The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes February 20, 2013 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at 10:34 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. 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 Roy T. Fielding Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Brett Porter Greg Stein Directors Absent: Bertrand Delacretaz Sam Ruby Executive Officers Present: Chris Mattmann left at 10:58 Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Marvin Humphrey 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of January 16, 2013 See: board_minutes_2013_01_16.txt Tabled. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Doug] There was a brief board discussion of the chain of command within the ASF. We agreed that our infrastructure contractors report to the VP of Infrastructure, who in turn reports to the President. While we try to keep things informal, it's still best to know where everyone stands formally. When the authority of our words are different depending on which hat hat we wear, whether officer, contractor, PMC member or ASF member, then we are wise to clarify. B. President [Jim] All President's cmmts reported and in general all is well. There are no issues with branding or marketing; fundraising has been active with renewals and this has created a delay in sending out the 'Thank You' letters. I am working with Fundraising to address their questions. ApacheCon NA 2013 is next week; I will be doing the standard 'State of the Feather' talk. Concom will be doing a post-con assessment. There will likely be an event in Bangalore in late March in which Concom is involved with. Both Infra and TAC are also progressing well. There were delays in getting reports this month; I will look into extending Marvin to better remind my cmmts to report earlier. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] On Jan 17th, Jim in his President's role informed Gav as TAC chair that for normal expenses related to TAC he is authorized to svn move bills from Bills/received to Bills/approved in the Treasurer workflow. However, TAC must provide a full accounting of such charges in their monthly report. It was also clarified that expenses for TAC team members cannot be approved by the TAC chair and must be approved by Jim and Ross (operations@apache.org) All bills continue to be paid as requested. We are currently in process for payment to the former ApacheCon producer for charges for ApacheConNA 2011 and 2010 and processing TAC on the ground helper charges for ApacheCon NA 2013. Sally's flight expenses to ApacheCon NA 2013 have been taken care of on Sam's credit card, with details being provided to Sally by Gav. Sponsorship requested that the Treasurer's office look into notifications for incoming sponsorship payments from WFS. Nick Burch made a small update to https://whimsy.apache.org/fundraising/invoice to allow it to deal with non-whole numbers in invoices. Sam and Chris have agreed to send Melissa's check earlier in the month since her current Bill Pay is still not functioning correctly and is sent to the incorrect address. We received another contact from the Brazilian firm handling the SVN mark regarding its payments it claimed it never received. Treasurer's office reported that this matter has been handed off to the ASF President and CC'ed him directly on the reply. Nick Burch approached the Treasurer's Office mentioning that due to a TAC dropout the travel agent that handles TAC booking has a surplus of around 440.50 GBP and requested advice from the Treasurer on what to do with it. Treasurer's Office is OK with leaving the surplus with the agent. Income and Expenses Current Balances: Wells Fargo Business Checking: 385,345.02 Wells Fargo Savings: 287,523.89 PayPal: 152,645.82 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 825,514.73 Income Summary: Lockbox 412.69 Paypal 2,673.19 Misc Deposits 25,000.00 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 28,085.88 Expense Summary: Category Amount ---------------------------- ---------- ApacheCon EU 2012 13,300.00 Executive Assistant 2,346.50 Infrastructure Contractors 30,500.00 Network Services - Traci.net 518.00 Public Relations 6,545.45 Misc Expenses 550.85 ASF credit card - Justin Erenkrantz 50.00 ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 36.94 Travel Assistance Committee 10,644.40 ---------------------------- ---------- Total $ 64,492.14 D. Secretary [Craig] Modulo a few hiccoughs due to changing the format of podling email lists, secretary is running smoothly. January was an average month for document filing. 54 iclas, five cclas, three ndas, and one grant were received and filed. James Carman continues to assist in the operation of the office of the secretary. E. Executive Vice President [Ross] A mostly uneventful month. There was a request from The Open Bastion to assist in generating more community interest in ApacheCon. The main concern was that VP ConCom appeared to be very busy elsewhere and was therefore unresponsive for a period. I did my best to fill the gap until VP ConCom was again available. One of the items that needed to be addressed was the collection of some sponsorship money from two sponsors who were unwilling or unable to pay The Open Bastion directly. This was addressed by VP Fundraising and the Treasurer but The Open Bastion felt this was a breakdown with respect to the single point of contact within the ASF. Furthermore at least one of the two sponsors involved felt the delays this caused were somewhat unprofessional. These sponsorship payment issues have come up with both ApacheCon EU and ApacheCon NA. It is recommended that for future events we make provision for such sponsorships as part of our contract with the producer. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Nothing to report at this time. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Sam] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Ross] No report was submitted. B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Rich] See Attachment B C. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Bertrand] See Attachment C D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Doug] See Attachment D E. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment E F. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Roy] See Attachment F AI: Greg: contact PMC to ask for dates on releases G. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Jim] See Attachment G H. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Brett] See Attachment H I. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Roy] See Attachment I J. Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter] See Attachment J K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Ross] See Attachment K L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Rich] See Attachment L M. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Doug] See Attachment M AI: Doug: let PMCs know to leave off branding from board reports unless there are issues N. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Bertrand] See Attachment N O. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Greg] See Attachment O P. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Brett] See Attachment P Q. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Sam] See Attachment Q AI: Greg: let PMC know that affiliations are not needed in the board report R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Jim] See Attachment R S. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug] See Attachment S T. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Roy] See Attachment T U. Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy / Greg] See Attachment U V. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Sam] See Attachment V W. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Bertrand] See Attachment W X. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Jim] See Attachment X Y. Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies / Rich] See Attachment Y Z. