The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes August 20, 2014 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:35 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2q9a The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen joined at 11:09 Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Greg Stein Directors Absent: Sam Ruby Executive Officers Present: Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Jake Farrell Daniel Gruno joined at 10:41 Sean Kelly Lewis John McGibbney Shane Curcuru David Nalley joined at 11:22 Tom Pappas Henri Yandell joined at 11:06 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of July 16, 2014 See: board_minutes_2014_07_16.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] The last month has been on the quiet side, possibly owing to summer vacations. Nothing new to report from my end. While I didn't complete it in time for this meeting, I've picked up on working to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the board list, as discussed in June and July. B. President [Ross] I'd like to thank the board for their understanding during the last month as I dealt with personal issues at the expense of Foundation issues. I'm still somewhat behind but catching up. OSCON has been and gone. Unfortunately I was not able to attend as previously planned, however, there seems to have been no shortage of folks to step in and do the work necessary. A big thank you to all those who helped with the Booth (Shane Curcuru, Upayavira, Roman Shaposhnik, Justin Erenkrantz, J. Aaron Farr, Louis Suarez-Potts, David Nalley). Melissa makes a special mention of Dennis Hamilton who went above and beyond to help with the booth. Our D&O insurance has been renewed, with some difficulty completing the appropriate financial information (thanks to Sam who helped out here). EA contract has been renewed for another six months. No change to the terms. There was a significant effort from the Fundraising team, coordinated by Upayavira at OSCON. A full report has been submitted and while we need more time to see if we can deliver significant results from these efforts it is with great pleasure that I can report that we believe that a new sponsor will be reported next month as a result of their meeting with the team at OSCON. I believe fundraising is in a far better position today than it has been for some time. My thanks go to Upayavira for driving this. Please see the full report for details of the interactions at OSCON (a special thank you to Rich Bowen and David Nalley who supported many of these meetings). One of the areas that I have fallen behind on during my recent personal issues is the directed sponsorship policy requested by the CloudStack PMC. This is something I intend to address ASAP. However, VP Trademarks has agreed that the PMC should be allowed to manage its own marks in accordance with the trademark policies and VP Marketing has provided a marketing/promotional strategy to the PMC. Furthermore, I have agreed with Virtual that they will be able to track such directed sponsorships. It is my belief that the barriers CloudStack felt were present have been removed. All that remains is for the PMC to take advantage of this (admittedly, without a policy the PMC may be wary of making a proposal). Trademarks still continues to be a problematic area where our existing policies are limiting the effectiveness of our brand volunteers and PMCs. It is my belief that since Fundraising is now on track and will soon be delivering results from its restructuring and effective delegation model, I now hope to work closely with VP Brand Management in the coming months so that we can improve projects ability to manage their own brands in the same way that multiple people are helping on fundraising. Marketing, in conjunction with Brand Management and Fundraising has created a "Powered by Apache" mark. This will be a part of a broader attempt to raise awareness of the inclusion of our software in other software out there. Infrastructure continues to benefit from the energy of a new VP. David is building on the foundations laid by Sam and is delivering results. However, the greater level of direction provided to our infrastructure team has brought into question our ability to use contractors based in the US, it is believed that the IRS might classify them as employees. David continues to explore this since whilst we do not currently have any US based infra contractors we may be bringing some on-board soon. We are working with Virtual Inc. to evaluate the problem and identify a solution. There is no report from TAC at the time of writing. Melissa, however, reports that she has been assisting with preparations for ApacheCon EU. There have been some complications but she believes all blocks will be removed soon. Virtual have indicated that the Audit is currently at a standstill because of the limited amount of data available to the auditors. Setting up a call between myself, Chris and Sam to try and unblock this in September then a quarterly call after that. Finally please see Special Order B for the FY14-15 budget. I request that the board approve this budget which incorporates the three month interim budget approved in May. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] The Treasurer's office has worked with Virtual over the past month to transition more of the operational functionalities of the Treasurer role. In particular, Virtual is now responsible for handling operational monthly payments to contractors and for invoice and Bill remittance. Virtual has worked with VP, Fundraising, the EA and the President's Office to provide Current balances and sponsor funds analysis and projected income, which was used both by VP, Fundraising at OSCON for situational awareness to sponsors, and to feed into the President's 2014-2015 budget request. The Treasurer's Office worked the ASF Audit Lead and President to provide a retainer for our CPA conducting the ASF financial audit. Virtual now has guest access to WFS Financials both Checkings and Savings, allowing for statement download and for balance sheet generation. Access to Amazon Payments and PayPal have also been provided. Sam Ruby has started to populate Treasurer content at http://treasurer.apache.org/. D&O Liability Insurance was remitted and the Treasurer's Office is working with the EA and the President to process the D&O renewal. An issue regarding the ASF meeting the public funding test is being discussed amongst ASF audit participants and the President's Office and the Treasurer's Office in reference to a suggestion made during OSCON. The EA and President's Office and Treasurer's Office are discussing a review of disbursement of ASF credit cards, and expect a disposition soon that may include issuing new credits and moving to a new credit card provider. Virtual is now providing the income and expenses roll up for the Treasurer's Report. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Citizens Checking $382,921 Amazon Prime $11,489 Paypal - ASF $27,766 Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $863,916 Wells Fargo Savings $288,007 Total Checking/Savings $1,574,099 Income Summary: Public Donations $5,548 Sponsorship Program $100,000 Interest Income $24 Total Income $105,573 Expense Summary: Infrastructure $34,711 Publicity $10,455 Travel Assistance Committee $1,670 Treasury Services $7,500 General & Administrative $7,301 Total Expense $61,636 Net Income $43,936 D. Secretary [Craig] July was a busy month for secretary. 58 iclas, five cclas, and three grants were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] We have announced the schedule for ApacheCon Europe (Budapest, November 17-21, 2014) and registration is open. We currently have 118 people registered. We have also announced our keynotes, including Douglas Carswell, Member of Parliament (Great Britain), Hugh Howey, bestselling science fiction author, and David Nalley, VP of Infrastructure of the ASF. We are in the process of planning the less formal aspects of ApacheCon EU, including evening events, the ApacheCon Jam Sessions, Lightning Talks, Fast Feather Track, and so on. We have tentatively agreed to do ApacheCon North America in Austin, Texas, on the week starting April 12th. In the coming weeks we expect to sign contracts for that, and the CFP should be sent out in the next 30 days. This evening (August 20th) David Nalley and I are leading an evening session at LinuxCon North America, in Chicago, where CIOs and CTOs of local businesses will be attending to learn about the Apache Software Foundation, with an emphasis on sponsorship opportunities. This event is being covered out of the President's discretionary budget, in the absence of a fundraising budget at this time. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] A verbal report was provided, stating the Vice Chairman had nothing to report for the prior month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Rich] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Chris] See Attachment A B. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Sam] See Attachment B C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Ross] See Attachment C D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Greg] See Attachment D E. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Doug] See Attachment E F. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Jim] No report was submitted. @Jim: pursue a report for Celix G. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Bertrand] See Attachment G @Bertrand: ask for clarification on "partial release" H. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Greg] See Attachment H I. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug] No report was submitted. J. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Jim] See Attachment J @Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers, new PMC members K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Chris] See Attachment K L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Rich] See Attachment L M. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek / Ross] See Attachment M N. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Bertrand] No report was submitted. O. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Sam] No report was submitted. P. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Brett] See Attachment P Q. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett] See Attachment Q R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Chris] See Attachment R S. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug] See Attachment S @Doug: clarify release comment. T. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Greg] See Attachment T U. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Jim] See Attachment U @Jim: board report is a bit sparse; can this be improved for next report? V. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Rich] See Attachment V W. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Ross] See Attachment W X. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Sam] See Attachment X Y. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Bertrand] See Attachment Y Z. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Sam] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Doug] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Brett] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Chris] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Ross] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Jim] See Attachment AE @Jim: why is a certificate needed for release? AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Greg] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Bertrand] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Rich] See Attachment AH AI. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Rich] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Greg] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Doug] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Chris] See Attachment AM AN. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Sam] No report was submitted. AO. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Jim] No report was submitted. AP. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Ross] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AR. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Greg] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Jim] See Attachment AS AT. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Brett] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Ross] See Attachment AV AW. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AX. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Sam] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Rich] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Chris] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Bertrand] See Attachment BB BC. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Doug] See Attachment BC BD. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett] See Attachment BD BE. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Greg] See Attachment BE @Greg: pursue a proper board report BF. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Chris] See Attachment BF BG. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Ross] See Attachment BG BH. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Sam] No report was submitted. BI. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Rich] See Attachment BI BJ. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Jim] See Attachment BJ BK. