The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes February 17, 2016 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:34 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2xwj 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 Shane Curcuru Bertrand Delacretaz Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann David Nalley Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Ross Gardler Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: Kevin A. McGrail Guests: Daniel Gruno Gavin McDonald Hadrian Zbarcea Henri Yandell Marvin Humphrey Sean Kelly Tom Pappas 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of January 20, 2016 See: board_minutes_2016_01_20.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] Preparation is nearly complete for the Annual Meeting, with notices to go out shortly. This year, I've spent some more time writing down the process as I go and created a tool to generate the meeting from templates to make it easier for future boards. I've accepted an offer to join the advisor board for the China OSS Promotion Union (COPU), which came after attending the Apache Roadshow in Beijing last year. This doesn't entail any relationship with the ASF, however I'll certainly share anything relevant that comes from it, particularly if we look to participate in future events in the region. B. President [Ross] Made good progress on planning for the loss of VP Infra. See discussion item for details. Executive Assistant =============== Most "non-routine" activity this month has been around TAC and ApacheCon, with a special focus on raising awareness of the CFP close. There was a reasonable amount of trademark follow ups this month. Brand Management =============== Quite a busy month. A number of event requests and a few trademark infringements to deal with. Nothing too significant and good progress being made in all cases. Fundraising ========= Some process improvements now in place. All invoices are up-to-date, although it turns out that Virtual were still under the impression that one of our previous sponsors who have indicated they are unable to renew was still invoiced. I'm not sure how this happened or at what point in the process the sponsor was invoiced. Hopefully the process improvements will minimize such errors in the future. We are currently $64k behind sponsorship income projections for 2016 (though our overall budget remains in good shape since we have spent less than projected as well as received less than projected - current "worst case" puts us at -$138k by financial year end against a budgeted $161k). Marketing and Publicity ================== It's time for the November 2015-January 2016 quarterly report. All those officers who have not yet submitted their report for Sally should do so in the next couple of days (it's quick and simple, just review your board reports for this period, select the key pieces and send to Sally who can add any necessary colour). New visual identity is live - I am still shocked at how "easy" this was from my perspective, and that of our members. A testament to the sensitive handling of a potentially sensitive topic. I believe our Membership felt fully involved and as a result is almost unanimous in their approval of the new design. Well done Sally (and thanks to LucidWorks and HotWax Systems for donating creative services). Sally has confirmed a return of her media/analyst trainings at ApacheCon. I've already signed up for my much needed update and I recommend everyone who is at all interest in such things to sign up when Sally announces them within the community (two beginner sessions, one for podlings one for TLPs and an advanced session will be offered). Infrastructure ========== During the last month I've met 1:1 with all but one of the infra team as well as spending time with most of the team as a group. My goal was to listen to their recommendations on how to address the replacement of David as VP Infra. I've also spoken with a number of potential outsource organizations to understand what they can offer. Finally, I've reviewed a reasonably complete proposal secured by David. The output of all these activities is covered in a discussion item, with a more complete proposal to be presented to the board and discussed between now and the next board meeting on board@. In the interim, David has agreed to stay on for at least another month as VP Infra. I have offered to help out where I can (see discussion item) and the Infra contractors have all shown willing to continue in a (mostly) self-managing way. There has been good progress on a number of infra items. Most notably projects may now publish apps in the iTunes store. Huge thanks to Mark Thomas who has been working on this for multiple years and seen it to conclusion. In addition Appveyor CI is now available for projects using the GitHub mirror: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/appveyor_ci_now_available_for There are a few issues with uptime for core services (critical services remain close to 100%). Issues vary from technical debt to abuse. Remediation is being planned in all relevant cases. Travel Assistance Committee ====================== Not report submitted at the time of writing. Melissa has been updating me on status. We are at low levels of applications at present, though it is still early in the process. Melissa is working with the TAC team to ensure we conduct more outreach. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] An updated engagement letter with the CPA has been prepared for the IRS 990. The Treasurer’s office and Virtual will submit the signed form to the CPA shortly. The Treasurer’s Office worked with Virtual and the CPA to complete the IRS 990 questionnaire form as part of the taxes submission. We are on schedule to deliver and submit the 990 taxes by March. The independent audit is also progressing. Virtual has been working with the CPA agency to produce an initial draft review which was sent to Jim, Ross, and Chris on Feb 2nd. Income and Expenses for January 2016 CASH BASIS Current Balances: Jan 2016 Citizens Checking $857,580 Amazon- ASF Payments $- Paypal - ASF $78,458 Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $333,958 Wells Fargo Savings $288,336 Total Checking/Savings $1,558,332 Income Summary: Inkind Revenue $7,167 Public Donations $13,658 Sponsorship Program $25,000 Programs Income $- Interest Income $15 Total Income $45,839 Expense Summary: In Kind Expense $7,167 Infrastructure $45,404 Sponsorship Program $- Programs Expense $- Publicity $7,008 Brand Management $- Conferences $- Travel Assistance Committee $- Tax and Audit $- Treasury Services $3,100 General & Administrative $8,339 Total Expense $71,017 Net Income $(25,177) D. Secretary [Craig] Continuing the process of making sure that all committers have ICLAs on file, the number of discrepancies in the records is dropping but many still remain. Of the 64 requests sent out to the email address on file, 34 were undeliverable. Seven committers submitted new or found ICLAs (included in the totals below). We have begun the process of removing access for accounts that have no ICLA on file. In January, 91 iclas, three cclas, and two grants were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] The CFP for ApacheCon closed on the 12th, and we have begun the process of reviewing these submissions and forming the schedule. Anyone wishing to participate in this process should contact me, or the dev@community.apache.org mailing list. Our current submission totals are: For ApacheCon North America: 152 For Apache Big Data: 206 We are also looking for suggestions (and contacts) for keynotes for the event. We currently have 2 suggestions, and have room for 4 - 5. These, also, should to go to me, or to the dev@community mailing list. Relevant dates: CFP Close: February 12, 2016 CFP Notifications: February 29, 2016 Schedule Announced: March 3, 2016 We do not yet have dates for ApacheCon Europe, but we should know within the next 2 months whether we will be doing that event this year. Huge thanks to Daniel Gruno, as well as to a number of volunteers, for their presence at FOSDEM 2016. They gave away hundreds of stickers, as well as other swag, and showcased the new feather logo. They had many conversations with open source enthusiasts, and it was a good time for reengaing with that community. Apache OpenOffice also shared the table with us, as they have a long history of being present at FOSDEM. As always, a huge thank you to Melissa for her support of this event. One conversation at FOSDEM was our difficulty with connecting new volunteers with concrete tasks that they can do to get involved. Several times a month, people come to the dev@community mailing list and ask "How can I get involved?" and are generally given vague answers that amount to "Go look at the projects and see what they need." From this discussion has arisen a new service, Help Wanted - https://helpwanted.apache.org/ (Thanks to Daniel Gruno, once again) that attempts to bridge this gap. The goal is to promote beginner tasks that are a good place for entry into our communities. Projects are encouraged to put tasks on there that reflect this goal. (ie, please don't just dump your Jira ticket list here.) It's also a place for community-level tasks, such as our desire to create per-project brochures that can be produced on demand for events, meetups, elevator chats, and so on. I expect to be completely focused on ApacheCon for the coming few months. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Provided an email-interview for a story about open source communities and benefits/costs to companies seeking to move their proprietary code to F/OSS communities. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Rich] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports Summary of Reports The following reports required further discussion: # Abdera [bp] # Ant [bp] # BookKeeper [bp] # Buildr [bp] # Cassandra [rb] # Clerezza [gs] # Community Development [bp] # Continuum [bp] # CouchDB [rb] # Etch [bp] # HttpComponents [bp] # Ignite [bp] # Perl [bp] # Tapestry [bp] # Tuscany [dn] # Velocity [gs] # Web Services [bp] # Whimsy [sr] # Wink [bp] # Xerces [bp] A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Chris] No report was submitted. B. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Sam] See Attachment B C. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Bertrand] See Attachment C D. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Greg] No report was submitted. E. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Shane] See Attachment E F. Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo / Jim] No report was submitted. G. Apache Brooklyn Project [Richard Downer / David] See Attachment G H. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / David] No report was submitted. I. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Chris] See Attachment I @Rich: Event in late April might conflict with ApacheCon North America. J. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Shane] See Attachment J K. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Jim] See Attachment K L. Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk / Bertrand] See Attachment L M. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Rich] No report was submitted. N. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Sam] See Attachment N O. Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox / Brett] See Attachment O P. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Thomas Andraschko / Greg] See Attachment P Q. Apache DeviceMap Project [Radu Cotescu / David] See Attachment Q R. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Chris] See Attachment R S. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Bertrand] See Attachment S T. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Jim] No report was submitted. U. Apache Flume Project [Hari Shreedharan / Brett] See Attachment U V. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Rich] See Attachment V W. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Greg] See Attachment W X. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Shane] See Attachment X Y. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam] See Attachment Y Z. Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge / Chris] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Rich] See Attachment AA AB. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Shane] See Attachment AB AC. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Greg] No report was submitted. AD. Apache Ignite Project [Dmitriy Setrakyan / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AE. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / David] See Attachment AE AF. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Jim] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Brett] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Sam] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han / Greg] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Jim] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus / Shane] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Logging Services Project [Ralph Goers / Brett] See Attachment AL AM. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / David] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Rich] See Attachment AN AO. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Sam] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Chris] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Oozie Project [Robert Kanter / Bertrand] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Sam] See Attachment AR AS. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Greg] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Jim] No report was submitted. AU. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Brett] See Attachment AU AV. Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler / David] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell / Rich] See Attachment AW AX. Apache REEF Project [Markus Weimer / Shane] See Attachment AX AY. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Bertrand] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Chris] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / David] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Chris] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben / Rich] See Attachment BC BD. Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux / Bertrand] See Attachment BD BE. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Brett] See Attachment BE BF. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Shane] See Attachment BF BG. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Jim] See Attachment BG BH. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment BH BI. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò / Sam] See Attachment BI BJ. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Greg] See Attachment BJ BK. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett] See Attachment BK BL. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / David] No report was submitted. @David: Time for the attic? BM. Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine / Jim] See Attachment BM BN. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Rich] See Attachment BN BO. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Shane] See Attachment BO @Shane: Contact PMC to get a better report next month; make sure to read the guidelines @Rich: Rich will find some outstanding reports to model and publish links to them BP. Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler / Sam] See Attachment BP Whimsy will continue to report monthly at least until the svn/git "experiment" concludes. There is still more data collection required. BQ. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Greg] See Attachment BQ BR. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Bertrand] See Attachment BR BS. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Chris] See Attachment BS BT. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Bertrand] No report was submitted. BU. Apache XML Graphics Project [Glenn Adams / Shane] See Attachment BU BV. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Jim] See Attachment BV Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Tez Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hitesh Shah (hitesh) to the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Hitesh Shah from the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tez project has chosen by vote to recommend Siddharth Seth (sseth) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hitesh Shah is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Siddharth Seth be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, 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 Tez Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Avro Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom White (tomwhite) to the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tom White from the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Avro project has chosen by vote to recommend Ryan Blue (blue) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom White is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ryan Blue be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, 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 Avro Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items A. Over the last few months I've noticed a drastic decrease in the number of reports submitted on-time, or at all. What's going on? Are the board reminders going out? Historical data: https://whimsy-test.apache.org/board/missing-reports For this month: Initial reminders were sent Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:01:36 +0000 Final reminders were sent Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:27:17 +0000 There was a problem in prior months where getting the chairs email addresses from LDAP would fail; Sebb and Sam addressed the LDAP reliability problems, and Brett changed the address used for chairs to the $availid@apache.org address, avoiding the need for LDAP entirely. This problem is thought to be solved. Reminders are still only being sent to PMCs, i.e, not to executive officers and additional officers. They are also still being sent via a web interface instead of a cron job. These would be excellent tasks for somebody wishing to get more involved in the Whimsy project :-). A draft script for sending reminders can be found at http://s.apache.org/GZD. Deployment info is at https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/DEPLOYMENT.md B. Synapse. What happened and relationship with https://github.com/wso2/wso2-synapse and what we need to (possibly) watch out for. There was a prior discussion of this matter on the trademarks list. That discussion seemed to die off after this post: http://s.apache.org/cUl C. Updating VP Infrastructure Role After reviewing as many opinions and proposals as possible I have come to the conclusion that none of the options for moving the VP Infra responsibilities to a third party can be considered "small reversible steps". Furthermore, contrary to my initial recommendation to the board I am not convinced that any of the outsourcing options currently available are optimal for the foundation. I remain convinced that, at some point in the future, our infrastructure operations will require a full time management role. However, I do not think that time is now. Below I outline the current VP Infra job description (drawn up in consultation with David as VP Infra and most of the infrastructure staff). I have classified each task as either STAFF, VP or PRESIDENT to indicate where I propose each should land. This results in splitting the current VP role three ways: paid STAFF (and where possible contractors), PRESIDENT and VP (who remains a volunteer VP Infrastructure). Items marked VP/STAFF are expected to require significant oversight from the VP but can be delegated to STAFF. The intention is to split the role into "doing" (STAFF), "planning" (VP) and "HR" (PRESIDENT). Note, it is expected that the majority of the PRESIDENT responsibilities can be outsourced to a support organization though no negotiations have taken place at this time. * Set and manage annual infra budgets [VP/STAFF] * Approve infra purchasing decisions, including contract negotiation and renewal with suppliers [VP/STAFF] * Set medium- to long-term strategy for ASF Infra services in response to community demands (Critical, Core and Standard services) [VP] * Implement the defined strategy for ASF Infra (Critical, Core and Standard services [STAFF] * Define SLA targets [VP] * Track against SLA targets and report at https://status.apache.org/sla [STAFF] * Allocate resources (people's time) to ensure tickets are dealt with in a timely way in addition to completing assigned project word [STAFF] * Balance job assignments and project schedules to ensure the necessary work is completed while fun new stuff is progressed [STAFF] * Ensure projects are either provided with everything they need as a service, or (wherever possible) are provided compute resources to self-host [STAFF] * Encourage collaboration between projects who are self-managing the same/similar services [VP/STAFF] * Set or advise on appropriate ASF policy as requested [VP] * Monitor project adherence to appropriate ASF policies (e.g. release management, version control, service use), addressing issues of concern and escalating to the appropriate officer wherever necessary [STAFF] * Be the voice of the community within infra operations [VP] * Be the voice of the infra team for the ASF President and thus the Board and our Members (e.g. board reports) [VP] * Manage infra staff with respect to performance and work environment [PRESIDENT] * Negotiate contract renewals with infra contractors/staff [PRESIDENT] * Recruit infra staff as needed [PRESIDENT] After initial discussion in this board meeting I will take this proposal with appropriate modifications to the board@ list for fine tuning. At this point the search of a replacement VP and expansion of Staff duties can be commenced. Re: A. Late/missing board reports @Brett: Should we add another reminder to tardy projects the Monday before the meeting? Re: B. Synapse issue Jim: there has been a lot of contention between Axis and Synapse and it doesn't seem to be resolved in a good way Sam: there is a significant trademark issue with wso2-synapse; they have forked the project and taken our trademark and the fork does not even implement the same API Jim: I'm expecting to hear from WSO2 that since synapse has retired we want to take the trademark Shane: how are the company and project working together? Also, cloudstack has been forked; this situation needs to be investigated Re: C. VP Infra plan Sam: Overall, good work; perhaps change the set strategy and define SLA to ratify strategy and SLA instead? Ross: good change. Brett: looks like more responsibility for staff; could we bring up someone from infra for leadership role? Ross: with current structure it might be risky to promote an existing infra contractor; the best option for outsourcing would probably cost an extra $100K per year; the good news is that we are in a healthy situation with regard to cost Brett: we should be sensitive to the effect on staff Henri: job description-wise; I would expect to see a ‘travel required’ or not Ross: I will add this to the job requirements Shane: I would like to see us put as much as possible on public web site to get feedback from stakeholders and show other organizations "how we do things here" Ross: the meeting minutes are public Shane: but people outside the board meeting attendees won’t see how we handled this issue Ross: I’m focused on getting it done, not necessarily publishing it; feel free to take this discussion to a different venue David: good for Ross to take on some personnel management tasks interim; there is lots of menial work to do but needs to line up with long term goals; I'm looking forward to seeing who gets recruited for the new role Ross: "self elected" senior team member caused problems in the past; what we are looking for is more like a "project lead" than a manager for keeping projects on track; I'll take this forward with more discussion on board@ 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * David: follow up with last PMC and committer additions. [ Santuario 2015-05-20 ] Status: * David: Chair has no time to devote to the project. May be time for the Attic. [ Tuscany 2015-06-17 ] Status: * Jim: work with counsel to review the bylaws and propose changes (if necessary) to clarify how to apply "two-thirds majority" when counting votes. [ Discussion Items 2015-08-19 ] Status: on-going * Brett: follow up with PMC to include narrative of community health and not just numbers and references to ticket tracking systems. [ Oozie 2015-11-18 ] Status: looks better * Jim: please report next month on the Axis/Synapse relationship and release [ Axis 2015-12-16 ] Status: complete * Brett: pursue a report for Continuum [ Continuum 2015-12-16 ] Status: followed up with a note. Some discussion of attic on dev@ recently but hoping to get a final release out first. * Ross: Notify PMC that tools are available to aid in the Apache Extras [ Pivot 2015-12-16 ] Status: * Chris: pursue a report for Stanbol [ Stanbol 2015-12-16 ] Status: * Brett: pursue a report for Wink [ Wink 2015-12-16 ] Status: currently discussing retirement on wink-private, will look for conclusion to that * Jim: Please report again next month [ Axis 2016-01-20 ] Status: complete 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 12:08 p.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] ApacheCon and TAC: * Melissa sent out the "time is running out" email to members@ and dev@community on 2.5.16, and a reminder on 2.10 that the CFP closes in two days. * Melissa talked to Sally re social media * TAC sent a reminder email to their channels * TAC have received 14 submitted applications and 4 pending Trademarks: * Tracking of registrations and follow-up items continues ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] Busier than usual month on trademarks@, but now have the time and organization - and documentation improvements - to really improve our ability to respond to basic questions, and to provide guidance and precedents for more complex questions. Approved several continuing events; the number of Apache projects with notable annual conferences using our brands continues to grow strongly. Hadoop PMC handled a number of details around proper references to their brand by different vendors nicely. Working with the AOO PMC to make formal trademark infringement complaints to the Microsoft Store due to a vendor there misusing our OpenOffice marks. Counsel is working on our backlog of registration requests; began applications for TOMCAT internationally, TEZ, CASSANDRA, and MESOS. KYLIN and SPARK projects are preparing justifications for their international registrations. KYLIN PMC also wishes to register their logo. Awaiting assistance from operations@/treasurer@ to report past brand payments, we have an additional invoice awaiting approval based on the report. Shane has started a regular review of selected project homepages and brand presentation, both as a way to help PMCs understand policies as well as to suggest improvements for ways to help draw in new contributors. Will be posting regular updates on http://communityovercode.com/ throughout the year. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea] Fundraising activities are continuing normally. We are up to date with sending all invoices. After a few conversations with Virtual we setup a reporting system that I believe gives the feedback needed to fundraising. Based on it we can keep the fundraising@ records up to date with the authoritative financial records from accounting@. I am in the process of updating the records and by the board meeting they should be almost, if not completely, in sync. If other tweaks will be necessary, we'll address them later. No new sponsors this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain within budget, with no outstanding invoices due at this time thanks to the expeditious payment processing from the Virtual team. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing/ComDev liaison: Sally Khudairi is preparing the upcoming ASF Third Quarter report (November 2015-January 2016) which will be published at the end of the month. She successfully launched the new ASF identity with thanks to LucidWorks and HotWax Systems for donating creative services, and will continue to work together on supporting the ongoing rollout. The new identity was received with great enthusiasm by the community and debuted at FOSDEM, where the promotional giveaways (pins, pens, "Powered By" stickers, caps, cups, and t-shirts) created by Daniel Gruno we a tremendous hit. As the inventory cleared out before the event was over, we are considering creating a similar package for the upcoming ApacheCon. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 27 January 2016 -- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Strong Momentum; Enters 2016 More Influential, Innovative, Efficient, and with a New Look IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were published on the ASF "Foundation" Blog, and 20 items were tweeted on @TheASF. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 74 weekly summaries published to date. No new videos have been added to the ASF YouTube channel. V. Future Announcements: three announcements are currently in development. Projects planning to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing to announce major project milestones and "Did You Know?" success stories 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've had an uptick in media requests over the past three weeks, particularly for briefings where members of the Apache community are serving as industry experts across an array of topics. The trend of our growing media coverage in Asia continues. The ASF received 1,692 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 960. Due to our increased media presence, Sally has decided to reinstate the media/analyst trainings offered during ApacheCon, and will be holding two different beginner level sessions (one for podlings in the Incubator, the other for established TLPs or sub-projects), as well as an advanced session. She is finalizing details with the Linux Foundation team and will be announcing details on these opportunities to the community shortly. VI-a. Public Relations: Sally has been exploring options for an ASF-dedicated phone line, and to create a more detailed/visible "help" page on apache.org, but hasn't progressed on this over the past month. VII. Analyst Relations: although we have had no formal briefings during this timeframe, we continue to serve as an ongoing resource for a small handful of analysts. Apache was mentioned in 20 reports by Gartner, 5 reports by Forrester, 25 reports by 451 Research, and 13 reports by IDC. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally has been working with the Linux Foundation team on updating the ApacheCon logo and signage, and has been helping promote the CFP and Travel Assistance deadlines. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal activities are taking place at this time. X. Newswire accounts: we have 51 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of 2017. Although we haven't received formal notice, it appears that we no longer receive gratis news release distribution in the UK by Pressat (no new ASF announcements have been posted on their site as of September 2015). # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] New Karma: ========== N/A Operations Action Items: ======================== N/A Short Term Priorities: ====================== - Setting up a new git repository server at the ASF for testing git r/w synchronization viability. - Provision an isolated test environment (including isolated LDAP) for developing/testing services faster than is currently possible, under a separate domain (asfplayground.org). We believe this separation will also help projects and volunteers work on their ideas, such as the Syncope trial, as they can then develop and test without interfering with production systems - Agreement with Apple has been executed, and projects may now publish apps in the iTunes store. Huge thanks to Mark Thomas who has been working on this for multiple years and seen it to conclusion. - Appveyor CI is now available for projects who make use of a Github mirror, see for more details: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/appveyor_ci_now_available_for Long Range Priorities: ====================== - Mailing list system switchover is expected to happen in the coming months. We are aware of a few outstanding mail-search requests that we have concluded could be solved out-of-the-box by this. - VMs on Eirene, Nyx and Erebus to be moved in readiness for their decommission - Further explore identity management proposals General Activity: ================= - Moved the STeVe VM to a new data center in anticipation of the upcoming annual members meeting. Benchmarks show it could serve an election with more than 6,000 voters, so it should be adequate for the upcoming election. - The new machine for serving up ASF's end of the ASF->GitHub r/w repositories is under work, but has been slowed a bit by some difficulty in integrating new hooks as well as difficulty with our current environment setup (see SRPs above). As stated in the SRPs, we have discussed deploying a separate test environment that is isolated from our production environment and would allow for faster development/testing. The project hinges on three phases: ACL, email/webhooks and dual r/w repositories with sync. The ACL has been automated now and is working. The email phase has turned up some faults in GitHub's way of determining whether a commit is unique (and thus deserves a diff email), and thus we are working towards replacing this with a new mechanism. This new method however is dependent on getting the 2xr/w repos up and running, which in turn depends on rewriting the git hooks we have in place for our current setup, and is the cause of the current slow progress. We expect to have a basic work flow with new hooks in the coming week, and once that is confirmed, we'll attach the Whimsy code to that process. - Work continues on moving machines from our old VM boxes to our new provider. - Fixed some issues with buildbot configurations not being applied. - Lots of JIRA activity: 175 tickets created, 146 resolved - Fixed spam filtering cluster so that it runs checks correctly and is able to catch more legitimate spam. This has already proven very effective. - 5 machines and two arrays decommisoned and removed from OSUOSL racks. Uptime Statistics: ================== The new Whimsy VM has implemented a status page that we have tied into our monitoring system (PMB). This is still not considered a production environment, and thus does not count towards our SLA. This month was a slightly bumpy ride for some services. While the critical services continued their nice trend of pretty much 100% uptime, some core services such as people.apache.org have acted very unstable, indicating that we may need to speed up the decommissioning of this service. BugZilla has been abused by some external services trying to scrape everything, causing some downtime. We have implemented a connection rate limiting module (using mod_lua) for the BZ proxy and this seems to have helped, albeit not stopped the downtime competely. The Moin wiki is, as always, experiencing hiccups, caused by the general flaw in its design. We urge any project still using this to switch to cwiki, if they experience slowness in the service. For details statistics, see http://status.apache.org/sla/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Nick Burch] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] Contacted legal counsel regarding bylaws clarification and possible editing, if required; currently still in process. No issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox] The team continues following up on older reports direct to security@ and ensuring they have been handled by the respective PMCs. Stats for Jan 2016: 2 Support question 2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 8 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or Confused user due to Android licenses 9 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org 2 [xerces] 1 [site] 1 [cordova] 2 [commons] 1 [jetspeed] 1 [httpd] 1 [activemq] 7 Vulnerabilities reported to projects 1 [httpd] 3 [tomcat] 2 [aoo] 1 [sling] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder] Description * 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, J2EE 1.4, AMQP 1.0. Activity * Apache.NMS added a new provider implementation Apache.NMS.XMS for connecting to IBM WebSphere MQSeries. This was contributed by the user community, and based on the existing Apache.NMS provider implementation for TIBCO EMS. There are now eight NMS provider implementations. * ActiveMQ 5.x added several new features in version 5.13.0 * There is now support for automatic wire protocol detection (OpenWire, STOMP, MQTT, and AMQP) using the new auto transport. * Improved metrics as the broker now keeps track of the memory size of pending messages. * A pure Java API for runtime configuration changes to the broker. Previously only changes could be done in XML. * There is now support for dynamic network demand based on the existence of Virtual Consumers. * Support was added for sending scheduled message using message annotations when using AMQP. * The ability to dynamically shrink and regrow the store size at runtime based on available disk space. PMC changes * Currently 20 PMC members * New PMC members ** Christopher Shannon was added to the PMC on Sun Jan 24 2016 ** Jeff Genender was added to the PMC on Sun Jan 24 2016 Committer base changes * Currently 56 committers * New commmitters ** Matt Richard Hogstrom was added as a committer on Thu Jan 28 2016 (not sure why he was added, got this info from reporter.apache.org) ** John Robert Sisson was added as a committer on Thu Jan 28 2016 (not sure why he was added, got this info from reporter.apache.org) Releases * Activemq-CPP v3.9.1 was released on Thu Dec 03 2015 * Activemq-CPP v3.9.2 was released on Thu Feb 08 2016 * 5.11.3 was released on Sun Nov 01 2015 * 5.12.1 was released on Wed Oct 14 2015 * 5.12.2 was released on Sun Jan 10 2016 * 5.13.0 was released on Wed Dec 02 2015 * 5.13.1 was released on Fri Feb 05 2016 * ActiveMQ Artemis 1.2.0 was released on Thu Jan 07 2016 Mailing list activity * users@activemq.apache.org ** 716 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months) ** 816 emails sent to list (712 in previous quarter) * dev@activemq.apache.org ** 344 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months) ** 837 emails sent to list (765 in previous quarter) * issues@activemq.apache.org ** 35 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months) ** 2045 emails sent to list (1763 in previous quarter) * announce@activemq.apache.org ** 9 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) JIRA activity * 233 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months * 257 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako] Description: - Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters. Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time Activity: - Since the last report in Nov 2015, the community has focused on releasing 2.2.0 (798 JIRAs resolved) and 2.2.1 (213 JIRAs resolved). 2.2.0 was a milestone release that introduced Express Upgrades that facilitates speedy, guided upgrades of the stack via the UI. 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 also addressed improving performance, scalability, stability, and security. Currently, stabilization work for 2.2.2 is underway as well as new feature development in trunk. PMC changes: - Currently 40 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Jonathan Hurley on Sun May 17 2015 Committer base changes: - Currently 59 committers. - New commmitters: - Dipayan Bhowmick was added as a committer on Tue Jan 19 2016 - Pallav Kulshreshtha was added as a committer on Tue Jan 19 2016 - Nahappan Somasundaram was added as a committer on Sat Jan 09 2016 - Aravindan Vijayan was added as a committer on Fri Dec 11 2015 - Di Li was added as a committer on Fri Dec 11 2015 - Sriharsha Chintalapani was added as a committer on Mon Nov 16 2015 Releases: - 2.2.1 was released on Tue Feb 9 2016 - 2.2.0 was released on Sat Dec 19 2015 Mailing list activity: - dev@ambari.apache.org: - 210 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - 13018 emails sent to list (10644 in previous quarter) - user@ambari.apache.org: - 411 subscribers (up 31 in the last 3 months): - 377 emails sent to list (312 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 1136 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 1039 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau] ## Description: - Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data. It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - The project was established at the last board meeting. - Mailing lists, repositories and issue tracking have been established by infrastructure. - An initial website is underway and should be available by the time of the board meeting. - The community also has worked with Sally from press@ to announce the project via a press release on February 17th. - Various community members are working on putting together better documentation and communication around Arrow. ## Health report: - The project is just getting started as an independent project. - One of the key initial efforts is finalizing the extraction of code from the Drill codebase. This is tracking well and we hope to complete this before the next board report. - A number of community talks are being submitted to upcoming conferences and meetups to make more people aware of Arrow. - We need to start spending more time growing the community beyond the initial PMC and committers. - The Project voted to add 5 additional committers to the core project due to their involvement initial Arrow discussions. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added since the project was established. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - Wes McKinney was added as a committer on Mon Feb 01 2016 - Offers are out to four other community members to become committers. ## Releases: - No Arrow releases have yet been made. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@arrow.apache.org: - 17 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months) - issues@arrow.apache.org: - 4 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months) ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo] ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Brooklyn Project [Richard Downer] Description: Apache Brooklyn Project is a software framework for modeling, monitoring and managing cloud applications through autonomic blueprints. Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time Activity: - Our source code repository reorganisation is complete and we are now using multiple repositories for different modules of our project. This means that our incubator repository is no longer in use. - This means that the bulk of the graduation tasks are completed. We will conduct a final review of our graduation tasks and tie up any loose ends as soon as possible. - Having completed the repository reorganisation, we aim to release a new version (0.9.0) as soon as possible. Health report: - With regular code contributions and merges, new users on mailing lists, and turnover of JIRA tickets, we are satisfied with the health of the project. PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members since our last report. - Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Olivier Lamy, who converted their mentor status to committer/PMC member on graduation. Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since our last report. - Last committer addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Olivier Lamy, who converted their mentor status to committer/PMC member on graduation. Releases: - No release since last report. - Last release was 0.8.0-incubating on 14th September 2015. Mailing list activity: - dev@brooklyn.apache.org: - 102 subscribers as of 9th February - 555 emails sent to list in December JIRA activity: - 8 JIRA tickets created in January - 4 JIRA tickets resolved in January ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert] ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 2.1.12 7 Dec 2015 3.0.1 8 Dec 2015 3.1 8 Dec 2015 3.2 12 Jan 2016 2.1.13 8 Feb 2016 2.2.5 8 Feb 2016 3.3 9 Feb 2016 Development: Cassandra has moved to a monthly release schedule [1], with even releases (3.2) including new features, and odd releases (3.1., 3.3) only bug fixes. A good summary of what's new in 3.2 is at [2]. Community: Pretty quiet start to the year. I am in the initial stages of planning NGCC (Next Generation Cassandra Conference, for Cassandra committers and contributors, not end users) 2016, probably for late April. Most recent committer and PMC changes: Carl Yeksigian was added as committer on 4 Jan 2016. Aleksey Yeshchenko was added as PMC member on 7 Aug 2014. [1] http://www.planetcassandra.org/blog/cassandra-2-2-3-0-and-beyond/ [2] http://rustyrazorblade.com/2016/01/cassandra-32-overview/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan] DESCRIPTION Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASE - Clerezza partial-release-201508 created on Dec 2, 2015 This release fixes issues preventing rdf.rdfjson and rdf.jena.sparql to expose their OSGi-DS services. It contains latest version of Jersey and Jena and provides some integration tests. https://www.apache.org/dist/clerezza/partial-release-201508/ Vote result: http://s.apache.org/bH9 ACTIVITY - Using the OSGi bundles provided by the Jena project for the Jena backend - Created integrations tests based on new launchers - Fighting with a sling-launchpad plugin update that made previous releases uncompilable COMMUNITY Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013 INFRASTRUCTURE - Website: The download page (http://clerezza.apache.org/downloads/) has been updated: Used 'https://www.apache.org/dist/clerezza/' as base URL, added links to new releases and fixed broken links ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler] ## Description: Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based. ## Issues: none ## Activity: Last release was 2.1.12 on Thu Mar 14 2013 and last PMC addition was on Fri Jul 06 2012. The reactions on our last draft board report on the private list have shown that we are still fully running. The ticket INFRA-10458 for a "Replacement VM for cocoon.zones.apache.org" is resolved, thank you infrastructure. There had been a couple of question on the user list which different user and committers attended. ## PMC changes: - Currently 32 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Javier Puerto on Fri Jul 06 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 80 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - Last release was 2.1.12 on Thu Mar 14 2013 ## Mailing list activity: - users@cocoon.apache.org: - 388 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 20 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) - dev@cocoon.apache.org: - 235 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 3 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter) - cvs@cocoon.apache.org: - 70 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter) - docs@cocoon.apache.org: - 82 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk] ## Description: The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects ## Issues: No issues require board attention at the moment. ## Activity: Preparations for Google Summer of Code 2016 have started, the application is due on Feb 19. Discussion on the mailing lists is high with a focus on guiding newcomers, ApacheCon preparation and how to better help newcomers find the right project to start contributing to. ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Roman Shaposhnik on Wed Aug 11 2015 ## Releases: None. ## Mailing list activity: - cfp-review@community.apache.org: - 37 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - dev@community.apache.org: - 637 subscribers (up 75 in the last 3 months): - 462 emails sent to list (397 in previous quarter) - mentors@community.apache.org: - 266 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - students@community.apache.org: - 56 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] ## Description: NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Start on official Docker image for CouchDB 1.x and 2.x. - Fully automated and scripted CI on builds.a.o. - Started to seed “alpha” tarballs to early 2.0 build testers (These are not Apache Releases, just tarballs people can test). - Started receiving feedback and started work on resolving reported issues. - Continued flushing out of last issues for upcoming 2.0 release found by the dev team. - Both CouchDB proper and the Fauxton (admin interface) sub-proejct have each been accepted as projects at the RailsGirls Summer of Code (think Google Summer of Code, but with a focus on getting women* into Open Source). ## Health report: - Nothing special to report, the project and community are gearing up for the 2.0 release, and activity is according to expectations. ## PMC changes: - Currently 14 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Michelle Phung on Mon Oct 19 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 52 committers. - Ilya Khlopotov was added as a committer on Thu Jan 14 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@couchdb.apache.org: - 587 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 219 emails sent to list (332 in previous quarter) - notifications@couchdb.apache.org: - 14 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1437 emails sent to list (2660 in previous quarter) - couchapp@couchdb.apache.org: - 46 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months): - 142 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - replication@couchdb.apache.org: - 84 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - user@couchdb.apache.org: - 1315 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 221 emails sent to list (207 in previous quarter) - erlang@couchdb.apache.org: - 190 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - announce@couchdb.apache.org: - 282 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - www@couchdb.apache.org: - 17 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - design@couchdb.apache.org: - 16 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 5 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter) - l10n@couchdb.apache.org: - 44 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 5 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) - marketing@couchdb.apache.org: - 59 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 100 emails sent to list (167 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 74 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox] Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Status ------ Since the last report, email and commit activity continues to move along slowly. The .12 release is still in limbo. Creadur is primarily used by other Apache projects to help check for conformity to ASF standards. This is why the project team is primarily comprised of members and committers from other ASF projects. The risk of the project foundering is therefore very low. Community --------- The last committer was elected in August, 2012. In September 2013 Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC. Releases -------- Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014 Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013. Community Objectives -------------------- Release RAT 0.12 Find more committers ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Thomas Andraschko] ## Description: Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which are missing in the CDI core spec. DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers! DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis. We are currently voting on 1.5.3 which includes several bugixes, improvements and a few new features. ## Health report: The community and developers activity was average in the last quarter. ## PMC changes: - Currently 18 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafael Benevides on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 32 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Harald Wellmann at Mon Jun 08 2015 ## Releases: - 1.5.2 was released on Sun Dec 06 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@deltaspike.apache.org: - 169 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - 138 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter) - dev@deltaspike.apache.org: - 110 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 413 emails sent to list (372 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 53 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 46 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Radu Cotescu] Device Data Repository and classification API (established November 2014) Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time Activity: The project's activity decreased drastically after the PMC had reached the minimal viable number of PMC members. Health report: The project is still minimally viable, with 3 active PMC members, but at risk if anyone leaves without new PMC members being elected. PMC changes: Currently 3 PMC members. No new PMC members added in the last 3 months Last PMC addition was Bertrand Delacretaz on Wed Nov 19 2014 Committer base changes: Currently 13 committers. No new committers added in the last 3 months Last committer addition was Volkan Yazici at Thu Apr 23 2015 Releases: No new releases in the past 3 months Mailing list activity: dev@devicemap.apache.org: 58 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): 29 emails sent to list (122 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau] ## Description: - A distributed SQL MPP for Hadoop and NoSQL ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - The Drill community has released 1.3, 1.4 since the last board report. The community vote is also underway for the 1.5 release at the time of this writing. - Drill has added a number of powerful capabilities around partition optimizations - Work is underway to leverage secondary indexes for improving query performance - New connectors have been contributed to work with JDBC sources and image metadata formats - Substantial refactoring of the memory allocation and accounting layer was completed. - Web and REST security features were added. - The Drill development community is also working with the newly formed Arrow community. ## Health report: - Drill is in a strong phase of user and developer growth. Daily we see new interested community members providing patches, test and documentation feedback and general project engagement. - A number of people are working on specific JIRAs to help improve code approachability, testing and documentation. - Two new PMC members have driven there first release, helping to broaden the responsibility of release management. - Weekly Google hangouts are well attended and continue to help welcome new members in a personal way. Decisions continue to happen on list with any discussions from hangouts reported to the list. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - Hanifi Gunes was added to the PMC on Friday Feb 12 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 27 committers. - New commmitters: - Ellen Friedman was added as a committer on Sun Nov 22 2015 - Kris Hahn was added as a committer on Fri Dec 04 2015 ## Releases: - 1.4.0 was released on Sat Dec 14 2015 - 1.3.0 was released on Sat Nov 21 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@drill.apache.org: - 412 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 1960 emails sent to list (2576 in previous quarter) - issues@drill.apache.org: - 19 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 2873 emails sent to list (4068 in previous quarter) - user@drill.apache.org: - 511 subscribers (up 25 in the last 3 months): - 979 emails sent to list (1006 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 310 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 156 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere] Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. Progress of the project The project progresses at it's rather slow but steady pace. Our new committers both contributed since last report. Changes in committers or PMC members No changes since last report. Our chair has indicated that he wishes to step down so we plan to have a change of pmc chair resolution in the next report. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases Latest release was Apache-Empire-db 2.4.4 released on 19/Aug/2015. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith] ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Hari Shreedharan] DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May 20, 2015. * No other releases are planned at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY: * A total of 40 issues have been filed, and 8 issues have been resolved between the period starting November 5, 2015 and February 4, 2016. * Approximately 354 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 194 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * The last time a new committer was added to the project was on June 19, 2015. * The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on November 4, 2014. * Currently there are: - Total of 283 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 653 subscribers to the user list - Total of 26 committers - Total of 21 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was some tiny activity on the dev mail list, with two PMC members participating. See below. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, three other PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Backported the feature from the "scales" skin to the "pelt" skin for the "Conditional display of menuitems". Issue: FOR-1255 Improved the explanation of broken links found during processing. Added a reader and a serializer for JSON. There was some initial discussion between two PMC members on the dev list, regarding a discrepancy with content as images in v2 docs title element. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera] ## Description: 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. ## Issues: - We are concerned with our current level of community activity. - There are outstanding concerns about the inability to obtain a compatible JEE TCK and how that will ultimately affect the project. - Missed a few quarterly reports. - Need to follow up on getting IBM’s WAS Liberty application server fixes to the Yoko ORB integrated. Hoping to get the original engineers to perform the integration. ## Activity: - No releases ## Health report: - Last quarter was a very light quarter for Apache Geronimo. This was likely due to the holidays. ## PMC changes: - Currently 42 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Wed Aug 06 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 69 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Hendrik Saly at Thu Oct 23 2014 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.18 on Tue May 20 2014 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@geronimo.apache.org: - 357 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 23 emails sent to list (28 in previous quarter) - geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org: - 44 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - scm@geronimo.apache.org: - 100 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter) - servicemix-tck@geronimo.apache.org: - 10 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org: - 5 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - user@geronimo.apache.org: - 454 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 9 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter) - xbean-dev@geronimo.apache.org: - 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 3 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter) - xbean-scm@geronimo.apache.org: - 17 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 3 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter) - xbean-user@geronimo.apache.org: - 33 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project releases * We expect to make a new 1.2 release that includes the Blocks & Pieces framework and OOC processing next year. Overall project activity since the last report * New out-of-core features being added * Use IP addresses for communication rather than hostnames * Fixing some bugs When were the last committers or PMC members elected? * Igor Kabiljo on 2/10/15 * We hope to propose a new committer shortly New community development * Avery Ching presented the industrial paper "One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale" at VLDB 2015 in September Mailing list members We continue to see some mailing list growth. user@ 455 -> 470 dev@ 273 -> 280 ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney] ## Description: The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Apache Hadoop™ MapReduce support. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Gora has seen a reasonable degree of activity in this last while. We've seen new members coming to report bugs (which have been fixed), as well as evidence that Gora is being used in a number of big data search stacks with some possible module contributions coming our way. We have only one or two issues before we are ready to release Gora 0.7. Lewis John McGibbney gave a Gora lightening talk @NASA JPL. Work is ongoing to build a Gora-backed Log4j2 NoSQL appender. ## Health report: More or less all of the Gora correspondence happens on dev@. We very rarely have individual coming to user@. Of the ML traffic on dev@ the overwhelming majority of it is Jira and Github correspondence. Generally speaking however, if we have new bug reports filed, they are acted upon in a reasonable timeframe. ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Furkan Kamaci on Wed Sep 16 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Furkan Kamaci at Mon Sep 14 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.6.1 on Mon Sep 14 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@gora.apache.org: - 74 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 234 emails sent to list (450 in previous quarter) - user@gora.apache.org: - 72 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 11 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 18 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge] ## Description: Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform. Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static- typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’ productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain- Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and functional programming. ## Issues: There are no particular issue requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Still no new release yet since the graduation to TLP this month. And there’s a growing demand for a new release (2.4.6). We are still working on automating our process further, as the current release strategy requires too many manual steps that we fear might lead us to release sup-optimal versions as some point. We created a new to spread news and interesting links about the Apache Groovy project, and at the time of writing, we’ve just passed the 1000 followers mark. Last month, we reported on the new Twitter account (@ApacheGroovy [1]) to spread Groovy-related news. We reached 1000 followers and are now at over 1200 followers. ## Health report: Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are all healthy as the project is already pretty mature. But releases need to be made more frequently. Last month, we entered the TIOBE programming language index at the 17th position, and for February, we’re ranked 20th. Upcoming Groovy dedicated conferences are coming up: - GR8Days in Poland in March (new conference) - Greach in Spain in April - GR8Conf Europe in June - GR8Conf US in July - G3 Summit in December (new conference) ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. The PMC hasn’t changed since the graduation to TLP. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 16 committers. - New committers since the graduation: Graeme Rocher and John Wagenleitner - Last committer addition was Graeme Rocher at Dec 13 2015 ## Releases: - 2.4.5 was released on Sept 17 2015 - 2.4.4 was released on Jul 09 2015 - 2.4.3 was released on Mar 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@groovy.apache.org: - 323 subscribers (up 36 in the last 3 months): - 369 emails sent to list (412 in previous quarter) - dev@groovy.apache.org: - 194 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months): - 338 emails sent to list (433 in previous quarter) - issues@groovy.apache.org: - 8 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - notifications@groovy.apache.org: - 25 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 943 emails sent to list (1059 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 81 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 79 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] https://twitter.com/ApacheGroovy [2] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin] ## Description: Hama is an efficient and scalable general-purpose BSP computing engine. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The community is still being baked and relatively small but getting stabilized. - There's effort to integrate Hama with beam (dataflow) project from outside the community. ## Health report: - We preparing 0.7.1 release that contained updates and bug fixes. ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - Behroz Sikander was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 28 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 15 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Minho Kim at Thu Jun 11 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.7.0 on Sun Jun 14 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@hama.apache.org: - 113 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 96 emails sent to list (146 in previous quarter) - user@hama.apache.org: - 186 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 24 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener] ## Description: The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - mod_h2 (HTTP/2 implementation) is under active development and garnering significant user feedback. Thank you Steffen! - mod_proxy: Jim added some very cool proxy health check support, and reverse proxy docs, to trunk. Thanks as always to Jim! - Docs: Our newest committer has been aggressively going through bugzilla and improving some important docs. Thanks Luca! - Work to support OpenSSL 1.1.0 in trunk was started to enable feedback to the new API before the first OpenSSL 1.1.0 beta. Thanks Rainer! ## Health report: - mod_proxy joins mod_h2 in the active development category, most other areas still see maitnenance-only. - users@ down marginally, dev@ up marginally ## PMC changes: - Currently 44 PMC members. - Jean-Frederic Clere was added to the PMC on Tue Nov 24 2015 (last PMC addition) ## Committer base changes: - Currently 114 committers. - Luca Toscano was added as a committer on Fri Jan 22 2016 (last committer addition) ## Releases: - 2.4.18 was released on December 14, 2015. ## Bugzilla Statistics: - 70 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months - 44 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Ignite Project [Dmitriy Setrakyan] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning] 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 49 podlings currently undergoing incubation. * Community New IPMC members: - Greg Trasuk * New Podlings - iota (formerly Tempo) - Beam (formerly Dataflow) * Graduations None this month. * Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of January: - 2016-01-07 Apache Trafodion 1.3.0-incubating - 2016-01-08 Apache Slider 0.90.2-incubating - 2016-01-13 Apache HTrace 4.0.1-incubating - 2016-01-14 Apache Singa 0.2.0 - 2016-01-17 Apache Malhar v3.3.0-incubating - 2016-01-21 Apache Zeppelin 0.5.6-incubating - 2016-01-25 Apache Ranger 0.5.1 - 2016-01-26 Apache Twill 0.7.0-incubating - 2016-01-28 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-rc01-incubating Wave's release candidate finally received its 3rd and 4th IPMC +1 votes, nearly three months after it was submitted to general@incubator on November 3rd, 2015. * IP Clearance - Thomas Weise, Siyuan Hua, Jean-Baptiste Note, and Datatorrent Inc. donated Kafka on YARN (KOYA), an "app-package" built for use with Apache Slider (incubating). * Legal / Trademarks More podlings have begun reviewing names prior to entry into the Incubator in order to avoid the inconvenience of mid-incubation name change to users, developers and Apache Infra. - The proposed "Dataflow" podling adopted the name "Beam" because the Dataflow brand was not donated -- Google will continue to provide "Google Cloud Dataflow". - The proposed "Tempo" podling renamed itself "iota", in part to avoid the possibility of confusion with a similarly named project. * Miscellaneous - Several podlings experienced difficulties implementing Apache requirements for LICENSE and NOTICE. Draft documentation provided by Todd Lipcon was discussed. - Some incoming proposals have started adopting the "Additional Interested Contributors" section, which allows people to express interest in the project while deferring the sensitive subject of commit privileges. * Credits - Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator - Milagro * Not yet ready to graduate No release: - Concerted - Eagle - Fineract - HORN - Kudu - log4cxx - Metron - S2Graph - SystemML - Unomi Community growth: - AsterixDB - Blur - ODF Toolkit - Slider - Tamaya - TinkerPop - Twill * Did not report, expected next month - Impala - iota (new) - OpenAZ (two months missed) - Sirona - Toree * Report Incomplete - CMDA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents AsterixDB Blur Concerted Eagle Fineract HORN iota Kudu log4cxx2 Metron Milagro ODF Toolkit S2Graph Slider SystemML Tamaya TinkerPop Twill Unomi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- AsterixDB Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large collections of semi-structured data. AsterixDB has been incubating since 2015-02-28. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Do an Apache release that can also provide binary artifacts with correct LICENSEs and NOTICEs. 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? - Heri Ramampiaro was added as a committer on Jan 16. How has the project developed since the last report? - Continued active development. - Current focus on stabilizing the code base. - The most important issue to be addressed is still the same as for the last report, but significant progress has been made (by Ian with a lot of support from Ate) and RC2 for the binary release is currently under review. Date of last release: 2015-10-22 AsterixDB 0.8.7 2015-09-22 Hyracks 0.2.16 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2016-01-16 Heri Ramampiaro Signed-off-by: [X](asterixdb) Ate Douma [ ](asterixdb) Chris Mattmann [X](asterixdb) Henry Saputra [ ](asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann [ ](asterixdb) Ted Dunning Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- Blur Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Greater community involvement. 2. Produce releases. 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? - Subscriptions: user@ - 56[+1]; dev@ - 72[+2] - The community involvement has not really changed over the past few months. How has the project developed since the last report? - The software has a few additional features, and bug fixes. Date of last release: 2014-07-29 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-28 Signed-off-by: [ ](blur) Doug Cutting [X](blur) Patrick Hunt [ ](blur) Tim Williams Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- Concerted Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data engines. Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. First release 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 How has the community developed since the last report? Latest Additions: * PMC addition: NA * Commiter addition: 1 (ICLA submission pending) Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 0 * Resolved: 0 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 24 messages * @issues 2 messages * @commits 0 messages How has the project developed since the last report? - Project has been dormant for the most part, Mentors have raised their concerns regarding it - Working on scripts to automate the release process for our first Apache Concerted release candidate - Website is created and is under review before it is published - Refactoring of existing code Date of last release: - Working towards our first release candidate. Signed-off-by: [X](concerted) Chris Nauroth [ ](concerted) Daniel Dai [X](concerted) Jake Farrell [X](concerted) Julian Hyde Shepherd/Mentor notes: Chris Nauroth (cnauroth): Once again, I'll echo concerns about lack of activity and potential long-term viability of the project. Julian Hyde (jhyde): I share Chris's concerns. The project claim that activity is happening in private; if so, it would be hugely beneficial to make that activity public. Having said that, filing a report on time and appointing a committer is activity, and that is appreciated. -------------------- Eagle Eagle is a Monitoring solution for Hadoop to instantly identify access to sensitive data, recognize attacks, malicious activities and take actions in real time. Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get the first Apache release ready 2. Clarify and publish the roadmap 3. Improve the community participation Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Nil How has the community developed since the last report? - We presented about Apache Eagle in Big Data Summit on Jan 27th. - We are preparing decks for Strata Hadoop and Hadoop summit Europe. - We are seeing participation from engineers with different background. - We have a release manager identified in the community for the first release. How has the project developed since the last report? - Community is focussing on getting the release ready - 19 commits in github - 17 JIRA's closed - 534 discussions on the dev mailing list The community is working on some exciting features in the Eagle framework to make it more generic and support for new data sources. Date of last release: Nil When were the last committers or PMC members elected? On Feb 1st Ralph Su was elected as a committer. We are looking forward to his contributions. Signed-off-by: [ ](eagle) Owen O'Malley [x](eagle) Henry Saputra [x](eagle) Julian Hyde [x](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz [x](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu Shepherd/Mentor notes: Julian Hyde (jhyde): Project is beginning to focus on producing a first release, which is good. Other activity is healthy. -------------------- Fineract Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform. Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of the change in project structure 2. Getting new committers up to speed on Apache processes and philosophy 3. Replacing dependencies that are not compliant with the license policies Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None, currently How has the community developed since the last report? Since the code was initially pushed over, the community is working on the first release. In addition to the initial committer new contributors started to work on the project. How has the project developed since the last report? The initial code is now available and the work to meet the license policies has started. Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler [ ](fineract) Greg Stein [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- HORN HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for large- scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama. HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to gain and attract contributors. 2. Produce a first Apache release. 3. Finalize Architecture and API design Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? There are no issues requiring IPMC attention at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? - The subscribers are slightly increased but activities are low. - We're considering collaborate or integrate with another deep learning open source softwares for example Samsung Veles. - We also discuss about early stage retiring from incubation if low community growth is expected. - dev@horn.i.a.o. 39 subscribers How has the project developed since the last report? We're developing Parameter Server and APIs but there's no notable improvements. Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - 2015-11-17 New committers: Zachary Jaffee. Signed-off-by: [x](horn) Luciano Resende [ ](horn) Robin Anil [x](horn) Edward J. Yoon [ ](horn) Rich Bowen Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- iota iota is a scalable, secure and modular platform to interconnect IoT devices. iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20. Signed-off-by: [x](iota) Daniel Gruno [ ](iota) Justin Mclean [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes [x](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea Shepherd/Mentor notes: Hadrian Zbarcea (hadrian): iota just entered incubation, mailing lists and most of the infra are created. Committers are in the process of submitting their iclas and the code needs to be moved to the asf repository. -------------------- Kudu Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Kudu has been incubating since 2015-12-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to move over infrastructure (JIRA, etc) to ASF 2. Build a more diverse development and user community 3. Perform releases under the ASF 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? - In January, we have received patches from three new contributors. The patches were of varying size (from trivial to quite significant) but we're encouraged that new developers are finding the patch submission process approachable. - Overall >110 patches were committed in January from 11 developers representing three organizations. Discounting some large patches which replaced our copyright boilerplate, license notices, etc, around 10-12kloc were changed in January. This is a substantial increase compared to December which had only 29 patches, representing less than 1000 lines of changed code. Lines of code are not a primary metric we track, but the above shows that the community is getting back into rapid and lively development after a lull during the holiday season. This is also evident in the dev list traffic (1084 messages so far in January). - Community members continue to give public talks about Kudu at various conferences and meetups. Talks were delivered at meetups in Atlanta and Palo Alto, and more are being scheduled for the coming months. - The public Kudu Slack channel has proven fairly popular among both the developer and user communities. The group now has 116 members, of which ~20 are typically active on an average weekday. How has the project developed since the last report? Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones: - We set up a workflow and scripting for committers to easily push work that has been reviewed on Gerrit into our official ASF repository. We are following the best practices established by the AsterixDB podling. - We moved over our user and developer discussions to ASF mailing lists and discontinued usage of our old Google Groups. Migration of JIRA is an ongoing project which we hope to close out this coming month. - We set up publicly-accessible precommit builds so that non-Cloudera contributors can see automated test results for their contributions. - We adjusted our licensing boilerplate and documentation to comply with our understanding of ASF policies. We also started to build scripting for doing ASF-style source releases. We are planning on doing our first release in the incubator in early Feb. Date of last release: None under the ASF. Outside of the ASF, we released 0.6.0 on 11/24/2015. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None since initial incubation. Signed-off-by: [x](kudu) Jake Farrell [ ](kudu) Brock Noland [x](kudu) Michael Stack [ ](kudu) Jarek Jarcec Cecho [ ](kudu) Chris Mattmann [ ](kudu) Julien Le Dem [ ](kudu) Carl Steinbach Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- log4cxx2 Logging for C++ log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Create a release 2. Activate some community 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? There's an ongoing discussion to move the project to attic unless it is able to release in the next few months. How has the community developed since the last report? Not grown. However, the project aims to become a sub project of Apache Logging again. Community growth is not much a matter for this podling, as long as there are a few active contributors. How has the project developed since the last report? After the discussion about the activity of the project and the success of the incubation process, there's currently a member willing to step through the release process. The initial plan on incubation anyway was to primary apply available patches and release those bug fixes. Additionally, there's once more a discussion about the supported build platforms, because currently the project heavily focusses on cpptasks, which is not maintained and simply doesn't support current versions of all formerly supported IDEs anymore. The current focus is on dropping cpptasks and ANT for the build of the software and use autoconf and/or cmake instead. Date of last release: 2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy Shepherd/Mentor notes: Marvin Humphrey (marvin): Ralph Goers has volunteered to serve as Mentor. -------------------- Metron Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing, storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry within a single platform. Metron has been incubating since 12-08-2015 Three most important issues to address in the move towards Graduation. - Building a diverse community of developers for Metron - Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements - Make an Apache release Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of? - We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron - We would like to request Apache infrastructure (a Jenkins server) for CI How has the community developed since the last report - We started working on implementing a variety of new features on Metron - We did a Meetup in the DC area jointly with Capital One. We had over 75 people in attendance with many expressing interest in joining the Metron project How has the project developed since the last report - This month we have closed 7 key Jiras and built up scripts for standing up an integration and test environment for Metron that anyone in the community can take advantage of Signed-off-by: [x](metron) Billie Rinaldi [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann [ ](metron) Owen O'Malley [X](metron) P. Taylor Goetz [ ](metron) Vinod K Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- Milagro Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Import the Software 2. Develop the community 3. Establish the project's identity 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 has voted to invite four further developers to join as committers and PPMC members. Two of these were omissions from the Initial Committers list; the others are new. We are in the process of inviting them. How has the project developed since the last report? Milagro is still in the very early stages of incubation, and performing the mechanical tasks of code movement and infrastructure setup is our first priority. We have started developing the community on the Apache mailinglists, but have yet to move other activities to Apache. Date of last release: n/a When were the last committers or PMC members elected? n/a (but see above - we are inviting new developers on board). Signed-off-by: [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes [ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen [*](milagro) Nick Kew Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- ODF Toolkit Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community. 2. Develop a new release. 3. Plan for future iterations. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Still pretty quiet, but users are raising issues and new developers are submitting patches. How has the community developed since the last report? There are a growing number of interested users and developers. We need to maintain their interest and plan for future enhancements. How has the project developed since the last report? A number of tickets have been resolved and a new release is being prepared, aiming for mid year or earlier. There are Java version issues to be addressed first. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes: Nick Burch (nick): It's a shame that the large amount of private work done can't be contributed back to the project, as that could've been a big help. We are seeing activity again, and the work towards a release which could help grow interest. More committers are needed, but no strong candidates are currently visible, so outreach work is needed. Despite these issues, the project certainly deserves another 3 months to see if they can turn the corner. -------------------- S2Graph S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs. S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make a release 2. Attract users and contributors 3. Foster more and diverse committers Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? List[Nothing].empty How has the community developed since the last report? * There are two new contributors who have been developing a backend storage using Redis. * We are currently working with RTC. We made 6 commits by this process. * For RTC, we use the Pull Request in Github to review the code. How has the project developed since the last report? * [S2GRAPH-9] We added a new REST server using Netty which shows better performance with fewer resources. * [S2GRAPH-7] For the above, common codes such as parsing JSON are moved to s2core. * [S2GRAPH-14] We generalize the HBase-specific code for adding other storages easy. Date of last release: No yet When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No Signed-off-by: [x](s2graph) Andrew Purtell [x](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh [X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- Slider Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Getting more external users 2. Getting more diverse set of developers 3. Getting more diverse set of committers/PMC Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? We completed the IP clearance for the contribution of a Kafka app package for Slider, KOYA. We have a few patches that have been submitted by contributors and still need to be reviewed. How has the project developed since the last report? We added a new app package for running Apache Tomcat on Slider. We released slider-0.90.2-incubating (the first in the 0.90 line), a preview/alpha release containing a major new feature, anti-affinity placement. Also, we have reworked our release process and are planning our next release for around March 1. Date of last release: 2016-01-09 slider-0.90.2-incubating When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu Signed-off-by: [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy [ ](slider) Devaraj Das [X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ ](slider) Mahadev Konar Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- SystemML SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to distributed computations running on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark. SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: - Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity, increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, encourage data scientists to adopt DML and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML. - Produce a release (in progress). Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? NONE. We have resolved our blocking infrastructure issues related to project JIRA. How has the community developed since the last report? Our mailing list in January had 123 messages (7 of which were Jenkins). We have had several useful discussions on the mailing list concerning various aspects of SystemML. We have had several additional discussions on our JIRA site and in our Pull Request conversations. We have received usability feedback which includes filing JIRA issues and mailing list activity. How has the project developed since the last report? Numerous additions have been made to the project, including core functionality, usability improvements, and documentation. The project has had 96 commits since January 6. In the last 30 days, 126 new issues have been reported on our JIRA site and 68 issues have been resolved. We are in the process of producing our first Apache release, version 0.9.0. RC3 passed the SystemML PMC vote and is currently being voted on by the IPMC. Date of last release: NONE When were the last committers or PMC members elected? NONE Signed-off-by: [x](systemml) Luciano Resende [ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell [ ](systemml) Reynold Xin [ ](systemml) Rich Bowen Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- Tamaya Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular, extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE environments. Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make the project known in projects world-wide. 2. Release more often. 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? We have new people committing to our project and are in good hope one or another will join us as an official committer. JUG talks in Switzerland showed that the project is widely known and well appreciated in the enterprise context. How has the project developed since the last report? The project's API has proven to work very well. We added additional integrations with several key technologies such as Spring, OSGI and CDI. We streamlined our build and also had discussions on some needed enhancements on the API/SPI. We are currently working on the final aspects for getting out our next release, which within 2-4 weeks. Date of last release: 2015-08-22 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 25th January 2015 Signed-off-by: [x](tamaya) John D. Ament [ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek [ ](tamaya) David Blevins Shepherd/Mentor notes: John D. Ament (johndament): The core committers are very dedicated to the project. However, there's only two of them. For the project to be sustainable, they need to show growth in contributors. -------------------- TinkerPop TinkerPop is a graph computing framework written in Java TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Add more members to the PPMC. 2. Add more members to the committer list. 3. N/A (unless the mentors have ideas?) Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Nothing at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? We have 2 new committers: Dylan Millikin and Ted Wilmes. Ted Wilmes has also joined the PPMC. How has the project developed since the last report? Since the last status report, 166 new JIRA issues have been created and127 have been resolved. Travis CI has been enabled so all PRs are automatically built and tested upon submittal. Open discussions of project related activities and decisions continue on the TinkerPop dev mailing list. We continue to reach out to other Apache projects to discuss integration possibilities. Since the last report, we have had discussions with Apache Flink and Apache S2Graph about adding TinkerPop support. A number of graph providers have released new versions of their software with TinkerPop support. These include Stardog, Blazegraph, and OrientDB (via the community driven, orientdb-gremlin). This demonstrates a continued community interest, and demand for TinkerPop support. A tutorials section has been added to the TinkerPop homepage along with a number of tutorials targeted at the TinkerPop beginner. The hope is that this will lower the barrier of entry for new folks who are interested in the graph space and TinkerPop in particular. The following articles/presentations/blogposts were provided about TinkerPop from TinkerPop members since the last report: * Rodriguez, M.A., "Quantum Walks with Gremlin" , Graph Day, January 2016. * Mallette, S.P., Kuppitz, D., "Titan 1.0 Data Migration" , December 2015. Date of last release: * 2015-11-24 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? * Dylan Millikin - committer (11/4/2015) * Ted Wilmes - committer (11/10/2015) PPMC (1/11/2016) Please see our Project Status page as we have been diligent to update it accordingly. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tinkerpop.html Signed-off-by: [ ](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen [x](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno [x](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea [ ](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin [ ](tinkerpop) David Nalley Shepherd/Mentor notes: Hadrian Zbarcea (hadrian): TinkerPop is making good progress. If they focus on the 2 points above relating to growing the community I think they'll be ready to graduate. Daniel Gruno (humbedooh): +1 to Hadrian's statement. We have been chatting a bit about getting a thread going about what remains before graduation. -------------------- Twill Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of developing distributed applications. Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14. Top three items to resolve before graduation: - More engagement from the community. - Improve documentations and examples. - Increase adoption. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? - Graduation discussion is happening in dev mailing list - Published release 0.7.0-incubating - 10 new JIRA issues filed since last report - 7 JIRA issues resolved since last report - 1 new contributors submitted patches How has the project developed since the last report? - Version 0.8.0-incubating is being worked upon - Support for Azure Blob Storage Date of last release: - 2016-01-26: 0.7.0-incubating What are the plans for the next period? - Encourage contributions from active users - Identify potential committers - Engage more on social channels (IRC and Twitter) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - August 4, 2015 : Henry Saputra Signed-off-by: [ ](twill) Vinod K [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy [X](twill) Tom White [X](twill) Patrick Hunt [ ](twill) Andrei Savu Shepherd/Mentor notes: -------------------- Unomi Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server specification currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical Committee. It provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server. Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Improve documentation on the website 2. Make some incubating releases 3. Grow the community size and diversity. 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 got feedbacks from users and interested people. They are now mostly waiting for the 1.0.0-incubating release. That's our highest priority right now. How has the project developed since the last report? Our focus was on Unomi 1.0.0-incubating release. Unfortunately, a couple of issues (see next section) blocked the vote. We are fixing those issues to submit a take 3 on 1.0.0-incubating release. Date of last release: Unomi 1.0.0-incubating (take 2) has been called to vote, but the vote didn't passed due to: * the src distribution included binaries * the NOTICE file was incomplete We were concerned by the NOTICE as it wasn't obvious and not clear (both on the licensing howto and on the mailing list). Following Justin McLean advices, we should be able to update the NOTICE (hopefully, this one will be complete). We are now working on 1.0.0-incubating (take 3) release. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None Signed-off-by: [X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz [ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann Shepherd/Mentor notes: ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree] February 2016 Report for the jUDDI project jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR). jUDDI - Low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter. - 3.3.2 Released November 10, 2015 Scout - No release this period, no development took place. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree) Last Release jUDDI-3.3.2, November 10, 2015 There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao] Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems. Development =========== We released 0.9.0.0, which include the following major features: (1) a new java-based consumer; (2) authorization (through ssl and sasl) and authentication; (3) quotas; (4) Kafka connect: a framework for copying data into and out of Kafka. We are actively working on critical bug fixes from 0.9.0.0 and new features such as KStream. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. We have 1828 subscribers in the user mailing list, up 148 in the last 3 months. We have 1513 emails in the user mailing list in the last 3 months, up from 1197 in the previous cycle. We have 687 subscribers in the dev mailing list, up 51 in the last 3 months. We have 5779 emails in the dev mailing list in the last 3 months, up from 5344 in the previous cycle. We last elected a new committer Ewen Cheslack-Postava on Dec. 8, 2015. Releases =========== 0.9.0.0 was released on Nov. 24, 2015. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder] # Description The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the perimeter. We are starting to move into the UI proxy and UI SSO space as well. # Issues * This quarter has seen discusson on dev@knox from a single individual expressing concern reguarding the project's development practices. See: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/knox-dev/201512.mbox/%3CCAD-Ua_ibfetwjD2Mx1rOhXzc1y0h6b4PaXZThuByuRKp9oh29g@mail.gmail.com%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/knox-dev/201512.mbox/%3CCACRbFyjvkoWZ8QsqzXO-bJ3dGwSeowa_UL=a0J=+GbDTjhRy8g@mail.gmail.com%3E These issues were discussed and as a result the communities existing CTR vs RTC practices were refined, clarified and the site contribution process documentation updated. I believe this was a beneficial discussion. # Status * We did two releases this quarter which is a first. * More importantly the 0.8.0 release is the first hilighting a non-committer contributed feature as its primary release driver. * The 0.7.0 release also however did include a significantly increased amount of non-committer contributed content over prior releases. * Starting work for a 0.9.0 release. We may consider this for our 1.0 release. # Releases * 0.8.0: 2016-02-04 * 0.7.0: 2015-12-15 * 0.6.0: 2015-04-30 * 0.5.1: 2015-12-01 * 0.5.0: 2014-11-04 * 0.4.0: 2014-04-21 * 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating) # Development Activity * Community just began development towards a 0.9.0/1.0.0 release * Jira: 668 total, 132 open, +46 -72 over last 90 days * Git (Source): 62 commits over last 90 days * SVN (Site & Docs): 15 commits over last 90 days # Community Activity ## Contributors Added * None ## Membership Changes * None ## Mailing List Activity * dev@knox: 933 messages over last 90 days * user@knox: 58 messages over last 90 days ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han] ## Description: =============== Apache Kylin is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Hadoop supporting extremely large datasets. ## Issues: ========== - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: ============ - Mailing list, JIRA, and commit activity are at or above average. - We are working on release v2.0-Beta - Requesting international trademark registration - Updated project list of ASF home page - Kylin's topic has been selected at Hadoop Summit Dublin 2016 - Submitted topic at Hadoop Summit San Jose 2016 - Yahoo! JAPAN submitted one topic at Hadoop/Spark Conference Japan 2016 ## Community: ============= - 2 committers and 0 PMC members appointed after last report. - Messages on the dev mailing list after last report: 569 - Messages on the user mailing list after last report: 116 - 123 JIRA tickets created after last report - 81 JIRA tickets closed/resolved after last report ## Releases: ============ - The last release was v1.2 on Dec 15, 2015 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu] Report from the Apache Lens committee ## Description: Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes. ## Activity: - Capability added to load multiple drivers of same type. - Stabilized query submission throttling feature. - Added saved query and parameterization feature. - User facing error propagation has been improved. - User facing CLI has many improvements. - Moving to Apache Hive dependency is dev complete and being tested. - Release 2.5.0-beta is planned and is in progress. - A weekly/bi-weekly hangout was proposed by community for individuals to break the ice as well as to get more involved. But not many active participants. Happened only for a month. ## Issues : There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Raju Bairishetti on Wed July 19 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 20 committers. - New committers : + Deepak Kumar Barr on Nov 07 2015 + Pranav Kumar Agarwal on Oct 31 2015 + Amruth S on Oct 23 2015 + Sushil Mohanty on Oct 23 2015 - Last committer addition was Deepak Kumar Barr at Sat Nov 07 2015 ## Releases: - Lens-2.4.0-beta was released on Mon Nov 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@lens.apache.org: - 64 subscribers (+3 from last report): - 1988 emails sent in the past 3 months, 2506 in the previous cycle - user@lens.apache.org: - 56 subscribers (+4 from last report): - 31 emails sent in the past 3 months, 83 in the previous cycle - commits@lens.apache.org: - 29 subscribers (+2 from last report): - 216 emails sent in the past 3 months, 261 in the previous cycle ## JIRA activity: - 87 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus] Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. General We had a good amount of activity in the past couple of months and we are finally moving towards a v1.0 release. Recently we have released a first preview of the v1.0 release which includes two new APIs - one for managing Backup as a Service projects and products and one for managing Containers as a Service projects and products (Kubernetes, Amazon Container Service, Joyent Triton, etc.). People interested in this new APIs can learn more about them in those posts: - https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/01/20/libcloud-1.0-pre1.html - https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/05/libcloud-containers-example.html - http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyShaw5/introducing-container-asaservice-support-to-apache-libcloud Issues There are no issues which require board attention at this time. Releases - Libcloud v0.20.0 on December 16th, 2015 - Libcloud v0.20.1 on January 19th, 2016 - Libcloud v1.0.0-pre1 on January 25th, 2016 Community - Anthony Shaw (anthonyshaw) joined us as a committer and a PMC member in November 2015 - Anthony Shaw was a guest in FLOSS Weekly podcast where he talked about Libcloud - https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/373?autostart=false - Anthony Shaw presented Libcloud and the new Container as a Service API abstraction at the Sydney Python Meetup - http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyShaw5/introducing-container-asaservice-support-to-apache-libcloud ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Logging Services Project [Ralph Goers] The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open- source software related to application logging. Currently there are no issues which require the board's attention. - Community Log4j 2 remains an active project. The overall community is healthy and friendly. Log4cxx is still active in the Incubator. A thread was started on the incubator mailing list asking for help in getting new mentors. This resulted in 2 people offering to help. It also digressed into a discussion about closing down the podling. The podling is actively discussing how to create a release that doesn't use Java build tools. In general, all subprojects are still healthy although none has grown much since the last report. - Project Branding Requirements All components except Chainsaw meet the branding requirements. We will fix the Chainsaw branding with the next release. - Last three community changes * Ralph Goers was voted to be the next Chair on Nov 01 2015 * Mikael Staldal joined as a Committer on Sep 17 2015 * Matt Sicker joined as PMC Member on Aug 10 2014 - Releases * Log4j 2.5 (Dec 9, 2015) * log4net 1.2.15 (Dec 8 2015) * Log4net 1.2.14 (Nov 10 2015) - Subproject summaries Log4j 2: Active. Releases every 2-3 months. Log4j 1: EOL announced. Bugzilla closed for new issues. Log4net: Active with 2 recent releases Log4cxx: Active in the Incubator. Discussions on how to perform a release are in progress. Log4php: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered. Chainsaw: Ready for a new release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright] Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.3 release on December 17, 2015. We have now discontinued planned releases for the 1.x ManifoldCF platform. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2016. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Tugba Dogan on September 7, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been light this quarter, except for December. Most of our connectors have significant use cases and constituencies and are mature offerings. There is a notable cycle of activity seemingly centered on quarter ends which seems to have become more pronounced. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.3 release in December, and occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank] Marmotta Board Report for February 2016 ======================================= Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data. Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the Incubator in November 2013. Another low activity quarter, with just small developments towards what the project should release as 3.4.0 in the upcoming weeks. The stability of the source code is heading the project to get more focused activity out there, getting quite some interesting contributions to improve the performance. One the 3.4 milestone, the project already discussed to take bigger steps for a new release (4.0?), where new fresh things, like Java 8 and Sesame 4, should come in. The last developments regarding geospatial querying (GeoSPARQL) have reached the news with, not only posts at the ASF/OGC blogs, but also at some third-party media. We are already trying to find the resources necessary to adapt the project identity (mainly logo) to the new look recently adopted by The Foundation. Subscribers to the projects mailing list: dev@marmotta.a.o: 88 subscribers (+2 since last report, 2015-11) users@marmotta.a.o: 107 subscribers (+5 since last report, 2015-11) Releases: 2014-12-05 (3.3.0) 2014-05-20 (3.2.1) Committers & PMC (last additions): Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24) Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21) Issues for the Board: There are no Board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen] ## Description: Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Initial work being done on MetaModel 5.0 which involves upgrading to Java 8and supporting the new language features and JDK. - Discussions are going on about whether we should update our logo and general look'n'feel of the Apache MetaModel "brand". ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ankit Kumar on Wed Nov 19 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015 ## Releases: - 4.5.0 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@metamodel.apache.org: - 69 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 510 emails sent to list (582 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] DESCRIPTION Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. MILESTONES Apache Oltu 1.0 was released on March 3rd 2014. Apache Oltu Oauth2 module version 1.0.1 was released September 24th 2015 CURRENT ACTIVITY The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a standard. A stable version 1.0 was released on March 3rd 2014 and some minor releases are going out regularly for bug fixing. The current intention is to extend the coverage to the JWE (started in OLTU-80) - Implement JWE support for JWT In Progress ). We completed the "Handling Cryptography" process (http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html) in OLTU-162 - Handling Cryptography within OLTU Release Resolved . Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got new messages from new users). We got quite some feedbacks from users (included patches). The answer from Oltu dev seems to be a bit slow though. The overall coding activity is also slow. The reason might also be the fact the OAuth specification is stable for a while (being an RFC) hence also the code is stable. I have sent an email to dev@ in order to encourage people to engage more on reported bugs. I will report next time with the outcome. COMMUNITY PMC composition has not changed since graduation We have voted one new committer Jasha Joachimstha in January 2015 (31/01/2015) ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Robert Kanter] ## Description: Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Development activity continues as can be seen from the following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/oozie_report_feb_16 - Recent departures and the holidays have decreased the usual amount of activity lately, though big new features are still being worked on and committed (e.g. OOZIE-1976). Newer contributors are stepping up and working towards committership. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Ryota Egashira on Mon Aug 10 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Purshotam Shah at Tue Aug 12 2014 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.2.0 on Wed Jun 03 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@oozie.apache.org: - 143 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 976 emails sent to list (872 in previous quarter) - user@oozie.apache.org: - 496 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months): - 128 emails sent to list (169 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 57 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 41 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce] Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development on the project has been quite good since the last report. There has been an increase in new contributors helping out with some sticking around and becoming regular faces. Omkar Reddy recently joined the project as a committer and PMC member after making a number of great contributions and bug fixes. The team pushed out a 1.0.0 release in late September which included a large number of new features that were integrated since our last release in January 2015. The team has a rough plan laid out for the next release (1.1.0) and has been pushing forward towards it. A good amount of progress has been made on 1.1 with quite a few new features and bug fixes having already been pushed to the code base. We expect to have 1.1 pushed out soon given the current progress. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.5 - 13 January 2015 1.0.0 - 22 September 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] ## Description: Apache OpenJPA is a persistent object management kernel for databases, relational as well as non-relational. For relational databases, OpenJPA is compliant to the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) version 2.0. OpenJPA runs in stand-alone JSE as well as containers e.g JavaEE, Tomcat, Spring or OSGi. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Besides the always swelling EE7 TCK issue which prevents us from verifying comatility with JPA-2.1. ## Activity: There is quite some maintenance activity on the 2.x branch which is targetting the JPA-2.0 specification. JPA-2.1 work is still not taking off as we are still hoping to finally get the TCK for EE7. We could go on implementing JPA-2.1 features and ignore all those bloody JCP hassles. We already have quite a few of those features in place in a branch. ## Health report: OpenJPA is a 'mature' codebase and many parts are stable and needs lots of knowledge if you touch them. Thus it's rather hard to get up and running. We tried to modernise the structure a bit (moving from Junit3 to 4) but that's really just the tip of the iceberg. ## PMC changes: - Currently 14 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Heath Thomann on Tue Jun 30 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Romain Manni-Bucau at Tue Jun 02 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.4.0 on 2015-04-19 - We are currently voting on 2.4.1 ## Mailing list activity: - users@openjpa.apache.org: - 255 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 42 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter) - dev@openjpa.apache.org: - 131 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 113 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 18 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor] ## Description: - Apache Phoenix is a relational database layer on top of Apache HBase ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - James Taylor presented Phoenix at Big Data Application Meetup on 1/27/16 - Vote underway on 4.7.0 release with next RC scheduled for next week. - Transaction support added through integration with Tephra, an ASL 2.0 licensed project from Cask. - Work continues to integrate Phoenix with Apache Calcite. - Pull request is available to add Apache Sqoop support for Phoenix ## Health report: - Health is good with the community continuing to grow and multiple integration efforts underway to expand usage of Phoenix in the broader Hadoop ecosystem. ## PMC changes: - Currently 22 PMC members. - Thomas D'Silva was added to the PMC on Fri Nov 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - Ankit Singhal was added as a committer on Mon Feb 01 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.6.0 on Fri Oct 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@phoenix.apache.org: - 186 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months): - 4374 emails sent to list (2241 in previous quarter) - user@phoenix.apache.org: - 446 subscribers (up 33 in the last 3 months): - 592 emails sent to list (719 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 269 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 361 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler] ## Description: Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - There is steady progress in certain areas, support for PowerPoint is currently the main point of work, other parts saw smaller enhancements and bugfixes, overall activity is good, multiple PMC/Committers are active and are responsive on the mailing-lists. We prepared a first beta for the next release 3.14, which should become available soon. No new PMC/Committers, one active user was contacted, but did not want to get comittership. ## Health report: - activity looks good, all seems healthy. ## PMC changes: - Currently 26 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Javen O'Neal on Mon Oct 19 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 33 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Javen O'Neal at Sun Oct 18 2015 ## Releases: - 3.14-beta1 was released on Wed Dec 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@poi.apache.org: - 257 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 963 emails sent to list (956 in previous quarter) - user@poi.apache.org: - 656 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - 205 emails sent to list (152 in previous quarter) - general@poi.apache.org: - 134 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ## Bugzilla Statistics: - 82 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months - 96 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months - 477 bugs are open overall - Having 97 enhancements, thus having 380 actual bugs - 120 of these are waiting for feedback, - thus having 260 actual workable bugs - 10 of the workable bugs have patches available ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell] Apache Qpid is a project focused on creating software based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, a message router, and client libraries for C++, Java / JMS, .Net, Python, Perl and Ruby. # Releases: - Qpid Proton 0.11.0 was released on 16th Nov 2015 - Qpid Java 6.0.0 was released on 8th Dec 2015 - Qpid Proton 0.11.1 was released on 18th Dec 2015 - Qpid JMS 0.7.0 was released on 21st Dec 2015 # Community: - The main user and developer mailing lists remain active. Quarterly stats: -- users@qpid.apache.org: 350 subscribers (down 4), 450 emails (421 previous). -- dev@qpid.apache.org: 187 subscribers (up 1), 2070 emails (1927 previous). -- proton@qpid.apache.org: 98 subscribers (up 6), 1034 emails (581 previous). - JIRAs are being raised and addressed: 339 JIRA tickets were created and 364 resolved in the last 3 months. - There were no new committers since the previous report. The last new committer added was Lorenz Quack on 9th Oct 2015. - There were no new additions to the PMC since the previous report. The last addition to the PMC was Jakub Scholz who joined on 22nd May 2015. # Development: - The release process for Qpid Proton 0.12.0 is now well under way, containing various fixes and further work on the C++ reactive API bindings. A release vote was initiated but halted after a blocker was found, a new vote is being progressed now that a fix has been made. - The new AMQP 1.0 JMS client had its 0.7.0 release as noted earlier, and a 0.8.0 release with various bug fixes and improvements will be made as soon as Proton 0.12.0 is released. - Development on the Qpid Java broker and AMQP 0-x client continue toward a 6.1.0 release, with various fixes also being backported towards doing a 6.0.1 patch release in the near future. - Qpid Dispatch is undergoing some significant internal refactoring, and is aiming for a 0.6.0 release containing those improvements in the next month or so. - Work toward an updated Qpid CPP release will begin once Proton 0.12.0 is available, including some repository updates to better align related components for future releases. # Issues: There are no Board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache REEF Project [Markus Weimer] ## Description: Apache 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. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - The community is working towards release 0.14, the first release since graduation. - We have one more new committer in the process. - We have closed on most of the post-graduation work items. ## Health report: - The project is very active, with roughly 10 new commits in flight at all times ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - There has been some mixup during graduation, which left some people out of the PMC. We plan on holding a vote to rectify that soon. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - New commmitters: - Andrew Chung was added as a committer on Sun Dec 06 2015 - Anupam was added as a committer on Wed Feb 10 2016 - Dhruv Mahajan was added as a committer on Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.13 on Tue Oct 13 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@reef.apache.org: - 44 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 1929 emails sent to list (2368 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 264 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 217 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan] ## Description: Apache River software provides a standards-compliant JINI service. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The main activity is preparing for release 3.0 ## Health report: - Activity continues at a level limited by the developers' other commitments. There is forwards progress towards the 3.0 release. - Different PMC members have different visions for River's post 3.0 direction. There is general agreement to set those issues aside in favor of getting the release done. We plan to discuss future directions after the 3.0 release. ## PMC changes: - Currently 14 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Bryan Thompson on Sun Aug 30 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 14 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Bryan Thompson at Mon Aug 31 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was river-examples-1.0 on Sun Aug 09 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@river.apache.org: - 96 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 234 emails sent to list (214 in previous quarter) - user@river.apache.org: - 97 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 15 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ============================================= This report received +1 votes from 5 PMC members in addition to the chair. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson] ## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels, with only bug fixes and small improvements underway. - Moved from Subversion to Git for SCM. - Some discussion and activity around new Bootstrap based UI. ## Health report: - Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to Roller. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - Kohei Nozaki was added to the PMC on Sun Dec 06 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 10 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@roller.apache.org: - 160 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 26 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter) - user@roller.apache.org: - 287 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 13 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini] ## Description: Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Upcoming Samza meetup on February 17. - Discussing accelerating release cadence. - Release in December. ## Health report: - Project continues at a healthy pace. Anecdotally, have seen several new groups adopting Samza. Continue to receive contributions and discussion from third parties (non-committer/PMC members). ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - Navina Ramesh was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 07 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 13 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Navina Ramesh at Fri May 22 2015 ## Releases: - 0.10.0 was released on Fri Dec 18 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@samza.apache.org: - 299 subscribers (up 20 in the last 3 months): - 444 emails sent to list (543 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 61 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 41 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] ## Description: - Library implementing XML Digital Signature Specification & XML Encryption Specification ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We had one new release over the last quarter - Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.0.6. This was a minor bug fix release, primarily done to fix some issues raised by a new user of the library. ## Health report: - Apache Santuario is a mature and stable project that has reached a point where not too many fixes are required, as it is a set of implementations of some specifications that are quite old now. It is actively managed by the PMC. ## PMC changes: - Currently 6 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Marc Giger on Wed Apr 03 2013 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 16 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - Last committer addition was Marc Giger in July 2012 ## Releases: - Apache XML Security for Java 2.0.6 was released on Mon Dec 07 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@santuario.apache.org: - 250 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 23 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben] ## Description: The serf library is a high performance C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. Serf is the default client library of Apache Subversion and Apache OpenOffice. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: The project got back to its normal activity level after the migration and adding a few new features. Focus was more on the new features (E.g. HTTP/2) and improving the build on more platforms than on getting a new release out. ## Health report: Activity returned to a normal level. After months of waiting google- code finally shows that we have migrated on the old homepage. ## PMC & Committer changes: Currently 11 PMC members and 12 committers. Our last new committer was added on Wed Sep 02 2015. No PMC additions since the PMC started two months ago. ## Releases: No ASF releases yet. Last pre-ASF release 2014-10-20 ## Mailing list and Jira activity: Normal activity. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux] ## Description: Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing geospatial applications, with an emphasis on standards published jointly by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Apache SIS 0.6 contains geodetic data structures for geospatial referencing such as map projection and coordinate reference system definitions, along with the associated operations which enable the mathematical conversion of coordinates between different systems of reference. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: About 17,000 lines of code and also 17,000 lines of comment (according CLOC) ported to SIS since the last report. The main new feature is the support of the EPSG geodetic dataset, a de-facto standard database of more than 6000 coordinate reference systems used on Earth (a preliminary list is at [1]). However we still have to resolve LEGAL-183 in order to bring those data to users. We are exploring download from a command line tool. No significant progress on the developer guide [2] since last report. We recognize that this documentation is necessary for lowering the entry barrier, and hope to spend some days on it before the next release. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) published a blog entry titled "OGC standards in Apache projects" in December [3]. A journalist published an article about SIS, Marmotta, Open Climate Workbench and Magellan in January [4]. An OGC officer plans to come to ApacheCon in Vancouver and proposes to setup a geospatial track. An Apache SIS talk has been submitted for that track. I had informal talk with OGC director about free membership for ASF last year. There is no new development on this front since I didn't had the opportunity to attend an OGC meeting since that time. The next opportunities may be ApacheCon in Vancouver (May) and the next OGC meeting in Dublin (June). ## Health report: The project is reported as healthy by the report helper (score of 7.15), but the number of active developers is still low. The fact that the "referencing by coordinates" module is almost done (> 70,000 lines of code) may help, since referencing is usually not the most attractive topics for new GIS developers. The next parts (e.g. rasters, GUI) may be more attractive. ## PMC changes: * Currently 19 PMC members. * No new PMC members added in the last 3 months * Last PMC addition was Marc Le Bihan on Wed Dec 10 2014 ## Committer base changes * Currently 20 committers. * No new committers added in the last 3 months * Last committer addition was Rémi Maréchal at Tue Sep 08 2015 ## Releases: * Last release (0.6) was in September 2015. * Next release (0.7) will hopefully be proposed in March. ## Mailing list activity: * dev@sis.apache.org: o 57 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): o 105 emails sent to list (64 in previous quarter) * user@sis.apache.org: o 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): o 1 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter) [1] http://sis.staging.apache.org/book/tables/CoordinateReferenceSystems.html [2] http://sis.apache.org/book/en/developer-guide.html [3] http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/2346 [4] https://thenewstack.io/apache-sets-geospatial-voyage/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia] Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R as well as a rich set of libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics. Project status: - We posted our 1.6.0 release in January, with contributions from 248 developers. This release included a new typed API for working with DataFrames, faster state management in Spark Streaming, support for persisting and loading ML pipelines, various optimizations, and a variety of new advanced analytics APIs. Full release notes are at http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-6-0.html. - We are currently collecting changes for a Spark 1.6.1 maintenance release, which will likely happen within several weeks. - The community also agreed to make our next release 2.0, which will be a chance to fix small dependency and API problems in addition to releasing new features. Partial list of planned changes: http://s.apache.org/spark-2.0-features. Latest releases: Jan 4, 2016: Spark 1.6.0 Nov 09, 2015: Spark 1.5.2 Oct 02, 2015: Spark 1.5.1 Sept 09, 2015: Spark 1.5.0 Committers and PMC: The last committers were added on Feb 8, 2016 (Wenchen Fan) and Feb 3, 2016 (Herman von Hovell). We just voted in three PMC members on Feb 10, 2016 (Joseph Bradley, Sean Owen, Yin Huai). Mailing list stats: 4249 subscribers to user list (up 286 in the last 3 months) 2380 subscribers to dev list (up 196 in the last 3 months) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ] Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. First, appologies for the missed reports. We had to report in December but missed that plus the January report. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. However, the project is in a phase where new/other people should take over the lead as chairman since the current chairman Fabian Christ has less and less time to manage the project. Therefore, the project will start to find a new person for this job. Additionally, a first suggestion was started to invite new people to become PMC members and potentially new leaders for the project. At code level the project is doing fine. The project started to reorganize a lot of old JIRA issues and tries to focus on the relevant tasks. The project did not manage to cut new releases. This is also an issue of finding new people to become more responsible for the project and start creating releases. Bertrand Delacretaz has resigned from the Stanbol PMC on December, 1st 2015 Subscribers on the dev list: 233 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana] ## Description: Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. ## Issues: - No issue for last quarter ## Activity: - Last 3 months, developers are mainly focused on stability of the 4.1.x release. Delivered one bug fixed release. No heavy development happened in the last quarter may be due to the holiday season. ## Health report: - For last quarter no new committer / PMC member added. I feel people are loosing interest in Stratos due to mainly rising of other open source projects in same space with bigger backing up. I believed Stratos community need to find right place to play with other open source project. Also WSO2 stopped providing paid contributors to the project. This will affect to slow down the project ,because all full time contributors were WSO2 employees. But PMC is strong enough to take forward the project. ## PMC changes: - Currently 45 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Pubudu Gunatilaka on Fri Sep 25 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 46 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pubudu Gunatilaka at Thu Sep 24 2015 ## Releases: - Apache Stratos 4.1.5 was released on Thu Dec 10 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@stratos.apache.org: - 240 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 944 emails sent to list (1953 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 54 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 48 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations. * Board Issues There are no Board-level issues of concern. * Community Our last PMC addition was in December 2015 (James McCoy) Our last committer addition was in November 2015 (James McCoy). The community remains active on its mailing lists: * almost 800 subscribers to users@ with over 100 messages per month * over 300 subscribers to dev@ with over 120 messages per month The dev@ activity and a healthy commit rate is encouraging, as we have seen a downward trend of paid developers over the past six months. * Releases Apache Subversion 1.9.3 was released on December 14, 2015. Apache Subversion 1.8.15 was released on December 14, 2015. Development continues on 1.10.x, with about 250 commits per month. No target date or feature set has been defined. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò] ## Description: Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We are seeing an increasing activity level on both user@ and dev@ mailing lists, especially related to the first milestone release cut in December from 2.0.0, which provides a first essay of several new features. The main focus is now set to complete the missing bits for 2.0.0, especially about renewed documentation and admin console. The PMC has briefly discussed in December about the opportunity to rotate the PMC chair; such discussion brought anyway to confirmation of the current chair. In December we have also started dicussing with Infra about the possibility of a PoC for proving the effectiveness of using Syncope for ASF corporate identity management but, after an initial interest - which led to the creation of a new GIT repository for the purpose - things seem to have stalled. ## Committer / PMC changes: - Currently 19 committers and 9 LDAP committee group members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Guido Wimmel in April 2014 - Last committer addition was Giacomo Lamonaco in January 2015 ## Releases: - 2.0.0-M1 (Dec 23rd, 2015) - 1.2.7 (Jan 15th, 2016) ## Mailing list activity: - dev@syncope.apache.org: - 70 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 557 emails sent to list (440 in previous quarter) - user@syncope.apache.org: - 118 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months): - 120 emails sent to list (76 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 41 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 37 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: 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? We have begun to discuss the process of a change in project lead, as Howard Lewis Ship's involvement in the project has markedly decreased over the last year or more. When did the project last make any releases? Tapestry 5.4.0 was released on 21 Dec 2015. This was a long, long, time in the making. Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter. Activity on the user mailing list is slow. 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 5.4 release. There are also occasional announcements concerning third-party libraries developed entirely outside the Tapestry team. Activity on the dev mailing list is medium. Plans are underway to determine what changes will be introduced into Tapestry 5.5. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Jochen Kenmade has been voted in as a committer on 25 Apr 2014, and subsequently been voted into the PMC (2 Mar 2015). Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally. No known issues. Branding requirements progress: * "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included" - License and Security links are missing * "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site" - TM missing from logo Legal issues or questions: None. Infrastructure issues or strategic needs: None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl] Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. Status The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2012/09/19). No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30). Turbine core project The milestone release 4.0-M2 has been completed. * Turbine 4.0-M2 was released on Tue Dec 22 2015 Fulcrum component project No activity has been taken place in the Fulcrum project. The last released component was Fulcrum Yaafi 1.0.7 (2015/10/09). ----------------------------------------- Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine] ##Description Usergrid is a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database (Cassandra), a query engine (Elastic Search), and application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers. ##Activity 2.1 release RC2 in progress Astyanax to CQl driver True multitennant system administration per org Partial/declarative indexing of documents Making ElasticSearch an optional component Distributed work system with Akka Improvements in unique value management with Akka General/continuous performance improvements ## When was the last PMC member and committer added to the project? Michael Russo and Mike Dunker voted onto PMC on 2016-01-18, pending ACK from board ## When was the last release made by the project? 2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating # Issues None ## Mailing list activity: - dev@usergrid.apache.org: - 94 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 1162 emails sent to list (1621 in previous quarter) - user@usergrid.apache.org: - 112 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months): - 62 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter) ##JIRA activity: - 148 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 112 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] ## Description: - Java-based template engine ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - No commits. Very light mailing list and JIRA traffic. ## Health report: - Velocity is of minimal priority to the developers at this time. ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Sergiu Dumitriu on Wed Jun 10 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 13 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Maurice (Mike) L. Kienenberger at Mon Jun 01 2015 ## Releases: - No releases in the last quarter. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@velocity.apache.org: - 126 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 28 emails sent to list (30 in previous quarter) - general@velocity.apache.org: - 88 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - user@velocity.apache.org: - 309 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 10 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] Web Services Report for February 2016 Releases within this quarter: * Axiom 1.2.16 * Axiom 1.2.17 * WSS4J 1.6.19 * WSS4J 2.0.6 * WSS4J 2.1.4 Last releases for other subprojects: * Xmlschema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015 * Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014 * Woden 1.0M10 : Sept 2015 Community and development: * Last committer addition - Sept 2014, * Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013 Development * WSS4J - 140 commits by 2 committer. * Axiom - 331 commits by 1 committer. * Woden - 0 commits. * Xmlschema - 0 commit. * 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 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 BP: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler] 1) GitHub experiment appears to have stalled. In particular, adding a new committer (e.g. Brett) still involves manual intervention by the infrastructure team; and there still isn't an Apache hosted clone of Whimsy. None of this is affecting whimsy development, but is the reason for monthly board reports. 2) Brett and Craig have succeeded pushing changes to GitHub. Changes continue to be automatically deployed, without human intervention. 3) Primarily due to the deadlock and authentication problems experienced with the board agenda tool, that tool has been moved over to whimsy-test. It's internal threading model has been converted to processes, and LDAP failover and cache expiration logic has been added. Sebb has been instrumental in this effort. This may ultimately address the problems that Brett saw with missing mail addresses in board reminders. 4) Sebb has moved the Apache phone book over to be based on data produced by whimsy. 5) Status monitoring is now implemented, and continues to be refined. It has already proven to be helpful. 6) As problems with the current secretary mail process seem to not be as prevalent this month, and the move to the new mail system by the infrastructure team isn't imminent, work on this has slowed in favor of other efforts. 7) Initial code has been roughed in for a replacement for the current LDAP Perl scripts used to add committers to a PMC and to modify PMC membership. This effort may be ultimately be superseded Syncope. https://whimsy-test.apache.org/roster/committee/ Other: Last PMC and committer addition: 14 December 2015 No releases made (code is using a continuous deployment model) [report prepared by Sam Ruby] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment. Community: The Wink project has a small community which is not very active. Although I believe Wink is a mature project with active users, the overall PMC has been alive but not active, and is currently starting to contemplate a move to attic. Last svn activity shows couple website updates in the past week (02/2016) Releases: * Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013 Committers or PMC changes: * Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013. Trademark/Branding: * No known issues. Legal Issues: * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment BR: 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 previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on the development side and also the community has not grown since 2013. The reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary adoption of the W3C widget specification. As a result we are currently holding a vote to move Wookie to the Attic. RELEASES Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014. ACTIVITY None recently. COMMUNITY Our last committer and PMC member added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries. Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers who can upgrade the project to address the newer XPath and XSLT standards. We are in process of doing integration builds to incorporate the Xerces-C patches. There continues to be activity on the Xalan-J project. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD None. CURRENT ACTIVITY Xalan is a mature product. There is little development activity other than patch maintenance. Most of the activity is in the Xalan-J subproject. There are some participants reporting on their build and deployment issues. We are still trying to get more participants to report on their integration build attempts. Work is continuing to perform integration builds using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 through 2015. Some builds were performed for Solaris. Most of the communications traffic is via JIRA. Email list activity has been stagnant for 2 months. MEMBERSHIP Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last new committer: May 2014 PROJECT RELEASES Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014 Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012 Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014. OTHER ISSUES We would still appreciate more active persons to build Xalan-C tests. We continue to get requests for Xalan to support XSLT version 2. The Xalan libraries currently support XSLT version 1. Feature ugrades and migration will require more than a few committers. BRANDING ISSUES None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BU: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Glenn Adams] ## Description: - The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - New releases of XMLGraphicsCommons (XGC) and FOP were accomplished, both labeled as Version 2.1. These releases are targeted primarily towards bug fixes and additional feature support in the following areas: barcodes, color spaces, fonts, PDF, and inline progression dimension (IPD) processing. - For the upcoming quarter, activity is expected to include a transition from ANT to a MAVEN based build process, some initial work having already started during this reporting period. ## Health: - The level of community and developer activity remains at a consistent, moderate, level with respect to the previous reporting period. ## PMC: - Currently 12 PMC members. - Simon Steiner was added to the PMC on Tue Jan 19 2016 - Chris Bowditch retires as PMC chair. - Glenn Adams accepts PMC chair. ## Committer: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Matthias Reischenbacher at Wed May 13 2015 ## Releases: - XMLGraphics Commons 2.1 was released on Wed Jan 13 2016 - XMLGraphics FOP 2.1 was released on Wed Jan 13 2016 ## Mailing: - batik-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 265 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 14 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) - fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 186 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 347 emails sent to list (289 in previous quarter) - fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 436 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 96 emails sent to list (74 in previous quarter) - batik-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 95 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 24 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter) - general@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 68 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 116 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter) - fop-commits@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 52 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 56 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter) - batik-commits@xmlgraphics.apache.org: - 47 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 38 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe] ## Description The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components (both Java and C stacks). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. However, before the next board report we will try to take some decisions for many of inactive projects (including Axis2 C). ## Activity: - Axis PMC was able to release the most waited Axis2 1.7 release, huge kudos should go to Andreas for driving the release. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was on July 7 2015 ## Releases: - Apache Rampart 1.7.0 (January 18, 2016) - Apache Axis2 1.7.0 (January 18, 2016) ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the February 17, 2016 board meeting.