The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes October 15, 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/2qxk The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Jake Farrell Daniel Gruno Jan Iversen Sean Kelly Shane Curcuru Henri Yandell Andrea Pescetti Lewis John McGibbney Kevin A. McGrail Tom Pappas (Virtual) David Nalley 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of September 17, 2014 See: board_minutes_2014_09_17.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] Last month, I asked all PMCs to review their committee records, and highlighted some known issues. Overall, I believe the records are in good shape. Thanks to the PMCs that responded quickly to the request. I was also encouraged that some took the opportunity to think about inviting new members they'd noticed were not listed. I updated the reporting guidelines for PMCs to include more detail about how the reporting process works, and to address some regular comments made [http://svn.apache.org/r1628351]. I intend to send them with a reminder to the PMCs this month. Opportunistically, I was able to meet with Ross and David Nalley while in San Francisco last month, which is described in the President's report. I also attended a meeting of the TODO Group while there, though have nothing to report from it. I was contacted by a project looking to join the ASF, and directed them to the Incubator proposal process. I've not received any further response. As Sally reports, I've been writing an introductory blog post for the series she is planning - a draft is on the press list for anyone that wants to provide input. B. President [Ross] Melissa, as EA, continues to ensure the foundation continues to tick over from day to day. Notable items this month are the completion of all TAC arrangements for ApacheConEU. Melissa explicitly calls out Jan Iversen and thanks him for his contributions to the process. EVP, myself and Melissa have explored a number of CRM options to replace the many calendars and spreadsheets spread across the foundation that Melissa works with. It is felt that a full blown CRM is overkill for our needs, however Melissa is exploring a custom option with the Apache OfBiz project. Melissa is driving this exploration at her own pace in response to her own level of frustration in each area. Her first area of focus is therefore Fundraising which works to a specific timeline and requires good records of past communications. Brand Management reports a quieter month which has allowed public policy documents to be updated to ensure PMCs are given the ability to approve non-controversial trademark use. I've not had the time to review these updates yet, but will do so in the coming month. Feedback from interested Directors is welcome. I have, however, observed at least three cases in the last month in which a faster resolution of a request was possible by referring the enquiry to the appropriate PMC. At the time of writing there is no Fundraising report. Our EA continues to ensure fundraising actions are completed, some details are in the EA report. Upayavira has asked for volunteers to take on the role of VP Fundraising, to date we have two strong candidates. I would like to thank Upayavira for staying on for nearly a year when I requested that he document the processes and ensure Melissa is up to speed before stepping down. Fundraising is now in a good shape as a result. Marketing and Publicity has conducted more of the "usual" activities, but there are a few items of note. Firstly the Powered By Apache logo's are now available (http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/). All PMCs are encouraged to use these logo's. Enquiries should be sent to press@apache.org. Secondly, Sally is working with a number of people across the foundation to bring together a series of blog posts to showcase ASF operations/achievements as part of its 15th anniversary. Finally, a new homepage for the foundation site is in progress - no firm date for a draft is available at this time. Infrastructure has launched a code signing service in trial mode. Two projects having successfully shipped signed artifacts. Two more projects are in the process of entering the trial. The long term work on improving monitoring of our services continues as does the process of automating our infrastructure. There have been many reactive demands on the infra team this month with significant problems with a services and many security alerts. As always - thanks to David and the team for keeping the foundation servers alive. The Travel Assistance report is missing at this time. However, see above comments from EA report. VP Infrastructure, our chairman and I met over coffee recently. The main topic of conversation was the need for us to get a handle on how to manage and scale our infrastructure as the foundation continues to grow. There are many aspects to this, some of which have been discussed before. However, the core discussion point was having the board set expectations for Infrastructure from a strategic planning perspective. David feels that he is making decisions today that will affect the foundation for three years plus and he does not, at this time, feel he has sufficient information to make such decisions. We also met with the ToDo group. No immediate action is expected on the part of the ASF. All three of us are on their announcement list and connected to key folks should anything come up for us. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] Discussion of BitCoin donations continues. A very useful resource was passed along regarding the SFLC and their interpretation of BitCoin and things to look out for: http://s.apache.org/guK Regarding the Audit, after a very productive call with the President, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Tom from Virtual and Brian the CPA on retainer for the audit and helping us work 990 tax submission, we decided that we will not audit 2014 accounts and will instead focus on a correct 990 for 2014. We will push the full audit off until April 30, 2015. Williams Overman Pierce, LLP will prepare our 990 return for the year ending April 30, 2014 and they have already filed a form 8688 for us providing a 3 month extension to submit our taxes. There is an open inquiry to the Treasurer’s Office to handle TAC reimbursements on the ground for students/etc. attending ApacheCon EU 2014 in Budapest. The Treasurer just replied to the inquiry and is working with Virtual to figure out the best practice for remittance. Various requests for sponsorship status have been promptly dealt with by the EA and by Virtual. Getting a new set of ASF credit cards is near complete, in coordination with the ASF President, the EA and Virtual. Income and Expenses for September 2014 Current Balances: Citizens Checking $271,865 Amazon Prime $15,220 Paypal - ASF $34,240 Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $855,085 Wells Fargo Savings $288,055 Total Checking/Savings $1,464,465 Income Summary: Public Donations $3,847 Amazon and Paypal Sponsorship Program $11,971 Interest Income $24 Total Income $15,841 Expense Summary: Infrastructure $46,856 Sponsorship Program $1,976 Publicity $5,455 Conferences $- Travel Assistance Committee $- Treasury Services $2,500 General & Administrative $8,181 Total Expense $64,967 Net Income $(49,126) D. Secretary [Craig] The office of secretary is running smoothly. In September 53 iclas, six cclas, and two grants were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] Most of my time this month has been spent on ApacheCon EU. ApacheCon EU is one month away. We currently have about 170 registrations, which is somewhat below what we wanted at this point, but we do tend to get a surge towards the end. We are working with numerous Meetup groups in Budapest to get the word out about the event, and are providing space to some of these groups to hold meetings during the event. Cassandra and Spark have both stepped up to fill some of the open slots in the schedule, and are working hard to bring an audience for those talks. Many other projects, particularly in the Big Data space, are working hard to get the word out about the event. One of our keynotes has been withdrawn, and we will be replacing it Bror Salmelin, the adviser for Innovation Systems at the European Commission. We also have keynotes from Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool, and David Nalley, VP Infrastructure at the ASF. ApacheCon North America is moving along. The LucidWorks people have agreed to colocate their event with ApacheCon this year, and Cloudstack will be running their event at ApacheCon again. we're talking with other projects about doing the same, and I'll be focusing more on this event as soon as we're done with Budapest. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report this month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Sam] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Rich] See Attachment A B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Brett] See Attachment B C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Doug] See Attachment C D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Jim] See Attachment D E. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Bertrand] See Attachment E F. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Ross] See Attachment F G. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Chris] See Attachment G H. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Brett] See Attachment H I. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Jim] See Attachment I J. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Ross] See Attachment J K. Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid / Chris] See Attachment K L. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Doug] See Attachment L M. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Bertrand] See Attachment M N. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Greg] See Attachment N @Greg: the report states a problem but no plan to address it O. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Rich] See Attachment O P. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Sam] See Attachment P Q. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Rich] See Attachment Q R. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Ross] See Attachment R S. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Brett] See Attachment S T. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Sam] See Attachment T @Sam: follow up with PMC. Some clarification on the relationship between the addons and the project would be helpful. Are they external just for splitting out, licensing, different community, making use of other github features? U. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Doug] See Attachment U V. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Bertrand] See Attachment V W. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Greg] See Attachment W X. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Jim] See Attachment X Y. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Chris] See Attachment Y Z. Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell / Brett] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Bertrand] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Chris] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Sam] No report was submitted. AD. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Jim] See Attachment AD AE. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Rich] See Attachment AE AF. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Greg] See Attachment AF @Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress AG. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Doug] See Attachment AG AH. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Ross] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Bertrand] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Chris] See Attachment AJ @Chris: need more detail in the report; seems like a cut/paste from previous reports. AK. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Ross] No report was submitted. AL. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Jim] See Attachment AL AM. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Sam] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Brett] No report was submitted. AO. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Doug] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Rich] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz / Rich] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Doug] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Jim] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Bertrand] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Greg] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Sam] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Chris] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Ross] No report was submitted. BA. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Brett] See Attachment BA BB. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Greg] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Brett] See Attachment BC BD. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Sam] See Attachment BD BE. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira / Doug] See Attachment BE Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Olingo Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Stephan Klevenz to the office of Vice President, Apache Olingo, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Stephan Klevenz from the office of Vice President, Apache Olingo, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Olingo project has chosen by vote to recommend Christian Amend as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Stephan Klevenz is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Olingo, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Christian Amend be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Olingo, 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 Olingo Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache jclouds Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrew Bayer to the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Andrew Bayer from the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache jclouds project has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Phillips as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrew Bayer is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Phillips be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, 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 jclouds Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items Greg: discuss Kevin's proposal to contract services to third party Ross: possible down side: knowledge of how infrastructure works would transfer outside foundation David: would make it difficult to move away from third party in future don't know how much it would cost so can't estimate cost effectiveness might affect volunteers if third party would be responsible for performance of volunteers Kevin: has experience with combination paid staff/volunteer bigger issue: don't want to run afoul of labor laws Ross: two kinds of infra: core and other; perhaps outsource only core preparation underway to clean up SLAs for contractors Greg: good direction Ross: more discussion with Kevin will follow Greg: concerned about legal contractor status Kevin: foundation has outgrown infra as was set up years ago Ross: need to continue this discussion Tom: Virtual can also provide some services Action: Greg to coordinate response. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records, report on dates Status: committee records: done, finally. Will follow up. Will be sending a separate mail about reporting after finalising changes to guidelines * Rich: Ask Axis whether the community is really healthy? Seems Synapse is asking Status: got picked up by Chris in September meeting * Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ] Status: * Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ] Status: * Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ] Status: * Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ] Status: * Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ] Status: * Bertrand: ask for clarification on "partial release" [ Clerezza ] Status: done. Hasan replied on board@ that such releases are simply releases of one or a few of the many modules that Clerezza contains. Nothing to worry about. * Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers, new PMC members Status: not yet complete * Jim: board report is a bit sparse; can this be improved for next report? [ Hama ] Status: Email sent. Will remind at next reporting time. * Jim: why is a certificate needed for release? [ Logging ] Status: Pinged. * Chris: pursue a proper report for Axis for next month [ Axis ] Status: Deepal responded to the meeting summary with some updates, Brett encouraged to include that in October report with a plan * Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts [ Flex ] Status: Began conversation with Alex Harui about the email thread in question, and the concerns raised in it. Agree that the subject line of the thread was way over the top, but the concerns raised in the thread were, I think, legitimate ones. Conversation ongoing. * Jim: ask SpamAssassin to discuss budget issues with treasurer [ SpamAssassin ] Status: Will close loop. * Brett: discuss with both PMCs to find a way to work together [ Synapse ] Status: mailed both PMCs, will monitor their next reports * Chris: does the project have enough committers to make releases? [ BVal ] Status: 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:30 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 credit cards. We’ll be submitting an application to Citizens Bank for a $30k monthly limit (AmEx didn’t suit our needs) to be divided amongst five cards with limits set according to needs (Prez, EVP, Secretary, Treasurer, and VP Infra). • Payments received from Bluehost (new bronze sponsor), Basis Technology, Cerner (rec’d ½ now with the balance due in six months - upgraded from bronze to silver), and EILEO SAS/Hertz (new donation of 1,500 EUR) • Reminders have been sent to the sponsors that we are awaiting payment from (Comcast and Liip AG SA Ltd) • Reminders have been sent to Upayavira wrt the past-due and upcoming renewals for the gold and platinum sponsors; Samsung sponsorship agreement received and awaiting a signature from ASF for processing payment (reminders have been sent) • Discussions underway for a CRM for Fundraising • ApacheCon Europe: • TAC: All flights booked; rooming assignments have been sent to the hotel – awaiting their invoice in order to request a wire transfer • We have one TAC’er that is pushing it close for a visa – his appointment is Nov 5th – he has been advised by both Jan I and myself to seek an early appointment date. • Jan I has been an amazing shepherd - I thank him so much for all of his hard work!! • In the process of researching giveaways that will have a special 15th anniversary logo! • Flight, hotel, and registration made for Infra’s new contractor; hotel and registration made for Gav • BarCamp: Linux Foundation awaiting info from Nick ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] A quieter month than usual. We made good progress updating public policy documentation to allow per-project approvals for many permissions requests, including a centralized Contact Us page for third party questions. Sally and the press team rolled out the Powered By Apache set of per-project logos which look great. Some projects may wish to request changes to their logos (in some cases, to include just a graphic logo and not wording); they should contact press@ with specific requests and be sure to help update the underlying graphics. Two podlings are in the process of changing branding due to feedback or issues during the PODLINGNAMESEARCH process. While this in some cases may result in additional website and infra related work if a change is made, it is difficult to see how it can be avoided to ensure that the ASF both respects pre-existing third party trademarks, as well as ensuring our ability to defend our top-level project marks in the future. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we are on budget with no payments due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally Khudairi launched the "Powered by Apache" mark and guidelines for Apache project logos, located at http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/ . She also is working with HotWax media on creating graphics for the ASF's 15th anniversary as well as a new homepage in celebration of the event. Sally is working with ASF Chairman Brett Porter, President Ross Gardler, Executive Vice President Rich Bowen, and VP Fundraising Upayavira on blog posts to showcase ASF operations/achievements as part of its 15th anniversary. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 30 September 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Cayenne™ v3.1 - 29 September 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Storm™ as a Top-Level Project - 29 September 2014 --Apache™ TomEE™ Wins Duke's Choice Award and Geek Choice Award at JavaOne 2014 (released in partnership with Tomitribe) - 23 September 2014 --Keynotes and Program Announced for ApacheCon and CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe (released in partnership with Linux Foundation) IV. Informal Announcements: 18 items were tweeted on @TheASF, including 6 project releases extracted from announce@apache.org and posted by Joe Brockmeier. In addition, Sally has begun to publish a weekly "News Roundup" of all news sent to announce@apache.org and announce@apachecon.com, and continues to coordinate with the Linux Foundation on promoting ApacheCon. V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with a TLP to announce an upcoming milestone 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 2 media requests. The ASF received 1,655 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 571. VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 11 write-ups by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 4 write-ups by GigaOM, 2 reports by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and 5 reports by IDC. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with Melissa Warnkin on the ASF's booth, signage, giveaways, etc. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: none at this time. X. Newswire accounts: we have 8 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of the calendar year, and continue to receive gratis news release distribution by Pressat (UK). # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] New Karma: ========== none Finances: ========== Domains: $85 Operations Action Items: ======================== None Short Term Priorities: ====================== Code Signing ------------ The code signing service is now live. Two projects have successfully shipped signed artifacts. Two more projects are in various stages of signing up, being vetted or testing out the service. Long Range Priorities: ====================== Monitoring ---------- Work has been ongoing to provide monitoring of the underlying hardware many of our services depend on, this is still in the early exploratory stages and remains ongoing Work building on our existing base of service status monitoring to provide insight, is also ongoing. Automation ---------- Much progress has been made around automation, multiple services are now fully defined in configuration management, though we still have much to go. Resilience ---------- Exploratory work to evaluate our ability to recover from disaster is underway, but is still early. Technical Debt -------------- General Activity: ================= The primary US web server that provides foundation and project websites in addition to mail-search and the moin-moin wiki has been problematic this week. Specifically we're running into multiple problems occurring at once resulting in tremendous IO overhead, and leading to very slow responses or outright failures. This has been a very busy month from a security perspective. Our Bugzilla instances went through multiple rounds of patches in response to 5 related security issues. Additionally, we've spent much time responding to Shellshock. Uptime Statistics: ================== Detailed Contractor Reporting ============================= * Geoffrey Corey - Get acquainted with ASF's system and services layout - Resolved 7 JIRA tickets - Clean out ASF's server racks and old hardware/spare parts at OSU - Inventory spare hw at OSU - Learn how to do TLP requests - Learn how to do svn to gi migrations - Setup AOO's mac mini build slave - Learn ASF's puppet infrastructure - Deploy NTP puppet module - Learn how svpubsub and svnwcsub are setup and used, create a puppet module for it - Learn how to use AWS to begin migration of TLPs off eos to fix IO issues * Gavin McDonald - Worked on 44 Jira Tickets, closing 30. - Infra commits SVN - 59 - On Call duties. - Work with coreyg liasing with hardware to be removed. - Installed 2 new machines at OSU, DRACs configured, ready for OS installs - Resolve queries from IRC, HipChat and Email (no jira tickets) - Work through more Cron noise. - Worked with Intervision and organised Warranty renewals/declines. - Updating many Ubuntu machines/vms for Bash vuln. - Worked on and continiung to work on upgrading the FreeBSD machines. There is much work involved as we are breaking free of Tinderbox based updates and going direct to the official repositories. At the same time packages/ports are being updated (forcibly) to the new pkg system. The machines done so far are showing no ill signs as of yet but we havent forced an upgrade of all packages, just a few essential ones. I expect as more machines are done, we'll start to see some things break. This is an unavoidable one way trip that we'll deal with. - Started looking into automating jira project key renaming, in support of dealing with when projects rename themselves. The Jira cli plugin looks promising, but doesnt seem to support renaming yet (but offers project cloning and deleting). Investigating the API directly but that too seems to lack support thus far. - Worked on improving Buildbot slaves stability. - Worked on improving Pass rate of builds, liaising with projects as neccessary. - Restored RAT reports for projects and the RAT master summary pages. - In our cwiki, added the ability for projects to access Intermediate HTML for diagnosing formatting issues in PDF exports. (https://cwiki.apache.org/intermediates/) - Github to Buildbot to HipChat integration, testing github commits to infra repo * Chris Lambertus Tickets: * Closed N (I don't know what N is) tickets. Outages: * Troubleshooting and resolution for the vmware host outage. * ongoing, www.a.o/mail-search/moin-moin troubleshooting Puppet/Automation * Learning puppet * Implemented dovecot and SNMP modules Monitoring: * Researched ways to monitor existing hardware that runs FreeBSD. * Began needs analysis and some PoC work around monitoring with Circonus, collectd, SNMP, etc. Disaster Recovery * Initial research into current state and how we might improve our disaster readiness. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] W3C continues to discuss a "webizen" programme to allow individuals to have a formal stake in W3C. There is a general sense that "something" would be a good idea, there are different, changing details. It does not affect the Foundation directly. It might be interesting to some committers eventually. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] A relatively typical month with no issues or actions required by the board. No progress on the TCK issue. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] Apologies for lack of report last month; I used to trigger the commit on receiving the 2nd reminder. There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds arriving at security@. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. Some press and researchers believed there was a new Apache worm, but it wasn't: http://bighacks.net/chroot-apch0day-apache-exploit-explained/ The Bash vulnerabilities CVE-2014-6271(etc) are being actively exploited via Apache httpd, most commonly where sites have CGI scripts written in Bash. (The exploit conditions does limit the number of affected servers) August 2014 1 Support question 4 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 7 [website] (5 invalid) 1 [activemq] 1 [axis] 1 [hadoop] 1 [httpd] 5 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 1 [openoffice] 1 [tomcat] 1 [cloudstack] 1 [poi] 1 [svn] September 2014 2 Support question 2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 9 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 2 [httpd] (1 invalid) 1 [commons] 1 [website] (invalid) 1 [camel] 1 [spark] 1 [ambari] 1 [subversion] 1 [spamassassin] (invalid) 5 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 1 [struts] (invalid) 1 [openoffice] 1 [tomcat] 1 [hadoop] 1 [sling] (rejected) ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi] The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift. Releases Version 1.6.1 was released on 9/24/2014. Version 1.5.2 was released on 9/22/2014. Activity Mailing list activity has been a bit lower than usual, while commits have been steady. The dev list has increased by 5 subscribers to 240, and the user list has increased by 18 subscribers to 388. Recently having produced releases from both of our current major lines, we are beginning to revisit the 1.7.0/2.0.0 release plan and are adjusting its schedule. Accumulo storage formats for Pig and Hive have been accepted by both of those projects. There is also a notable new implementation of Percolator for Accumulo [1]. Community Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014. No new committers have been added since the last report. [1]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans] Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems. Releases: * April 22nd, 2014: ACE 2.0.1 release. Statistics: * Last committers added: March 27th, 2012 * Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013 * Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 months: 38 msgs (previous 3 months: 85 msgs) * Commits for last 3 months: 45 (previous 3 months: 353) Activity: * Fixes to the baselining support in the build. * Fixes to command line arguments of launcher. * Improvements of the shell (new commands) and OBR (more robust). * Community provided "getting started" article added to ACE website. * Old-mentor (NiclasH) provided a patch for shutdown hooks and a script to run our launcher as a daemon. * Tutorial (by PaulB) at JavaOne featuring ACE: "What's up with modularity?" [1] * Tutorial (by PaulB) at JDD Krakow featuring ACE: "Practical introduction to OSGi" [2] * Some patches received from the community. Monitoring contributors to see if they continue to contribute. * Upcoming session at ApacheCon EU: "Continuous automated deployment with Apache ACE" (by JanWillemJ and MarcelO) [3] [1] http://s.apache.org/CwP [2] http://s.apache.org/7Yc [3] http://s.apache.org/BGd ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino] Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Community: * The development and user lists continue to stay active. * Dan Kulp became a committer 7/21/14 * HornetQ project has started talks about donating their codebase to the ASF. The ActiveMQ project is shepherding the ip clearance and is working towards integrating them into the project. * HornetQ code donation accepted by ActiveMQ Project - 9/30/14 * 5 HornetQ committers (Clebert Suconic, Andy Taylor, Justin Bertram, Youg Hao Gao, Martyn Taylor) became ActiveMQ commiters - 9/30/14 Development: * Development on ActiveMQ 5.11 is in progress. Trademark / Branding Status: * Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant /w TM policies * Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance Releases: * Apache ActiveMQ-CPP v3.8.3 - 7/17/14 * Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.6.3 - 7/21/14 * Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.6.4 - 9/12/14 ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru] Apache Airavata is a software framework to construct, execute, and manage long running applications and workflows on distributed computing resources. == Releases == Apache Airavata 0.13 GA release was made on August 10th 2014. == Activity == The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high. The project is moving towards a stable 1.0 release towards end of this year. Airavata has successfully mentored four Google Summer of Code students. == Committer/PMC Changes == During this reporting period, there are no changes to PMC but during the reporting voted in 3 new committers. Last member was added on July 24th 2013. The community remains vibrant and we constantly are on the looks for new PMC members and committers. 3 GSOC students became Airavata Committers, we continue to try to attract new PMC members. == Other Issues == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes] Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. ## New modules Aries Blueprint Authz: An Aries Blueprint extension that supports role based access control based on a JAAS login and the JEE @RolesAllowed annotation. ## Releases #### Apache Aries Spi-Fly releases Aries SPI Fly provides OSGi support for the JRE SPI mechanisms, including the usage of java.util.ServiceLoader, META-INF/services and similar methods. It is the Reference Implementation of the OSGi ServiceLoader Mediator specification, chapter 133 in the OSGi Enterprise Specification R5. The votes for these releases closed on 2014/7/15 * Aries SPI Fly Core 1.0.1 * Aries SPI Fly Dynamic Weaving Bundle 1.0.1 * Aries SPI Fly Static Weaving Bundle 1.0.1 * Aries SPI Fly Static Weaving Tool 1.0.1 * Aries SPI Fly Weaver (internal module) 1.0.1 #### Apache Aries JPA releases: Aries JPA makes it easy for JPA persistence providers to be used in an OSGi environment. * Aries JPA API 1.0.1 closed on 2014/7/19 * Aries JPA Container 1.0.1 closed on 2014/7/19 * Aries JPA Container Context 1.0.2 closed on 2014/7/19 * Aries JPA Blueprint Aries 1.0.2 closed on 2014/7/19 * Aries JPA Container API 1.0.2 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries JPA Container Managed Contexts 1.0.3 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries JPA Container blueprint integration for Aries blueprint 1.0.3 closed on 2014/9/22 #### Other releases: * Aries Blueprint Parser 1.3.0 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries Blueprint Core 1.4.2 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries Blueprint CM 1.0.5 closed on 2014/10/10 * Aries JNDI API 1.1.0 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries JNDI Core 1.0.1 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries Proxy Service 1.0.4 closed on 2014/9/22 * Aries Subsystem Core 1.1.0 closed on 2014/10/1 ## Project update Discussions on the user@ list are becoming more sophisticated and contributions continue to come via GitHub. The last PMC member was added 28th July 2013. There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell] A quiet quarter - one ticket on helping the WS/Axis TLP retire three of their subprojects is all the activity that has been required of the Attic. Henk Penning joined the Attic PMC in July 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White] Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system. == Issues == There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. == Community == Since the last board report in July, 56 Jira issues were filed and 25 resolved. As reported in May and July, committer activity is steady, but low, with just a few commits per month. Mailing list activity is steady, with a few hundred messages total per month. No new committers have been added since January 2014. No new PMC members have been added since September 2012. == Releases == Avro 1.7.7 was released this quarter, on July 23, 2014. A 1.8.0 release is under discussion, and the plan is to update dependencies to their latest stable versions (e.g. from Hadoop 1 to Hadoop 2). ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: 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. Community ========= The level of participation in user community is consistent and healthy.However, developer community is fairly quiet for the period (commits, JIRA, and dev lists). No new committer/PMC was added for the period. Releases ======================== There was a continues request from Synapse community for an Axis2 release, due to the lack of resources in Axis community we could not able to fulfill the request. However, there is an ongoing discussion on getting help from Synapse community to push forward 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 Notes =========================== Apache Attic completed our request of moving inactive Axis sub projects to Attic. Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: 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 In the last month development has been picked up, which also shows in communication on the mailing list. There are still some problems with the website, those have been reported to infra, and are hopefully resolved soon. 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 in september: 37 messages on dev * Commits in september: 36 commits * Last release: 2014-02-24: Apache Celix 1.0.0 release ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang] Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop Clusters. Project Status: * 25 JIRAs has been updated since last report. Project is moving along at a steady pace. Activity has increased in comparsion to previous quarter. * Project is voting for Chukwa 0.6.0 release, 4 release candidates have been audited for quality and license compliance. * There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Releases: * Last Release was 0.5.0, published Jan 26, 2012 Community: * The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013 * The last Chukwa committer addition: Oct 16, 2013 Mailing lists: * 97 subscribers on dev * 166 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid] Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop. Project Status -------------- The project has been moving along at a steady pace in the past quarter, at a similar velocity to the previous two quarters, although in the final weeks before this report things have quieted down quite a bit. Since the last board report there have been 32 new issues logged in Jira, with 27 of them being closed in that time. Similar to the previous board report, the majority of recent work has been focused on minor improvements and bug fixes. There was a minor hiccup in releasing version 0.11.0, when the released maven artifacts were correctly pushed to Nexus, but not synced to Maven Central. This was noticed by a user (reported on the user mailing list), and turned out to be an infrastructure issue resolved in INFRA-8333. There are no board-level issues at this time. Community --------- Community activity has continued to be in line with recent quarters, with an average of several mails on the developer list per day and an average of a message every day or two on the user list. Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014. Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013. Releases -------- There were two releases made in this quarter: * 0.11.0 was released on September 2nd, 2014 * 0.8.4 was released on September 13th, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp] Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. Releases: 2.6.15 2.7.12 3.0.1 3.0.2/2.7.13/2.6.15 will likely be release before the board meeting. Committer/PMC: One committer added this period (Jan Bernhardt) One PMC member added this period (Andriy Redko) Community update: With the release of the 3.0.x versions of CXF, there has been a stead stream of questions and reports from users as they upgrade. The community has done a good job resolving issues and trying to push new versions out. 3.0.2 has been slightly delayed as we worked with other communities (Santuario, WSS4J) to resolve some security issues that will be made public after 3.0.2/2.7.13 is released. CXF will be well represented at ApacheCon EU with 5 or 6 talks scheduled to be about CXF. Security update: 2 new CVE numbers have been requested and assigned. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren] The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects: o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database Definition (DDL) files. o Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data persistence. o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java. == Status == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Activities over the last quarter a) The Derby Community released 10.11.1.1, a feature release b) The DDLUtils Community has seen activity over the last few months after being almost relegated to the attic. c) The community continues to log and fix bugs, and ask and answer questions. === Community === No PMC changes since January 2014. No new committers since August 2010. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou] Apache Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular clouds. It also provides an implementation of DMTF CIMI, and tools around that API to help make it more easily consumable. -- Releases/Development -- 1.1.4 - in progress 1.1.3 - 2013-04-22 1.1.2 - 2013-03-13 1.1.1 - 2013-02-13 1.1.0 - 2013-01-15 -- Overall activity in the past quarter -- There has been relatively little activity this quarter. The mailing list has been somewhat active but it would appear the bulk of the PMC no longer has the resources to dedicate the required attention (e.g. there are still contributions pending approval). -- Last committers and PMC members elected -- Change of PMC chair 29 May 2013 (Marios S. Andreou takes over from David Lutterkort) Tomas Sedovic (August 2012) and Dies Koper (December 2012) voted in as committers. Dies Koper was voted into the Deltacloud PMC in July 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot] The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAPv3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools (Apache Directory Studio) and a client API that can be used to communicate with any directory server (Apache LDAP API). -- Community -- * Two new committers voted (last previous addition: January 2014) * Pierre Smits * Shawn McKinney * One new PMC member voted (last previous addition: October 2008) * Lucas Theisen (lucastheisen) Invitations and paperwork for all three new committers and PMC Members are currently being handled. -- Current activity -- * Apache Directory LDAP API: * One release during this quarter. * Mainly bug fixes. * Apache Mavibot: * No releases during this quarter. * Good activity * Work focused on a bulk-loader functionality and free pages management. * ApacheDS: * No releases during this quarter. * Mainly bug fixes * Apache Directory Studio: * No releases during this quarter. * Work has begun on migrating our build system to use Tycho for our Eclipse plugins. * Apache eSCIMo: * Low activity * No releases yet. * Fortress: * The Fortress open source project (http://iamfortress.org/overview) offered to donate its source code to Apache Directory. * Fortress is a standards-based and open source IAM system that provides ANSI RBAC (INCITS 359) management and enforcement capabilities to networked applications and systems. * The inclusion of the Fortress code under the Apache Directory umbrella has been voted and accepted by the PMC. * IP clearance for the project is currently being processed. Once completed the source code will be brought to the Directory SVN repository. * One of Fortress' main contributor, Shawn McKinney, has been voted as a committer. -- Releases -- * One release for Apache Directory LDAP API: * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M24 (July 4th 2014) * No releases for Apache Mavibot. * No releases for ApacheDS. * No releases for Apache Directory Studio. * No releases for Apache eSCIMo. -- Comment for the Board on a question on our previous Board report -- Greg Stein and the Board asked us about the lack of new PMC Members over the last six years (since October 2008). The good news is that we have one new PMC Member (Lucas Theisen) to report this quarter. Lucas, who was invited as a committer in January, has proven to be a valuable member for the project. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor] Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators. Development - Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) was low. - Some work being done on Java EE 7 specification jars. Releases - Genesis 2.2 - XBean 4.0 - JavaMail 1.8.4 - Spec jars (geronimo-annotation_1.2_spec, geronimo-jcdi_1.1_spec, geronimo-interceptor_1.2_spec, geronimo-concurrent_1.0_spec, geronimo-jcache_1.0_spec, geronimo-validation_1.1_spec, geronimo-json-1.0_spec) Community - The traffic on the user mailing list was low. - The last new PMC member was added in July 2014. - No new committers. The last new committer was added in March 2013. Board-level issues - None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas] Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. The 2.6 release has branched for release. In addition to bug fixes, it adds several new features and refines existing work in the 2.x release series. Among the notable work in YARN: improvements to its fault tolerance and support for rolling upgrades (YARN-556, YARN-1336), timeline/history server (YARN-1530), log handling (YARN-2443), admission control/planning (YARN-1051), support for long-running services (YARN-913), node labels (YARN-796), and large container allocation (YARN-1769). Among the notable work in HDFS: tiered storage in archival (HDFS-6584), in-memory replicas (HDFS-6581), inotify support (HDFS-6634), extended attributes (HDFS-2006), encryption (HDFS-6134, HADOOP-10150), and a native client implementation. In MapReduce, a native collector (MAPREDUCE-2841) offers improved performance to many deployments. Work started earlier in the 2.x branch- particularly related to security, encryption, and high availability- continues apace. RELEASES - hadoop-2.5.0 @ 2014-08-12 - hadoop-2.5.1 @ 2014-09-11 COMMUNITY (+ PMC Karthik Kambatla @ 2014-09-18) (+ committer Benoy Antony @ 2014-08-07) (+ committer Akira Ajisaka @ 2014-08-21) (+ branch-MAPREDUCE-2841 Binglin Zhang @ 2014-07-14) (+ branch-MAPREDUCE-2841 Sean Zhong @ 2014-07-14) (+ branch-MAPREDUCE-2841 Manu Zhang @ 2014-08-21) auth: 101 committers (including branch), 52 PMC members ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack] HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION None RELEASES 0.94.22 08/09/2014 0.94.23 09/05/2014 0.94.24 10/04/2014 0.98.4 09/23/2014 0.98.5 08/19/2014 0.98.6 09/10/2014 0.98.6.1 09/18/2014 -- Fixed security issue in 0.98.6. 0.99.0 09/22/2014 -- developer preview of coming HBase 1.0 COMMITTERS Misty Stanley-Jones (misty) PMC Matteo Bertozzi (mbertozzi) Nick Dimiduk (ndimiduk) Jeffrey Zhong (jefferyz) COMMUNITY We adopted an Orca as mascot [2] PMC met at Facebook on 09/25/2014. Discussion posted to private@ We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on: July 17th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ HP in Sunnyvale [3] August 28th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Sift Science in San Francisco [5] September 25th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Cask in Palo Alto [4] STATS 36 committers [1] 1011 subscribers to the dev list (Was 1004 at last report) 2218 subscribers to the user list (Was 2207 at last report) 1. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html 2. http://hbase.apache.org/images/jumping-orca_rotated.png 3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/190994082/ 4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/203173692/ 5. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/197773762/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: 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 Ignite as a new incubating project. DeviceMap, Drill, Falcon, Flink, Johnzon, Usergrid all had releases since the last report. DeviceMap is ready to graduate. * Community New IPMC members: No additions People who left the IPMC: (none) * New Podlings Ignite * Graduations The board has motions for the following: (none) * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: Apache DeviceMap Data 1.0.1 incubating Apache Drill 0.5.0-incubating Apache Falcon 0.5-incubating Apache Flink 0.6.1-incubating Apache Johnzon 0.1-incubating Apache Usergrid 1.0 * IP Clearance FlatSpark for Apache Flex * Legal / Trademarks None * Infrastructure Nothing to report * Miscellaneous Apache Optiq becomes Apache Calcite -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator REEF * Not yet ready to graduate No release: Argus DataFu Parquet Streams Community growth: Aurora MetaModel Optiq Samza Usergrid * Ready to graduate DeviceMap * Did not report, expected next month ODF Toolkit Ripple ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Argus Aurora DataFu DeviceMap MetaModel ODF Toolkit Optiq Parquet REEF Ripple Samza Streams Usergrid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Argus The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: * Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54) * Requested a name change to “Apache Ranger” * Make a release * Add new committers 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? * Added few more contributors How has the project developed since the last report? * Create a project website * Working towards first incubator release (version 0.4.0) * 54 jiras resolved this month Date of last release: none yet When were the last committers or PMC members elected? none yet Signed-off-by: [X](argus) Alan Gates [ ](argus) Daniel Gruno [ ](argus) Devaraj Das [ ](argus) Jakob Homan [ ](argus) Owen O'Malley -------------------- Aurora Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos. Aurora has been incubating since 2013-10-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Second release, progress being tracked in ticket AURORA-711 2. Establish a consistent development process and release rhythm. 3. Expanding the community and continuing to add new committers. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? Latest Additions: * PMC addition: David McLaughlin, 2014-08-20 * Contributor addition: David McLaughlin, 2014-08-20 Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 176 * Resolved: 151 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 340 messages * @issues 774 messages * @reviews 1402 messages How has the project developed since the last report? - IRC weekly meetings, digests sent to dev@ list - Automated release workflows - Fixing issues brought up in our first release Date of last release: - Apache Aurora 0.5.0 (incubating) - 2014-08-01 Signed-off-by: [X](aurora) Jake Farrell [ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman [ ](aurora) Chris Mattmann [X](aurora) Henry Saputra -------------------- DataFu DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce. DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Building an ASF-based community. 2. Release. 3. Adding support for Hadoop 2.x 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? Three new users have contributed code since the last report. How has the project developed since the last report? A couple more UDFs have been committed. One bug fix was committed. All JARs have been removed from the repo (a blocker for source release). A build task has been added for creating a source release. No open blockers for release left at this point. Several more UDFs have been contributed but are still under review. Date of last release: No release yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-02-22 Signed-off-by: [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik [ ](datafu) Ted Dunning Shepherd/Mentor notes: (jmclean): Did not report on time. Low level mentor activity but no obvious issues other than missing release. (Release mentioned in last report and DATAFU-53 blocking release has been resolved). -------------------- DeviceMap Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g. smartphones and tablets. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs will also be created to use and manage it. DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03. The mentors feel DeviceMap is ready to graduate, the new PMC's roster has been discussed and the graduation resolution is being prepared. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? No change. The DeviceMap community will probably remain small, graduating with 5 initial PMC members. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has started its incremental device data release with its recent 1.0.1 release. The project also is planning to release its new 1.1 clients (Java and .NET). Long term plans have been made to overhaul the device data in the 2.0 release. Date of last release: 2014-09-29 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? May 17th, 2013 Signed-off-by: [X](devicemap) Bertrand Delacretaz [X](devicemap) Kevan Miller [ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory -------------------- MetaModel MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. More contributors and committers to increase diversity of the community 2. More releases under ASF 3. Connect with other projects from Apache's ecosystem such as Apache Gora, Apache Flink Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? A few new people have started to work actively on the mailing list and contributing patches and new features. One of the new contributors, Alberto Rodriguez, had added new module to connect to ElasticSearch. Updated ASF incubator page to reflect current state. Updated MetaModel website to contain link on how to contribute. How has the project developed since the last report? Apache MetaModel 4.2.0-incubating was released on July 28, 2014. We are near of proposing to have new committer. Mailing list activity since last report: @dev via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-metamodel-dev/ September 137 messages August 28 messages July 109 messages 51 members @commits via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-metamodel-commits September 26 messages August 2014Thread 3 messages July 2014Thread 47 messages Date of last release: July 28, 2014 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? June 30, 2014 Signed-off-by: [X](metamodel) Henry Saputra [X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar [ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin [X](metamodel) Noah Slater -------------------- Optiq (currently renaming to Calcite) Optiq/Calcite 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/Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Complete renaming to Calcite. 2. Re-organize code into org.apache.calcite namespace 3. Create a product worthy of a "1.0" label. 4. Improve web site 5. 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 held our first meetup, a hackathon hosted by MapR. It was well-attended, and we attracted a number of new contributors at various skill levels, who produced a number of contributions that have since been committed. Julian Hyde spoke to over 200 attendees at the Seattle Scalability meetup on how Apache Hive uses Apache Optiq to do its cost-based optimization. In September, there were 72 messages on dev@, 38 commits, 36 issues created, 30 issues resolved. How has the project developed since the last report? We completed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-51 and concluded that Optiq was not a viable name. We agreed (via PPMC vote and consensus on dev) that Calcite was suitable new name, and logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-56, which has been approved by legal. Now we are part way through renaming; see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8413 We expect to have a release candidate for apache-calcite-0.9.1-incubating to go to a PPMC vote this week. Date of last release: 2014-08-25 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-15 Signed-off-by: [ ](optiq) Ted Dunning [X](optiq) Alan Gates [X](optiq) Steven Noels -------------------- Parquet Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20 . Three most important issues - Expanding the community and adding new committers - 1st releases - Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None at this time Latest Additions: * PMC addition: N/A * Contributor addition: N/A Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 27 * Resolved: 19 Mailing list activity since last report: * dev 144 messages How has the project developed since the last report? - Attempted parquet-format release twice, next RC in early October. - Assembled tasks to complete for a parquet-mr release - New push-down filter API and task-side block metadata reading Date of last release: - No releases as of yet. Signed-off-by: [ ](parquet) Todd Lipcon [X](parquet) Jake Farrell [ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann [X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik [X](parquet) Tom White -------------------- 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. Get the code transferred from a Microsoft-owned GitHub account to Apache infra. 2. Line up the Microsoft internal process and approvals for (2) 3. Update the existing project web site and figure out how to transfer it to the ASF infrastructure. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? * All committers have setup @apache.org aliases and JIRA accounts. * Replaced the Google Groups based mailing list with an ASF hosted list for all dev communications How has the project developed since the last report? * Issue tracking is beginning to move from GitHub to JIRA. * The name `Apache REEF` has been approved (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-55) * Microsoft-Internal approval for the code transfer and donation are there Date of last release: None yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None Yet Signed-off-by: [X](reef) Chris Douglas [ ](reef) Chris Mattmann [ ](reef) Ross Gardler [ ](reef) Owen O'Malley -------------------- Samza Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on infinite streams of data. Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finish outstanding 0.8 bugs, so we can do our second incubator release. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? Very well. Numerous presentations at conferences. Several instances of meetups/presentations by people outside the committer community. Mailing list traffic has been slow but steady. How has the project developed since the last report? Very well. We've closed off all of our major issues for our 0.8 release, save one. Once the last issue is finished (in progress now), we're going to do a release, and then begin the incubation graduation process. Date of last release: 2014-06-27 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-08-13 Signed-off-by: [X](samza) Chris Douglas [ ](samza) Arun Murthy [X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik -------------------- Streams Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams. Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Community Growth 2. PPMC picks up the duties required of it, rather than rely on the mentors or let them languish 3. Generate Documentation 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? The community engagement has been strong for this period. The list serve has had multiple discussions around project standards and generating documentation. Also the number of community members comment on pull requests has increased. How has the project developed since the last report? 20 pull requests have been open in Sept. 15 pull requests have been merged in Sept. 55 comments have been made on those pull requests 6 community members have opened pull requests in Sept. Date of last release: 2013-01-09 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-01-14 (Carol Hansen) Signed-off-by: [x](streams) Matt Franklin [x](streams) Ate Douma [ ](streams) Craig McClanahan -------------------- Usergrid Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database (Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers. Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make another incubating release (most likely 1.1) 2. Continue to grow the Usergrid community 3. Document and streamline the Usergrid release process Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? The community continues to develop in a positive fashion. Usergrid was represented (indirectly) at this years CassandraSummit in San Francisco. Various mentions of UG at that event, amongst the other community events which the UG PPMC put together are building the user base. The #usergrid IRC channel continues to see people come and go with people being directed to the mailing lists whenever issues cannot be addressed in a more direct/instant manner. user@ Traffic Sep 2014 --> 7 Aug 2014 --> 13 Jul 2014 --> 9 dev@ Oct 2014 --> 5 Sep 2014 --> 127 Aug 2014 --> 288 Jul 2014 --> 144 commits@ Oct 2014 --> 101 Sep 2014 --> 443 Aug 2014 --> 764 Jul 2014 --> 136 How has the project developed since the last report? The project has come on leaps and bounds post release of Usergrid 1.0 (incubating). The development (PPMC) team worked very well together, and with the IPMC to ensure that the 1.0 release went smoothly. The release procedure was slightly longer than we would have liked however lessons have been learned and positives have been taken from the process as a whole. Procedural nuances have been ironed out and we look forward to a 1.1 release in the near future. In addition we have been documenting material on the Usergrid Incubation status page. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/usergrid.html Final note, KUDOS to Rod and Dave from the Usergrid PPMC who acted as release managers. Date of last release: 2014-09-10 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-17 New committer: George Reyes Signed-off-by: [ ](usergrid) Dave Johnson [X](usergrid) Jake Farrell [ ](usergrid) Jim Jagielski [X](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney [ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood] Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked objects architectural pattern == Activity == Mailing list activity has been steady; user mailing list subscriptions continue to increase linearly month-on-month with new voices appearing on the mailing list. We have had a talk and a tutorial accepted at ApacheCon EU [1], [2] and also a talk at Agile Testing/BDD Conference (UK) [3]. We did have one student in this year's Google Summer of Code 2014 [4], while he passed his mid-term eval he unfortunately got way-laid and so we had to fail him for the final eval. We have had some useful feedback from the community in terms of identifying several security issues [5], [6], now addressed and slated for the next release. However code contributions from the community are meagre (to the point of non-existent). One reason is the relatively small size of the community; another likely cause is the complexity and size of the framework. We have two strategies to mitigate this. First, we are retiring unused/redundant components and refactoring and simplifying the remaining code. The long-term plan is to refactor Isis into a fully JEE7-compliant web architecture, but this will take time. Second, (and taking inspiration from Apache Wicket's wicketstuff.org companion website [7]) we are further slimming down Isis by moving some components out of the framework's codebase and into a new "Isis Addons" isisaddons.org website [8], hosted on github [9]. The key criteria for moving components are if it is functionality that is not part of the framework proper (eg sits "on top of" the framework), and/or is likely to require changing at a different velocity to the framework. We hope that these smaller components will attract contributor attention as well as building up into a useful library of for the community to use "out-of-the-box" (thus increasing Isis' broader appeal). == Development and Releases == Isis continues to be developed steadily. As previously highlighted, most of the recent development has been performed by one committer (namely, myself), with much of this work sponsored by Eurocommercial Properties NV (see previous reports). However, some additional new development is now being performed by Martin Grigorov, himself a committer with Apache Wicket (Isis uses Wicket in its web UI). This work is also being sponsored by Eurocommercial Properties NV. This quarter we made one new release, v1.6.0 on 28 Jul 2014 [10]. == Committers and PMC == There have been no changes to the committers or PMC this quarter * last committer added: Oscar Bou, 19 Aug 2013 * last PMC change: Oscar Bou, 19 Aug 2013 == Issues == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. [1] http://sched.co/1nhAGlb [2] http://sched.co/1pbB8Sh [3] https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/1946-agile-testing-bdd-exchange-2014-1946#program [4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-883 [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-884 [7] http://wicketstuff.org/ [8] http://www.isisaddons.org [9] https://github.com/isisaddons [10] http://isis.markmail.org/thread/bp6cosd67zik5fsd ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles] The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an advanced enterprise mail server. ISSUES There are no issue requiring board attention at this time. RELEASES No new release (last release done on 19 March 2013). OVERALL ACTIVITY We received and committed a contribution to support Apache Cassandra as mailbox storage. Further work has been achieved on Mime4j in trunk. Activity on server code remains too low. The discussion at PMC level on this point has not yet been started. COMMUNITY No new committer (Last committer was voted on 30 of Nov 2013). No new PMC member (Last PMC member was voted on 17 Jul 2012). TRADEMARKS / BRANDING We are removing links to Snapshots from the website (JAMES-1558). Still to do: Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on web site). ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer] A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API. Project Status -------------- jclouds has carried out one successful release (1.8.0) in the last quarter and is in the process of releasing 1.8.1. The developer and user community is active, with sustained activity by the core team. The PMC is still looking to grow the committer base and encourage contributions across the spectrum of supported APIs and providers. Community --------- ''When was the last committer voted in?'' 2014-04-02 (Jeremy Daggett) ''When was the last PMC member added?'' 2013-04-29 (initial composition of the PMC when jclouds entered the incubator) There is regular activity on both the user and dev lists. Responses to questions are generally fast, with multiple community members contributing. The project has resolved to change our PMC chair from Andrew Bayer to Andrew Phillips, and we have notified the board. Community Objectives -------------------- What are the projects main plans and expectations for the community in the next period? * Simplify the process for new contributions * Reduce maintenance overhead of the overall project * Remove outdated and unused APIs and providers * Establish levels of interest and usage for remaining APIs and providers, and identify "champions" where possible Releases -------- Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter? * 1.8.0 (2014-08-05) The 1.8.1. release is currently in progress. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne] Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data applications based on W3C and community standards. == Issues There are no issues to raise with the board. == Releases Jena 2.12.0 released on 2 Aug 2014. 2.12.1 is currently in a VOTE. == PMC PMC member last added: 26 January 2013 Committer last added: 16 August 2013 == Activity dev@ list: ~ 250 messages a month / 161 subscribers users@ list: ~ 166 messages a month / 567 subscribers == Community news = Google Summer of Code The project has 2 GSoC projects this year and these have completed successfully. One lead to a new module in the code base, released by the GSoC student (and committer); the other was more investigative in nature and finished but has not resulted in new code for the project. = svn -> git The project took a vote on moving to the code base from subversion to git. This has been completed - many thanks to the infrastructure team, especially Geoff Corey, for a fast and efficient transfer. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley] The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. JMeter 2.11 was released on Jan 05 2014. The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter developers. Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by the committers. We recently welcomed Felix Schumacher as a committer (he was already an ASF committer). We have just invited a new committer (he has not yet replied). Two other new committer votes are in progress at the time of writing. There have been no changes to the PMC since it was established in October 2011. The JMeter Twitter account has 1240 followers as of Oct 7 2014. There are no board level issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos] JSPWiki is a Java-based wiki engine == Anything the board should be aware of? There are no Board-level issues at this time. == Releases / Development Last release, 2.10.1, on 29th May, 2014 A quiet period regarding development, involving 3 JIRAs, fixes for 2 of them provided by community. == Community Last Committer: Siegfried Goeschl (sgoeschl), on 21st Aug, 2014 Last PMC: Siegfried Goeschl (sgoeschl), on 21st Aug, 2014 This quarter we had a decrease on activity on MLs, with ~50 messages per month at dev@j.a.o, when compared to previous period (~70), and user@j.a.o also going back to ~10 messages per month (16-17 on last period). 89 (+1) people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 177 (=) people subscribed at user@j.a.o ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell] The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search engine library for Java. ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES Version 0.4.1 was released on 30 September 2014. Clownfish 0.4.1 was released on 30 September 2014. Version 0.4.0 was released on 03 September 2014. Clownfish 0.4.0 was released on 03 September 2014. ACTIVITY Development * We have officially released Clownfish as a subproject of Lucy, this is the object system which Lucy depends on. * Dev list remains active. Mailing lists User list subscribers: 90 (-1) Developer list subscribers: 67 (-1) Mailing list activity is average. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES Added a new PMC member: Tim Wilkens ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll] Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering and frequent pattern mining Project Status -------------- The project continues to have a large and active user base. Development continues at a steady pace. Community --------- * The main issue concerning the community right now is the addition of new contributions from 0xData and the integration of Mahout with Scala/Spark. Community Objectives -------------------- Our goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. See the Issues section below for the debate in the community about our objectives. Releases -------- The migration to Spark is still ongoing and no new releases are planned at this time. Issues ------ The community is still actively working on converting the codebase to Scala and Spark. The number of devs contributing is still small, but it is sustained. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy] Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build lifecycle. * General Information * SSL was enabled for central during August and Maven 3.2.3 was released to use https by default in super POM [1]. * Description of central repository position in Maven ecosystem has been updated to match latest evolutions [2]. * A lot of plugin releases are done to define common 2.2.1 minimum Maven version requirement. We expect in the near future to update the minimum requirement to Maven 3.0 (JRE 5), which will permit to make some cleanup in plugins code, then Maven core. * JDK8 compatibility status: latest informations available in our wiki [3]. [MCOMPILER-228] identified as JDK 8 bug, fixed in JDK1.8.0_40 * Compliance with ASF source header policy 8 plugins have been fixed this quarter. Only maven-eclipse-plugin, wagon, surefire and a few components are not yet compliant (on 106 release roots). We're preparing to enable rat check on every build in next maven-parent POM, to ensure full compliance from now on. * Update requirements of LICENSE and NOTICE files in source control Currently no change cause there is no real guide line nor a definitive decision made by the ASF. * Source download link requirement The site.xml descriptor for all plugins has been changed accordingly to reflect the requirements based on MNGSITE-152 [4]. This means that every new release contains appropriate download link [5] and an Apache License link [6]. Every release which has been reported this quarter contains already those links. Issue closed: this report is the last one with status on this topic. * Community * Karl Heinz Marbaise joined the PMC (2014-08-25) * No new committer this quarter (last added on 2014-03-17) * ApacheCon Europe: we don't have any talk, but a few developers said they were attending, then expect to meet and discuss about Maven future plans. * Mailing List activity Users mailing list activity has reduced a little bit over the last six month in comparison to 2013 whereas the developer list activity is more or less constant within the same time period. * Releases Core * Apache Maven (3.2.3) (2014-08-17) Plugins * Apache Maven Site Plugin 3.4 (2014-07-07) * Apache Maven Source Plugin 2.3 (2014-07-11) * Apache Maven SCM Plugin 1.9.1 (2014-07-25) * Apache Maven PMD Plugin 3.2 (2014-08-01) * Apache Maven Assembly Plugin 2.4.1 (2014-08-03) * Apache Maven EJB Plugin 2.4 (2014-08-24) * Apache Maven Install Plugin 2.5.2 (2014-08-27) * Apache Maven Deploy Plugin 2.8.2 (2014-08-27) * Apache Maven ACR Plugin 1.1 (2014-09-02) * Apache Maven RAR Plugin 2.4 (2014-09-08) * Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.13 (2014-09-18) * Apache Maven Dependency Plugin 2.9 (2014-09-18) * Apache Maven Javadoc Plugin 2.10 (2014-09-20) * Apache Maven Clean Plugin 2.6 (2014-09-22) * Apache Maven Release Plugin 2.5.1 (2014-09-22) * Apache Maven Changes Plugin 2.11 (2014-09-24) * Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin 2.10.1 (2014-09-27) * Apache Maven Resources Plugin 2.7 (2014-09-29) * Apache Maven Source Plugin 2.4 (2014-10-07) * Apache Maven Linkcheck Plugin 1.2 (2014-10-08) * Apache Maven WAR Plugin 2.5 (2014-10-08) Other * Apache Maven Plugin Testing 3.2.0 (2014-07-14) * Apache Maven SCM 1.9.1 (2014-07-25) * Apache Maven Shared Dependency Analyzer 1.5 (2014-09-11) * Apache Maven SCM 1.9.2 (2014-09-13) * Apache Maven Shared Dependency Tree 2.2 (2014-09-14) * Apache Maven Wagon (2014-09-18) * Apache Maven Shared Reporting Impl 2.3 (2014-09-14) * Apache Software Foundation Parent POM 15 (2014-09-28) [1] http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.2.3/maven-model-builder/super-pom.html [2] http://maven.apache.org/repository/ [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+8+Upgrade [4] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-152 [5] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-PLUGINNAME-plugin/download.cgi [6] http://www.apache.org/licenses/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny] Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. -- Community -- * No new committers (Last addition, october 2013) * No new PMC member : (Last addition, April 2014) * Niklas Gustavsson, who has been voted as a PMC member back in 2008, has been formally voted again, as the board has not been informed back then. All his votes since 2008 have been validated by the PMC. * Two inactive PMC member have been asked about a change to their status to emeritus, but we haven't received any answer so far. Users mailing list : Jan 2014 : 442 subscribers, Sep 2014 : 479 subscribers, Dev mailing list : Jan 2014 : 390 subscribers, Apr 2014 : 388 subscribers, An Apache MINA twitter account has been created to improve the communication around the project (https://twitter.com/apachemina/). -- Current activity -- A lot of issues have been either fixed, postponed or discarded on MINA 2.0. A new release have been cut too. SSHD project has also cut a new release. All the subprojects have been tested against MINA 2.0.8 new release, successfully. * Apache MINA : A new release (2.0.8), and some work going on to get a 2.0.9 released soon. * Apache FtpServer: * No activity if the past 3 months * Apache SSHd: * SSHD 0.12.0 has been released in july * Apache Vysper : * Nothing done * Apache AsyncWeb: * No activity. This project is still dormant at this point. -- Releases -- * SSHD 0.12.0 has been released. * MINA 2.0.8 has been released ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland] MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Unit testing is a technique for improving project quality and reducing overall costs by writing a small amount of code that can automatically verify the software you write performs as intended. This is considered a best practice in software development since it helps identify defects early, before they're deployed to a production system. RELEASES * The last release of Apache MRUnit was version 1.1.0, released on * June 8, 2014. This was MRUnit's second release since graduation in May 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * 0 JIRA's was resolved since the last report. * Mail traffic is largely on the DEV list. Messages since July 1st: dev 20, user 4 * There is one on-going vote for a new committer COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: ** Total of 40 subscribers to the developer list. ** Total of 79 subscribers to the user list. ** Total of 13 committers ** Total of 13 PMC members ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek] The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. Community ---------------- * No new Committers (since November 2013) * No new PMC Members (since July 2011) * No new Contributors The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases, we discuss upcoming topics. -> Community business as usual (nothing special to report). Releases ------------- MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report: * MyFaces Core 2.2.4 (1/July/14) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 (21/July/14) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.1 (6/August/14) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.2 (26/August/14) * MyFaces Core 2.0.22 (22/September/14) * MyFaces Core 2.1.16 (22/September/14) * MyFaces Core 2.2.5 (22/September/14) Issues ------------- The TCK issue mentioned in our January report for 2014 still exists. There are no new issues that require the board's attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche] Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop datastructures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY We released Nutch 1.9 in August which fixed several important bugs and added quite a few improvements. There has been no releases of the Nutch 2.x branch since the previous report. We are still planning to release 2.3 soon and are waiting for a few JIRA issues to be resolved first. The next release will benefit from improvements made to Apache Gora. We succesfully completed our first participation in GSoC and the Nutch 2.X branch now comes packaged with a self contained Apache Wicket-based Web Application. - See more at [1]. COMMUNITY There has been no change in the composition of the PMC and committers list since Talat Uyarer joined the PMC and committers on 31/03/2014. The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level. We got 1 talk and 1 workshop accepted for ApacheCon EU. The workshop will be conducted by 3 Nutch committers [2]. Nutch and related projects (Tika, Hadoop, Lucene) will probably get used in a new DARPA project called Memex where 3 current and 1 emeritus Nutch committers will be involved [3]. [1] http://nutch.apache.org/#sthash.WX93FBI4.dpuf [2] http://s.apache.org/kwN [3] http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/09.aspx ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen] Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS In this reporting period we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release and had a very successful Google Summer of Code project. Fang Zhen could complete his project on time and provided a valuable contribution, the OModel refactoring, that is now subject to be merged into our master branch. Due to two memory leak reports, we decided to delay the 1.3.7 release and move it to the next reporting period. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT The development in this period focussed on bug fixing and some infrastructure improvements. COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael] Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities. MILESTONES Onami-Persist 1.0.0 has been released CURRENT ACTIVITY Some issues have been reported regarding onami persist. From the community. COMMUNITY Currently the project are migrating from SVN to GIT, during this transition commits are being held back. New PMC Chair has been selected Nino Martinez Wael(nmwael). There has been discussion on how to attract more users. PMC chair are going to Apache conf Europe and will try to attract users. Users community is quiet silent. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] There are no items requiring board attention at this time. * Highlights Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat, TomEE, Spring or OSGi. * Community Support for Java 8 is in progress. The developer community had maintained the codebase stable, supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects. * Governance We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and PMC members. Few fresh blood will energize the project. * Releases OpenJPA 2.3.0 has been released. This release enhances correctness (resolution of 100 reported issues) and improves 55 existing features. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti] Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms and in dozens of languages. ### Issues for Board Awareness The Apache OpenOffice community is currently focusing on attracting new volunteers in code development. This is working well for the initial involvement and simple code contributions, but we need to have more resources available for the second step, i.e., mentoring more significant code contributions. This may require a shift of internal responsibilities in the project, which in turn may result in slower activity in some areas. ### Community Development/Outreach Progress The project did not invite new committers or PMC members since the last report. The latest committer addition is from May 2014 (tal) and the latest PMC addition is from November 2013 (fanyuzhen). Thanks to a recent effort focused on new code volunteers, we are now seeing many more patches and contributions coming from new volunteers, but at the same time we are witnessing a reduced level of activity (in terms of both contributed lines of code and e-mails to the dev list) from more experienced developers. This will need to be monitored closely, as the project needs both new and experienced developers for a smooth progress. The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a "minimal maintenance" mode. The infrastructure team internal to the OpenOffice project is insufficient and mostly inactive. Apache Infra has been providing support and (when possible) timely notifications, thus easing the task of the internal team. Several volunteers are getting involved by updating our many native language websites with the more recent approach (editing the HTML files rather than working through the CMS). A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2 licence is progressing more slowly than expected on the OpenOffice Wiki, even though new volunteers show up regularly. The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1.1, released 21 August 2014, is fully released in 41 languages, 3 of which (Catalan, Valencian AVL, Valencian RACV) are new with respect to version 4.1.0. A survey to know about existing volunteers and their unexpressed potential (i.e., reasons that may limit their contributions to fewer fields than the ones they could actually be active in) was launched, with the aim of analyzing and presenting results by ApacheCon EU. OpenOffice will have a dedicated track at ApacheCon Budapest, with talks spanning all the main project areas. But most of the project committers will not attend the event despite the good location and promotion, probably a symptom that we need to investigate other event formats in addition to ApacheCon. The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite active, the marketing and documentation lists are moderately active. Activity in social media is still good. The developer (dev) list remains very active in terms of messages posted. Community support forums remain popular with users, with an average of over 100 posts per day. ### Product/Project Development Progress Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, a bugfix release introducing stability and security fixes, as well as new languages, was published on 21 August 2014. Activities that are still ongoing, but at a slower pace than expected, include: actions for an easier installation and availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a new localization process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a rewritten OOXML filter, allowing import and (later) export. The download trend remains very strong: Apache OpenOffice reached 120 million downloads at the end of September 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler] The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. Community --------- There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to our ranks in February 2014. Jukka Zitting stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in April 2014. 481 (451 last report) subscribers on the user@ list 155 (153 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list Releases -------- Version 1.8.7 was released on 19nd of September 2014. It is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. GSoC ---- PDFBOX-1915: (Mentor Tilman Hausherr) The code was merged into the PDFBox codebase and was shipped as part of the 1.8.7 release. Development: ------------ The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: - switch to java 1.6 - enhance the parser - code cleanup - enhance rendering - enhance font handling - reduce memory footprint We hoped to release the new major release in the late summer but reality proves us wrong. It'll take some more time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin] Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. ISSUES There are no issues requiring the board's attention. COMMUNITY The community is not as active as in the last reporting period. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES 08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member. RELEASES 01/07/14 - 0.23 released. ACTIVITY A large number of patches were submitted and integrated into the codebase to further the Angular JS front-end. The community is now working through the major overhaul. This work is proceeding at a slow pace due to lower activity. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter] Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the Incubator in January 2010. ISSUES The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention. COMMUNITY Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady. The community has been working on a plan to develop a deployment guide for Shindig to address recent questions and issues users have been experiencing around properly deploying Shindig. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES No PMC member changes. RELEASES Apache Shindig 2.5.1 was released on 2014-03-04. The community is currently working towards a 2.5.2 release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar] Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. It can be used to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational databases and enterprise data warehouses. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.4.5, released on August 12, 2014 from the trunk. * No other release is planned at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Dell Software contributed a high performance Oracle connector to the project. Sqoop PMC followed up on the IP clearance process outlined at [1] and results are available at [2]. * Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 branches. * A total of 110 issues have been resolved between the period starting from July 1, 2014 to October 1, 2014. * In the past three months, a total of 408 messages were exchanged on the user list and a total of 2184 messages were exchanged on the dev list. COMMUNITY * Last addition to committers was in August 2014 when Abraham Elhmarek and David Robson joined as committers. * Last appointment to PMC was done in August 2014 with Venkat Ranganathan joining the PMC. * Currently there are: - Total of 398 subscribers to the user list - Total of 151 subscribers to the dev list - Total of 21 committers - Total of 14 PMC members * The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (4), Dell Software (2), Etcetera (1), Hortonworks (1), JPL (1), Pivotal (1), StreamSets (1), Zymergen (1) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. REFERENCES [1] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ [2] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/sqoop-quest-data-connector.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Things have been quite slow. Discussion on how and when to roll a release will be started on the dev list. COMMUNITY * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there has been no change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz] Apache Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Storm was version 0.9.2-incubating, released on June 25, 2014. This was an Apache Incubator release. * Preparation work is underway to release version 0.9.3. CURRENT ACTIVITY * A total of 21 JIRA issues have been resolved since becoming a TLP. * Development activity continues on both the master and security branches. * Transition to a TLP is largely complete. After the 0.9.3 release, the remaining incubator resources (dist directories) will be transitioned. COMMUNITY * Storm added 4 PMC/Committer members on September 27, 2014 (Note: These members were voted in during incubation, and added as PMC members post- graduation via board NOTICE). * The user list has 953 subscribers. * The dev list has 360 subscribers. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen] The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with plugins to support REST, AJAX and JSON. The Struts team made no releases in the last quarter. Within the last quarter we saw major development activity for the upcoming release of Struts 2, which will be a major feature and bug fix release with more than 140 issues addressed. A test build is available and currently under community review. We haven't made too much progress regarding a possible security fix release for the critical vulnerability in the already EOLed Struts 1 distribution, as reported in the last quarter. We have published a workaround solution as well as a test builds based on a hardened commons-beanutil library, but we are still undecided on whether we can manage to provide a full featured release. We are about to release a fully reworked web site, including a brand new Struts logo [1]. The design was kindly provided by Software Mill, a polish software development shop our fellow PMC member Łukasz Lenart is working for. In August Struts committer Christoph Nenning gave a talk about Struts 2 at JUG Munich, Germany. No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter. Last PMC member addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on 2014-01-06. We have no issues that require board assistance at this time. [1] http://people.apache.org/~lukaszlenart/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship] Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific performance. Any issues for the Board? There are no Board-level issues at this time. When did the project last make any releases? The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.7) has been released 2013-04-29. We have made available the a series of beta builds of the upcoming 5.4 release, (most recently, 5.4-beta-22, on 2014-10-10), following successful votes. A release candidate is expected in the coming quarter. Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter. Activity on the user mailing list is high. Questions are answered with participation of not only the core contributors but also by the community at large. Discussion focuses especially around new features of the upcoming 5.4 release. There are also frequent announcements concerning third-party libraries developed entirely outside the Tapestry team. Activity on the dev mailing list is medium. The focus of development currently lies on the upcoming Tapestry 5.4 which will bring major improvements in JavaScript support and other new features. At this point we are primarily looking at fixing bugs (from our large backlog) and documenting the significant new features. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Jochen Kenmade has been voted in as a committer on 2014-04-25. The last PMC addition has been Massimo Lusetti on 2012-08-27. PMC and committer diversity PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time. Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally. No known issues. Branding requirements progress: * "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed * "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc." - completed * "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included" - License and Security links are missing * "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc." - completed * "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site" - TM missing from logo * "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed Legal issues or questions: None. Infrastructure issues or strategic needs: None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi] Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current projects are * Rivet * Websh Board issues: Apache Tcl records were found to have some discrepancies. More specifically it was found out that for 3 of the long time PMC members no notification record was ever sent to the board. We voted to verify every decision made by the PMC and the vote result sent to the board. Community: No new committers were added. Last committer and PMC member joined Apache/Tcl in Sept. 2012. We have just voted to invite George Petasis to join our PMC and we are waiting for the 72 hours time before formal invite to elapse. Current number of subscribers to our public mailing lists are rivet-dev@: 46 subscribers websh-dev@: 18 subscribers + no bug reports filed in this quarter for both Rivet and Websh Releases: + Rivet: we released version 2.2.0 on June 16th, as already said in our last quarterly report. Starting with July mod_rivet core functions were radically redesigned and rewritten in a new experimental module. Currently this code has reached a good maturity level and last week was finally able to pass our tests. The goal is to move to a new module version that could overcome the severe limit imposed on the current stable module which runs only with the prefork MPM of the Apache HTTP web server. + Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after 3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: 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. Last month, the 0.5.0 release was announced. Since then, the community has worked both on features towards the 0.6.0 release as well as bug fixes on the 0.5.x line. Approximately, 90 jiras were created and 70 resolved over the past month. A development branch (TEZ-8) was created to work on building a UI to help increase the usability/operability of Tez. The 0.5.1 patch release was completed on Oct 2nd, 2014. RELEASES 0.4.1-incubating released on July 15, 2014. 0.5.0 released on Sept 5, 2014 0.5.1 released on Oct 2, 2014 COMMUNITY Auth: 31 PMC members and 32 committers ( as of Oct 07, 2014). Additions since last report: Committers: No additions since last report. Last addition Jonathan Eagles ( added Aug 11, 2014 ) PMC: No additions since graduation from Incubator. Jira: Last 30 days: 90 jiras created, 70 resolved. Mailing Lists: user@ - 128, dev@ - 137 subscribers. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell] Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. Project Status --------- The Apache Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with submissions from new contributors for bug fixes and client library improvements (Haxe support coming soon). Since our last report we have been fixing issues found in our 0.9.2-rc0 release candidate and are planning on a vote for the 0.9.2-rc1 release candidate within the next week. We also added a new committer, Konrad Grochowski. Community --- Latest Additions: * PMC addition: Ben Craig, 3.20.2014 Henrique Mendonca, 3.20.2014 * Contributor addition: Konrad Grochowski, 9.22.2014 Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 154 * Resolved: 147 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 1991 messages * @user 94 messages Releases --- Last release: 0.9.1, Release Date: Aug 21, 2013 0.9.2-rc1 release candidate vote in the next week Board Action --- The Apache Thrift PMC has voted to remove one of the PMC members who is considered emeritus by the project. The notice and resolution are available at: http://s.apache.org/oey ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle] What is Tika? ========================= Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies. Issues ========================= There are no issues that need the boards attention. Releases ========================= The last release (1.6) was made in September 2014. Work has started on version 1.7 with bug fixes already complete and new features such as OCR Parsing being worked on. Community ========================= The Tika PMC added Ann Bryant Burgess as a committer and PMC Member in August 2014. New community developed bindings[1] have been created for Tika including a binding for NodeJS and an OpenShift Cartridge for Apache Tika Server. Discussions have started to take place on the mailing list about a potential Tika meetup at ApacheCon EU 2014. Nick Burch is also presenting a talk titled 'What's With The 1s and 0s?' on using Tika and other related tools to analyse binary content[2]. Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 393, 364 and 119 messages in August, September and October 2014, respectively. user@ was at 23, 38 and 12 messages, during the same timeframe. [1] http://s.apache.org/Y7w [2] http://sched.co/1pbkX7n ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom] Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid and Varnish in functionality and features. Issues ====== There are no issues that needs the board's attention. Community ========= One new committer was added since last report, leaving us with a total of 39 committers. Our last committer and PMC member was added on 8/27/2014. Activity on mailing list is normal, and we are seeing normal, steady growth in mailing list subscribers: users@ - 445 subscribers (up 3% since last report) dev@ - 290 subscribers (up 3% since last report) In Jira, 202 new tickets were opened and 103 were resolved or closed since the last board report, which had 218 and 136 respectively. 624 changes were committed to our git repository from 44 contributors. Last report had ~800 commits from 38 contributors. Events ====== Several ATS related conference presentations were made at Velocity China '14 as well as at OSCON '14. Our Fall 2014 Summit is schedule for October 21-22, in Mountain View, California. The event is hosted by LinkedIn. Releases ======== Four new releases were made since last report: Apache Traffic Server v5.1.0 (released 9/18/2014) Apache Traffic Server v5.0.1 (released 7/23/2014) Apache Traffic Server v4.2.1.1 (released 7/23/2014) Apache Traffic Server v4.2.2 (released 9/4/2014) The v4.2.x version will be supported until v6.0.0 is released, roughly May 2015, and we expect a number of releases to be made in the next year. The v4.2.1.1 and v5.0.1 releases were made exclusively to address CVE-2014-3525. Planned releases include: * Soon: v5.1.1 * December: v5.2.0 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: 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 there was some work on performance evaluation and improvement and work on a paper to publish the results. 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 Focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. The next planned step towards growing the community still 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 BC: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] Releases within this quarter: * WSS4J 1.6.17 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * WSS4J 2.0.2 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * Xmlschema 2.0.2 (RM - Daniel Kulp ) Last releases for other subprojects: * Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014 * Axiom : Dec 2012 * Woden : Feb 2011 Community and development: * Last committer addition - Sept 2014, * Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013 Development WSS4J - 61 commits by 1 committer. Axiom - 58 commits by 1 committer. Xmlschema - 23 commits by 1 committer.. Woden - 0 commits Neethi - 0 commits. Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters (Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos) * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * XmlSchema * Woden * XML-RPC Subprojects ----------- Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically requiring the board's attention this quarter. * Apache Woden Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification. * Apache Axiom Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree. * Apache XmlSchema Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing XML Schema. * Apache Neethi Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications. * Apache WSS4J Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson] Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications. ISSUES As mentioned in July’s report, activity in the project has declined dramatically and the community has not grown in the last year or so. This trend has continued, though this might have been exacerbated by the summer period where there is less activity anyway. The reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary adoption of the W3C widget specification. If this trend continues the team will give consideration to either moving the project to the attic or subsuming it into RAVE. RELEASES Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014. ACTIVITY Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0. COMMUNITY Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira] ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed systems. We have released an alpha version of the 3.5 branch on Aug. 06, 2014. This release includes important features such as reconfiguration. It fixes a significant number of bugs and includes smaller improvements both in the server and client. The community is now focusing on the stability of the branch. No infrastructure issues. Community: * Mailing list activity and number of contributed patches has increased noticeably. * Cloudera is organizing a meetup in November in their office in the Bay Area. * Rakesh Radhakrishnan is going to present at ApacheCon Europe. * Flavio Junqueira has given an O’Reilly Webcast in September. * 11 active committers representing 10 unique organizations. No change to the list of committers. * 9 active PMC members representing 8 unique organizations. No change to the list of PMC members. * 435 subscribers on dev (up from 424 last quarter). * 974 subscribers on user (up from 938 last quarter). * 2055 jira issues have been created to date (122 more since last quarter) ======== Apache BookKeeper (subproject) Bookkeeper is a distributed, reliable, and high performance logging service. The project also includes Hedwig which is a highly scalable Pub/Sub service built on top of ZooKeeper and Bookkeeper with strong durability guarantees. We released version 4.2.3 on the 27th of June. The release was focussed mainly on bugfixes and addressing operational annoyances. We are currently voting on the first release candidate for version 4.3.0, so we expect that to be released within the next week. This release includes a lot of improvements to the bookie on-disk performance, a new statistics framework, and protobuffer protocol support along with numerous bugfixes. We welcomed one new committer, Rakesh Radhakrishnan, during the last period. Once 4.3.0 is released, we also plan to extend committership to a couple more people. We will all seek to become a TLP at that point. Infrastructure issues: No issues. Community: 50 subscribers to bookkeeper-dev 66 subscribers to bookkeeper-user 780 issues opened to date, 22 since 2014-06-12 543 issues resolved to date, 26 since 2014-06-12 47 people have reported issues, 5 since 2014-06-12 20 people have contributed patches, 5 since 2014-06-12 ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the October 15, 2014 board meeting.