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Brett] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Ross] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Bertrand] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Roy] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Doug] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Ross] No report was submitted. AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Rich] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Greg] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Jim] See Attachment AH AI: Jim: contact PMC with comments about affiliations and JIRA queries AI. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Sam] No report was submitted. AK. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Rich] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Roy] No report was submitted. AM. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Doug] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Bertrand] See Attachment AN AO. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Jim] See Attachment AO AP. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Greg] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Sam] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende / Ross] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Greg] See Attachment AU AV. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Sam] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Rich] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Roy] See Attachment AX AY. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Brett] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Bertrand] No report was submitted. BA. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / ] See Attachment BA Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache Hadoop Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Arun Murthy to the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Arun Murthy from the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Hadoop project has chosen by vote to recommend Chris Douglas as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Arun Murthy is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chris Douglas be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Hadoop Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Establish the Apache Crunch 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 the development of Java libraries for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Crunch Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Crunch Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to development of Java libraries for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Crunch" 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 Crunch Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Crunch 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 Crunch Project: * Brock Noland * Christian Tzolov * Gabriel Reid * Josh Wills * Kiyan Ahmadizadeh * Matthias Friedrich * Rahul Sharma * Robert Chu * Tom White * Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Josh Wills be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, 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 Crunch 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 Crunch Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Crunch Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Crunch podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Crunch podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Crunch Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Change the Apache OODT PMC Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chris Mattmann to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Chris Mattmann from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT project has chosen to recommend Sean Kelly the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Chris Mattmann is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sean Kelly and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, 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 7C, Change the Apache OODT PMC Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache Clerezza 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 OSGi-based modular application and set of components for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Clerezza Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Clerezza Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an OSGi-based modular application and set of components for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Clerezza" 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 Clerezza Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Clerezza 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 Clerezza Project: * Reto Bachmann-Gmuer * Tsuyoshi Ito * Hasan Hasan * Tommaso Teofili * Bertrand Delacretaz * Florent André * Rupert Westenthaler * Daniel Spicar NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hasan Hasan be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Clerezza, 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 Clerezza 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 Clerezza Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Clerezza Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Clerezza podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Clerezza podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Clerezza Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Change the Apache Pig Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Daniel Dai to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Daniel Dai from the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pig project has chosen by vote to recommend Julien Le Dem as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Daniel Dai is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Julien Le Dem be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, 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 Pig Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items Umbrella projects have been problematic in the past and the board wants to ensure that projects are aware of the dangers. AI Ross: prepare and review with the board a memo to PMCs with the board's concerns. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Daniel: draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle other Apache projects. Status: * Roy: update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers. Status: * Brett: follow up with HBase PMC to clarify the "owner" role. Status: sent mail, awaiting response from PMC 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:44 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] No issues requiring board or President attention. I've caught up on replying to all outstanding questions, which run the usual gamut. A branding complaint was made by one company whose engineers work on a major Apache project about behavior in a private email sent from another company whose engineers work on the same project. This was addressed well by trademarks@ volunteers, but serves to show a couple of key points we need to continue to educate our communities about: - Branding issues are almost never immediate-time-sensitive. Unless the question is about physical media being printed for an in-person event happening within the week, branding questions can ALWAYS wait a few days to organize a response and deal with. - The ASF is responsible for enforcing brand use of the Apache brand(s). While we certainly very much appreciate third parties alerting us to potentially improper uses of our brands, it is NOT appropriate for third parties to directly work on enforcing Apache brands without our explicit consent. The Apache OpenOffice project has made a request that we lodge a complaint with certain search terms being used on Google AdWords that may infringe on our marks. They have examples of infringing sites using these marks to drive traffic, which is clearly a problem for this project with it's large end-user population. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira] Fundraising has been a bit more active this last month. We have sent out four platinum invoices plus are following up one more. Hadrian has offered to help contact some sponsors, and Bertrand has offered to contact another. We were approached cold by a company wanting to become a bronze sponsor. I sent an invoice, but have not yet seen note of payment. I attempted, but failed to send out thank you letters to PayPal contributors. I believe I have the technology to do it, it just requires a concerted input of time (in short supply). Given the January deadline has passed, I would appreciate guidance as to whether I should still persist in sending these letters. I would also appreciate knowing whether a daily/monthly cron job could send out letters, rather than a manual task undertaken from scratch each year. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: we remain ahead of plans and under budget. We are incurring a production expense for "Apache" promotional items for distribution at ApacheCon, as well as travel expenses for Sally Khudairi to attend and present at the conference. No vendor payments are due at this time. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally has been assisting Upayavira in securing and processing 3 Platinum Sponsorship renewals. III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, announce@apache.org, or announce@apachecon.com during this timeperiod. IV. Informal Announcements: 4 items were announced on @TheASF Twitter feed, and 10 on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed. No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. V. Future Announcements: a graduation announcement is being planned for a project currently in the Apache Incubator. PMCs wishing to announce major project news —as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator— are welcome to contact Sally at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: Sally responded to 4 media requests, 2 requests for project graphics/logos, and is coordinating 15 interviews across various projects for a feature on the ASF's influence in the world of Open Source. The ASF received 612 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 466. VII. Analyst Relations: no formal briefings are planned. Apache was mentioned in 5 reports by Gartner, 1 write-up by GigaOM, and 3 reports by 451 Research. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: a press release for ApacheCon will be disseminated on 6 February. Sally will be attending the event to organize and moderate "The Business of Open Source" plenary panel. She also created new graphics and is working with Melissa Warnkin on production of promotional items to be distributed at ApacheCon and other ASF events. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no new activities are underway, aside from our working with O'Reilly regarding our participation with OSCON 2013, as well as possibly the Strata/Hadoop World conferences. X. Newswire accounts: we have 15 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 12 pre-paid press releases remaining on the PRNewswire account through May 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby] Placed a $15K order for a new vmware server with Dell which is now on backorder through February. Still dealing with the fallout of losing one of our public switch interfaces. Uli is working on OOB access for us at FUB. Specced some additional drive capacity for eris. Discussed setting up apaste.apache.org as a pasting service for Apache based on Daniel Gruno's apaste.info site. Started the process of reigning in the abusive maven traffic to svn.apache.org. Started the process of dealing with the missing Flex attachments for a Jira import. Shut off the people -> www rsync jobs for our websites. All project sites now MUST be on either svnpubsub or the CMS to continue to be maintained. Enabled redirects for our svn.apache.org services for graduated podling trees. Upgraded the software on adam (OSX) for $40 thanks to Sander Temme. Was contacted by Traci to update our inventory with them. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch] Small Events ------------ It looks like there's a critical mass of organisers interested in an event in Bangalore in late March, especially around CloudStack and GSOC. Once a venue has been sourced, this can be announced. Depending on the venue, it might be a pure BarCamp, or a BarCamp with hackathon. Third Party Branding requests have come in from a few projects, and along with trademarks we've been advising Subversion about their hackathon. No other small events are on the horizon, and a few possible ones seem to have gone quiet lately. We may want to hunt out likely suspects at ApacheCon and try to persuade them to push ahead with smaller events in their local areas. Spare mentor capacity currently exists. Past ApacheCons --------------- The finances for several past ApacheCons have largely been documented and finalised this month. Figures for the last two NA ApacheCons have now gone into SVN, and we've worked with TAC and Operations to handle the ASF profits vs ASF TAC costs. The figures for ACEU have largely gone into SVN, we're waiting for one EUR payment to come in from NewThinking so we can finalise the USD accounts. ApacheCon NA ------------ ApacheCon NA 2013 is happening in Portland next week. There will be a BarCamp on the Sunday, Hackathon on the Monday, and community events in the evenings. Numbers are apparently looking lower than the last two NA ApacheCons. There also seems to be less community engagement with the event than the previous two NA events. Positively, the amount of volunteer energies going into the event are well down on the previous two NA events, much much lower than EU, and largely focused on the surrounding community events. Whether the lower community engagement is linked to the lower volunteer involvement or not is currently not clear. Future ApacheCon Discussion --------------------------- After Portland, no more ApacheCons are currently planned. Both Europe and this event (along with the producer model) were one-off experiments to try and find a future path for ApacheCon. A session (with note taking) is planned for the end of ACNA, to discuss how well the particular producer led approach worked, in terms of volunteer energies and community outcomes. This will then be taken back to the list, and shared especially with those with more experience of previous ApacheCons, but less involvement in this one. We then need to decide if a producer led ApacheCon under slightly different rules would work. (A pure community event has been shown not to work, but a low cost for committers and speakers event has been shown to, but may not be possible financially with a producer. Co-locating has been tried a few times now, and hasn't really seemed to work well. Berlin Buzzwords has worked amazingly well, but sadly not under our flag...) Committee --------- No new members this month. A few people are likely to be approached in Portland, to sound out their interest in joining ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] General ======= Clarification on TAC budget spending was resolved last meeting with TAC being able to approve for its TAC recipients. Any TAC Committee Members or other appointed helpers that seek assistance of any kind must be approved by the President or the EVP. The travel-assistance@ mailing list has 13 people subscribed (no change on last month.) ApacheCon NA 2013 Portland ======================= Everything seems to be in place. No hiccups with our final 7 candidates, tickets are issued as appropriate. Final information on what TAC folks need to know are being emailed out. Budget Spending ============= As the event is next week, and some things are still going through, I'll report on the spending for this event next month. That said, expenditure for 2 TAC members were approved. Other Events =========== No other events requiring TAC attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] ASF has made the W3C community group commitments on IP and copyright so that Sergio Fernández can join the Open Data Spain Community Group. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby] Extremely quiet month. Only discussion of note is once best summarized by Roy's statement: "Obey the license and follow the golden rule". Upcoming: I plan to spend some time looking into the JCP TCK issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] For Jan 2013: 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. 