The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes December 20, 2017 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:32 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3d7q 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 Ted Dunning Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann Brett Porter Phil Steitz Mark Thomas Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Ross Gardler Kevin A. McGrail - joined at 11:20 Sam Ruby Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: Ulrich Stärk Guests: Daniel Gruno Gavin McDonald Greg Stein Harbs Nick Kew Sally Khudairi 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 November 15, 2017 See: board_minutes_2017_11_15.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Phil] This month, I created a draft 5-year plan document. The document is under review, along with the budget projection that Sam and the Officers produced. I also posted a draft document retention and access policy. Time permitting, we will begin discussion of the 5-year plan at this meeting. The draft plan and policy documents are posted in the Board team drive in ASF GSuite. Any interested member can request access to this space. Many thanks to the members preparing and submitting reports this month. There were some very good ones, including descriptions of challenges and how PMCs are handling them. We encourage and appreciate focus on problems like volunteers leaving, decisions about backward compatibility / legacy support, chair rotation and community conflicts. The Beam report, for example, does a great job calling out both challenges and achievements. The TomEE report includes a great example of a PMC addressing conflict directly and practically. Director comments this month repeated the themes from last month: use private lists only for things that need to be private, consider a lower bar to increase the flow of new committers into a project, and reminders to always include the date of last committer and PMC additions. Two PMCs were reminded that in general company names don't belong in reports (unless there is something specific to them) and it was recommended to use durable message links from lists.apache.org (Ponymail) when these are used in reports. B. President [Sam] Items requiring board attention: * Budget Most of the areas not covered by the EVP report are covered by the budget. I particularly encourage careful reading of the Brand Management and Fundraising reports (the later having a discussion item that can be deferred to the mailing list in my opinion). On the topic of the budget, first some overall thoughts: 1) The five year budget is a plan, not a commitment. As such, it should be based on reasonable assumptions, such as the recent conference investment decision won't fail spectacularly, and that there will be continued need to hire in areas where volunteers prove to be insufficient. 2) A five year plan is where the board SHOULD in my opinion explore potentially radical ideas; even if those ideas had been explored years ago with a different conclusion. My one caveat is that the expectation should be that those ideas would be executed over the course of five years; and this exercise SHOULD NOT be the vehicle for driving sudden and rapid change. Next for some specific thoughts: 1) Infrastructure remains the biggest ticket item. Given that the largest costs within that item are people costs, this expense is thought to be largely independent (at least within the five year horizon) of either the rate of growth of the foundation or increasing dependency on services hosted elsewhere. 2) The next biggest items is labeled Marketing and Publicity. I say labeled as this item really encompasses so much more - pretty much every operational area (with the possible exception of infrastructure) is directly affected by this area; as are many PMCs. Satisfaction with the work done is also quite high. 3) The next biggest area is Fundraising. The level of incomes specified in the plan are thought to be achievable, but not without some risk. Nothing is certain, so the risk is never 0% or 100%; but it is thought to be highly unlikely that those numbers will be reached without hiring a fundraiser (probably initially part time, then ultimately full time) during the next 5 years. Doing so doesn't make the risk 0%, but makes the income numbers comfortable in my estimation. What level of risk the board is willing to undertake is an open question. 4) After that comes Brand Management. The proposal we have is based on what was the board majority (but not consensus) opinion at the time that encouraging PMCs to register their trademarks early was prudent and cost effective in the long run. Since that time, costs have gone up, and questions have grown as to whether that approach is sustainable with volunteers. It is time for the board to revisit this question, and either reaffirm the previous direction or start the planning process for a new direction. 5) The fifth biggest item is General and Administration. The amount chosen there reflects us NOT pursuing a paid position for President / COO / ED; but continuing to have an EA. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 7. C. Treasurer [Ulrich] Virtual Report: Here is a summary of the Foundation’s performance for the first Seven months of FY18. Cash on Nov 30th, 2017 was $1,632K, which is down $78K from last month’s ending balance (Oct 17) of $1,710K, due to the timing of some Sponsor payments and Payables released. The Nov 2017 cash balance is down $67K from the Nov 2016 month end balance of $1,699K. The Nov 2017 ending cash balance of $1,632K represents a cash reserve of 14.3 months based on the FY18 conservative Cash forecast average monthly spending of $114.2K/month. The ASF reserve continues to be very healthy for an organization of ASF’s size, with a conservative FY18 YE estimate of 13.1 months of Operating cash reserve. Regarding the YTD Cash P&L, we continue to have a very strong and favorable showing against our FY18 budget at this of point of the FY, however as I will continue to note, because we are on a cash basis, the timing of Sponsor payments received and Payables released plays a big part in how well we perform financially month to month and year over year. This month we are under the FY 18 plan for Revenue, and over plan in Expenses again due basically to timing. So again, I just want to keep this on the radar that we need to continue to focus on our new sponsors but we also cannot afford to take any focus away from our existing sponsors as that was how the FY18 budget was constructed. The Fundraising team continues to do an excellent job in both areas, servicing both new and existing Sponsors. With total actual Revenue, as of Nov 30th, 2017, of $854.2K, we are 69.6% of the way to our total Revenue budget for FY18 of $1,226.5K, being only 58% of the way through FY18. Regarding Sponsor revenue, we have received so far in the first seven months of FY18, $764.6K, which has us 70.5% of the way to our budgeted Sponsor revenue goal of $1,084K for FY18. This is fantastic, only 58% of the way through the current Fiscal Year. As for the third revenue category, “donations” we have received $60.3K against a total budget of $111K or 54% of our budget seven months into the FY. This is due in part to the success we have had utilizing the “Hopsie” donation platform for the first time. We remain conservative in our forecasting, showing modest annual increases in annual Sponsorship and Donations, due to actual collected amounts such as those coming from Hopsie (which was not budgeted for FY 18). YTD expenses, through Nov 30th, 2017 are under budget by $60.8K. Most depts. are either under budget or at budget, (Infra, YTD, is over in total by $7.1K due to a few budget items such as spare parts and the currency conversion to GBP vs what was estimated in the FY18 budget for the Lease web payments). We will continue to monitor the actual vs budget as we move through the remaining five months of FY18 and we will stay in contact with the dept. heads as we close each month going forward so that we have a clearer picture for the remainder of the Fiscal year. Regarding Net Income (NI), YTD for FY18 the ASF finished with a positive $116.2K NI vs a budgeted negative <$179.8K> NI or $296K ahead of the FY 18 Budget for Net Income seven months into the FY. With the current conservative forecasted revenue, and expenses for the remainder of FY 18, we are estimating a $-91.8K negative NI for FY18 vs a budgeted NI loss of -$167.8K or about a $76K better NI than the FY18 budget. I would also like to point out that YTD 18 vs YTD 17 we are $282.7K ahead in Revenue while Expenses were only $82.6K ahead year over year, for a $200K increase in Net Income year over year ($116.2K positive NI in FY18 vs <-$83.8K> NI in FY 17). Again, I want to congratulate the entire Organization on these very positive financial results as we are now seven months through FY 18. Though we do need to continue to keep these efforts up as we move through the back half of FY 18, and continue to give Fundraising all the support we can, while keeping an eye on our expenses at the same time, we should also recognize that the Foundation as compared to not only its FY18 budget but also FY 17 is in “a very good place” and we should all be very proud of that fact. The Cash Basis Audit has begun in December 2017 and we will keep everyone updated as to its progress as continues into 2018. Financial Board Summary: Current Balances: Citizens Money Market 1,495,890.73 Citizens Checking 134,046.28 Paypal - ASF 1,570.06 Total Checking/Savings 1,631,507.07 Nov-17 Budget Variance Income Summary: Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00 Public Donations 6,068.28 2,323.84 3,744.44 Sponsorship Program 20,000.00 45,000.00 -25,000.00 Programs Income 0.00 28,025.00 -28,025.00 Other Income 1,154.88 0.00 1,154.88 Interest Income 906.93 292.92 614.01 Total Income 28,130.09 75,641.76 -47,511.67 Expense Summary: In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Infrastructure 74,347.65 67,481.16 6,866.49 Sponsorship Program 2,000.00 2,000.00 0.00 Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Publicity 14,659.67 10,000.00 4,659.67 Brand Management 3,570.31 7,416.67 -3,846.36 Conferences 212.53 0.00 212.53 Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 0.00 0.00 Tax and Audit 12.00 0.00 12.00 Treasury Services 3,350.00 3,500.00 -150.00 General & Administrative 8,431.72 8,664.87 -233.15 Total Expense 106,583.88 99,062.70 7,521.18 Net Income -78,453.79 -23,420.94 -55,032.85 YTD 2018 Budget Variance Income Summary: Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00 Public Donations 60,333.07 17,733.45 42,599.62 Sponsorship Program 764,612.08 571,250.00 193,362.08 Programs Income 15,100.00 28,025.00 -12,925.00 Other Income 9,557.42 0.00 9,557.42 Interest Income 4,616.69 2,050.44 2,566.25 Total Income 854,219.26 619,058.89 235,160.37 Expense Summary: In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Infrastructure 490,836.94 483,731.72 7,105.22 Sponsorship Program 14,831.96 21,250.00 -6,418.04 Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00 Publicity 93,082.73 110,000.00 -16,917.27 Brand Management 39,757.88 51,916.69 -12,158.81 Conferences 5,200.15 8,418.00 -3,217.85 Travel Assistance Committee 2,191.81 22,500.00 -20,308.19 Tax and Audit 2,162.00 6,000.00 -3,838.00 Treasury Services 23,200.00 23,950.00 -750.00 General & Administrative 66,707.13 71,037.94 -4,330.81 Total Expense 737,970.60 798,804.35 -60,833.75 Net Income 116,248.66 -179,745.46 295,994.12 Asst. Treasurer Report: Reviewed and submitted significant input regarding 5 year outlook and FY23 budget projections. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eatobj9_VSYq0kOS0PmaPp2QBF2B9-mWWwzLwCUDp8g/edit#gid=0 Have approved a switch to incnow for our registered agent service - https://www.incnow.com/delaware-registered-agent/ ($99) with a minor refund being discussed from CSC Global Will file a 2018 CY annual report with Delaware after Jan 6th per discussions with Delaware. Have added a disclaimer about no goods or services in return for donations to both invoices and Hopsie Have reviewed and submitted input regarding the 5 year ASF plan. CDAR Paperwork in progress and working through identity requirements for Uli Donation minimums for Hopsie pending some code changes at Hopsie D. Secretary [Craig] The project to invite submission of ICLAs has expanded in scope to now include the discuss and vote phases of invitation to submit an ICLA. In November, 52 iclas, four cclas, and two grants were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] Infrastructure ============== No significant items to report this month. The team have re-confirmed that despite forecasting errors for current budget year they expect to come in on budget. Marketing and Publicity ======================= An individual "giving campaign" in November raised $2k. Published the FY2018 Operations Summary for Q2 https://s.apache.org/j1GJ The usual PR, AR and event support activities feature in this months report. Conferences =========== Discussion are underway about co-locating ApacheConEU 2018 with an existing event. There are also discussions about an event in NA later in 2018, though details are still emerging. TAC === Nothing to report (no events planned) F. Vice Chairman [Jim] I provided the December "Success At Apache" blog post. Other than that, nothing to report. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Rich] See Attachment 8 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Chris Mattmann] See Attachment 9 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Jim] See Attachment 10 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports Summary of Reports The following reports required further discussion: # Celix [jj] # Cordova [mt] # Eagle [mt] # Flex [mt] # Lucene.Net [ps] # PredictionIO [mt] # UIMA [rb] A. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Bertrand] No report was submitted. B. Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema / Ted] See Attachment B C. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Shane] See Attachment C D. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Brett] No report was submitted. E. Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj / Phil] See Attachment E F. Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell / Mark] See Attachment F G. Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski / Chris] See Attachment G H. Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende / Rich] See Attachment H I. Apache Beam Project [Davor Bonaci / Mark] See Attachment I J. Apache Bigtop Project [Evans Ye / Jim] See Attachment J K. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Bertrand] See Attachment K L. Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo / Brett] See Attachment L M. Apache Buildr Project [Antoine Toulme / Ted] See Attachment M N. Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson / Phil] See Attachment N O. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Chris] See Attachment O P. Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry / Shane] See Attachment P Q. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Jim] See Attachment Q R. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Shane] See Attachment R S. Apache CloudStack Project [Wido den Hollander / Bertrand] See Attachment S T. Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory / Chris] See Attachment T U. Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah / Ted] See Attachment U @Mark: follow up re: handling security issues V. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen / Rich] See Attachment V W. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Phil] See Attachment W X. Apache DRAT Project [Chris Mattmann] See Attachment X Y. Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang / Mark] See Attachment Y @Mark: follow up on the comments re: Cloudera support Z. Apache Falcon Project [Pallavi Rao / Brett] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls / Rich] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton / Bertrand] See Attachment AB @Mark: follow up on CVE actions AC. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Phil] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper / Brett] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Ted] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Chris] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Helix Project [Kishore G / Mark] No report was submitted. @Mark: pursue a report for Helix AH. Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan / Jim] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Impala Project [Jim Apple / Shane] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Incubator Project [John D. Ament / Bertrand] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Ted] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Juneau Project [James Bognar / Chris] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Phil] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Kibble Project [Rich Bowen] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus / Mark] No report was submitted. @Mark: pursue a report for Labs; what are long term prospects? AP. Apache Lucene Project [Adrien Grand / Rich] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Brett] See Attachment AQ @Phil: pursue a more substantial report for next month AR. Apache Mnemonic Project [Gang Wang / Shane] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Mynewt Project [Justin Mclean / Jim] See Attachment AS AT. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Phil] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Olingo Project [Christian Amend / Mark] No report was submitted. AV. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Ted] No report was submitted. AW. Apache OODT Project [Tom Barber / Brett] See Attachment AW AX. Apache OpenNLP Project [Jörn Kottmann / Rich] See Attachment AX AY. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Chris] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson / Bertrand] No report was submitted. BA. Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi / Shane] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb / Jim] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Polygene Project [Paul Merlin / Shane] See Attachment BC BD. Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew / Mark] See Attachment BD BE. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Phil] See Attachment BE BF. Apache PredictionIO Project [Donald Szeto / Jim] See Attachment BF BG. Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone / Ted] See Attachment BG BH. Apache RocketMQ Project [Xiaorui Wang / Rich] See Attachment BH BI. Apache Royale Project [Harbs / Chris] See Attachment BI BJ. Apache Sentry Project [Alex Kolbasov / Brett] See Attachment BJ BK. Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak / Bertrand] See Attachment BK BL. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Shane] See Attachment BL BM. Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu / Rich] See Attachment BM BN. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz / Jim] See Attachment BN BO. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Brett] See Attachment BO BP. Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz / Bertrand] See Attachment BP BQ. Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana / Ted] See Attachment BQ BR. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Chris] See Attachment BR BS. Apache Tiles Project [Michael Semb Wever / Phil] See Attachment BS BT. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Mark] No report was submitted. BU. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Rich] See Attachment BU BV. Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim / Bertrand] See Attachment BV BW. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Chris] See Attachment BW @Rich: follow up on previous board comments regarding PMC and committers BX. Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson / Jim] See Attachment BX BY. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Shane] See Attachment BY BZ. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Ted] See Attachment BZ CA. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Mark] See Attachment CA CB. Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer / Phil] See Attachment CB CC. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira / Brett] See Attachment CC Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Hama Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Edward J. Yoon (edwardyoon) to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Edward J. Yoon from the office of Vice President, Apache Hama; and WHEREAS, the Community of the Apache Hama project has chosen to recommend Chia-Hung Lin (chl501) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Hama; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chia-Hung Lin be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, 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 Hama Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Celix Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Alexander Broekhuis (abroekhuis) to the office of Vice President, Apache Celix, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Alexander from the office of Vice President, Apache Celix, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Celix project has chosen by consensus to recommend Pepijn Noltes (pnoltes) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Alexander Broekhuis is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Celix, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Pepijn Noltes be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Celix, 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 Celix Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish the Apache Trafodion Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or operational workloads. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Trafodion Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Trafodion Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or operational workloads; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Trafodion" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Trafodion Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Trafodion Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Trafodion Project: * Amanda K Moran * Dave Birdsall * Gunnar Tapper * Ming Liu * Pierre Smits * Roberta Marton * Selva Govindarajan * Steve Varnau * Suresh Subbiah * Michael Stack * Jacques Le Roux NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Pierre Smits be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Trafodion, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Trafodion PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Trafodion Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Trafodion Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Trafodion podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Trafodion podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Trafodion Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Marcus Lange (marcus) to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Marcus Lange from the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OpenOffice project has chosen by vote to recommend Peter Kovacs (petko) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Marcus Lange is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OpenIffice, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Peter Kovacs be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7D, Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Terminate the Apache Ace Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Ace project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Ace project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache Ace Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Ace" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Ace PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7E, Terminate the Apache Ace Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. F. Change the Apache Web Services Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sagara Gunathunga (sagara) to the office of Vice President, Apache Web Services, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sagara Gunathunga from the office of Vice President, Apache Web Services, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Web Services project has chosen by vote to recommend Daniel Kulp (dkulp) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sagara Gunathunga is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Web Services, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Daniel Kulp be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Web Services, 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 7F, Change the Apache Web Services Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items * Five Year budget projections 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Ted: Discuss state of development with PMC; encourage on-list development [ Tajo 2017-06-21 ] Status: * Ted: pursue a report for Community Development; look at previous examples of [ Community Development 2017-08-16 ] Status: * Rich: follow up to see if the project is still viable [ Hama 2017-08-16 ] Status: Complete - Report received * Jim: follow up with the PMC to get a public statement out [ Discussion Items 2017-08-16 ] Status: Complete (bd notes: can we have the URL of that statement for completeness?) * Phil: engage with PMC to see what is going on [ Tajo 2017-09-20 ] Status: Complete. I got [1] on 2 Dec 2017, indicating that the project is still alive. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/da3cf2acdb52b8fc8bb15800300e19e1524a01c6814dc289fe519c50@%3Cprivate.tajo.apache.org%3E * Mark: ensure that there are 3 active PMC members [ Stanbol 2017-10-18 ] Status: Complete. The project has 4 active PMC members. * Bertrand: pursue a report for Web Services [ Web Services 2017-10-18 ] Status: They are electing a new PMC chair, asked for at least a minimal report * Phil: draft Attic resolution for ACE [ ACE 2017-11-15 ] Status: Complete * Mark: follow up with PMC; ask them to report for the next two months [ Axis 2017-11-15 ] Status: Complete. Sent 2017-11-29. * Mark: follow up with PMC to ensure three active PMC members [ Giraph 2017-11-15 ] Status: Complete. Request for active PMC members to identify themselves sent 2017-11-29 Results: 3 active, 1 watching, 1 request to resign. There is sufficient oversight. * Rich: follow up with PMC [ Hama 2017-11-15 ] Status: Complete - Report received. 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 12:11 p.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] No issues to report at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] * ISSUES FOR THE BOARD (continuing issue) A few people have put forth specific and workable ideas for ways to improve how trademarks@ answers incoming questions. The specific ideas are helpful but will take time to code as volunteers - and still relies on volunteers showing up regularly to do the work of pushing answers. The broader question of ensuring our project communities are aware of our trademarks and policies around them - so that questions actually get raised to the right place - is still outstanding. I expect that part of the answer for this effectively will have to come out of some of the 5 year planning. The root issue is better mentoring and education in the Incubation process, as well as better support for existing TLPs. To better understand the Brand scope, I've created a full list of tasks/topics that the Brand Management Committee needs to perform on a regular basis, which includes 24 distinct kinds of tasks, requiring a variety of skill levels and timescales, including many tasks answering external inquiries. Similarly, I've done a thorough analysis of all emails on the trademarks@ list in the past year, trying to quantify who and how questions come in and get answered. This shows that over 40% of questions come from outside parties - typically vendors or other corporations using Apache brands. It also shows that the majority of answers to all questions come from Shane directly, something that is clearly unsustainable for a number of reasons. (To be continued next month, reviewing progress on specific ideas) * OPERATIONS Slower month than usual as we start the holiday season, which is good since I am spending more volunteer time working on improvement ideas than answering daily questions. Website Analytics shows average traffic. Approximately half are mobile vs. desktop. Oddly the great majority of hits still come from direct hits, not search results or referrals from any other tracked pages. This makes it difficult to understand how our readers got to our policy. * REGISTRATIONS & CONTRACTS Our MESOS application has been published to the USPTO Gazette and should be moving to final stage shortly after the board meeting, and the TEZ registration was formally granted. Successfully finished long-running negotiations and signed a formal consent agreement with a commercial vendor, which will now allow one of our project registration applications to move forward. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Kevin A. McGrail] TL;DR, things are going well and planned mapped out at beginning of my tenure for FY18 is being executed well. Board Discussion: Thoughts on licensing ASF commercially if people so desire? Daniel Shahaf pointed out https://sqlite.org/copyright.html. If people will pay for it and we give them nothing extra, any concerns? Resolution to establish VP, Sponsor Relations [TABLED and currently pending JimJ input, please table until Jan or Feb] New Silver Sponsor: Union Investment w/interest in Silver or Gold renewal next year. 3 Year Purchase order CY2018 to 2020 from CapitalOne for Silver Sponsorship Baidu is working with John D Ament to bring echarts to the ASF as a project. echarts is a Top 3 project in github data visualization tools. https://github.com/ecomfe/echarts New Silver Sponsor: Aetna MSDN aka Visual Studio targeted sponsorship is working again thanks to Ross and Microsoft. FY23 Projected Budget Submitted - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bd7FRaC5gmfLBYX4zBHU4vmNBVK3SRC4sKfyDRQx3fY/edit#gid=0 Audit of Sponsors considered complete. Largely reflected at http://www.staging.apache.org/foundation/thanks2.html Fundraising Quarterly Report Submitted - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o2zf-PLanwXGhX9DS3MdYgn9eqVXrDEPKRC3IyC9y8M/edit Heavily Revised 2nd Draft of the Targeted Sponsorship Program was sent out for comments https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JhZEcty2fSx7ZxiBs41j3qOUrqsA7TvKmQ13ZZ61lJY/edit# NOTE: This program is already in use for non-controversial implementations. Reminder that the ASF G Suite instance is up and running available for use on request. Huwawei is also working to incubate one, possibly two projects now. Hopsie is now over $17K in individual donations. Have removed Yahoo! & HP from thanks page as we have not been able to pin down a renewal for many months (that’s a platinum and a gold sponsor) BUT we just confirmed Oath as a platinum for 2018 at 2018 rates (125K) so just about a wash. Some other notes: Hortonworks locked in for another year. ARM is renewing. HPE is unable to renew. Facebook also sent a PO for another year. Google is invoiced for another year and working with Sam on IBM for a 3 year agreement. Applied for Pineapple Fund. Told them if they gave us $500K in bitcoin, we’d name a future TLP Apache Pineapple. If it happens, we’ll cross that bridge but feel free to flame me on that one :-) ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we are closing out the calendar year on budget and on schedule. All vendor payments have been processed on time with thanks to the ASF team at Virtual. II. Cross-committee Liaison: work with ASF Fundraising continues. Sally Khudairi has secured several Sponsor commitments for multi-year sponsorship renewals, as well as Platinum and Gold Sponsor promotions for early 2018. Our individual giving campaign for the holidays launched late November, and we raised over $2K in individual donations through Hopsie thus far (additional donations have been made through other channels, which will be reported through Fundraising/Accounting). We have also published the FY2018 Operations Summary for Q2 https://s.apache.org/j1GJ III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 28 November 2017 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Impala™ as a Top-Level Project IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were published on the ASF "Foundation" Blog. We are preparing the final “Success at Apache” blog post for this calendar year. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 177 weekly summaries published to date. We tweeted 26 items, and have 44.7K followers on Twitter. We posted 8 items on LinkedIn, which garnered more than 246.8K organic impressions in total. V. Future Announcements: two announcements are 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 requested to contact Sally at with at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 6 media queries. The ASF received 2,119 press clips vs. last month's clip count of 2,090. Media coverage of Apache projects yielded 5,039 press hits vs. last month's 5,579. VII. Analyst Relations: we received two analyst queries that involved fact-checking/reviewing preview copies of two influencer report in the Cloud and Artifcat Repositories categories. Apache was mentioned in 46 reports by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 12 reports by 451 Research, and 6 reports by IDC. VIII. Graphics: no projects are currently in production. IX. Events liaison: Sally has been working with Sharan Foga on the ASF’s ComDev presence at various events over the course of the fiscal year. In addition, we have been invited to participate in the Open Expo Madrid eBook; spots still remain for any interested participants. X. Newswire accounts: we have used all of our pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire for the calendar year, and have activated our 2018-2019 contract early to issue our announcements without interruption. # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] General ======= Infrastructure is operating normally, and believes there are no issues for the President or the Board. Finances ======== The Infra budget is the largest at the ASF, and we are holding to our FY18 goals, so all is fine here. As noted last month, the FY18 year budget was incorrectly forecasted (though we're holding to it). That has been corrected in the five year budget that we presented to the President. We've cleaned out a lot of stale virtual machines and volumes in AWS, saving us some good money (we're currently spending against credits that Amazon provided to us last year). Short Term Priorities ===================== * Get our team familiar with Azure and start using some of the credit donated by Microsoft. * Wrap up our LDAP server(s) simplification plan. * Upgrade Jira. Long Range Priorities ===================== * Deprecate git-wip and move all projects onto gitbox (GitHub as master) General Activity ================ Oath/Yahoo donated a bunch more Jenkins build nodes. We've also updated the connection mechanism so that externally-run nodes (such as those ran by the MXnet podling) could more easily connect to our Jenkins Master. We've had some ongoing work to replace mail-archive.a.o and mail-search.a.o until we get lists.a.o certified (we still need to lay out our requirements for that). ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen] This month we have been in discussions with the planners of Berlin Buzzwords and FOSS Backstage about colocating ApacheCon EU 2018 with their event in Berlin. There are still some things to be worked out as to what our event would look like, how we would co-market with them, and how big our presence would be in 2018. If there were a successful event, we would also consider pursuing a larger event in 2019. There has also been some discussion of a North America event later in the year. Ruth Suehle, who has worked with Flock (The Fedora conference) for many years has been advising us on various things, and may play a role in producing that event if we can arrive at a plan that everyone agrees to. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Melissa Warnkin] No issues to report at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] W3C Advisory Board proposed making a public statement in support of Net Neutrality. Given the short notice, the W3C Team asked for any objections, rather than a full discussion cycle. They received 3 and will not be making a public statement. Bruno Kinoshita (kinow@) has joined the Art & Culture (Museums) On The Web Community Group and the foundation has signed the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement. Stian Soiland-Reyes (stain@) has joined the Bioschemas for lifesciences Community Group and the foundation has signed the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Chris Mattmann] Over the last month, activity slowed down a bit. The Committee provided guidance regarding how best to include Apache license headers in source code repositories, as explained in LEGAL-346 [1]. A contributor brought a question to the Legal PMC regarding whether or not UML models may themselves be produced under the ALv2. The committee provided guidance that ALv2 is allowed not just for code, but for data and models as well, as indicated in LEGAL-351 [2]. An ASF project was concerned about the use of a dependency licensed under the JSON-lib license, and per guidance provided in the cited thread (LEGAL-349 [3]), the project decided that the particular dependency needed to be replaced with an alternative. Another dependency related question, this time whether or not a dependency licensed under BSD-3 with nuclear clause could be distributed along with an Apache project was resolved in LEGAL-304 [4]. The EPL 2.0 license was added to Category-B in LEGAL-335 [5]. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-346 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-351 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-349 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-304 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-335 ----------------------------------------- Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox] Stats for November 2017: 15 CVEs issued to projects (some may not be public yet). e-mails to security@ 7 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or Confused user due to "Apache" mentioned in OSS licenses 2 Support Questions 13 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org 2 [commons] 1 [activemq] 1 [synapse] 1 [drill] 1 [zeppelin] 1 [continuum] 1 [hadoop] 1 [geronimo] 1 [oozie] 1 [httpd] 1 [drill] 1 [site] rejected 11 Vulnerabilities reported to projects 1 [sling] 1 [qpid] 2 [httpd] 2 [struts] 1 [hadoop] 2 [tomcat] 1 [guacamole] 1 [hive] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans] ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema] ## Description: Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. ## Issues: - No issues needing board attention. ## Activity: - forge-allura.a.o moved to new hardware, a little cleanup still necessary, but its running fine. - Upgraded React.js to new version that is MIT licensed, to mitigate Facebook BSD+patents issue - Bugfixes and small improvements continue ## Health report: Development is slow but steady. We are due to make a release, perhaps after the holidays ## PMC changes: - No changes. - Currently 14 PMC members. - Kenton Taylor was added to the PMC on Sun Jan 22 2017 ## Committer base changes: - No changes. - Currently 14 committers. - Kenton Taylor was added as a committer on Thu Jan 19 2017 ## Releases: - 1.7.0 was released on Mon Jun 26 2017 ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney] ## Description: Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Activity has been quiet but stable. Development is ongoing post 2.1 release. ## Health report: Any23 continues to see a few new folks on user@ every now and then. Core developers continue to work on dev@. Hopefully we can work to release a few features in 2.2 shortly. ## PMC changes: - Currently 14 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Jacek Grzebyta on Wed Aug 30 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 14 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jacek Grzebyta at Thu Jul 27 2017 ## Releases: - 2.1 was released on Tue Oct 31 2017 ## Mailing list activity: Stats on user@ are down which is not ideal. It would also seem that we are not attracting folks to dev@ so a 2.2 release would be good. - dev@any23.apache.org: - 35 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 53 emails sent to list (212 in previous quarter) - user@any23.apache.org: - 48 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 7 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy] ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj] ## Description: Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational governance services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the complete enterprise data ecosystem ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - added support for JanusGraph, to replace existing use of Titan - updated to use newer Jackson library version - from 1.9.13 to 2.9.2 - removed atlas-typesystem library, the functionality is replaced by atlas-intg library - removed tech-preview implementation of taxonomy feature, this will be replaced by Glossary feature (work-in-progress) - replaced Scala based DSL with ANTLR based implementation - patches under review: Open Connector Framework, Open Metadata Repository Services, Glossary OMAS - planning to release 1.0.0-alpha1 by end of December 2017 ## Health report: - 7 new contributors added in last 3 months: Almas, Chandana, Jeffrey, Maryna, Peter, Robert, Yao Li ## PMC changes: - Currently 33 PMC members - No new PMC members added in last 3 months - Last PMC member addition was on 6/21/2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 36 committers - No new committers in last 3 months - Last addition to committer role was on 8/15/2017 ## Releases: 1.0.0-alpha1 plan to release by 12/31/2017 0.8.1 was released on 08/29/2017 0.8-incubating was released on 03/16/2017 0.7.1-incubating was released on 01/26/2017 0.7-incubating was released on 07/09/2016 0.6-incubating was released on 12/31/2015 0.5-incubating was released on 07/11/2015 ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell] Apache Aurora is a stateless and fault tolerant service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos such as long-running services, cron jobs, and one off tasks. Project Status --------- The Apache Aurora community has seen a huge growth from new contributors and user activity over the last quarter. We have successfully released two new versions of Apache Aurora during this time also, 0.18.1 security release to address CVE-2016-4437 [1] and a regular planned release of 0.19.0. Community --- Latest Additions: * Committer addition: Santhosh Kumar Shanmugham, 2.9.2017 * PMC addition: Mehrdad Nurolahzade, 2.24.2017 Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 17 * Resolved: 22 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 140 messages * @user 112 messages (3 in previous reporting cycle!!) * @reviews 1207 messages Releases --- Last release: * Apache Aurora 0.18.1 released 10.31.2017. Security release * Apache Aurora 0.19.0 released 11.9.2017 [1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-4437/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski] # Apache Axis2 Board Report, December 2017 ## 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). ## Issues There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity - Axis2 Java 1.7.7 (stable) - Maintenance only. - Axis2 Java 1.8 (development) ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively maintained. A new PMC chair was accepted by the board last month (Robert Lazarski). We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 63 PMC/Commiters members. - A new committer was added in the last 30 days, Bill Blough on December 7th 2017. ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.7 was released on November 22, 2017. - Axis2 C Project and Sub-projects, recently added a new committer and there are road map to 1.7 discussions - Apr 2009 ## JIRA Activity - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last month. - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month, patches and code discussions are in review for the created issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Bahir provides extensions to distributed analytic platforms such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Currently, Bahir provides extensions to multiple distributed analytic platforms, extending their reach with a diversity of streaming connectors and SQL data sources. Community Activity: Apache Bahir community has been actively working on supporting and enhancing previously available Apache Spark extensions and new extensions continue to be proposed to the project. In the past couple months the Flink extension contributions saw a good level of activity, and similar thing happened on the new extension for CounchDB/Cloudant for Spark. Bahir should be catching up on both fronts and release extensions for Spark and Flink early 2018. Issues: * No known issues Releases: 08/22/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.0 07/11/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.1 05/24/2017 - Bahir for Flink 1.0 03/05/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.0 01/28/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.0.2 10/28/2016 - Bahir for Spark 2.0.1 Committers or PMC changes (Currently 9 PMC / 37 committers) 09/14/2017 - Esteban Laver becomes Apache Bahir committer 04/05/2017 - Robert Metzger becomes Apache Bahir PMC 03/13/2017 - Christian Kadner becomes Apache Bahir PMC 11/30/2016 - Christian Kadner voted as Apache Bahir committer 10/18/2016 - Robert Metzger voted as Apache Bahir committer Trademark/Branding: * No known issues. Legal Issues: * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Beam Project [Davor Bonaci] ## Description: Apache Beam is a unified programming model for both batch and streaming data processing, enabling efficient execution across diverse distributed execution engines and providing extensibility points for connecting to different technologies and user communities. ## Issues: There are no issues that require the Board's attention at this time. While the project is doing well, I do want to point out that for the first time there have been some departures from the community as noted in the Health report below. This is to be expected with projects of this size and requires no Board attention at this time. ## Activity: This month we are celebrating the one year anniversary of becoming a top-level project. Over the past year, the project has grown substantially, crossing 200 lifetime individual contributors, and nearing 500 mailing list subscribers. The project published 7 releases, including a major one, version 2.0.0, the first release that comes with an API stability promise. In this quarter, the main technical focus continues to be on the portability framework, and its adoption across all components of the project, which would, among other benefits, extend the Python SDK to all Beam runners. A sizeable portion of the community is working on this effort. An SDK for Go has been contributed/donated to the project by Google, after design and initial development stage outside of the community. The project has accepted this contribution, and it is currently managed as a new component in a feature branch. Hopefully, with community involvement, the component can be merged into master sometime next year. As usual, the project kept interconnecting additional execution engines and data storage/messaging systems, and serves as a glue in the ecosystem. On the execution side, runners for JStorm, Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Samza and Apache Tez are being prototyped in feature branches, but without too much recent activity. The Spark runner migration from Apache Spark 1.6 to 2.x is nearing completion. On the IO connector side, the healthy growth continues, with new connectors being contributed month-over-month (Redis, RabbitMQ, and others). Out of the major discussions that affect the future of the project, it is worth noting the following discussions: - Continuing to support Java 7 vs. requiring users to upgrade to Java 8 in a future release. - Continuing to support Apache Spark 1.6 vs. requiring users to have a Spark 2.x cluster. - Switching the build system from Apache Maven to Gradle. In all three cases, the majority preference seem to be trending towards upgrading, but with varying degrees of opposing opinion as well. With respect to outreach, there have been no blog posts or press releases this quarter. Beam was featured at Strata Data Conference New York and Singapore, QCon San Francisco, as well as several local meetups in the Bay Area, New York, London, Singapore, Guadalajara and Stockholm. Outside the project, IBM launched an Apache Beam runner for IBM Streams as a part of their cloud offering. Enabling users to easily run Beam pipelines on IBM Cloud is good for the overall project growth. Going forward, the main focus should to be on the community growth, particularly on the user side using non-proprietary engines. On the technical side, the next major milestone is the completion of the portability framework across all components of the project. ## Health report: The community continues to grow steadily, as follows: - Lifetime unique contributors grew to 215, with 19 new first-time contributors. - Both PMC and committer base grew by 2 members each. - Mailing list subscribers/activity continue the healthy growth, with over 40 new user@ mailing list subscribers and 50% increase in dev@ email volume. - The release cadence continues, albeit significantly slower than before. The community diversity has decreased somewhat with the departure or inactivity of a handful of early PMC members that were community champions. The effects are visible in the community tone, behavior and consensus building. This is not unexpected for a project of this size and at this point in time, but it is something that we will work to regain over the next few months. ## PMC changes: Currently 18 PMC members. Two new PMC members have been added since the last report: - Ismaël Mejía was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 08 2017. - Reuven Lax was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 08 2017. ## Committer base changes: Currently 31 committers. Two new committers have been added since the last report: - Etienne Chauchot was added as a committer on Wed Nov 08 2017. - Melissa Pashniak was added as a committer on Wed Nov 08 2017. ## Releases: Since the last report, Apache Beam has published one feature release, as well as one patch release: - 2.2.0 was released on Sat Dec 02 2017. - 2.1.1 was released on Fri Sep 22 2017. Version 2.0.0 was the first release that comes with API stability guarantees. Going forward, we expect to publish a release every 2 months. ## Mailing list activity: Mailing list subscriptions continue to increase modestly, along with the healthy increases in the overall email volume. It is worth noting that we saw an increase in frequency and depth of mailing list discussions, as well as better participation and diversity of opinion compared to the previous quarter. - dev@beam.apache.org - 467 subscribers (up 16 in the last 3 months). - 1499 emails sent to list (934 in previous quarter). - user@beam.apache.org - 487 subscribers (up 42 in the last 3 months). - 483 emails sent to list (404 in previous quarter). ## JIRA activity: While JIRA activity continues to be healthy, this is the second quarter with decreasing participation. Earlier in the year, when the community was working towards the first stable release, we had 650 resolved issues in the quarter, falling first to 278, and now dropping to 171. Going forward, this is an area for improvement for the community, as we make sure to hear user feedback. - 449 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (505 in the previous quarter). - 171 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (278 in the previous quarter). ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Evans Ye] ## Description: Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration, packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution based on Apache Hadoop. ## Issues: None. ## Activity: * Bigtop 1.2.1 was released on Sun Nov 12 2017 along with a blog post to describe the content of the release [1]. * The community has gain a momentum to work on bumping up versions of supported Linux distros. Couple of new contributors to Bigtop were involving in this work. * The community is planning for a meetup at FOSDOM 2018 [2]. ODPi [3] is willing to help for hosting the meetup. ## PMC changes: Last PMC addition was Kevin Monroe on Mon Nov 27 2017 Currently 26 PMC members ## Committer base changes: Last committer addition was Jonathan Kelly on Thu Dec 08 2016 Currently 35 committers ## Releases: Last release was 1.2.1 on Sun Nov 12 2017 ## Links [1] https://blogs.apache.org/bigtop/ [2] https://fosdem.org/2018/ [3] https://www.odpi.org/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin] Project Description =================== Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing Issues ====== The project can still be considered to be in a low activity mode although there appear to be some good progress in the form of discussions. See further information below. Releases ======== There have been no releases over the last three months. The last release was towards the end of 2014: * apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014) PMC/Committer Changes ===================== There are currently 14 PMC members on the project. The last changes were in April 2017. The last new committers were added in May 2014. The last addition to the PMC was in January 2017 (dammina) Ryan Ollos resigned from the PMC in April 2017. Community & Development ======================= With the recognition of the previous report that there was an urgent need to discuss the ongoing inactivity with the wider community, an email was sent to the dev list to determine what appetite there was for continuing. The initial discussion showed up a similar desire to continue the project instead of allowing it to move to the Attic as the last time but it was recognised that there would need to be further changes to the project to foster ongoing development. One of the changes that seemed to inspire some enthusiasm was the idea of a potential break from the use of Trac as the base of the project. This is being explored in further detail with a proposal to migrate the project to use the Django web framework. Whilst it was recognised that Trac has provided a solid base, the attractiveness of Bloodhound for potential contributors is not particularly helped by needing to learn so much about Trac. Progress has also been made with reinstating the main instance of Apache Bloodhound for self-hosting of issue tracking. John Chambers has pushed this work forward, for which the rest of the PMC are grateful. In order to complete this work, it was requested that a VM be prepared to host the issue tracker and in response INFRA-13255 was reopened. Further items of note include a recent proposal to look at the use of gitbox and github mirroring for future work. While it is recognised by the PMC that the above represents only limited progress, the desire of the community appears to be to continue with the project and so the PMC wishes to defer the proposal to move Apache Bloodhound to the Attic for another three months. The PMC will continue to encourage the community to contribute to the direction and look at bringing in more contributors onto the PMC at the earliest opportunity. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo] ## Description: BookKeeper is a scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency storage service optimized for append-only workloads. It has been used as a fundamental service to build high available and replicated services in companies like Twitter, Yahoo and Salesforce. It is also the log segment store for Apache DistributedLog and message store for Apache Pulsar. Apache DistributedLog is a high-level API and service layer for Apache BookKeeper, providing easier access to the BookKeeper primitives. It is a subproject of Apache BookKeeper. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - We have moved to a time based schedule, releasing quarterly to ensure new features ship at a regular interval. 4.6.0 will be the first release of this kind. - DistributedLog is aligning its release schedule with that of BookKeeper. - 4.5.0 was released on 14th August 2017 - 4.5.1 was released on 22nd November 2017 - We are progressing towards a 4.6.0 release. The branch has been frozen and we expect a release in the next two weeks. - BookKeeper development now entirely in github. Jira has been made read only. All jira issues have been migrated to github issues. - Continued work on merging changes from yahoo's branch changes into apache master. - Active discussion on a number of projects: - Relaxed durability - New client API - Improved documentation ## Health report: - Development continues at a steady pace. We are merging one PR per day on average. - Mailing list and slack discussions are brisk, in particularly around the active projects. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dave Rusek on Mon Aug 07 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Dave Rusek at Tue Aug 08 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.5.1 on November 22 2017 - Last release of DistributedLog was 0.5.0 on September 17 2017 ## Mailing list activity: A good number of merged contributions is introducing the mailing list activity. Consolidate efforts coming from DistributedLog graduation as subproject. More contributor/committer engagement cause that increased of mailing list activities. We switch to use "issues" mailing lists for notifications from github discussion and make "dev" mailing lists purely for discussion. so there is a drop at "dev" mailing list and increase at "issues" mailing list. - dev@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 93 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 369 emails sent to list (2982 in previous quarter) - distributedlog-commits@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 12 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 81 emails sent to list (33 in previous quarter) - distributedlog-dev@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 44 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 89 emails sent to list (132 in previous quarter) - distributedlog-issues@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 9 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 432 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - distributedlog-user@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 23 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 24 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter) - issues@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 3134 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter) - user@bookkeeper.apache.org: - 105 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 33 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 70 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## Github activity - 171 Github issues created in the last 3 months (68 of these migrated from JIRA) - 76 Github issues closed/resolved in the last 3 months - 104 Github Pull Requests created in the last 3 months - 97 Github Pull Requests closed/resolved in the last 3 month ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Antoine Toulme] ## Description: Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management. ## Issues: No issues require the board attention at this time. ## Activity: We have released 1.5.4 release, adding Kotlin support. We are voting on the 1.5.5 release right now. ## Health report: The activity is slow, with 2 active committers. Little activity on the user or dev list. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Peter Donald on Tue Oct 15 2013 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Tammo van Lessen at Fri Aug 08 2014 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.5.4 on Nov 30 2017 ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson] ## Apache BVal Report December 2017 ## - The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s) and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on February 15, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Project moved from Subversion to git for source control during this quarter. - Development continues on implementing Java Bean Validation 2.0 in Apache BVal 2.0. With luck a release can be made next quarter. ## Health report: - BVal continues to be maintained by obligation. However, there are several exciting new features in the latest version of the specification and this may foster new activity in the community. ## PMC changes: - Currently 14 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Mon Nov 18 2013 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 14 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.1.2 on Wed Nov 02 2016 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@bval.apache.org: - 46 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 19 emails sent to list (10 in previous quarter) - user@bval.apache.org: - 54 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 4 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 O: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller] ## Description: - Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We are focusing the development of the next minor release Apache Camel 2.21.0 expected to be released in Q1 2017. - Discussed to use the Apache Gitbox service. No outcome so far. - Released Camel 2.18.5, which is our last planned 2.18.x maintenance release. - Continue our work towards Apache Camel 3.0.0. - No progress so far on carrying out the logo change. - fixed and reported the Castor marschaling issue: CVE-2017-12634 - fixed and reported the Hessian unmarshalling issue: CVE-2017-12633 ## Health report: - The project is super healthy, active and stays at a high level ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - No addition since the last report. - Last PMC was added on Sun Jul 02 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 60 committers. - 2 additions since the last report - Alex Dettinger was added on Mon Oct 09 2017 - Pascal Schumacher was added on Fri Oct 13 2017 ## Releases: - 2.18.5 was released on Mon Sep 25 2017 - 2.19.4 was released on Sun Nov 05 2017 - 2.20.0 was released on Wed Oct 11 2017 - 2.20.1 was released on Tue Nov 14 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list activity stays at a high level. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry] # Apache Cayenne Board Report, December 2017 ## Description Apache Cayenne is a Java database persistence framework. It takes a distinct approach to object persistence and provides an ORM runtime, remote persistence services, and a cross-platform GUI mapping/modeling tool. ## Issues There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity Cayenne has had a busy quarter with 3 releases over 3 different development streams. - Cayenne 3.1 (stable) - Maintenance only. Cayenne 3.1.2 is a bug-fix release for the current stable product line. - Cayenne 4.0 (development) - The second 4.0 beta (4.0.B2) was released. The API is frozen, barring any major issues, and development effort is only for bug fixes and documentation leading up to the final release of Cayenne 4.0. - Cayenne 4.1 (development) - The first milestone release of Cayenne 4.1 (4.1.M1) brings many wanted features, including vastly improved memory utilization, elimination of dependencies on external frameworks, an updated Cayenne Modeler cross-platform GUI mapping/modeling tool, and Java 8 support. - Website - Work is progressing on an updated website with the goal to make it cleaner, more modern, and mobile-friendly. ## Health Report Cayenne is healthy. The framework is under active development, as evidenced by three releases the past quarter. We have a stable user and developer community. ## PMC Changes - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. - Last PMC addition was Nikita Timofeev on Sun Jun 25 2017. ## Committer Base Changes - Currently 22 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months. - Last committer addition was Hugi Thordarson at Mon Jun 19 2017. ## Releases - Cayenne 3.1.2 on Wed Nov 22 2017. - Cayenne 4.0.B2 on Sat Oct 7 2017. - Cayenne 4.1.M1 on Sat Oct 14 2017. ## Mailing List Activity - dev@cayenne.apache.org: - 131 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months). - 97 emails sent to list (81 in previous quarter). - user@cayenne.apache.org: - 249 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months). - 125 emails sent to list (93 in previous quarter). ## JIRA Activity - 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months. - 23 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis] Pepijn ## Description: - dynamic service framework for C and C++. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: -The PubSubAdmin implementation is refactored, so that serializers are nog pluggable. This means that the discovery, transport and serialisation techniques are now all pluggable and can differente techniques can be combined. - The CMake add_deploy mechanisme is updated to support a more easier use in IDE. Practically this means that an add_deploy call will result in a executable, which can be run directly from an IDE (with CMake support). - A CMake add_celix_docker is added so that minimal docker images based on Celix can be created. This CMake function will create a minimal filesystem with only the required executable/libraries and bundles (unstripped ~ 17 mb) ## Health report: - The current activity is a bit on the low side, even considering the size of the community. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Alexander Broekhuis on Wed Jul 16 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 10 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Roy Lenferink at Thu Feb 09 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.0.0 on Wed Oct 26 2016 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@celix.apache.org: - 59 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 18 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller] ## Description: Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java, Python, PHP, .NET, Objective-C, and JavaScript (and possibly other languages). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Development of python3 support for cmislib has been started. - Apart from that, there hasn't been much activity in the last few months, just bug fixes. ## Health report: - We have a mature code base. Code refactoring and bug fixes are the only expected activities. ## PMC changes: - Currently 36 PMC members. - Laurent Mignon was added to the PMC on Sat Sep 23 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - Laurent Mignon was added as a committer on Wed Sep 20 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was cmislib 0.6.0 on Thu Aug 31 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@chemistry.apache.org: - 175 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 155 emails sent to list (91 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Wido den Hollander] ## Description: Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and networking devices. ## Issues: There are a few outstanding trademark issues: [1] http://www.cloudstackservices.com/ [2] http://cloudstacksolutions.com [3] http://cloudstack.co.uk/ [1],[2] were rasied by Rafael Weingärtner in Sept 17 [3] was raised by Giles Sirett in March 2017 After the PMC took action it was escalated to trademarks@ but no follow-up was detected by the PMC. These infringements still exist ## Activity: No new release since the last report. The project is busy with gearing up for the 4.11 release which is scheduled for Q1 2018 ## Health report: The project has a Release Manager for the 4.11 release (Rohit Yadav) A user group meeting was held in Germany in November The project is also talking about a Conference again in 2018. Location is not known yet ## PMC changes: - Currently 47 PMC members. - Syed Ahmed was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Committer base changes: Rohit Yadav is a false positive as his username/Apache ID was renamed recently - Currently 116 committers. - New commmitters: - Frank Maximus was added as a committer on Thu Oct 12 2017 - Gabriel Beims Bräscher was added as a committer on Wed Nov 15 2017 - Marc-Aurèle Brothier was added as a committer on Fri Sep 22 2017 - Nathan Johnson was added as a committer on Fri Sep 22 2017 - Rohit Yadav was added as a committer on Wed Dec 06 2017 ## Releases: - Release 4.10.0 on Fri Sep 1 2017 - Release 4.9.3.0 on Tue Sep 12 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - users@cloudstack.apache.org: - 1103 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months): - 644 emails sent to list (502 in previous quarter) - dev@cloudstack.apache.org: - 724 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months): - 514 emails sent to list (485 in previous quarter) - announce@cloudstack.apache.org: - 516 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - issues@cloudstack.apache.org: - 238 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 2246 emails sent to list (675 in previous quarter) - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org: - 235 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 11 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter) - press@cloudstack.apache.org: - 13 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months) ## JIRA activity: - 112 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 44 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## Social Media At 12th December 2017: - The CloudStack Twitter (@cloudstack) account has 34,500 followers (+400 since last report) - The Github mirror of CloudStack repository has 511 stars (+25) and 606 forks (+16) ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory] ## Description: - The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java components. - The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within Apache and without. Any ASF committer can commit to Apache Commons. - The last report was for the meeting of September 20, 2017. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The project is active with twelve (12) releases this reporting period. ## Health report: - Most components in Commons are mature, but are still actively maintained (12 releases). The dev list is active. JIRA is active. Speed of responses to users is reasonable in most cases. We have no new PMC members, no new committers, and Commons is still open to any Apache Committer. - Previous growing pains toward Commons Math 4 might see resolution with a plan toward splitting off Commons Math into new components. ## PMC changes: - Currently 38 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rob Tompkins on Fri Jun 30 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 146 committers. - Sergio Fernández was added as a committer on Sat Nov 04 2017 ## Releases: - BCEL-6.1 was released on Sun Sep 17 2017 - BCEL-6.2 was released on Thu Dec 07 2017 - CODEC-1.11 was released on Thu Oct 19 2017 - COMPRESS-1.15 was released on Mon Oct 16 2017 - CONFIGURATION-2.2 was released on Wed Oct 11 2017 - DAEMON-1.1.0 was released on Tue Nov 21 2017 - IO-2.6 was released on Sat Oct 14 2017 - JELLY-1.0.1 was released on Sat Sep 23 2017 - LANG-3.7 was released on Tue Nov 07 2017 - POOL-2.4.3 was released on Fri Oct 27 2017 - TEXT-1.2 was released on Mon Dec 11 2017 - VFS-2.2 was released on Thu Oct 05 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 171 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 228 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah] ## Description: A platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We had eight platform releases - four patch release for iOS (4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4), one patch release for Browser (5.0.1), two minor and one major release for Android (6.3.0, 6.4.0, 7.0.0). The iOS and Browser releases were just small bug fixes. The Android release now brings our Android project structure to based of the Android Studio project structure. We had many plugins gets released. Most notable is that we have deprecated `cordova-plugin-file-transfer`, `cordova-plugin-globalization`, `cordova-plugin-contacts` and `cordova-plugin-compat`. Due to `cordova-plugin-compat` being deprecated, we removed it as a dependency for a handful of plugins and gave them major version bumps. Cordova-cli@7.1.0 was also released. This was accompanied by releases in other tools that the CLI is composed of. ## Health report: Our status dashboard at http://status.cordova.io is mostly all green. We still have a huge backlog of GitHub Pull Request activity, again, same as last quarter -- but it has improved. Infra has now moved over all of our git repos to GitHub. This allows us to properly label pull requests. We also have the ability to merge in pull requests via the website. We are in the process of deprecating a few of our plugins which can be replaced by official W3C specs which have been implemented in the browsers of the platforms we support. We are also in the process of integrating a couple of plugins back into platforms and deprecating the plugins. This will help ease the maintenance load on the team. ## PMC changes: - Currently 88 PMC members. - New PMC members: - Jan Piotrowski was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017 - Vishal Mishra was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 91 committers. - New committers: - Jan Piotrowski was added as a committer on Mon Oct 09 2017 - Vishal Mishra was added as a committer on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - cordova-android@6.3.0 was released on Tue Sep 26 2017 - cordova-android@6.4.0 was released on Wed Nov 08 2017 - cordova-android@7.0.0 was released on Sun Dec 03 2017 - cordova-browser@5.0.1 was released on Wed Oct 18 2017 - cordova-common@2.1.1 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - cordova-common@2.2.0 was released on Sun Nov 26 2017 - cordova-fetch@1.2.0 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - cordova-fetch@1.2.1 was released on Sun Oct 29 2017 - cordova-common@2.1.0 was released on Thu Aug 31 2017 - cordova-ios@4.5.1 was released on Sun Sep 24 2017 - cordova-ios@4.5.2 was released on Thu Oct 12 2017 - cordova-ios@4.5.3 was released on Mon Oct 30 2017 - cordova-ios@4.5.4 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - cordova-js@4.2.2 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - cordova-lib@7.1.0 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - cordova-node-xcode@1.0.0 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - cordova-plugin-battery-status@1.2.5 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-camera@3.0.