The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes November 21, 2012 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. The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Brett Porter joined at 10:39 Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Chris Mattmann Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Shane Curcuru 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of October 17, 2012 See: board_minutes_2012_10_17.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] Thanks to Greg for running the meeting in my place last month when I could not make it. B. President [Jim] At last month's meeting, as discussed and agreed upon at the face-to-face, the VPs of Brand Management, Fundraising, Marketing and Publicity, Conference Planning and Travel Assistance were "re-appointed" as serving under the direction of the president. As such, I will start the transition to the board reporting structure also discussed at the f2f: all reports from those entities will be sent to the President and the President's report will consist of summaries of those reports. The actual reports will be included as addenda to the agenda but the board will not be required to read and approve as has been the case up to now. In support of this, Greg had agreed to update the agenda template. I will confirm with Greg. I will also update Marvin as well. I expect the new system to be finalize and in place at next month's meeting. I am pleased with the good reports regarding ACEU 2012. Having a successful event certainly helps making all the efforts and pre-con concerns somewhat easier to take. It also sounds as though the new direction for ApacheCon, starting with the US show, will be a major help. I was invited to speak at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference later this month, which I accepted. The topic of my talk will be The ASF and Open Source, a la "The Apache Way", a term I think that despite our efforts, simply won't go away. I've re-informed OSI that we wish them great success with their Affiliate Program (as well as their membership and corporate affiliate programs) but that the board has decided, upon receipt of the Affiliate Agreement, not to sign and nor join the program. The foundation is running well. C. Treasurer [Chris] Treasurer's office has been operating smoothly. The looming item is dealing with our taxes, which are now due December 15th, 2012. Chris found form 990 online [1] that does e-filing of 990s, so he will spend some time over the next few weeks to learn how to perform the filing, and spend some time working with Sam to gather the needed financial data. We processed requests for reimbursement for ApacheCon EU and Open Office travel reimbursement requests, helping to explain the Treasurer process, and to make sure operations@ is kept in the loop and that the President and EVP are responsible for providing the approvals on all travel related expenses per the Board F2F. Sponsors: * Google's sponsorship for ApacheCon EU 2012 came through Oct 18, 2012. We also worked with Uli to ensure that the Google Summer of Code payment is also on its way and to ensure that Uli's travel to the mentor summit was reimbursed as requested. Other Requests: * There was an email by someone from HP on October 25th to provide some type of Request for Quotation. It's unclear to the Treasurer's office whether this was SPAM or real, but Upayavira responded promptly and respectfully and suggested that the person inquiring came to the wrong place for an RFQ as Apache doesn't provide them. * Aaron Williamson queried whether or not SFLC had been paid regarding the Brazilian trademark application for SVN and Greg Stein confirmed that Sam had made the appropriate international wires (2 of them) on September 24, 2012. * Chris, Ulrich Stärk and Upayavira had a brief discussion related to whether or not the ASF should have an EU based bank account. This was originally due to Uli's mentioning of the fees that he is charged on wires, etc., but grew into Upayavira mentioning that sponsorship may benefit from this especially with EU-based sponsors. Chris thought that having an EU bank account may have some issues with our US based corporation and charity status. So, I mentioned that I would raise the issue to the board. Thoughts? Budget Rollup/Summary Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 452,959.79 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,415.20 PayPal: 136,903.28 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 877,278.27 Income Summary: Lockbox 611.25 ApacheCon EU 2012 7,500.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 8,111.25 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- ApacheCon EU 2012 12,400.57 Google Summer of Code 2012 897.43 Executive Assistant 2,308.00 Infrastructure Contractors 28,700.00 Network Services - Traci.net 518.00 Public Relations 4,545.45 Misc Expenses 2,778.49 ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 622.48 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 19.95 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 52,790.37 D. Secretary [Craig] October was an average month for document filing. 51 ICLAs, four CCLAs, and three grants were received and filed. There were a few cases where the automated document receiving script failed to properly identify an email and these had to be handled manually. But largely, the tools are working well. I've had some renewed interest from volunteer secretary assistants. Hopefully this interest will translate into additional folks being able to assist in the operation of the foundation. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] After ApacheCon EU it's been a quiet month for me. The ConCom report contains most of the feedback I provided to ConCom on ACEU and addresses some of the issues raised. I have nothing more to add, but those interested in more detail from me can read my feedback on the ConCom list. I managed to have a number of conversations with various people about how to get the most out of our volunteer efforts at the externally produced ApacheCon North America. Some of the ideas being discussed seemed to be heading in the right direction and were fed back to VP ConCom. See the ConCom report for more information I've been working with RIM to coordinate their donation of Ripple to the incubator. It's presenting a few legal and trademark issues. The appropriate committees are providing necessary support. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report this month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru / Roy] See Attachment 1 B. VP of Fundraising [Upayavira / Sam] See Attachment 2 C. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Greg] See Attachment 3 D. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Doug] See Attachment 4 E. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 5 F. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Ross] See Attachment 6 G. Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch / Brett] See Attachment 7 H. Apache Infrastructure Team [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 8 AI: Sam follow up with regard to git post-commit hook support by infra I. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Rich] See Attachment 9 AI: Jim How much did we spend on TAC for ACEU? How much do we plan to spend for ACUS? Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim] No report was submitted. AI: Jim to pursue a report for Abdera B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Bertrand] See Attachment B C. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Roy] See Attachment C AI: Rich follow up: Would be nice to put a date next to release, for historical reference. D. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Doug] See Attachment D E. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Brett] See Attachment E F. Apache Bigtop Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Sam] See Attachment F G. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Jim] See Attachment G H. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment H I. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Ross] See Attachment I AI: Rich follow up: Would be nice to put a date next to release, for historical reference. J. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Rich] See Attachment J K. Apache Cocoon Project [Simone Tripodi / Greg] See Attachment K L. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Bertrand] See Attachment L M. Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter] See Attachment M N. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Greg] See Attachment N AI: Bertrand: It would be good to clarify the "difficult for our members to help infra" bit. O. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Brett] See Attachment O P. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Doug] See Attachment P Q. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Jim] See Attachment Q R. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Ross] See Attachment R S. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Roy] See Attachment S T. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Sam] See Attachment T U. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Bertrand] See Attachment U V. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Rich] See Attachment V W. Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy / Bertrand] See Attachment W X. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Ross] See Attachment X Y. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Jim] See Attachment Y Z. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Sam] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Incubator Project [Jukka Zitting / Brett] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Rich] See Attachment AB AC. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Roy] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Greg] See Attachment AD AI: Greg last release was 20 months ago. that is quite long... is there a plan for a release RSN? AE. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Doug] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Ross] See Attachment AF AI: Ross: log4cxx is unmaintained, with a patch in the queue. Will the patch be applied, will the contributor be given commit access, should the project be retired, or some other action? AG. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Rich] See Attachment AG AH. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Roy] See Attachment AH AI. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Greg] See Attachment AI AI: Greg The branding checklist is not useful for the board report. Please send this to trademarks@ instead. AJ. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Bertrand] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache OpenEJB Project [David Blevins / Doug] See Attachment AK AL. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Brett] See Attachment AL AM. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Sam] See Attachment AM AN. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Jim] See Attachment AN AI: Ross Any chance someone can blog about your success and link it from http://community.apache.org/mentoring/experiences.html AO. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Ross] See Attachment AO AP. Apache River Project [Tom Hobbs / Roy] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Jim] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Rich] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Bertrand] No report was submitted. AT. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Sam] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Doug] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Greg] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende / Brett] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Jim] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Doug] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Bertrand] See Attachment BB BC. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Brett] See Attachment BC Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Wookie 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 an implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Wookie Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Wookie Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Wookie" 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 Wookie Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Wookie 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 Wookie Project: * Scott Wilson * Ate Douma * Ross Gardler * Matt Franklin * Paul Sharples * Kris Popat * Raido Kuli * Hoang Minh Tien NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Scott Wilson be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Wookie, 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 Wookie 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 Wookie Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Wookie Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Wookie podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Wookie podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Wookie Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change Chair for Apache Incubator WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jukka Zitting to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Jukka Zitting from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator project has chosen by vote to recommend Benson Margulies as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jukka Zitting is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Benson Margulies be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Chair for Apache Incubator, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Establish the Apache Kafka 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 distributed publish/subscribe stream processing framework. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Kafka Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Kafka Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a distributed publish/subscribe stream processing framework; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Kafka" 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 Kafka Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Kafka 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 Kafka Project: * Jun Rao * Jay Kreps * Neha Narkhede * Jakob Homan * Joel Koshy * Prashanth Menon * Joe Stein NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jun Rao be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Kafka, 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 Kafka 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 Kafka Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Kafka Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Kafka podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Kafka podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Kafka Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache Syncope 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 managing digital identities in enterprise environments. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Syncope Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Syncope Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to managing digital identities in enterprise environments; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Syncope" 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 Syncope Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Syncope 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 Syncope Project: * Colm O Heigeartaigh * Emmanuel Lécharny * Fabio Martelli * Francesco Chicchiriccò * Jan Bernhardt * Jean-Baptiste Onofré * Massimiliano Perrone * Marco Di Sabatino Di Diodoro * Simone Tripodi NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Francesco Chicchiriccò be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Syncope 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 Apache Syncope Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Syncope podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Syncope podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Syncope Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Change the Apache River Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom Hobbs to the office of Vice President, Apache River, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tom Hobbs from the office of Vice President, Apache River, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache River project has chosen by vote to recommend Greg Trasuk as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom Hobbs is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache River, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Greg Trasuk be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache River, 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 7E, Change the Apache River Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. F. Change the Apache Cocoon Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Simone Tripodi to the office of Vice President, Apache Cocoon, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Simone Tripodi from the office of Vice President, Apache Cocoon, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Cocoon project has chosen by vote to recommend Thorsten Scherler as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Simone Tripodi is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Cocoon, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Thorsten Scherler be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Cocoon, 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 Cocoon Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items A. Special Members Meeting [Doug] Should we have a special members meeting soon, to elect new members? We held our last annual meeting in May. Arguably we should have had a special meeting this month, six months later. We could try to have one next month, in December, but with holidays that would be difficult. So the next practical time is probably January, just four months before the nominal time of our next annual meeting. Given this, my instinct is to not have a special meeting this year and aim to have our annual meeting again in May. How do others feel? The main reason for a mid-year meeting is to elect new members. There have not been many new member nominations, so the consensus is that we should cancel the mid-year meeting. B. [Greg] After seeing Hadoop (finally!) combine their committer lists, I would like to have the Board make a recommendation that PMCs should never have partitions in the commit lists for code under their purview. Each community/PMC member is responsible for all that code, so why should any partitions exist, denying a member the ability to act? The board can strongly recommend this as best practice. Incubator is one exception, although the incubator seemed to be moving in the direction of a single incubator commit privilege. Labs is another possible exception. @Greg: prepare a draft memo to PMCs regarding project partitioning. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Daniel: draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle other Apache projects. Status: Not done yet. * Roy: update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: Not done yet. * Doug: ask CouchDB to include community information in next report Status: Done. * Jim/Ross: draft travel approval policy Status: Apologies, this is waiting on me (Ross) * Jim: send a message to committers@ regarding binaries signed by Apache. Status: Will have draft for board to review by COB of next week. * Sam: review committers@ history and make it publicly archived Status: Not done yet. * Greg: pursue reports for ACE, Hadoop Status: Done. * Brett: follow up with HBase PMC to clarify the "owner" role. Status: Not done yet. * Rich: Follow up with Tcl PMC re: perhaps too much detail on bugs fixed; and did the bugs end up being shipped? Status: Massimo indicates that he'll keep the report to the basics in the future, and that we did ship a release with the bugs fixed. 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:16 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management Operations And Community ======================== Name searches for Incubator podlings continue to come in; most are well researched. Actively working with several PMCs to assist in policing use of their names. We're still seeing a wide variety of familiarity (both good and not so good) with the PMC Branding Requirements and trademark basics across PMCs, so each case is very different in terms of how the community is understanding and dealing with the issues. External Requests ================= Commented on the transfer of a twitter account to a third party at the PMC's request (the mostly-unused @tapestry account to another unrelated, outside software project). As long as Apache marks are respected and general policies followed, PMCs are free to define how they promote their brands. Trademark Registrations ======================= Approved counsel to proceed with a required office action (with attendant discounted filing fees) for the OPENOFFICE registered trademark in Canada. Per counsel's suggestion, maintaining this registration is likely to strengthen our ability to defend marks related to Apache OpenOffice. Greg Stein provided SFLC with documentation of our payment for some past Subversion registration costs; SFLC were asking for Treasurer to provide actual receipts of payment. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising I have been reasonably inactive of late. However, I attended ApacheConEU, and did have a few discussions with folks who could turn out to be sponsors (some at higher levels). While at ApacheCon, I met with Melissa, who is now up-to-speed on helping us track what actions need to be carried out, and when. I also met Steve Holden - there is scope there for collaborating on sponsorships relating to the ASF itself and ApacheCons. The majority of fundraising activity in the last period has been supporting the ApacheCon sponsorships, which this time were able to travel through the ASF. I have started the process of discussing renewal with one of our platinum sponsors. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity I. Budget: we are ahead of plans, under budget, with no payments due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally Khudairi has been working with ApacheCon sponsorship liaison with select ASF Platinum, Gold, and Silver Sponsors. She also continues to work with a small handful of companies that are a) actively participating in the Apache Incubator and seeking to promote various milestones; or b) planning to contribute projects to the Incubator to ensure their publicity plans comply with our guidelines; or c) are planning to launch events/products and need clearance from Brand Management and/or ConCom. After three months of planning and coordination, the donation of ARM servers from Dell and Calxeda was successfully completed and announced on 24 October at Hadoop World. Special thanks to the Apache Infrastructure team for their much-needed help and ongoing support! III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, announce@apache.org, and announce@apachecon.com (where appropriate) -- - 30 October 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheCon Europe Community Edition Officially Sold-Out; Extends CFP for North America Event -18 October 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice(tm) as a Top-Level Project IV. Informal Announcements: the following items were announced on @TheASF and @ApacheCon Twitter feeds (excludes interactions/conversations/responses/replies/re-tweets of non-ASF posts) -- - 14 November - @ApacheCon [re-tweeted by @TheASF] - Early Registration is OPEN for #ApacheCon --sign up today + save! http://na.apachecon.com/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource #community #PDX - 14 November - @TheASF - Congratulations to #Apache #Hadoop for winning @HPCwire's "Readers' Choice: Best Application of #BigData in #HPC" award at #SC12! - 14 November - @ApacheCon - Early Registration is OPEN for #ApacheCon --sign up today + save! http://na.apachecon.com/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource #community #PDX - 12 November - @ApacheCon - Keep 'em coming: talks/trainings CFP for #ApacheCon North America is closing soon! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource #PDX - 12 November - @ApacheCon - Fun photos are up of last week's #ApacheCon #Europe --thanks to all who participated! https://twitter.com/search/apachecon/grid/photos … #Apache #conference #OpenSource - 11 November - @ApacheCon - FINAL HOURS: #ApacheCon talks + trainings #Apache #HTTPServer #Cassandra #Hadoop #Lucene/Solr #OpenOffice #Maven +more! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ - 11 November - @ApacheCon - Great presentations, slides & updates from last week's #ApacheCon #Europe available https://twitter.com/search?q=apachecon&src=typd … #Apache #Community #conference - 11 November - @ApacheCon - Join us! #Apache #BigData #Cloud #Messaging #LinkedData #Java #NoSQL #SmartSearch #Servers #Web #Community #Innovation http://na.apachecon.com/ - 11 November - @ApacheCon - Early Registration is OPEN for #ApacheCon --sign up today + save! http://na.apachecon.com/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource #PDX - 11 November - @ApacheCon - CFP CLOSING SOON: #Apache #BigData #Cloud #Messaging #LinkedData #Java #NoSQL #SmartSearch #Servers #Community +more http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ - 11 November - @ApacheCon - FINAL CALL: #ApacheCon talks + trainings #Apache #HTTPServer #Cassandra #Hadoop #Lucene/Solr #OpenOffice #Sling +more! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ - 11 November - @ApacheCon - #CFP for #ApacheCon ends 11 Nov --theme: "Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation" http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache - 10 November - @ApacheCon - Final call for talks + trainings for for #ApacheCon North America:ends 11 Nov! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache #BigData #Cloud #HTTPServer #PDX - 10 November - @ApacheCon [re-tweeted by @TheASF] - Last chance! #CFP for ApacheCon North America closes 11 Nov! Submit your #talk + #training proposals now! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache #PDX - 9 November - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon CFP ends 11 Nov; Travel Assistance applications close 26 Nov https://www.apache.org/travel/ EARLY BIRD REG OPEN! http://na.apachecon.com/ #PDX - 9 November - @ApacheCon - Hats off to all #ApacheCon #Europe participants --fab speakers, sponsors, delegates & staff: THANK YOU! Onto ACNA #PDX! http://apachecon.com/ - 6 November - @ApacheCon - Friends of @TheASF will hold a #BoF at @Supercomputing on #open #governance for #cyberinfrastructure #software. http://sc12.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=bof212 … #Apache - 6 November - @ApacheCon [re-tweeted by @TheASF] - Got what it takes to present to & train the #Apache #community? #CFP for #ApacheCon NA extended to 11 Nov! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #conference - 5 November - @ApacheCon - Coming to the #Rhein-Neckar Arena for #ApacheCon #Europe? We're in the BUSINESS CLUB: "Fanshop" nearby & footie kicker sculpture in front! - 5 November - @ApacheCon - Thanks to @VMware for sponsoring the #ApacheCon #Europe #Apache #Committers & #Hackathon Reception at the fabulous @museumtechnik Sinsheim! - 5 November - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon Europe has kicked off today in Sinsheim --lots of great folks, hacking, and networking thus far! #Hackathon #Apache #conference - 3 November - @ApacheCon - w00t! Early-Bird Reg is open for #ApacheCon NA --sign up today and save $330 over last year's rate! http://na.apachecon.com/ #Apache #conference - 1 November - @TheASF [re-tweeted by @ApacheCon] - Showcase your smarts to the #Apache #community! Preso & training submissions for #ApacheCon NA close 9 Nov http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #CFP #event - 1 November - @TheASF - #ASF #Infrastructure donations include @VMWare virtualization software & @Thawte SSL certificates -many thanks! http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks … #Apache - 1 November - @TheASF - Did you know #ASF #infrastructure uses servers donated by @Sun @IBM @HP @Dell & @Calxeda ? Thank you!! http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks … #in-kind #Apache - 1 November - @TheASF - Additional thanks for #Infrastructure Support to @NoIPcom , http://develooper.com & http://Hyperreal.org http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks … #Apache - 1 November - @ApacheCon - YES! Spots available for #ApacheCon's popular FastFeather track next wk. Short presos on #Apache projects of all kinds https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEtBTHBjTTZfWGRNNlJrQmY4YWNoM2c6MQ … - 1 November - @ApacheCon - Reminder: #CFP (Talks & Trainings) for #ApacheCon North America closes 9 Nov! Newbie? Guru? All Welcome! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache - 31 October - @TheASF - Did you know that the total market for #Apache #Hadoop Market is expected to reach $13.95 Billion by 2017? #BigData #study @MarketsandMarkets - 31 October - @TheASF - Major thanks to @osuosl & @SURFnet for providing #ASF infrastructure support (server hosting & bandwidth). 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We so appreciate your support http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks … #Apache - 31 October - @TheASF - Did you know that #ASF #Sponsors offset expenses incl bandwidth, servers/hdware, legal, mktg/PR, support staff +more? http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks … - 31 October - @ApacheCon - We're super excited for #ApacheCon Europe at the state-of-the-art #Rhein-Neckar Arena http://www.achtzehn99.de/stadium/ Thanks @SAP! http://www.apachecon.eu/ - 30 October - @TheASF [re-tweeted by @ApacheCon] - Announcing #ApacheCon #Europe #Community Edition Officially Sold-Out; Extends #CFP for North America Event http://s.apache.org/08 #Apache - 29 October - @ApacheCon - Welcome Claus von Riegen, @SAP Head of Open Source & Open Standard participation, as #ApacheCon #Europe plenary speaker http://www.apachecon.eu/ - 29 October - @ApacheCon - Thank you @Oracle for sponsoring the #Apache #OpenOffice Track at #ApacheCon #Europe! http://www.apachecon.eu/sponsors/ #conference #community - 29 October - @ApacheCon - Special thanks to @Cloudant and @Optiver for co-sponsoring the #NoSQL #Database Tracks at #ApacheCon #Europe! http://www.apachecon.eu/sponsors/ #CouchDB - 29 October - @ApacheCon - "Es gibt noch #Studenten-Tickets zu 75€ für die #ApacheCon #Europe - sei schnell!" http://www.apachecon.eu/ #konferenz #Rhein-Neckar #OpenSource - 29 October - @ApacheCon - Less than 1/2 dozen tickets remain for #ApacheCon #Europe! 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Will you submit? http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ do RT! - 24 October - @ApacheCon - Jian Lee presents "Improvements of Table Formatting in Writer" at #ApacheCon -join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #OpenOffice #conference - 24 October - @ApacheCon - Łukasz Dywicki presents "When #Camel meets CDI" at ApacheCon --join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #enterprise #messaging #conference - 24 October - @ApacheCon - Olivier Heintz presents "OFBiz CRM, presentation, functionalities" at #ApacheCon --join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Apache #ERP - 24 October - @ApacheCon - Mikhail Khludnev presents "Handling Realtime Item Availability in #eShop" at #ApacheCon http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Lucene #Solr #Apache - 24 October - @ApacheCon - Tammo van Lessen presents "Faster builds with #Apache #Buildr" at #ApacheCon --join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource #Europe - 23 October - @ApacheCon - Find out what's new @TheASF at the #ApacheCon Fast Feather Track! 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Sign up at http://www.apachecon.eu/tracks/fft-meetup/ … - 23 October - @ApacheCon - Andre Fischer presents "#OpenOffice Build System" at #ApacheCon --join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource - 23 October - @ApacheCon - Kai Wähner presents "Next Generation – Systems Integration in the #Cloud Era with #Apache #Camel" at #ApacheCon! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Olivier Heintz "Multi resource Project Scheduling with #OFBiz" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us! #Apache #ERP #OpenSource - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Tommaso Teofili "Text categorization with #Lucene & #Solr" Join us http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #SmartSearch #conference - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Christian Grobmeier "World of #Logging" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us! #Apache #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Rony Flatscher "Scripting #Apache #OpenOffice" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Frank Lyaruu "Scripting languages in #OSGi" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #Modular #Java #Applications - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Dejan Bosanac "#Apollo & future of #ActiveMQ" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us #Apache #Enterprise #Messaging #Integration - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Sascha Rodekamp "Multi-Store #eCommerce with #Apache #OFBiz" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #OpenSource #ERP - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Michael Christen "A Web #Search Appliance with #Solr & #YaCy" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #Lucene #smartsearch - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Gabriele Columbro "Standard Application Lifecycle Mgmt as Community & #Enterprise enabler" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Liu Zhe "#Apache #OpenOffice Automated Testing" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Karl Pauls "#Felix Connect" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us! #Apache #conference #OpenSource #Modular #Java #Applications - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Hadrian Zbarcea "#Apache #Camel - Advanced Techniques" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us! #Apache #conference #OpenSource - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Nandana Mihindukulasooriya "Publishing #LinkedData - Lessons Learned in #Government" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Ingo Renner "#CMS Integration of #Apache #Solr - How we did it" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us! #smartsearch #conference - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Karl-Heinz Marbaise "Unit- & Integration Testing w/ #Maven" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ Join us #Apache #conference #OpenSource - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Weike Liang "DOCX Export In AOO" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #OpenOffice #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Carsten Ziegeler "Managing Installations & Provisioning #OSGi Applications" Join us http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #Java - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Christian Müller "#Apache #Camel in Action - Common Problems, Solutions & Best Practices" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Christoph Goller "#Solr-based search & tagging services..." Join us http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Dragan Milosevic "Flexible Distributed Reporting...powered by #Hadoop & #Lucene" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache - 23 October - @ApacheCon - "Es gibt noch Studenten-Tickets zu 75€ für die #ApacheCon #Europe - sei schnell!" http://www.apachecon.eu/ #konferenz #Rhein-Neckar #OpenSource - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Jukka Zitting" The secrets of a file" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Apache #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Matthias Stürmer "...improving #OOXML integration in #LibreOffice/#Apache #OpenOffice" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents A Broekhuis "Modular Java Applications Native-OSGi, Modular Software Development in a Native world" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Jan Lehnardt "The #CouchDB Implementation" Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #NoSQL #database #conference #Germany - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Suat Gonul: "#Semantic #Indexing & #Search for Content Management Systems" Join us http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #LinkedData #CMS - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Chris Hostetter "Boosting & Biasing: Using Domain Knowledge + User #Analytics in #Apache #Solr" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 23 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon presents Simone Tripodi: "Refurbished wheels still round - the rise of reusable components in ASF" Join us http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ -19 October - @ApacheCon - Welcome #ApacheCon #Europe #Community Sponsors @innoQ @OneHippo @dkd_de @GridDynamics @sentric_ch @Lynx_consulting BeyondTrees @anneveling ! - 19 October - @ApacheCon - A great promotion for #ApacheCon from Louis Suárez-Potts @luispo --thank you! http://ooo-speak.blogspot.no/2012/10/apachecon-na-2013-welcome.html … #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon's #Community Edition is a smaller, less formal event aimed at a more technically-oriented audience. Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Lucene 4 Performance Tuning" w/Simon Willnauer http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #SmartSearch #Solr #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Tomcat 8 preview" w/Mark Thomas http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Enterprise #computing #server #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Getting started with AMQP 1.0 using #Apache #Qpid" w/Rajith Attapattu http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Cloud #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "High Availability #Hadoop" w/Steve Loughran http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #BigData #Cloud #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - Join us at #ApacheCon #Europe for the BoF on building and maturing the #Apache #OpenOffice #Community http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Content extraction with #Apache #Tika" w/Jukka Zitting http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Lucene #Solr #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "An introduction to #Apache #Flex" w/Justin Mclean" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #enterprise #computing #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "OpenSource #AMQP messaging with #Apache #Qpid" w/Doug Mahugh http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#HBase Sizing and Schema Design" w/Lars George http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #BigData #Hadoop #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Interfacing #Apache #HTTPServer 2.4 w/External Applications" w/Jeff Trawick http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Mosaic Fun with #OpenOffice Calc" w/imacat http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource #productivity #suite - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#SolrCloud Round Table" w/Mark Miller http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #SmartSearch #Lucene #Solr #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Wicket - where do we go from here?" w/Sven Meier http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #enterprise #computing #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Apache #CloudStack Scalability" w/Kevin Kluge http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Cloud #CloudComputing #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight "Operating #HBase: Things You Need to Know" w/Christian Gügi http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #BigData #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Cloud4All - automatic personalised access" w/ Steve Lee http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Web #Infrastructure #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight "Moving the DrawingLayer component of #Apache #OpenOffice .." w/Armin LeGrand http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #Apache & #BigData top the list: No certification required for 10 top-paying IT skills http://ow.ly/ewi0x via @joemckendrick & @mattz62 - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#ElasticSearch in Production: lessons learned" w/Anne Veling http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #SmartSearch #Lucene #Solr - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Modern Web #Application Development With #Apache #Struts 2" w/René Gielen http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "What is new in #CloudStack 4.0?" w/Wido den Hollander http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Cloud #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Hadoop #YARN - Under the Hood" w/Sharad Agarwal http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #BigData #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Apache #HTTP Server 2.4 Problem Diagnosis" w/Jeff Trawick http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - Join us for a BoF on the #OpenDocument file format (#ODF) with the #Apache #OpenOffice Community at #ApacheCon #Europe! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 18 October - @ApacheCon - Gartner: "#BigData to Drive $34B of IT Spending in 2013" http://lnkd.in/UVbg4E Join us at #ApacheCon #Europe + learn how http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #SmartSearch fans: the @LuceneEurocon is co-located with #ApacheCon #Europe! Join us! http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Lucene #Solr thx @LucidImagineer - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Solr 4, the #NoSQL database" w/Yonik Seeley http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Lucene #Solr #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Open Source Identity Management" w/Francesco Chicchiriccò http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #enterprise #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Introduction to #Apache #CloudStack" w/Kevin Kluge http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Cloud #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Inside hadoop-dev" w/Steve Loughran http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #BigData #Hadoop #OpenSource #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight "#Enterprise Performance: #Scaling the Web with #Apache" w/Igor Galić http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Change Tracking in #Apache #OpenOffice and #ODF" w/Oliver-Rainer Wittmann http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Searching relational like data w/ #Lucene" by Martijn van Groningen http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #search - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight "#Apache #TomEE, #JavaEE 6 Web Profile on #Tomcat" w/David Blevins http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Enterprise - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Extending lifespan with #Hadoop & R" w/Radek Maciaszek http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #BigData #OpenSource - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Introducing #Apache #TrafficServer" w/Igor Galić http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Apache #OpenOffice Accessibility" w/Steve Yin http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource #Germany - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Query Parsing - Tips and Tricks" w/Erik Hatcher http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #Lucene #Solr + Friends #conference - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "The #Apache #MyFaces Universe" w/Gerhard Petracek http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#Deltacloud and #Cloud API standards" w/David Lutterkort. Register http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Apache - 18 October - @TheASF [re-tweeted by @ApacheCon] - Those experiencing difficulty accessing today's #Apache #OpenOffice post may also find the announcement at http://s.apache.org/fo - 18 October - @ApacheCon - Congratulations to #Apache #OpenOffice on becoming a TLP @TheASF! Catch @openofficeorg at #ApacheCon http://www.apachecon.eu/ #conference - 18 October - @TheASF [re-tweeted by @ApacheCon] - The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #OpenOffice as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/XiQ #OpenSource #productivitysuite - 18 October - @ApacheCon - Reminder: CFP for #ApacheCon NA closes 5 Nov. From #Abdera to #Zookeeper, all are welcome! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache #conference #PDX - 18 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Enabling Elastic, Multi-tenant, Highly Available #Hadoop on Demand" w/Richard McDougall http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 18 October - @TheASF - Those experiencing difficulty accessing today's #Apache #OpenOffice post may also find the announcement at http://s.apache.org/fo - 18 October - @TheASF - The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #OpenOffice as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/XiQ #OpenSource #productivitysuite - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Policing the RFC: How Not To Kill Your Website at Scale" by Graham Leggett. Program/reg http://apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "#OpenOffice Extensions and Templates" by Roberto Galoppini" http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #Apache - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Fundamentals of Information Retrieval, Illustration w/#Apache #Lucene" by Majirus Fansi http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "CDI at #Apache - Open WebBeans and #DeltaSpike Deep Dive" by Mark Struberg http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Integration in the #cloud - IPaaS with Fuse technology" w/Charles Moulliard http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "Taking the guesswork out of your #Hadoop Infrastructure" by Steve Watt. http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe highlight: "What's new in #Apache #HTTP Server 2.4" by Rainer Jung. Program/register http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #EU highlight: "#OpenOffice at #Apache" by Juergen Schmidt. Sessions & register at http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ #conference #OpenSource - 17 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon NA Track: #Enterprise #Messaging –#Apache #ActiveMQ #Camel #Qpid #ServiceMix #Shindig #Tuscany +more #CFP http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ - 17 October - @ApacheCon - "Es gibt noch Studenten-Tickets zu 75€ für die #ApacheCon #Europe - sei schnell!" http://www.apachecon.eu/ #konferenz #Rhein-Neckar #OpenSource - 16 October - @ApacheCon - Special thanks to #ApacheCon #Europe Silver sponsors @Cloudant, @HP & @Oracle; and Evening Event sponsors @codeBusters_es & @theopenbastion! - 16 October - @ApacheCon - Special thanks to #ApacheCon #Europe underwriter/Platinum sponsor @SAP; plus Gold sponsors @Citirix, @Google, @Hortonworks, and @LucidWorks! - 16 October - @ApacheCon - Es gibt noch #Studenten-Tickets für die #ApacheCon #Europe - nur 75€ - sei schnell bevor sie weg sind! http://www.apachecon.eu/ #konferenz - 15 October - @ApacheCon - Hyper-discounted #ApacheCon #EU #STUDENT tickets available --just €75! 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From Abdera to Zookeeper, all are welcome! http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/ #Apache #conference #PDX - 15 October - @ApacheCon - CFP for #ApacheCon NA ends 5 Nov: "Open Source #Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation”. Submit at http://na.apachecon.com/ - 15 October - @ApacheCon - Have you registered for #ApacheCon #Europe yet? Spots are filling quickly! http://www.apachecon.eu/ #Apache #conference #cloud #bigdata #servers - 13 October - @ApacheCon - Tickets for #ApacheCon #Europe going fast! Sign up today http://www.apachecon.eu #Apache #conference #OpenSource - 9 October - @ApacheCon - #ApacheCon #Europe €75 #student tickets still available but going fast! Sign up at http://www.apachecon.eu #Apache #conference #sponsor #Google No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: none planned at present. Those PMCs wishing to announce major project news --as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator-- please contact Sally at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: an addition to select pre-announcement briefings, 14 media requests were responded to, and 6 interviews coordinated for various projects. The ASF received 2,121 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 487. VII. Analyst Relations: no formal briefings have taken place over the past month, although members of the analyst community continue to receive regular announcements. Apache was mentioned in 27 reports by 451 Research, 2 reports by Forrester, and 14 reports by Gartner. We also were mentioned in 13 articles by GigaOM VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally worked with Melissa Warnkin on securing sponsorships for ApacheCon Europe. She also worked extensively on publicizing ACEU as well as executed numerous responsibilities that were needed for the event but had no “owner”, including creating all onsite signage and ensuring the many communications to the Planning team were responded to. As there is no official internal “event lead”, Sally remains the primary point-of-contact with proposal submitters, Committers, delegates, and sponsors for ApacheCon North America. She is currently working with The Open Bastion on overall positioning, promotions, and marketing plan for the event, which will be handed over to TOB’s PR contractor to execute in December. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally has been primary point-of-contact for several activities, including the HPCWire Readers’ Choice Award on behalf of the Hadoop PMC, as well as ASF project industry events/conferences, and numerous speaking opportunities. X. Newswire accounts: we have 12 pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account and 8 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of W3C Relations Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee A fairly quiet month -- both in terms of the number of threads and the length/"temperature" of each -- nothing to concern the board. Most topics concern license compatibility questions. Aaron Williamson of the SFLC indicated that he will try to get a preliminary answer to the crypto question by the end of the month. I've started to work again with Daniel Kulp and Mark Thomas regarding the TCK issue. One way or another we should try to wrap this up early next year. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project For Oct 2012: There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds arriving at security@. These continue to be dealt with by the security team. 2 Support question 1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 1 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" 10 Vulnerability report 3 [httpd, 2 via security@httpd.apache.org, 1 via security@apache.org] 2 [tomcat, via security@tomcat.apache.org] 2 [hadoop, via security@hadoop.apache.org] 1 [struts, via security@struts.apache.org] 1 [cloudstack, via security@apache.org] CVE-2012-4501 1 [cordova, via security@apache.org] Reminder: vulnerability handling process explained at http://apache.org/security/committers.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project ApacheCon Europe ---------------- A full report on the conference was sent last week. The short summary is that it was a success, sold out, but not the type of conference that was originally planned, and the model shouldn't be repeated. We believe we made a small profit on the event, the exact amount should be clear soon when we finish sorting out the various small last minute expenses. NewThinking are still waiting on a number of sponsors to pay, a balancing credit should come from them once that is completed. Slides were captured from almost all sessions, and Nour is leading the process to get them online and tagged/associated with sessions. Most sessions were audio recorded, and another group of volunteers are editing those for eventual posting to FeatherCast. We're working out a plan with Infra to host the raw videos (one out of each six sessions) and get them edited. ApacheCon North America ----------------------- ACNA is taking place in Portland in late Feb, being organised by Open Bastion, following the RFP in the spring. It should involve significantly lower ASF energies than both ACEU and past ACNAs did, and the producer seems well aware of our desire to avoid the past problems. PMCs have been asked to help review content from the CFP, and quite a few people have kindly agreed to help with this. We are hoping to approach a few people to provide sign-posting services for TOB to help them get queries answered by appropriate bits of the ASF. Most of the available volunteer energies will be directed to organising community events before / during / after. The current outline plan for community events around the conference are: * Sunday - open barcamp, needs website + venue + locals + maybe sponsors? * Monday - hackathon, needs wiki * Tue - Thurs - events 5-7pm + evening, such as barcamp / lightning talks in hackathon / food space * Fri/Sat - project events, needs wiki + projects to sign up We'll need to start planning these community events fairly soon, though much of the organising won't be needed yet. There was a lot of discussion at ACEU about the level of support needed to have a strong community event around ApacheCons. Part of this was felt to be a lot of support for those speakers who need it, to allow for a wide range of different communities and speakers to attend, and part of it was cheap committer tickets for those committers who won't attend many talks (most committers at ACEU talked and hacked). However, it was known during the RFP that the current ApacheCon attendee numbers can't support this level of committer+speaker support. We have agreed to a capped amount of underwriting for this support with the producer, to allow the discounted committer tickets to go on sale, and speakers be offered free tickets if they need it. If ACNA is a success, very little ConCom money will be needed (but a small amount will be). We can then evaluate how well that amount of support works before the next one, which will hopefully be bigger and better able to support the committers and speakers from attendee registrations. New People ---------- We're still waiting to hear back from operations@ on the process to add new committee members with the new structure. Several people who helped out with ACEU have agreed to help join. Once we receive the information on the process for adding new committee members, we'll start the ball rolling to bring the fresh blood in! Other Events ------------ Following discussions at ApacheCon, it looks like there are a number of possible future barcamps: * Sydney * Bangalore * New York * Paris Those who expressed interests in helping with these have been encouraged to join the small-events-discuss list and ask for help/advice there. Hopefully at least some of these possible events will go ahead over the coming months! Another Apache Asia Roadshow is being planned for December 13th in Beijing, with organisers from last year augmented by a few new volunteers. The date was chosen to dovetail in with the Cloud Computing Summing in Beijing. Currently, no funds look to be needed to support the event due to contributions from local sponsors. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team Restructured the creation of new mailing list infrastructure: new "foo" lists will be named following this convention: foo@$podlingname.incubator.apache.org, instead of the now antiquated "$podlingname-foo@incubator.apache.org". Similarly restructured website assets for new podlings to use http://$podlingname.incubator.apache.org/ instead of the prior "http://incubator.apache.org/$podlingname/". These changes will help make migration to TLP status easier for both the podling and the Infrastructure Team. Coordinated with Sally with respect to the Calxeda/Dell ARM donation. Worked with OSUOSL to mitigate the downtime of a series of scheduled network outages affecting our .us services. Discussed the pros and cons of using Round-Robin DNS for websites. No action taken moving us away from RR DNS. Rainer Jung upgraded our webserver install on eos (www.us) to the latest and greatest version of 2.4.x. Mark Thomas upgraded all 3 bugzilla instances in response to a security vulnerability report. Some generic stats detailing the org's recent growth: New committer intake: ~300 / year like clockwork over the past decade. New TLP graduations: 2010: ~20 2011: ~10 2012: ~30 New INFRA issues: http://s.apache.org/INFRA-Creation-2005-2012 Mailing List / Subversion activity: http://www.apache.org/dev/stats/ [*] Average Subversion traffic (hits): consistently ~ 3.2M / day for the past few years. Inbound Mail traffic: 250-300K connections per day for the past few years. Average Website traffic (hits): Nov 2010: 10M / day Nov 2011: 11M / day Nov 2012: 21M / day [**] Rough Download Page traffic (hits): Nov 2010: 48K / day Nov 2011: 46K / day Nov 2012: 145K / day [***] 46 Virtual Machines (18 new within the past year) and 24 additional ARM servers due to the Calxeda/Dell donation. [*] - clicking on the mailing list graph shows incubator + hadoop + lucene is now responsible for 40 % of the org's total mailing list traffic. [**] - 10M / day due to www.openoffice.org. [***] - 100K / day due to openoffice (note openoffice users typically upgrade using the openoffice software itself rather than by visiting the download webpage) ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee General ======= No additions/removals to the committee this month. Mailing list busy before the AC EU event and has naturally tailed off just after. Expect it to pick up again as the ramp up for AC NA gives us little break this time. ApacheCon EU 2012 Sinsheim ======================= On the whole, we think ACEU was a success from the TAC perspective. We had one of our best conferences for numbers supported. Thanks to the amazing work from Melissa, the committee had to do much less work than in the past. (There was at least as much work as before, it's just that Melissa did most of it for us!). Melissa reports that in addition to TAC duties, other tasks were being asked at the same time (from other committees) and that it would be nice if like previous years, Shepherds can resume their roles and do some of the leg work. Getting payments to the Travel Agent was complicated by the change of treasurer, but that should be solved now. Hopefully Portland travel stuff should be much simpler. Unlike previous years, we didn't have a welcome breakfast, partly because everyone had breakfast in their room rate, and partly because most of the organisers were busy setting up first thing on the Monday. The first get-together was the briefing and session assignment. This didn't seem to work quite as well, and TACers seemed a bit more confused about what they had to do (possible due to an information overload with only one session). Based on this, I would suggest for Portland we do the same as Vancouver, and do welcome breakfast, then general briefing, then session assignment, as three separate meetings. Thanks also to Mohammad and Kanchana for being goto people for the TACers. ApacheCon NA 2012 Portland ======================= Currently, the draft plan for Portland is BarCamp on Sunday, Hackathon on Monday and Conference Tues-Thurs, so we could do a Sunday breakfast, general briefing before BarCamp setup, and session stuff the day after during hackathon. Applications are open and flowing in for this event already. More advertising of this to go out to PMCs again soon. ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Apache Abdera Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache ACE Project Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems. Releases: * December 11th, 2011: ACE 0.8.1-incubator Activity: * Lots of small fixes and optimisations, business as usual. * We are still working towards the first TLP release. Changes in committers/PMC members: * None. Committer/PMC diversity: * No concerns, we have 11 committers that work for 7 different unique organizations. Branding/naming issues: * No issues. Legal issues: * No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Airavata Project Apache Airavata is a software framework providing APIs, sophisticated server-side tools, and graphical user interfaces to construct, execute, control and manage long running applications and workflows on distributed computing resources. == Releases == The PMC has made the first TLP release 0.5. == Activity == The release 0.5 has surged momentum and the community is quickly marching towards a 0.6 release. The current focus is to make it easy for clients to integrate with Airavata services. == Community == Chathuri Wimalasena was announced as the new Airavata Committer/PMC member. Few contributors have been very active and showing commitment. == Press == Members of Airavata and OODT PMC, Marlon Pierce, Suresh Marru, Chris Mattmann are leading a BOF Featuring ASF at Supercomputing 2012 on Nov13th. http://sc12.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=bof212. == Infrastructure == The project starting using the svnpubsub dist locations for release mirroring. Also is using the dev area (https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airavata/) for staging RC's for testing and voting. With this, the project has completely stopped directly using people:/www area. == Infrastructure == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Ant Project Apache Ant is a Java based build tool (see http://ant.apache.org) o Release Status A 2nd release candidate for Apache Ivy 2.3.0 (2.3.0-RC2) was made available on November 12th, 2012 Core --------- Ant 1.8.4 was released on May 23rd 2012 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.2.0 was released on October 7, 2010 Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010 o Committers and PMC Jean-Louis Boudart (jlboudart) was added as a committer on October 31st. He is a committer on the EasyAnt podling. o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Avro Project Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system. == Issues == There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. == Community == Tom White was added as a PMC Member on September 28, 2012 User mailing list activity was average throughout July, August, September, and October 2012. Developer mailing list activity was inconsistent; high in September but low in August and October. We had activity in most language implementations and discussions related to adding another (JavaScript) == Releases == Avro 1.7.1 was released on July 19th, 2012. Avro 1.7.2 was released on September 27th, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Bigtop Project 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 RELEASES * The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.4.0-incubating, released on Aug 20, 2012 while in Incubation. * There has not been much progress with a maintenance release of 0.3.1 * Bigtop 0.5.0 release has been scoped and RM assigned (Roman Shaposhnik) The target date for the release is end of Nov 2012 CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/VRE (since last board report, Oct 2012) * All post-graduation tasks have been completed and all of the project infrastructure (web site, SCM, etc.) reflects its TLP status. COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since becoming a TLP. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (4), Cloudera (9), Hortonworks (3), Canonical(1), Oracle(1), Twitter(1), Facebook(1), Amazon.com(1) * Currently there are: - Total of 98 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 108 subscribers to the user list - Total of 21 committers - Total of 21 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Buildr Project Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We released Buildr 1.4.8 on November 1st containing 7 enhancements, 7 bug fixes and a few minor changes from 5 different contributors/committers. We released a subsequent "hot-fix" release (1.4.9) a week later to address a non-deterministic bug affecting some users. Thanks to the work of Peter Donald (committer), we have continuous integration testing working again on Jenkins covering multiple versions of Ruby (1.8.7, 1.9.2, JRuby 1.7.0) and platforms (Linux, Windows) and our automated release scripts have been cleaned up. The mailing lists remain relatively quiet and we continue to receive contributions at a rate of about one per month on average. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache C++ Standard Library Project DESCRIPTION Apache C++ Standard Library Project is a collection of functions designed to implement a standard C++ library. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Activity has really ramped up over the last several months. We are seeing renewed development and interest in the project and at the present time, I see no reason not to allow the project to continue. COMMUNITY * No new committers or PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Status report for the Apache Cassandra Project Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.6, 1.2beta1, 1.2beta2 Development: Cassandra 1.2 is feature-frozen with the second beta release out. Release candidates will follow shortly. Some new features include - virtual nodes [1] - collections [2] - improved support for auto-expired data [3] - startup optimization [4] - atomic batches [5] Community: Aleksey Yeschenko was added as a committer. The Cassandra Summit in late August saw over 800 attendees across four tracks. Slides and videos are archived at [6]. [1] http://www.acunu.com/2/post/2012/07/virtual-nodes-strategies.html [2] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/simple-data-importing-and-exporting-with-cassandra [3] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/tombstone-removal-improvement-in-1-2 [4] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/1-2-startup-time-improvements [5] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/atomic-batches-in-cassandra-1-2 [6] http://www.datastax.com/events/cassandrasummit2012/presentations ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Apache Click Project Apache Click is an easy-to-use page and component oriented Java web framework. There are no board level issues at this time. Infrastructure ------------------- There are no infrastructure issues at this time. Development ------------------ Some headway has been made towards a version 2.3.1/2.4 release, but getting enough time to complete this release has been a challenge. Community ---------------- There have been no new committer or PMC members added during this period. Mailing list traffic has been very light for the period. The project needs to recruit new committers and community support remain active and healthy. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status report for the Apache Cocoon Project Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available platform for RESTful web services and web applications. Community Traffic on users lists continues be light, people continue be interested on C2 and newer C3, few impatient users requested C3 release date - again. Cocoon Hackaton took place at ApacheCon EU for 3.0-beta version Thorsten Scherler and Javier Puerto, both PMC members, gave a talk "Rapid mobile development with Apache Cocoon3, Apache Cordova and Jenkins CI" at ApacheCon EU Simone Tripodi, PMC member, gave a talk "Refurbished wheels still round" at ApacheCon EU showing Cocoon3 Pipelines APIs Releases No releases during the last quarter Development Still bugfixing on C2, light traffic on C3. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Community Development Project The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects Project Status -------------- Ross Gardler has set down as Community Dev Chair, and Luciano Resende has been elected new Chair. No issues require board attention at this time. GSoC -------------- GSoC mentor summit happened on November 20 and 21, and ASF was represented by Ulrich Stärk and Luciano Resende. There was one session where different organizations presented the benefits for projects joining their foundation and ASF was represented by Uli. GSoC invoice for the GSoC and Mentor Summit has been submitted and are being processed by Google. Other -------------- Outstanding: * Work with the IPMC to clarify any future role for ComDev in the incubation process * No progress * Start discussions on how to simplify the process for new people to find tasks to work on based on areas of interest, programming language, level, etc. This would benefit GSoC students and overall new contributors. * No progress ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Status report for the Apache Continuum Project Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security, and integration with popular build tools and source control management systems. A number of issues blocking the Continuum 1.4.1 release have been resolved, and the vote for that should be upcoming very shortly. Aside from that, activity remains very low. Occasional questions to the users@ list were responded to promptly. Brent Atkinson was added as a PMC member on 2 Sep 2012. The last release was Continuum 1.3.8, on 18 Sep 2011. Still no movement on the branding requirements, which will be updated with the next release. We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added 8 Dec 2010. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Status report for the Apache Cordova Project Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Status: Post graduation development cadence remains very strong. Work remains to complete migration from incubator infra. Community: - Our incubator infra to tlp infra migration ongoing. Only two steps left are moving the site off incubator and creating our new git repos. - There is concern that it has been difficult for our members to help infra. Cordova required git post-commit hooks to wire CI. Ended up writing our own server on a community members own hardware to poll our git repos to facilitate after multiple attempts working w/ infra to set this up. - Cordova documentation is currently *not* hosted on Cordova project website but rather a downstream distribution site. (Nor has project website been migrated from incubator domain so expect to fix this in one go.) - There has been some minor confusion with the CLAs and the account request mechanism. We will refine our project contribution guidelines to make this process more clear. Releases: Cordova has two official releases as an Apache project and expects a third this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Status report for the Apache CouchDB Project Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API. Sorted out legal and integration issues for the documentation grant from Couchbase. Sorting out final blockers before 1.3.0 release. PMC changes: + Benoit Chesneau (benoitc) + Robert Newson (rnewson) + Dave Cottlehuber (dch). + Jason Smith (jason). - J Chris Anderson (jchris). Started a weekly IRC meeting to check status and discuss current issues. Reports are sent to dev@ for final decision making. Preliminary planning for a CouchHack community event in Berlin in January and participation at ApacheCon NA in February. Notable take-up on project activity. Started an erlang@c.a.o mailing list for people who want to learn about the CouchDB codebase. It has already proven useful to get new people into the codebase. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Status report for the Apache Creadur Project Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Project Status -------------- Creadur graduated from the Apache Incubator in April, 2012. Except for tasks performed after the first release as a top level project, handover is now complete. Issues ------ We have no issues requiring board attention at the moment. Branding and Trademarks ----------------------- Replaced ApacheConEU banners with ApacheCon NA banners. Community --------- Thanks to contributions, in particular, from the Apache Maven and Apache CloudStack communities, activity is increasing. Thanks to everyone for getting involved. Infrastructure -------------- Hoping to trial a plugin that integrates Apache CMS with Maven. Releases -------- None (yet). The last release happened while the project was incubating: RAT 0.8 released in November 2011. A new Rat release is on track, once improvements based on feedback from the Apache Maven community are completed. The first Whisker release is on track, once improvements based on feedback from the Apache CloudStack community are completed. Community Objectives -------------------- * Release Apache Rat 0.9 * Release Apache Whisker 0.1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache DirectMemory Project Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. * General Information Community interest is still high, we are receiving interesting proposals and questions in the mailing list. Some DirectMemory related or based projects are being initiated as well and added as subprojects On the "down" side we are still far away from a release. * New Committers * Christoph Engelbert * Project Branding Requirements Already completed. * Issues No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Status report for the Apache Empire-db Project Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. Progress of the project During recent months we have worked on an extension module that works as a bridge for web applications based on Java Server Faces (JSF) version 2.x or later. This simplifies and enhances JSF development significantly, since meta-data provided from the model is directly available in the business and view layer, reducing redundancies. This module had been initially released 3 months ago as part of release 2.4.0 and has now been significantly improved with our latest release 2.4.1 that was published on October 30th. Changes in committers or PMC members There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last months. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases Apache-Empire-db 2.4.1 was released on Oct 30, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Status report for the Apache Flume Project DESCRIPTION Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS. RELEASES * Work for releasing Flume version 1.3.0 is underway and expected to be completed by end of the month. * The last release of Flume was version 1.2.0, released on July 26, 2012 CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/zls COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since the last report. * Patrick Wendell joined as committer on 11/11/2012. He is affiliated to Berkley AMPLabs. * A user-group meetup was held on October 25, 2012 at PulsePoint headquarters in New York. This was attended by 20 people in all. * Currently there are: - Total of 138 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 324 subscribers to the user list - Total of 22 committers - Total of 20 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Status report for the Apache Forrest Project Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: Be aware that the project appears to be dormant. Suggestions for next steps. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Development has been non-existent for the quarter. There was no activity on any mail list. No other PMC members have been active during this quarter. Two people did respond to my draft board report. This confirms that there are at least three people hanging around, and so we are potentially able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: None. There was no response to the previous quarter reminder about our need to move to 'svnpubsub'. This quarter I added notes about that to our issue tracker to assist others (FOR-1237). During the next quarter I will proceed to request the infrastructure move. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Status report for the Apache Giraph Project Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project Status -------------- Releases: 0.2.0 - expected sometime in December * Currently, the codebase is improving too quickly to consider an immediate release Community --------- Lately, the project has picked up steam and we are adding improvements/fixing bugs at a fantastic rate. In the past 30 days we have resolved 48 issues. Mailing lists: 145 subscribers on dev 207 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Status report for the Apache Gora Project The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support. Project Releases The Apache Gora team was happy to announce the release of Gora 0.2.1 on 7th August 2012. No releases have been made since. Overall Project Activity since last report The last report quoted that good progress was being made on the GSoC project, these efforts have now come to fruition with the recent merge of a goraamazon branch with the trunk code. The entire efforts which went into GSoC project can now be leveraged and enjoyed by Gora users and dev's. In all 17 of 77 issues have been addressed since we last reported. How has the community developed since the last report? Our GSoC student (and now PMC member and Committer) Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo recently presented on Gora @ACEU, continued exposure of this calibre will most certainly aid in building out the community. We have also witnessed Gora users from outside the typical community posting presentations based on Gora use cases, as well as a significant portion of Julien Nioche's presentation (on Apache Nutch) @ACEU focussing on Gora. Not only is this encouraging but also shows that interest in Gora is growing as the technology matures. Changes to PMC & Committers The Gora PMC were very pleased to invite and have Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo join as PMC and Committer. This was the result of a long summers participation in the GSoC project as well as Renato's interest in getting the Gora brand out there at this years ACEU. We look forward to more contributions which build on the great work done over the summer. PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr & Hadoop (this is not an exhaustive list). Within the scope of the 0.3 development drive is an extensive upgrade of the Avro code, so we will be vigilant in attracting new members. Project Branding or Naming issues NONE Legal issues NONE ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Status report for the Apache Hadoop Project Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. On the people side, we have new people joining our ranks. * We've added one new committer - Jason Lowe * We've added 3 new PMC members: Siddharth Seth, Robert Evans, Thomas Graves On the project side, we have made 6 releases: - hadoop-2.0.1-alpha was released on 26th July, 2012 - hadoop-0.23.3 was released on 17th September, 2012 - hadoop-2.0.2-alpha was released on 9th October, 2012 - hadoop-1.0.4 was released on 11th October, 2012 - hadoop-1.1.0 was released on 14th October, 2012 - hadoop-0.23.4 was released on 15th October, 2012 Developer community is working well together, even though there was a fresh (but minor) outbreak of vendor wars with some participation by members of the PMC. No action from the Board is necessary now. We've added a new Hadoop YARN sub-project. We had a fairly contentious public discussion on splitting Apache Hadoop into separate projects since there are at least 3 very distinct developer communities in Apache Hadoop now: HDFS, YARN & MapReduce. For now the community has voted to merge separate committer lists, but there seems to be some emerging, albeit very early/tenuous consensus that after hadoop-2 is declared 'stable' we should split the project into separate projects (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce). This will better reflect reality that they have distinct communities. No action from the Board is necessary now. Community: * 48 committers * 3817 user@ * 1624 subscribers on general@ COMMON Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce. Community: * 1681 subscribers on common-dev HDFS HDFS is a distributed file system that supports reliable replicated storage across the cluster using a single name space. Community: * 735 subscribers on hdfs-dev YARN YARN is a distributed computation framework for easily writing distributed applications. Community: * 86 subscribers to yarn-dev MAPREDUCE MapReduce is an implementation of the map/reduce programming paradigm. Community: * 766 subscribers to mapreduce-dev ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Status report for the Apache Hama Project Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. Releases: * A new release is being voted. Community and Development: * No new committers or PMC members voted in. * Users mailbox size has increased. There have been a number of new users on the mailing lists. * User: 183 messages. * Dev: 599 messages. * Commit: 123 messages. * Tommaso will talk at ApacheCon EU 2012 about Hama and Machine Learning. * Few interesting projects on top of Hama began from academic and industry labs. (query language, advanced analytics, ..., etc). Issues: * No Board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache HTTP Server Project The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. No major issues requiring the Board's attention. == Project Status == We produced two bugfix releases in the beginning of the reporting period, 2.2.23 and 2.4.3. Our 2.0.x stream has seen some renewed attention in anticipation of a "final" security roll-up release and an announcement of EOL. More bugfix releases around EOY are anticipated. == Community == IRC and users@ activity has been steady. Bugzilla and development lists has been relatively slow. Fabien Coelho has initiated discussions about rolling his popular out-of-tree module mod_macro into the core distribution. Apache HTTP Server was well represented at ACEU with Jeff, Stefan, Daniel, Graham, Igor, and Rainer attending/hacking and 5 well attended Web Infrastructure track talks. Long-time bugzilla contributor Christophe Jaillet was added as a committer. No changes were made to the PMC roster. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache HttpComponents Project The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols. Status Overall the project remains active. Releases HttpCore 4.2.2 GA was released on the 23rd of September 2012 HttpAsyncClient 4.0-beta3 was released on the 30th of September 2012 HttpClient 4.2.2 GA was released on the 26th of October 2012 Community The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists as well as contributions rolling in ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project As mentioned last month, Jukka Zitting is resigning as the IPMC chair due to changes in personal life. The Incubator PMC has voted to recommend Benson Margulies as the successor for this post. Overall the Incubator continues to work as the path for new projects to join the ASF. There are still various unresolved issues in the incubation process and the structures, roles and documentation surrounding it, but none of these issues seem as unresolvable as they did still at the beginning of this year. Also the reduction in the number of active podlings from 59 at the beginning of the year to 39 today has helped free up volunteer energy and time to better focus on helping the remaining podlings. o Community Roman Shaposhnik joined the Incubator PMC since our last report. The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs: - Apache Kafka - Apache Syncope - Apache Wookie The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions. Other podlings like Clerezza, Droids and Nuvem would otherwise seem ready for graduation, but their low community activity seems risky for a standalone TLP. Thus they're looking at possibly graduating into broader existing TLPs. See the respective reports for more details on these plans. The following proposals for new incubating projects were accepted: - Apache Hadoop Development Tools - Apache Onami The proposal for a new Apache Streams podling is being voted on, and various other proposals for new projects are being prepared. The previously mentioned vote to retire the Apache Kitty podling passed. o Releases The following incubating releases were made since our last report: - October 15th, 2012: Apache Droids 0.2.0-incubating - October 30th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.3-incubating - November 2nd, 2012: Apache CloudStack 4.0.0-incubating - November 12th, 2012: Apache Flex SDK Installer 1.0.9-incubating - November 15th, 2012: Apache Bloodhound 0.2-incubating The crypto export issue of the Wookie podling is still open and is blocking their releases. Assistance from the legal team is requested. o Legal / Trademarks The trademark team continues to be helpful in resolving various trademark-related issues that come up with many podlings. Apart from the crypto export issue mentioned above there are currently no major open legal issues that would require board attention. o Infrastructure The first few podlings using the previously proposed streamlined podling.incubator.apache.org infrastructure are now up and running. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- Still getting started at the Incubator (4 podlings) Blur, Drill, Helix, Ripple These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Not yet ready to graduate (6 podlings) Low activity: Clerezza, Droids, NPanday, Nuvem, PhotArk Low diversity: Ambari We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues. Ready to graduate (6 podlings) Amber, Crunch, DeltaSpike, Syncope, Wookie, Wink We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter. -------------------- Ambari Ambari is monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for Apache Hadoop clusters. Incubating since 30 August 2011. - Ambari 0.9 released. - Working towards the next release - target date sometime in end Nov/early December - One new PPMC member added - Yusaku Sako - AMBARI-666 branch created to allow a more flexible architecture - goal is to merge it to trunk for the next release - More than 270 jiras have been fixed on AMBARI-666 - Number of users on the list - 85 - Number of devs on the list - 67 Issues that must be addressed before graduation are: - Making a release - Attracting users and developers - Increase diversity of developers outside of Hortonworks Signed-off-by: Owen O'Malley, Devaraj Das, cdouglas, jukka -------------------- Amber Amber has been incubating since July 2010. Amber is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v1.0, v1.0a and v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation - Attract users and developers - Start to execute the graduation plan Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - No particularly issues at the moment How has the community developed since the last report? New users / devs show up on the mailing lists both contributing patches and asking for guidance/release. How has the project developed since the last report After the Amber first release (amber-0.22-incubating) seems that the community has taken a little hiatus. Next challenge is to comply against the just released RFC 6749 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749). Since the last report we fixed some issues for aligning with latest OAuth specification. Signed-off-by: wave (as shepherd) IPMC comments: wave: I think that Amber is ready to graduate - the traffic on the ML is down but indicates that some might use Amber if it were a TLP. I see starts to the process, I think that the mentors just need to give the podling some nudges. Some status updates to the mentor lists and sign-offs are in order as well. -------------------- Blur (Incubating since August 2012) Apache Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Issues needing Board/Incubator PMC Attention: None. Key Activities: - Website has been migrated to Apache CMS and is online at http://incubator.apache.org/blur/ - Apache Rat has been integrated into the build process - Many of issues that Apache Rat identified have been corrected - A major rework of the code base is in progress with a goal of releasing 0.2 as the first release of Apache Blur - During the rework of the code the community has been active in discussions and contributing code - Jan 2013 is a realistic timeline for a release - The most significant development achievement over the past month has been the update to Lucene 4.0 NOTE: The version change caused several thousand compile errors and many were fixed by community contributions. With the help of community developers the update only took a couple of weeks before tests were passing and the application was working again. Community: - Over the past 30 days in JIRA, 17 issues have been created and 12 resolved. - Several of these issues were resolved by contributions from outside the current committers. - Subscriptions: users@ - 22[+3]; dev@ - 24[+3] - Mail list messages in blur-dev has grown to 227 in October, up from 70 in August Graduation is still a long way off, the next major milestone toward graduation will be Blur's first Apache release. Signed-off-by: twilliams -------------------- Clerezza (incubating since November 27th, 2009) Clerezza is a framework and set of components designed to make it easy to build applications for the semantic and the social web. Although Clerezza could technically graduate, activity has been very low and diminishing since 2010, especially regarding the content management components. The reusable RDF libraries are used in Stanbol for example and see slightly more activity. We've started a discussion about the future of Clerezza, with a proposal to move those reusable libraries to another project, probably Stanbol, and terminate incubation of the other components. The goal is to have a decision on this within a few days. Signed-off-by: bdelacretaz (mentor), jukka IPMC comments: jukka: See also Stanbol's TLP report to the board. -------------------- Crunch Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running pipelines of MapReduce jobs on Apache Hadoop. Crunch entered incubation on 2012-05-29. The most important steps towards graduation: - Create another release or two - Perform the name search Nothing that currently requires IPMC attention. Community: The Crunch community has been very active and continues to grow. Two new committers have been voted in and one existing committer has joined the PPMC. As a result, Crunch now has 10 committers from 7 different organizations. We have created our first release in September and have published a website using the Apache CMS a few days later. Our second release will follow in November. Development: - 76 issues were created on the Crunch JIRA in August to October, 70 of those were resolved. - crunch-dev has been active: 922 emails in the reporting period - Apache CMS and ReviewBoard for Crunch are up and running - All ICLAs are in place, including those for the new committers Signed-off-by: tomwhite, jukka -------------------- DeltaSpike (incubating since December 2011) DeltaSpike will consist of a number of portable CDI extensions that provide useful features for Java application developers. The goal of DeltaSpike is to create a de-facto standard of CDI-Extensions that is developed and maintained by the community. There are currently no issues requiring IPMC or Board attention. Since our last report in August 2012, we have accomplished the following: - Migration to ApacheCMS almost finished - Release of deltaspike-0.3-incubating - JSF module started - New Committers (voted and added) - Boleslaw Dawidowicz Upcoming major goals: - Finish the setup for the documentation and the website - Release deltaspike-0.4-incubating - Prepare for Graduation in the next few months Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation: none Signed-off-by: Gerhard Petracek, struberg, jukka -------------------- Drill Drill's goal is to build an open source clone of Dremel with appropriate extensions to foster greater flexibility. Drill has been incubating since September of 2012. Since last month, we have been working on bringing in existing code assets. We now have the following items in our source repository: - A web-based GUI front-end for DRILL - A query parser for a Dremel equivalent language - An early prototype of a physical plan interpreter The web front-end and query parser still need formalized IP clearance including ICLA's or CCLA's as appropriate. Informal clearances have been granted on all components. In terms of infrastructure, the project web site has been incorporated into CMS. Graduation is still very far away, but the community activity has been high and the mailing list has been active with over 200 postings in October. Numerous public presentations have been made since the last report. Most important issues to address before we can graduate: Get the basics in place, build up a working code base, make releases (that is, everything) Any issues the Incubator PMC or ASF board need to be aware of: None at this time How has the community developed since the last report: The active contributors mentioned in the previous report continue to be active and additional contributors have been identified. At least one corporate supporter of the project has hired a full-time engineer to focus on Drill. We are working to bind these new contributors into the community and several appear likely to become committers over time. How has the project developed since the last report: The community has continued to make progress and substantial code assets are in the process of being contributed. Signed-off-by: berndf -------------------- Droids Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Issues before graduation : Diversity is still an issue for the podling. More activity will help the diversity problem. Commons was very recently contacted to see what options exist for graduating into Commons and if it would be beneficial for both communities. Recent Activity: Apache Droids incubating 0.2 was released on August 9th, 2012. This marks the second release for the project. Members of the community met up at ApacheCon EU to discuss ideas and options. In accordance with ASF guidelines, no voteable decisions were made during those discussions. Signed-off-by: rfrovarp, bimargulies -------------------- Helix Started incubating October 15th Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault tolerance and elasticity. Issues needing Board/Incubator PMC Attention: None. Key Activities: - Website setup at http://incubator.apache.org/helix/. All committers submitted ICLA. - Source code migrated to Apache Git - Working on first release. Possibly in November. - Build integration - Integrated with Jenkins, Sonar, Apache Rat - Working on stabilizing tests that depend on time. - Code clean up and Documentation Community: - 11 Jiras created, 3 resolved. Mostly on improvements. - Subscriptions: users@ - 18; dev@ - 15 - Most activity on dev, little activity on user. Next milestones - First release - Identify potential use cases for Helix. Signed-off-by: olamy -------------------- NPanday NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday has been incubating since August 2010. NPanday's lull in activity has continued with the committers busy elsewhere. There is still interest in pulling together a release, which hopefully will spur further activity, but little progress has been made since the last report. The project was mildly impacted by instability in the Windows instance of Jenkins on two recent occasions, but that appears to be sorted out. As we reported 2 months ago, we continue to see occasional questions from users, and occasional patch submissions, but haven't added a new committer since 20 April 2011. The last release was on 16 May 2011. We are still short on mentors, and would appreciate any volunteers! The top priorities towards graduation are: - work out a concrete plan towards graduation in the next quarter - encourage newer contributors to do so on a continuing basis. - reach out to other projects using .NET that might be interested in working with NPanday Signed-off-by: dennisl, jukka IPMC comments: jukka: Second quarter with low activity. May need to consider alternatives to graduation if activity doesn't pick up. -------------------- Nuvem Apache Nuvem will define an open application programming interface for common cloud application services, allowing applications to be easily ported across the most popular cloud platforms. Nuvem was accepted for Incubation on June, 2010. Nuvem is a small community, where the contributions are 100% done by volunteers in their own free time, which makes the level of activity low, compared to what is required for graduating it as a TLP. We have discussed this matter in the Apache Nuvem PMC, and based on the PMC synergies and technologies dependencies, we are in conversation with the Apache Tuscany PMC and plans are to graduate Apache Nuvem as a subproject of Tuscany. So far, the discussions are going fine, and we should start required votes soon. Planned activities for graduation: - Start required votes to graduate as a subproject of Apache Tuscany. Signed-off-by: lresende (mentor), Roman Shaposhnik (rvs) IPMC comments: project has a low level of activity and is self-aware of that, a good graduation trajectory here seems to be to join Apache Tuscany as a sub-project. There is a vote in progress addressing such proposal. -------------------- PhotArk Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application including a content repository for the images, a display piece, an access control layer, and upload capabilities. PhotArk was accepted for Incubation on August 19, 2008. PhotArk has a small community of contributors, mostly students, that need a lot of attention in order to keep them active. The recent move in the project direction to become a hybrid HTML5/Cordova mobile application that aggregates images from different photo sources has contributed to bring old members of the community and the is also two students participating in GSoC that have been doing a great job and became committers. The community has discussed retirement, and few PMC members want to still contribute to the project. Having said that, the reality is that PhotArk is a small community, where the contributions are 100% done by volunteers in their own free time, with some dependency on GSoC to attract higher level of activity as the students can devote their full time on the project. Right now the community is looking into preparing a release based on the features that were implemented during the past few months. Issues before graduation : PhotArk started as a project with no initial code-base, and we have grown the community to the minimal independent committer size required for graduation. We need to make these contributors constantly active in order to think about graduation again, or recruit new contributors. If the project can sustain the same level of activity for the next three months, I believe we could think about graduation again. Signed-off-by: lresende (mentor), bimargulies (mentor), jukka IPMC comments: jukka: It seems like the risk of relying heavily on GSoC contributions has materialized as a large drop in activity after summer. -------------------- Ripple Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks and the Mobile Web. Project just entered the incubator. Currently infra related tasks are being organized and ICLAs collected. Signed-off-by: grobmeier -------------------- Syncope Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. Syncope entered incubation on 2012-02-10. Podling's graduation resolution proposal was voted and accepted by the Incubator PMC. Suitable name search (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-17) was also conducted. The approved graduation proposal, alongside with the suitable name search result, was notified to the board by podling's champion Simone Tripodi on Nov 11th. Signed-off-by: coheigea -------------------- Wink Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. Apache Wink has been incubating since 2009-05-27. Development list traffic and discussions are steadily, but low. Users have been helping each other with questions and suggestions. The community has concluded the graduation vote, and we are waiting for the name search jira to get closed by the Trademark PMC so that we can start an IPMC vote. Activities since last report period : - Apache Wink 1.2.1 completed. - Michael Fiedler voted as new Apache Wink committer Planned Activity: - Start graduation process in IPMC once name search jira is closed. Signed-off-by: lresende, jukka -------------------- Wookie Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial. Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009. Progress since August 2012: - Started monthly release for August (version 0.12.0. has been stalled - see below) - Progressed graduation process Next steps: - Resume monthly release cycle - Complete graduation process Issues before graduation: - none Details: - Graduation process Further to our graduation status as reported in our last report... Name searches completed See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-353 See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-13 Held Graduation Vote See: http://incubator.markmail.org/search/?q=wookie-dev#query:wookie-dev%20date%3A201210%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.wookie-dev+page:1+mid:jcgdcacn535jqwqy+state:results See: http://incubator.markmail.org/search/?q=wookie-dev#query:wookie-dev%20date%3A201210%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.wookie-dev+page:2+mid:hp2bggjhec7vpdch+state:results The proposal to graduate Wookie as a TLP was sent to board@apache.org on 31/10/2012 to be resolved at the next meeting. - Stalled Release On 22 August we created the build artifacts for version 0.12.0-incubating, in accordance with our monthly release schedule. During the VOTE process a question was raised on the subject of the inclusion of Apache Santuario XMLSec in wookie. See: http://incubator.markmail.org/search/?q=wookie-dev#query:wookie-dev%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.wookie-dev%20date%3A201208%20+page:1+mid:hgxuhglq5pmwbs4f+state:results It was decided to ask/consult apache legal. At present there has been no answer on this matter and therefore the wookie release cycle is stalled. We urgently require guidance on this matter, so we can resolve this build and consequently resume our release cycle. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-148 See: http://apache.markmail.org/search/?q=legal-discuss#query:legal-discuss%20list%3Aorg.apache.legal-discuss%20date%3A201210%20+page:2+mid:nbqenvlfyuyhevpx+state:results Signed-off-by: ate, mfranklin, bimargulies ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache Isis Project Apache Isis graduated from the incubator last month (approved at the Oct 2012 board meeting). This is the first of the monthly reports required for three months post-graduation. Project Description: Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked objects architectural pattern Membership: Dan Haywood is the new PMC chair. Those listed in the graduation resolution [1] have been added to the PMC group. Development: Two of the Isis committers (Dan Haywood and Jeroen van der Wal) are currently engaged on a project where the client is in effect funding development of Isis. The work is being done under ICLAs of the committers; client understand they have no claim to IP. Commits have continued to be made to the codebase during the reporting period. This project will continue through 2013. We have started to work with infra to transition to a TLP [2], [3]. The community has also voted to move from SVN to GIT. We will be working with infra to effect this change [4]. The community has also decided to transition to using the CMS website, rather than the static Maven site currently supported. We now have a basic placeholder site up and running [5]. Community Activity: A presentation on RestfulObjects (a submodule of Isis) was made at J-Fall 2012 conference in the Netherlands [6]. At the same conference, a set of hands-on lab sessions were also run [7]. At ApacheConEU, a presentation was made on Apache Isis [8]. No new committers or contributors this month. Infrastructure Changes: The following post-graduation tasks were performed [2], [3]: * New root aliases and groups * New mailing lists have been established, subscribers moved over * SVN code has moved out from under the incubator branch * Begin setting up of new CMS-based website Website: In addition to the new CMS site, currently a placeholder [5], the old incubator site [9] is still live. Project Branding: The CMS site was adapted from an existing CMS site. The branding of Isis on the old incubator site is now inaccurate, since the project is no longer incubating. We expect to retire the incubator site before Xmas 2012. Issues: There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ISIS/GraduationResolution [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-276 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5480 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5502 [5] http://isis.apache.org [6] http://www.nljug.org/pages/events/content/jfall_2012/sessions/00086/ [7] http://www.nljug.org/pages/events/content/jfall_2012/sessions/00029/ [8] http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/171/ [9] http://incubator.apache.org/isis ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache jUDDI Project jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR). jUDDI - No new releases this period. - Traffic on the mailing lists was fairly low, interestingly mostly grad students. - No new committers. Scout - No new releases, no real activity during this quarter. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. No board level issues at this time. We're currently ramping up to do a release on both projects. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache Lenya Project The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: No board level issues at this time. Development: No new releases this quarter. Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14 Community: A meetup was held at ApacheCon EU. Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists. No change in community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Status report for the Apache Libcloud Project Apache Libcloud Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases - Libcloud 0.11.3 has been released on September 25th, 2012 Other Tomaz Muraus gave a talk titled "Avoiding Vendor Lock-In Using Apache Libcloud" at CloudOpen in San Diego (http://cloudopen2012.sched.org/event/d1affcfac01d01799c15436cfdb2b584#.UJcnO3T1SsV). Community * No new PMC Members * Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors * GSoC student has successfully finished his project. Currently we are working with the student on integrating the project into main line. Student wrote a short blog post about his experience at http://islamgulov.blogspot.com/2012/08/gsoc-experience.html. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache Logging Project The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-source software related to the logging of application behavior. - Community Gary Gregory has joined the Apache Logging PMC. - Project Branding Requirements All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We expect a new Chainsaw release soon which will close the gap. - Development General: No outstanding issues. A talk has been held about Apache Logging on ApacheCon EU. log4j 1.2: Some work has been done for a new release, but has stalled due to the high activity of log4j 2.0. log4j 2.0: The team is currently voting on the 5th release of log4j 2. There are two committers actively maintaining the code and we face an increased interest from the wider community. For example, 802 messages has been sent to the dev@ mailing list (September 418, August 215). log4cxx: Low activity. A patch has been sent to the mailing list, but there are no committers maintaining this component. log4net: No activity. log4php: Constant activity, 1 release has been published. Preparations for log4php 3.0.0 have started. We get more issue reports/patches from users, but have not identified a new potential committer yet. The project agreed to migrate from SVN to GIT and is currently working with Infra on this. Chainsaw: A new chainsaw release is blocked by the companions release. The log4j 2.0.0 interest increases interest in a new Chainsaw release. Companions (for log4j 1.x): We are heading towards a new companions release. Some work has been done and the release might happen close after ApacheCon EU. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Status report for the Apache Lucene.Net Project Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users. == Summary == No Board level issues. == Releases == Lucene.Net 3.0.3 was released in the last month. The next planned release is 3.6 which mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene. No timeline is currently available. Planning and discussion are underway. == Statistics == Nuget package downloads: Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 850 Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 229 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 38 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 34 Note: all these packages are new in the last month, so these represent <1 month of downloads ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache ManifoldCF Project Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been two major releases, including a 1.0 release on October 3, 2012. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, especially with new connector development and user activity centered around the SharePoint 2010 connector. Dev list comments also centered around new committers, release-related communication, and voting. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== We have signed up two new committers since the last report in August, 2012. We also continue to receive contributions in random bursts from people using the software. We've identified any contributor who seems to have a medium-term or better commitment to the technology as being a potential committer, and as always, we try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== There are no outstanding legal issues that need resolution at this time. Infrastructure ========== There are no infrastructure issues known at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache ODE Project DESCRIPTION Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This was again a quiet development period. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. We have made some progress in migrating the web site to Apache CMS, including a revamped site layout that will finally adhere to the project branding guidelines. See http://ode.staging.apache.org for a first glimpse. We're in the process of reviewing patches in order to apply them and cut a maintenance release. RELEASE No release to report in this quarter. DEVELOPMENT No significant progress to report. However, we some interesting discussions at ACEU with the Camel team and are looking forward to a potential collaboration and some development activity. COMMUNITY Reviewing the patches revealed some good contributions and potential new committers. PROJECT BRANDING BOARD REPORT CHECKLIST We are planning to address the requirements with the migration from confluence to the CMS, which is in progress: Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Status report for the Apache Oozie Project DESCRIPTION Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). RELEASES * The last release of Apache Oozie was version 3.2.0-incubating, released on Jun 06, 2012 while in Incubation. * Finalizing work towards release 3.3.0. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/xm (since last report, October 2012) * TLP migration complete, site live http://oozie.apache.org COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has not changed since becoming a TLP. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (1), Cloudera (2), Continuity (1), Ebay (1), Hortonworks (2), Microsoft (2), Yahoo (2). * 2 new committers: Mona Chitnis (Yahoo) and Robert Kanter (Cloudera) * Currently there are: - Total of 98 (+5) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 213 (+7) subscribers to the user list - Total of 13 (+2) committers - Total of 11 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Status report for the Apache OpenEJB Project Apache OpenEJB is an enterprise application containers and object distribution services based on, the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Web Profile. A year has passed since "TomEE" was first released last October 2011 at JavaOne. Website traffic is up roughly 150% percent since last September. Mailing list traffic is up 230%. With the clear success of TomEE, the project is currently discussing changing the primary identity from OpenEJB to TomEE. Having them as separate TLPs is a technical impossibility as for all intents and purposes TomEE is OpenEJB. The success has come almost exclusively from certification and rebranding of existing code. The release efforts for TomEE 1.1.0 and OpenEJB 4.5.1 mentioned in last release never resulted in a release due to overwhelming feedback and always having more critical bugs to fix. A release was finalized in October just prior to JavaOne this year in order to keep people off of snapshots. Due to the large volume of fixes, enhancements and features the version was bumped to 1.5.0 and 4.5.0 respectively. A release branch has already been created for 1.5.1 and 4.5.1 with hopes for release candidates in the coming week. Project efforts focus mainly on fixes, documentation, addressing migration issues and keeping up with the high volume of user feedback we are now getting. More frequent releases and documentation have been repeatedly noted by users and developers as major needs of the project. Efforts to further document and create tooling for the release process are starting to show results in the form of greater participation in the release process, which is encouraging. With further efforts, we will hopefully finally realize the desire and demand for more frequent releases. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Status report for the Apache OpenOffice Project Apache OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 and graduated from the Incubator on 2012-10-17. OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations support 110 languages worldwide. As the project graduated very recently, this report still focuses on the pre-graduation phase and uses the pre-graduation template. MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS TO ADDRESS TOWARD GRADUATION OpenOffice graduated in October. To that aim, the project since the last report had: 1. chosen a PMC with public nominations on the ooo-dev list 2. elected a PMC chair 3. carefully checked the compliance of code in its repository with the Apache rules. ISSUES FOR IPMC OR ASF BOARD AWARENESS No new issues at this time. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT/OUTREACH PROGRESS We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of native language home pages and to update the OpenOffice translations into several languages. We managed to recruit new translation volunteers and get them involved in the project. Because our product is client-centric, we have put additional focus on our social networking accounts - Google +, Facebook - in collecting feedback and ideas from our user base. For example, 1260 users proposed ideas for OpenOffice 4.0 in a survey we conducted using Google Moderator. In anticipation of additional growth post-graduation, we are developing web pages to support new volunteers, especially in the localization and QA areas. We are also looking at conferences and events to increase our outreach: after ApacheCon, we will have a strong presence at FOSDEM (February 2013, Brussels, Belgium) where the Apache OpenOffice project will have a dedicated track for developers ("devroom"). PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS We started discussing plans for the next OpenOffice release. It will contain several new features and it will probably be labelled 4.0. Plans are to release it in Q1 2013 or shortly after. Community support forums remain popular with users. The English forum reached 50,000 members in June (or, if we remove the spam accounts which manage to go through, in September 2012, almost 5 years after its creation). The ooo-users list also is quite active and the localization list ooo-L10N is fast growing. As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very active. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Status report for the Apache Perl Project -- mod_perl 1.0 -- The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd 1.3.x. No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report. --- mod_perl 2.0 -- mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches. Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along. --- Apache-Test -- Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications, and includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP and Parrot. Apache-Test 1.38 was released on August 6th, 2012 No new Apache-Test releases since the last report. --- Apache-SizeLimit -- Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes based on various environmental triggers. No new Apache-SizeLimit releases since the last report. --- Apache-Bootstrap -- Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy. No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since the last report. --- Apache-Reload -- Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter without completely restarting httpd. Apache-Reload 0.12 was released on March 31st, 2012 -- Apache-DBI -- Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients using DBI. No new Apache-DBI releases since the last report. -- Development -- 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 applied with due consideration for our production userbase. -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is seeing an increase in activity, with a few bug reports and user questions. Patches from the httpd-2.4 branch have started being applied to trunk. -- PMC -- No noteworthy PMC events happened since the last report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Status report for the Apache POI Project Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. Project Status -------------- Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of user activity and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been steady in the last 3 months: - User mailing list: 331 messages - Dev mailing list: 511 messages - Commits: 84 commits Most patches and bug fixes are applied without much delay. GSoC student has successfully completed his project and has been voted in as a POI committer/PMC member. Releases -------- No releases in the last quarter. We are aiming to release POI-3.9 in December 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Status report for the Apache Qpid Project Apache Qpid™ is a cross-platform Enterprise Messaging system which implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), providing message brokers written in C++ and Java, along with clients for C++, Java JMS, .Net, Python, and Ruby. Releases: The release cadence is continuing, with a release made since the last board report. Progress: AMQP 1.0 support is furiously being working into the brokers. The protocol support is being created in the sub-project proton, which i also been picked up by ActiveMQ and other projects. It appears that the project will have complete AMQP 1.0 protocol support in the few releases. Community: The traffic on the lists seem to be consistent with prior reporting periods. Issues: No issues to report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Status report for the Apache River Project Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini Specification. Releases: No new releases since last report. Some failing unit tests are the only blocker to release right now and they are being investigated. Progress: Some more interesting discussions are taking place about some directions River might take and what it's going to do next. There have been some commits and we're looking again at getting ready for another release. There has been some frank and open discussion which the PMC dealt with well and we feel that we're acquitting ourselves well. Community: The PMC chair has requested that the PMC/community elect a new chair, citing external commitments preventing him from being able to devote sufficient to River. The board should expect this change to happen soon. Issues: No board issues at this time ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Status report for the Apache Roller Project Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and databases. The ASF blog site blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release. Community Since our last report, there have been a couple of patches and bug reports made. Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. No new committers or PMC changes to report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Status report for the Apache Santuario Project The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. There was one new release during the last quarter. Version 1.5.3 of the Apache XML Security for Java library was released. This release featured some new development work to support XML Signature 1.1 KeyInfo extensions, as well as a number of bug fixes. Work has continued apace on introducing a new streaming XML Security model in the forthcoming 2.0 release of the Java library. This work is mostly complete, and may be released in the next quarter. No changes to the PMC or new committers in this quarter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Status report for the Apache Shindig Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Status report for the Apache SIS Project Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs. Development: The code that was generously donated by Martin Desruisseaux [1] is still being moved over from the GeoTK project "as is". At this point, parts of the current code base will be evaluated and refactored as there are known issues that need to be addressed. The AngleFormat class not implementing formatToCharacterIterator(Object) is a recent example of this, but there is also bigger issues like Geotk not working well with longitudes in the [0‚360] range (it is designed for the [-180‚180] range). This will be an ongoing effort as there is quite a bit of code to integrate. Currently, there are 230,000 lines of code waiting to move over and the potential for 530,000 more pending further investigation. The first class was "officially" checked in on Oct 23rd [2] which in turn can be used across multiple locales for internationalization purposes... Community: No new activity... Branding: The Website[2] and Project logo[3] are currently being worked on and will be finalized soon Press: Martin Desruisseaux attended the OGC meeting in Korea and there are plans for other SIS PMC members from NASA and MDA Information Systems to attend the meeting when it's located at ESRI (Redlands, California) in January 2013. [5] [1] http://s.apache.org/Est [2] http://s.apache.org/vcr [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-31 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-57 [5] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1301tc ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Status report for the Apache Stanbol Project Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is active and development is steadily going on. New users and questions pop up on the mailing list and the community starts to help each other - even without the need of any core committer which is a good sign. Stanbol committers were actively involved in the ApacheCon EU. There were three Stanbol related talks in the Linked Data track. The feedback from the Apache community was very positive and many more people are now aware of the existence of Stanbol. There were no new committers or PMC members elected. There are discussions going on about merging code from Apache Clerezza (incubating) into Stanbol. No final decisions made yet. The project did not manage to publish new releases the last month but is working on that. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Status report for the Apache Steve Project Apache Steve is up to a somewhat slow start, with the SVN import being the main item to be resolved. DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * All Steve mailing lists, jira, wiki, etc. are set up per INFRA-5082 [1]. * Discussion continues on the dev mailing list regarding the SVN import issue in INFRA-5169 [2]. COMMUNITY * No new committers or PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5082 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5169 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Status report for the Apache Subversion Project ** Board Issues There are no Board-level issues at this time. ** Releases As we reported in June, the Apache Subversion 1.7.6 was imminent, and was released on August 15. Since then, Apache Subversion 1.7.7 was released on October 9th. We also performed a non-Apache release of Subversion 1.6.19 on September 21. ** Community The Subversion Live events in October (produced by WANdisco) were well-attended by users, and many of the Subversion committers. We have added no new committers or PMC members since our last report. Ben Reser has returned from inactive status, and is being his old productive self. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Status report for the Apache Turbine Project Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to use personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. Status The Turbine project has as usual seen low levels of activity in the last quarter. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Project Branding Board Report Checklist The last issue left is - TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM Community changes Georg Kallidis has been voted in as a Turbine Committer. No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. Turbine core project The Turbine core project proceeds slowly to the next milestone release which shall include a modified security implementation and support for the Quartz scheduler to replace the built-in one. Due to unexpected problems with the release of a Fulcrum component (the previous method of mirroring the M2 repository on people.a.o does no longer work), we found the need to create a new Parent POM for the project that uses Nexus. As this is a substantial change in the organization of the Turbine core project and the Fulcrum components a full vote is being held. Two other votes are open - Maven Archetype for a Turbine 2.3.3 web application - Maven Archetype for a Turbine 4.0 web application (based on Turbine 4.0M1) Fulcrum component project The Fulcrum security components are being prepared to be included in the Turbine 4.0M2 release. Several other Fulcrum components have been updated and will be released subsequently, once the new Parent POM is released. - fulcrum-upload, version 1.0.5 has been released. META project There has been no activity on the META sub-project in this quarter. The sub-project will be closed down when the two archetypes have passed their vote. We are planning not to report on this sub-project anymore starting from the next board report. No beta or final releases were made since the last board report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Status report for the Apache Tuscany Project Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA. ISSUES - There are no issues that require the board's attention. RELEASES - None COMMUNITY ACTIVITY - The project has discussed to accept Nuvem as a sub-project, and the required process has started with community vote. - Traffic hasn't change much, and continue on the lower side in the past few months. - Few patches are still coming from users. BRANDING - We still need to update logos with TM and review project doap file. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Status report for the Apache Velocity Project DESCRIPTION Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects. RELEASES * None CURRENT ACTIVITY * Minimal COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Activity remains low on all lists, though Stack Overflow regularly has Velocity questions, of which the intelligent ones and a few less-so ones are answered in reasonable time. * Apache Velocity remains in a more-or-less dormant period, not its first in the last 12 years though. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Status report for the Apache Xalan Project Project Description ------------------- Apache Xalan delivers libraries and programs to transform XML documents using XSLT stylesheets. Our subprojects support development of these libraries in Java and C++ programming languages. Membership ---------- Steven J. Hathaway is the new chair of Xalan PMC. David Bertoni, the outgoing chair, still remains a PMC member. Product Releases ---------------- Xalan C++ (Version 1.11) released November 2, 2012. Xalan C++ 1.11 is our first release of any kind since reforming the Xalan PMC. Community Activity ------------------ Google Summer of Code 2012 was a success. The coding work is being prepared for integration into the Xalan-C/C++ library. The student is helping with this integration. Committers for Xalan Java are still working toward a patch release. The Xalan-C++ code base has been independently compiled and tested on multiple commercial platforms. All reported issues have been patched and incorporated into the product release. Infrastructure Changes ---------------------- * Xalan WIKI has been established * Apache XML project has been retired * Xalan distribution directories are created * Mirror.cgi has been patched - resolving mirror selection * Xalan-C dependencies on Apache XML have been re-hosted * Xalan-Java dependencies on Apache XML have been re-hosted * Xalan-C download support has been validated * Xalan-C webpage resource links have been validated * Xalan-Java download support has been validated * Xalan-Java webpage resource links have been validated Website Publishing ------------------ The Xalan tlp website is using svnpubsub for content publishing. Project Branding ---------------- Ongoing -- New website pages are compliant. The old website pages are deprecated and will eventually be phased out. Issues ------ There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Status report for the Apache Xerces Project Xerces-J We continue to receive feedback from the community on the XML Schema 1.1 implementation and are addressing the issues they're raising in JIRA with fixes. Our GSoC student (Shakya) successfully completed his project in August. This addresses a long standing issue with validation against multiple XML schemas with the same namespace. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 180+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of August. No new releases this quarter. Xerces-C In September we heard from Rob Cameron of International Characters, Inc. about a potential donation of code to the project. They've developed a high performance version of Xerces-C++ called icXML. It seemed like he was interested in joining the community to develop this further in Apache, though we have not yet seen an Incubator proposal or follow-up from the initial discussion thread. A few bugs were fixed during the reporting period. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 95+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of August. No new releases this quarter. Xerces-P Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period. XML Commons It's been quiet in XML Commons. No development activity to report. Apache Project Branding Requirements There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project logo. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Status report for the Apache XML Graphics Project General ======= One new committer; Luis Bernardo Moving to CMS based websites ============================ Further progress has been made on the prototype CMS Website and we are now satisfied that it is ready to go live. There are still a few minor issues outstanding but we have decided to make them as we go along rather than trying to get everything perfect before the switch during which time we are maintaining 2 websites. Our current planned go live date is 7th November. Switching from Bugzilla to Jira =============================== Infra have reported that it is a big challenge for them to import the bugzilla bugs into Jira as the import process will bring all 50K Bugzilla Users into Jira. Infra have identified a workaround but that will take a long time and it isn't known when they will be able to fit that into their work schedule. FOP === The team has released FOP v1.1, which is a significant achievement as it represents 2 years of bug fixes and new enhancements some of which are very large such as Complex Script Support. There have been several bug fixes and enhancements since the last board report and the 1.1 branch was created. The most notable are; Table marker support, PDF/A-2 support and an implementation of rounded corners. XML Graphics Commons ==================== 1 new release; v1.5 synchronized to the FOP v1.1 release. There were over 40 commits this quarter. A lot of them were related to the 1.5 release, but there were a few bug fixes too, e.g. Bugzilla 49516 Batik ===== 11 commits were made to SVN to fix a few bugs, this includes processing a contributor patch from Bugzilla 42395 ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the November 21, 2012 board meeting.