3 Support question 2 User was hacked, but it wasn't ASF software at fault 7 Vulnerability reports 1 [directory, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, not an issue] 1 [ofbiz, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, dev version only] 1 [httpd, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, not httpd] 1 [httpd, via security@apache.org] [STALLED, waiting for reporter] 1 [tomcat, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, not an issue] 1 [tomcat, via security@tomcat.apache.org] [CLOSED, not an issue] 1 [maven, via security@apache.org] Since the new year we have started a weekly review of open issues to try to catch situations where the security team have not forwarded reports correctly or where the project has not responded to the reporter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] Apache Ant is a Java based build tool (see http://ant.apache.org) o Release Status Antoine Levy Lambert has begun the process that will lead to an Ant 1.9.0 release. Ivy 2.3.0 was just released. Core --------- Ant 1.8.4 was released on May 23rd 2012 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013 Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010 o Committers and PMC No changes o Community No issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino] Apologies for missing the report last month. At this point there are no issues requiring board attention in the Attic project. Things are quiet, the pipeline is empty but the low to nonexistent mailing lists traffic is being monitored. Other than one small ongoing task on closing the XML project, we are waiting for things to do! ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert] 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. Our last release (1.4.9) was on November 9th, 2012. We are in the process of voting for the release of Buildr 1.4.10 at the time of writing this report; this release should contain 8 enhancements, 7 bug fixes (one of which contributed by a non-committer) and 5 minor changes. The mailing lists remain relatively quiet. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski] The Apache C++ Standard Library Project aims to provide an ALv2-licensed system standard C++ library suite. Releases: None. Development: Since last report, activity has slowed down quite a bit. I expect partly this is due to simple timing (around the end-of-year holidays), and I plan to try to encourage a ramp-up of development with some emails. Community: No changes. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability, high performance, and high availability. Releases: 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.2.0, 1.2.1 Development: Cassandra 1.2 was released at the beginning of January. New features include - virtual nodes [1] - collections [2] - improved support for auto-expired data [3] - startup optimization [4] - atomic batches [5] Community: Jason Brown was added as a committer. The Tokyo Cassandra community organized their second yearly conference at the end of November, drawing a crowd of about 100. Last year most attendees were evaluating Cassandra, but this year saw many of them discussing production experiences. [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://b-rabbit.jp/cct2012/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar] Apache Click is an easy-to-use page and component oriented Java web framework. The project is facing issues of having a viable community. While the Apache Click is currently used for many applications under current development, it has become superseded by more modern client side MVC frameworks such as AngularJS. The project needs to recruit new committers or faces the prospect of moving into the attic over the medium term. Infrastructure ------------------- There are no infrastructure issues at this time. Development ------------------ No headway has been made towards a version 2.3.1/2.4 release. Community ---------------- There have been no new commiter or PMC members added during this period. Mailing list traffic has been very light for the period. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler] 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 webservices and web applications. Community Traffic on users lists continues be light but steady, people continue be interested on C2 and newer C3. Especially c3 new developments from Mansour Al Akeel, a user that had been quite active the last quarter, has spoused some discussions and bug fixes. Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions. Simone has resigned from the position of PMC chair, and Cocoon PMC voted for Thorsten to fill this role. Releases No releases during the last quarter but the community is working to do a release for all version, where the 2.2 version did get less attention then 2.1 and 3.0. The whole release effort is driven by Francesco Chicchiriccò and the 2.1 release is supported by David and Cédric. Hopefully we can release all versions within the next quarter. Development Bugfixing on C3 and release preparation on the 2.1 branch. Various tickets and patches had been applied to the code base, especially one blocking issue on the c3 branch could be closed which opened the door towards a stable c3 release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende] The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects Project Status -------------- No issues require board attention at this time. GSoC -------------- GSoC 2013 has just been announced and we need to start updating website, and finding a volunteer for being the admin for 2013. GSoC invoice for the GSoC and Mentor Summit has been submitted and are being processed by Google. Other -------------- Outstanding: * Need to verify that GSoC invoice has been properly processed and that ASF has received the proper funds. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter] 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. This quarter saw the long overdue release of Continuum 1.4.1 on January 7, 2013, including a number of accumulated improvements. This also included a fix for a security vulnerability reported earlier, based on the version of the Struts library used. We have recommended all users upgrade and published details on a security page. The project has moved to using svnpubsub for publishing the site and documentation, and for release distributions. All branding requirements have now been completed. We are likely to have low activity from this point onwards, as the application is mature and serves current user's needs. New contributors would be welcomed, and there is enough attention from the PMC to respond to new users and contributors as that arises, and to produce a release if necessary. We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with an HTTP API. Released version 1.0.4, 1.1.2 and 1.2.1 to address CVE-2012-5641, CVE-2012-5650 and CVE-2012-5651 among other minor bugfixes. Imported the codebase for a new, work-in-progress admin utility donated by a set of users. Added 5 new committers (among them the contributors & donators of the new admin utility). Starting the release procedure for 1.3.0. Held a successful CouchDB Conf (http://conf.couchdb.org) bringing users and committers together. ~70 people total over 3 days. Branding Status: The project website and assorted assets are up to date with the Branding Board Report Checklist[1]. [1]: http://apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#checklist ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin] 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. Community --------- Quiet since the last report. Releases -------- None (yet). The last release happened while the project was incubating: RAT 0.8 released in November 2011. Rat and Whisker are waiting to be released. Community Objectives -------------------- * Release Apache Rat 0.9 * Release Apache Whisker 0.1 ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] 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 seems to be still high but nothing serious happened in code and in the mailing list except for a proposal to contribute some benchmarks and performance testing that, since we are still far away from a release, could really help. * New Committers * None * Project Branding Requirements Already completed. * Issues No board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere] Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. Progress of the project With our release last November many issues have been resolved and we are now collecting new issues and ideas for future development. Mailing list traffic was low, probably because of the holidays. 