The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes September 17, 2014 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:33 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2qkd The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Doug Cutting Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: Bertrand Delacretaz Executive Officers Present: Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Sean Kelly Jake Farrell Daniel Gruno Joe Brockmeier Shane Curcuru David Nalley Henri Yandell left 11:26 Gavin McDonald Tom Pappas 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of August 20, 2014 See: board_minutes_2014_08_20.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] There has been some discussion about the maintenance of PMC records, with a couple of people interested in streamlining the process to reduce duplication and chances for human error. Other than that, another quiet month with nothing else to report. B. President [Ross] I'm still struggling under the fallout from my recent personal trials but things are slowly coming back together. Essential items are being addressed but some key activities are falling behind. I thank the board for their patience. TAC: All arrangements have been made for ApacheCon with logistics being handled by Melissa. Trademarks: Lots of discussions about how best to scale the trademark activities. VP Trademarks has agreed to focus on updating policies to ensure that it is clear that PMCs can manage their project marks. Sally has done a fantastic job on the Powered By logos, these (along with usage guidelines) are now staged on the foundation's website and will go live very soon. Press: Sally has completed a period of work with CloudStack but I am behind on following up on this and ensuring the project is able to move forward. This is a very high priority item for me moving forward. Plans are underway for our 15 year anniversary at ApacheCon Europe. Sally is keen to update the website for the 15th anniversary. However, given the current status of the budget it is felt that hiring a web design company is out of the question while recent interest from a group of volunteers has died down. Sally is looking at revamping the home page with a view to requesting budget in the next fiscal year for a full site redesign. Fundraising: Upayavira has restated his intention to step down as VP Fundraising. This was first discussed almost a year ago. I wish to express my thanks to Upayavira who agreed to stay on in the role while we focused on documenting the process and ensuring our EA was able to assist. Upayavira now feels this work is complete and has asked that we find a replacement. No date has been set for the changeover. Expressions of interest into the role are welcome. In the meantime I again ask for Directors and other interested parties to volunteer to assist Melissa in contacting existing sponsors periodically. Volunteers to the fundraising@ list please. We have two new sponsors (Bluehost and Samsung) coming onboard this month - both at Bronze level. We thank them for their support. Infrastructure: We have further discussed the status of contractors and are exploring options. At present we have not identified an acceptable approach beyond the previous recommendation to use Virtual Inc. services as the employer. However, we have not yet exhausted all possibilities. At present our two new contractors (US based) are under contract and being managed accordingly. Good progress is being made in infrastructure services but a high rate of failures again this month has detracted from this progress to a certain extent. Nevertheless, all targets for uptime have been met. Work is underway to move apache-extras services that have been lost to SourceForge. TODO Group: Some organizations have created an organization for "companies committed to open source". I had an early morning call with a representative of that group this morning and possible the engagement of the ASF was discussed. At this time the group is discussing what the groups mission and scope will be. I hope to attend an event in SF next week to find out more. See http://todogroup.org/ and http://tech.blog.box.com/2014/09/announcing-the-box-open-source-open-house/ Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] A relatively quiet month for the Treasurer's Office. The Treasurer's Office worked with the EA and infra team to address credit card issues for hardware purchases. Virtual and the Treasurer's Office and the Audit team are trying to put together a call to discuss the next steps on the Audit. The EVP and VP, Sponsorship set up a mechanism to take Bitcoin as a donation currency. Great work! Income and Expenses for August 2014 Current Balances: Citizens Checking $322,595 Amazon Prime $14,300 Paypal - ASF $31,595 Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $857,069 Wells Fargo Savings $288,032 Total Checking/Savings $1,513,591 Income Summary: Public Donations $8,415 Amazon and Paypal Sponsorship Program $- Interest Income $24 Total Income $8,439 Expense Summary: Infrastructure $33,826 Sponsorship Program $1,079 Publicity $5,743 HALO monthly fee Conferences $2,610 Travel Assistance Committee $15,153 Treasury Services $2,750 General & Administrative $7,786 EA monthly exp and Signing bonus for EA Total Expense $68,947 Net Income $(60,508) D. Secretary [Craig] Secretary is running well. During the dog days of August, 97 iclas, four cclas, and two grants were received and filed. There still is some confusion regarding under what circumstances a CCLA is required. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] * ApacheCon * Europe We continue to move towards ApacheCon Europe. Now that we are just 2 months out, we will be pushing harder on projects and speakers to promote their content and bring the registration numbers up. As of the 15th, registration numbers are: Attendees: 44 Committer: 26 Student: 1 Speaker: 72 Sponsor: 4 Total: 147 With much assistance from the Cassandra community, we have added a Cassandra mini-summit, with a full track of content. The Cassandra project, as well as our friends at DataStax, will be promoting this as though it were a stand-alone event. This is an experiment to see if having conference promotions under several different banners is effective in bringing a larger audience. * Austin We have "soft announced" ApacheCon Austin as of the 15th. See http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/ for the website and CFP. We will start shouting about it over the next few days, and if you want to leak the news, please feel free to do so. * BitCoin donations On August 26th, a query to the Fundraising list about whether we accept Bitcoin donations prompted us to create a Bitcoin account. This was mentioned on Reddit and several news sites, including http://s.apache.org/bitcoinnews and within the first 24 hours we had pulled in over US$2000 in Bitcoin donations. The rate has slowed down considerably since then, and our balance now is just under 7 Bitcoins, or US$3,300. In addition to the monetary benefit, this event got us quite a bit of very positive press on a wide range of news sites. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing of consequence to report, beyond a few wearing-hat emails. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Ross] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Jim] No report was submitted. Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema / Greg] See Attachment A B. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam] See Attachment B C. Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick / Brett] See Attachment C D. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Rich] See Attachment D E. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Chris] See Attachment E @Chris: pursue a proper report for Axis for next month F. Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik / Doug] See Attachment F G. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Jim] See Attachment G H. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Chris] See Attachment H @Chris: does the project have enough committers to make releases? I. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Greg] See Attachment I J. Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik / Sam] See Attachment J K. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Brett] See Attachment K L. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Doug] See Attachment L M. Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers / Ross] See Attachment M N. Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory / Rich] See Attachment N O. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug] See Attachment O P. Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah / Sam] See Attachment P Q. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen / Ross] See Attachment Q R. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Jim] See Attachment R S. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Brett] See Attachment S T. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Chris] See Attachment T U. Apache Felix Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Greg] See Attachment U V. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Rich] See Attachment V @Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts W. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Ross] See Attachment W X. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Sam] See Attachment X Y. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Jim] See Attachment Y Z. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Chris] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Brett] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Greg] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Rich] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Lucene Project [Mark Miller / Doug] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Chris] See Attachment AE AF. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Greg] No report was submitted. AG. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Rich] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz / Doug] See Attachment AH AI. Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly / Jim] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Ross] See Attachment AK AL. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Sam] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Rich] No report was submitted. AN. Apache Pig Project [Cheolsoo Park / Brett] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb / Chris] See Attachment AO AP. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Greg] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Doug] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Jim] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Ross] See Attachment AS AT. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Sam] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Ross] See Attachment AU AV. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Jim] See Attachment AV @Jim: ask SpamAssassin to discuss budget issues with treasurer AW. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Sam] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Brett] See Attachment AX @Brett: discuss with both PMCs to find a way to work together AY. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Chris] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Rich] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Doug] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Greg] See Attachment BB BC. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Brett] See Attachment BC BD. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Jim] See Attachment BD BE. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Greg] See Attachment BE BF. Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer / Chris] See Attachment BF BG. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Rich] See Attachment BG BH. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Doug] See Attachment BH BI. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira / Ross] No report was submitted. BJ. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Brett] See Attachment BJ Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Creadur Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Robert Burrell Donkin to the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Robert Burrell Donkin from the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Creadur project has chosen by vote to recommend Brian E Fox as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Robert Burrell Donkin is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Brian E Fox be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Creadur Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Onami Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Simone Tripodi to the office of Vice President, Apache Onami, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Simone Tripodi from the office of Vice President, Apache Onami, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Onami project has chosen by vote to recommend Nino Martinez Wael as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Simone Tripodi is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Onami, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nino Martinez Wael be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Onami, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Onami Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish the Apache Storm Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Storm Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Storm Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to distributed, fault-tolerant, and high- performance realtime computation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Storm" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Storm Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Storm Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Storm Project: * Derek Dagit (dagit@apache.org) * Devaraj Das (ddas@apache.org) * Ted Dunning (tdunning@apache.org) * Robert Evans (bobby@apache.org) * Andy Feng (afeng@apache.org) * P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz@apache.org) * Jason Jackson (jjackson@apache.org) * Flip Kromer (mrflip@apache.org) * David Lao (dlao@apache.org) * Nathan Marz (nathanmarz@apache.org) * Michael G. Noll (miguno@apache.org) * Arvind Prabhakar (arvind@apache.org) * James Xu (xumingming@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that P. Taylor Goetz be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Storm, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Storm PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Storm Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Storm Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Storm podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Storm podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Storm Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Change the Apache Community Development Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Luciano Resende to the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development, and