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-compat@1.2.0 was released on Thu Sep 21 2017 - cordova-plugin-console@1.1.0 was released on Thu Sep 21 2017 - cordova-plugin-contacts@3.0.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-device-motion@2.0.0 was released on Thu Sep 21 2017 - cordova-plugin-device-orientation@2.0.0 was released on Thu Sep 21 2017 - cordova-plugin-device@1.1.7 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-dialogs@1.3.4 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-file-transfer@1.7.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-file@5.0.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-geolocation@3.0.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-globalization@1.0.8 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@1.7.2 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-media-capture@2.0.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-media@4.0.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-network-information@1.3.4 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-screen-orientation@2.0.2 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-splashscreen@4.1.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-statusbar@2.3.0 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-test-framework@1.1.6 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-vibration@2.1.6 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-whitelist@1.3.3 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine@1.1.4 was released on Fri Nov 10 2017 - cordova-plugman@1.5.1 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - cordova@7.1.0 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 401 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 326 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen] ## Description: Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Community/Committers continue to work on the future release (4.0.1) - Community/Committers continue to improve unit and regression tests. - Community/Committers continue to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira - Community/Committers is actively working on updating the cTAKES Confluence website for improved documentation ## Health report: - The community continues to be moderately active. There have been an increase in new users/questions interest in the dev and user mailing lists. There are patches from various new users/contributors recently. Three new committers were added within the last month. ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - New commmitters: - Alex Zbarcea was added as a committer on Fri Oct 20 2017 - Gandhi Rajan was added as a committer on Tue Nov 14 2017 - Matthew Vita was added as a committer on Mon Nov 13 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014 ## Mailing list activity: There was an increase in number of emails sent to the dev and user mailing lists. - dev@ctakes.apache.org: - 233 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 449 emails sent to list (141 in previous quarter) - user@ctakes.apache.org: - 236 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months): - 48 emails sent to list (49 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman] ## Description: - Apache Curator is a Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper, a distributed coordination service. It includes a highlevel API framework and utilities to make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. It also includes recipes for common use cases and extensions such as service discovery and a Java 8 asynchronous DSL. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - No important activity to report. We are responding to bug reports, questions as normal ## Health report: - The project appears to be slowing down just as ZooKeeper seems to be slowing down. This is probably healthy for a project of Curator's age ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Fangmin Lv on Mon Mar 27 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Fangmin Lv at Tue Mar 28 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was Apache Curator 4.0.0 on Fri Jul 28 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@curator.apache.org: - 52 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 154 emails sent to list (415 in previous quarter) - user@curator.apache.org: - 160 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 10 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache DRAT Project [Chris Mattmann] ## Description: - Apache DRAT is a distributed, parallelized (Map Reduce) wrapper around Apache RAT™ and other code auditing tools to allow it to complete on large code repositories of multiple file types. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Phil Otilinger put together a draft web site for us up at http://drat.apache.org/ - Nipurn Doshi and Shivika Thapur put together another draft at PR #110 here https://s.apache.org/bQss - currently working on getting this to be the main DRAT website, by updating content ## Health report: - We have had bug reports from a community member who may be a good candidate for the PMC. - We’ve had website development from two community members who are not yet PMC or committers and they may also be good candidates. - Now that we have our demo VM up, we will turn our attention to getting the weekly Apache reports out there for all of ASF Github. We just need to write some scripts to get this done. Hopefully by next quarter and its report. ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months ## Committer base changes: - Currently 10 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - None as of yet, but hopefully will release a 1.0 soon once the ASF weekly report is up. ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list subscriptions remain stable. Increasing amount of mail coming for discussions surrounding The website, setting up the VM and working with infra, and various bug fixes related to DRAT and OODT that came out of standing up the demo. - dev@drat.apache.org: - 14 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months): - 85 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - issues@drat.apache.org: - 10 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months) ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang] ## Description: - Apache Eagle is an open source analytics solution for identifying security and performance issues instantly on big data platforms. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Inspired by eagle's streaming alert engine with siddhi, Hao Chen, Eagle committer contributed to flink community a similar light-weight siddhi streaming library - Community users asked for Cloudera CDH support and Eagle alert engine Spark streaming support. Although there is one implementation of Eagle alert engine on top of Spark, seems there is still some gap to be addressed in community to make Eagle and its alert engine work on Cloudera CDH. - Some casual discussion is about whether Eagle should maintain so many use cases or just focus on Alert engine or still do both. The reason why this dicussion was brought up is because currently Eagle maintains both use cases and alert engine, which causes code complexity and adoption difficulty. For example some heavy use cases like Job performance monitoring needs a complex setup. Those discussions will be sent to dev mail list to discuss. ## Health report: - There is a drop of number of jira tickets and mails. This should be fine and community users are trying out Eagle 0.5.0. We see some difficulties in setting up 0.5.0 from community feedback, which community should improve the documents and add some Q/A document in Eagle site. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Deng Lingang on Mon May 08 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jay Sen at Thu Mar 16 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.5.0 on Sat Sep 09 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - Some emails from a few users are about how to config/install Eagle and how to get HDFSAuditLog monitoring case running etc. It seems that community shows interest in using Eagle for HDFS audit log monitoring but hard to set it up because it involves many steps in a distributed enironment. Community needs a simple document to describe one installation. - dev@eagle.apache.org: - 75 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 39 emails sent to list (97 in previous quarter) - issues@eagle.apache.org: - 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 28 emails sent to list (381 in previous quarter) - user@eagle.apache.org: - 54 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 6 emails sent to list (19 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Falcon Project [Pallavi Rao] ABOUT Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. ISSUES There are no issues that require board's attention at this time. STATUS Falcon 0.11 release RC0 is currently being voted by the community. Once the vote passes, release will follow. PMC CHANGES - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Sowmya Ramesh on Mon Jun 06 2016 COMMITTER CHANGES - Currently 25 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Sandeep Samudrala at Thu Mar 09 2017 RELEASES - Last release was 0.10 on Mon Aug 08 2016 MAILING LIST ACTIVITY - dev@falcon.apache.org: - 113 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 104 emails sent to list (228 in previous quarter) JIRA ACTIVITY - 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls] ## Description: Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and  technologies aligned with OSGi technology. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Existing implementations have been improved/enhanced based on community feedback.  - We continued to receive patches and bug reports from various new users/contributors. - Effort ongoing to implement the upcoming OSGi R7 specifications. - Busy adapting the framework to Java 9 and JPMS (framework 5.6.10 was an important milestone in this regard). - Accepted BAR file installer contribution from Intel (ip-clearance pending). - Released 17 components (including the framework). - A new PMC chair was accepted by the board last month (Karl Pauls). ## Health report: - Overall the project is in good health (but not growing atm). - Questions on the user list are answered, development concerns are either discussed on the mailing list or directly in the JIRA issues. - The project as well as the OSGi community in general is still in the process of adapting to JPMS and its long term impact. - We need to focus on adding a new pmc member and attracting new committers (hopefully the required work on OSGi R7 will attract some). However, we had no issues voting on 17 releases and JIRA issues are generally addressed promptly. ## PMC changes: - Currently 24 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofré on Fri Jul 15 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 61 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Neil Bartlett at Thu Feb 09 2017 ## Releases: - maven-scr-plugin-1.25.0 was released on Sat Sep 30 2017 - org.apache.felix.fileinstall-3.6.4 was released on Wed Nov 22 2017 - org.apache.felix.framework-5.6.10 was released on Mon Nov 13 2017 - org.apache.felix.gogo.jline-1.0.10 was released on Wed Nov 22 2017 - org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime-1.0.10 was released on Wed Nov 22 2017 - org.apache.felix.http.jetty-3.4.6 was released on Sun Nov 05 2017 - org.apache.felix.http.jetty-3.4.8 was released on Mon Dec 11 2017 - org.apache.felix.http.sslfilter-1.2.4 was released on Fri Dec 01 2017 - org.apache.felix.inventory-1.0.6 was released on Mon Dec 11 2017 - org.apache.felix.main-5.6.10 was released on Mon Nov 13 2017 - org.apache.felix.main.distribution-5.6.10 was released on Mon Nov 13 2017 - org.apache.felix.metatype-1.1.6 was released on Sun Oct 01 2017 - org.apache.felix.scr.bnd-1.8.0 was released on Sat Sep 30 2017 - org.apache.felix.scr.generator-1.17.0 was released on Sat Sep 30 2017 - org.apache.felix.utils-1.10.4 was released on Wed Nov 22 2017 - org.apache.felix.webconsole.plugins.ds-2.0.8 was released on Sat Sep 30 2017 - org.apache.felix.webconsole.plugins.event-1.1.8 was released on Sat Sep 30 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - users@felix.apache.org: - 570 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months): - 67 emails sent to list (101 in previous quarter) - dev@felix.apache.org: - 326 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months): - 638 emails sent to list (423 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 74 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 84 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton] Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.3 was released on 2017-11-16 This update provides a fix for an out of memory exception when user downloads the Apache Flex SDK with Adobe AIR versions greater than 23 on the Windows platform. Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 was released on 2017-11-22 The Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 is an update to Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 that adds support for the latest Flash Player and AIR runtimes and some bug fixes. For more details, see the release notes at: http://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.16.1/RELEASE_NOTES Older Releases: -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 ACTIVITY Apache FlexJS was renamed to Royale and established as its own top level project at Apache. Since the Royale project was created, the dev community seems to be less active. The users list is still seeing questions quite often. The board approved a change of Flex PMC chair from Alex Harui to Tom Chiverton COMMUNITY Apache Flex investigates use of it's Wiki to draft Board reports. This should make the process easier and more co-operative for the community. The last committer was elected on 9/5/16. The last PMC member was elected on 8/28/17. We lost Christophe Herreman and Scott Delamater from the PMC. Both felt that they were inactive, and in at least one case no longer actively using Apache Flex. TRADEMARKS A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. The ASF VP Trademarks sent them an email on 11/3/16. There has not been any more signs of confusion from the community. Maybe we should just not pursue it any more? SECURITY Nothing to report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen] DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - The Flink community just released the 1.4 release and is now working towards the 1.5 release. The relationship between the releases and a list of major features has been has been discussed and is shared on the Apache Flink blog: http://flink.apache.org/news/2017/11/22/release-1.4-and-1.5-timeline.html - The call for papers for the Flink Forward conference is open. The program committee consists of stream processing experts from both the Flink community and other communities. - Flink had a pretty good conference presence in the previous quarter, for example at multiple Stratas, Hadoop/Dataworks Summit, MesosCon, QCon, Scale-by-the-Bay, and Flink Forward Berlin. - We reached out to Huawei to update the use of "Flink" on their stream product website to "Apache Flink". The original Chinese webpage was fixed, but has been taken down and replaced by other web pages, including an English one that uses the original text saying "Flink", not "Apache Flink". We are in touch. COMMUNITY No new PMC members were added since the last report. The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017 Committers added since the last board report: - Haohui Mai was added as a committer on November 1st, 2017 Flink currently has 34 committers and 19 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.4.0 was released on December 12th, 2017 - shaded-2.0 was released on October 30th, 2017 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS Both user@f.a.o and dev@f.a.o lists are very active, (1818 resp. 977 mails per quarter), with mails getting answered by a mix of committers and non-committers. JIRA continues to be very active, with 636 JIRA tickets created and 607 JIRA tickets resolved over last 3 months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper] ## Description: - Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway which supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it "clientless" because no plugins or client software are required. Once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Now that the graduation process has completed, the project is refocused on completing the 0.9.14 release. - Most recent development work has been around adding support for TOTP, SQL Server, and other authentication-related integrations/enhancements. - Additional translations and keymap contributions from the community. - Decent traffic spike due to Guacamole being posted to Hacker News again. ## Health report: - The project is recently graduated and healthy. Development is active and community involvement is strong. - There has been increasing community engagement in discussing issues on the mailing lists, and turning those discussions into contributions of code. ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - Carl Harris was added to the PMC on Sun Nov 19 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 10 committers. - Carl Harris was added as a committer on Thu Nov 16 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.9.13-incubating on Sat Jul 29 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list activity on both the dev@ and user@ lists has been continually increasing. - The community is particularly active on the user@ list. - dev@guacamole.apache.org: - 67 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 592 emails sent to list (345 in previous quarter) - user@guacamole.apache.org: - 280 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months): - 705 emails sent to list (512 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 85 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 65 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig] Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the projects to collaborate. Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and XMLUnit.NET. == Summary == No changes compared to the last quarter, no real activity by the community. After a hiccup in September 2017 the service seems to be good again. We'll ask our users whether they still need Gump in the next quarter. == Releases == Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy. == Activity == This has again been a very quiet quarter for Gump. Around the time of the last report we realized the runs in vmgump had stopped for several weeks without anybody taking notice. This somewhat challenges the notion that "Gump seems to remain useful for the projects using it" usually stated here. By now the runs have been stable again and are watched more closely. In 2013 we asked the projects Gump was building back then whether they still want to use the service. Stefan intends to do so once again during the next quarter. == Changes to the Roster == All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure the ASF installations. The last changes to the PMC have seen Konstantin Kolinko and Mark Thomas join in November 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon] ## Description: - Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk Synchronous Parallel paradigm ## Issues: - the PMC didn't manage to report in the last 3 board calls for reports. ## Activity: - the activity in the project is low. However new contributors have showed up in the mailing list and started creting Jira issues. ## Health report: - the community is not doing very good. Most of the committers / PMC members do not seem to have enough cycles to contribute to the project. We have raised awareness about the chance for Apache Hama to go Attic, calling out for new contributors. We have seen some positive responses from potential new contributors. We also have voted (submitted for this next board meeting) for a new PMC chair. ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was JongYoon Lim at Tue Sep 13 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore G] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan] ## Description: - The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - 2 releases from 2.3 branch this quarter. - Continued active development on master and standalone-metastore branches. ## PMC changes: - Currently 41 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Matt McCline on Wed Jul 05 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 73 committers. - New commmitters: - Anishek Agarwal was added as a committer on Fri Sep 22 2017 - Barna Zsombor Klara was added as a committer on Fri Sep 15 2017 - Sankar Hariappan was added as a committer on Fri Sep 29 2017 - Tao Li was added as a committer on Fri Oct 27 2017 ## Releases: - 2.3.1 was released on Mon Oct 23 2017 - 2.3.2 was released on Sun Nov 12 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@hive.apache.org: - 889 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - user@hive.apache.org: - 2255 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months): ## JIRA activity: - 742 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 525 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Impala Project [Jim Apple] ## Description: Impala is a high-performance distributed SQL engine. ## Issues: There are no special issues the board should be aware of. ## Activity: Impala graduated from the incubator to a TLP on 15 November 2017. The incubator report covering August, September, and October is available at https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/November2017. Notable efforts in November include Hadoop 3.0 compatibility work, TABLESAMPLE work to compute statistics more quickly, test reliability, decimal arithmetic type changes, client connectivity bug fixes, and changing the RPC mechanism for data stream service. ## Health report: The project is healthy. November had 90 commits, the same as October. The dev list had 139 emails, compared to 175 in the previous 30 days. The user list had 31 emails, compared to 17 in the previous 30 days. 109 tickets were resolved, compared to 101 in October. 