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 NONE ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith] Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services. MILESTONES Etch graduated from the Apache Incubator on January 16, 2013. Since then, there haven't been new releases. ACTIVITY * The main activity within the last month was related to the "After graduation tasks". We are following the steps described by http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#life-after-graduation and tracking the status of the different issues at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ETCH-252. See INFRASTRUCTURE section for details. * Development goes on, our main focus is the stabilization of the Etch C++ binding. As soon as this is in a beta status, we are planning to perform our release 1.3.0. * User activity is almost quiet. We are working on improvements of documentation and examples to make it easier for people to use Etch. COMMUNITY No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation. More work is needed to broad both user and developer community. INFRASTRUCTURE * Incubator website, SVN repository and mailing lists have been transfered from their Incubator to TLP locations. Users and developers have been informed about the changes. * Website has been updated to reflect the new status. * Incubator EXIT issues have been signed off. * Etch is now listed on Apaches a.o, projects.a.o sites (DOAP files created). * Updated officer information for new chair. * Twitter used to keep followers up to date about TLP migration. LEGAL No issues. BRANDING Incubator logo has been removed from website, no other known issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui] Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.0 was released on 12/27/12. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash-dependent code base, including the two releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from Adobe Flash. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Nick Kwaitkowski and other community members totally revamped the flex.apache.org site. Trademarks reviewed the site before it went live on 1/31/13. Analytics were also added to the site. In the first two days we had 4,228 (3,534 unique) visitors and 11,965 page views. COMMUNITY Roland Zwaga was approved as committer on 1/15/13. PRESS Scott Guthmann worked with Press@a.o to publish a press release about Apache Flex on 1/14/13. One link to it is here: http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/01/14/516186/10017952/en/The-Apache-Software-Foundation-Announces-Apache-Flex-tm-as-a-Top-Level-Project.html LEGAL Nothing to report. TLP MIGRATION The TLP migration was completed on January 5, 2012. I think we've completed all of the necessary steps. Task Status: * Infrastructure migration complete * All code & web pages have been updated to reflect new status * Final incubator status done * committee-info.txt updated with PMC details * Officer info updated for new chair * Clean up incubator version of website, dist done INFRASTRUCTURE * Infrastructure migration from the incubator is complete and the project website has been transferred to flex.apache.org. * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. The problem appears to be resolved so INFRA-4380 will likely be resolved by the time of the board meeting. * We will be trying to migrate from SVN to Git as soon as possible. BRANDING The flex.apache.org site is undergoing a major overhaul. We will review the new site against this checklist. * Project Naming And Descriptions : Done * Website Navigation Links : Done * Trademark Attributions : Done * Logos and Graphics : Done * Project Metadata : Done ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar] 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 * Since the previous status report, Flume has made two releases - version 1.3.0 was released on December 4, 2012, and version 1.3.1 was released on January 2, 2013. * No further releases are planned at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being logged and resolved. * A total of 176 issues have been filed, and 117 issues have been resolved between the period starting November 21, 2012 and February 12, 2013. * Approximately 1500 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 627 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has changed due to changes in affiliations of the PMC members. Currently, the PMC affiliations stand at: Apple (1), Cloudera (12), CyberAgent (1), Independent (2), Intuit (2), Motorola (1), and Wibidata (1). * Committer composition has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 161 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 367 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 R: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. There was no activity on the user mail list. A user did add a comment for a workaround to an issue. There was some activity on the dev mail list, with one PMC member seeking assistance with their work (see below) and being assisted by two other PMC members. No other PMC members have been active during this quarter. Three people did respond to my draft board report. This confirms that there are at least four people hanging around, and so we are potentially able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Following the December quarter, the board feedback was returned to the private list, i.e. it is okay to appear to be "dormant" as long as there are 3+ PMC members actively following. This quarter the activity seems to have risen a little. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: There was good progress on the "wiki" plugin, which handles input from various wikis. The plugin should now support all relevant jspwiki markup. That also spurred some interaction in the community. Continued work on one of our Gump projects, which now deploys some plugins and then uses the built 'forrest' to generate a sample site. Discussion was commenced regarding extending commit access. Not much activity yet. The project was reminded that Apache Cocoon is attempting to release the next Cocoon-2.1 version, which the current forrest depends upon. No developer assisted with the required move to 'svnpubsub', so the chair stepped up again to arrange that. All done now. Thanks to Infra. ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project Status: --------- Releases: 0.2.0 - Delayed due to further API changes, will re-evaluate later this month. Community: --------- These past months we have seen an increase in contributions from a more diverse set of individuals. One contributor (Eli Reisman) is working on getting Giraph to work natively on YARN, which will be great for YARN and Giraph. Mailing lists: 148 subscribers on dev 221 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney] 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 however a clear strategy has been established for the 0.3 release. Overall Project Activity since last report Since last reporting, the PMC has geared the development drive towards the 0.3 release. We have addressed and resolved 28 of 33 issues meaning that the progression towards an RC for 0.3 is well on the way. We currently have two blockers which nee to be addressed before we can consider the 0.3 RC. How has the community developed since the last report? Activity on the user@ list has been very slow since last reporting. It was invisaged that after ApacheConEU user interest might pick up slightly, however this has not materialized as we hoped. Activity on dev@ has developed in line with our expectations as we move towards more regular Gora releases. Generally speaking more work needs to be done in an attempt to make it easier for people to use Gora. This is something which the PMC need to work on. Changes to PMC & Committers The Gora PMC were very pleased to invite and have Alfonso Nishikawa join our ranks in early December. After working with the PMC to ensure smooth transition into the Apache community Alfonso is now contributing to Gora and making a real impact. Alfonso also joined the Gora PMC. 