The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes April 16, 2014 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (*) and began at 10:34 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. (*) PDT time, see here for other timezones: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140416T1730 IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Shane Curcuru Doug Cutting left at 11:17 Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Ross Gardler Rich Bowen Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Chip Childers Jake Farrell Marvin Humphrey Sean Kelly Daniel Gruno Sean Owen Phil Steitz David Nalley Andrea Pescetti Noah Slater Jan Iversen Jan Lehnardt Henri Yandell joined at 10:38 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of March 19, 2014 See: board_minutes_2014_03_19.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] I sent a notice to members, advising them that the Annual Members Meeting will be on May 27, and calling for nominations of new members and nominations for the 2014-15 board. This was sent via the members mailing list, with a separate notice sent to those members who are not subscribed to it. At the time of writing, we don't have a 2014-15 budget to approve for this meeting, so I've requested an update from Ross. ApacheCon recently completed, and while I wasn't able to attend, it sounds as if the event went well and was of great benefit. Many thanks to those who volunteered time to make it happen, and all the members of our community that participated! Jim volunteered to set up the voting tool for the Members' meeting. B. President [Ross] An eventful month... ApacheCon was a big success. I spoke to a number of conference sponsors all were satisfied many were very happy. I spoke to many attendees, some new, some old. The new faces were content, the old were pleased to see an ApacheCon with no burned out volunteers tearing their hair out. Please see the EVP report for full details and join me in thanking Rich Bowen and his supporting team for a job well done. Upayavira and I met with the only ASF sponsor present at ApacheCon and discussed how we might better engage them. There were a number of suggestions but they mostly hinged around visibility into the foundations activities so that there is concrete information to communicate internally to those signing off on the sponsorship budget, Upayavira has undertaken to hold quarterly conference calls with gold and platinum sponsors during which he will present some basic metrics on how the foundation is doing, raise any highlights, and invite questions. I will work with Upayavira, Melissa and appropriate VPs to gather this data (e.g. incubating projects, accounts, committers). It is intended that the data will be compiled into an annual report for broader circulation in one years time (to coincide with the 2015 members meeting). It is my belief that at least one director should be present at each of these calls along with either myself or the EVP. A second sponsor request was to have more visibility at open source events for the ASF. Both in the form of booth presence (Melissa is willing and able to assist with this) and in the form of speakers representing the ASF. At this time I have no plan to deliver on this request. In the past the board (and I) have questioned the value of this work. This is an item that will be discussed with other sponsors in the coming months. There has been an important step in the audit process with agreement to request a contract from Virtual to manage the process. This is good to see. Thanks to the audit team for unblocking this. The EVP and two directors (Shane and Jim) met with representatives of the CloudStack PMC to discuss specific infrastructure, marketing and sponsorship needs that the PMC feels are not currently addressed by the ASF. At this time the requests are quite general in nature and thus we spent some time explaining why it is important for the PMC need to raise specific concerns with the appropriate Committees and Officers. To date the PMC has reached out formally to infrastructure and marketing and informally (at ApacheCon) to fundraising. It is my belief that the PMC is approaching these issues in an extremely constructive way and I commend them for their efforts. I also wish to note that, at least in the general sense, these concerns are not unique to CloudStack. It is my belief that the CloudStack PMC genuinely wants to find a solution that preserves the Apache Way and I encourage the board to work with the PMC to find appropriate solutions as specific issues are identified. Melissa spent much of this month coordinating the last aspects of ApacheCon and TAC, including staffing the booth at the event itself. There has been the usual work on the fundraising support activities. Now that ApacheCon is over and there is a lull before the real work for ApacheCon EU begins I am hoping that Melissa will be able to turn her attention to assisting the treasurer with the contract negotiations with Virtual and with documenting the existing practices. I plan to discuss new priorities with her and Rich (as EVP) in our regular meeting on Thur 17th April. We do not have a TAC report this month. However, I can report that I met a number of the TAC recipients at ApacheCon. They were all very grateful for the opportunity presented by the programme and extended their thanks to the foundation and TAC members specifically. Infrastructure was represented at ApacheCon by Joe and Daniel, with Sam being present for the first day. This, coupled with the fact that our two other contractors were otherwise engaged for the same period, resulted in a potentially incomplete coverage of our infrastructure needs. This was an unusual set of circumstances that all collided on a specific time period. This situation is unlikely to occur again. However, we should perhaps consider simple measures to flag such situations in the future. Shane was very active in ApacheCon discussions relating to directed sponsorships and their potential impact on our brand management. Shane continues to be engaged in those discussions on various mailing lists. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] The Treasurer's Office has reviewed a proposal from Virtual, Inc to provide financial contracting services at the ASF. After a favorable initial review, the Office asked for broader feedback from the ASF board. 7 of the 9 directors and the ASF President replied back and all were favorable of the proposal and the potential for Virtual to help provide their services to help the financial mission of the ASF. Based on the above feedback, the Treasurer's Office is recommending that we hire Virtual. I propose that Sam and I have a telecon with Sheila, their Business manager and request a draft services contract for review. The EA requested some financial reports on her income and the request was fulfilled by the Treasurer's Office. An ASF member covered the on-site expenses for ApacheCon NA 2014, and will be reimbursed when his request arrives and is approved by the President or EVP as soon as possible. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 1,091,616.35 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,910.92 PayPal: 12,314.42 Amazon Prime: 9,789.08 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 1,391,841.69 Income Summary: Lockbox 100,810.30 Fundraising 105,000.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 205,810.30 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- EA 5,539.20 Sysadmin 31,800.00 misc expense 399.48 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 50.87 ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 1,996.63 Press 6,545.45 PayPal 41,163.79 Network Services - Traci.net 4,951.73 ApacheCon NA 2014 19,282.63 Trademarks 2,508.75 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 114,238.53 D. Secretary [Craig] The office of secretary continues to run smoothly. March was another slow month for documents. 45 iclas, five cclas, and one grant were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] ApacheCon North America 2014 was held April 7-9 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Despite the very late start, we had higher attendance than last year, and almost everyone that I have spoken with has declared it an enormous success. Attendees, speakers and sponsors have all expressed approval of the job that Angela and the Linux Foundation did in the production of the event. Speaking personally, it was the most stress-free ApacheCon I have ever had. Although I hope to have more detailed statistics prior to the board meeting, at the moment the attendee numbers are: Registered: 419 No-shows: 36 Speakers: 100ish Committers: 100ish We're still gathering feedback from speakers and attendees, and should have the results of that survey by the next board meeting. This feedback will inform any changes we make for future events. On the first day of the event, we announced ApacheCon Europe, which will be held November 17-21 2014 in Budapest. The website for that is up at http://apachecon.eu/ and the CFP is open, and will close June 25, 2014. We plan to announce the schedule on July 28, 2014, giving us nearly 4 months lead time before the conference. We have already received talk submissions, and a few conference registrations. I will try to provide statistics each month between now and the conference. As with ApacheCon NA, there will be a CloudStack Collaboration Conference co-located with ApacheCon. We are also discussing the possibility of a co-located Apache OpenOffice user-focused event on the 20th and 21st, or possibly just one day. We eagerly welcome proposals from other projects which wish to have similar co-located events, or other more developer- or PMC-focused events like the Traffic Server Summit, which was held in Denver. I will begin pursuing project-specific and topic-specific tracks in a few weeks once I've gotten caught up on everything else. Discussion has begun regarding a venue for ApacheCon North America 2015, with Austin and Las Vegas early favorites, but several other cities being considered. We hope to have an announcement by early summer, so that this can get into the planning budgets of possible attendees. 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 / Jim] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Sam] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Doug] See Attachment A B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Greg] See Attachment B C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Brett] See Attachment C D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Shane] See Attachment D E. Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema / Chris] See Attachment E F. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Bertrand] See Attachment F G. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Roy] No report was submitted. AI: Ross: what can be done to improve the Attic situation? H. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Sam] No report was submitted. AI: Doug: suggest naming a new chair I. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Brett] See Attachment I J. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Bertrand] No report was submitted. K. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Jim] See Attachment K AI: Jim: follow up with issues regarding committers, PMC membership, and users mailing lists L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Doug] No report was submitted. M. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Roy] See Attachment M N. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Shane] See Attachment N AI: Sam: ask project to file JIRA for Jenkins issues O. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Chris] See Attachment O P. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Greg] See Attachment P Q. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Shane] No report was submitted. AI: Shane to pursue a report for Directory R. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Bertrand] See Attachment R S. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Chris] See Attachment S T. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Greg] See Attachment T U. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Roy] See Attachment U V. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Doug] See Attachment V W. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Brett] See Attachment W X. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Jim] See Attachment X Y. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Sam] See Attachment Y Z. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Bertrand] See Attachment Z AA. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Greg] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Shane] No report was submitted. AC. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Jim] See Attachment AC The board approves the removal of the following PMC members: Erik Abele (erikabele) Gregor Rothfuss (gregor) Noel J. Bergman (noel) Reinhard Poetz (reinhard) Scott Sanders (sanders) J Aaron Farr (farra) Garrett Rooney (rooneg) AD. Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell / Chris] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Doug] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly / Roy] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Sam] See Attachment AG AH. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Brett] See Attachment AH AI. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Jim] See Attachment AI AI: Jim: follow up regarding lack of new PMC members AJ. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Roy] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz / Doug] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Bertrand] See Attachment AM AI: Chris: follow up regarding engaging the community and looking for potential PMC members AN. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Shane] See Attachment AN AI: Shane: follow up regarding expanding the user community AO. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam] See Attachment AO AP. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Greg] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Chris] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Roy] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Doug] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Shane] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Chris] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Bertrand] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Greg] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Jim] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Sam] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Sam] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Bertrand] See Attachment BC BD. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Chris] No report was submitted. BE. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Jim] See Attachment BE BF. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Greg] See Attachment BF BG. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Roy] See Attachment BG BH. Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers / Brett] See Attachment BH Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Any23 Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michele Mostarda to the office of Vice President, Apache Any23, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Michele Mostarda from the office of Vice President, Apache Any23, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Any23 project has chosen by vote to recommend Lewis John McGibbney as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michele Mostarda is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Any23, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Lewis John McGibbney be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Any23, 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 Any23 Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Josh Wills to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Josh Wills from the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Crunch project has chosen by vote to recommend Gabriel Reid as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Josh Wills is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gabriel Reid be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, 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 Crunch Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items * Directed sponsorship Ross reviewed a small number of concerns with directed sponsorship: accounting overhead; somewhat less of an issue assuming we contract out some accounting tasks neutrality of PMC; mitigated if the PMC is very diverse and sponsors similarly diverse Ross mentioned that there are no specific proposals at the moment Ross proposed thinking about these four categories of items that could use directed sponsors: 1. Items that don't cost much and are broadly applicable to many projects 2. Items that don't cost much but apply to only a few projects 3. Items that have high cost and apply to only a few projects directed sponsorships would mostly apply here would need to be managed closely by pmc 4. Items that have high cost and are broadly applicable to many projects Ross suggested his thinking for category 4 above: Perhaps we should look at outside organizations to support some of these, e.g. Linux Foundation Shane: We should provide higher level of services for our projects, using either inside or outside funding We can do this more easily with pmcs that know what they need Roy: we're ahead of ourselves with regard to accounting overhead issues since we do not yet have help Don't see a need to break out into four categories Prefer to think about categories: 1. pmc can do by themselves; 2. pmc needs help with e.g. publicity If need is identified, projects could identify people to work directly with marketing/publicity Ross: No problem with this approach for marketing/publicity The bigger issue is with infrastructure; maintaining different systems for many projects Infrastructure is not set up to provide much more than what they currently do Roy: Running infra at this level would need major increase in budget and support system Chris: Is the open office special fund relevant? The project has some money earmarked for travel assistance Ross: This was a special case; OO project had this money before joining apache No additional funding is being accepted but can only spend based on the original intent of the donation Ross: I will continue to work with cloudstack on concrete proposals for infrastructure and marketing I will put together a broader plan for identifying ASF wide policies for board approval These policies will be informed by the ongoing discussions in various locations of the ASF Roy: If pmc really wants to market they can set up groups inside the project As long as pmc is deciding what to work on, they have the ability to do it Also, projects can ask for additional resources in marketing Ross: Prospective sponsors have asked for accountability for donations Chip: The Cloudstack project is looking for diversity of sponsors to help with infrastructure and marketing 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Roy: Update the guidance for releases to forbid shipping binary dependencies within a source package unless their source is also included (see board_minutes_2012_04_18.txt) and communicate to committers. Status: still not done * Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is anything to be done at the "ASF level" Status: * Chris: follow up on bringing on new committers and PMC members to DB Status: * Brett: follow up with Click regarding the Attic or rebooting Status: followed up * Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records Status: not quite, sorry * Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter Status: * Chris: follow up with Empire-db about steps to bringing on new blood Status: * Sam: Discuss with ComDev the vouching process. If ComDev decides to vouch for other organizations, the decision should be made public. This might raise questions from others about how to qualify for vouching and the ComDev PMC should be prepared to discuss criteria that they use. Status: In progress. Current status: http://s.apache.org/ubj * Bertrand: pursue a report for Cordova Status: Report present * Jim: pursue a report for Creadur Status: done * Shane: ask Curator if there a plan to attract new committers/PMC members? Status: * Doug: discuss bringing in new PMC members with OFBiz Status: not done * Jim: discuss service hosting issue (licensing, trademark, etc.) with SpamAssassin PMC. Status: not yet done (apologies) 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:49 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 ApacheCon: 90% (includes TAC) Very busy month; progressing well - Rich will provide more information Placed orders for this year's giveaways and shipped to the venue Shipped the Apache booth material to the venue Finalized the booth logistics with the venue Staffed the booth at ApacheCon and the Cloudstack Collaboration Conference Assisted with getting the BarCamp organized and set-up It was a very successful week, with 100% positive feedback from everyone that I spoke with TAC: Continued to work with the TAC applicants to answer all their inquiries prior to arriving in Denver, as well as on-site Followed through with the direct bill application to the Westin for the TAC'ers and staff lodging with the Westin’s Accounting rep. Fundraising: 10% Continuing to follow-up on renewals sent out Monitoring and preparing invoices for upcoming renewals Sam and Chris will work with Wells Fargo to add me to the account for “read access” so that I can monitor the incoming payments and follow-up on the past-due renewals more efficiently and effectively. Sent out invoices for the sponsors due for renewal Met with Upayavira at ACNA to discuss fundraising activities and processes in which to improve upon ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] * Operations trademarks@ volume and variety of questions continues to be heavy. In particular we have a number of new requests to make Apache branded swag. A key need is a way to ensure that our own /marks/list listings of Apache marks is kept updated and includes sufficient information to provide to third parties reviewing our trademark policies. While Ross has suggested tasking EA to begin this as a manual process (by reading board graduation votes), an automated one that takes into account future product releases is needed. If we can't attract volunteers for this kind of task, will work with president@ to find appropriate infrastructure work to complete. * ApacheCon / CloudStackCollab I gave three presentations about Apache branding at both conferences last week, to moderate audiences but with very good feedback from attendees. Posted on the conference site and: http://www.slideshare.net/shanecurcuru It was clear both from hallway/after hours conversations and from specific feedback on my talks that more education is needed, both for PMCs (to best protect our brands) and for vendors who commonly engage with Apache projects (to ensure they understand that Apache product names are our trademarks, for example). Recorded a podcast about Apache branding activities at ApacheCon: http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/04/upstream-podcast-4/ Similarly, I had a number of conversations with the CloudStack PMC about their desires for getting better support for branding and marketing (and infra) activities; the result of which can be seen in their monthly board report and emails to press@ / infra@ Met with Linux Foundation (LF) staff about ApacheCon and other conference branding. IMO branding at these conferences was great. LF is already producing the upcoming MesosCon, so we will need to work on ensuring an improved event approval process to work with LF events for our many Apache projects. * Registrations Registration of APACHE has succeeded in Switzerland! While we have made several registrations, this one has finished it's process, mostly merely because of the timing of the paperwork. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] Fundraising continues to move along. We are on top of sponsorship renewals, with one platinum still up for discussion, but others in reaching the PO stage. Useful discussions were had at ApacheCon, both with those sponsors that were present, and with the Linux Foundation. Ross has been asking "what do we offer our high value sponsors?" The idea arose, that I propose to follow through on, to offer quarterly conference calls with gold and platinum sponsors. At these calls we will present some basic metrics on how the foundation is doing, raise any highlights, and ask whether our sponsors have any questions they wish to raise, either in public or in private. Other than renewals, this will be the mainstay of our relationship management. There were significant discussions at ApacheCon about targeted donations, which have been mentioned elsewhere. I continue to follow these discussions, but have yet to form a clear opinion. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain on schedule and under budget. All vendor payments have been processed on time with ongoing thanks to the Treasurer and Operations teams. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi continues Sponsor renewal and general outreach activities with Platinum-level Sponsors. The discussion regarding project-specific marketing/promotional support that had begun in October continues, and Sally is working with interested third parties as well as VP Brand Management where needed. This issue has gained additional interest at ApacheCon, and Sally has been asked by a TLP to to help develop a strategic marketing plan to help bring visibility to the project. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org: - 08 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 5th Anniversary of Apache™ Cassandra™ - 07 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Olingo™ as a Top-Level Project - 01 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Allura™ as a Top-Level Project - 01 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tajo™ as a Top-Level Project - 26 March 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Document Freedom Day 2014 - 25 March 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.3 IV. Informal Announcements: 8 items were tweeted on @TheASF, and @ApacheCon tweeted 91 newsworthy items in advance and during the event. No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: we're preparing to announce a project milestone this week, as well as a ComDev-momentum update. 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 17 media requests. The ASF received 2,259 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 3,030. VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 2 analyst queries, with interest in future updates on several projects. Apache was mentioned in 13 reports by Gartner, 6 reports by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 11 reports by Yankee Group, 5 reports by IDC, and 6 write-ups by 451 Research. In addition, Chris Mattmann will be featured on an upcoming episode of "Technology for Good", run by GreenMonk, RedMonk's sustainability-focused division. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally successfully worked with the ApacheCon producer, with particular focus on communications and sponsor outreach, as well as handled some short-notice PR requests for the CloudStack Communication Conference. Special thanks to Melissa Warnkin for running the ASF promotional activities during the event. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally continues liaison with a small handful of events that are requesting the ASF's presence as speakers/presenters/sponsors/*, and is coordinating with Melissa on our presence at OSCON. X. Newswire accounts: we have renewed our pre-paid press release agreement with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire, and have 17 in our account through the end of the calendar year. We have used all our remaining pre-paid press releases on the PRNewswire account and will not be renewing the pre-paid press release distribution via PR Newswire at this time, but will revisit our needs midway through the upcoming fiscal year. We continue to receive gratis news release distribution by Pressat (UK) with no pre-established termination timeframe. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] New Karma: ========== Finances: ========== No purchases/renewals for the month since last report. Operations Action Items: ======================== Short Term Priorities: ====================== * Look into mac build slaves. * Converge on git.apache.org migration to eris. (Step 1 is merge git -> git-wip on tyr) (opinions?) * Investigate / negotiate external code-signing capability, currently in talks under NDA. INFRA-3991 is tracking the status, and a Webex call has taken place. * Complete nagios-to-circonus migration for monitoring. * Continue to experiment with weekly team meetings via google hangout. * Explore the possibility of revamping the infra documents to have a more intuitive feel about them, improve readability. * Confluence Upgrade. Upgrade from 5.0.3 to latest. Hopefully will be less painful this time around. (Support case closed, nothing useful came from it other than check the logs.) * Port tlp creation scripts over to new json-based design on whimsy. Long Range Priorities: ====================== * Choose a suitable technology for continued buildout of our virtual hosting infra. Right now we are on VMWare but it no longer is gratis software for the ASF. * Continue gradually replacing gear we no longer have any hardware warranty support for. * Formulate an effective process and surrounding policy documentation for fulfilling the DMCA safe harbor provisions as they relate to Apache services. * Institute egress filtering on all mission-critical service hosts. General Activity: ================= * New 3-year wildcard SSL cert purchased and installed for *.openoffice * Thrift migrated to CMS with the aim of providing better support for similar sites. Blog entry here: http://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/scaling_down_the_cms_to * The number of confluence administrators was significantly reduced, this was to try and keep the list as small as possible. Historically this permission level was required to operate and manage the autoexport plugin which has since been deprecated. see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7487 * An inter-project communication site was requested by the community at ApacheCon and is being looked into by infra. This will essentially be an aggregator of project development wishes/requests, and will most likely reside on wishlist.a.o. * As a way of lowering the bar for and securing security reports, infra is looking into creating a system which, based on LDAP, accepts and encrypts security reports for projects. The exact setup and nature of this system is being discussed, primarily with members of the subversion PMC. * Heartbleed happened: see https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/heartbleed_fallout_for_apache * Two members of the infrastructure team attended Apachecon NA 2014 and had a few community sessions with committers to hear their concerns and attempt to address them. Also met with Cloudstack members to discuss their widely publicized proposal for additional infrastructure needs surrounding project builds. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] Due to a new pluggable transparent mechanism allowing users to store certain columns in RDBMS in an encrypted form, Apache Cayenne was required to classify themselves in order to compliant with US export regulations. Unfortunately, the ASF crypto page has been "outdated" for awhile concerning the new process; I advised them to continue with the old process but I will work on updating the page to reflect the current required (and hopefully more streamlined) process. There was a long, but useful thread regarding the iCLA and its applicability with non-copyrighted material (usually since the creator is a US government employee). The end-result is the general consensus that this is a non- issue. JIRA questions are being handled in a timely fashion. No open issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- 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 March. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. March 2014 1 Support question 2 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 8 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 1 [traffic-server] 3 [website] (closed, not issue) 2 [httpd] (closed, not issue) 1 [couchdb] (complete) 1 [syncope] (in progress) 4 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 2 [hadoop] 1 [geronimo] 1 [httpd] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi] The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift. Releases Version 1.5.1 was released on 2/27/2014. Version 1.4.5 was released on 4/03/2014. Activity The mailing lists have been active. The dev list has increased by 16 subscribers to 231, and the user list has increased by 25 subscribers to 363. In March 2014, we again surpassed our previous record for number of commits per month. Testing is still ongoing for 1.6.0 and we have not begun voting on its release yet. Community Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014. Over recent months we have engaged in much discussion regarding codifying our bylaws, which has resulted in [1]. The initial version has been approved by vote [2]. Since there was majority, but not resounding approval, we are in the process of making clarifications and adjustments. It is largely a recording of our previously accepted practices, with a few exceptions, one of which is that we have added some structure around release planning that we hope will tighten our release process for major releases. Also, we look forward to the first ever Accumulo Summit on June 12th [3]. [1]: http://accumulo.apache.org/bylaws.html [2]: http://s.apache.org/YSn [3]: http://accumulosummit.com ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans] Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems. Releases: * June 17th, 2013: ACE 1.0.0 release. Statistics: * Last committers added: March 27th, 2012 * Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013 * Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 months: 94 msgs (previous 3 months: 98 msgs) * Commits for last 3 months: 56 (previous 3 months: 120) Activity: * We are in progress of creating a new release for ACE. * Work on enabling baselining support in preparation of the release. * Large performance improvements after extensive profiling. * Reviewed and closed a lot of issues. Presentations: * Continuous Automated Deployment with Apache ACE at ApacheCon NA 2014, April 8th ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino] Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Community: * The development and user lists continue to stay active. * The Debate over the inclusion of the hawt.io web console in the ActiveMQ 5.9 release had been resolved. It has been removed in the 5.9.1 release and the upcoming 5.10. Development: * An ActiveMQ 5.10 release is being prepared. * The project moved to the new svnpubsub way to publish distros (INFRA-7539) Trademark / Branding Status: * Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant /w TM policies * Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance Releases: * Apache ActiveMQ 5.9.1 - 4/4/14 * Apache Apollo 1.7 - 3/10/14 ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru] Apache Airavata is a software framework to construct, execute, and manage long running applications and workflows on distributed computing resources. == Releases == No releases were made during this reporting period. The community is working towards version 0.12 which got delayed due to major refactoring in integrating with Apache Thrift for public API’s and internal component CPI interfaces. The latest Apache Airavata version (0.11) was released on January 1st 2014. == Activity == The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high. == Community == Airavata has successfully engaged Google Summer of Code students in previous years and continuing to be attractive this year as well. 5 students have submitted proposals which are currently in review. In addition, the PMC has voted on a new architecture mailing which has worked out well. There is a sudden increase of volunteers who are actively taking part in architecture discussions. These volunteers previously had trouble to keep up with dev list traffic. We hope to recruit few of these active contributors into the PMC. == Committer/PMC Changes == During this reporting period, there are no changes to PMC. Last member was added on July 24th 2013. The PMC has voted on diverging from PMC=Committers to lowered the entry barrier. This has enabled the PMC to vote in 3 committers in past couple of months. We hope the committers use these as a stepping stone, feel motivated to hangout and get voted into the PMC. The community remains vibrant and we constantly are on the looks for new PMC members and committers. Airavata has migrated to git (with a mirror in github) which seem to resonate well with new contributors. We are yet to unleash this enthusiasm into code contributions. == Other Issues == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema] Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. Project Status -------------- Allura graduated to a Top Level Project last month. We, with infrastructure, have moved our resources out of the incubator. A press release was issued, and there has been coverage on a few other media websites as well. Community --------- * Dave Brondsema and Wayne Witzel presenting about Allura at ApacheCon * There is a small increase in user activity (often on IRC) as people find out about Allura and try it out. * Project development continues at a moderate pace. * No new committers or PMC members since TLP formation (Apr 2014) Community Objectives -------------------- We would like to find and encourage new contributors to Allura. We also want to explore if other Apache projects would be interested in using Allura. We need to move our tickets from SourceForge to the Allura self-hosted site. Releases -------- Last release was Feb 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes] Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. Releases * No releases done this quarter. Project update * The Aries Subsystem implementation now works on Apache Felix 4.4.0. * Discussion held about decoupling Subsystems from Blueprint. * Discussion held about the process of applying Github pull requests. JIRA Issues * Issues created: 26 * Issues resolved: 8 Community * PMC: No changes. The last PMC member was added on 28th July 2013. * A number of issues originally filed as Github Pull Requests have been applied to the Apache Aries codebase. There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino] ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey] ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang] Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop Clusters. Project Status: * Planning for integration with Apache Kafka to replace Chukwa Collector * Abstract submitted to Hadoop Summit for Machine Learning Algorithm to analyze Hadoop metrics. * Upgrading to JDK 7. Releases: * Last Release was 0.5.0, published Jan 26, 2012 Community: * The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013 * The last Chukwa committer addition: Oct 16, 2013 Mailing lists: * 99 subscribers on dev * 169 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar] ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux] Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. STATUS Past releases have been voted (noted below). Future/current releases also following vote policy (also noted below). Positive discussion to enhance release tooling to restore the ability to release with speed. Community is loving the new Github integrations: high fives to infra. COMMUNITY Cordova welcomed the following new committers: * Archana Naik * James Long * Mark Koudritsky * Josh Soref RELEASES * cordova@2.8.1 ............. http://s.apache.org/hnP * cordova@2.9.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/cyo * cordova@3.0.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/Y82 * cordova@3.1.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/ICo * cordova@3.2.