122 tickets were created, compared to 130 in October. Several new contributors have been active. ## PMC and committer changes: The most recent new PMC member was added on 2017-09-27. Two new committers were added on 2017-09-29. ## Releases: The last release was 2017-09-14. Discussions for the next release are in progress. Discussions of a major (compatibility-breaking) release have occurred, but there does not appear to be much enthusiasm to do such a release right now. Some compat-breaking changes, like DECIMAL_V2, are available already behind feature flags. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [John D. Ament] Incubator PMC report for December 2017 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 currently 53 podlings incubating. In the month of November, we executed six releases, added one IPMC member and received the resignation of another (which is in flight until their sole podling retires). We added two podlings to our roster, have a few more in the pipeline and have one podling planning to graduate this month. * Community New IPMC members: - Michael Semb Wever People who left the IPMC: - Upayavira (not processed in LDAP yet) * New Podlings - Crail - Service Comb * Podlings that failed to report, expected next month - Amaterasu - Activity stopped late November - HTrace - 0 on list activity - Pony Mail - Low activity, suspect just missed - Wave - Retiring - Myriad - Received report, no mentor sign off - Spot - Received report, no mentor sign off * Graduations The board has motions for the following: - Trafodion * Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of November: - 2017-11-01 Apache Freemarker 2.3.27 - 2017-11-08 Apache Netbeans HTML4J 1.5 - 2017-11-15 Apache Mnemonic 0.10.0 - 2017-11-15 Apache MXNet 0.12.1 - 2017-11-18 Apache Netbeans HTML4J 1.5.1 - 2017-11-28 Apache Griffin 0.1.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents AriaTosca Crail Daffodil Gearpump Griffin Hivemall Omid OpenWhisk PageSpeed Pulsar Quickstep SAMOA SDAP SINGA Superset Taverna Tephra Trafodion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- AriaTosca ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK) and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions. AriaTosca has been incubating since 2016-08-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community and enroll new committers. 2. Have frequent Release cycles to be compliant with the Apache Way. 3. Grow the project’s contributions from existing contributors Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The project is ready for its third release as far as the code is concerned. Considerable functionality has been added since the last release in addition to a growth in diversity of contributions. How has the community developed since the last report? * All project communication takes now place on either the mailing list or ASF's Slack, and is open for everybody. We have worked hard to make this the normal operating mode of the community. There have been some hiccups, but in general the majority of discourse has taken place on the list. Slack has been used as a secondary method. * Increased chatter on the mailing list including new subscribers who ask questions, make suggestions and are likely to become contributors themselves in the near future. * Weekly grooming meetings are now attended by the majority of the community. This is not only a forum to review the weekly work items list, but also as a place for open discussion about issues, questions as well as for the community to get to better know each other. * Over the last 3 months we have seen an over %50 increase in contributors and the existing group of committers voted to elect a new Committer to the project. How has the project developed since the last report? - ARIA now has a robust parser testing framework (ARIA-1) - Huge performance improvement (ARIA-1) - Significant website and documentation improvements for usability and to enhance new user Usability in terms of “getting started” instructions - Clearwater IMS Example - Package names fixed/made consistent - Configuration loading mechanism - Removed support for Python 2.6 - 42 JIRA issues have been resolved since the last report - Moved project to gitbox How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2017-07-13 0.1.1 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Tom Nadeau was added to the PMC/committers on 2017-11-28 Signed-off-by: [ ](ariatosca) Suneel Marthi Comments: [X](ariatosca) John D. Ament Comments: Activity on list is picking up over the slack conversations. A community member is planning to write a report, however it indicates a corporate hierarchy issue within the project that needs to get solved. In addition, the podling needs to figure out how to operate more on list (without grooming meetings) and do things more asynchronously. [ ](ariatosca) Jakob Homan Comments: ----------------------- Crail Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed. Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finish project setup 2. Community building 3. Create a first release 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? N/A How has the project developed since the last report? * This is the first report. * Apache ICLA signed by all contributors from IBM Zurich Research. * Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement signed by IBM ZUrich Research representative. * Infrastructure setup underway (missing JIRA due to infrastructure issues) * Available Crail code to be transferred soon. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [X] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-11-01 (entering incubation) Signed-off-by: [X] (crail) Julian Hyde Comments: Project is still boot-strapping. No activity on dev list yet (except for preparation of this report). [ ] (crail) Luciano Resende Comments: [ ] (crail) Raphael Bircher Comments: -------------------- Daffodil Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON. Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Obtain remaining SGA from NCSA 2. First release as an Apache Incubator 3. Broadening base of contributors and building the community Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None How has the community developed since the last report? - No additional committers or community growth, however activity on the dev@daffodil list has increased, with multiple design discussions, code reviews, and project discussions taking place. How has the project developed since the last report? - All tickets from the old JIRA system were successfully transferred to ASF JIRA - IBM has submitted their SGA. We are now only waiting on an SGA from NCSA, who we believe is very close to submission. Once that is in, we believe all necessary SGA's and CLA's will have been submitted and we can begin the process of relicensing the Daffodil codebase to Apache v2 and switching the package namespace to org.apache.daffodil - Development pace has increased, with multiple issues, commits, and pull requests having gone through the new Daffodil Code Contributor Workflow - Continuous integration has been enabled via TravisCI GitHub Integration - Migrated repository to GitBox - A website has been developed based on the Apache Incubator Website template. Still need to enable automatic building/publishing-- manually publishing for now. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: - None When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - None, same as project incubator inception Signed-off-by: [X](daffodil) John D. Ament Comments: Solid on list communication. Waiting on SGAs to be processed to relicense the code. Podling executed a non-ASF release in the interim. [X](daffodil) David Fisher Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Drew Farris (shepherd): Both mentors active on the mailing list. Project is still getting set up yet showing healthy mailing list activity. -------------------- Gearpump Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service Actor model. Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Have frequent release cycles. 2. Continue to evolve community interest and support. 3. Keep up with Apache Beam's evolving API. - 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? There was a company managed to deploy Gearpump on their secured Hadoop cluster. They reported some bugs occurred in their environment and contributed the fixes back to Gearpump community. - How has the project developed since the last report? 15 issues created and 9 issues resolved. An official Gearpump docker image was published. Continuous improvements for Gearpump Runner in Apache Beam were made. Date of last release: 2017-07-17 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new committers or PMC members elected yet. Signed-off-by: [X](gearpump) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: [ ](gearpump) Andrew Purtell Comments: [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho Comments: [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin Comments: [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon Comments: [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang Comments: -------------------- Griffin Griffin is a open source Data Quality solution for distributed data systems at any scale in both streaming or batch data context Griffin has been incubating since 2016-12-05. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continuous enhancing to provide better accuracy and profing data quality dimensions. 2. Release more dq dimensions like timeliness and completeness based on feedbacks from community. 3. Onboard more user cases and grow the community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - Apache Griffin 0.1.6-incubating released. How has the community developed since the last report? - Four new contributors on-board, some more users had contacted us for use cases. - Discussed and Voting to on-board some committers. How has the project developed since the last report? - Active development is moving on well, 67 commits in last three months. - Profiling measure for streaming mode has been developed. - Scheduler has been optimized, support flexible job scheduling. - UI module for profiling measure has been developed. - Work toward for next version to support enhanced scheduler end to end, and support more data quality dimensions. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2017-11-07 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - Initial set of committers / PPMC. - Discussed and Voting to on-board some committers. Signed-off-by: [ ](griffin) Kasper Sørensen Comments: [ ](griffin) Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla Comments: [ ](griffin) Luciano Resende Comments: [X](griffin) Henry Saputra Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Dave Fisher: Interesting project. Seems to be going well. No concerns. -------------------- Hivemall Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs. Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Create the first Apache release 2. Community growth (committers and users) 3. Documentation improvements 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? * Got contributions from new external contributors https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/116 * Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing: 108 stars as of Dec 6 (was 99 on Sept 6) * Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing: 101 followers as of Dec 6 (was 87 on Sept 6) How has the project developed since the last report? * Approaching the first Apache release while the released delayed from Q3 to Q4. - Blocking issues are decreased https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-21 - Remaining tasks are just updating Maven release scheme and documents https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15465 Since the last report, we have * In the last 3 months, we opened 19 JIRA issues and closed 16 JIRA issues as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of Dec 1) Created Resolved Sept 2017 3 8 Oct 2017 12 5 Nov 2017 4 3 * Created 14 Pull Requests and merged 21 Pull Requests between June 01 and Aug 31. https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A2017-09-01..2017-11-30 https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2017-09-01..2017-11-30 How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [x] Working towards first release [x] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: No release yet (planning the first Apache release in Q4, 2017) When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? * Oct 10: Invited Kento Nozawa as a committer Signed-off-by: [ ](hivemall) Reynold Xin Comments: [X](hivemall) Markus Weimer Comments: [ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng Comments: [ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai Comments: -------------------- Omid Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID transactional framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top of MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data. Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Boost project dissemination in the Apache community. 2. Collaborate/integrate Omid with other Apache projects. 3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently in Apache. 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? Continue integration with Apache Phoenix How has the project developed since the last report? Critical fixes on security and HBase 0.x & 1.x integration. HBase 0.x version being tested in prod environment at Yahoo. Started testing HBase version 1.x in local environments. Quarter Stats (from: 2017-09-01 to: 2017-11-30): +---------------------------------------------+ | Metric | counts | +---------------------------------------------+ | # of msgs in dev list | 53 | | Active Contributors (incl mentors)| 8 | | Jira New Issues | 5 | | Resolved Issues | 1 | | Pull Requests merged | 1 | | Pull Requests proposed | 2 | +---------------------------------------------+ How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2016-06-24 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [X](omid) Alan Gates Comments: [ ](omid) Lars Hofhansl Comments: [ ](omid) Flavio P. Junqueira Comments: [ ](omid) Thejas Nair Comments: [x](omid) James Taylor Comments: -------------------- OpenWhisk OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) from external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-based Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and catalog services. Additionally, it now provides options to host the platform components as Docker containers on various Container Frameworks such as Mesos, Kunernetes, and Compose. OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Est. release process for ZIP of source code 2. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain all project repos. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - It had been our intent to have Apache infra. to host our staging (and move it out of disparate private builds within various companies). However, INFRA indicates they only typically allocate 1 VM per project for use with demos and minor things. They indicate that perhaps a corporate donation is in order (ala. Spark). - Goal: standup testing resources at Apache and utilize for public CI and performance testing of OpenWhisk on Kubernetes - Needed resources: Minimum 5 worker node kubernetes cluster. Each worker nodes can be fairly modest (2-4 virtual cores; 4-8GB of memory) - Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be executed; need to identify process for this. Discussion started w/ Apache legal via "legal-discuss" mailing list with subject "Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo". How has the community developed since the last report? - incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report) - incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 469 (+52 since last report) - dev mailing list activity continues to be active - The bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" continues to be well received and attended. - Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed notes to our CWIKI. - YouTube Channel: Apache Meetings Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l9L8wyQlk&list=PLxVTI8yc_iX4qqr_45gduBFQxhSTfJ68g - CWiki Meeting Notes: OpenWhisk Technical Interchange Meeting Notes: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/OpenWhisk+Technical+Interchange+Meeting+Notes New Contributors of note (not comprehensive): - Brendan McAddams: Red Hat: Akka expert working on creating separate Akka dispatchers for CouchDB and Kafka Clients - Kavitha Vallari Devara: Samsung FaaS team in "Open Service Lab of Convergence Team (SW R&D Center): incubator-openwhisk organizing project directory structure. - Gabriel Nicolas Avellaneda: independent. CLI contributions - Manjiri Tapaswi: N. Caroline State Univ. (NCSU): Fixed all "good first issues" for "incubator-wskdeploy" - Stig Bakken, Zedge (mobile phone customization), first review of PR in Kube repo. How has the project developed since the last report? OpenWhisk general developments: - Reorg. of "core" openwhisk directories to better match architecture - Removal of openwhisk cli and cli related test cases - Community agreed to Scala formatting guidelines; re-enforced via github pre-commit hooks - Focus on improved per-invocation (of Actions) performance via logging and other improvements. - Changed default logging backend from log4j to Logback - Redis is now optional on deployment - Support for metrics streaming (via plug-in, default Kamon). - Continued focus in HA/Clustering enablement while continuing to reduce reliance on Ansible for configuration. Work included: - Enabling Controller HA support (defaults to active cluster of 2). - Enabling CouchDB clustering - Using ZooKeeper as persistent store for InvokerId assignment - Adaptive timeouts for controller and nginx - Programmatic lazy creation of completedN and invokerN topics - Certificate checking for secure mode - Now generating maven snapshot artifacts for some sub-projects - Kubernetes deployment improvements: - Moved Travis testing to using Minikube & more current Kubernetes version (1.7.4) - Significant progress on supporting deploy of complete OpenWhisk system on Kubernetes, eliminating custom containers, and streamlining deploy process - Separation of Language runtimes into their own top-level repos. including: docker (SDK) runtime, pythin, nodejs, java, php, swift - Updates to Akka and focus on improving messaging - Updates to improve API Gateway resiliency - Nginx performance improved - NodeJS 6 upgraded to 6.11.4 - NodeJS 8 support - Swift 3.1.1 now default, deprecated Swift 3 openwhisk-package-deploy: - New repo created with proper license, docs, tests, and Travis CI - New action wskdeploy allows to deploy wskdeploy git repos - New "managed" sync support openwhisk-packages-cloudant/couchdb: - Update to feed action to update trigger config (dbName) - Update to feed action to return config and status openwhisk-packages-kafka: - New ability for feed action to return config and status - Update to feed action to update trigger config (topic) openwhisk-packages-alarms: - New ability for feed action to return config and status - New alarm trigger type interval - New alarm trigger type fire once - New StartDate and stopDate parameters for cron openwhisk-cli: - New canonical source after duplication removal from main repo - New open issues moved from main repo to CLI repo - New trigger feed lifecycles on `trigger get` and `trigger update` Significant. discussions (dev list): - Warm containers - Are Java actions first class citizens? - Git commit (accreditation) - Moving out runtime images and tests - Enablement of controller clustering - Invoker activation queueing proposal - proposal to remove trigger activations when no rules are matched - [Scala] code style guideline - NodeJS 8 support - Use an explicit property to define type of Whisk entity How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Comments: Need greater variety of contributors and contributing companies Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? None during this period Signed-off-by: [ ](openwhisk) Felix Meschberger Comments: [ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm Comments: [X](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández Comments: -------------------- PageSpeed PageSpeed represents a series of open source technologies to help make the web faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. PageSpeed has been incubating since 2017-09-30. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finish project setup 2. Community building 3. Create a first release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? - A new potential committer indicated interest in joining the PageSpeed initiative by maintaining the FreeBSD port he contributed and updating it to the latest, and upstreaming required changes to support the new platform to make future updates easier. How has the project developed since the last report? - Some technical hurdles were encountered while trying to run the RAT tools on the codebase. The plan is to pick this up again after the initial code drop has been performed to the ASF repo. - We are working on getting the source code into the ASF repository. - Progress was made on new features and getting the module distributed more widely. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [X] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-09-30 (entering incubation) Signed-off-by: [ ](pagespeed) Jukka Zitting Comments: [X](pagespeed) Leif Hedstrom Comments: [X](pagespeed) Nick Kew Comments: [ ](pagespeed) Phil Sorber Comments: -------------------- Pulsar Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics, guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management for subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication. Pulsar has been incubating since 2017-06-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community with new Committers/PPMC members. 2. Set up a test cluster to be able to run system tests 3. Improve release process by having more committers taking part in releases Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? The community added 5 contributors. There is a healthy discuss on issues related to development, tools and processes among the community members. There has been a good number of questions asked by users on the Slack channel where there are around 33 weekly active users. How has the project developed since the last report? 18 authors have pushed 150 commits to master in the last 3 months. The project has made the its second release in the Apache Incubator on October 13th. The next release (1.21-incubating) is being voted right now in the dev mailing list. Several design documents with improvement proposals have been submitted to the wiki and discussed in the mailing list. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2017-10-13, 1.20.0-incubating When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? None Signed-off-by: [X](pulsar) Dave Fisher Comments: Seems like the podling is engaging new contributors mostly through slack channel. We will need to make sure that enough information is archived by either discussion on dev@ or in some other way. They are on their fourth RC in the current release and are doing things correctly. [X](pulsar) Jim Jagielski Comments: Agreed. Need to push more actual conversation to the dev@ list [X](pulsar) P. Taylor Goetz Comments: I share the sentiment of other mentors. Would like to more dev@ list traffic vs. slack. [ ](pulsar) Francis Liu Comments: -------------------- Quickstep Quickstep is a high-performance database engine. Quickstep has been incubating since 2016-03-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Work on adoption of the Quickstep technology. 2. Continue building a developer community. 3. Work towards a second release. 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? There are a number of active developers working with the code base, who may become committers in the near future. How has the project developed since the last report? A number of bug reports have been filed and features added to move the single-node version of the system forward. The newer features added to the system are accompanied by a JIRA issue. There is more activity on the dev mailing list, and the newer members of the community are involved in the discussions. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2017-03-25 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-10-03 Robert Claus (committer) Signed-off-by: [ ](quickstep) Konstantin Boudnik Comments: [x](quickstep) Julian Hyde Comments: Community building is this project's biggest challenge. Robert Claus is, I believe, the first committer outside of the UW team, so his appointment is good progress. [ ](quickstep) Roman Shaposhnik Comments: -------------------- SAMOA SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache Flink, and Apache Samza. SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Elect new PPMC members 2. Enlarge the community 3. 