apr). Two new Kafka committers were elected: David Arthur and Sriram Subramanian. Releases =========== 0.8.0 final release candidate 3 is being voted now. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp] The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: No board level issues at this time. Development: No new releases this quarter. Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14 Community: Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists. Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus] Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases - Libcloud 0.13.2 has been released on September 18th, 2013 Community * No new commiters or PMC members * Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier] The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open- source software related to the logging of application behavior. Currently there are no issues, which require Boards attention. - Community Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall community is healthy and friendly. The reception of Log4j 2 in the wider community is very good. Christian Grobmeier gave a few more talks on Log4j 2. The latest mention of Log4j 2 was at W-Jax in Germany (Nov 7). The activity around log4cxx has stalled again. Mailinglists are read. Log4net activity has increased and a release has been cut. In general, the project is healthy and growing. - Project Branding Requirements All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We are still planning for a new Chainsaw release. - Last three community changes * Remko Popma joined the PMC on Sep 28 2013. * Dominik Psenner joined the PMC on Jun 03 2013. * Nick Williams joined as a Committer on May 11 2013. - Releases * Log4j Extras 1.2.17 (Oct 20, 2013) * Log4j 2.0-beta9 (Sep 21, 2013) * Log4net 1.2.12 (Sep 13, 2013) - Subproject summaries Log4j 2: Active Log4j 1, Extras was released. An issue with the build was raised, a bugfix release is currently worked on. No further releases are anticipated. Log4net: More activity. A new release has been cut and work on restructuring the codebase for log4net 1.3.x which drops support for .NET 1.x has been started. Help has been provided on the user list and the newly incoming JIRA tickets have all been addressed. Some confusion arose around the log4net Nuget package which isn't provided by the Apache community but an external developers. The website and JIRA description have been clarified that the package is not under control of the project. Log4cxx: Less activity, Attic needs to be discussed again. Log4php: Less activity. Chainsaw: a new release is on the horizon as the previously blocking Log4j 1 Extras release was done. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright] Board Report, ManifoldCF PMC ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: November 2013 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been five major releases, including a 1.4 release on October 28, 2013. Committers and PMC membership ======================== The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Other contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these encounters took place in September. We are not entirely sure why people who are obviously interested and to some degree committed to the project seem unwilling to become full committers. I suspect that corporate restrictions make this a challenge in some cases. Also, we seem to be interacting more with contractors than with employees recently, and it may well be that contractors have less interest in a long-standing relationship with our project. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around voting, extensions to the SharePoint connector, people looking for integration advice, etc. ManifoldCF also participated in Google Summer of Code, and MCF committers mentored one student developer through end of September. External contributions and even committer contributions have been somewhat lighter this cycle than in the last quarter. Communication with committers indicates that this is due in some degree to the maturity of the product, but also to an uptick in everyone's work load. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Both Infra issues that were outstanding at the time of the last report have been resolved. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: 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 Apache Oltu OAuth2 0.31 was released on July 3rd. CURRENT ACTIVITY The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a standard. New parts of the OAuth specification family are currently under development (JWT, JWS and OpenId Connect) We got a contribution of the Apache Oltu logo that has now been included in the website and in the Oltu demo. Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got new messages from potential new users) COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation We have voted one new committer since graduation ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam] DESCRIPTION Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). RELEASES * Last release was Apache Oozie version 4.0.0, released on AUG/30/2013 * Apache Oozie version 4.0.1 is WIP CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/zPD (since last report, Aug 2013) COMMUNITY * PMC composition has not changed since last report. * Committers composition has not changed since last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 116 (+8) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 314 (+30) subscribers to the user list - Total of 14 committers - Total of 12 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: 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, TomEE, 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. Interest in the community to start development of new release of OpenJPA in support of JPA 2.1. * Governance We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and PMC members. * Releases OpenJPA 2.3 is being discussed in the user forum. But nothing has been finalized yet. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: 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 No new Apache-Reload releases since the last report. -- 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. Apache-DBI 1.12 was released on June 12nd, 2013 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. mod_perl 2.0.8 was released on April 17th 2013 -- 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. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. Releases -------- There was a bug fix release in the last quarter: POI 3.10 beta2 on Sep 19 2013 . Community --------- No new committers/PMC members added in the last quarter. Last committer and PMC was added on Jul 8, 2013 (tallison)  Project Status --------- Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been  steady in the last 3 months. Most patches are applied without much delay. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim] Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, and client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python, Perl and Ruby. * Releases: There have been no releases since the last report in September 2013. Qpid 0.26 release is currently in alpha and due to branch for beta any day now. It is targeted for release early December. The last Qpid release (0.24) was in 7th Sep, 2013. Qpid Proton 0.6 release is in planning. The last Qpid Proton release (0.5) was on 29th Aug, 2013. * Community: The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are being raised and addressed. Posts and questions around AMQP 1.0 are becoming more frequent. No new committers or PMC members added since last report (Sep 2013). Last committer added was Pavel Moravec on 30th Aug, 2013. Last PMC members to be added were Andrew Stitcher, Chuck Rolke, Justin Ross and Keith Wall in September 2011. Development since last the report has been mainly maintenance & bug fixing on the various components. Development of a proposed new component, the Qpid Dispatch Router, has continued along with some discussion regarding its scope and aims. Increased PMC and committer diversity would be desirable. At present all but two of the active committers - and all but one of the PMC members - are paid to work on the project by one of two organisations. Some discussions have begun to try and find ideas for proactively improving this situation. * Issues: There are no items requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk] Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally donated by Sun Microsystems. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no board-level issues at this time RELEASES Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013. As of Nov 13, 2013, a release vote is in progress for Apache River 2.2.2 and is expected to pass. COMMUNITY No new committers have been added since Nov of 2011. We hope that with releases coming on a more regular basis, user interest will pick up, and with it we will attract more potential new committers. ACTIVITY Mailing lists and development have been fairly quiet over the last few months. 7 messages on users@ from Sept-Nov, and over 32 messages on dev@. Activity is on the upswing in November Two issues have been reported on Jira and resolved. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson] Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.2. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.2, which was released on October 30, 2013, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. For more information: http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/apache_roller_5_0_2 Community The Roller community has been active recently responding to security vulnerabilities reported by Coverity. We made the 5.0.2 release and upgraded blogs.apache.org to the new release. Apart from that activity, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. There were no new releases in the last quarter. However a new release of the Apache XML Security for Java project (1.5.6) is currently under vote and should be released shortly. This release contains a minor bug fix as well as a fix for security advisory, which will be released in due course. Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012. Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada] Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs. Development: Implemented Matrices as a derivative of JAMA work [1]: Experimented the use of MathML to render mathematical formulas in SIS documentation Submitted patches for better build support in Eclipse[2][3] Implemented the geodetic datum package. Community: Nadeem Anjum successfully completed the Google Summer of Code! Added Olivier Nouguier to SIS PMC on 2013-10-11 Branding: Continue to enhance the project web site as well as project documentation Issues: Continue to seek a resolution with using the EPSG database in SIS[4] The EPSG geodetic parameter dataset [7] is a freely available structured repository of data used in geospatial applications. This dataset is of critical importance to the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) project. All major geographic software that we know, both open-source and commercial, include the EPSG database in one form or the other. Distributing SIS without EPSG would be like distributing Java without data for Charset encoding (UTF-8, ISO-LATIN-1, etc.). References to EPSG appear in many corners of core SIS API (e.g. [8]). The EPSG database is maintained by the "International Association of Oil & Gas Producers" (OGP) and members are big companies like Shell. Oil & Gas producers maintain and provide the EPSG database free of charge because the cost of installing a drilling platform in the wrong location is too high. Since they rely on maps and data produced by various actors (national map agencies, etc.), it is in their best interest that those actors have access to the most accurate Map Projection definitions when they create their data. The ASF has criteria for inclusion of third-party products [9]. However those criteria seem to be designed for software, while the EPSG files are data. A volunteer can rewrite a software from scratch until it complies with a specification, but we can not recreate definitions data - there is no way that such information could emerge from a volunteer's imagination without significant expertise in each of the over six thousand available transformations. The EPSG terms of use [10] have two conditions which may be unusual for Apache: one restriction on modification, and one restriction on distribution. But we think that the restriction on modifications is reasonable and well justified, while the condition on distribution may not have practical impact for Apache. Restriction on modifications ---------------------------- EPSG documents precisely the kind of modifications that users are allowed to apply on their data. For those familiar with geodesy, it is immediately obvious that those restrictions are designed in such a way that geographical coordinates would still locate the same points on Earth. EPSG do not forbid modifications, but