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). We are still actively seeking one or more members to join the team from the Avro community so this will be a main target for us in the future post 0.3 release. Project Branding or Naming issues NONE Legal issues NONE ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy] 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 3 new committers - Kihwal Lee, Arpit Gupta, Bikas Saha * We've added 1 new PMC member: Harsh J * We've elected a new PMC Chair, Chris Douglas. (Also added to the board agenda.) On the project side, we have made 4 releases: - hadoop-0.23.5 was released on 28th November, 2012 - hadoop-1.1.1 was released on 1st December, 2012 - hadoop-0.23.6 was released on 6th February, 2013 - hadoop-2.0.3-alpha was released on 13th February, 2013 PMC Chair Vote - We had a fairly contentious discussion after for the PMC Chair resulted in a tie after STV. The discussions included *analysis* of voting patterns w.r.t employers, accusations and counter-accusations about reasons for those patterns such as marketing etc., a proposal to *rotate PMC chair organization* as one of the remedies, which eventually veered into a direction where one PMC member perceived it as a of 'threat to remove all PMC members of an organization' which was rapidly diffused by a clarification by the other PMC member. In the end, one of the 2 candidates tied after the vote withdrew to allow for an amicable solution and also cited concerns about the nature of some of the discussions. Clearly, the lesson the Hadoop PMC has learnt is that, in future, voting should be done via the ASF Voting Tool. As the outgoing Chair, my personal recommendation is that splitting the Hadoop project into separate TLPs (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce) will not only break up the 'umbrella' Hadoop project to better reflect the fact that the communities are significantly disparate, but will also, more importantly, help avoid excessive fascination with the Hadoop brand. We've discussed about this in the past (see October 2012 Board Report) - some people agree about this, others don't. We'll continue to talk. Overall, aside from these skirmishes, the community continues to function in a healthy manner as evinced by the fact that we continue to make a significant number of software releases, grow the community by adding new users/contributors/committers/PMC-members and generally make great forward progress. Hence, I feel there isn't any reason for the Board to take any action. Community: * 51 committers * 3932 user@ * 1783 subscribers on general@ COMMON Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce. Community: * 1751 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: * 829 subscribers on hdfs-dev YARN YARN is a distributed computation framework for easily writing distributed applications. Community: * 185 subscribers to yarn-dev MAPREDUCE MapReduce is an implementation of the map/reduce programming paradigm. Community: * 867 subscribers to mapreduce-dev ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon] 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: * We’re preparing 0.6.1 new release. Community: * user@ and dev@ MLs activities are continuously raising. Currently 160 users, 98 devs. * Thomas Jungblut has requested to go Emeritus from the Hama PMC. * New committer (Mikalaj Parafeniuk) and pmc (Apurv Verma) are being voted. Development: * We’re mainly improving scalability and performance of BSP computing engine. * We're preparing integration with Hadoop 2.0, Mesos, and Bigtop. Issues: * No Board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener] 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 == No releases during this reporting period, but a 2.4.x release is anticipated prior to ACNA (thanks Jim). There has been a flurry of backport activity from trunk in anticipation. 2.0.x and older releases see almost no activity. mod_macro was IP cleared and rolled into trunk. == Community == IRC and users@ activity has been steady. Bugzilla and development lists has been relativey slow. Fabien Coelho joined us as a committer. Gregg Smith and Daniel Gruno joined the PMC. Apache HTTP Server has a number of talks/tutorials planned for ACNA. ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera] 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 4.2.3 GA was released on the 2nd of December 2012 - HttpCore 4.3-alpha1 was released on the 2nd of December 2012 - HttpClient 4.2.3 GA was released on the 15th of January 2013 - HttpClient 4.3-alpha1 was released on the 22nd of January 2013 Community The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists as well as contributions rolling in - Karl Wright was voted in as a committer on the 8th of December 2012 - Francois-Xavier Bonnet was voted in as a committer on the 15th of January 2013 ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies] The main concern of the incubator continues to be the quality and reliability of supervision. We know that some projects suffer from Mentor Inattention. Individual PMC members have been volunteering to address some of these holes. Shepherds are an additional mechanism for taking note of problems, but not a solution to those problems. The supply of mentoring seems, still, to exceed demand. Changes to the report format make it somewhat easier to notice, for example, mentors who don't sign off on reports or reports that are altogether missing. As a change from this theme, this reporting period includes a less conventional issue. A podling (HCatalog) proposes to 'graduate' by absorption into the Hive PMC. However, the terms under which Hive proposes to absorb HCatalog strikes some PMC members as returning to the deprecated practices of 'umbrellas' and 'subprojects', which led to strong -1 votes on the graduation thread. On the other hand, it may be entirely between the board and Hive to sort out whether Hive is creating a structure that is acceptable to the board or not, and not a matter for the IPMC to rule on. We'd like to pose this question to the board: There are three possible dispositions of a podling: 1. It graduates. The IPMC has a vote to recommend that the board establish the TLP. 2. It retires. The IPMC votes to retire. The board learns in the next IPMC report. 3. The podling community strikes an agreement to merge into some existing TLP. It is the third case we'd like some board feedback on. What is the role of the IPMC in this case? A minimalist view is that all we do is certify that the IP is cleared, and then we 'retire' the podling -- no vote at all, or a lazy consensus to certify the IP situation. The board, on the other hand, might look to us to vote to approve the scheme of adoption. If the vote fails, however, then what? o Community New IPMC members: Chris Douglas People who left the IPMC: None o New Podlings None. o Graduations The board has motions for the following: Crunch and Clerezza have motions before the board. o Releases Well, I can't find any. But people may not have sent proper announcements to general@incubator. o Legal / Trademarks Lovely new documentation on LICENSE and NOTICE resulted from conversations at the IPMC. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- Still getting started at the Incubator These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress towards graduation is yet expected. Blur HDT Marmotta Onami Ripple Streams Not yet ready to graduate Ambari Crunch Deltaspike Droids NPanday Ready to graduate Clerezza ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Ambari Blur Clerezza Crunch DeltaSpike Droids Hadoop Development Tools Marmotta NPanday Onami Ripple Streams ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Ambari Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari has been incubating since 2011-08-30. - Release 1.2.0 done - Preparing for 1.2.1 release expected to be in the next week or so. - new committers have been added Jaimin Jetley, John Speidel, Tom Beerbower, Srimanth - We are hoping to do some meetups to get more user/dev engagement. This expected to happen in the next month or so. Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Attracting users and developers 2. Increase diversity of developers outside of Hortonworks Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No How has the community developed since the last report? - With new releases, there is more interest in user community. We hope to build on that with more releases and better docs. - Mailing list stats: dev - 79, user - 111 How has the project developed since the last report? - Release 1.2.0 is done - Release 1.2.1 is expected to happen in the next week or so Signed-off-by: Owen O'Malley: [X](ambari) Chris Douglas: [ ](ambari) Arun Murthy: [X](ambari) Shepherd notes: I think that Ambari is close to ready to graduate. They have recently added new committers. Dave Fisher -------------------- Blur Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a cloud computing environment. Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Official IP sign off - Near Infinity signed CCLA and Blur Software Grant in July of 2012 - All committers have submitted ICLA's in July/August of 2012 - So I believe that an official vote is all that is needed. 2. First Apache release which is dependent on #1 - The biggest reason this has been delayed is due to several major code refactors to make use of Blur faster and easier 3. Community growth, Blur needs to grow beyond the initial set of committors. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? - Overall message traffic was down through the holidays, but has started to pick back up since the beginning of the year. - Subscriptions: users@ - 31[+9]; dev@ - 33[+9] How has the project developed since the last report? - There has been about 80 commits since the last report, from 2 committors and 1 contributor - The 0.2 development branch is now functioning and is getting closer to feature parity with 0.1. Signed-off-by: Doug Cutting: [ ](blur) Patrick Hunt: [X](blur) Tim Williams: [X](blur) Shepherd notes: Cool project. Identifying and following through on community growth is important. Beautiful website. Dave Fisher -------------------- Clerezza an OSGi-based modular application and set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. Clerezza has been incubating since 2009-11-27. The resolution to graduate Clerezza has been added to the board agenda, as per the http://s.apache.org/rOw vote. There was some prior discussion of the viability of the project, especially the content management parts where activity has been fairly low recently, but in the end enough volunteers have shown up to move the project forward. Signed-off-by: Ross Gardler: [ ](clerezza) Reinhard Poetz: [ ](clerezza) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Crunch Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running pipelines of MapReduce jobs on Apache Hadoop. Crunch has been incubating since 2012-05-26. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: * None Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * Nothing that currently requires IPMC attention. How has the community developed since the last report? The Apache Crunch development team has released version 0.4.0-incubating in November, the second release at the Apache Incubator. We have worked with the Apache BigTop project and our release is now part of Apache BigTop 0.5.0. For our next release, we have discussed and agreed on some large-scale API cleanup and implemented the necessary changes. We have performed the podling name search - the name Apache Crunch has been approved by the trademarks team. This has been our last blocker for graduation, we have already started a vote on a graduation resolution within the community and expect to start the vote on incubator-general in February. Development activity around Christmas has been a bit lower than usual but is now picking up again. There has been a significant increase in traffic on crunch-user; it is great to see that more and more users show up, file bug reports and contribute patches or test cases. How has the project developed since the last report? - 53 issues were created on the Crunch JIRA in November to January, 39 issues have been resolved - crunch-dev has seen 615 emails in the reporting period, while 126 emails were posted to crunch-user Signed-off-by: Arun Murthy: [ ](crunch) Patrick Hunt: [X](crunch) Tom White: [ ](crunch) Shepherd notes: -------------------- 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 November 2012, we have accomplished the following: - Migration to ApacheCMS finished - JSF module continued - JPA module enhanced Upcoming major goals: - Finish the work on the WindowHandler and Security - Release deltaspike-0.4-incubating - target Graduation until the next month Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation: none Signed-off-by: Mark Struberg: [X](deltaspike) Gerhard Petracek: [ ](deltaspike) David Blevins: [ ](deltaspike) Matt Benson: [ ](deltaspike) Jim Jagielski: [X](deltaspike) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Droids Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Diversity is still an issue for the podling. Activity has picked up in the recent months, helping with the diversity of those involved. 2. A different name is most likely needed. Droid is now largely associated with Android. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? Commons was approached to see if that was a viable option for graudation. It is unsure that would be a good fit. Other TLPs may be a better fit, but it is unknown how sub-projects would be handled or if they would be allowed. Development activity has picked up in the past two months, since just before Christmas. Most of the development is by one developer, but others have been involved. If this level of activity continues for the next month, Droids may be ready for graduation. How has the project developed since the last report? Development activity has greatly increased in the recent months. There have been strides to make the code base cleaner, and easier to use. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Scherler: [x](droids) Richard Frovarp: [x](droids) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Hadoop Development Tools Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform. Entered 11/09/2012 Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: - Support multiple versions of Hadoop in a single IDE instance. During this time building understanding of the Apache processes around working and releasing. - Release - Grow the podling community in terms of users and contributors. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None How has the community developed since the last report? - Voted for, and invited new member of the PPMC (waiting on ICLA) How has the project developed since the last report? - Plugin and connector architecture discussion that led to agreement and direction for the early work. - Code from Hadoop contrib ported and split into logical plugins. Signed-off-by: Suresh Marru: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris A Mattmann: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Marmotta An open implementation of a Linked Data Platform. Marmotta has been incubating since 2012-12-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Ingest code and clear IP. 2. A release 3. Build dev and PMC. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No such issues. How has the community developed since the last report? * Communication mechanisms have been successfully setup: the dev@marmotta mailing list has quite important traffic (274 messages in January); Jira already registers more than 50 issues; regular meetings are held at IRC, sending the minutes to the mailing list to mitigate the barriers of people in different timezones. This approach is enabling the participation of new people in the community of the project. * Branding: Logo almost ready, trademarks@apache already contacted. Awaiting for the site installation. How has the project developed since the last report? The project is about publish the last release of the former project (LMF), to them contribute the parts that will be actually Marmotta. This last full release already advances some tasks for Marmotta, such as architectural changes and dependencies clean up. After this major milestone, the project's ambition is a rapid turnaround to get an Apache incubator release as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Fabian Christ: [X](marmotta) Nandana Mihindukulasooriya: [X](marmotta) Andy Seaborne: [X](marmotta) Shepherd notes: -------------------- NPanday NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven. NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. work out a concrete plan towards graduation ASAP 2. encourage newer contributors to do so on a continuing basis 3. reach out to other projects using .NET that might