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Bertrand] See Attachment BK Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache HTTP Server Project Management Committee WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee (PMC) of the Apache HTTP Server project has chosen by vote to recommend the removal of the persons listed immediately below from the PMC: Aaron Bannert Ben Laurie Chuck Murcko Doug MacEachern Erik Abele Joshua Slive (slive) Ken Coar (coar) Manoj Kasichainula Martin Kraemer Maxime Petazzoni (maxime) Ralf S. Engelschall Sander Striker Wilfredo Sanchez Yoshiki Hayashi Rasmus Lerdorf NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately above are relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the Apache HTTP Server PMC. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache HTTP Server Project Management Committee, was tabled. B. Approve the 2014-2015 FY ASF Budget Call for board approval of the May 2014 - April 2015 budget for the ASF (incorporates the Interim budget approved in Special Order G. of the 21 May 2014 meeting. INCOME Public Donations One-Time 2,400.00 PayPal 36,000.00 Amazon Payments 3,000.00 Car Program LLC 1,600.00 ---------- Total Public Donations 43,000.00 Sponsorship Program Platinum Sponsors 600,000.00 Gold Sponsors 130,000.00 Silver Sponsors 60,000.00 Bronze Sponsors 35,000.00 ---------- Total Sponsorship Program 825,000.00 Programs GSoC Mentor Stipends 19,500.00 GSoC Strato Mentor Stipends 1,500.00 GSoC Travel Reimbursements 4,400.00 ---------- Total Programs 25,400.00 Interest Income 3,600.00 ---------- 897,000.00 Expenditure Infrastructure Staffing 520,000.00 Training 17,500.00 Hosting 6,216.00 Hardware Replacement 70,000.00 Build Farm 60,000.00 Disks/Ram 20,000.00 ---------- Total Hardware 150,000.00 Service Contracts Dell 25,000.00 HP 5,000.00 ---------- Total Service Contracts 30,000.00 SSL/DNS Renewals 2,000.00 Third Party "Thank You's" 500.00 Travel AC Event 10,000.00 F2F Event 10,000.00 ---------- Total Travel 20,000.00 Total Infrastructure 746,216.00 Sponsorship Program Expense Fundraising Rep. at OSCON 3,700.00 Fundraising Rep. ApacheCon EU 1,450.00 ---------- Total Sponsorship Program Expense 5,150.00 Programs Expense GSoC Mentor Summit ASF Travel 3,800.00 GSoC Mentor Summit Srato Travel 2,200.00 ---------- Total Programs Expense 6,000.00 Publicity Outside PR Services 90,000.00 Press Releases 8,000.00 Travel 5,000.00 Consultant Expenses 2,500.00 Conference Participation 1,500.00 Conference Support 5,000.00 Conference Signage 4,500.00 Collateral Printing 2,500.00 Clipping Service 5,000.00 ---------- Total Publicity 124,000.00 Brand Management Register/Record Trademarks US 6,825.00 International 8,500.00 ---------- Total Register/Record Trademarks 15,325.00 Declarations/Renewal Fees 3,800.00 Register/Record TLPs US 16,250.00 International 15,000.00 ---------- Total Register/Record TLPs 31,250.00 Registrations of Apache Marks 25,000.00 ---------- Total Brand Management 75,375.00 Conferences Local Events & Hackathons 7,500.00 Travel 5,000.00 ---------- Total Conferences 12,500.00 Travel Assistance Committee Sponsored Attendees 50,000.00 ---------- Total Travel Assistance Committee 50,000.00 Treasury Services Tax & Audit 12,000.00 Software & Online Services 1,500.00 Virtual MSA One Time Fees 1,500.00 Monthly Staff Management 6,000.00 Monthly General Fees 34,200.00 ---------- Total Virtual MSA 41,700.00 ---------- Total Treasury Services 53,200.00 General & Administrative Office Supplies (Treasurer) 500.00 President Discretionary 5,000.00 Chairmans Discretionary 5,000.00 Executive Assistant 71,470.00 Legal Counsel Fees 19,000.00 Legal Discretionary spending 2,500.00 Licenses/Insurance 6,012.00 Bank Charges 3,725.00 Shipping 500.00 PayPal 100.00 ---------- Total General & Administrative 113,807.00 ---------- 1,191,248.00 -294,248.00 Special Order 7B, Approve the 2014-2015 FY ASF Budget, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records, report on dates Status: * Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter Status: * Jim: discuss service hosting issue (licensing, trademark, etc.) with SpamAssassin PMC. Status: They will report on this issue in their next report. * Shane: follow up Open Climate Workbench regarding expanding the user community Status: current report says they've noticed an uptick. I believe we can close this. * Doug: pursue a report for Buildr Status: A report was submitted this month. * Shane: Get River connected with comdev to recruit new blood Status: report identifies some forward steps and a new chair. I believe we can close this. * Rich: Ask Axis whether the community is really healthy? Seems Synapse is asking Status: * Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ] Status: * Greg: Any info on sub-projects? [ ActiveMQ ] Status: * Jim: Follow up with CXF and Commons to see how well they are communicating Status: Not done yet. * Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ] Status: * Greg: Six years seems too long between additions to the PMC. [ Directory ] Status: * Doug: Any thoughts on growing the dev community? [ Geronimo ] Status: Jarek started a discussion, resulting in a new PMC member. * Greg: pursue a report for Hive Status: * Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ] Status: * Brett: Clarify TODO [ jclouds ] Status: Done. * Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ] Status: * Brett: Please update report with PMC and committers. Also is there a plan for reaching compliance? [ Maven ] Status: Done. * Chris: pursue a report for OpenMeetings Status: * Brett: Has the SQOOP-1287 contribution been subject to the IP clearance Status: Done. * Chris: strike sentence re: driving force [ Tapestry ] Status: * Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ] Status: * Bertrand: Given the late report, request a report for next month [ Wink ] Status: request sent on July 16th but no report received 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:46 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@, treasurer@, comdev@, tm-registrations@, and board@) and following-up with appropriate personnel OSCON: • Setup booth, staffed it, and tore it down • As per usual, we had very heavy booth traffic Fundraising/Virtual: • Worked w/Virtual to obtain contact at AmEx for credit cards • Working with AmEx on obtaining information on credit card options • As of this writing, I’m awaiting further information from AmEx on the possibility of obtaining cards that are tied to the Foundation for financial responsibility, rather than to the primary card holder personally and the Foundation. • Participated in bi-weekly call with Virtual; working with Lynsey on current sponsors and invoicing procedures ApacheCon Europe: • In communications with Nick and Jan I re assisting with TAC (this should be in full speed by EOW/early next week • Participated in a conference call with a potential new vendor for European events • Introduced Angela to Christian Grobmeier for a possible collaboration for t-shirts for European events Trademarks: • Coordinating with Shane re TM issues • Created a trademarks tracking s/s – captured all of the trademarks issues (that I’m aware of) and sent to Shane – awaiting comments/further information from him MISC: • Misc changes and additions to the Lands’ End online store • Coordinated with Helene (our travel agent) to change the hotel reservation for the Infra F2F from Joe’s name to Rainer Jung (the res was non-cancellable and non-refundable) • Ordered Flowers for Ross and family; ordered gift card for Jake Farrell • EA contract renewed • D&O insurance renewal completed and submitted ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] trademarks@ continues as busy as ever, even during the summer with OSCON and several long-overdue vacations for myself, so both daily operations and process improvements are running slower than planned. Similarly, discussion on the backlog PODLINGNAMESEARCH escalated quickly during a week I was mostly offline, which led to some unfortunate responses. Thanks to Henri in particular for pulling together constructive criticism and opinions on the remaining open issues. I attended OSCON to help man the ASF booth along with our EA Melissa and a host of volunteers, including David Nalley, Justin, Upayavira, Rich, and especially Dennis Hamilton. Virtually everyone who visited the ASF booth was immensely thankful for the work we and all Apache projects do. The variety of questions from attendees was incredibly varied, everything from "Oh, you have more than one project" to "How much do you get paid for working at Apache" to "How can I get this Apache Foo bug fixed?" We've begun using tm-registrations@ as a working list to manage the details of Apache product name registration applications with the EA and counsel, and DLAPiper has begun using this list. I'm also working with DLAPiper to continue to push more of their responses to tm-registrations@ or trademarks@ wherever possible instead of vp-brand. Counsel have reported back on several legal issues related to registration applications or questions, needing additional direction for applications being made or planned that have been requested by Apache projects. Used board concall to host meeting with Sally and a third party alleging abuse of Apache trademarks by a third party in their hiring process. Interesting queries this week include a blogger asking permission to use logos; a new Hadoop & Spark conference asking for a long-term partnership; notice that OpenMRS has adopted a modified version of our trademark policy; and a request to look into third party use of Apache marks in a negative sense in AdWords. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] == Metrics == An impromptu discussion was held between myself, Rich, David, Roman and Jesus and Manrique from Bitergia about possibilities for using their metrics technology. After consideration and discussion with a sponsor, my conclusion is that that data is far more detailed than we need, and that the system already built by Daniel Gruno is very close to what we need, and is based upon the same data as I had considered using before I saw the details of what Daniel has produced. Hopefully, we can extract data from Daniel's system to produce an annual report, perhaps with quarterly or half-yearly intermediate reports. The aim here needs to be to identify the impact of the Foundation on the world, and thus the benefit that a sponsor's contribution is bringing about. The data should be used to show trends of decrease or increase that can be used as the basis of some commentary. The idea of a 'health of the community' report was suggested by a sponsor. It was recognised though that whilst this could be incredibly valuable, it could be quite challenging to put together in a useful way. It would be good, also, to find an appropriate way to send this annual report to prospects, as it might help them with their decision making. == Small Donations == Whilst not directly discussed much here at OSCON, I have considered further our possible use of Hopsie, and I am inclined to make use of their service. It does involve spending foundation money that could be used elsewhere. However, the amounts are small, and we will easily recoup it. More importantly, this could give us a relatively straight-forward means to provide greater opportunities for individuals to contribute to the ASF. In time, it could give us the ability to to launch campaigns with fixed budgets targeting individuals. In a way that might sound counter-intuitive, I do believe it important that we give individuals the opportunity to give to us should they choose to - we could do much better in this area. == Concalls and Sponsor communication == I discussed my quarterly concall idea with a sponsor. Her opinion was that every six months, and keeping it short, to 30 minutes, was likely to suit the target audience. She also suggested a 'sponsor' mailing list that we could use to push updates to sponsors. I have considered this previously. With a 'reply to sender' set, this could work well. == LinuxCon Dusseldorf == The idea arose in one of our conversations that we attempt to put on a "CIO Forum" at LinuxCon in Dusseldorf. We would invite CIO types to a presentation that explains the benefit of the ASF to the world and the benefits of sponsoring us. Rich will be there, and for me to get to Dusseldorf wouldn't be too expensive. Rich will talk with Angela to see if this is possible. [Rich: Joe Brockmeier and David Nalley think that we could still pull this off for Chicago. The conversation was with Leslie Hawthorne from Elasticsearch. I have passed this conversation to them for now, because I'm out of the office this week and can't really make much progress on that, as it would take valuable time away from drinking homebrew on the front porch. However, I will resume the conversation with Angela regarding Dusseldorf as soon as I'm back from vacation.] == Immediate Actions == [ ] Rich to discuss CIO Forum with Angela ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we are under budget with no payments due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally Khudairi finalized the “Powered by Apache” mark for Apache project logos (creative services donated by HotWax Media), which was launched during OSCON. Sally is awaiting signoff from VP Brand Management Shane Curcuru in advance of sharing with Apache Members and PMCs. She is also working with Shane on a blog post on corporate guidelines on engaging with the ASF, which will be part of a larger spotlight on ASF operations. The three month period of working with Apache CloudStack on project-specific marketing/promotional strategy and support has now terminated; Sally continues to engage with the project until an organization is selected to run the PR/marketing activity. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 30 July 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Exceeds 2 Million Code Commits - 22 July 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tez™ as a Top-Level Project IV. Informal Announcements: 7 items were tweeted on @TheASF, and is coordinating with the Linux Foundation on @ApacheCon to promote the event. V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with two TLPs to announce new milestone releases. 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 3 media requests, and coordinated several interviews during OSCON. The ASF received 576 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 335. Our monitoring media hits for CloudStack has yielded a total of 567 mentions this month vs. 1,089 last month. VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 3 write-ups by Gartner, 1 report by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 6 reports by Yankee Group, 6 reports by IDC, 4 write-ups by 451 Research, and 2 opinion pieces by RedMonk. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: we have promoted reminders for the CFP for ApacheCon Europe under the usual channels, and are working with the Linux Foundation team on coordinating publicity/outreach efforts. In addition, Sally will be working again with Melissa Warnkin on the ASF's presence (booth, giveaways, etc.) at ApacheCon Europe. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Discussions continue with RedMonk regarding a possible group of Apache-branded DevOps and DataOps events in the UK. Sally completed the ASF tearsheet for distribution at events in Europe as requested by Jan Iverson. X. Newswire accounts: we have 12 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of the calendar year, and continue to receive gratis news release distribution by Pressat (UK). # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] New Karma: ========== none Finances: ========== RAM for VMWare host: $690.79 Operations Action Items: ======================== Short Term Priorities: ====================== * Code signing Mark Thomas has successfully concluded his testing of Symantec Application signing service. Subsequent to that, he's identified a workflow that should work for our many projects. Conversations with Symantec on pricing are ongoing. * Response timeframe targets: It was agreed to set up three distinct timeframes for responding to incidents; 1) For critical services, incidents should be responded to within 4 hours 2) For core services, incidents should be responded to within 6 hours 3) For standard services, incidents should be responded to within 12 hours. The response need not be a resolvement of the issue, but needs to include one or more of the following steps; 1) Acknowledging the incident through internal channels (See PagerDuty et al) 2) Communication of the incident to the involved/affected people in accordance with the new communications plan laid out by the VP. 3) Delegation of the issue to a member of infrastructure whenever possible 4) Tracking of the incident (method depends on the duration and gravity of the incident) * On-call rotation: At the f2f meeting in Cambridge, it was decided to introduce an on-call rotation between contractors. Each week, a contractor will be assigned as being on-call, and will be responsible for either resolving, delegating or communicating about outages, account-, mailinglist- and tlp-creations, as well as planned changes, and security issues. To the extent that this is possible (not counting sleep), incidents must be responded to within the new target timeframes, as explained in the previous paragraph. In the time since going live with both an on-call rotation and tracking response time in the response timeframe, the responses have been dramatically faster than the service level expectations. As we build up staff numbers and spread geographically a bit, the expectations may change. * Improved response for and analysis of Java services at the ASF: At the previously mentioned f2f meeting, contractors were introduced to a detailed course of analysing and reporting incidents with Java applications run by infrastructure. We expect this new information to be extremely valuable in reaching and maintaining the target uptime for Java services. The staffers would like to extend a very big thank-you to Rainer Jung for his services in this matter. Long Range Priorities: ====================== * Monitoring ** Uptime monitoring and responsibility: In addition to the previous board report, a new service level agreement was made between infrastructure staffers, increasing the targets for uptime on critical and core level services, as described below in the statistics paragraph. Ensuring that services meet the new targets have been made one of the cornerstones of infrastructure's work. The monitoring of public facing services has been outsourced to a third party (free of charge), and we will be focusing on having Circonus produce metrics for our inwards facing services/devices, such as LDAP, PubSubs, SNMP etc. ** Unified logging: Experiments with unified logging is proceeding as planned, with more and more hosts being coupled into the new logging system. A filtering mechanism for the lucene-based backend has been created, allowing anyone to use the logging service based on their LDAP credentials. As such, anyone with access to a specific host (as defined in LDAP) will be able to pull logs from the unified logging system. We are confident that this will make debugging and analysis easier, to the point that we are disabling older alerting/information systems and using the logging system to fetch information that would previously have been sent via email to root@. * More virtualisation; Better use of what resources we have: It was decided to move towards more use of virtualisation for many critical and core services, including our main web sites and wikis. This will allow us to better respond to incidents and resolve them without affecting other services. Furthermore, it is our belief that we can free up resources by switching to a virtualised environment, thereby possibly getting more space for the crammed-up project/service VMs. * Automation ** Cloud-based dynamic build slaves have been in progress for a bit. Much of the work around this has been driven by Dan Norris. Building on a framework of repeatable builds he and Gavin McDonald have been successfully spinning up on-demand build slaves with our RackSpace account. This also relates to our goals around configuration management, and configuration of the machine is in Puppet. Expect to see this service go into production in the next week or so. ** Puppet - the scope of puppet deployment continues to edge forward. Gavin McDonald attended training just before the Infra F2F meeting. * Technical Debt and Resiliency Work around uptime monitoring and actually being able to better understand where the pain points are, coupled with some of the knowledge we gained at the Infra F2F has allowed us to focus on long term adjustments rather than hasty short term restoration of service. You should see this reflected in the uptime statistics General Activity: ================= - A face-to-face meeting between infrastructure members was held in Cambridge, UK. - 27 new committer accounts created, 8 new mailing list (TBC) - 3 projects were promoted to TLP - 193 JIRA tickets resolved (since last report) - A new status site was launched by Infra at status.apache.org - PagerDuty has donated a gratis account for up to 10 users to ASF Infra Uptime Statistics: ================== Due to new a SLA between contractors, the targets for critical and core services have been updated to reflect the new criteria (99.50% for critical and 99.00% for core respectively). This represents an overall increase of 0.57% uptime across the board. These figures span the previous reporting cycle as well as the present reporting cycle (weeks 29-33) Type: Target: Reality: Target Met: --------------------------------------------------------- Critical services: 99.50% 99.94% Yes Core services: 99.00% 99.81% Yes Standard services: 95.00% 96.83% Yes --------------------------------------------------------- Overall: 98.00% 98.99% Yes --------------------------------------------------------- For details on each service as well as average response times, see http://s.apache.org/uptime Detailed Contractor Reporting ============================= * Daniel Gruno - Resolved 51 JIRA tickets - Worked on a new status site for public ASF services - Worked on the ELK stack, set up on phanes/chaos. - On-call duties - Worked with Gavin and Tony on OpenSSL CVEs and general VM upgrades - Fixed issues with svn2gitupdate not working - Worked around a GitHub API change that had invalidated our integration measures - Miscellaneous upgrades to ASFBot - Continued work with uptime monitoring and reporting - Worked with Fundraising to produce statistics about the ASF - 8 days of vacation. * Tony Stevenson - Resolved 74 issues - Took part in the bugbash - On-Call rotation - FreeBSD/Ubuntu SSL CVEs. - Started work to disable swap across all VMs - Investigations into BigIP/F5 etc - Fixed issues with VPN applicance - Several disk replacements - Run down several repeat cron error messages - Some further conversations with others about puppet - Setup trial of lastpass with a view to possibly replacing our GPG files. - Instigated the trial of hipchat. With a view to seeing if we coild deprecate IRC. * Tony Stevenson - Comments Hipchat: For a long time I have been thinking about trying to find a better way to engage with some of our users. Also, I was hoping to find a way that we could get a better feed of information that was more relevant and pertinent. We have hooked it up to JIRA, Github, Pagerduty, and PingMyBox. These all provide near realtime information that we can act on. The more modern service, perhaps will be seen to be a move on from some of our older roots. Which might appeal to others. With the move we have also seen the SNR improve significantly enabling better communication across the team. The alerting with Hipchat allows people to be notified of communcations that involve them, via push messages to a phone/tablet etc. Also once you return online from an offline state you see all the history. The history is searchable. You can join us, here, https://www.hipchat.com/gw4Cfp7JY Private channels can also be created, for those who need a channel that need to control access. Think #asfmembers etc * Dan Norris - Built machine image automation using Packer - Packaged (using FPM) many of the unpackaged build tools (Provides repeatable, known installation; allows us to query for status and version) - Deployed a DEB repository in RAX CloudFiles for packages - Puppetized the build slave configuration - Documented the process of building a machine image, uploading it to RAX - Using jclouds plugin for Jenkins, successfully provisioned dynamic build slaves. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Henry Story (bblfish@) nominated to Social Web Working Group. Sam Ruby has been nominated by IBM for the upcoming TAG election. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] A relatively typical month with no issues or actions required by the board. Two issues of note have popped up during the last few weeks, and the intent is to reach consensus and closure in short order. The 1st has to do with the exclusivity requirement of the Apple App Store, and how it affects official distribution of Apache software via that vehicle. The second is a relatively recent thread regarding an individual taking ASF code and simply relicensing it, and whether that is legal or not. It has been explained that as long as the conditions of the ALv2 are followed, relicensing is allowed. ----------------------------------------- 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 July. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. July 2014 1 Support question 1 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 3 [website] (closed, invalid) 2 [trafficserver] 2 [httpd] 1 [hc] 1 [solr/poi/tika] 1 [axis] 1 [activemq] 6 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 2 [tomcat] 1 [subversion] 1 [sling] 1 [struts] 1 [openoffice] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom Syndication Format and Publishing Protocol specifications. Abdera is very quiet. There are occasional emails and bug reports, which sometimes take a little while to get actioned. The most frequent activity is dealing with misfiled bug reports - Abdera is top in the project list in the ASF JIRA system and the default project choice so often gets bug reports for other ASF projects. While the code is not being actively developed there are still a few PMC members watching the lists so i don't see any problems with keeping on in this quiet state for the time being. The last release was over one year ago, the last committer / PMC member addition was Nov 2011. No board issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako] Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters. Since the last report in May 2014, Ambari released 1.6.1 and 1.6.0 which collectively included resolution of 896 JIRAs. 