WHEREAS, Luciano Resende has requested the Project Management Committee of the Apache Community Development project to nominate a successor for the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Community Development project has chosen by vote to recommend Ulrich Stärk as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Luciano Resende is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ulrich Stärk be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Community Development Project Chair, 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: did some legwork on state of records, planning to reach out soon * Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter Status: message sent. * Rich: Ask Axis whether the community is really healthy? Seems Synapse is asking Status: * Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ] Status: message sent. * Greg: Any info on sub-projects? [ ActiveMQ ] Status: message sent. * Jim: Follow up with CXF and Commons to see how well they are communicating Status: No update dkulp: The CXF community has basically given up on getting the BCEL release from Commons in any sort of timely manner. We first asked for the release five months ago. We have moved the affected functionality to optional modules that are disabled on Java8. If Commons does decide to actually create the release, we can easily re-enable. * Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ] Status: * Greg: Six years seems too long between additions to the PMC. [ Directory ] Status: message sent. * Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ] Status: * Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ] Status: * Chris: pursue a report for OpenMeetings Status: present. * Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ] Status: * Bertrand: Given the late report, request a report for next month [ Wink ] Status: present. * Jim: pursue a report for Celix Status: Done * Bertrand: ask for clarification on "partial release" [ Clerezza ] Status: * Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers, Status: In process * Doug: clarify release comment. [ Giraph ] Status: PMC has promised to address the complaint. * Jim: board report is a bit sparse; can this be improved for next report? [ Hama ] Status: In process * Jim: why is a certificate needed for release? [ Logging ] Status: Forgotten. Will follow up. * Greg: pursue a proper board report [ Tuscany ] Status: added 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:42 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 Fundraising/Virtual: * Work continues with Virtual re obtaining information on credit card options with AmEx. I had several conversations with Tom wrt AmEx options, as well as the block on the existing WF cards * Invoices sent to new sponsors: Bluehost and Samsung * Revised invoice also sent to new sponsor EILEO SAS/Hertz for EUR 1,500 (I’ve been working with them since last fall). * Renewal invoices have been obtained from Lynsey and sent out for the folks I’m responsible for * Reminders have been sent to the sponsors that we are awaiting payment from * Reminders have been sent to Upayavira wrt the past-due and upcoming renewals for the Platinums * Complete analysis was performed on the “Thanks” page of our website to ensure it matches with our current sponsors and the necessary modifications were made (LucidWorks was removed from the thanks page, as they are no longer an active sponsor) ApacheCon Europe: * It was a busy month with the TAC work. To date, all of the flight bookings have been made, minus three folks from whom we’re awaiting further details from in order to book the flights, but we anticipate this happening within a week. * Preliminary rooming assignments have been made based upon the information I have. I will send the rooming assignments to Nick for review/approval prior to submitting to the hotel. * Wire transfer information has been obtained from the hotel, and I will submit a request to Michelle Ball (Virtual) closer to the date when everything is finalized. * Requested visa invitation letters from the Corinthia Hotel for two TAC’ers; composed invitation letters on behalf of the ASF for the same and sent to the shepherd for passing on * Registered the TAC’ers requiring registration * In communications with Sally and Rich re budget for ACEU giveaways; will be using a new vendor out of England for these items Trademarks: Per Ross, I have pushed trademarks to the back burner for now MISC: * Sent two boxes to Rich for LinuxCon Chicago * Sent a box of stickers to Lewis McGibbney for CodeFest * Assisted Lewis with his inquiries regarding the Hadoop meetup for the end of Sept ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] trademarks@ volume was lighter than usual this month, allowing catchup on some outstanding third party questions. Sally did an amazing job of developing and rolling out the new Powered By Apache logo set and guidelines, including suggested logos for all Apache projects. These are a simple way that projects can choose to have users show their support of Apache and the projects in a wide variety of contexts. Along with DLAPiper's continuing assistance on tracking registrations and legal advice, in conjunction with Jim I've gotten some excellent trademark policy advice from Pamela Chestek, creator of ModelTrademarkGuidelines.org, in terms of the most effective ways to craft our public policies. Started work on updating brand policy contact us page, which starts the process of explicitly pointing third party questions to capable PMCs who have asked to handle more third party questions directly. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] See Melissa's report for much of the Fundraising activity. A week or so ago I mentioned to Ross and Rich that I believe it is time for me to stand down as VP Fundraising. The role has always included an element of sponsor liaison that I have generally neglected. Having established the basic mechanisms of sponsor tracking and renewal, which is now functioning effectively in Melissa's capable hands, I believe it is now time for me to hand over the reigns to someone who can better fulfill the sponsor relationship management aspect of the role. This is both in relation to our existing sponsors, along with pursuing contacts that have been made at various conferences, for example at OSCON by David, Rich and myself. I have no specific timescale for standing down. My concern however is more that the work that isn't being done is started, and that I cease to be an impediment to it. ----------------------------------------- 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 received signoff from Brand Management on the “Powered by Apache” mark and guidelines for Apache project logos, and worked with Ross Gardler to have them uploaded to apache.org (currently staged at http://www.staging.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/). She also responded to a request for graphics development for Apache TomEE winning a Duke's Choice Award. Sally responded to some fundraising questions pertaining to Platinum-level sponsor outreach. Sally was working with Shane on a blog post on corporate guidelines on engaging with the ASF, which has now evolved to showcase ASF operations/achievements as part of its 15th Anniversary publicity. Sally's three month work period with Apache CloudStack had terminated in July; she helped write and distribute issue the CloudMonkey™ v5.2.0 announcement on 28 August, and has assisted with several media queries. No further developments have taken place in response to Sally's Outline for CloudStack Marketing Plan sent on 24 June. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 11 September 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Cassandra™ v2.1 - 02 September 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Donations Accepted Using Bitcoin IV. Informal Announcements: 3 items were tweeted on @TheASF, including a project release extracted from announce@apache.org and posted by Joe Brockmeier, who has offered to continue to monitor the announce@ list and tweet newsworthy items to augment the ASF's official/formal news. Coordination with the Linux Foundation to promote the event on @ApacheCon continues. V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with two TLPs to announce milestone releases. She also responded to a request for promotional guidelines from a podling with a new release. Those 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 4 media requests. The ASF received 571 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 576. Our monitoring media hits for CloudStack has yielded a total of 581 mentions this month vs. 567 last month. VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 2 analyst queries, and fact-checking request for a Forrester report on Cloud computing. Apache was mentioned in 4 write-ups by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 7 reports by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and 3 reports by IDC. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with the Linux Foundation team on celebratory activities for the ASF's 15th Anniversary at ApacheCon Europe. She is also working with Melissa Warnkin on the ASF's booth, signage, giveaways, etc. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: discussions with RedMonk regarding a possible group of Apache-branded DevOps and DataOps events in the UK have suspended due to (non-ASF) scheduling issues. X. Newswire accounts: we have 10 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: ========== Chris Lambertus (cml) Geoffrey Corey (coreyg) Finances: ========== RAM for VMware hosts $715 Replacement HDDs ~$1700 Mac OSX Build Slave $730 Puppet training $1300 Domains: $17 Operations Action Items: ======================== Short Term Priorities: ====================== ## Code signing Mark Thomas successfully concluded his testing and we were able to come to agreement with Symantec. The service has thus far been deployed with Mark Thomas leading efforts to deliver signed code for Apache Commons. The Apache Commons PMC is currently voting on release artifacts for the first signed binaries. Post-completion of this test the service will be available to any PMC requesting the service. ## Build/CI environment. http://s.apache.org/hDu ### Yahoo has graciously increased the number of machines that they provide (and provide colo services for) to a total of 20 machines this year. This has tremendously reduced the pending queue size for our build services. ### Cloud slaves Our RAX cloud environment is now being utilized by Jenkins to deploy (and destroy) machines on demand in response to load. Additionally, we’ve made a RAX account available to the Gora PMC for twice yearly testing they plan to engage in. Long Range Priorities: ====================== * Monitoring We are beginning to get insightful information out of monitoring. We now have a mail loop that provides information on the cycle time from sending to mail reception. Additionally we now have started monitoring some elements of host storage. Centralized logging is making slow progress but has a plan with a time table. * Automation The base level framework for machine automation is complete; and that work is expanding. As we begin to need to break services out we are building them with puppet. Additionally work to programmatically have JEOS machines for bare metal as well as virtualization and cloud targets is progressing nicely with most of that work expected to be wrapped up by end of month. * Technical Debt/Resiliency Some work has happened identifying long complaining error conditions in a number of processes and resolving them; currently focused on errors around backup scripts. General Activity: ================= * Welcomed two new contractors, Chris Lambertus and Geoff Corey, to the fold. * We’ve dealt with a unusually high number of failed hardware issues this month. * Sourceforge has reached out to infra regarding migrating Apache Extras to Sourceforge. * The machine that houses our US web server (for www.a.o and $tlp.a.o) as well as mail-search and the moin-moin wiki has experienced tremendous IO load. Work is ongoing to breakout those services and reduce total IO load for any given machine. This has been noticeable to end users in the form of wiki slowness and updates to project websites being slow on the US website. * repository.apache.org suffered a severe service degradation that resulted in many projects being unable to publish artifacts to Nexus for several days. For details see: http://s.apache.org/H2f * We’ve found a number of processes that infra executes that appear to be tied to being listed as a member in LDAP. We’re working to resolve that issue and tracking it in INFRA-8336 Uptime Statistics: ================== Targets remain the same in the last report (99.50% for critical, 99.00% for core and 95% for standard respectively). These figures span the previous reporting cycles as well as the present reporting cycle (weeks 34-38). Overall, the figures have gone up since the last report, and we are continuing to meet the uptime targets. Type: Target: Reality: Target Met: --------------------------------------------------------- Critical services: 99.50% 99.97% Yes Core services: 99.00% 99.77% Yes Standard services: 95.00% 97.46% Yes --------------------------------------------------------- Overall: 98.00% 99.16% Yes --------------------------------------------------------- For details on each service as well as average response times, see http://s.apache.org/uptime Detailed Contractor Reporting ============================= * Daniel Gruno: Work done since past report: - Cleared 30 JIRA tickets. See those for additional details. - Helped introduce Chris to his new job. This included setting up his account, putting it into the correct staff groups, assigning some easy JIRA tickets to get started with and walking him through the process of resolving these tickets. - Fixed some mailing lists mistakenly marked as private. This seems to be a reoccuring problem, so we will need to tighten our mlreq page and make it harder to create a private list. - Created new mailing lists for Reef. - On-call duties. - Started work on the Infrastructure presentation for ApacheCon EU. - Discussed doing a "Git at the ASF" talk with David at ApacheCon, as we have a free slot. - Dealt with Freenode's security breach (mainly rerouting some IRC services to the EU and resetting passwords). - Started work on resolving the current issues faced by non-member staffers. This will likely take some time to finish, and involve several people. Our first priority should be getting a new ACL set up for browsing the mail archives, so root has acces to this data. This is a sensitive operation, but one that should be well covered by the confidentiality clause in staffers' contracts. - ELK stack is progressing, storage setup expected to be done this week, at which point we will be able to start pointing some of the heavier services to it. - Answered queries from Joe Brockmeier re Hadoop moving to Git and the new status page. - Helped EVP and fundraising with the new Bitcoin donation methods (and answered queries on that). - Added commit comment integration with GitHub. This is still a work in progress, and I plan to rewrite then entire integration system when time permits. - Moved some VMs around in response to prolonged downtime on Erebus due to disk replacements. This resulted in minimal downtime for services (a few seconds at most). - Finished work on the subscription service for our monitoring of local project VMs. * Gavin McDonald: Work done since last report: - 68 Jira tickets closed. - 7 Jira tickets closed were Hardware related repairs - Disks, PSU and Memory The hardware situation is much better. Still a couple to resolve. - More Jenkins work done, Ansible issues determined but the slaves are unreliable at present. Still have no OOB access to them and 9 times out of 10 if a reboot is needed the slave doesnt come back. This situation is only tollerable for a certain perios and that is nearly up. David is in talks to get more slaves available. - Buildbot has been worked on some more, it got left behind due to other work but is now getting some love once more. There is one major nag in that some slaves (and seem to be only the new ones) are failing randomly with xml corruption failures even though the checkout performs fine. Testing shows that the xml isnt being returned (but only some of the time.). - There are plans to upgrade Buildbot Master this month. - There are plans to upgrade Confluence (accross several versions) this month. - On Call duties - Working through reducing cron mails ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] The main list has been quite quiet, whilst in the background Jan and Melissa have been working wonders with our TA and applicants. Getting all the info needed, flights are just about booked and paid for, Hotel accommodation is nearing completion and AFAICT those that need conference tickets have them. One or two stragglers remain but overall we are in good shape going into the conference. Thanks also go to Nick for his work and letting us use his card yet again! Good work team! ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] ASF voting in the W3C TAG election caused a discussion about what membership of W3C brings, and whether to the foundation and/or an individual committer. W3C members are organisations, not individuals, and some roles at W3C are explicitly for organisation representation. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] A relatively typical month with no issues or actions required by the board. One item of note was discussed during the last 4 weeks. It was the recurring thread regarding modifying the CLAs for cases where there is no copyright (the typical example is code from/by US Federal Government employees). It was explained that (1) this has already been addressed, both by the ASF and several government agencies that such modification is not required and (2) regardless of whether copyright exists within the US or not, it doesn't affect its existence outside of the US, and the CLAs are designed to be valid in the larger, world-wide arena. This should likely become a FAQ (if it isn't already). ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema] Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. Project Status -------------- Allura graduated to a TLP in March. Development continues at a moderate pace. Community --------- * Latest PMC member added in July 2014 * Ongoing tickets & commits from the active developers and one new contributor. * A few tickets and emails from users and potential users of Allura. Community Objectives -------------------- We are ready to move our tickets from SourceForge to the Allura self-hosted site. Scripting has been done recently, just need to execute and resolve any issues that arise. We would like to find and encourage new contributors to Allura. We also want to explore if other Apache projects would be interested in using Allura. Releases -------- Last release was Feb 2014. We should discuss making our next release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney] Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. Project Releases The last release of Any23 (1.0) was on 13-May-2014. Overall Project Activity since last report Project activity has been reasonably slow however this is nothing new for Any23 generally. Any23 is being used within the Eurosentiment [0] project for extracting structured reviews from websites. These review are then used to build topical lexicon on a website-by-website domain-by-domain basis. There is currently a thread out discussing if a project release should take place. [0] http://eurosentiment.eu/ How has the community developed since the last report? Lewis John McGibbney is actively pushing for Any23 to become a well recognised software component within the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group. Since then our new PMC member Stephane has also been active. It is our underatanding that Any23 will not be represented at ApacheCon EU. Changes to PMC & Committers Stephane Corlosquet (scor) was added to the Any23 PMC recently with his account being created Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:28:51 GMT. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick] The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases ======== The project has not produced any releases this quarter. APR 1.5.1 was released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18, 2013. Community ========= New PMC members: none The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013. Two committers were added during the quarter, both existing committers on other ASF projects: Takashi Soto Yann Ylavic Nine bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on eight bugs. Mailing list activity has been very light this quarter, mostly related to a handful of code issues. Development =========== Nothing to report Issues ====== There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy] Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT. Releases -------- * Archiva 1.3.9 was released on 30 Jun 2014 * Archiva 2.1.0 was released on 19 July 2014 * Archiva 2.1.1 was released on 04 September 2014 Community --------- We added a new committer: Sascha Voigt (17 July 2014) We added a new PMC member: Jean-Baptiste Onofre (28 July 2014) The new 2.x series releases tends to generate a bit more traffic mailing lists. Development ----------- On-going development is now geared towards the release of 2.1.x with particular enhancements to LDAP support and fixing issues. Issues ------ No issues at the moment. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe] The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. This August Axis2 completed its 10th year journey. Community ========= The level of participation is consistent and healthy. User mailing list continue to be active, while we observed a fair amount of traffic in developer list. Releases ======================== No releases for this quarter, and limited time and resources have become a blocker for the release. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik] Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration, packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution based on Apache Hadoop. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.7.0, released on Nov 5, 2013 * Bigtop 0.8.0 is the next release scheduled for Q3 of 2014, based on Hadoop 2.4.1 - RC1 is getting build at the time of the report writing CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/?filter=12329170 (since last board report, June 2014) * Bigtop 0.8.0 is the next release the community is working on * Accommodations were made to include Hadoop 2.4.1 * CI system has been cleaned and improved to allow work on new release * Project's meetup was held on July 22, 2014 COMMUNITY * No changes in community in this period * Currently there are: - Total of 117 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 140 subscribers to the user list - Total of 24 subscribers to the announce list - Total of 26 committers - Total of 21 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin] Project Description =================== Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing. Issues ====== There are no issues that we believe currently require the board's attention. Releases ======== There have been no releases over the last three months. The last releases were: * apache-bloodhound-0.6 (16th July 2013) * apache-bloodhound-0.7 (23rd August 2013) Community & Development ======================= No new committee members have been added this quarter. The last new committee members to be added joined in January 2013. As mentioned in the previous report, Apache Bloodhound was involved in GSoC for a second year, and we were able to accept three students with three PMC members able to take on the duties of mentorship. In contrast with the previous year where we only had one successful student, this year all of our students were able to complete their projects successfully. Following on from GSoC, we are beginning to look at the possible path of the students to graduate to the PMC. Up until now we have not made any judgement on whether the work towards GSoC is enough to warrant an automatic promotion to the PMC. Work towards a new release is ongoing. Currently there are no issues that have been identified as blocking and so a candidate release is likely to be ready for the community to vote on within a week. In June and July we experienced some issues with the project's VMs which appeared to be a result of the distribution upgrades that were required on 6th June. After requests to improve the puppet manifests to avoid excess work on the main VM, the situation looks to have been resolved. However, problems are sometimes reported with one of the two demos running on the second VM. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson] The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s) and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on February 15, 2012. ### Releases ### No new releases. ### Activity ### Low, but clearly discernible, JIRA/commit activity this quarter. Currently the project has but one active committer. A lack of volunteer availability/energy has left the Commons Weaver dependency situation yet unresolved, but all things in time. ### Community ### No changes in community. Last PMC member added Q4 2013 Last committer added Q3 2013 ### Branding ### Nothing to report. ### Legal ### No concerns at present. ### Infrastructure ### Nothing needed at the moment. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller] Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Project Status -------------- * There are no issues that require the board attention. * The project is healthy, active and stays at a high level. Community --------- * We got 3 new contributors who signed the ICLA. * We have two talks scheduled at the next ApacheCon EU: * Using Websocket With CXF And Camel - Akitoshi Yoshida * Apache Camel In The Belly Of The Docker Whale - Henryk Konsek * The community stays at a high level (307 subscribers at dev@; 772 subscribers at users@) * The community is active and questions being answered in short term. * Avg. 618 mails per month on the users mailing list in June 2014 - August 2014 * Avg. 182 mails per month on the dev mailing list in June 2014 - August 2014 * Avg. 347 committs per month in June 2014 - August 2014 Community Objectives -------------------- * We finalized the Spring 4 and Java 8 support. * We are planning to release Apache Camel 2.14.0 next week. * Adding new features and improvements to Apache Camel in version 2.15.0. Project Composition ------------------- * no new committer was added in this reporting period * the last committer was added at 06/11/2014 * no new PMC member was added in this reporting period * the last PMC member was added at 04/24/2014 Releases -------- * 2.12.4 (07/06/2014) * 2.13.2 (07/06/2014) ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik] Apache Cayenne is a Java persistence framework. It takes a distinct approach to object persistence and provides an ORM runtime, remote persistence services, and a GUI mapping/modeling tool. ### Project Status * Preparations are underway for Cayenne 3.1 Final (Release Candidate 1 was released on Feb 18). * New feature development continues for Cayenne 3.2. * Git migration has completed for the supported branches - 3.2, 3.1, 3.0 (the entire history is archived in Subversion). As a result of the migration, we have received pull requests via GitHub which opens up new avenues for developers to contribute. * Confluence "CAY" space deleted since it was not used. ### Community * Mailing list activity is about average on developer and user lists. * The last PMC member was added in December 2012. * The last committer was added in May 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis] Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on interoperability between Java and C. Activity Celix graduated in July, during the summer committers where mostly on vacation, so not much has happened. Work has been picked up again. Most graduation steps have been performed, the source and website have been moved to the new location and mailing lists have been migrated. There are still some open tasks, Jira send mails to the old list, the website doesn't generate properly etc, that need some time to fix. Statistics: * Last committer added: 2014-03-04 * Last PMC member added: 2014-07-17 (Since we just graduated, the whole PMC has been set up during graduation) * Mailing list activity since graduation: 32 messages on dev * Commits since graduation: 45 commits * Last release: 2014-02-24: Apache Celix 1.0.0 release ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller] Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java, Python, PHP, .NET, and Objective-C (and possibly other languages). The project has graduated in February 2011. == Project status == The sub-projects OpenCMIS (Java) and ObjectiveCMIS (Objective-C) published a release this quarter. A major enhancement to the DotCMIS sub-project (.Net) has been offered, but hasn't been provided, yet. There is not much activity around the other sub-projects at the moment. Another group offered a web interface implementation for CMIS. We will discuss if we accept the contribution and form a new sub-project when we have access to the source code. There are no board-level issues at this time. == Community == Steady traffic on the mailing list but no community changes. == Releases == Last releases: OpenCMIS 0.12.0 2014-08-21 ObjectiveCMIS 0.4 2014-07-25 DotCMIS 0.6 2014-03-17 cmislib 0.5.1 2012-12-19 ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers] DESCRIPTION Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. ISSUES None CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community is working on maintenance releases for both the 4.3.0 and the 4.4.0 releases. * The agreed release schedule is not met at the moment as we regularly identify quality issues in pending releases. This is an ongoing process, but slowly we are improving our QA processes and introducing more testing capabilities. * Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 was released on Aug 28 2014. Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack * Apache CloudStack 4.4.0 was released July 26 2014. Some issues were identified with this release after the release. The community decided not to market this release to a big audience and work on a maintenance release immediately. * The community is working with The Linux Foundation to prepare the second European CloudStack Collaboration Conference (CCCEU). CCCEU will planned following ApacheCon in Budapest from November 19 till 21. It will have a new format which will hopefully engage more users and developers. * The CloudStack PMC was approached with a request to approve an outside organization being formed in order for companies to pool resources together to help promote Apache CloudStack. This included a specific request to use the term CloudStack within the name of the organization. The PMC voted to approve that request, but also consulted trademarks@ to get advice on how to handle the situation. The response led us to the decision to not formally approve the use of our mark, but to point the requester to the ASF's domain name policy. As a followup action, the PMC was asked to communicate its general agreement to the concept of a trade organization being independently formed to help promote our project. The PMC did that via an email to the "parent" organization that is currently being considered by these companies as the home for the CloudStack Alliance. RELEASES Apache CloudStack 4.4.0 was released on July 26, 2014. Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 was released on Aug 28, 2014 COMMUNITY Including the following additions, CloudStack has 96 (+5) committers and 29 (+1) PMC members. New Committers: Amogh Vasekar (amoghvk) - May 29 Pierre-Luc Dion (pdion891) - June 5 Will Stevens (swill) - June 16 Santhosh Edukulla (santhoshedukulla) - June 24 Rajani Karuturi (rajani) - July 17 New PMC Members: Mark R. Hinkle (mrhinkle) - July 3 The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community: dev@ msgs = Jun: 1852, Jul: 1555, Aug: 1613 users@ msgs = Jun: 663, Jul: 710, Aug: 640 issues@ msgs = Jun: 1386, Jul: 1381, Aug: 1635 commits@ msgs = Jun: 700, Jul: 790, Aug: 808 marketing@ msgs = Jun: 251, Jul: 189, Aug:99 users-cn@ msgs = Jun: 54, Jul: 133, Aug: 73 ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory] The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java components. The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within Apache and without. The last report was June 8 2014. No issues require board attention at this time. Overall project health is good with four releases this period. The [csv] component finally crossed the 1.0 finish line and [imaging] is very close to 1.0 as well but not active right now. Releases: 2014-07-10: Apache Commons Email 1.3.3 2014-07-10: Apache Commons Logging 1.2 2014-07-21: Apache Commons DbUtils 1.6 2014-08-15: Apache Commons CSV 1.0 New committers 2014-07-28: Michael Osipov News Apache Commons Math is migrating to Git from Subversion. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende] The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects Project Status -------------- No issues require board attention at this time. PMC changes ----------- Jim Jagielski has been voted into the Community Development PMC on 2014-05-21. Google Summer of Code --------------------- GSoC is over. Of the initial 42 students 36 passed the midterm evaluations and 35 passed the final evaluations. The ComDev PMC decided to send Suresh Marru and Ulrich Stärk to the GSoC Mentor Summit in Mountain View in October. We had one case of alleged admittance to the program of one person using multiple identities but the case could be dismissed after a video conference and proof of identity has been submitted. ComDev & Events --------------- The ComDev PMC is now a "home" for some of the ConCom responsibilities. Most of the recent discussions on our dev mailing list are about ApacheCon EU 2014. Other ----- Replacement for Apache extras is still an open issue. Ross offered to put somebody willing to drive the effort in contact with folks at Sourceforge but nobody stepped up to take the responsibility for driving it. Invoices -------- We will shortly approach the Fundraising team to prepare the invoice for GSoC travel reimbursement and mentor stipends. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah] Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. # Status Current releases have been voted on according to the Apache vote policy. We are currently on track for 8 new platform releases for version 3.6.0, and are actively working on versions 3.7.0 and beyond for the upcoming quarter. Since the last board report, Apache Cordova has had: - over 2500 commits in its 52 Git repositories - over 3700 emails in its dev mailing list - over 4400 issues/comments on issues in JIRA - 8 new contributors filed iCLAs specifically for contributing to Apache Cordova - over 329,000 downloads of cordova from https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova Several security issues were resolved as well: - CVE-2014-3500: Cordova cross-application scripting via Android intent URLs (http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html) - CVE-2014-3501: Cordova whitelist bypass for non-HTTP URLs (http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html) - CVE-2014-3502: Cordova apps can potentially leak data to other apps via URL loading (http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html) Since the last board report, Apache Cordova has had 44 different releases which are related to the overall version of Apache Cordova 3.5.x, noted below. # Community Cordova welcomed the following new committers and PMC members: - Parashuram Narasimhan (axemclion) - Vladimir Kotikov (an-selm) # Board Issues There are no Board-level issues at this time. # Releases (44) - http://archive.apache.org/dist/cordova/ ## Platforms (1) Released August 4th , 2014 - cordova-android@3.5.1 ......... http://s.apache.org/3Ds ## Tools (5) Released Aug 13th , 2014 - cordova-cordova-lib@0.21.7 ........ http://s.apache.org/ZXc - cordova-cordova@3.5.0-0.2.7........ http://s.apache.org/ZXc Released July 8th , 2014 - cordova-cordova-lib@0.21.6 ......... http://s.apache.org/tJ3 - cordova-cordova@3.5.0-0.2.6 ........ http://s.apache.org/tJ3 - cordova-plugman@0.22.4 ............. http://s.apache.org/tJ3 ## Plugins (38) Released Aug 11th, 2014 - cordova-plugin-battery-status@0.2.10 ........ http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.1 ................. http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-console@0.2.10 ................http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.12 .............. http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-device@0.2.11 ................ http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-device-motion@0.2.9 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-device-orientation@0.3.8 ..... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-dialogs@0.2.9 ................ http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-file@1.3.0 ................... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.4.5 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-geolocation@0.3.9 ............ http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-globalization@0.3.0 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.5.1 ........... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-media@0.2.12 ................. http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.2 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.11 ....http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-splashscreen@0.3.2 ........... http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-statusbar@0.1.7 .............. http://s.apache.org/8pF - cordova-plugin-vibration@0.3.10 ..............http://s.apache.org/8pF Released July 7th, 2014 - cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.11 .............. http://s.apache.org/C6S Released June 27th, 2014 - cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.10 ... http://s.apache.org/Ew6 Released June 12th, 2014 - cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.0 ................. http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-console@0.2.9 ................ http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-device-motion@0.2.8 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-device-orientation@0.3.7 ..... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-device@0.2.10 ................ http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-dialogs@0.2.8 ................ http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-file@1.2.0 ................... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.4.4 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-geolocation@0.3.8 ............ http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-globalization@0.2.8 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.5.0 ........... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.1 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-media@0.2.11 ................. http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.9 .... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-splashscreen@0.3.1 ........... http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-statusbar@0.1.6 .............. http://s.apache.org/WME - cordova-plugin-vibration@0.3.9 .............. http://s.apache.org/WME ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen] Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Releases: - ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30 - ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05 - ctakes-3.2.0 on 2014-07-23 Development: The committee is actively working on a release candidate for 3.2.1 tentatively scheduled for Oct/Nov. Some of the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes: - Infra supplied us with a demo vm for demo purposes (demo-ctakes.a.o) - New temporal models for extracting Time and Events relations. - Upgrade to clearTK 2.0 (retraining of any existing clearTK models) - Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira Community: Last Committers/PMC: Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21) Vijay Garla (2013-11-16) There are a few federal grants submissions pending where we anticipate more contributions/committers in the near future. dev mailing list subscribers count: 131 (+9 since last report) user mailing list subscribers count: 112 (+7 since last report) ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman] The Apache Curator Java libraries make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. Community ========= * Since our last report Curator has added two new committers, Cameron MacKenzie and Scott Blum. They have both been very active and the project has benefited greatly from them. * Numerous online articles that mention Curator have been written: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/Third+Party+Articles Development =========== * Several successful releases have occurred since the last report * Curator's adoption continues to grow: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/Powered+By Issues for board consideration ============================== None currently ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet. The PMC is thinking about ways to improve popularity and adoption of the project and some proposals have been made * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17 ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere] Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. Progress of the project During the last three months we have worked on a new release with contains several bugfixes and improvements. The release was approved and published on 20/Aug/2014. We have also received suggestions and code contributions from uses which we will evaluate and integrate in an upcoming release. Changes in committers or PMC members There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last months. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases Apache-Empire-db 2.4.3 released on 20/Aug/2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Carsten Ziegeler] Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies aligned with OSGi technology. Community PMC: One new PMC member has been added: David Bosschaert Committers: No new committers have been added in this report period. The last new committer was added in Dec. 2013 Steady mailing list activity. There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Software Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin 2.5.3 (August 31, 2014) Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin 2.5.2 (August 27, 2014) Apache Felix Maven SCR Plugin 1.20.0 (August 25, 2014) Apache Felix Event Admin 1.4.0 released (August 25, 2014) Apache Felix Maven SCR Plugin 1.19.0 (Jul 31, 2014) Apache Felix SCR Ant Task 1.13.0 (Jul 31, 2014) Apache Felix SCR Bnd Plugin 1.3.0 (Jul 31, 2014) Apache Felix SCR DS Annotations 1.2.8 (Jul 31, 2014) Apache Felix SCR Generator 1.12.0 (Jul 31, 2014) Apache Felix WebConsole OBR Plugin 1.0.2 (July 25, 2014) Apache Felix Dependency Manager 3.2.0 (July 21, 2014) Apache Felix Framework 4.4.1 (July 14, 2014) Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin 2.5.0 (June 26, 2014) Apache Felix Bundle Repository (OBR) 2.0.2 (June 26, 2014) Apache FelixGogo Runtime 0.12.1 and Command 0.14.0 (June 23, 2014) Apache Felix HTTP Service 2.3.0 (June 13, 2014) Project Branding TM missing from all Logos Licensing and other issues None ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui] Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was also released on 7/14/14. -Apache Flex SDK 4.13.0 was released on 7/16/14. -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer was released on 8/21/14. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is becoming more diverse. While there is still work going on fixing bugs in the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, and on FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform, there has been more tangible activity working on Maven support for the various releases, another release of the Installer that better tracks why Apache Flex installs have a high failure rate, the donated Tour De Flex was released, a release of a Spell Checking library is in progress, and a committer and recently-added committer are working on TLF Table support in a GitHub fork. Also, we reconfigured both the Flex SDK and FlexJS SDK install scripts to use download servers that are not blocked in China, and had the install scripts localized to Chinese, enabling what we hope will eventually become a significant population of users. On our website, China is not too far behind the US as the most frequent visitors. Adobe is starting to shutdown some of its Flex-related web sites. We had to reconfigure our installer to download some optional Flex dependencies from different servers, but installs of older Apache Flex releases are now broken. One a good note, Adobe did install redirects from its version of Tour De Flex to ours, resulting in a significant boost in traffic and attention. In the past three months we've continued to see: - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - New committers and potential committers. Code Donation Update -Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the paperwork. -Judah Frangipane donated the Radii8 code base. It is a tool to help Apache Flex users design their UI. COMMUNITY -Chris Martin, Darkstone and Judah Frangipane were added as committers -Latest analytics include around 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). That's slightly down from before. -There were more than 4,000 installs of 4.13.0 in the 6 weeks since its release. -There were more than 120 installs of FlexJS in the 6 weeks since its release. -There have now been more than 60,000 installs of the Apache Flex SDK. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig] Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the projects to collaborate. Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and XMLUnit.NET. == Summary == Gump seems to create useful results for the few projects that use it. This quarter showed more activity than usual with Gump learning to deal with git submodules and vmgump being upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04. == Releases == Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy. == Activity == With Ant and the Antlibs migrated to git and the Antlibs using git submodules it was necessary to add support for transparent handling of git submodules, this has been implemented in July and seems to work well enough. Mark Thomas was kind enough to upgrade vmgump from Ubuntu 10.04 to 14.04 which freed us from the need of a hand compiled git and provided us with a few more recent compilers and libraries. Mark has been added to the list of sudoers on vmgump. vmgump's httpd has been added to the lists of services monitored by infra "the pubsubified way". == Changes to the Roster == All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure the ASF installations. No new committers to the code base, no changes to the PMC. The most recent addition to the PMC was in December 2006 when we added Sander Temme. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna] Project Description =================== Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault tolerance and elasticity. Development =========== - Implemented extensions to task framework, including smarter retry logic and queuing of jobs - Dashboard contributed by a GSOC student - Netty-based IPC framework contributed by the community - Task framework with YARN integration tested on a live YARN deployment - 48 new JIRAS since last report - 56 issues resolved Community ========= - 100+ emails on the dev list - 90+ emails on the user list - Community effort in designing the IPC framework, including email threads, wiki pages, and GitHub pull request comments Releases ========= - Two new releases are approved and will soon be announced: -- 0.6.4: Bug fixes and support for task framework -- 0.7.1 beta: Bug fixes, task framework, YARN integration, performant IPC ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: 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/la * A Hive User Group meeting was held on March 17th at Hortonworks' office in Palo Alto. The next Hive User Group meeting is scheduled for October 15th in New York City. * Gopal Vijayaraghavan, Szehon Ho, Prasanth J, Vaibhav Gumashta, Alan Gates, Daniel Dai, Sushanth Sowmyan, and Eugene Koifman were voted in as committers. The most recent addition was made on September 12th. * Currently there are: - 719 subscribers to the developer list - 1865 subscribers to the user list - 16 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: [DONE] * Logos and Graphics: [DONE] * Project Metadata: [DONE] ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: 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 REEF as a new incubating project in August. Aurora, Drill, Sentry, Twill, Flink, and Optiq all had releases since the last report. * Community New IPMC members: No additions People who left the IPMC: (none) * New Podlings REEF * Graduations The board has motions for the following: Apache Storm * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: Apache Aurora 0.5.0-incubating Apache Drill 0.4.0-incubating, 1.0.0-m1-incubating Apache Sentry 1.4.0-incubating Apache Twill 0.3.0-incubating Apache Flink 0.6-incubating Apache Optiq 0.9.0-incubating * IP Clearance Radii8 for Apache Flex Apache Sqoop Contribution * Legal / Trademarks Apache OPTIQ wishes to trademark it's name * Infrastructure Nothing to report * Podlings without mentor sign offs None * Miscellaneous -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator REEF * Not yet ready to graduate No release: Argus Brooklyn Fleece log4cxx2 Wave Community growth: Brooklyn Drill Falcon Fleece MRQL Optiq Sentry Wave * Ready to graduate The Board has motions for the following: Storm * Did not report, expected next month Streams ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Argus Brooklyn Drill Falcon Fleece Kalumet log4cxx2 MRQL Optiq REEF Sentry Storm Streams Wave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Argus The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensivedata 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 - COMPLETED 2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant - COMPLETED 3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54) - IN PROGRESS 4. Create a project website - TO DO 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? * Developers are showing interest in contribution to Apache Argus How has the project developed since the last report? * Code Grant has been sent to Apache * Initial Codebase is uploaded to Apache Argus git repository * Review Board for Argus project has been setup for code review process * Total of 32 JIRA tickets have been created; out of which 21 of them are RESOLVED. - 9 - CLOSED - 12 - RESOLVED, - 3 - PATCH_AVAILABLE - 4 - IN PROGRESS - 4 - OPEN Date of last release: none yet When were the last committers or PMC members elected? none yet Signed-off-by: [ ](argus) Alan Gates [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno [ ](argus) Devaraj Das [x](argus) Jakob Homan [x](argus) Owen O'Malley Shepherd/Mentor notes: Argus appears to be brand new. They don't have a working website yet (was unclear if there was a pending ticket for it not), though mailing list is working and let me subscribe. They do have a draft board report floating around their mailing list, which is a great sign for a brand new podling. -------------------- Brooklyn Brooklyn is a framework for modeling, 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 organization) 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? Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received contributions from new community members that are significant and highly interesting to our project. How has the project developed since the last report? No major changes from the last report; we are well-settled into our new home and commits are being made at a regular rate. Preparation for our first release continues. We neglected to mention in last month's report about the completion of a code grant for the "camp-server" component. This is a crucial component of Brooklyn, and deserves its place in Brooklyn, rather than an external dependency where we would have no control over release schedules and bug fixing. So we are grateful to the donor, Cloudsoft, for passing this component to Apache Brooklyn. Date of last release: No releases under Apache yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No change since 2014-07-02. Signed-off-by: [ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom [ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu [X](brooklyn) David Nalley [ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans [ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy [ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers [ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu [X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier [X](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski Shepherd/Mentor notes: (rvs) a very strong community, the only thing missing to make it exemplary would be a release ;-) -------------------- Drill Description: Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to efficiently process nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds. Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11. In the previous reports, the following were listed as goals before graduation 1. Complete the feature set 2. Continue to attract new developers/contributors with a variety of skills and viewpoints 3. Continue the outreach activities to build the early user community for the technology These have been achieved and the podling has made several releases with no more than minor issues that were related to changing requirements for notices in incubator projects. The next release (0.5) is currently being voted on. Subsequent to that, the podling is likely to vote to request the board to graduate Drill to TLP status. Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board: None How community has developed since last report: Community awareness and outreach were strengthened in multiple forums as below 8/7/14 Big Data Analytics Melbourne MC Srivas 8/13/14 Chicago HUG Chicago Jim Scott 8/20/14 Pittsburgh HUG Pittsburgh Andy Pernsteiner 8/21/14 Heartland Big Data Omaha, NE Neeraja Rentachintala 8/26/14 Data Mining San Francisco, CA Tomer Shiran Mailing list discussions: Activity summary for the user mailing list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-user/ * June 2014: 79 * July 2014, 12 * August 2014, 63 Activity summary for the dev mailing list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/ * June 2014, 374 * July 2014, 294 * August 2014, 247 For details of code commits, see https://github.com/apache/incubator-drill/graphs/commit-activity (about 400 commits in the past 3 months) 31 contributors have participated in GitHUB code activity; there have been 152 forks. Community Interactions Monthly Drill hangout continues, conducted remotely through Google hangouts Tuesday mornings 10am Pacific Time to keep core developers in contact in realtime despite geographical separation. Community stays in touch through @ApacheDrill Twitter ID, and by postings on various blogs including Apache Drill User http://drill-user.org/ which has had several updates and through international presentations at conferences. Articles Examples of articles or reports on Apache Drill since last report include: * Self Service Data Exploration is Here by Neeraja Rentachintala Social Networking @ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown substantially by 20%, to 1057 followers. How project has developed since last report Web-site clean slate revamp Significant progress has been made in performance and stability New functionality has been added to the product including reading and writing complex types in Parquet, as well as using hadoop 2 API for Parquet Nearly ~450 bugs filed and ~550 bugs resolved New docs have been published on Drill wiki ( Develop Custom Functions, Querying HBase Tables, Querying Complex Data) Started monthly releases. 0.4 release at end of July. Announcement: http://s.apache.org/t0a 0.5 release currently up for vote. Signed-off-by: [x](drill) Ted Dunning [x](drill) Grant Ingersoll [ ](drill) Isabel Drost-Fromm [X](drill) Sebastian Schelter -------------------- Falcon Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to build community Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - No How has the community developed since the last report? * Three more committers were invited and they have accepted to join the project * More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the community continues to grow How has the project developed since the last report? * Development activity has been very hectic more than 200 JIRAs have been created and about 120 of them resolved since the last report * There are more than 100 users subscribed on the dev mailing list * We have formaulated bi weekly sync up to coordinate with developers and contributors across the world * 0.5-incubating release has been withdrawn due to LICENSE & NOTICE issues and same is intended to be prepared for vote shortly and will be released in Sep 2014. Date of last release: 2014-02-03 (0.4-incubating) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Aug 28, 2014 Signed-off-by: [ ](falcon) Arun Murthy [X](falcon) Chris Douglas [ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley [ ](falcon) Devaraj Das [X](falcon) Alan Gates -------------------- Fleece (currently renaming to Johnzon) Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing. Fleece/Johnzon 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". New approved name is "Johnzon". Waiting for INFRA-8269. 2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding new committers. 3. Publish first incubator release. The Fleece project status page at http://s.apache.org/0m needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the statuspage need to be re-visited once #1 is settled. Clutch needs also an update. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * N/A How has the community developed since the last report? * Voted in one new committer. How has the project developed since the last report? * Some minor fixes and improvements. Date of last release: * No releases as of yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? * New committer Hendrik Saly (salyh) on 2014-08-23 Signed-off-by: [X](fleece) Justin Mclean [ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier [ ](fleece) Daniel Kulp -------------------- 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 September, 20) 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: [X](kalumet) Jim Jagielski [ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez [X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre [X](kalumet) Olivier Lamy -------------------- log4cxx2 Logging for C++ log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. We need to release 0.11.0 as maintenance release. 2. We probably need to decide what's an acceptable platform/compiler list, sort out any remaining hiccups, and then move towards a release. 3. We need to make a broader use of the ASF infrastructure (notably the CI, as well as improved management of the Jira site - notably with triaging), and establish a roadmap for the next releases. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? N/A How has the community developed since the last report? No changes in team. How has the project developed since the last report? Mails suggest that there's work going on in the background by some committers especially regarding the build process, but there hasn't been any notable commit in the last weeks. The current trunk now fixes most of the important outstanding bugs and we are actively supporting the project. Some minor changes have been applied for the website. Date of last release: 2008-04-03 was the official, pre-incubation 0.10.0 Many post-0.10.0 commits exist on trunk which we intend to get out as 0.11.x. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? N/A Signed-off-by: [X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier [ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy Shepherd/Mentor notes: log4cxx is still getting started. While activity is happening, they need to get their first release out the door to be successful and start to get interest. -------------------- MRQL MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and Flink. MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. increase the number of active committers 2. increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list 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? We have released our second release under Apache incubation. After we added Apache Flink as an evaluation backend for MRQL, there was an interest by the Flink community in our project, which may result in collaboration between the projects and may expand our user community. How has the project developed since the last report? We have added support for Apache Flink. Now users can run MRQL queries on a Yarn cluster using 4 different backends (Hadoop map-reduce, Hama, Spark, and Flink), without having to change their queries. Date of last release: 2014-06-26 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-04-17 Signed-off-by: [X](mrql) Alan Cabrera [ ](mrql) Anthony Elder [ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu [ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din Shepherd/Mentor notes: jmclean: Mentors active and project healthy. Project has discussed graduation but feels it needs more active committers. -------------------- 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: nightly builds). 2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace. 3. Improve web site. 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 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: * First release approved by PPMC and Incubator PMC * Web site We will push our and announce the release shortly. Apache infrastructure is extremely frustrating. The release has taken a lot longer than it should have because it frequently makes this newbie feel like an idiot. Questions are answered promptly but it is difficult to know what questions to ask. Date of last release: 2014-08-25 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-15 Signed-off-by: [X](optiq) Ted Dunning [X](optiq) Alan Gates [X](optiq) Steven Noels -------------------- REEF REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is a scale-out computing fabric that eases the development of Big Data applications on top of resource managers such as Apache YARN and Mesos. REEF has been incubating since 2014-08-12. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Set up the basic infrastructure: git repository, mailing lists (INFRA-8190) 2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant 3. Get approval for name of REEF (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-55) 4. Update the existing project web site 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? * All committers have filed ICLAs. * JIRA created * Status page 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](reef) Chris Douglas [X](reef) Chris Mattmann [ ](reef) Ross Gardler [X](reef) Owen O'Malley -------------------- Sentry Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster. Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to grow the Sentry community 2. Initiate graduation discussion with community and address any potential concerns raised 3. Update project status page, website etc. 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? The community is growing. A number of new members have started actively contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant contribution in patches as well as release activity. Two of contributors are elected to become new committers. How has the project developed since the last report? The project did its 3rd release from incubation. Thanks to lot of hard work and initiative from the release manager Tuong Truong, Sravya Tirukkovalur as his mentor and contributions from other community members, version 1.4 was released on 18th August. Several new features and patches are being actively worked on the master branch. Date of last release: 2014-08-19 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Arun Suresh and Tuong Truong have been added as a committer as announced on 9/1/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has entered the incubator. Signed-off-by: [X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar [X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier [X](sentry) David Nalley [ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy [X](sentry) Patrick Hunt [ ](sentry) Thomas White Shepherd/Mentor notes: dev@ list is active, although the amount of traffic was quite lower this month, compare to the past periods. Mentors are visible (IPMC report discussion) -------------------- Storm Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data. Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: N/A - Storm is ready to graduate. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Both the Storm PPMC and the IPMC have voted to graduate. The graduation resolution has been sent to the board for approval. How has the community developed since the last report? The Storm community continues to grow, and the mailing lists are quite active. We have added 3 additional committers/PPMC members. How has the project developed since the last report? We have issued one release and are preparing for the next release. Date of last release: 2014-06-24 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-08-26 Signed-off-by: [x](storm) Ted Dunning [x](storm) Arvind Prabhakar [ ](storm) Devaraj Das [ ](storm) Matt Franklin [ ](storm) Benjamin Hindman ------------------- Wave A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication. It can be used like email, chat, or a document. Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make a release. 2. Grow community. 3. Develop new feature/fix bugs. 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? A new committer joined us. There has been increased activity from existing members, and we have started receiving patches from a new developer. How has the project developed since the last report? Work has continued on generating our first release. We are now testing out RC6 - after RC5 failed due to a couple of missing licenses, and a bug in the MongoDB implementation. In the mean time, development work on the main branch has added profiling support, JDK 7 support, Solr as a search backend, and various bugfixes. Date of last release: No release yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? July 2014 - Andrew Kaplanov Signed-off-by: [X](wave) Christian Grobmeier [ ](wave) Upayavira ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig] The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level issues at this time. o Releases We made the following unstable release from Jackrabbit trunk: * Apache Jackrabbit 2.9 on August 28th We made the following maintenance releases from the Jackrabbit Oak sub project: * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.2 on July 14th * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.3 on July 28th * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.4 on August 4th * Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.5 on August 29th o Community / Development * Amit Jain joined the Jackrabbit team as committer and PMC member in June. * .adaptTo() Berlin 2014 will be featuring a session on Jackrabbit Oak in September. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré] Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= We have two talks scheduled at the next ApacheCon EU: - Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf - Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf and a tutorial: - Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf We also have a talk and workshop scheduled at JUG Barcelona. Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: - Apache Karaf 2.3.6 (maintenance release) (August 1, 2014) - Apache Karaf Cave 3.0.0 (major release) (July 4, 2014) - Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.0 (major release) (June 27, 2014) We plan to release a Karaf 3.0.2 version (especially for Java8 support) and Karaf 2.4.0 version (for full support of Karaf 3.0.x branch) in the coming weeks. Due to a Windows platform issue, we plan to release Karaf 2.3.7 soon as well. Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams] Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers. [STATUS] Another typical quiet couple months for Labs. The PMC remains quiet and healthy. [DETAILS] == Community == A couple researchers had work, otherwise it’s back to being fairly quiet with nothing significant to report. == Labs Statistics == - new: 0 - status changes (last 3 months): 0 - total number: 41 - active: 17 - idle: 15 - promoted: 3 - completed: 8 - labs with commits: panopticon, alike ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Mark Miller] The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software. TLP --- We added one new committer in the last quarter: Tomás Fernández Löbbe George Aroush went emeritus from the PMC. We have closed down the OpenRelevance sub project. The project is dead, mailing lists are currently removed. We have preserved the Wiki. Lucene Core and Solr -------------------- Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit. Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core. In the last quarter we made two releases of both Lucene Core and Solr: - 4.9.0 on 25 June 2014 - 4.10.0 on 3 Sept 2014 The corresponding Apache Solr Reference Guide was released as PDF version, generated from the Confluence Wiki: - 4.9 on 30 June 2014 - 4.10 on 7 Sept 2014 The community is very active. Security: There were two security issues reported: - An XXE vulnerability was reported against Apache Solr (CVE-2014-3529). The issue was caused by the bundled Apache POI library. Apache POI fixed the issue and released bugfix packages. An advisory was posted on the Solr web page about how to update the bundled libraries in existing deployments. The recent release of Apache Solr 4.10.0 is no longer vulnerable. - External search web pages, referenced by the Lucene/Solr site, were vulnerable to an XSS attack. Both providers, LucidWorks and Sematext, were contacted and they fixed the problem. PyLucene -------- PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java. Development is almost entirely an automated port, so this project will never require a lot of developers. The user community is active. In the last quarter we made one release of PyLucene: - 4.9.0-0 on 17 July 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser] Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users. == Summary == In the last month we have had a significant contribution from some interns at Microsoft. After working through CLA/ICLA issues we were able to get their code for a port of Java Lucene 4.8 into our official Lucene.Net repo. We are actively working on getting tests to pass (with approx. 3/4ths passing). As well as porting additional contrib packages for additional functionality. We had some issues with the ICLA, and it was determined, with legal, secretary and some board input, that we are not going to question CLA's and their responses where they say they do not require employer CCLA's. == Releases == Working toward 4.8. Additionally we have a 4.3 port targeting portable common library in the works. == Statistics == Nuget package downloads: Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 85731 Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 25325 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 3480 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 842 == Additional Information == - We've gotten some support from Microsoft developers, it looks like there is a group in MSFT that is taking an active interest in this project (just an observation) - We've had some questions about the health of the project on our mailing list, as well as a number of people asking how they could get involved (from website maintenance to porting code) - A few of our committers are very active working to finalize the v4 port of Lucene.Net - There have been ~50 new questions tagged as Lucene.Net since July (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lucene.net?page=1&sort=newest&pagesize=50) - Overall, I feel we are doing ok, but as a team we need to get a new release out (last release was end of 2012) Our last PMC Member and Committer was added late 2013 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato] Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP). We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. *Releases* * Apache OFBiz 12.04.03 has been released in June 2014 * Apache OFBiz 11.04.05 has been released in August 2014 * Apache OFBiz 12.04.04 has been released in August 2014 * note that 11.04.05 and 12.04.04 have been released in order to fix a security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0232) that has been reported to the Apache Security Team; we have handled this security fix according to the security workflow; the process is now complete * the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is mostly complete; the release date has been postponed but we should get a new release before the end of 2014 *Community and Project* * committers: Sharan Foga is a new committer since July 2014 * PMC members: no new PMC members; the last PMC member is Erwan de Ferrieres (erwan) invited in December 2009; Adrian Crum resigned from the PMC in June 2014 * the PMC is aware of the importance of working with the community in order to encourage new contributors and promote them to committers and PMC members; the PMC is now considering for invitation individuals that, even if they are not developers, are committed to the project, show a positive attitude and ability to work with the community; the new committer, Sharan Foga, is a good example of this new course because she is a consultant, project manager, technical writer and she is currently helping to improve the OFBiz documentation * ApacheCon: a full OFBiz track has been included in the schedule at ApacheCon Europe 2014 in Budapest: the six presentations will cover a range of business and technical topics; the 6 speakers are from all over Europe (Czech Republic, France, Italy and The Netherlands). * mailing list traffic and commit rates are steady *Infra/Legal* We have no issues that require Board assistance. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz] Apache Olingo is an effort to provide an implementation of the OASIS OData (Open Data) specification in Java, and Javascript (and possibly other languages). The project has graduated in April 2014. * When did the project last make any releases? The latest release is version 2.0.0 and was built on 2014-07-11. * Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter. Olingo community is working on support for OASIS OData 4.0 standard, is in discussion for the first 4.0 release and is doing the maintenance for OData 2.0 which is already released. The project has a healthy community and is getting more stakeholders. Mailing list and Jira do show constant traffic. * When were the last committers or PMC members elected? The PMC is still initial after graduation in April 2014: Last PMC member: 2014-03-19 Last committer: 2014-02-10 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly] DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT • OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17 • OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25 We resolved 40 issues in JIRA [1] since our last report as we gear up for OODT-0.7. Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2014: List Jul Aug Sep ---- --- --- --- dev 198 192 17 user 25 7 0 COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members: • Michael Starch (starchmd) 2014-07-14 (committer and PMC member) • Tyler Palsulich (tpalsulich) 2014-07-22 (committer and PMC member) PRESS The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory [2] mission launched into Earth orbit on 2014-07-02. Apache OODT (as well as Apache Tika [3]) powers its ground data system. Similarly, the NASA Airborne Snow Observatory [4], which uses aircraft-based laser radar (LIDAR) to measure snowpack. Apache OODT is a core component that's pivotal in this mission that's understanding California drought [5]. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [2] http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ [3] http://tika.apache.org/ [4] http://aso.jpl.nasa.gov/ [5] http://s.apache.org/1li ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] This report was due for the board meeting in August 2014. Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. == Releases == Version 3.0.2 has been released. Version 3.0.2 is the second bugfix release of Apache OpenMeetings. There is currently a vote running for 3.0.3 and it is expected to be released some time in September. == Activity == The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits. The process of migrating OpenMeetings from Ant/Ivy to a Maven module build is complete. Also the website at http://openmeetings.apache.org is re-build using more or less the same content but using the Maven website templates. Trunk is already version 3.1.x. Version 3.1.x reduces the amount of Flash used again. While version 3.0.x is still using OpenLaszlo and the entire conference room is using Flash, in version 3.1.x only the video containers are Flash. The rest of the conference room is build using HTML5. Also this version will build those Flash components using Apache Flex. Infra team provided a demo server to the project. We are still in the process of installing some of the SSL components of OpenMeetings. The idea is to expand the automated testing in the next 6-12 months with a Selenium test suite that runs against that server. And to integrated that into the daily builds and release process. == Community == There is constant activity in the mailing list however no new members have been voted into a PMC role. == Infrastructure == No outstanding issue. We have seen that there is some work ongoing to provide a SSL certificate for Apache projects for code signing (INFRA-3991). We are following that to integrate it into our build process. == Board == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann] The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services. Development ------------------ The development team remains active, but the activity decreased over the summer month. The 1.6.0. release is still not out but will hopefully be finished this year. Most open issues for it are solved. Community --------------- The community remains active and there is good traffic on the lists. There are no new PMC members and there have been no PMC/PPMC additions since the project moved to Apache. Vinh Khuc (May), Tommaso Teofili (April) and Rodrigo Agerri (March) have become committers in the first half of 2014. Releases ------------ The last release OpenNLP 1.5.3 was released on 15.4.2013. Issues -------- There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg] Apache OpenWebBeans 1.x is an ALv2-licensed implementation of the "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specification which is defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0). OpenWebBeans 2.x will also implement the CDI-1.1 and CDI-1.2 (MR) specifications(JSR-346) and also CDI-2.0 (JSR-365). Board Issues There are no issues requiring board attention this time. Development Development continues in trunk to implement CDI 1.2 as OpenWebBeans-1.5.x. Members of the community also actively contribute to the CDI-2.0 JavaEE specification which has been filed as JSR-365. New Releases OpenWebBeans 1.2.6 on 2014-06-22 Discussions. Nothing which requires board attention. We discussed that we will likely rename our trunk from owb-2.0.x to owb-1.5.x as there is a new CDI-2.0 specification and we would like to have the OWB numbers align with the spec version. Community Community activity is fine. We are working towards CDI-1.2 and are already passing more than 900 TCK tests. A short note: this is part of JavaEE7 but we don't have any licensing issues as both the CDI spec and it's TCK are ALv2 licensed. We are currently watching a new contributor who shipped very valuable fixes and is working on TCK issues. Last Committer: Karl Kilden on Oct 29th, 2013 Last PMC addition: Thomas Andraschko and Jean-Louis Monteiro on 2014-05-28 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Cheolsoo Park] Description: Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets. Releases: * 0.13.0: released in July 2014 that includes several new features as follows: ** Pluggable execution engines ** Auto-local mode optimization ** Direct-fetch optimization ** Blacklisting and whitelisting operators ** Accumulo storage Community: * 420 subscribers to the dev mailing list (417 in the last report) * 1163 subscribers to the user mailing list (1153 in the last report) * The PMC has now 15 members and the project counts 9 additional committers ** New committer: Lorand Bendig on 06/14/2014 ** New pig-on-spark branch committers: Mayur Rustagi and Praveen Rachabattuni on 08/29/2014 Status of branding checklist: Project Naming and Description: DONE Website Navigation Links: DONE Trademark Attributions: DONE Logos and Graphics: NOT STARTED Project Metadata: NOT STARTED ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb] Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Project activity is about the same as last quarter, but with some increased developer activity. We are targeting a new maintenance release next month, and still preparing for the next major release. User mailing list activity (maybe because of summer holidays) has been slower than usual. There has been recent discussion about creating a "Powered By Pivot" section on the web site to try to build some developer interest. There were 6 new issues created this quarter, and 8 resolved. Board Issues: None that I know of. Releases: Last release was 2.0.4, published 19-May-2014. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: Still do not have a definitive answer about Apache Extras, but we are still able to use the current setup. Community: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. Latest PMC Changes: Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013, Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. Releases -------- POI 3.11-beta2 released in August 2014 POI 3.10.1 released in August 2014 POI 3.11-beta1 released in July 2014 Community --------- Uwe Schindler (uschindler) was added to POI PMC in August 2014. Project Status --------- Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been steady in the last 3 months. Most patches are applied without much delay. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor] Apache Portals is a project for building freely available and interoperable portal software. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available portlet applications. Releases: Very close to releasing Jetspeed 2.3.0, 2.2.3, and APA WebContent-2 March 6, 2013 - Portals Apps Web Content 1.3 October 10, 2011 - Portals Jetspeed 2.2.2 26 September 2011 - Portals Pluto 2.0.3 Committer/PMC: Neil Griffin, working on Pluto Security updates: None Community update: Pluto team is now implementing Portlet 3.0 TCK (Test Compatibility Kit and Portlet 3.0 RI Jetspeed team finalizing releases expected release date October: - Jetspeed 2.3.0 - Java 7 trunk - Jetspeed 2.2.3 - Java 6 maintenance release We are down to only a few bugs and open issues for both releases APA Portals Applications team expects to release APA Web Content in October ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen] Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi. Project Status The project focus of Apache ServiceMix is the assembly of the integration container, the actual functionality is being maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf, Apache CXF and Apache Camel. With all the version upgrades and the JIRA notifications that go with it, we decided to create a separate issues@ list to make it easier for people to notice and contribute to the actual discussions at the dev@ list. Activity on the mailing lists and in JIRA has been a bit slow over the summer, but is picking up again now that we're planning to do new releases. There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Community Since our last board report, we voted in 1 new committer, Wim Verreydt. We also invited Krzysztof Sobkowiak to join the PMC. Community Objectives After the initial few 5.0.x and 5.1.x releases, the goal is to keep a steady release schedule and keep up with new fix releases of our dependency projects. We're also working towards further 5.x releases and a 6.0.0 release to provide our users with major version upgrades of Karaf, Camel, CXF, ... Releases - Apache ServiceMix 5.0.2 in June - Apache ServiceMix 5.1.0 in June - Apache ServiceMix 5.0.3 in July - Apache ServiceMix 5.1.1 in July - A set of 35 OSGi bundles in August ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood] Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Releases: - No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on 25 February 2014. A 1.3 release may be on the horizon as an interim before 2.0, but most recent development work has targeted the 2.0 branch. Community & Project: - Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter. - Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev branch. Changes are nearly complete, and we hope to make a 2.0 release this quarter or early next. Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013 Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada] Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs. Development: Implemented Record based on ISO 19103 (Geographic information - Conceptual schema language). This is Fortran-like construct needed for the implementation of other ISO standards. Implemented Feature model based on ISO 19109 (Geographic information - Rules for application schema). Feature is aimed to be the container of most data handled by Apache SIS. Update SIS implementation of ISO 19115 standard (Geographic information - Metadata - part 1: Fundamentals) from version 2003 to version 2014[1]. Began the port of Coordinate Transformation code from Geotk to Apache SIS. Community: Christina Hough has volunteered to translate the developer guide draft from French to English[2]. This developer guide is still very incomplete, but the existing parts explain in details the process of mapping international standards to Apache SIS API. Some updates from version 2003 to 2014 of ISO 19115 were contributed by Rémi Maréchal. Some of above-cited SIS work required synchronization with GeoAPI[3]. As of August 27th, Christina has finished documenting all of the user's guide. Branding: No activity Issues: No activity Releases: We can not release before the update to ISO 19115:2014 is fully completed, because partially-completed works make some API inconsistent. After the update will be completed, we will propose a release. Press: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) offered us to write an entry for their blog after the ApacheCon. Unfortunately we missed time for doing that. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-94 [2] http://s.apache.org/LGY [3] http://www.geoapi.org ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler] Apache Sling is an OSGI-based scriptable web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. Community Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue. One new committer: Stefan Seifert Releases Apache Sling Auth Core 1.2.0 (September 8th, 2014) Apache Sling Models API 1.1.0 Apache Sling Models Impl 1.1.0, Apache Sling Crankstart Launcher, Apache Sling Health Check Annotations 1.0.2, Apache Sling Health Check Core 1.1.2, Apache Sling Health Check JUnit Bridge 1.0.2, Apache Sling Health Check Samples 1.0.6 (September 5th, 2014) Apache Sling Default GET Servlets 2.1.10, Apache Sling Explorer 1.0.4 (September 1st, 2014) Apache Sling API 2.8.0, Apache Sling JCR Resource 2.3.8, Apache Sling i18n 2.2.10, Apache Sling Installer Core 3.5.4, Apache Sling JCR Installer 3.1.8, Apache Sling File Installer 1.0.4 (August 31st, 2014) Apache Sling JSON Library 2.0.8, Apache Sling Default POST Servlets 2.3.6 (August 28th, 2014) Apache Sling Commons Mime 2.1.6, Apache Sling Commons OSGi 2.2.2 (August 19th, 2014) Apache Sling Tenant 1.0.2 (August 18th, 2014) Apache Sling Apache Sling Auth Core 1.1.8, Apache Sling Auth Selector 1.0.6, Apache Sling Form Based Authentication 1.0.6, Apache Sling OpenID Authentication 1.0.4, Apache Sling Query 2.0.0 (August 11th, 2014) Apache Sling Auth Core 1.1.8, Apache Sling Auth Selector 1.0.6, Apache Sling Form Based Authentication 1.0.6, Apache Sling OpenID Authentication 1.0.4 (August 11th, 2014) Apache Sling Eventing 3.3.12 (August 8st, 2014) Apache Sling Parent 20 (August 1st, 2014) Apache Sling Discovery Impl 1.0.10 (July 29th, 2014) Apache Sling Engine 2.3.4, Apache Sling Launchpad Base 4.4.1-2.5.2 (July 26th, 2014) Apache Sling Testing Tools 1.0.8 (July 22nd, 2014) Apache Sling Service User Mapper 1.0.4, Apache Sling Compat Servlets 1.0.2 (July 14th, 2014) Apache Sling Settings 1.3.2, Apache Sling Scripting JSP 2.1.4, Apache Sling Scripting Java 2.0.10 (July 13th, 2014) Apache Sling Scripting Thymeleaf 0.0.2, Apache Sling Authentication XING API 0.0.2, Apache Sling Authentication XING Login 0.0.2, Apache Sling Authentication XING OAuth 0.0.2 (July 11th, 2014) Apache Sling Installer Core 3.5.2, Apache Sling Installer Configuration Factory 1.0.14, Apache Sling Models API 1.0.2, Apache Sling Models Impl 1.0.6 (July 2nd, 2014) Apache Sling Eclipse IDE 1.0.0 (July 1st, 2014) Apache Sling IDE Tooling 1.0.2 (June 29th, 2014) Apache Sling Scripting JavaScript Support 2.0.14 (June 23rd, 2014) Apache Sling SLF4J MDC Filter 1.0.0, Apache Sling Classloader Leak Detector 1.0.0 (June 9th, 2014) Apache Sling Bundle JCR Install Archetype 1.0.2, Apache Sling Tooling Support Install 1.0.0, Apache Sling Bundle Archetype 1.0.2, Apache Sling Servlet Archetype 1.0.2 (June 4th, 2014) Documentation and infrastructure Website has moved to Apache CMS Dist folder has moved to svn Project Branding is tracked in SLING-2696. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail] SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into virtually any email system. Releases -------- 3.4.0 was released on 2014-02-11. Our rules releases have been restored publishing 63 rule sets. The release of 3.4.1 is pending and expected on or about Sept 30th. No other releases for this quarter. Community & Development ----------------------- The most recent addition to our PMC is Adam Katz added on 2013-01-30. The most recent addition to the committers is Joe Quinn added on 2014-02-27. We still have 3 contributors invited to submit a CLA on the project and begin moving towards committer karma with commits passed through to current committers to vet and apply showing good community development health. Our RuleQA dev list has been active and community support is good. The project users' list is active; questions get asked and answered. The project dev list has been active with both committers and community members contributing. We still need to get our Jenkins build slave working under FreeBSD instead of Solaris1 (Bug 6887). Project Branding Requirements ----------------------------- IN PROCESS - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site NOTE: Pending TM being added to one version of the logo to make the announcement for the new logo No other Branding issues known but we look forward to the Powered by Apache logo! Issues ------ SA was asked to clarify a previous report item mentioned. In SpamAssassin, the ASF software product is the hammer. However, the SpamAssassin rules published by the project are the nails. With SA v3.3.0, we separated the rules from the code to make it so we could more readily use an update infrastructure donated by anti-spam community members to deliver daily rule updates. As spam evolves, one of the tools that has grown to heavy use is called an RBL or Real-time Blocklist also know as a DNSBLs because the underlying technology that has been leveraged to deliver the RBL world-wide is DNS-based. I have begun the framework at https://raptor.pccc.com/raptor.cgim?template=RBL with the intention to run this under the project if permitted. My concern is that this is less of a "software" and more of a support resource. As such, is this something that the ASF would support or would the board frown on such an item? ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ] Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is performing well and the development is going towards version 1.0. The Stanbol project is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. Initially we had 4 active projects. 3/4 GSoC project were successful. One dropped before mid term because the student disappeared right after the start. The three successful projects are 1. Enhancement Workflows. Enterprise Integration Patterns in Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1008) Student: Antonio David Perez Morales Mentors: Florent André, Rafa Haro 2. Integrate YAGO2 and AIDA NED with Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1384) Student: Chalitha Perera Mentor: Rafa Haro 3. Speech to Text Enhancement Engine for Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1007) Student: Suman Saurabh Mentor: Andreas Kuckartz All three projects have provided patches with the results. Those will be integrated to the Stanbol code base with the help of the Mentors and the Students. Subscribers on the dev list: 217 No new committers or PMC members were elected. Last new committer was Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka] Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. We continue to engage with the Apache Axis2 community to get the necessary upstream projects and libraries released, so we can proceed with a Synapse 3.0 release. The response from the Axis2 team has been very positive, but the progress is somewhat slow. In the meantime we are discussing alternative ideas for speeding up the Synapse 3.0 release. Board issues ============ None identified. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi] Apache Tajo is a robust big data relational and distributed data warehouse system for Apache Hadoop. Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc queries, online aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on large-data sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and data flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and optimization opportunities. Status =============== There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Current Activity =============== Committers and contributors have been actively contributed codes. Since last release in May 2014, we resolved 258 issues. The recent development issues are as follows: * Implemented OffHeapRowBlock which reduces GC overheads during query processing * Improved multiple distinct aggregation using multi-level evaluation tree * Added TajoMaster HA * Implemented runtime byte code generation for more CPU efficient evaluation Community ============== There are no board-level issues. Mailng list: * dev@tajo.apache.org: 96 subscribers * user@tajo.apache.org: 34 subscribers Releases =============== Last release 0.8.0 in May 5, 2014. The last committers or PMC members elected =========================================== Last new committer: Hyoungjun Kim on 2014/08/06. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: 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. There was significant momentum in the community to wrap up the 0.5.0 release over the past month with over 130 jiras resolved. The 0.5.0 release was announced on Sept 5th. It is a developer focused release that stabilizes the APIs and improves the debugging experience for Tez applications. Some of the important features of this release were: * Stable APIs * Better Documentation * Support for Local mode to aid debugging * Addition of Performance debugging tools * New intermediate data format to improve performance RELEASES 0.4.1-incubating released on July 15, 2014. 0.5.0 released on Sept 5, 2014 COMMUNITY Auth: 31 PMC members and 32 committers ( as of Sep 06 2014). Additions since last report: Committers: Jonathan Eagles ( added Aug 11, 2014 ) Jira: Last 30 days: 150 jiras created, 138 resolved. Mailing Lists: user@ - 122, dev@ - 135 subscribers. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin] Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for modern Java applications. Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify the development of user interfaces. The Tiles project continues to move at a slow pace, but work is ongoing. In the last quarter the project has produced one release: * Tiles-Request 1.0.5 GA The community for Tiles remains the same. The same one or two people have been continuing to do much of the development for Tiles. There remains a little traffic in the users list and in the issue tracker and these are responded to and/or fixed usually within a week or two. The Spring community, and stackexchange.com, are the most active inputs to the community. We have not added any new committers or PMC members since 2012. Attempts continue to build the active community. A paper was submitted to ApacheConEU without any luck. Otherwise the community is small and slow, but still present and active. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk] General: Continued healthy activity across multiple components and responsiveness on both dev and user lists. Issues: The Apache Tomcat PMC continues to monitor the progress of the discussions with Oracle regarding regaining access to the TCKs. After a brief burst of activity at the end of April / beginning of May this appears to have stalled again. Releases: * Apache Tomcat 8.0.9 - stable, 2014-06-26 * Apache Tomcat 8.0.10 (not released) * Apache Tomcat 8.0.11 - 2014-08-26 * Apache Tomcat 8.0.12 - 2014-09-06 * Apache Tomcat 7.0.55 - 2014-07-29 * Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.31 - 2014-07-08 Development: There was lots of development activity on Apache Tomcat 7 and Apache Tomcat 8. We had first stable release of Apache Tomcat 8. Community: Ian Darwin requested to step down from his PMC membership and went emeritus. Security: CVE-2013-4444 - Important: Remote Code Execution In very limited circumstances, it was possible for an attacker to upload a malicious JSP to a Tomcat server and then trigger the execution of that JSP. While Remote Code Execution would normally be viewed as a critical vulnerability, the circumstances under which this is possible are, in the view of the Tomcat security team, sufficiently limited that this vulnerability is viewed as important. Trademark: Detailed status: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor] Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 14 July 2014 last release 12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition 24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition 2 Releases: 16 July 2014 UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout support for UIMA) 2.6.0 released http://uima.apache.org/news.html#16 July 2014 12 June 2014 uimaFIT 2.1.0 released http://uima.apache.org/news.html#12 June 2014 Other Activity: UIMA DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Controller) work is very active and progressing toward a next release. Core UIMA is close to being able to add JSON serialization, in support of the trend toward Cloud deployments. UIMA Ruta (Rule-based script language supported by Eclipse tooling) is about to release the next version (vote underway). The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing work continues. Community: A workshop with a strong focus on UIMA was held in conjunction with COLING 2014, the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, and UIMA Ruta was demonstrated here as well. http://uima.apache.org/coling14.html Several new contributers have started contributing, especially to Ruta. Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth] DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The next release of VCL planned for late September or early October. * Development is on track. Several JIRA issues have been closed. * A major overhaul of the web code is nearly complete including support for multiple web servers [1] and class-based resources [2]. * Work is nearly complete to add OpenStack provisioning support to VCL [3]. * Work is complete to add support for Windows 8.x/2012 [4] images and VMware ESXi 5.5 provisioning [5]. RELEASES None COMMUNITY Subscribers to the user list: 162 Posts to user list, 6/14-8/14: 113 Subscribers to the dev list: 136 Posts to dev list, 6/14-8/14: 168 Committers: 8 PMC members: 7 ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-5 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-776 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-590 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-770 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-771 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann] Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July. In the last month the activities were mostly around releasing the first non-incubating release (on Sep 7) and 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 As the first non-incubating release is out we will again focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. The next planned step towards growing the community is to publish a paper on Apache VXQuery and thus hopefully increase the visibility of the project. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.4 was released on Sep 7, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer] Apache Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: No new releases this quarter. Last release was 0.8.2, April 2013. Community: The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since the last report. The last PMC change was the addition of Andrew Bayer in November of 2012, and the last new committer was Graham Gear, also in November of 2012. Issues: Discussions were had with the jclouds PMC about merging the Whirr core code into jclouds as part of moving Whirr to the Attic - doesn't sound like that's going to happen. So it's probably time to move Whirr to the Attic. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst] Apache Wicket is a Java framework for creating highly dynamic, component oriented web applications. Things worthy of note: - Released Wicket 6.16.0, 7.0.0-M2, 1.5.12, 7.0.0-M3, 6.17.0 - Nutch Google Summer of Code delivered admin interface using Wicket - ApacheCon EU 2014 has 3 Wicket presentations - No new committers or members were added in this period - Fixed CVE-2014-3526 - Apache's Nexus repository availability spotty Date last committer/PMC member added: 12 July 2013 Nutch GSoC Fjodor Vershinin participated in the Google Summer of Code this year and created an administrative interface for Apache Nutch using Wicket. ApacheCon EU Martijn Dashorst will present 3 sessions at ApacheCon EU in Budapest: - Wicket Puzzlers - Wicket and Java EE Sitting in a Tree - Apache Wicket: 10 Years and Beyond Apache's Nexus Repository As a release manager I (Martijn Dashorst) have had a very tough time attempting to prepare and release our project due to the spotty availability of the Nexus repository. So much that it took a couple of days investment on my part to circumvent connectivity issues (e.g. INFRA-7984) during this release, but previous releases were plagued as well by Nexus. The Nexus instability has become a liability for us even though we release about once a month or two months: it usurps an inordinate amount of time preparing and completing a release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment. Community: The Wink project has a small community which is not very active. We have had discussions on how to increase community activity, and the initial suggestion, that was to start working on JAX-RS 2.0 implementation didn’t sustain itself for long. Having said that, I believe Wink is a mature project with active users and we should not consider any retirement actions at the moment. Last svn activity shows couple patches being applied towards wink website in August, but actually no code change since december 2013. Releases: * Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013 Committers or PMC changes: * Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013. Trademark/Branding: * No known issues. Legal Issues: * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. ISSUES - Community activity is very low. 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 is low with 15 messages on the user list and 11 messages on the dev list in 2014. - There were no commits in 2014. - A discussion thread was started on Aug 16 [1] on both user and dev lists to request community input on new development plans. Only one response so far from a PMC member suggesting a new release to pick up updated dependencies. - The current PMC chair indicated on the private list his intention to step out of the PMC and asked for volunteers to replace him as he is too busy with other work. No response from other PMC members so far. BRANDING - The project needs to update logos with ™ and review the project DOAP file. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tuscany-dev/201408.mbox/%3cCA+5QmYDn4GSv32rxJntVOZ+7oerm_wjxY5kaqUiVG0GntVZDdA@mail.gmail.com%3e ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the September 17, 2014 board meeting.