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/9Q9 * cordova@3.3.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/VvP * cordova@3.4.0-0.1.3 ....... http://s.apache.org/MgN * cordova-plugman@0.20.2 .... http://s.apache.org/MgN * cordova-plugman@0.21.0 .... http://s.apache.org/gwx * cordova-cli@3.4.1-0.1.0 ... http://s.apache.org/ixv * cordova-plugman@0.21.0 .... http://s.apache.org/ixv * cordova-ios@3.4.1 ......... http://s.apache.org/ixv ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin] ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills] Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop. General: The Crunch community has been steadily fixing issues for the last quarter, with 48 issues filed and fixed since the last release in December 2013, which means it's just about time for a new release. Since our last report we dramatically improved the quality and depth of the user guide [1] and getting started information [2] for the project on our website, and we have a proposal for the board to approve a new PMC chair for the project. We have also added one new PMC member since our last report. [1] http://crunch.apache.org/user-guide.html [2] http://crunch.apache.org/getting-started.html Releases: Last releases were 0.9.0 and 0.8.2, both made on December 17th, 2013. Community: Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014. Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp] Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using front-end programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. Releases: 2.6.12 2.6.13 2.7.9 2.7.10 3.0.0-milestone2 Committer/PMC: One committer added this period (Andriy Redko) and one is being voted on now One PMC member added this period (Andrei Shakirin) Community update: There has been a lot of work on trunk to get 3.0.0 out the door. We did a second milestone release which resulted in an influx of issues as people started trying out the new things. An external party sent a note to the security@apache list and our private list to describe a potential DOS attack. We worked with them to clarify the issue, create a test case, ad debug/fix the issues. As a result, two new CVE’s were issued. The 2.7.11/2.6.14 releases (voting now, out shortly) will fix the issues and the CVE’s (along with 2 other CVE’s from last reporting period) will be made public at that point. There was a note sent privately to a couple of the PMC members about the wording of the JAX-RS compliance with the JCP spec. This was mostly due to the lack of TCK access for the latest JAX-RS 2.0 TCK. We worked with that person to clarify the statement about lack of TCK access is the main reason for lack of official compliance. The lack of stability in the Jenkins build farm is an ongoing concern. Unfortunately, many of the Jenkins errors are being ignored due to the issues with Jenkins causing a lot of wasted time. Also, turn around from Jenkins takes a lot longer than expected due to the large build queue that seems to always be there. Not sure if additional build slaves are in the plans or not. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren] The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects: o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database Definition (DDL) files. o Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data persistence. o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java. == Status == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Activities over the last quarter a) Matthew Adams joined the PMC in January. b) The Derby Community is testing and voting on a 10.10.2 bug fix release c) The Derby Community is adding features and fixes for a 10.11 feature release d) The DB community has voted to use svnpubsub to publish project release artifacts e) The community continues to log and fix bugs, and ask and answer questions in the Derby, JDO and Torque subprojects. === Community === No PMC changes since January 2014. No new committers since August 2010. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou] Apache Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular clouds. It also provides an implementation of DMTF CIMI, and tools around that API to help make it more easily consumable. -- Releases/Development -- 1.1.4 - in progress 1.1.3 - 2013-04-22 1.1.2 - 2013-03-13 1.1.1 - 2013-02-13 1.1.0 - 2013-01-15 -- Overall activity in the past quarter -- There has been relatively little activity this quarter though there are three major contributions on the mailing list - a new PACI driver [1], a new implementation of the OpenStack driver and a new vCloud driver [2]. I will reach out for reviews from folk. -- Last committers and PMC members elected -- Change of PMC chair 29 May 2013 (Marios S. Andreou takes over from David Lutterkort) Tomas Sedovic (August 2012) and Dies Koper (December 2012) voted in as committers. Dies Koper was voted into the Deltacloud PMC in July 2013. all the best, marios [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201403.mbox/%3C532CB8D7.4030700%40gmail.com%3E [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201404.mbox/%3Cab47e6a1fd594105880e8965646af0d0%40mmambx3.global.ad%3E ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot] ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor] Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators. Development - Released XBean 3.17 on April 4th, 2014. - Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) has slowed down. Community - The traffic on the user mailing list was low. - No new PMC members. The last new PMC member was added in March 2013. - No new committers. The last new committer was added in March 2013. Board-level issues None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas] Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. The YARN execution platform continues to evolve by generalizing from the specific requirements of the MapReduce framework. As one prominent example, a development branch implementing a more general application history server (YARN-321) merged to trunk and the 2.x release series. The operability and robustness of the platform is also improved by recent attention to failover and recovery in the ResourceManager and NodeManager components (e.g., YARN-1336, YARN-1815). The HDFS subproject also merged two significant development branches to trunk: rolling upgrades (HDFS-5535) and ACLs (HDFS-4685). Improvements in the Common RPC layer, short-circuit reads, and 'hedged' reads (HDFS-5776) evolve Hadoop storage toward more heterogeneous workloads and architectures. RELEASES - hadoop-2.3.0 @ 2014-02-20 - hadoop-2.4.0 @ 2014-04-07 COMMUNITY (+ committer Haohui Mai @ 2014-02-11) (+ committer Vinayakumar B @ 2014-03-04) (+ committer Xuan Gong @ 2014-03-13) (+ branch-HADOOP-10388 Binglin Chang @ 2014-03-13) (+ branch-HADOOP-10388 Wenwu Peng @ 2014-04-07) auth: 88 committers (including branch), 44 PMC members The last addition to the PMC was Bikas Saha 2013-10 ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack] HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION None RELEASES 0.94.13 - 11/07/2014 0.94.14 - 11/25/2013 0.94.15 - 12/29/2013 0.94.16 - 01/20/2014 0.94.17 - 02/25/2014 0.94.18 - 03/24/2014 0.96.0 - 10/19/2013 0.96.1 - 12/16/2013 0.96.1.1 - 12/20/2013 0.96.2 - 04/03/2014 0.98.0 - 02/16/2014 0.98.1 - 04/06/2014 COMMITTERS We added the following new committers: Liang Xie l(liangxie) of Xiaomi Honghua Feng (fenghh) of Xiaomi PMC Anoop Sam John (anoopsamjohn) of Intel COMMUNITY We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on: At Facebook in NYC 10/29/2013 [0] At Continuuity in Palo Alto 02/10/2014 [1] At Ancestry.com in San Francisco 03/12/2014 [2] BOF in Amsterdam before Hadoop Summit [3] We are getting ready for hbasecon2014, May 5th, in San Francisco [4] STATS 35 committers [5] 971 subscribers to the dev list (Was 930 at last report) 2172 subscribers to the user list (Was 2093 at last report) 0. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/135434632/ 1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/163139322/ 2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/160757912/ 3. http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Summit-Community-Amsterdam/events/167306932/ 4. hbasecon.com 5. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik] 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 32 podlings currently under incubation. * Community New IPMC members: Rob Weir Sean Owen People who left the IPMC: (None) * New Podlings (None) * Graduations The board has motions for the following: (None) The following graduations have been approved by the previous board meeting but haven't been recorded in the incubator report: Tajo Olingo Allura * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: March 13 Phoenix 2.2.3-incubating It took 2-10 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive. Release VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Phoenix 2.2.3-incubating Mar 7 Mar 13 6 * Miscellaneous * A proposal for Stratosphere: an open source system for parallel data analysis has been submitted * A proposal for Slider has superseded the former proposal for Hoya * A POC with Black Duck software and a few incubator projects has been submitted and actively discussed -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Not yet ready to graduate No release: NPanday ODF Toolkit Samza Community growth: NPanday ODF Toolkit * Did not report, expected next month Celix DeviceMap Ripple ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Aurora DataFu MetaModel NPanday ODF Toolkit Phoenix Samza Stratos Usergrid VXQuery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- 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 to address in the move towards graduation: 1. First release, progress being tracked in ticket AURORA-147 2. Establish a consistent development process and release rhythm. 3. Expanding the community and continuing to add new committers. 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? Latest Additions: * PMC addition: Mark Chu-Carroll, 2014-02-03 Jake Farrell, 2014-01-23 * Contributor addition: Mark Chu-Carroll, 2014-01-14 Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 296 (includes initial import) * Resolved: 141 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 624 messages * issues 503 messages * @reviews 1499 messages How has the project developed since the last report? - Jira issues have been imported to issues.apache.org - Documented contributing guide and committers workflow - Automating release workflows and preparing for our first release candidate Date of last release: - No releases as of yet. Targeting first release within the next couple weeks. Signed-off-by: [X](aurora) Jake Farrell [ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman [ ](aurora) Chris Mattmann [X](aurora) Henry Saputra -------------------- DataFu DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce. DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Building ASF community 2. Release 3. Remaining incubator paperwork 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? A talk was given at an Apache Pig meetup held on March 14th. A talk is scheduled to be given at ApacheCon in Denver on April 7th. Jian Wang accepted the invitation to become a committer. How has the project developed since the last report? Two new Jiras have been filed and received patches. Date of last release: None. Third month of incubation. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-02-22 Signed-off-by: [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning Shepherd/Mentor notes: Justin Mclean (jmclean): Relative new podling yet to make a release. One mentor is active on public mailing list no obvious issues that need attention. -------------------- MetaModel MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finalize 4.1 release to demonstrate new functionality and evolution within Apache 2. More contributors to increase diversity of the community 3. Determine approach to technical documentation across different software versions 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? We finished our first release and are seeing some initial interest from users. Mostly there are interactions to add new features or connectivity to new types of datastores. For instance, it has been proposed to look into building connectivity to semantic web technologies, iRods, Apache Phoenix - and within the contributors group there has been some focus on adding HBase and Cassandra support. Discussions about community by-laws are not very active at this point. It does not seem to be top-of-mind for most community members, and also shepherd/mentor notes from January 2014 indicate that this is not important right now. We're improving on the point of registering JIRA issues and running patches through the review board. By now this is the approach taken every time, unless a commit is found to be very trivial. Still the core group of developers seems a bit small, but by focusing on broader connectivity and keeping the releases coming, we think we can attract a larger community to the project. How has the project developed since the last report? Apache MetaModel 4.0.0-incubating was released on Jan 21. We are working on new features for a 4.1 version. The 4.1 version will represent the point in time where Apache MetaModel starts to show significant new functionality when compared to the old eobjects.org MetaModel project. A new module for providing easy Spring framework integration has been implemented. Finishing touches are being made to a new module for connecting