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? Mailing list activity (September 2017 - November 2017): * @dev: 49 messages Jira issues backlog (September 2017 - November 2017): * Created: 5 * Resolved: 1 How has the project developed since the last report? * Planning a new release in the next month. * Presentation at the Flink Forward Conference from Orange's team * Integration of a new Boosting algorithm * Improved Apache Kafka support and support for JSON and Avro. * Improved SAMOA instances. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [X] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2016-09-30 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? None Signed-off-by: [X](samoa) Alan Gates Comments: In response to shepherd's comments (see below) community started a vote on a couple of contributors becoming committers. [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan Comments: [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar Comments: [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning Comments: IPMC/Shepherd notes: Concerned about the lack of community growth. Very few commits this year yet there are pull requests by contributors. Sent an email to private@samoa -------------------- SDAP SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems. SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow community 2. Make formal SDAP (Incubating) releases 3. Evangelize SDAP as an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems 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 not formally reported before. We hope the community to grow once we make our first Incubating release. How has the project developed since the last report? All infrastructure and codebase(s) have successfully been transitioned over to the ASF. We are working to comply with branding, trademarks and source code. This work is ongoing. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [X] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? No new committers or PPMC have been added other than the original SDAP committers. Signed-off-by: [ ](sdap) Jörn Rottmann Comments: [ ](sdap) Raphael Bircher Comments: [ ](sdap) Suneel Marthi Comments: [X](sdap) Lewis John McGibbney Comments: SDAP is doing pretty well. Branding, trademarks and source code compliance are the primary issues right now. Once these are addressed SDAP can focus on the first Incubating release. -------------------- SINGA SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform. SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Finish the existing jira tickets, especially the Keras API and Open Neural Network Exchange format. 2. Prepare the graduation documents and start discussion in dev@ list. 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? 1 new developer (Wengtong Li) contributed to the repository. 1 new committer (Moaz) joined officially. How has the project developed since the last report? 1. We fixed several bugs related to Tensor operations and unit-testing. 2. Some new issues/features are created, mainly abut supporting including Keras API and Open Neural Network Exchange format. How would you assess the podling's maturity? We are discussing the graduation process and want to start it with one more release. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2017-06-29 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-09-01 Signed-off-by: [ ](singa) Daniel Dai Comments: [X](singa) Alan Gates Comments: [ ](singa) Ted Dunning Comments: [ ](singa) Thejas Nair Comments: -------------------- Superset Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data exploration, data visualization and dashboarding. Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community and enroll new committers. 2. Plan and execute our first Apache release 3. Make progress Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of? * We’re working on finding a way to link Jira Issues to GitHub Issues as the team has a preference for using GitHub Issues for tracking. How has the community developed since the last report? * Organic growth of our Github contributors (184), forks (2,675), watchers (888) and stars (16,969) * Group of active committers meeting bi-weekly from Airbnb, Lyft and Twitter (Apple joining soon) * Slack channel for Apache Superset created at https://apache-superset.slack.com/ How has the project developed since the last report? * Committers have created initial UI/UX mocks and engineering plan for redesign of Explore and Dashboarding views * A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new features, take a look at the project’s Pulse on Github for more details * The team has completed all of the items on the Incubation Checklist How does the podling rate their own maturity. [ ] Initial setup [X] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: No official release yet since being voted into Apache Incubation. (Planning for the first Apache release in Q2, 2018) When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? * Grace Guo - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-29) * Chris Williams - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-20) * John Bodley - PPMC & Committer (2017-10-20) Signed-off-by: [X](superset) Ashutosh Chauhan Comments: [X](superset) Luke Han Comments: [X](superset) Jim Jagielski Comments: -------------------- Taverna Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute data-driven workflows. Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Re-engage PMC to encourage regular activity 2. Retiring irrelevant git repositories 3. Graduate! Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Community slow. Considering retiring, but will try one last push. How has the community developed since the last report? Quite a few pull requests, but need follow ups. Non-PPMC committers have taken more charge in release preparation. Email stats since 2017-09-01: dev@taverna: 29 users@taverna: 2 How has the project developed since the last report? Very slow progress towards graduation. Some progress towards next releases - need implicit Release Manager delegation. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [X] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: 2016-07-01 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2016-10-20 Signed-off-by: [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne Comments: In Dec 2016, the report said "Preparing to graduate." In 2017, the dev@ list has been quiet and the last release was in 2016. While the PPMC is large, not everyone has been active in incubation. I am worried that pushing through graduation will only result in the same situation as a TLP. The community needs to consider what is the best environment for Taverna. [ ](taverna) Daniel J Debrunner Comments: [ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce Comments: [x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes Comments: I have admitted lack of leadership. I think we should seriously consider retiring, but only after a 6 month push towards getting graduation done. [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru Comments: [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas Comments: -------------------- Tephra Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines. Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07. Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Improve community engagement 2. 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? - 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report - 18 new JIRAs filed since the last report - 1 external contributors submitted patches since the last report - 1 external contributor created a ticket in JIRA since the last report How has the project developed since the last report? - Tephra 0.13.0-incubating released - Working on 0.14.0-incubating release How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [x] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of the last release: 2017-09-21 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - None since coming to incubation Signed-off-by: [X](tephra) Alan Gates Comments: [ ](tephra) Andrew Purtell Comments: [x](tephra) James Taylor Comments: [ ](tephra) Lars Hofhansl Comments: -------------------- Trafodion Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or operational workloads on Hadoop. Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? - New mentor added: Jacques Le Roux - Slowly attracting more adopters and subscribers. - ML postings: 37 user, 396 dev, 528 coderev, 668 issues, 533 commits - Twitter: 228 followers, 73 tweets, 66 likes How has the project developed since the last report? * 115 commits from 17 contributors. * 95 tickets filed and 78 resolved. * We are working towards our next release, 2.2. Ming Liu is the Release Manager. How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. [ ] Initial setup [ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [x] Other: Request to graduate submitted to board after discussions. Date of last release: 2017-05-01 2.1 When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2017-03-10 Signed-off-by: [ ](trafodion) Michael Stack Comments: [X](trafodion) Jacques Le Roux Comments: I'm new to this poddling, but I have already seen that the activity is steady, the CI pipeline is working good and over all I like the responsiveness and kindness of the community. Ready for graduation! ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig] Report from the Apache Jackrabbit committee [Michael Dürig] ## Description: The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Jackrabbit content repository is stable, largely feature complete and actively being maintained. Jackrabbit Oak is an effort to implement a scalable and performant hierarchical content repository as a modern successor to the Apache Jackrabbit content repository. It is targeted for use as the foundation of modern world-class web sites and other demanding content applications. In contrast to its predecessor, Oak does not implement all optional features from the JSR specifications and it is not a reference implementation. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Apache Jackrabbit Oak receives most attention nowadays. All maintenance branches and the unstable development branch are continuously seeing moderate to high activity. We are running up to our 4th major release of Oak (1.8). Branching is expected to happen early January. Apache Jackrabbit itself is mostly in maintenance mode with most of the work going into bug fixing and tooling. New features are mainly driven by dependencies from Oak. ## Health report: The project is healthy with a continuous stream of traffic on all mailing lists reflecting the activity of the respective component. There is a wide range of topics being discussed on the dev and user lists as well as on the various JIRA issues. Commit activity is moderate to high mirroring the activity on the JIRA issues and the desire of the individual contributors to bring the features in for Oak 1.8. ## PMC changes: - Currently 51 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Robert Munteanu on Mon May 22 2017 - The candidate who was offered PMC membership on Sept. 15th subsequently declined ## Committer base changes: - Currently 52 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Robert Munteanu on Mon May 22 2017 - The candidate who was offered committership on Sept. 15th subsequently declined ## Releases: - jackrabbit-2.10.7 was released on Wed Dec 06 2017 - jackrabbit-2.12.8 was released on Wed Oct 04 2017 - jackrabbit-2.14.4 was released on Sun Oct 29 2017 - jackrabbit-2.15.7 was released on Sun Oct 22 2017 - jackrabbit-2.15.8 was released on Sun Nov 12 2017 - jackrabbit-2.16 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - jackrabbit-2.16.0 was released on Tue Nov 21 2017 - jackrabbit-2.8.6 was released on Sun Sep 24 2017 - vault-3.1.42 was released on Mon Nov 13 2017 - vault-package-maven-plugin-1.0.0 was released on Fri Oct 27 2017 - oak-1.6.6 was released on Mon Oct 30 2017 - oak-1.6.7 was released on Tue Nov 28 2017 - oak-1.7.10 was released on Mon Oct 23 2017 - oak-1.7.11 was released on Tue Nov 07 2017 - oak-1.7.12 was released on Mon Dec 04 2017 - oak-1.7.8 was released on Mon Sep 25 2017 - oak-1.7.9 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 500 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 521 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Juneau Project [James Bognar] ## Description: - Juneau is a Java library used for constructing REST microservices using marshalled POJOs. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Juneau graduated from incubation on Oct 19, 2017. - We are planning to release v7.0.1 in the next 1-2 weeks. ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No changes (the PMC was established in the last 3 months) ## Releases: - Last release was 7.0.0 made on Oct 25, 2017. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@juneau.apache.org: - 23 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 215 emails sent to list (222 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré] ## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - A first 4.2.0.M2 technical preview has been released, representing an important milestone in the project. - We did bug fixes and improvements in interaction with user communities (OpenHAB, OpenDaylight, ...) - We did a little improvement of the website look'n feel to give a better and more professional message - We are preparing new releases for container, Cave, Decanter & Cellar. ## Health report: - We have more and more users and interactions with communities thanks to Karaf container but also the other subprojects. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Stephen Kitt at Tue Jul 04 2017 ## Releases: - 4.0.10 was released on Thu Sep 28 2017 - 4.1.3 was released on Wed Nov 01 2017 - 4.2.0.M1 was released on Sat Nov 04 2017 - Cellar 4.1.1 was released on Sat Oct 14 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@karaf.apache.org: - 184 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 286 emails sent to list (238 in previous quarter) - issues@karaf.apache.org: - 42 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 1673 emails sent to list (1627 in previous quarter) - user@karaf.apache.org: - 371 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 404 emails sent to list (402 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 165 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 186 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Kibble Project [Rich Bowen] ## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: There are many voices on the dev list. In particular, we're seeing people from other projects who are interested in being part of our effort to spin up a demo instance of Kibble with live projects participating. We've reached out to all ASF projects, and have heard back from many of them. You can see these projects, and their metrics, at https://demo.kibble.apache.org/ ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. We're particularly excited about this participation from a wide cross-section of ASF projects, as we believe that it will result in steering our feature set towards functionality that is useful to actual projects, rather than us trying to figure that out in a vacuum, or based on our own academic interests. We also believe that this will, eventually, grow our user and developer communities as projects observe the benefits of the functionality we provide. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since graduation (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: As mentioned above, mailing list activity is encouraging for this point in our project's development. We are very encouraged by the level of conversation, and by projects jumping into our demo instance. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Adrien Grand] ## Description: - Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit - Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core ## Issues: - There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The 7.x branch is very active and receives many bug fixes and incremental improvements like finer-grained control of flushing (Lucene) or more stream evaluators (Solr). - The master branch (future 8.0) is starting to diverge from 7.x in order to support efficient dynamic pruning of top hits. - Both user and dev mailing-lists are very active. - Discussions are generally flowing in a good shape. - We produced 4 releases since the last report, including some security-focused releases (see below). - A 0-day exploit was reported on a public mailing-list on October 12th[1]. We provided the community with mitigation steps[2], folded a fix into 7.1.0 which was in the process of being released and did two additional security-focused releases: 5.5.5 and 6.6.2. - A new conference called "Haystack", focused on search relevance, was announced[3] and will take place in April 2018. Its description mentions Solr and Elasticsearch, another Lucene-based search engine. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/89ff9ba 534edc950d06a21178792b7e856b934b81183b729014e537d@%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E [2] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/news.html#12-october-2017-please-secure-your-apache-sol r-servers-since-a-zero-day-exploit-has-been-reported-on-a-public-mailing-list [3] http: //mailchi.mp/e609fba68dc6/announcing-haystack-the-search-relevance-conference ## PMC changes: - Noble Paul was added to the PMC on November 19th. - Ishan Chattopadhyaya was added to the PMC on December 8th. - There are three ongoing votes to add new PMC members. - Currently 45 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: - Hrishikesh Gadre was made a committer on September 27th. - There is one ongoing vote to add a new committer. - Currently 69 committers. ## Releases: - Lucene/Solr 5.5.5 was released on October 24th. - Lucene/Solr 6.6.2 was released on October 18th. - Lucene/Solr 7.0.1 was released on October 6th. - Lucene/Solr 7.1.0 was released on October 17th. - There is an ongoing discussion to release 7.2.0. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser] Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users. The PMC chairman has indicated he'd like to step down but the PMC hasn't come up with a successor so far. Please allow us to get our act together and report in January. Lucene.Net is actively developed with one committer (Shad Storhaug) carrying almost all of the load. We released 4.8.0 beta 5 on October 23, 2017 which has been downloaded more than 1000 times from nuget. We see an average of more than 800 downloads a day for all versions combined. So the library is used a lot but unfortunately we haven't been able to attract new contributors. The last committer we added was Shad Storhaug who is also the latest PMC member elected in May 2017. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Mnemonic Project [Gang Wang] Description: Apache Mnemonic is an open-source Java library for durable object-oriented programming on hybrid storage-class memory(e.g. NVM) space. it comes up with durable object model (DOM) and durable computing model(DCM) and takes full advantages of storage-class memory to simplify the code complexity, avoid SerDe/(Un)Marshal, mitigate caching for constructing next generation computing platform. Mnemonic makes the storing and transmitting of massive linked objects graphs simpler and more efficient. The performance tuning could also be mostly converged to a single point of tuning place if based on Mnemonic to process and analyze linked objects. The programmer are able to focus on durable object oriented business logics instead of worrying about how to normalize/join, serDe(un)marshal, cache and storing their linked business objects with arbitrary complexity. Issues: There are no board-level issues at the moment. Activity: Our project are just graduated from incubator so somethings are new to us. we have a release since last report and one of our PMC found that there are some issues caused by Java 9 compiling. we are going to get insight into this problem and resolve it as soon as possible after fully converted from incubating status. the major works that have been done since last month are related to updating incubator associated configuration, code and webpages. lastly, the adoption of storage-class memory is not very straightforward and easy to integrated with existing application and frameworks so we are trying to organize some other Apache projects to form a joint working group for driving this technology are able to be integrated smoothly. The following people represented their project have got interested to join this workgroup/program. Ignite represented by Denis Magda Arrow represented by Wes McKinney Hbase represented by Anoop John Crail represented by Patrick Stuedi Hive/LLAP represented by Gopal Vijayaraghavan ORC represented by Owen O'Malley RocketMQ represented by Von Gosling ActiveMQ represented by Clebert Suconic Geode represented by Swapnil Bawaskar, Nilkanth Patel the advanced storage-class memory technology will fundamentally change the way to construct high performance applications similar to what happened when replacing tape with disk technology since the 1980s. so we advocate establishing an Apache working group to enhance the collaboration and synergies for storage-class memory technology-oriented projects. To support this workgroup/program, we request to have a dedicate mailing list, better if possible to be integrated with Slack. Health Report: Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are generally quiet in public and no new users are appearing, but development continues. PMC Changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 1 months. Committer Base Changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. Releases: - Last release was v0.10.0 on Mon Nov. 2017 - Still active development on next major version (0.11.0) JIRA Activity: - 63 JIRA tickets created since last report (Sept. 2017) - Also 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period Sincerely, Gang(Gary) Wang on behalf of the Apache Mnemonic PMC ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Mynewt Project [Justin Mclean] Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V and MIPS architectures. ## Issues: A couple of "category X" files (4-clause BSD files) were found in a release candidate and previous releases. The issue is being dealt with. [1] 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-355 ## Activity: - Community work in serval areas including working on new 1.3 releases, improved documentation, updated security libraries and sensor support - There's been a number of workshops, conference talks about Apache Mynewt ## Health report - PMC and committers are active - Users questions and contributor's pull requests are quickly dealt with ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members - Last PMC addition was everyone on 21st June - No new PMC members added this reporting period ## Committer base changes: - Currently 24 committers - One new committer voted on and added since last report - Miguel Azevedo on Sun Sep 17 2017 ## Releases: - 1.2 was released on September 12th 2017 - 1.3 was released on December 11th 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list activity is mainly around BLE, Lora and new releases - Mailing list activity up slightly over previous 3 months - Slack channel activity up significantly and users up 50% from 3 month ago ## JIRA activity: - JIRAs activity down over previous 3 month ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato] ## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - several bug fixes, enhancements, features, refactorings, cleanups have been contributed and committed - the activity in the official blog [1] is steady with monthly blog posts that highlight the main activities in the project; there is also activity on Twitter [2], other social media [3] and in our public HipChat room [4] - an initiative is underway to improve the code and detect bugs using code analysis tools available through the build system - vulnerability reports: the OFBiz security team has received a report that was verified and resolved as a non vulnerability, completing the security vulnerability workflow; the security team still needs to provide an official answer to three old vulnerability reports that have been verified as non vulnerabilities as well (the OFBiz security team should improve its operations to become more efficient in implementing the security workflow). ## Health report: while the committer and PMC base didn't change in the last quarter and no releases were issued, the PMC is monitoring new candidates, the community is active and there is a thread in the dev list to create the new release branch before the end of the year: the project is in an healthy phase ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Deepak Dixit on Fri Feb 24 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 44 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Akash Jain at Wed Aug 09 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 16.11.03 on Thu Jun 29 2017 ## Mailing list activity: the number of subscribers didn't change; the email traffic in the user and dev list has been lower than the traffic of the previous quarter, but still rather high; the traffic in the (Jira) notification list is essentially the same of the previous quarter (high traffic) - user@ofbiz.apache.org: - 949 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - 498 emails sent to list (891 in previous quarter) - dev@ofbiz.apache.org: - 574 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months) - 711 emails sent to list (1073 in previous quarter) - notifications@ofbiz.apache.org: - 79 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months) - 2538 emails sent to list (2505 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 346 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 257 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ [4] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Christian Amend] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Tom Barber] DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing. RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT - Last release was 1.1 on Wed Jul 27 2017 - Last release was 1.2 on Wed Aug 28 2017 We resolved 21 issues for these releases. Development has been ongoing since the previous report to better integrate the newest features, squash bugs and gear up for another release. COMMUNITY Latest committers and PMC members Imesha Sudasingha(imesha) on 28th Aug 2017 as committer and PMC member ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. HEALTH REPORT The project activity has picked up in recent months with a number of releases and the onboarding of the Apache DRAT project which is in part orchestrated by Apache OODT. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Jörn Kottmann] ## Description: - Apache OpenNLP is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. ## Issues: - No issues to report. ## Activity: - Joern Kottmann and Peter Thygesen presented OpenNLP for processing large volume realtime streams at Big Data Spain, Madrid on Nov 15 2017[1]. - Suneel Marthi presented OpenNLP for processing large volume streams at Big Data Ignite, Grand Rapids, Michigan on Sep 29 2017 - Jorn Kottmann and Peter Thygesen will be presenting the Madrid talk again at Big Data Technology Conference, Warsaw Poland on Feb 22 2018 - Apache OpenNLP 1.8.3 was released on Oct 26 2017 - a new module for Language Detection was released as langdetect-1.8.3 on Nov 1 2017 - Apache OpenNLP has been integrated into Apache Lucene - Team’s presently working on the next OpenNLP release - The project has been seeing plenty of traction and the committers have been invited to present at upcoming Big Data conferences like DataWorks Summit Berlin, Big Data Tech Warsaw. ## Health report: - The project has a very active committer base and there’s healthy activity on mailing lists. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - Koji Sekiguchi was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months ## Releases: - 1.8.3 was released on Thu Oct 26 2017 - langdetect-1.8.3 was released on Wed Nov 01 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 28 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg] ## Description: Apache OpenWebBeans is an ALv2-licensed implementations of the "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specifications which are defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0), JSR-346 (CDI-1.1 and CDI-1.2 MR) and JSR-365 (CDI-2.0). The OWB community also maintains a small server as Apache Meecrowave subproject. Meecrowave consists of the ASF projects Tocmat9 + OpenWebBeans + CXF + Johnzon + log4j2. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Maintainance of OWB-2.0 is in progress and we already shipped a few fix releases. We are currently preparing to release OWB-2.0.3 and Meecrowave-1.2.0. ## Health report: Sadly we still found no cows to take over the project. So we are doomed to run it ourselves yet - which thankfully is still lots of fun ;) Requests and community feedback for Meecrowave did increase. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - Reinhard Sandtner was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 20 committers. - John D. Ament was added as a committer on Mon Oct 09 2017 ## Releases: - 2.0.2 was released on Thu Nov 09 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@openwebbeans.apache.org: - 69 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 134 emails sent to list (417 in previous quarter) - user@openwebbeans.apache.org: - 100 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 28 emails sent to list (57 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 27 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson] --- mod_perl -- No new mod_perl 2.x releases since 2016-10. -- Activity -- mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and fixes are applied with due consideration for our production userbase. -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is seeing little activity, as usual. Patches and bug reports are few, but keep on coming. -- Commiters -- Currently 22 committers. No new changes to the committer base since last report. Last Commiter addition was Jan Kaluza in April 2013 -- PMC -- Currently 11 PMC members. No new PMC members added in the last 3 months Last PMC addition was Steve Hay on Wed Feb 29 2012 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi] ## Description: Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets on Hadoop. It provides a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Mostly bug fixes and enhancements being worked on. Feature work will resume next quarter. ## Health report: - Project activity in the community - mails, commits, jiras, etc is lower than previous quarters. This is mostly due to parental leaves, vacations and focus on other Apache projects by the committers. Should be back to normal next quarter. ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Koji Noguchi on Thu Aug 04 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Ádám Szita at Sat May 20 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.17.0 on Thu Jun 15 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@pig.apache.org: - 400 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 409 emails sent to list (666 in previous quarter) - user@pig.apache.org: - 1119 subscribers (down -18 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 20 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb] Description: Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Issues: There are no board-level issues at the moment. Activity: The small flurry of activity from the 2.0.5 maintenance release has quieted, but there has been a steady stream of commits to the trunk in preparation for a 2.1 release, possibly in the first part of 2018. The question of discontinuing applet support has been tabled for now. User mailing list activity has been non-existent, but hopefully will pick up some with the discussions around the 2.1 release. Sufficient PMC representation still remains. Starting to build with Java 9 with no problems found. Health Report: Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are generally quiet and no new users are appearing, but development continues. PMC Changes: - Currently 4 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. - Last PMC re-addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016. Committer Base Changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago Releases: - Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 3 2017 - Still active development on next major version (2.1) Mailing List Activity: - Dev and Commits lists activities are up, User activity way down. One subscriber to the private and commits list left (probably an ASF observer). - dev@pivot.apache.org - 61 subscribers (unchanged from last report) - 143 emails sent to list (89 in previous quarter) - user@pivot.apache.org - 172 subscribers (also unchanged from last report) - 1 email sent to list (12 in previous quarter) - commits@pivot.apache.org - 20 subscribers (down -1 from last time) - 91 emails this quarter (vs. 70 in last quarter) - private@pivot.apache.org - 12 subscribers (down -1, probably the +1 from last quarter) - Just a few emails this quarter JIRA Activity: - 11 JIRA tickets created this quarter - Also 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Polygene Project [Paul Merlin] Description: Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented Programming for domain centric application development. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at the moment. Activity: After the Release in July, we have been quite slow to regain the momentum, possibly due to using the release in outside activities. But, new features has been added and waiting for a new Release, hopefully in the next quarter. New logo has been designed (to tie into the new name, and cut the heritage with the original name), but not yet deployed to the website. Additionally, work is in-progress to upgrade the website to a more modern L&F. Hopefully deploying that after the holidays. Health report: Project is progressing in slow but steady pace. Some personal issue has brought it down a bit more than ideal, but hoping that will return back to normal soon. Project continues to have problems to attract new blood. PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Stanislav Muhametsin on Mon Jun 12 2017 Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago Releases: - Last release was 3.0.0 on Wed Jul 26 2017 Mailing list activity: We are now back to normal levels (still relatively low) after some post-release vacuum. - dev@polygene.apache.org : - 37 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 113 emails sent to list (266 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew] ## Description: - The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two are the main focus of developer interest. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - This is a stable project, and new development activity is low. - Total activity has been at an intermediate level, including feedback from the initial 1.6 release in June, and a minor vulnerability report and fix in each of APR and APR-UTIL. A new set of releases on October 22nd fixed the vulnerabilities along with some build issues arising from the unbundling of the third-party "expat" library, and in the case of APR-ICONV to build with modern toolchains on the Windows platform. ## Health report: - The project remains reasonably healthy, with a number of developers active on-list and responsive to reports and questions. - There is a backlog of bugzilla issues going back to 2006. A high proportion are of indeterminate status. ## PMC changes: - Currently 41 PMC members. - Evgeny Kotkov was added to the PMC on Tue Sep 12 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 67 committers. - Evgeny Kotkov was added as a committer on Wed Sep 13 2017 ## Releases: - A joint release of APR-1.6.3, APR-UTIL-1.6.1 and APR-ICONV-1.2.2 was made on October 22nd. Thanks to William Rowe for driving the release process. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@apr.apache.org: - 335 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 167 emails sent to list (145 in previous quarter) - bugs@apr.apache.org: - 20 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 48 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter) ## Bugzilla Statistics: - 4 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months - 1 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor] ## Description: Apache Portals exists to promote the use of open source portal technology. We intend to build freely available and interoperable portal software in order to promote the use of this technology. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available portlet applications. ## Activity: Apache Portals released 0 releases since the last report. Developers are continuing refinement and testing with the Portlet 3.0 TCK as we implement Portlet 3.0 support for our portal products. We have challenged the validity of some TCK tests and also fixed some TCK bugs. But since the TCK is not a releasable artifact, we don't have any plans to release it in the future. Several JIRA issues were closed and bugs fixed. New features added to Jetspeed trunk including a configurable Portlet Factory to support IOC creation of portlets. No additional members since last report 12 Feb 2017 - Two new PMC members added 27 April 2017 - Apache Portals Pluto team released Pluto Maven Archetypes 3.0 to support to developing new portlets to the new 3.0 spec ## Mailing list activity: Not much activity. Some discussions around TCK implementation on the Pluto list. Low volume activity on the Jetspeed lists. ## Issues: We have no board-level issues at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: Last Added PMC Members: 12 Feb 2017 - Scott Martin Nicklaus 12 Feb 2017 - Neil Griffin Last Added Committers: 05 August 2016 Mohd Ahmed Kahn 11 Dec 2014 Martin Scott Nicklous 11 Dec 2014 Neil Griffin ## Releases: Pluto Maven Archetype 3.0.0 - 27 April 2017 Pluto 3.0.0 - 18 January 2017 Jetspeed 2.3.1- 09 May 2016 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache PredictionIO Project [Donald Szeto] ## Description: - PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning tasks. ## Issues: - We are almost 2 months beyond graduation now but we have not been able to migrate our infrastructure to be a TLP. The tracking ticket (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15307) has been stuck since late October, receiving no response to pings. ## Activity: - Primarily in maintenance mode for the past month for fixing existing bugs. ## PMC changes: - Currently 28 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months ## Committer base changes: - Currently 29 committers. - No changes (the PMC was established in the last 3 months) ## Releases: - Current release is 0.12.0-incubating, which was released on 9/26/2017. - No new release since graduation. - Pending discussion on resuming release train after holidays. ## JIRA activity: - 20 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 20 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone] ## Description: - Apache River provides a platform for dynamic discovery and lookup search of network services. Services may be implemented in a number of languages, while clients are required to be jvm based, to allow proxy jvm byte code to be provisioned dynamically. ## Issues: No significant issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Minimal activity at present. - Planned relase map: Release roadmap: > > River 3.0.1 - thread leak fix > River 3.1 - Modular build restructure (& binary release) > River 3.2 - Input validation 4 Serialization, delayed unmarshalling& safe ServiceRegistrar lookup service. > River 3.3 - OSGi support ## Health report: - Minimal activity at present on dev. - No recent commit activity, but there are plans for more work in near future. - Future Direction: * Target IOT space with support for OSGi and IPv6 (security fixes required prior to announcement) * Input validation for java deserialization - prevents DOS and Gadget attacks. * IPv6 Multicast Service Discovery (River currently only support IPv4 multicast discovery). * Delayed unmarshalling for Service Lookup and Discovery (includes SafeServiceRegistrar mentioned in release roadmap), so authentication can occur prior to downloading service proxy's, this addresses a long standing security issue with service lookup while significantly improving performance under some use cases. * Security fixes for SSL endpoints, updated to TLS v1.2 with removal of support for insecure cyphers. * Maven build to replace existing ant built that uses classdepandjar, a bytecode dependency analysis build tool. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - One new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Dan Rollo on Fri 1st December 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 16 committers. ## Releases: - River-3.0.0 was released on Wed Oct 05 2016 ## Mailing list activity: - Relatively quiet in comparison to recent months, however this appears as a result of reaching concensus after a period of discussion. ## JIRA activity: - Nil Activity this period. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache RocketMQ Project [Xiaorui Wang] ## Description: - Apache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance and reliability, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The community is voting on the first TLP release 4.2.0 RC1. - A community meetup in the offing, and will be held in Shenzhen, China at Dec. 16 pm., 2017 - leonchen83 contributed a Redis replicator for RocketMQ, the related pull request has been merged. ## Health report: Within the past three months: - 49 GitHub pull requests were opened and 40 were closed - 42 commits were made by 13 authors, 8 authors were not committers ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on July 13, 2017. dongeforever was added a PMC member. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 15 committers. - The last time a committer was added to the project was on July 19, 2017. linjunjie was added a committer. ## Releases: - The last release of RocketMQ was version 4.1.0-incubating, released on June 8, 2017. - The first TLP release Apache RocketMQ 4.2.0 RC1 is on voting now. ## Mailing list activity: - users@rocketmq.apache.org: - 96 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months): - 38 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter) - dev@rocketmq.apache.org: - 86 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 382 emails sent to list (903 in previous quarter) - issues@rocketmq.apache.org: - 41 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 506 emails sent to list (820 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 41 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 36 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Royale Project [Harbs] ## DESCRIPTION Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc. Apache Royale was approved as a new TLP in the September meeting. Royale took over responsibility for the code related to what was known as Apache FlexJS from the Apache Flex community. This is our second report. ## ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## RELEASES - Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17. ## ACTIVITY - The effort to set up new builds and rename code assets from FlexJS to Royale was/is significant and that effort is more-or-less complete. There might be a few loose ends that still need to be tied up. - Related to the above, Flash should no longer be a requirement to build Royale. - Some new names have appeared on the mailing lists investigating whether Royale is a suitable solution for migrating existing Flex applications off of Flash. - One PMC member has proposed an initial web site for Royale. There were some logistical issues in being allowed to use it as he created it on WordPress with a commercial theme. Those issues are mostly resolved at this time. The web site work has stalled a bit the last few weeks. We need to renew momentum on finishing the website work. - Some work is being done on a new default look-and-feel for Royale. - There has been some progress and discussion on improving the testing architecture to make it easier to improve the automated test coverage. - Discussion has started on the release process for the first Royale release. ## COMMUNITY The community is still working through the transition from Apache Flex to Apache Royale. There is much documentation remaining to be transitioned from the Apache Flex wiki to some place in Apache Royale. Currently, users@royale has 39 subscribers (up from 38) and dev@royale has 52 (up from 47) subscribers. We are not sure why more folks from the Flex mailing lists haven't subscribed to Royale, but it's likely that once we get our website and documentation moved over we will ask again on the Flex lists to see if folks want to come over. We have not added any new committers or PMC members yet. There is talk of possibly having a small hackathon in January. ## TRADEMARKS There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Sentry Project [Alex Kolbasov] ## Description: Apache Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop Cluster. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Sentry 1.8 releases - Sentry 2.0 released - Switched to automatic generation of license information - Work on shading dependencies ## Health report: - Development activity seems pretty consistent; - New developers starting contributing to the project; ## PMC changes: - Currently 36 PMC members. - Sergio Peña was added to the PMC on Sun Oct 15 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Sergio Peña at Mon Aug 28 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.8.0 on Sun Aug 06 2017 ## Mailing list activity: Most of the activity is around 20 release. ## JIRA activity: - 163 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 147 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak] ## Description Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi. ## Issues There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ## Activity The project focus of Apache ServiceMix is the assembly of the integration container, the actual functionality is being maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf, Apache CXF, Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ. - As we have transited the older ServiceMix branches to EOL, we can focus on further development of ServiceMix 7 and development of new features. - We have released 3 sets of OSGi bundles - In the next period we are going to focus on documentation and examples improvement as it's still outstanding theme. ## Health report - Activity on the mailing lists and in JIRA is on the same level like in the last period. We have lost a lot of our momentum now that major parts of the functionality are being maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf and Apache Camel. - We have some new feature proposals. ## PMC changes - Currently 23 PMC members. - Andrea Cosentino was added to the PMC on Wed Mar 15 2017 ## Committer base changes - Currently 50 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Andrea Cosentino at Sun Mar 13 2016 ## Releases - Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2017.08 on September 07 2017 - Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2017.10 on October 26 2017 - Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2017.11 on December 05 2017 ## JIRA activity - 60 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 62 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood] 2017 December - Board report for Apache Shiro Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Releases: - Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017 Community & Project: - Mailing list traffic has dipped a little, Stack Overflow has been becoming the preferred place to ask questions. - There has been some community interest in translating the Shiro site into Chinese. (This also lines up with a perceived increased number of questions/forum posts seen from Chinese speaking users) - Feature development is planned to continue against master. - The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well as retain backwards compatibility Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016 Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu] ## Description: Apache Sling™ is a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an extensible content tree. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We are gearing up for the next Sling release - Sling 10, which will bring support for Java 9. The project has migrated from Subversion to GitBox, many thanks to the ASF infra team for their help. ## Health report: Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Konrad Windszus on Sat Oct 01 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 39 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Simone Tripodi at Fri Jul 07 2017 ## Releases: - Apache Event Support 4.2.8, was released on Fri Sep 29 2017 - Apache Sling API 2.16.4 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017 - Apache Sling Bundle Resource 2.3.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017 - Apache Sling Commons Java Compiler 2.3.4 was released on Sun Sep 17 2017 - Apache Sling Commons Log 5.1.0 was released on Fri Dec 01 2017 - Apache Sling Commons Metrics 1.2.4 was released on Tue Dec 05 2017 - Apache Sling Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.4.4 was released on Sat Sep 23 2017 - Apache Sling Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.4.6 was released on Mon Oct 09 2017 - Apache Sling Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.4.8 was released on Mon Nov 13 2017 - Apache Sling File System ClassLoader 1.0.8 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling Health Check API 1.0.2 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling Health Check Annotations 1.0.6 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling Health Check Core 1.2.10 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling Hypermedia API tools 1.1.0 was released on Mon Nov 13 2017 - Apache Sling JCR Davex 1.3.10 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling JCR Resource 3.0.6 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017 - Apache Sling JCR Resource 3.0.8 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling JUnit Tests Teleporter 1.0.16 was released on Fri Sep 29 2017 - Apache Sling Launchpad Base 5.6.10-2.6.26 was released on Mon Nov 20 2017 - Apache Sling Maven Sling Plugin 2.3.2 was released on Sat Sep 23 2017 - Apache Sling Maven Sling Plugin 2.3.4 was released on Tue Oct 17 2017 - Apache Sling Metrics RRD4J 1.0.2 was released on Fri Dec 01 2017 - Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.5.32 was released on Thu Nov 30 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting Core 2.0.50 was released on Mon Oct 23 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting Core implementation 2.0.48 was released on Fri Sep 29 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Compiler 1.0.14 was released on Wed Sep 20 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Engine 1.0.42 was released on Wed Sep 20 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Java Compiler 1.0.14 was released on Wed Sep 20 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting HTL Java Compiler 1.0.18, HTL Maven Plugin 1.1.2 was released on Fri Dec 08 2017 - Apache Sling Scripting JSP 2.3.4 was released on Mon Dec 04 2017 - Apache Sling Service User Mapper 1.3.6 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017 - Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.28 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017 - Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.30 was released on Thu Nov 09 2017 - Apache Sling SlingStart Maven Plugin 1.7.10 was released on Fri Sep 29 2017 - Apache Sling Starter Startup 1.0.2 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017 - Apache Sling Testing Utilities 2.1.2 was released on Fri Sep 29 2017 - Apache Sling Thread Support 3.2.10 was released on Mon Oct 02 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 183 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BN: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz] Apache SpamAssassin report to Board for December 2017 SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. The project provides a framework/engine and regular rule updates that reflect the changing nature of spam email seen in the wild. Updated rules are generated through a combination of hand crafted contributions and automated processing of spam and anonymized processed non-spam that are contributed by volunteers. Health report: This has been a good quarter for the project. We added one new committer and had one committer join the PMC. There are new contributors in bugzilla, both with patches and bug grooming. Our sysadmin team, especially davej and merijnvdk, completed the rebuild of the mass check / rule update system. We have a new PC online. Work on our new release had been shelved until we completed infrastructure work on mass check. During this time we did make progress updating the release process, which had not worked on a modern distro, and rolled out a few pre-release packages. Work on the release has resumed, with hope expressed for a January release, though a firm date has not yet been set. The users, dev, and sysadmins mailing lists have been active and healthy. Issues: Mass check and rule update issues appear to have been resolved. We are resuming work towards our next release. Releases: The last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 3.4.1 on 30 April 2015. Note that we maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via our mass-check facility. Work on a new 3.4.2 release has been resumed, with an as yet tentative goal of releasing some time in January. This should be the last release of the 3.4 branch before moving on with work towards 4.0. Committer/PMC changes: One new committer this quarter: Merijn van den Kroonenberg (merijnvdk) 28 November 2017 One new PMC member this quarter: Dave Jones (davej) 28 November 2017 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ] Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is in a kind of sleep mode. People are involved in other activities and do not find that much time for Stanbol at the moment even though community members reported to use Stanbol on a regular basis. The board checked that at least three PMC members are still active and available. That is still the case so there is no urgent action required by the board. Since the last commit was pushed in March there is no work happening towards a 1.0.1 release. Subscribers on the dev list: 219 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz] ## Description: - Apache Storm is a distributed real-time computation system. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The community continues to march toward a 2.0 release. The current plan is to do a 1.2.0 release of the clojure codebase closely followed by a 2.0 release. - The 1.2.0 release will likely be accompanied, or closely followed by a 1.1.2 maintenance release. - For the 2.0 release, the community has discussed issuing one or more "beta" releases to get early feedback from early adopters. ## Health report: - Project activity continues to be fairly consistent, with periodic lulls and bursts in activity. - New contributors continue to engage and that engagement tends to keep up activity levels, even as some contributors move on. ## PMC changes: - Currently 34 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Stig Rohde Døssing on Wed Jul 12 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 35 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Stig Rohde Døssing at Fri Jul 14 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.0.5 on Wed Sep 13 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 119 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 90 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana] [REPORT] Synapse - December 2017 ## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Activity: Synapse 3.0.1 was released last week. It is a patch release which contains bug fixes and library upgrades to 3.0.0 major feature release. Newly elected PMC members are actively contributing to the project. A newly elected PMC member acted as the release manager for 3.0.1 release. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition: Thu May 04 2017 (Prabath Ariyarathna) ## Committer base changes: - Currently 34 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi] ## Description: - Tajo is an open source big data warehouse system in Hadoop for processing web-scale data sets. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We are preparing 0.12.0 release. This release includes more than 200 bugs, improvements, and features. Currently, 0.12.0 release has the few remaining issues. ## Health report: - PMC members response the 0.12.0 release discussion quickly. - There were several committs and resolved jiras ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Hyoung Jun Kim on Sun Dec 07 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jong-young Park at Sun May 29 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.11.3 on Wed May 18 2016 ## Mailing list activity: - TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean for the project. If there is nothing significant in the figures, omit this section. - dev@tajo.apache.org: - 102 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 8 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - issues@tajo.apache.org: - 27 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 83 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) - user@tajo.apache.org: - 49 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Michael Semb Wever] ## Description: Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for Java applications. Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify the development of user interfaces. ## Activity: Mailing list traffic remained the same this quarter. Although there was yet another slight increase in commits this quarter. Two releases have been made this quarter: Tiles-3.0.8 and Tiles-Request-1.0.7. It looks like there will also be four more releases following this, in an effort to upgrade the project to Java9. ## Health report: There are currently two responsive PMC, other PMC help out with votes when needed. In total there are 8 PMC members, and 10 committers. The last PMC/committer was added on Mon Apr 23 2012, being Nicolas LE BAS. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BU: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] ## Description: Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications. ## Issues: The previous report noted the disagreement between committers on a thread "Suffocating development environment" [1] which involved one person reverting another person's commits three times in a row in the span of 50 minutes. Person insults and antagonism ensued on both sides in that time. The community had several open discussions and the overall situation turned into a positive catalyst. Switching to a RTC workflow was discussed for several weeks, but ultimately the CTR flow has remained. It is encouraging to see more discussion taking place on the dev@ list about recent commits and proposed patches. We are continuing to monitor this. ## Health report: Since the incident on June 27th and subsequent open community discussion, it appears "the fog has cleared" and we have seen a shift in the project. We have seen three measurable changes. 1. Commit diversity improved greatly. Here are the stats from master as reported by Github. Names left off to protect the innocent. Each line represents a contributor. January 1st to June 27th - 127 commits 7,716 ++ 2,519 -- - 7 commits 438 ++ 376 -- - 5 commits 92 ++ 62 -- - 1 commit 42 ++ 9 -- - 1 commit 23 ++ 14 -- - 1 commit 8 ++ 5 -- - 1 commit 1 ++ 1 -- - 1 commit 110 ++ 3 -- June 28th to Dec 14th - 29 commits 2,148 ++ 940 -- - 26 commits 27,065 ++ 252 -- - 22 commits 698 ++ 487 -- - 17 commits 804 ++ 182 -- - 12 commits 257 ++ 24 -- - 10 commits 93 ++ 38 -- - 4 commits 70 ++ 21 -- 2. New committers. After diversity increased, new committer votes shortly followed. Two new committers have been voted in in the last quarter. More have been discussed. We continue to try to be more welcoming and nurturing to new contributors. Potential new contributor Matthew Broadhead has stepped in to try and help provide some patches around JSTL, and we are keen to help him with his contribution. 3. Code donation. Discussion and subsequent vote has taken place to donate two subprojects to TomEE. Both are Java EE Connectors, one adds an SSH shell for logging into the java process and executing commands, the other provides means to integrate with external systems like Gmail, Slack and Twitter. ## Activity: Mark Struberg has started a TomEE 8 branch to support Java EE 8, and progress is being made with this. Master and 1.7.x continue to see maintenance patches, with some key fixes coming in around connector support and application resource classloading. Project dependencies continue to be upgraded to ensure TomEE has the latest fixes in libraries it uses. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Andy Gumbrecht on Tue Aug 11 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - 2 new committers added in the last 3 months - Svetlin Zarev on Tue Oct 24 2017 - Jonathan S Fisher on Wed Nov 1 2017 Thank you to Andy Gumbrecht for co-ordinating these votes. ## Releases: - Last release was 7.0.4 on Sep 26 2017 and 1.7.5 on Oct 24 2017. ## JIRA activity: - 33 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/Suffocating-development-environment-td4681969.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim] Apache Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN to reduce the complexity of developing distributed applications. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Working on more regular release interval. - In the process of adding more committers. Vote has passed by the PMC. ## Health report: - Made one release since Jun 2017 ## PMC changes: - Currently 6 PMC members - Last PMC addition was Henry Saputra on August 4, 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers and 23 contributors - No new committer added in the last 3 months - No new contributor added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Martin Serrano on Feb 24, 2017 - Last contributor addition was Yuliya Feldman on June 24, 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was release 0.12.0 on August 24, 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@twill.apache.org: - 69 subscribers - 43 emails sent to the list in past three months (252 in last report) - commits@twill.apache.org: - 17 subscribers - 5 emails sent to the list in past three months (82 in last report) ## JIRA activity: - 1 new JIRA tickets created in the last month - 2 JIRA tickets resolved in the last month ----------------------------------------- Attachment BW: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor] Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 14 Nov 2017 (new) last release - Apache uimaFIT 2.4.0 03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition 18 Apr 2017 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: 14 Nov 2017 Apache UIMA uimaFIT 2.4.0 09 Nov 2017 Apache Java SDK 3.0.0-beta 03 Nov 2017 Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.1 Activity: Most major projects (Java SDK, DUCC, uimaFIT, RUTA) are actively being worked on. The Java SDK version 3 reached the beta version in a release. We successfully made our first use of the Symantec Jar-signing service (kudos to Mark Thomas for helping out in several admin issues). Mailing list activity remains moderate, with people from the extended community helping out by answering questions. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BX: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson] ## Description: - VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Migrated source control from subversion to git - Established to use Gitflow Workflow for source control workflow - Transferred project chair to another PMC member. Thanks to Andy Kurth for his many years serving as PMC chair. ## Health report: - Project health is being monitored. Project is largely in a steady state of not gaining or losing community participation. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 - PMC chair changed from Andy Kurth to Josh Thompson ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - Drop in email to dev list is due to decreased activity after push to get VCL 2.5 out. Increase in user list traffic is due to people picking up the latest release. - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 125 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 16 emails sent to list (202 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 167 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 39 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BY: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] Apache Web Services is a collection of shared technologies related to SOAP/XML based Web Services that can be shared by different implementations. Spring-WS, Axis2, CXF, and others use parts of the technology created within Apache Web Services. Community: WebServices is a mature project based on standards that are also quite mature. As such, there is not a significant amount of activity required. However, user questions are being answered promptly, bugs are being fixed, and there are at least 3 independent PMC members around making sure the project can continue to produce releases as needed. Since SOAP/XML based Web Services is no longer considered state of the art, we don’t expect a major uptick in new development efforts, new committers, etc... The current PMC chair (Sagara Gunathunga) has stated he no longer has enough time to devote to the position. The community has voted to submit a resolution to change the chair to Daniel Kulp. We did get 6 binding +1 votes on the vote so we DO know there are at least 6 PMC members paying attention. There was a brief discussion about possibly moving Neethi/XmlSchema/WSS4J into CXF and Woden into Axis, but at this point there are enough PMC members around that we didn't feel this was warrented. Last committer addition: Sun Sep 14 2014 (Alessio Soldano) Last PMC addition: Tue May 17 2016 (Alessio Soldano) Note: there was a problem getting Alessio onto the private@ list as there were no active moderators. dkulp was added as a moderator last month after this was discovered. Releases this period: WSS4J - implementation of WS-Security and related technologies * 2.1.11 - Sept, 2017 * 2.2.0 - Sept, 2017 Last releases for other technologies: * Axiom 1.2.20 : Oct 2016 (StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model) * Woden 1.0M10 : Sept 2015 (WSDL 2.0 implementation) * Neethi 3.1.0 - May 2017 (WS-Policy framework) * XmlSchema 2.2.2 - May, 2017 (XML Schema framework) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst] Report from the Apache Wicket project [Martijn Dashorst] Apache Wicket is an open source Java component oriented web application framework. ## Noteworthy items: - 3 releases were performed - Wicket 8 is still around the corner ## Issues: - No issues require board attention. ## Activity: - The Wicket examples now run on Apache hosted VMs. - The Wicket 8.x examples have a new design looking like our website - We are on the cusp of releasing Wicket 8, so we'll be working with Sally for the corresponding press coverage. ## Health report: - The community is stable as is to be expected from a mature server side Java web framework. We don't anticipate a sudden large growth or large decline. - Questions to the user list and dev list are answered, resolved and discussed. ## PMC changes: - Currently 30 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Maxim Solodovnik on Thu Apr 13 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Maxim Solodovnik at Thu Apr 13 2017 ## Releases: - 6.28.0 was released on Mon Oct 02 2017 - 7.9.0 was released on Tue Sep 19 2017 - 8.0.0-M8 was released on Wed Oct 25 2017 ----------------------------------------- Attachment CA: 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 help with integration builds for a new release that integrates Xerces-C. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD None. CURRENT ACTIVITY Most activity has been through JIRA issue tracking. The email lists have seen little activity. 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 CB: Report from the Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer] ## Description: Apache Yetus provides libraries and tools that enable contribution and release processes for software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: No new PMC members added in the last three months; our Last PMC addition was Ajay Yadav on Thu Dec 01 2016. There are currently 8 PMC members. Suraj Acharya was added as a committer in this quarter on Tue Nov 07 2017. There are currently 11 committers. Was it a trick or was it a treat? The day before Halloween, the community dropped 0.5.1 and instead released 0.6.0! This release cleaned up the rough edges around 0.5.0, added support for the Apache Ratis project, and bug fixes. There is some ramp up on releasing 0.7.0. This release will mostly feature resource controls that are related to protecting the ASF build infrastructure from being brought down due to errant unit tests. As a result, this will also be the first release in a while with some significant backward incompatibilities. ## Health report: Slow and steady, as usual. The project remains engaged with various other ASF projects and a contact point when problems arise. ## Releases: - 0.6.0 was released on Mon Oct 30 2017 ## Mailing list activity: Of note, a change to one of the Jenkins jobs dropped a significant amount of mail heading to the mailing list. - dev@yetus.apache.org: - 45 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 67 emails sent to list (123 in previous quarter) - notifications@yetus.apache.org: - 16 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 465 emails sent to list (247 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 47 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 24 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment CC: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira] ## Description: Apache ZooKeeper is a system for distributed coordination. It enables the implementation of a variety of primitives and mechanisms that are critical for safety and liveness in distributed settings, e.g., distributed locks, master election, group membership, and configuration. ## Issues: No issue requiring board attention. ## Activity: Key points: - There has been no addition to the set of committers or PMC; - The traffic of mailing lists has dropped both on user and dev; - There has been fewer jiras created and resolved compared to the previous period; - We moved from CMS to gitpubsub for our website. This required code and process changes within the community; - We are moving our documentation to use markdown instead of xml; - We sent to Mitre the details of the vulnerability report with identifier CVE-2017-5637 as requested. This security issue has been considered moderate, and we have fixed the issue in release 3.4.10; - We have released a new bug fix version of the 3.4 branch; - We continue to work towards making the 3.5 branch GA. It is still beta due to the introduction of the reconfiguration feature in that branch. We are currently working towards producing a 3.5 release candidate. ## Health report: The PMC has been working with contributors and committers to get them to the point that both committership and PMC membership, respectively, can be offered. ## PMC changes: - Currently 13 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Michael Han on Wed Jun 21 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 21 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Mohammad Arshad at Mon Jan 23 2017 ## Releases: - 3.4.11 was released on Wed Nov 08 2017 ## Mailing list activity: Traffic on dev and user have dropped by 18% and 15%, respectively, compared to the previous period. The number of subscribers, however, has slightly increased. We attribute the drop on mailing list traffic to some key contributors being busy with work outside the scope of the community. - dev@zookeeper.apache.org: - 521 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 2458 emails sent to list (3029 in previous quarter) - user@zookeeper.apache.org: - 1225 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - 122 emails sent to list (144 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 57 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 31 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the December 20, 2017 board meeting.