1.7.0 release is scheduled for next month. Mailing Lists: * user@ambari.apache.org: 246 subscribers (+34 since last report) * dev@ambari.apache.org: 148 subscribers (+21 since last report) Releases: * 2014-07-16 1.6.1 * 2014-05-25 1.6.0 Committers: * 2014-07-14 Added Jonathan Hurley PMC: * 2013-11-20 Added 37 initial PMC members upon establishing TLP Issues: * There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It consists of 4 main projects: - Ant core and libraries (Antlibs) - Ivy - Ant based dependency manager - IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse - EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes o Release Status Core --------- Ant 1.9.4 was released on May 5, 2014 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013 Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013 EasyAnt ------------- The current release is still from the Incubator 0.9-Incubating. o Migration to Git The project migrated to git on May 23rd, 2014 without any major issues. o Committers and PMC Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013 Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013. o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert] Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We've had 4 minor releases since our last board report in March: 1.4.16 (May 3rd), 1.4.17 (May 25th), 1.4.18 (June 24th), 1.4.19 (July 6th, just a quick-fix release). Development and community activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) remains relatively low. Our last committer/PMC change happened in October 2013. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 2.0.8 29 May 2014 2.0.9 30 Jun 2014 1.2.17 30 Jun 2014 1.2.18 3 Jul 2014 2.1 rc1..rc6 May-Aug 2014 Development: 2.1 is feature complete with optimized repair [1] and off-heap memtables [2] joining user-defined types [3] and collection indexing [4]. Counters have been rewritten [5], and compaction has been tuned to be page-cache-aware [6]. We have required more release candidates than expected. I believe that this is due to increased efforts around QA rather than worse code quality than previous releases. Community: Joshua McKenzie was added as committer on 29 Jul 2014. Aleksey Yeshchenko was added as PMC member on August 7 2014. P.S.: I apologize for the late report. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5351 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6694 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6504 [6] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/compaction-improvements-in-cassandra-21 ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis] ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan] DESCRIPTION Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components  (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASE Latest release (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013 A new partial release candidate has been voted. ACTIVITY Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including: - Made SolutionMapping serializable (to improve integration with Apache Wicket) - Enabled fastlane SPARQL Update support for jena TDB provider - Fixed various errors in Virtuoso Storage Provider  (rdf.virtuoso.storage) and added Virtuoso Storage to full-launcher - Improved PlatformGraphNodeProvider to handle URIs without path - Working on the new platform editor - Created Jersey based JAX-RS Whiteboard support - Moved TDB specific artifacts out of provisioning/rdf to a  new module: provisioning/rdf.tdb - Used the release version of Apache Stanbol security modules - Removed old ext.jena bundles and outdated platform.testing project COMMUNITY Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013 INFRASTRUCTURE - The website still needs to be fixed (CLEREZZA-853). ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler] Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available platform for RESTful webservices and web applications. Issues needing board attention: None Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair) Community Traffic on users and devs list had been lighter then the last quarter. Some users asked about different issues in the different versions of cocoon. Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions. We had again problems with a jira spammer "ROY Assink" which open/comment/... on issues with spam messages, different PMC member removed the comment and reverted the doing. r.assink.ra@gmail.com is the mail and he now has opened another account https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/cocoon-private/201406.mbox /%3C53AA6DB8.7010003@apache.org%3E we consulted infra whether there is possibility to get his e-mail address permanently disabled but that is not possible so we need to block the user every time new. Releases 2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende] ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson] Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security, and integration with popular build tools and source control management systems. Since last period, the project released Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014. Among the changes was an important security fix addressing the previously reported remote execution vulnerability. Volume on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker was slightly higher than the last few periods leading up to and immediately following the release of 1.4.2, but still low as expected. There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API. Releases: 1.6.0 (2014-06-06) http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.6.0/apache-couchdb-1.6.0.html Recent Activity: - Bylaws passed - Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement passed - BigCouch merge in progress and testing phase - New home of the CouchDB Blog is http://blog.couchdb.org - Moving content form the old Moin Moin wiki to Cwiki and documentation in progress Community: Including the following additions, CouchDB has 36 committers and 12 PMC members. New committers: - Lena Reinhard New PMC members: - Joan Touzet (most recent PMC addition from April 10th 2014) Mailing list stats: announce - 187 subscribers (0) - 1 message since May (0) user - 1368 subscribers (18) - 321 messages since May (-429) erlang - 174 subscribers (+7) - 1 messages since May (0) replication - 58 subscribers (+4) - 11 messages since May (-42) l10n - 36 subscribers (0) - 1 messages since May (-15) marketing - 36 subscribers (+5) - 411 messages since May (+99) dev - 586 subscribers (-13) - 1848 messages since May (-782) commits - 104 subscribers (0) - 2174 messages since May (-481) Board Issues: We would like to see the board drive more standardized bylaws, community guidelines, code of conduct and anti-discrimination policies across all projects. We are able to share our experiences in building this for our community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin] Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Status ------ We failed to submit our report last time, but reported a month later (in June). There has been quite a lot of activity in the project since our last report, in all of our sub projects. There has been discussions around platform and coding standards. We have had one release candidate for Apache Rat 0.11, which unfortunately failed. A second release candidate is currently being voted on. One person has volunteered to step up as PMC chair, but a vote for this has not yet been started. Community --------- The last committer was elected in August, 2012. In September 2013 Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC. Gavin McDonald has expressed that he wants to resign from the PMC, but this request still needs to be processed. We will deal with this once a new PMC chair is in place. Releases -------- No releases since last report. Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013. Community Objectives -------------------- Release Apache Rat 0.11 Vote for a new PMC chair Release Apache Whisker 0.1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek] Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which are missing in the CDI core spec. DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers! DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans. Community ---------------- * No new Committers (since May 2014) * No new PMC Members (since May 2013) We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis. DeltaSpike was nominated for "Duke's Choice Award 2014". Red Hat extended its support and donated some resources of their documentation team to review and improve our documentation. Releases ------------- We finally agreed on releasing v1. The adoption we have seen so far is exceptional. * DeltaSpike 1.0.0 (14/June/14) * DeltaSpike 1.0.1 (13/July/14) ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere] ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith] Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services. BOARD ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES * Apache Etch 1.4.0 was released on August, 06 2014. ACTIVITY * We have had some new users on the lists but activity on the mailing list is still rather low. In comparison with the last quarters more users and developers are showing up on the mailing lists. * We got some more patches for the cpp-binding from external contributors which have been merged. * Talk about an Internet of Things protocol based on Apache Etch has been accepted for the ApacheCon EU in November. COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation in January 2013. * Our committer and user base is still quite small. We were able to get exactly three binding PMC votes for the last release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar] DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * The last release of Flume was version 1.5.0.1, released on June 16, 2014. * No further release is planned at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY * A total of 14 issues have been filed, and 27 issues have been resolved between the period starting May 4, 2014 and August 3, 2014. * Approximately 617 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 248 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the project on September 24, 2013. * No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it graduated from Incubator. * Discussions around organizing a Flume meetup in San Francisco Bay Area are currently under way. * Currently there are: - Total of 243 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 577 subscribers to the user list - Total of 24 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was one PMC member attending to an alert from our Gump server. Another PMC member (not the chair) forwarded the ApacheCon CFP. The Chair replied to feedback from the previous Board report, and included the private@f.a.o list (see 2014-05-22). At this quarter, four other PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Idle. 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Clarified some project notes about the PMC member election process to reflect recent changes. Thanks again sebb. Enable 'java' to be found on a modern Mac. Fixed the Lucene search results to properly show the "note" when zero hits are returned. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project releases 1.1.0 - We have continued delayed this release until Roman finds some time to work on it. Overall project activity since the last report The project continues to develop at a steady rate. We have added Phabricator support for increasing the number of review tools available. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Our status is the same as the last report. Maja Kabiljo became a PMC member here on 4/22/2014. Pavan Kumar became a committer on 4/22/2014. I think we are getting closer to adding a new committer in the near future (i.e. by the next report). New community development Apache Giraph was presented by Claudio Martella in June at http://2014.budapestdwforum.com/. We will also be presenting in http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/curriculum/agenda2014/. Mailing list members We continue to see steady mailing list growth. user@ 418 -> 429 dev@ 242 -> 250 ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney] The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support. Project Releases The last release of Gora (0.4) was on 24th April, 2014. Overall Project Activity since last report Has been quite steady this quarter with mailing list activity remaining on dev@. We have had contributions from new community members and also some discussion on list about moving on with the 0.5 release. We also added support for both MongoDB and and Apache Camel. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Damien Raude-Morvan was elected as PMC member and committer on 2014-08-03 (yyyy-mm-dd). The NOTICE thread has been passed to the board and we look forward to formally inviting Damien very soon. How has the community developed since the last report? Since last reporting Gora has been present at the HBase London Meetup where various community members were able to present Gora developments. In addition, Gora now features in the DARPA Open Catalog therefore a number of new community mambers have been recruited there due to increased promotion of both Gora and Apache technologies in general. Mailing list members are as follows user@: from 62 --> 64 dev@: from 74 --> 74 commits@ from 26 --> 27 Changes to PMC & Committers We hope that Damien will join us as stated above. We are currently awaiting the 72 hour Board NOTICE period before we attempt to invite him. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop, Any23, Climate & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). We also have committers from many other projects outside of Apache. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin] Apache Hama is a BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. Project Status -------------- Refactoring for fault tolerance is still in progress. New users are helping improve web UI, and RPC performance. Community --------- The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013 The last committer addition: 13 Jun, 2014 Community Objectives -------------------- Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal. Releases -------- The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach] DESCRIPTION Apache Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Apache Hadoop. It provides SQL to query and manage data (in the form of tables and partitions stored in HDFS or external systems) and provides a metastore containing metadata information about the stored data. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Hive was version 0.13.1, released on June 7, 2014. * Work on the upcoming 0.14.0 release has begun. COMMUNITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/xE * A Hive User Group meeting was held on March 17th at Hortonworks' office in Palo Alto. * Gopal Vijayaraghavan, Szehon Ho, Prasanth J, Vaibhav Gumashta, Alan Gates, Daniel Dai, and Sushanth Sowmyan were voted in as committers. The most recent addition was made on June 27th. * Currently there are: - 713 subscribers to the developer list - 1860 subscribers to the user list - 15 committers - 17 PMC members - 6 Emeritus PMC members BRANDING CHECKLIST We have created HIVE-2432 to track this, with sub-tasks corresponding to each item. * Project Website Basics: [DONE] * Project Naming And Descriptions: [DONE] * Website Navigation Links: [IN PROGRESS] * Trademark Attributions: [IN PROGRESS] * Logos and Graphics: [DONE] * Project Metadata: [DONE] ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener] Project Description =================== The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. Issues for the Board ==================== There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention. Releases ======== We've had one maintenance release of our latest branch in the current reporting period. The only other in-service release, 2.2.x, is anticipated to be released soon. * 2.4.10 : Released on July 21, 2014 Bug reports =========== Encountered 143 bugs, 57 new and 40 closed/fixed Community ===================== * Several PMC members volunteered to go emeritus this period: orlikowski,nlehuen,marc,grisha,jgallacher * The PMC voted to move a number of inactive members to emeritus status. Full details are in a resolution in the same agenda as this report * No other committer or PMC roster changes this reporting period. * Date of last new committer : February 2014 (Yann Ylavic) * Date of last new PMC member: July 2013 (Ben Reser) Overall development activity continues to slow, with the focus on the maintenance of 2.4.x which is making its way into various httpd distributions. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera] The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols. Status Overall the project remains active. Releases HttpClient 4.3.4 GA was released on the 6th of June 2014 HttpCore 4.4-alpha1 was released on the 18th of June 2014 HttpClient 4.4-alpha1 was released on the 1st of July 2014 HttpClient 4.3.5 GA was released on the 10th of August 2014 HttpAsyncClient 4.0.2 GA was released on the 10th of August 2014 Community The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: 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 under incubation this month. No projects are currently voting on graduation. The incubator added Argus and REEF as new incubating projects. Blur, DeviceMap, HDT, Metamodel, Slider, and Tez all had releases since the last report. * Community New IPMC members: Jan Iversen People who left the IPMC: * New Podlings Argus REEF * Graduations The board has motions for the following: N/A - included in last month. * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0 Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0 Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2 Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0 Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1 Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1) * IP Clearance Brooklyn CAMP Server Sling Query contribution BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB * Legal / Trademarks It is unclear whether Blur can get the Trademark assign document provided by trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists. * Infrastructure * Miscellaneous -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator Argus Parquet Optiq Sirona Twill * Not yet ready to graduate No release: Brooklyn Fleece Flink Parquet Community growth: BatchEE Blur Hadoop Development Tools NPanday ODF Toolkit Sirona Slider Twill * Require Mentors/IPMC intervention Droids Kalumet * Ready to graduate The Board has motions for the following: (none) * Did not report, expected next month (none) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Argus BatchEE Blur Brooklyn Droids Fleece Flink Hadoop Development Tools Kalumet NPanday ODF Toolkit Optiq Parquet Sirona Slider Twill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Argus The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists 2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant 3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54) 4. Create a project website Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks. How has the community developed since the last report? * podling accepted into incubator * all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created * Jira created * status page created * git repostiory created * mailing lists created How has the project developed since the last report? This is the first report. Date of last release: none yet When were the last committers or PMC members elected? none yet Signed-off-by: [X](argus) Alan Gates [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno [X](argus) Devaraj Das [X](argus) Jakob Homan [X](argus) Owen O'Malley -------------------- BatchEE BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (JSR-352) and a set of useful extensions for this specification. BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Increase community (surely implies communication) 2. Do more release (in progress) 3. Improve our documentation Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? We start to get some interesting "real life" user feedbacks (mainly through JIRA). How has the project developed since the last report? Mainly bugfixes and some feature enhancement (goal is stability and ease of use). Date of last release: 2014-04-01 We are currently preparing for a new release. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy [X](batchee) Mark Struberg -------------------- Blur Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. It is unclear if we can get the Trademark assign document provided by trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Other than the issue with the Trademark assignment listed above, no. How has the community developed since the last report? We continue to be small but active. - Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+7]; dev@ - 67[+6] How has the project developed since the last report? Apache Blur has released a stable version and has started development of a new feature set that should help grow the adoption of the technology. This new feature set is being driven through community interaction and development. Date of last release: 2014-07-29 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-28 Signed-off-by: [ ](blur) Doug Cutting [X](blur) Patrick Hunt [X](blur) Tim Williams -------------------- Brooklyn Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing applications through autonomic blueprints. Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Performing our first release under Apache 2. Grow the community 3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards employees of a single organisation) 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 major changes - the community is still small, but is attracting a new names on the mailing list and IRC channel, including some code contributions. How has the project developed since the last report? Development is in full progress and we have settled in to our new home at the Incubator, and are preparing to make our first release. Date of last release: No releases under Apache yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No change since last report, when two new committers/PPMC members joined (2014-07-02) Signed-off-by: [ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom [ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu [ ](brooklyn) David Nalley [ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans [ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy [ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers [ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu [X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier [ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski -------------------- Droids Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it is rather intimidating. It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time to complete it this quarter. That should help with participation once the final name is known. How has the project developed since the last report? No change. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler [X](droids) Richard Frovarp -------------------- Fleece Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing. Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Rename the project due to naming conflicts with "Fleece". Proposed name is "Johnzon". 2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding new committers. 3. Publish first incubator release. The Fleece project status page at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fleece needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the status-page need to be re-visited once #1 is settled. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * Project have to be renamed because of naming conflicts with "Fleece". * Waiting for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-53 How has the community developed since the last report? * There have been several patches submitted from a current non-committer and we’re hoping to be able to mentor that person toward becoming a committer. How has the project developed since the last report? * Several issues were reported an fixed (mainly core performance and API compliance enhancements). * Lots of new unittests added. Date of last release: * No releases as of yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? * N/A Signed-off-by: [X](fleece) Justin Mclean [ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier [X](fleece) Daniel Kulp Shepherd/Mentor notes: Mailing list is active, all seems to be normal and ok. -------------------- Flink Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the Incubator. Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. First incubator release 2. Continue with community growth 3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes 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? One new committer has been accepted into the project. We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews. The project started a bi-weekly Hangout. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache, the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace. We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release Date of last release: 2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-10 Signed-off-by: [ ](flink) Sean Owen [ ](flink) Ted Dunning [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley [X](flink) Henry Saputra [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan -------------------- Hadoop Development Tools Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Build Community 2. Get more activity Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None How has the community developed since the last report? - 133 mails exchanged on mailing list How has the project developed since the last report? - Migrated all the existing functionality from master which enabled us for next release. - Released 0.0.2 incubating Date of last release: - July'2014 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - November 2013 Signed-off-by: [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru [ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik -------------------- Kalumet Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and resources. Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20. Community Developement: Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released. However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised. We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation on the website. Project Development: We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete IPMC vote. We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes. Local branches have been created containing: - new model and REST API - new webconsole (remove of Echo framework) These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master). Before Graduation: - The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked" in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has been voted. - The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI). Post Graduation: - Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of: None so far. Date of last release: 2013-11-22 Date of next release: 2014-08-24 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None Signed-off-by: [ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez [X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre [ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy -------------------- NPanday NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Since the last report in July: - the build issues on the Windows Jenkins slaves were resolved - further JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release - Konstantin Boudnik was formally added as a mentor for the project While some progress was made towards getting the release out, there is still more work to do as time allows. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new users to get up to speed when interested in the project 2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to contributors, apply patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases 3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of the PPMC are now disengaged. There continues to be interest in a new release from users, and new interest from some in making contributions that continue to be followed up. Date of last release: 2011-05-16 The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC additions since inception. Signed-off-by: [ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher [X](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik -------------------- 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? 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? 2014-06-02 - ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating available Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir -------------------- Optiq Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and nightly builds). 2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace. 3. Regular releases. 4. Build an ASF community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? We have added our first post-incubation committer, Vladimir Sitnikov. We are planning our first hackathon. There have been community discussions about the goals for a future 1.0 release, in particular whether the project should be reorganized to allow projects to use the optimizer core without using SQL parser and code-generation facilities. How has the project developed since the last report? Adopting Apache infrastructure: * Gained access to Nexus and started publishing (on-demand, not nightly) snapshot builds. * Web site in progress. Working on first release under the Apache incubator, apache-optiq-0.9.0-incubating. Date of last release: No releases yet under the Incubator. Last unofficial release was optiq-0.8, on 2014-06-27. First official release is imminent. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Vladimir Sitnikov, elected committer on 2014-07-15. Signed-off-by: [x](optiq) Ted Dunning [X](optiq) Alan Gates [x](optiq) Steven Noels -------------------- Parquet Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Expanding the community and adding new committers 2. 1st release 3. Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None at this time Latest Additions: * PMC addition: N/A * Contributor addition: N/A Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 60 * Resolved: 17 Mailing list activity since last report: * dev 212 messages How has the project developed since the last report? * New commit workflow has been documented and commits have been increasing using the commit script. * Project website is posted: parquet.incubator.apache.org, working on moving more content from github hosting * Moved to issues.apache.org for all new issues * Planning first release of parquet-format and parquet-mr. Using parquet-format release to identify steps needed to release the larger projects (e.g., parquet-mr) * Adding documentation on reviews and contacts for specific modules Signed-off-by: [X](parquet) Jake Farrell [ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann [ ](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik [X](parquet) Tom White [X](parquet) Todd Lipcon Shepherd/Mentor notes: Mailing list has a healthy traffic, mostly bug reports. Mentors are active and participating in the community. -------------------- Sirona Monitoring Solution. Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. need to increse contributor number 2. 3. 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? Not a lot since last report as the project was a bit quiet. Mainly some real usage feedbacks How has the project developed since the last report? A release has been cutted and some discussion on reworking the ui. We felt holidays but some new features are expected soon (path tracking for instance) Date of last release: 2014-06-26 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [x](sirona) Olivier Lamy [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez [X](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg Shepherd/Mentor notes: Traffic on the list is light. There was a recent release, using new rules it looks like. I'm concerned over volume and availability of core devs. -------------------- Slider Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Building a user community 2. Getting those users to contribute their work back 3. Improving the application to make it easier to use Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? We're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including some initial minor contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we have some contributed logos ... which is now going to trigger a competition/vote for a slider logo. The main external developer adoption is not in actual contributions for the core slider engine, but from a few people writing slider application- packages to deploy their own applications. This is a good first step - we have to work with them to get them through this process, note and address issues they have -as well as encouraging them to contribute a bit themselves. There's a tradeoff there: we don't want to dismiss all issues with "file a patch with the JIRA" -maybe there's an intermediate step of "let's work on this, can you take this branch and verify it works for you?" How has the project developed since the last report? 1. We're still fast-iterating through releases. 2. We're testing slider against the forthcoming Hadoop 2.5 release, to help validate that release. 3. We're debating when - in August - to make the leap to only building against Hadoop 2.6 The switch to 2.6 will mean that this code would be developer only, as it would only work against non-production Hadoop clusters. Yet we need this for the forthcoming features: the Credential provider, service registry, Yarn node labeling and other features we need to integrate with. That's a fairly exclusionary move for potential users: the current plan is to make a release in sync with Hadoop 2.5, which will be the last Hadoop 2.4/2.5 compatible version. Yet it not only gives us those new features, it helps tune those features and find bugs in their implementation. As an example, one fix in Hadoop 2.4 is related to an Application Master failure and restart problem which we'd found, a problem which, if we'd switched to Hadoop 2.4-SNAPSHOT earlier, would have been found and fixed in the 2.4 release. Date of last release: 2014-07-21 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-05 Signed-off-by: [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy [ ](slider) Devaraj Das [X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar -------------------- Twill Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of developing distributed applications. Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14. Top three items to resolve before graduation: - More committers from different organizations. - Regular Releases. - Increase adoption. 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? - 22 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-05-01) - 13 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-05-01) - Subscribers to the dev list up from 44 in May to 52 in August. - 5 new contributors since last report. How has the project developed since the last report? - Version 0.3.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon Date of last release: - 2014-04-22: 0.2.0-incubating What are the plans for the next period? - Increase release frequency - Engage active contributors and identify potential committers - Improve documentation and website When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - No new committers since incubation. Signed-off-by: [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy [X](twill) Tom White [X](twill) Patrick Hunt [ ](twill) Andrei Savu ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree] jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR). Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases There were no releases this period. jUDDI - Very low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter. - Website is transitioned to CMS: http://juddi.apache.org/ Scout - No release this period, no development took place. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. Community Activity - Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree) - Last Release jUDDI-3.2.0, Feb 5, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao] Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems. Development =========== We continue to stablize two main features for the 0.8.2 release. The first one is Kafka-based offset management, which allows consumer offsets to be stored in a more scalable way. The second one is the new producer, which provides better performance and a cleaner api. We expect to release 0.8.2 in a month or two. We also finalized the api and the design for the new consumer and started the development. This feature is intended for the 0.9.0 release. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 422, 560, 429 emails in May, June and July, respectively (up from 388 in Apr). kafka-dev has 789, 610, 1357 emails in May, June and July (sligtly higher than 1272 in Apr). We had a Kafka meetup in June. We last elected two committers in Oct. 2013 and are actively grooming new potential committers. Releases =========== 0.8.1 was released on Mar 21, 2014 and 0.8.1.1 was released on Apr 29, 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder] # Description The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the perimeter. # Issues None # Status * Graduation approved by board February 19, 2014 * Completed tasks required of graduating projects * Completed first TLP release * Beginning discussions on next release # Releases * 0.4.0: 2014-04-21 * 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating) # Development Activity * Community is discussing the creation of the next release * Jira: 301 total, +44 -32 (last 90 days) * Git (Source): 52 commits over last 90 days * SVN (Site & Docs): 0 commits over last 90 days # Community Activity ## Contributors Added * 2 new contributors engaged with multiple patches contributed. ## Membership Changes * Chris Douglas has requested to have his status changed to a Mentor Emeritus which we accept with great appreciation for his contributions ## Mailing List Activity * user@knox: 23 messages over last 90 days * dev@knox: 419 messages over last 90 days ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp] The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: No board level issues at this time. Development: No new releases this quarter. Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14 Community: Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011. Activity: Another quarter of no activity. Enough PMC members to remain viable. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus] Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases - Libcloud 0.15.0 was released on June 26th, 2014 - Libcloud 0.15.1 was released on July 10th, 2014 Community - No new committers or PMC members have joined the team. - Latest PMC addition - Sebastien Goasguen (sebgoa) on February 17th, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier] The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open- source software related to the logging of application behavior. Currently there are no issues, which require the board’s attention. - Community Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall community is healthy and friendly. Log4j 2.0 has finally been released. Sally was so kind to support us with crafting a press release statement. Log4cxx is still active at the Incubator. A new Chainsaw release is currently blocked by this Infra-Ticket (open since Oct 2011): * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991 In general, all subprojects are healthy. - Project Branding Requirements All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We will fix the branding with the next release. - Last three community changes * Bruce Brouwer joined as a Committer on May 16 2014 * Matt Sicker joined as a Committer on Mar 01 2014. * Nick Williams joined the PMC on Feb 19 2014. - Releases * Log4j 2.0.1 (Aug 05, 2014) * Log4j 2.0 GA (Jul 17, 2014) * Log4j 2.0 RC2 (Jun 25, 2014) - Subproject summaries Log4j 2: Very active. Log4j 1: No activity. A CVE was opened but hasn't been fixed yet. Log4net: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered. Log4cxx: Very active in the Incubator. Log4php: Less activity. Chainsaw: The ticket INFRA-3991 is blocking a new release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright] Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been seven major releases, including a 1.6 release on April 30, 2014, and a point release 1.6.1 on Jun 1, 2014. The next major release is scheduled for August 31, 2014. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Muhammed Olgun (molgun), on May 31, 2014. We also voted in another committer, Mingchun Zhao (mingchun), on the same day. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies, and the connector family continues to grow. Dev list comments for this period centered around voting for the major d1.6 release, people looking for integration advice, etc. Committer and external contributions have been significant this cycle. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== None known. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank] Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data. Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the Incubator in November 2013. In May 2014, Apache Marmotta v3.2.1 was released. After a very busy April, the development activity has dropped in the last quarter. On the other hand, July was a very busy month on the users list with several inquiries from new members of the user community. Questions are answered timely, mostly by the core dev-team. W3C has published LDP 1.0 as Candidate Recommendation, the Marmotta community is actively developing the official test suite at GitHub, early testing Marmotta with the goal of having listed our platform as reference implementation of LDP 1.0. GSoC 2014 is progressing according to the plan. It looks our student will meet all goals of the project. We hope to keep him engaged within the community, as he showed some good evidences in this regard. Subscribers to the projects mailing list: dev@marmotta.a.o: 76 subscribers (+6 since last report, 2014-05) users@marmotta.a.o: 83 subscribers (+7 since last report, 2014-05) Releases 2014-05-20 (3.2.1) 2014-04-09 (3.2.0) Committers & PMC Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24) Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21) Issues for the Board There are no Board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: 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, about a release a month has been made since the last board report and continued increase in contributors and committers. See the comments below in Community about MesosCon as well! ## Releases ## * Apache Mesos 0.18.1 (2014-04-29) * Apache Mesos 0.18.2 (2014-05-13) * Apache Mesos 0.19.0 (2014-06-04) * Apache Mesos 0.19.1 (2014-07-14) * Apache Mesos 0.20.0 (RC1 out on 2014-08-16) ## Community ## * Added 3 new committers and PMC members: Adam Bordelon (me) on 2014-06-11 Dominic Hamon (dma) on 2014-07-07 Tim St Clair (tstclair) on 2014-07-31 * 321/284 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days. * 93/83 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days. * 575 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (May - August), with 6,388 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org and 1,202 messages to issues@mesos.apache.org (we recently split out emails from JIRA). * We now have Mesos User Groups (MUGs) in London and Paris! Paris is hosting their first meetup in September. The SF MUG hosted a meetup in August at Pinterest as well. * We've planned a small conference co-located with LinuxCon called MesosCon which will be held on August 21, 2014 with an accompanying hackathon on August 22, 2014 in Chicago, IL. Through working with Apache and the Linux Foundation we were able to secure 6 sponsors other than Apache (Twitter, Atlassian, Mesosphere, Ebay, Hubspot, and Red Hat) and have speakers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Ebay/Paypal, etc. We're really excited for the event! ## Issues ## There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: 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 Although this reporting period was rather quiet, we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release. We brought a couple of improvements into the code base, which fix some bugs, improved the build/ci system etc. Unfortunately we had to fail one of two GSOC students because a lack of dedication or skills. The other student, Fang Zhen, is making very good progress and came up with a decent solution for one of your major issues, the OModel serialization problem. We're looking forward to merge his work soon into trunk and make a beta release from that. The goal to end the 1.3.x stream and continue with trunk, which allows us again to add new features. We expect to cut a 1.3.7 release within the next reporting period. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT The development in this period focussed on bug fixing and some infrastructure improvements. Also our GSOC student Fang Zhen turned out to be skilled developer and is developing a major contribution for ODE. COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. MILESTONES Apache Oltu 1.0 was released on March 3rd. CURRENT ACTIVITY The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a standard. A stable version 1.0 was released on March 3rd. The current focus is on extending the coverage for the IETF JOSE specifications e.g. JWS, JWE (that are strictly correlated to OAuth 2). Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got new messages from new users). We got some feedback from some users about our not too clear documentation. Hence we are planning to improve this area. COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation. We have voted one new committer since graduation. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi] 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 part frameworks or extra functionalities. MILESTONES Onami-Persist 1.0.0 has been released CURRENT ACTIVITY Many Onamy-Lifecycle issues resolved, development is going ahead to cut the first release. COMMUNITY PMC composition has changed by inviting Stephan Classen as a new member. PMC is discussing the election of a new PMC Chair - and related policy to rotate chairs. Users community is quite silent. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam] Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). RELEASES * No new release since last report. Next Apache Oozie version (4.1.0) is actively WIP CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/EVK (since last report, 14th May 2014) COMMUNITY * PMC added 1 new PMC member since last report. * Committers composition has changed since last report. PMC added 2 new committers. * Currently there are: - Total of 397 (+29) subscribers to the user list - Total of 128 (+5) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 17 committers (+2) - Total of 13 PMC members (+1) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: 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 remained steady since the last board report. We are currently rolling our 0.4 release. We have had a vote for RC1 but decided there were issues to be addressed first. RC2 should be ready for voting soon. We have seen an increase in user activity and questions on the lists. We have also seen some PMC members who have been inactive for some time start coming back and participating on discussions on the list and JIRA tickets. We added a new committer and PMC member, Lewis John McGibbney in the last reporting period. He has been a huge asset to the team already and we look forward to future contributions from him. Paul Ramirez, Huikyo Lee, and Paul Loikith presented on OCW at the Regional-scale Climate Modelling Workshop [1] in Lund, Sweden in June. Also, an article about NASAs use of Apache OCW was featured on opensource.com [2] since the last board meeting. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 2013-10-11 We're currently rolling RCs for the 0.4 release. Should be out soon. When was the last committer or PMC member elected: 2014-07-14 [1] http://www.baltex-research.eu/RCM2014/ [2] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/NASA-Earth-science-open-source ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor] Phoenix is a SQL query engine for accessing NoSQL datastores such as Apache HBase. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying and managing NoSQL tables using SQL. Releases: 2014-04-03 3.0.0-incubating 2014-04-04 4.0.0-incubating 2014-08-11 Started vote on 3.1.0 release Recent Activity: Improved overall stability (77 JIRAs closed) and added several key new features for our current release being voted on: - Support for derived/nested queries to increase breadth of SQL support. - Added alternate, complementary "local" secondary indexing strategy. - Implemented the ability to trace distributed query execution. PMC: Last PMC member was elected on 2014-04-08. Committers: Two new committers have been added: 2014-07-19 Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla 2014-08-12 Ravi Kiran Mailing List Stats: User list activity is moderate with 132, 123, and 129 message in May, June, July Dev list activity is high with 591, 268, 1049 message in May June, July Board Issues: None ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim] Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python, Perl and Ruby and a message 'router'. * Releases: Qpid 0.28 was released on the 3rd June 2014. The last release of Qpid Dispatch Router, 0.2, was on 14th April 2014. The last release of Qpid Proton 0.7 was on 29th April, 2014. * Community: The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are being raised and addressed. Andrew MacBean became a committer on 1st June 2014. There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report. The last addition to the PMC was Fraser Adams who joined on 6th March, 2014. * Development As well as ongoing fixes there has been a focus on the management UI and security requirements in the Java broker. Work on the c++ broker and client has been focused around AMQP 1.0 enhancements. An ActiveMQ NMS implementation using AMQP 1.0 has been built on top of the .Net Qpid.Messaging client. In Qpid Dispatch Router, there is now support for more dynamic configuration. The addressing model has been expanded to allow aggregation of disparate brokers. The proton library has been moving to a more event driven design as a result of feedback received. It is believed that this will make it easier to use and allow extra functionality to be offered within the proton toolkit itself. Javascript support for proton is also being developed. Qpid 0.30 is now in alpha with a first beta due shortly. During this cycle we have identified the need to adjust our procedure a little to better cope with the evolution of the codebase. Previously we had a single vote on a single release that covered several different source bundles. The details are still being discussed but it is likely that we move to having multiple distinct votes on specific source bundles, with these perhaps eventually diverging into independent cycles matching the different needs that different components have. An update on this will be included in the next board report. * Issues: There are no items requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- 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 There has been significant new activity from a couple of new developers looking to push the project forward. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES 08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member. RELEASES 01/07/14 - 0.23 released. ACTIVITY All of the new activity is centered around finishing the front-end separation using Angular JS. The code has also moved to Git and the community is developing workflows for accepting submissions through the git hub mirror. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan] Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally donated by Sun Microsystems. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no board-level issues at this time RELEASES Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013 Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013. COMMUNITY In June, Patricia Shanahan returned from emeritus to active status as a committer and PMC member. She was appointed as the River PMC Chair at the June board meeting. A new user has brought to the attention of the PMC some issues in the "Getting Started" web pages that may be a barrier to attracting new users and to community involvement. ACTIVITY Mailing lists and development have been reasonably active in the past few months. There were 28 messages on user@ during May through July 2014, and 60 messages on dev@. Four issues have been reported on Jira and two of those have been resolved. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson] Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3, Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.3, which was released on January 11, 2014, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. Community The Roller community is active these days and working on a major new release of Roller to be known as Roller 5.1 and will feature a cleaned-up and modernized code base and support for mobile themes. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini who joined on July 3, 2014. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. There have been two new releases of the Apache XML Security for Java project over the last quarter, 2.0.1 and 1.5.7. These releases contained support for some new signature algorithms, performance fixes, a race condition fix along with various other minor fixes and improvements. Project activity is quiet but development is continuing all the time - there were 45 commits to the trunk branch of the Java project in the last quarter. The PMC remains active and engaged with the project, and so there are no issues or concerns to report to the board at this time. Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012. Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: 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: Spark made its 1.0.0 release on May 30th, bringing API stability for the 1.X line and a variety of new features. The community is now QAing the 1.1.0 branch for release later this month. (We follow a regular 3-month schedule for releases.) The community held a user conference, Spark Summit, in July, sponsored by 25 companies. We continue to see growth in the number of users and contributors, with over 120 people contributing to 1.1.0. Some of the big features in 1.1 include JSON loading in Spark SQL, a new statistics library, streaming machine learning algorithms, improvements to the Python API, and many stability and performance improvements. Releases: Our last few releases were: August 5, 2014: Spark 1.0.2 July 23, 2014: Spark 0.9.2 July 11, 2014: Spark 1.0.1 May 30, 2014: Spark 1.0.0 Committers and PMC: We closed votes to add two new committers and PMC members on August 7th. Before that, we added two committers and PMC members in May 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana] Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. Releases ======== * Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released on June 20th Community and development ========================== * One new committer/PMC member added * Started implementing new features of 4.1.0 release * Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 614 messages in July. * Sathyasuriya Priya, who did the GSOC project completed his project and successfully demoed GCE integration to Stratos. * Excluding merges, 13 authors have pushed 14 commits to master and 104 commits to all branches. On master, 384 files have changed and there have been 10,410 additions and 2,162 deletions. (15th July to 15th August) New Committer/PMC member addition * Akila Perera - 2014.07.25 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations. * Board Issues There are no Board-level issues of concern. * Community Evgeny Kotkov was added to the Subversion PMC in February 2014 (this was apparently left out of previously reports). No change in committers, our last new committer was in July 2013. An Elego hosted hackathon was held in Berlin from June 16th - 20th. We had approximately 11 developers attend. In Berlin we discussed issues with the upcoming 1.9.0 release and started planning future features for 1.10.0. There will be another hackathon August 18th - 22nd in Sheffield, England, with around 8 developers expecting to attend. We hope to finish up on 1.9.0 issues with that hackathon and spend more time working on changes planned for 1.10.0. Beyond our work towards the 1.9.0 release, we continue to support the 1.8.x series. The 1.7.x series receives security updates, and (sometimes) high-value functionality updates. We continue to get around 200 messages per month on the users@ mailing list, with most questions being answered. Often times by non-developer community members. The development list continues to see between 150-250 messages a month, and around 200 commits per month. The commit rate has slowed slightly as we work towards stability on trunk for a 1.9.0 release. Development can still be considered healthy. * Releases Work toward 1.9.0 is progressing but no further alpha has been produced since our last report. However, we do anticipate a branch sometime in the near future and our normal stabilization period following that. Which typically includes betas and release candidates. Since our report in May, Apache Subversion 1.8.10 and 1.7.18 were both released on August 11th. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco] Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. Status There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Community The mailing lists' traffic has quite revamped during the last quarter, mainly due to increasing activity towards upcoming new stable release 1.2.0. We are receiving contributions from external user for deb packaging. We have successfully handled a new security flaw (CVE-2014-3503). Last committer addition (Andrea Patricellil) is dated March 2014. Last addition to PMC (Guido Wimmel) is dated April 2014. Releases since last report * 1.1.8 (Jul 3rd, 2014) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah] Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex DAGs of data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache Tez graduated from Incubator in July 2014. The initial activity was mostly around migrating the infrastructure which was done promptly by the infra folks and with minimal disruption to the community. There has been a lot of momentum on finishing up the API clean up and local mode implementation completed to help improve usability of Tez. These are the 2 main objectives for the upcoming 0.5 release. RELEASES 0.4.1-incubating was released on July 15, 2014. - This was the last release as an Incubator podling. COMMUNITY Auth: 31 PMC members and committers (as of Aug 06, 2014). One vote in progress to add a new committer - Jonathan Eagles. Jira: Last 30 days: 120 jiras created, 104 resolved. Mailing Lists: user@ - 123, dev@ - 137 subscribers. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications. Major project news is the release of TomEE 1.7.0, which was a very long release cycle an large community effort. First branch was July 1st. First vote was July 13th. One month late was the final passing vote. Thank you notes have been pouring in from users, which is fantastic to see. As usual releases from some of our sister projects were required, including OpenWebBeans and OpenJPA. Requests for those releases started in April. We were able to get a release from OpenWebBeans, but not OpenJPA. This happens and we dealt with it by creating or own OpenJPA 2.4.0-nonfinal release. With only 70 commits on trunk in the last 12 months it's clear the community needs significant help. I've engaged the private list to see how we can help. I mention to the board for purposes of transparency as most board reports sound "business as usual" even when the community is slowly shrinking. Self awareness can be hard. TomEE trunk is now dedicated to TomEE 2.0 and Java EE 7 efforts, again to much fanfare. Resources for implementing Java EE 7 will be extremely tight. Adding new committers and focusing community on passing the Java EE 7 TCK, assuming we get one, will be key. I couldn't predict when we might reach certification even with a TCK. Both Tomcat and TomEE were jointly awarded a "Geeks Choice" award from ZeroTurnaround in a local developer pool. This is a nice confirmation of interest from outside Apache. The banner is now displayed on our website front-page. Last release was 1.7.0 on 2014-08-15. Last committer was added November 2013. Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl] Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. Status The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2012/09/19). No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30). Turbine core project No activity has been taken place in the core project. The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25). Fulcrum component project Some cleanup has been done for the generic Fulcrum site. The last released component was Fulcrum json 1.0.0 (2014/04/07) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. ISSUES - There are no issues that require the board's attention. RELEASES - Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013. COMMUNITY ACTIVITY - Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012. - Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and continues to be on the lower side, with a few questions on the user mailing list and a few JIRAs on the dev list. BRANDING - We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project DOAP file. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects. RELEASES * Last release was master POM, May 2012 * Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010 CURRENT ACTIVITY * No commits or releases. COMMUNITY * Last committer added April 28, 2013 * Mailing list activity was higher than usual, responses were quick. * Few questions on Stack Overflow. * Action should be taken to confirm all active leaders are PMC members, not merely committers. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann] Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July. The first activities as a TLP were mostly around the migration of the infrastructure (with great support from infra). There is also some development activity around performance measurements and improvements. COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is small but active. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES After the infrastructure is migrated the next step is to create the first non-incubating release. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.3-incubating was released on May 19, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries. RELEASES - Xalan Java (2.7.2) 23-Apr-2014 - Xalan C/C++ (1.11) 29-Oct-2012 COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Xalan is a mature project with little development activity. We are tying to encourage previous committers to participate in maintenance efforts. The Oregon State University senior student projects have been completed. Steven Hathaway was one of the mentors. Jan Iversen was the other mentor. The development email has little volume. The Xalan library still has a significant presence in commercial software products. Discussion continues on how to implement the newer XSLT and XPath standards. Our PMC is planning to have a representative at ApacheCon EU 2014. NEW COMMITTERS We have a new committer, Samuel, who is willing to become an active PMC member. He has made significant contributions to both of the Xalan subprojects. ISSUES There are no issues that need board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] Xerces-J There was some initial discussion on having a new release and plans to merge the XML Schema 1.1 code on to the trunk. A new contributor has been helping enhance the new XML parser configuration for the JAXP secure processing feature and recently submitted a patch for review. Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 80 posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of May 2014. No new releases this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010). Xerces-C A few minor bugs were fixed for JIRA issues that were reported by the community. Mailing list traffic has been very low; roughly 45 posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of May 2014. No news about when the 3.2 version will be packaged. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.1.1 (April 27th, 2010). Xerces-P Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period. XML Commons Nothing in particular to report. There was no development or mailing list activity over the reporting period. Committer / PMC Changes and Activity No new committers in the last quarter. The most recent committers were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J). No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to the PMC were in May 2010. Three committers (who are also PMC members) committed changes to SVN in the last quarter. Apache Project Branding Requirements There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project logo. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch] The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. == Issues for the Board == No issues at present. == Community == I asked the PMC to consider a new Chair, as I have been in the role for over 2 years now. The PMC voted that I should continue in the role, and I have agreed to do so for a while longer. We have identified a potential new contributor/committer and the PMC also voted to increase the minimum Java version to 1.6, starting from the next release Last new committer: Simon Steiner on 11/04/14 Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 04/03/13 == XML GRAPHICS COMMONS == 8 separate commits to SVN, of which 6 were general bug fixes, 1 was check style related, and the last was to ensure compatibility with Java 8. A release is planned in the next quarter There were no releases this quarter. The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012) == FOP == 116 e-mails on fop-user mailing list this quarter; a few questions asked by users and answered by committers. Some new bugs logged and several patches have been submitted and processed. 85 separate commits in total to SVN. A vote to merge the finished font merging code into trunk passed in the last few days. Discussions have started on release planning. However, since an optional component of FOP has a snapshot dependency on PDFBox 2.0, we are unsure whether to release FOP now and the component later or to release both once PDFBox 2.0 is available. There were no releases this quarter The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012) == BATIK == Mailing list activity remains light; 23 e-mails to the user list this quarter. A few bugs have been reported in JIRA, and there have been discussions about merging the CMYK colour branch into trunk. There were 3 commits made by PMC members during this quarter; 2 of which were community supplied patches being processed. A release is planned in the next quarter There were no releases this quarter. The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008) ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the August 20, 2014 board meeting.