to Apache HBase. Various API changes are being planned and discussed. Many bugfixes and performance improvements has been implemented. Date of last release: Jan 21, 2014 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? June 2013 Signed-off-by: [X](metamodel) Henry Saputra [X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar [X](metamodel) Matt Franklin [X](metamodel) Noah Slater -------------------- NPanday NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. In previous reports, we indicated that there was a regression that blocked releasing the next version. This has now been resolved, and the only thing that stands in the way is sufficient cycles to push it out. There have been a small number of users (not yet committers) who've stepped forward to help test when that happens, which might help build some much needed momentum. However, as before, it's still a concern whether sufficient release votes could be found as many of the existing PPMC are inactive. The last release was made on 16 May 2011. The steps that have been identified are: - apply patches that have been contributed recently - convert the website to svnpubsub so updated documentation can be published - perform the release steps The NPanday automated builds have been impacted by changes to the Windows build infrastructure again, but this is probably something that needs to be worked around on our end. Signed-off-by: [ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher -------------------- ODF Toolkit Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community in terms of committers 2. Have regular releases 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing project Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We've been struggling to get 3 +1 IPMC votes for our latest release candidate. We're stuck at two +1 votes. How has the community developed since the last report? We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably conduct a release vote. How has the project developed since the last report? We've been trying to get a release out since February 11th. Date of last release: 2013-06-22 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov -------------------- Phoenix Phoenix is an open source SQL query engine for Apache HBase, a NoSQL data store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying and managing HBase tables using SQL. Phoenix has been incubating since 12/11/2013. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1) Make our customers successful and prove value of Phoenix+HBase over other alternatives 2) Attract new committers and continue to get contributions from existing committers to the project 3) Figure out a bundling strategy with HBase so that Phoenix is pre-installed in HBase distributions. 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? Continued growth of user/dev traffic on email list. James Taylor is giving a talk on Apache Phoenix at ApacheCon. How has the project developed since the last report? * First release has been completed. * Vote is in progress on general list for our second and third releases. * Work in parallel on next point releases has already begun. Date of last release: March 13, 2014 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new committers or PMC members, but a discussion has begun to add a new committer Signed-off-by: [ ](phoenix) Lars Hofhansl [X](phoenix) Andrew Purtell [ ](phoenix) Devaraj Das [ ](phoenix) Enis Soztutar [ ](phoenix) Steven Noels Shepherd/Mentor notes: John Ament (johndament): Phoenix is a newer podling, however they are growing quite fast. While there were some release issues, those were resolved quite quickly on the general list and new releases cut quickly. Based on this I would strongly recommend that the podling consider graduation sooner than later. Most of their status report is complete as well. -------------------- Samza Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on infinite streams of data. Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Release a version of Samza. 2. Pull in at least one more committer. 3. Building expertise in the community. 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? Community development has been strong. Our mailing list saw an all-time high in March of 275 emails. Collectively, March and February had more emails than all prior months. How has the project developed since the last report? The project is developing well. We're trying to stabilize the codebase, and have our first release. JIRA information: Period Created Resolved January 2014 24 18 February 2014 27 26 March 2014 51 38 Date of last release: Currently in the process of beginning first release. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? March 17th, 2014 Signed-off-by: [X](samza) Chris Douglas [ ](samza) Arun Murthy [X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik -------------------- Stratos Stratos will be a polyglot PaaS framework, providing developers a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable applications, and IT providers high utilization rates, automated resource management, and platform-wide insight including monitoring and billing. Stratos has been incubating since 2013-06-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Resolve name search issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-45 2. Community diversity 3. Start Graduation vote Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The Stratos PPMC would be glad if the name search issue could be resolved soon. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-45 How has the community developed since the last report? Six new committers & PMC members have been added to the project. (In Stratos, committers are also invited to join the PMC). Community members have written several blog posts. Lakmal Warusawithana was unanimously elected as the potential Stratos PMC chair. How has the project developed since the last report? Stratos has developed a very active community. Community diversity was a concern during the last report as well, and it is being addressed by bringing in a number of non-WSO2 committers & PPMC members. There is lot of interest expressed from & participation from many people. A single Stratos distribution with multiple profiles has been created. The team is also working on creating a simple VM which will allow people to easily try Stratos out. This will bring down the barrier to entry most potential contributors are facing right now, since setting up Stratos is a bit tedious right now. The project is actively working towards further diversification by attracting more non-WSO2 contributors. The domain stratoslive.com has been donated by WSO2 to the Stratos PMC. The project seems ready for graduation. A draft resolution towards graduation has been prepared & is being reviewed. The community is thinking about starting a graduation vote in the near future. Date of last release: 2014-02-27 - Stratos (incubating) 4.0.0-Alpha (Developer preview only) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2013-03-31 Signed-off-by: [x](stratos) Afkham Azeez [ ](stratos) Anthony Elder [ ](stratos) Chip Childers [ ](stratos) Marlon Pierce [ ](stratos) Mohammad Nour [X](stratos) Noah Slater [X](stratos) Suresh Marru -------------------- Usergrid Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database (Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers. Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the Usergrid community 2. Further embrace the Apache methodology including using Apache infrastructure to move Usergid forwards 3. Make our first incubating release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? There are currently some issues with regards to licensing of existing Usergrid code. The community is however aware of this and are working towards suitable replacement(s). How has the community developed since the last report? The dev@ mailing list has seen increased amounts of traffic in recent months. As of close of March there are 55 subscriber to dev@. Individual posts to dev@ are shown below. Jan --> 113 Fed --> 106 Mar --> 179 How has the project developed since the last report? We have addressed a number of release dependent issues. We continue to work towards these issue with the aim of having our first incubating release soon. Date of last release: Usergrid has not yet made an incubating release. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? The Usergrid PPMC elected Shawn Feldman (sfeldman) to join the PPMC on Mon, 17 Mar 2014. Signed-off-by: [ ](usergrid) Dave Johnson [X](usergrid) Jake Farrell [ ](usergrid) Jim Jagielski [X](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney [ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende -------------------- VXQuery A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor. VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06. As stated in the last report, there are no formal issues blocking graduation. While not a formal requirement, the current plan is (still) to do a second incubator release before graduation (the reasons to do this have not changed). 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? No change. How has the project developed since the last report? There has been a lot of progress - improving the performance of the system, and on - running VXQuery on a cluster. For most tests that we are running now, we see near-linear speed-up and scale-up. Source code has been moved from svn to git. The second (and hopefully last) incubator release is being finalized. Date of last release: 2013-12-06 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Marvin Humphrey was added to the PPMC as a mentor in November 2013. Steven Jacobs was elected as a committer in September 2013. Signed-off-by: [x](vxquery) Anthony Elder [x](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann [x](vxquery) Marvin Humphrey [ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana [ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood] Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked objects architectural pattern == Community == Mailing list activity has been steady; user mailing list subscriptions continue to increase linearly month-on-month. A number of the committers are meeting up in Milan 2014 [1] to discuss future evolution of Isis framework. An open invitation to others in the community has also been made [2] (though realistically given the size of the community we don't expect very much if any take-up). Any significant discussions made in Milan will of course be taken back to the dev mailing list to ensure full involvement of other committers not present. We are signed up for Google Summer of Code 2014 [3], and have had two submissions. One of these is very good and there's a very good chance (based on our experience in GSOC last year) that this project will go ahead. == Committers and PMC == There have been no changes to the committers or PMC this quarter * last committer added: Oscar Bou, 19 Aug 2013 * last PMC change: Oscar Bou, 19 Aug 2013 == Activity == Isis continues to be developed steadily, and this quarter was noteworthy for the release of a significant major open source application (Estatio [4]) based on Isis. As mentioned in previous status reports, much of Isis' development over the last two years has been in support of building Estatio, for and on behalf of Eurocommercial Properties [5]. ECP have committed to continue funding through 2014, with new features planned that build upon Isis' support for Restful Objects spec [6]. (This will be one of the topics of conversation in Milan). == Releases == This quarter we made two releases, v1.4.0 on 11 Mar 2014, and a follow-up patch release v1.4.1 on 14 Mar 2014 [7]. == Issues == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ISIS/IsisCon+2014 [2] http://markmail.org/thread/hbjp7jl5pkodnowo [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 [4] https://github.com/apache/isis [5] http://www.eurocommercialproperties.com/ [6] http://restfulobjects.org/ [7] http://markmail.org/thread/2lchs4akfurvhhpe ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles] The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an advanced enterprise mail server. ISSUES There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. RELEASES No new release (last release done on 19 March 2013). OVERALL ACTIVITY Work has been done on Hupa (Web Mail) and mime4j. We had patch and submitted by users and discussion on the mailing lists. COMMUNITY No new committer (Last committer was voted on 30 of Nov 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). ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer] A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API. Project Status -------------- jclouds has carried out one successful release (1.7.1) in the last quarter and is currently in the process of releasing 1.7.2. A lot of work has also gone into overhauling the jclouds website, the new version of which is now live. The developer and user community is active, with an increasing number of submissions from outside the usual committer group, and sustained activity by the core team. The PMC is still looking to grow the committer base and has identified some suitable candidates. Community --------- A slightly more detailed look at the project community. It should still be brief, issues to think about include: ''When was the last committer voted in?'' 2014-04-02 (Jeremy Daggett) ''When was the last PMC member added?'' 