basically said "if you apply any modifications that would alter the location of points on Earth, then give to your definition your own code (primary key) and do not attribute that to EPSG". We think that this is reasonable because this engage EPSG's credibility. When one said "EPSG:4326", we expect something that match the EPSG definition of Coordinate Reference System 4326. Changing that would be like changing the meaning of Unicode 65 from character 'A' to 'B' and still claim that it is a Unicode. If someone really wants to make such change, he can but is probably not allowed to claim that the modified code is Unicode (or at least, he is required to document clearly his change according condition (c) of [11]). Likewise for EPSG, users are allowed to make any changes they want provided that they apply their changes on a *copy* of EPSG definition copied in the user's *own* codespace (it doesn't have to be in a separated database - EPSG defines range of codes reserved for user's definitions). Or if a user really wants to modify the definition under the "EPSG" name, then the EPSG restrictions apply. As the ASF increases in complexity and addresses more and more topics like environment, health, laws, etc., maybe this kind of situation would happen more often. For example if a medical authority maintained a free database of drugs, we would not be surprised if that authority put restrictions on the changes allowed in their database while keeping the authority's label. In SIS domain, other potential data after EPSG (while much less critical for SIS) could be tables and symbols from the World Meteorological Organisation for example. The key point of above paragraph is that this issue may not be a SIS/EPSG issue only. Maybe it could concern the inclusion of data emitted by any authority (as opposed to data created by volunteers on the basis of their own observations). Restriction on distribution --------------------------- In a nutshell, anywone can sell SIS + EPSG for profit, but can not sell the EPSG tables alone (without Apache's work). While this condition would need to be mentioned somewhere (in NOTICE file?), maybe Apache does not need to be concerned further that point? If someone download Apache SIS and delete everything - the *totality* of Apache's work - until only EPSG tables remain, maybe the restriction that emerge only in this situation is not Apache's business anymore? (provided that we mentioned it). More discussion on this restriction is in [4]. If needed, Martin knows the chairman of OGP's Geodesy Subcommittee and could ask for further clarification. Releases: Apache SIS 0.3 [5] Press: Martin participated in the OGC meeting held in September[6]. [1] http://s.apache.org/fn2 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-132 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-133 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-183 [5] http://sis.apache.org/release-notes/0.3.html [6] http://s.apache.org/g8 [7] http://www.epsg.org [8] https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/referencing/GeodeticObjects.html#WGS84 [9] http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#criteria [10] http://www.epsg-registry.org/help/xml/Terms_Of_Use.html [11] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco] Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. Status There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Community user@ ML is active, new users keep popping in for evaluating the project, existing users get regular support in reasonable time for their issues: currently 79 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. dev@ ML is active, mainly discussing new features: currently 58 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. We have consistently started implementing new features for next version 1.2.0, while still maintaining 1.1.X (next release 1.1.5 is on its way). Some contacts were taken with Logging, CXF and Directory communities via their user@ ML for asking for support with - respectively - log4j2, JAX-RS and Escimo. We have a new contributor, Guido Wimmel. Last committer addition (Andrei Shakirin and Christian Schneider) is dated January 2013. Last addition to PMC (Jan Bernhardt) is dated November 2012. Releases since last report * 1.1.4 (Sep 27th, 2013) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: 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. Any issues for the Board? There are no Board-level issues at this time. When did the project last make any releases? The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.7) has been released 2013-04-29. We made available numerous preview builds of the upcoming 5.4 release, the latest (5.4-alpha-24) on 2013-11-04. Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter. Activity on the user mailing list is high. Questions are answered with participation of not only the core contributors but also by the community at large. Discussion focuses especially around new features of the upcoming 5.4 release. Activity on the dev mailing list is medium. The focus of development currently lies on the upcoming Tapestry 5.4 which will bring major improvements in JavaScript support and other new features. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Lance Semmens has been voted in as a committer on 2013-07-07. The last PMC addition has been Massimo Lusetti on 2012-08-27. PMC and committer diversity PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time with Howard Lewis Ship being the driving force behind Tapestry's development and various other committers working on areas of their interest. Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally. No known issues. Branding requirements progress: * "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed * "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc." - completed * "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included" - License and Security links are missing * "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc." - completed * "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site" - TM missing from logo * "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed Legal issues or questions: None. Infrastructure issues or strategic needs: None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl] Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. Status The Turbine project has had a quite busy quarter by our measures. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Project Branding Board Report Checklist The last issue left is * TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2012/09/19) Georg Kallidis has been voted into the PMC (2013/09/30). Turbine core project The Turbine core project proceeds slowly to the next milestone release which shall include a modified security implementation and support for the Quartz scheduler to replace the built-in one. * A new parent POM (3) has been released to support site publishing with svnpubsub (2013/09/25) Fulcrum component project A new JSON component has been added to the Fulcrum sub-project in this quarter. * Fulcrum parser 1.0.3 has been released (2013/10/11) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. ISSUES - There are no issues that require the board's attention. RELEASES - Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013. COMMUNITY ACTIVITY - Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012. - Tuscany participated in the ASF - ICFOSS pilot mentoring programme and some work on Tuscany's widget support started as part of that programme but was not completed. - Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and continues to be on the lower side, with a discussion and vote of the Tuscany SCA 2.0.1 release, and a few JIRA issues and questions from users. BRANDING - We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project doap file. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects. RELEASES * Last release was master POM, May 2012 * Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010 CURRENT ACTIVITY * Dev effort was zero this quarter. * Only contribution was report of broken website links. COMMUNITY * Last committer added April 28, 2013 * Activity is low on the user list but steady on Stack Overflow. * Velocity appears to be more oft used as a component of larger products than directly used by app developers. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries. RELEASES * Xalan Java last release November-2007 * Xalan C/C++ last release October-2012, updated Apr-2013 * No new releases this quarter. COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Google Summer of Code 2014 Samuel Medeiros has successfully completed a second year with GSOC on Xalan projects. His work is well appreciated by the Xalan team for his contributions to both the C++ and Java products. The community is still able to address issues from the user and integrator community. Our limited staffing has delayed patch releases. We have implemented patches contributed from the Debian community. We are seeing 20-30 mail lists per month on our developer list. PMC MEMBERSHIP * No membership changes PROJECT STATUS * Xalan Java - Patch release appears stalled. The JIRA issues are still being resolved. * Xalan C/C++ - Patch release is still being worked on. The significant effort is currently on documentation and packaging. The JIRA issues are still being resolved and committed to the subversion trunk. SECURITY * No outstanding issues BRANDING * No outstanding issues ISSUSES * We are still wishing to expand the developer community. * We still have enough members to vote on releases. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] Xerces-J Some refactoring was done to the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. One bug fix was also committed in this area to resolve a JIRA issue reported by a user. Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 60 posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of August 2013. No new releases this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010). Xerces-C Thanks to a patch from the community the Xerces-C XML parser was updated this quarter to support XML 1.0 5th edition. Four other bug fixes and improvements were also made during this period. Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 70 posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of August 2013. No news about when the 3.2 version will be packaged. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.1.1 (April 27th, 2010). Xerces-P Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period. XML Commons Nothing in particular to report. There was no development or mailing list activity over the reporting period. Committer / PMC Changes No new committers in the last quarter. The most recent committers were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J). No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to the PMC were in May 2010. Apache Project Branding Requirements There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project logo. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch] The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. Issues for the Board ==================== No issues at present. Community ========= Last new committer: Robert Meyer on 05/08/13 Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 04/03/13 The PMC discussed the problem of lack of active committers on Batik sub project. There are some users logging bugs and posting occasional patches into JIRA, but no one to process them. The PMC has agreed to allow all PMC members commit access to all XML Graphics sub projects regardless of their originating sub project. The vote has just concluded, so an adjustment to the auth template file will be made later this week to implement this. It is hoped that some of the FOP committers will periodically process Batik patches to stop the sub project from dying. XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==================== 2 bug fixes committed to SVN, and code added for OTF CFF Font support There were no releases this quarter. The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012) FOP === User mailing list has several questions posted and answered each week. Some new bugs logged and several patches have been submitted and processed. 27 separate commits in total to SVN. Significant new features of note, started in this quarter are; support for a whitespace management extension and fo:inline-container. Development for both have been started in branches and several commits made to each as work progresses. There were no releases this quarter The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012) BATIK ===== Mailing list activity was very light. A few bugs have been reported by users and a couple of patches submitted. Zero commits to the codebase, which is why the PMC started a discussion on how to deal with the patches and bugs being logged. There were no releases this quarter. The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008) ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the November 20, 2013 board meeting.