2013-04-29 (initial composition of the PMC when jclouds entered the incubator) There is regular activity on both the user and dev lists. Responses to questions are generally fast, with multiple community members contributing. Community Objectives -------------------- What are the projects main plans and expectations for the community in the next period? * Onboarding and mentoring new committers * Encouraging involvement and contributions by vendors of supported providers * Improving the user and new developer experience through revamped documentation * Finishing ongoing architectural changes in preparation for the next major version * Evaluate Google Summer of Code proposals and help students begin their projects Releases -------- Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter? * 1.7.1 (2014-02-11) * 1.7.2 (ongoing) ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne] == Project Description Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data applications based on W3C and community standards. == Issues There are no issues to raise with the board. == Releases Jena 2.11.1 released on 23/01/2014. == PMC PMC member last added: 26 January 2013 Committer last added: 16 August 2013 == Activity dev@ list: ~ 200 messages a month users@ list: ~ 200 messages a month == Community news = Contribution The project has received a significant contribution from Cray of code to work with RDF data on Hadoop. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-666 The project is assessing whether full IP-clearance process for this contribution is appropriate. = Google Summer of Code The project is interested in running 2 GSoC projects this year. We received more interest than could be met; the number of mentors is the limiting factor. = Release Frequency The project original planned to release roughly 6-monthly but in practice has releasing nearer to 3-monthly. We're now backing-off a little to try to aim for regular 6-monthly releases if there are no major bug fixes needed. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley] The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. JMeter 2.11 was released on Jan 05 2014. The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter developers. Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by the committers. There have been no committers added since October 2011, when Philippe Mouawad was added. There are a few regular contributors who may be suitable candidates for committership, pending discussion by the PMC. There have been no changes to the PMC since it was established in October 2011. The JMeter Twitter account has 632 followers as of April 03 2014. There are no board level issues at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos] == Project Description JSPWiki is a Java-based wiki engine == Anything the board should be aware of? There are no Board-level issues at this time. == Releases / Development Last release on 1st Feb, 2014 As an effect of releasing 2.10.0, we've had several JIRAs raised, accompanied by their corresponding patches, 5 of them already on trunk. A 2.10.1 release is being discussed at dev@jspwiki.apache.org, which should fix a couple of issues found after 2.10.0; this release will also add the ability of loading plugins from an outside directory. Aside from this, there is work in progress on a new template / UI for JSPWiki and on having portable binaries. == Community Last Committer: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013 Last PMC: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013 We asked one individual to join as PMC and committer, but the invitation was declined. One JSPWiki talk at ApacheCon, given by Siegfried Göeschl 2.10.0 release brought a rough 30% increase on activity at dev@j.a.o this period, with ~120 messages per month, with user@j.a.o also having a big spike this quarter. 89 (-3) people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 175 (+0) people subscribed at user@j.a.o ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams] Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers. [STATUS] We saw a good bit of activity around improving our processes and community this quarter, details below. [DETAILS] == Community == We saw a cascade of problems this quarter. Starting with a new Lab that failed to attain three binding votes, we realized that we actually don’t want that hurdle for new Labs and would rather just a pure lazy approval. So, we set about fixing our bylaws to approve labs with simple lazy approval. Unfortunately, the bylaws change requires a ⅔ approval vote which caused us to realize that we have too many inactive PMC members to achieve that success. This caused us to set about cleaning up the PMC roster by asking folks to voluntarily resign if they don’t feel they can be participate any longer - obviously, welcome to come back too. We believe that cleaning up the roster will allow us to get the bylaws in order and move forward. Jan Iversen gave a presentation on Labs at a Fast Feather session at ApacheCon. == Labs Statistics == - new: 0 - status changes (last 3 months): 0 - total number: 40 - active: 17 - idle: 14 - promoted: 3 - completed: 8 - labs with commits: panopticon, yay, penihip ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell] The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search engine library for Java. ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES Version 0.3.3 was released on 05 Aug 2013. We're working towards a new major release featuring C bindings, support for compiled extensions, and Clownfish as a separate product. Clownfish is the object system which Lucy is based on. ACTIVITY Development * Created new repos for Charmonizer and Clownfish sub projects. * Clownfish "explicit-dependencies" work is underway. Mailing lists User list subscribers: 91 (+1) Developer list subscribers: 66 (+0) Mailing list activity below average. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES No new committers in the last quarter. The last addition was on 15 Feb 2013. No new PMC members in the last quarter and since Lucy graduated from the incubator in March 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll] Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering and frequent pattern mining Project Status -------------- The project continues to have a large and active user base. While the developer base has continued to grow, there is a very active and healthy debate going on about where Mahout goes next. Please see the Issues section below for more details. Community --------- * Andrew Musselman was voted in as new committer. * No changes to the PMC in the reporting period. * The main issue concerning the community right now is the addition of new contributions from 0xData and the integration of Mahout with Spark. Community Objectives -------------------- Our goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. See the Issues section below for the debate in the community about our objectives. Releases -------- In addition to an ongoing debate on Mahout's future, the community is actively working on integrating Mahout with Scala/Spark, and bringing in new code and committers to update the core project. A lot of work on improving documentation has been done. The project has finished the move from the wiki to Apache CMS, redesigned the project website and is in the process of updating all pages. Issues ------ The Mahout community is at a crossroads in terms of where to go next. While the project has a broad number of users and interested parties, most committers are trying to maintain the code base on a purely part time basis, when the amount of work to sustain these users clearly points to it needing to be full time. Furthermore, much of our original code base is written for Hadoop MapReduce 1.0, which many in the community have come to realize is not well-suited for solving the kinds of problems that Mahout has set out to solve. There have been several lengthy discussions and prototypes going on to work out next directions along the lines of the Spark and 0xData contributions (there are numerous threads on the dev@mahout.a.o mailing list.) The PMC does not think this requires Board intervention at this time as the debate is, as far as we can tell, healthy. We do, however, expect that this debate will take some time to resolve and may mean we won't be shipping a 1.0 release any time soon. We will keep the Board apprised of our next steps as we work through the process. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly] Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build lifecycle. * General Information We have been making slow but steady progress on our compliance with the ASF source header policy. Of our current 105 release roots, we now have only 23 release roots that still report issues using the Apache Rat tooling. This is down 3 and 7 respectively compared to the last board report. One of the measures that we have been using for voting on releases is that the Rat report is either better or no worse than the previous release. Once we get more release roots compliant, we will configure Rat to fail those builds if they are no longer compliant. There has been no update to the LEGAL JIRAs concerning the confusion over the the requirements of LICENSE and NOTICE files in source control: LEGAL-26[4], LEGAL-27[5], LEGAL-31[6] and LEGAL-136[7]. * JDK8 The team has started to verify if Apache Maven and all underlying projects are JDK8 ready. We've checked more than 50% of all the release roots. All issues, either to be fixed by Oracle or by the Apache Maven Team, have been gathered under MNG-5551[1] with extra info on the wiki[2] We've spotted 2 blocking issues in the JDK which have already been fixed by Oracle. There's still 1 regression which is planned to be fixed for JDK9.[3] * New PMC Members * New Committers Mirko Friedenhagen (2014-03-17) * Releases * Core * Apache Maven (3.2.1) (2014-02-24) * Plugins * Apache Maven Jarsigner Plugin 1.3.1 (2014-01-07) * Apache Maven SCM Plugin 1.9 (2014-01-10) * Apache Maven GPG Plugin 1.5 (2014-02-25) * Apache Maven SCM Publish Plugin 1.0 (2014-02-03) * Apache Maven Release Plugin 2.5 (2014-03-05) * Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.12 (2014-03-13) * Apache Maven PMD Plugin 3.1 (2014-03-14) * Apache Maven Surefire Plugin 2.17 (2014-03-16) * Apache Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.17 (2014-03-16) * Apache Maven Jarsigner Plugin 1.3.2 (2014-03-23) * Apache Maven Reactor Plugin 1.1 (RETIRED) (2014-04-02) * Other * Apache Maven Shared Jarsigner 1.3.1 (2014-01-07) * Apache Maven SCM 1.9 (2014-01-10) * Apache Maven Plugin Testing 3.1.0 (2014-02-12) * ASF Parent POM 14 (2014-03-06) * Apache Maven Filtering 1.2 (2014-03-10) * Apache Maven Shared Utils 0.6 (2014-03-23) * Apache Maven Shared Jarsigner 1.3.2 (2014-03-23) * Apache Maven Parent POM 24 (2014-03-27) * Apache Maven Plugins Parent POM 25 (2014-03-27) * Apache Maven Shared Parent POM 20 (2014-03-27) * Apache Maven Skins Parent POM 9 (2014-03-27) * Security * Retired * Apache Maven Reactor Plugin (2014-03-24) * Apache Maven 2.2.1 (2014-02-18) * Apache Maven 2.0.11 (2014-02-18) Minimum Apache Maven version supported now is 3.0.5 [1] https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5551 [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+8+Upgrade [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=labels%20%3D%20apache-maven-found [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-26 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-27 [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-31 [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-136 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman] Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation across cluster applications. ## General ## The state of the project seems healthy, another two releases have been made since the last board report and continued increase in contributors and committers. ## Releases ## * Apache Mesos 0.17.0 (2013-01-23) * Apache Mesos 0.18.0 (2013-04-01) ## Community ## * Added 1 new committer and PMC members: Ian Downes (idownes) on 2013-03-20 * 300/165 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days. * 103/46 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days. * 144 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (February - April), with 4,940 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from Review Board and JIRA). * There were two talks on Mesos at ApacheCon which we generally felt was a big success. * Twitter hosted an Aurora/Mesos Frameworks meetup as well as a mini-conference where some members from the community talked about Mesos (Tom Petr from Hubspot and Christina Delimitrou from Stanford). ## Issues ## There are no issues requiring board attention at this time but I'd like to apologize for getting this report submitted so late, I'll be happy to resubmit for next month as well. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny] Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. -- Community -- * No new committers (Last addition, october 2013) * One new PMC member : Jean-François Maury, voted in on April Users mailing list : Jan 2014 : 442 subscribers, Apr 2014 : 476 subscribers, Dev mailing list : Jan 2014 : 390 subscribers, Apr 2014 : 387 subscribers, -- Current activity -- Another very calm quarter, except on SSHD project. We have some bug fix pending on MINA, and do expect that a 2.0.8 release will come soon. * Apache MINA : * Very low activity * Apache FtpServer: * No activity if the past 3 months * Apache SSHd: * Guillaume has pushed many fixes again, and a release have been voted * Apache Vysper : * Nothing done * Apache AsyncWeb: * No activity. This project is still dormant at this point. -- Releases -- * SSHD 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 have been released. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek] The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. Community --------- * No new Committers (since November 2013) * No new PMC Members (since July 2011) * No new Contributors The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases, we discuss upcoming topics. -> Community business as usual (nothing special to report). Releases -------- MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report: * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Alpha 3 (7/January/14) * MyFaces Tobago 1.5.12 (10/January/14) * MyFaces Core 2.0.20, 2.1.14, 2.2.0 (13/January/14) * MyFaces Test 1.0.6 (17/February/14) * MyFaces CODI 1.0.6 (3/March/14) * MyFaces Core 2.0.21, 2.1.15(4/March/14) * MyFaces Core 2.2.1 (8/March/14) * MyFaces Core 2.2.2 (20/March/14) * MyFaces Tobago 1.0.41 (25/March/14) * MyFaces Tobago 1.5.13 (25/March/14) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Beta 1 (25/March/14) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Beta 2 (31/March/14) Wiki/CMS -------- CWiki -> CMS migration (almost done) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche] Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop datastructures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY Apache Nutch v1.8 was released on 17th March 2014 and contained many improvements, bug fixes and dependencies upgrades. There has been no releases of the Nutch 2.x branch but that branch is benefiting from the work being done on Apache GORA, partly by Nutch users and contributors. COMMUNITY Talat Uyarer joined the PMC and committers on 31/03/2014. Ferdy Galema became emeritus in Feb 2014. The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen] Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This reporting period was rather quiet. We've got some feedback and a couple of bug reports we want to fix within the next reporting period. We got three GSoC proposals that address some larger outstanding issues, so we're looking forward to working with them, though the ranking is still in progress. RELEASE No releases in this period. DEVELOPMENT Nothing important to report. COMMUNITY Nothing to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz] Briefly describe what your primary software product actually does. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Apache Olingo are libraries that implements the Open Data Protocol (OData). Apache Olingo serves client and server aspects of OData protocol. When did the project last make any releases? -------------------------------------------- The latest release is version 1.2.0 and was built on 2014-03-24. Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Main activity was the graduation of Apache Olingo. The project has finished all major and required tasks to leave incubator and to reach top level state. The project has a healthy community and many stakeholders. Mailing list and Jira do show constant traffic. Olingo community is working on support for OASIS OData 4.0 standard. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? ----------------------------------------------------- This is the initial PMC after graduation: * Florian Mueller * Dave Fisher * Christian Amend * Francesco Chicchiriccò * Jens Huesken * Michael Bolz * Stephan Klevenz * Tamara Boehm * Challen He * Chandan V A * Eduard Koller PMC and committer diversity --------------------------- PMC and committers build together an international team sponsored by various companies (Microsoft, SAP, Tirasa). ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi] DESCRIPTION Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd party frameworks or extra functionalities. MILESTONES Since last report, there have not been new components releases. CURRENT ACTIVITY Onami-Persist has been imported and new APIs had been discussed and new implementation was checked-in during last week. New Parent release COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation. Users community is quite silent. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce] Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: OCW development has been active since the last Board Meeting. Chatter on the lists has been mostly developer related, but there has been a good bit of activity none the less. The project is settling down from the graduation hustle and bustle and a release of 0.4 is planned before the March meeting. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 2013-10-11 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: 2013-06-21 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: 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 Work has started on implementation of new features for JPA 2.1. Support for Java 8 is in progress. Mailing lists continue to be active. The developer community had maintained the codebase stable, supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects. * Governance We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and PMC members. * Releases ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. == Releases == Version 3.0.0 has been released! Version 3.0.0 is the first release that uses Apache Wicket for roughly 50% of the UI. It is a HTML5 / Flash hybrid. The conference room is still Flash, everything else is in Wicket. Further advancing into HTML5 for the real-time components is planned as they become available. == Activity == There is constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits. The main focus in since the last report have been: - Release and review - Migrating to Maven Maxim Solodovnik has migrated parts of the complex ANT/Ivy based build process to Maven. Great effort has gone into this and we are excited to further advance our build process into a fully Maven enhanced build, dev, test and release process. == Community == There have been a number of GSoC candidates but no project was selected this year so far. Probably part of the problem was the lack of tailoring out some suitable project scopes where mentors and students equally confident can commit to. == Infrastructure == We are still waiting on some resources for a demo server (INFRA-6906). We would like to advance our project with Selenium Tests to establish a regression testing suite. The demo server would be an integral part of that enhancement. We are also keen on the result of the Infra’s team effort to create a code signing certificate from a trusted auth (INFRA-3991). == Board == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti] Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms and in dozens of languages. Issues for Board Awareness --------------------------- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-190 was opened to check whether we need to have uniform ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) statements for all the public websites of the Apache projects. Community Development/Outreach Progress --------------------------------------- The project added 3 committers (January: rbd; February: clarence_guo; March: astepukonis) since our last report in January. The new committers are involved in QA, development, localization. No new PMC members since November 2013 (fanyuzhen). The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a "minimal maintenance" mode. Important fixes get applied timely, but many improvements requested by the community have been in queue for months. The infrastructure team internal to the OpenOffice project is insufficient and cannot work effectively due to disagreements on the system administration policy. The best option seems to progressively standardize on the Infra processes and minimize the amount of "non-standard" sysadmin work needed. Experimental solutions to make website translation easier have been tested. The first ones are already online and we are engaging new volunteers. A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2 license is progressing on the OpenOffice Wiki. The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1, expected mid-April, will be fully released in 38 languages, 6 of which (Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai) are new with respect to version 4.0. OpenOffice co-organized a track (devroom) at FOSDEM, a major European free and open source software conference, in February 2014 and will have a dedicated track during ApacheCon Denver. The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite active, the marketing list is moderately active. Activity in social media is progressing well. The developer (dev) list remains very active. Community support forums remain popular with users, with an average of over 100 posts per day. In the previous report OpenOffice mentioned that the new policy announced for Apache Extras http://s.apache.org/hzJ would have been a major problem. But three months later no complaints were seen on the dev list. It must be considered, though, that in the past months the focus was mainly on consolidating the 4.1 release, so no external libraries like the ones hosted in Apache Extras were updated. Product/Project Development Progress ------------------------------------ Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0, a release with some major improvements including IA2 accessibility, OOXML compatibility, Mac OS X specific features (64-bit application), replacement of outdated Mozilla code with the NSS libraries, is currently in Release Candidate phase and is expected to be approved mid-April. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0-beta was officially voted and released for public testing on 10 March 2014. Activities that are still ongoing include: actions for an easier installation and availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a new localization process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a redesign of the build approach, dropping the historical dmake; implementation of export to OOXML formats. The download trend remains very strong, with about 95 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice as of 31 March 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler] The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to our ranks in February 2014. Eric Leleu stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in March 2014. 452 (429 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 157 (164 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Maruan Sahyoun is going to present PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe in Cologne on June 16th-17th. http://www.pdfa.org/event/pdf-days-europe-2014-2/ http://www.pdfa.org/2014/03/pdf-days-europe-2014-agenda/ Releases -------- Version 1.8.4 was released on 31st of January 2014 1.8.4 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. GSoC ---- John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr prepared 2 projects to be mentored at GSoC 2014 PDFBOX-1912 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1912 PDFBOX-1915 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1915 We received 4 proposals and the rating is ongoing, see timeline at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 Development: ------------ Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.5 will be released in the 2nd quarter. The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - modularization - replace/enhance the parser - refactor the underlying COS model - code cleanup - enhance rendering ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin] Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. ISSUES There are no issues requiring the board's attention. COMMUNITY The user and development lists dropped in activity from the last board report; but, still remain somewhat active. The community is looking to organize a meetup at ApacheCon NA. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES 08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member. RELEASES 01/07/14 - 0.23 released. ACTIVITY Activity has been mostly minor enhancements and bug fixes. We have yet to reintegrate the AngularJS branch. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter] Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the Incubator in January 2010. General Comments ---------------- The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention. Community --------- Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady. Committer/PMC Changes --------------------- No PMC member changes. Releases -------- Apache Shindig 2.5.1 was released on 2014-03-04. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia] Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala and Python as well as a rich set of libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics. Project status: --------------- The project recently became a TLP and continues to grow in terms of community size. We finished switching our infrastructure to spark.apache.org, including recently importing our JIRA instance. We completed the vote on a 0.9.1 minor release last week (it will be posted on April 9th), and we reached the feature freeze and QA point for our 1.0 release, which is coming in a few weeks. Apart from the new features coming in 1.0, a major update in the community has been a change towards a Semantic Versioning-like policy, where maintenance releases are clearly marked and API compatibility is preserved across all minor releases (i.e. all 1.x.y will be compatible). This has been put in action for both 0.9.x and 1.x. Releases: --------- Our last few releases were: Apr 9, 2014: Spark 0.9.1 Feb 2, 2014: Spark 0.9.0-incubating Dec 19, 2013: Spark 0.8.1-incubating Sept 25, 2013: Spark 0.8.0-incubating Committers and PMC: ------------------- The last committers and (podling) PMC members were added on Dec 22, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar] DESCRIPTION Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. It can be used to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational databases and enterprise data warehouses. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.99.3, released on November 6, 2013 from the sqoop2 branch. * Work is currently underway for the next release of Sqoop from the trunk, targeting version 1.4.5. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Dell Software is working on contributing a high performance Oracle connector to the project. This work is currently tracked via SQOOP-1287. * Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 branches. * A total of 27 issues have been resolved between the period starting from January 2, 2014 to April 1, 2014. * In the past three months, a total of 222 messages were exchanged on the user list and a total of 369 messages were exchanged on the dev list. COMMUNITY * Last addition to committers was on Feb 5, 2014 when Mengwei Ding joined as a committer. * Last appointment to Sqoop PMC was done on September 22, 2012 with Kathleen Ting joining the PMC. * Currently there are: - Total of 348 subscribers to the user list - Total of 145 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 19 committers - Total of 13 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * We are on-task to create a project DOAP file, as requested and required. * Alan Cabrera will be working on documentation * We assume that additional suggestions and improvements will result from the Annual ASF Members Meeting coming up, since that is the main use-case for Steve. COMMUNITY * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there has been no change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen] Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework. The Struts team made one release in the last quarter: * Struts 2.3.16.1 - security fix release (2014-03-02) In the last quarter we had to deal with a security vulnerability in commons-fileupload and a class loader manipulation issue. The issues were fixed in a timely manner, resulting in the release of Struts 2.3.16.1. Currently the team is about to release Struts 2.3.17, which will include a major number of enhancements and bug fixes. Within the reporting period the Struts 2 codebase has been successfully moved to git. The team decided to adopt a git-flow based workflow. In this period we saw slightly increased community activity on the mailing lists and issue tracker, along with increased development activity. No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter. Last PMC member addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on 2014-01-06. The employer our fellow PMC member Łukasz Lenart, the Poland-based company SoftwareMill, was kind enough to donate design resources to the Apache Struts project. We are currently in the process of new logo and unique web site design development. We have no issues that require board assistance at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi] Apache Tajo is a robust big data relational and distributed data warehouse system for Apache Hadoop. Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc queries, online aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on large-data sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and data flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and optimization opportunities. Project status: =============== The project recently became a TLP and continues to grow in terms of community size. We migrated our site and git repo to our TLP infrastructures. Recently, we are preparing the 0.8.0-alpha release. We freezed the features and have spent QA time in various contexts. We expect that we will release 0.8.0-alpha in next week. Release ========== Our last release was: * Nov 20, 2013: Tajo 0.2.0-incubating The last committers or PMC members elected =========================================== This is the initial PMC after graduation: Alex Karasulu Chris Mattmann Eli Reisman Henry Saputra Hyunsik Choi (chair) JaeHwa Jung Jakob Glen Homan Jihoon Son Jinho Kim Keuntae Park Owen O'Malley Roshan Sumbaly Sangwook Kim Yi Liu After graduation, we elected a new committer, Min Zhou . ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: 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 have made available the first beta build of the upcoming 5.4 release, 5.4-beta-3, on 2014-03-03, following a successful vote. 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. At this point we are primarily looking at fixing bugs (from our large backlog) and documenting the significant 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: * We have been unable to run builds on the Jenkins CI server for some time. We have been waiting for Uli to investigate. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi] Apache Tcl is an umbrella for efforts aimed at integrating the Apache HTTP Web Server with the Tcl programming language. Current projects are * Rivet * Websh Issues ====== There are no issues that needs the board's attention. Community ========= No new committers were added. Last committer and PMC member joined Apache/Tcl in Sept. 2012. Current number of subscribers to our active mailing lists are rivet-dev@ - 44 subscribers websh-dev@ - 19 subscribers Events ========= No significant events to be reported for both Rivet and Websh Releases ========== + Rivet released 2.1.4 on March 3rd. Fixes done in response to an issue opened after 2.1.4 release will probably be integrated in a new release soon. The PMC voted on March 25th to discontinue support for rivet 2.0 and deprecate it. Artifacts for such version of rivet were removed from distribution + Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after 3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell] Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. Project Status --------- The Apache Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with submissions from new contributors for bug fixes and client library improvements. Since our last report we have added two new PMC members, a new committer and are close to having a release candidate ready for our Apache Thrift 0.9.2 release. We have switched over to using the Apache CMS for our website from local content generation with nanoc and svn pubsub. A blog post was created detailing the new additions to the Apache CMS http://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/scaling_down_the_cms_to Community --- Latest Additions: * PMC addition: Ben Craig, 3.20.2014 Henrique Mendonca, 3.20.2014 * Contributor addition: Randy Abernethy, 3.17.2014 Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 80 * Resolved: 143 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 1828 messages * @user 170 messages Releases --- Last release: 0.9.1, Release Date: Aug 21, 2013 We are preparing for our 0.9.2 release candidate and estimate that it will be available within the next week. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle] What is Tika? ========================= Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies. Issues ========================= There are no issues that need the boards attention. Releases ========================= The last release (1.5) was made in February 2014. Since then progress has been steady on version 1.6 with a number of bug fixes and improvements. Community ========================= No new committers or PMC members were added since the last report. Prior to this the last new Committer and PMC Member was added in January 2014. Tika is well represented at ApacheCon NA with four talks from three different speakers (Jukka Zitting, Nick Burch and Annie Burgess). There is also plans to conduct a couple of Hackathon sessions during the conference. Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 293, 226 and 29 messages in February, March and April 2014, respectively. user@ was at 26, 35 and 1 messages, during the same timeframe. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom] Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid and Varnish in functionality and features. Issues ====== There are no issues that needs the board's attention. Community ========= No new committers were added since last report, leaving us with a total of 35 committers. We do however expect a number of new committers and PMC members to get voted on in the near future. Our last committer was added on 11/7/2013. Activity on mailing list is normal, and we are seeing normal, steady growth in mailing list subscribers: users@ - 416 subscribers (up 3.5% since last report) dev@ - 274 subscribers (up 4% since last report) In Jira, 222 new tickets were opened and 241 were resolved or closed since the last board report, which had 215 and 115 respectively. 450 changes were committed to our git repository from 39 contributors. The number of unique contributors is identical to last report (also 39). Events ====== At ApacheCon 2014, we are represented with a full day track dedicated to Traffic Server. In addition, the spring 2014 ATS Summit is being held at the same conference venue, Thursday and Friday. Many thanks to the ACNA organizers for helping us planning this summit! Dinners are planned for the community both on Wednesday night and Thursday night. Releases ======== One new release was made since last report, and it's worth repeating that all ATS releases are considered stable. Apache Traffic Server v4.2.0 (released 3/19/2014) The v4.2.x family of releases is also a LTS branch, and this release marks the EOL of all v4.1.x releases. The v4.2.x version will be supported until v6.0.0 is released, roughly May 2015, and we expect a number of releases to be made in the next year. Our normal release cycles continues of course, with the next stable release being v5.0.0. Upcoming releases include * Soon: v4.2.1, fixing a few critical cache related issues * May: v5.0.0, which starts our new major release cycle. The release of v5.0.0 will also see the end of life of the old v3.2.x releases. No further releases in the v3.2.x family is expected, we will make public announcements of this in the near future. We know the ASF is still running some servers on v3.2.x, and we'd be happy to provide resources to help a smooth migration to a newer version. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] Releases within this quarter: * WSS4J 1.6.14 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * Neethi 3.0.3 (RM - Daniel Kulp) * XmlSchema 2.1.0 (RM - Daniel Kulp) * WSS4J 2.0.0-rc1 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * WSS4J 1.6.15 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) Last releases for other subprojects: * Axiom : Dec 2012 * Woden : Feb 2011 Community and development: * Last committer addition - in 2011, Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013 * Due to lack of active development following sub-projects have moved to attic. 1. XML-RPC to 2. TCPMON 3. XmlSchema 1.4 - This is delayed till XmlSchema 2 based Axis2 release happen in near future. Development WSS4J - 147 commits by 3 committers. Axiom - 15 commits by 1 committer. Neethi - 9 commits by 1 committer. Xmlschema - 15 commits by 1 committer. Woden - 4 commits by 1 committers. Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters (Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos) * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * XmlSchema * Woden * XML-RPC Subprojects ----------- Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically requiring the board's attention this quarter. * Apache Woden Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification. * Apache Axiom Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree. * Apache XmlSchema Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing XML Schema. * Apache Neethi Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications. * Apache WSS4J Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson] Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications. ISSUES There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. RELEASES Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014. ACTIVITY We've created a new 2.x project in trunk and moved the existing codebase into a 1.x stable branch. The aim of 2.0 is to modularise the project structure so its easier for newcomers to develop against, and to make the build and deploy process simpler. COMMUNITY Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers] DESCRIPTION Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CURRENT ACTIVITY As this is an out of cycle report, and we just reported last month, this report does not include all of the typical elements. The CloudStack community has just held its Collaboration Conference in Denver, and would like to report that the event was a success. The fact that it was co-located with ApacheCon for the first time was a significant improvement on past events. Primarily, this is because it offered an opportunity for the CloudStack community to better integrate into the larger ASF family (and for ASF community members to learn more about CloudStack). We would like to thank the board, the executive officers and specifically Rich for his support. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the April 16, 2014 board meeting.