be interested in working with NPanday We are still short on mentors, and would appreciate any volunteers. We have had some recent patch submissions again and will encourage those actively using the project to contribute on a regular basis. We haven't added a new committer since 20 April 2011, so expect to have a low barrier to any new committers. The last release was on 16 May 2011. It is clear that this is impacting the ability of the project to attract and retain new blood. Unfortunately, there remain some blockers to releasing the current trunk. We need to push forward with this ASAP. Signed-off-by: Dennis Lundberg: [X](npanday) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Onami Apache Onami aims to create a community focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities. Onami has been incubating since 2012-11-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. complete the ongoing pending releases 2. involve more mentors 3. start discussing the graduation on dev@ Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Two Onami releases have been waiting for IPMC binding votes for seven days and got no inputs How has the community developed since the last report? Two new committers joined the developers community: * Eric Charles, already chair of Apache James, on 2013-01-23; * Mikhail Mazursky, a new guy who joined the ASF thanks to his interest on Onami, on 2013-01-20. Users ML continue being silent; People showed interest on our components on Google Guice users ML. How has the project developed since the last report? * released Onami Parent 2-incubating on 2013-01-19; * all Onami modules publish the required DOAP on the related public site; * released Onami Test 1.4.0-incubating, still under IPMC approval vote; * released Onami Logging 3.4.0-incubating, still under IPMC approval vote; * discussed with Apache BVal dev community about continuing the bval-guice module development under Onami governance. Signed-off-by: Christian Grobmeier: [X](onami) Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](onami) Olivier Lamy: [ ](onami) Shepherd notes: -------------------- 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 aand the Mobile Web. Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Need to contribute code to ASF 2. Increase the ripple community @ apache. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We are still working internally to be able to contribute the Ripple code to ASF Looks like we might have to strip out all of the trademarks from the project for the initial commit under the SGA, we will then commit them back as a normal contribution under ASL2.0. How has the community developed since the last report? The community continues to grow slowly with some more community contributions seen in the project's current home. We expect the community to build up once the project is fully transitioned to the ASF. Also some discussion and bugs are happening in the apache community. How has the project developed since the last report? Very little change here. Filed by Dan Silivestru. Signed-off-by: Jukka Zitting: [ ](ripple) Christian Grobmeier: [X](ripple) Andrew Savory: [X](ripple) Shepherd notes: -------------------- Streams Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams. Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Diverse participation in development. More of the community needs to be actively engaged. 2. Increase the codebase 3. Develop a larger community. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Not at this time How has the community developed since the last report? Discussions are starting to include a wider group of participants. How has the project developed since the last report? The community successfully voted on a new logo. Streams had its first minor release (Streams Master POM 0.1-incubating) Signed-off-by: Matt Franklin: [X](streams) Ate Douma: [X](streams) Craig McClanahan: [ ](streams) Shepherd notes: ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam] 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 - We released version 3.1.4 adding support for digital signing. - Traffic on the mailing lists was fairly low, mostly grad students. - Getting some interest from a developer whose thesis was on UDDI. Scout - We released version 1.2.5. - Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao] Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems. Development =========== We found a few more blocker issues while testing Kafka 0.8 (supports intra-cluster replication). The 0.8 release is likely delayed to Mar or Apr. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 243 emails in Jan. (up from 241 in Dec). kafka-dev has 804 emails in Dec (up from 498 in Dec). We accepted a few more patches from non-committers. There will be a Kafka presentation in ApachCon 2013 in Feb. Infrastructure =========== This is the third month since Kafka became a top-level project. All infra work is now done. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp] The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: No board level issues at this time. After our report last November, there was a request from the board via Greg about the lack of a release and activity. Michael Wechner and Rudolf Korhummel both responded to board@ indicating that this is normal low activity, and that there aren't further concerns. In addition, Rudolf indicated that there was the potential for a release in the future. The statements by both of those individuals remain true. Development: No new releases this quarter. Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14 There has been an effort to make a new release. We are currently trying to improve our build system. We use Ant without Ivy, causing some problems in dependency management that we would like to improve. Community: Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists. No change in community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus] 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 0.11.4 has been released on November 19th, 2012 Community * No new PMC Members * Two new committer have joined the team Ilgiz Islamgulov (ilgiz) and Mahendra Maheshwara (mahendra) * Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier] The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open- source software related to the logging of application behavior. - Community No changes. - Project Branding Requirements All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We are hoping to release Chainsaw soon, but not much time has been spent on this. - Development General: No outstanding issues. log4j 1.2: A few bugreports/patches came in, but no real work has been done this quarter. log4j 2.0: Good activity with further increasing interest from the community which includes patches for new functionality. log4j 2.0- beta3 was released on Nov 15, 2012. log4j 2.0-beta4 was released on Feb 2, 2013. We are aiming at the first stable release. The Apache Onami (incubating) project, which is creating Google Guice extensions, created a new component which wraps log4j 2. log4cxx: a few patches were applied from a contributor earlier this quarter but then this component became inactive again. We have started discussion on moving it to the Attic as it is becoming more and more unlikely that it will revive. log4net: patches have been reviewed and committed. log4php: Constant activity. log4php moved to GIT, which motivated several contributors to send patches. A new release is in the making, along with plans for moving the web site to CMS. Chainsaw: A new chainsaw release is blocked by the companions release. The log4j 2.0.0 interest has increased interest in a new Chainsaw release. Companions (for log4j 1.x): No work has been done here, but it is still on the plan to make a release and unblock Chainsaw. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright] Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. 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, and another major release is undergoing voting at the time of this writing. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments 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 one new committer since the last report in November, 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 AG: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] DESCRIPTION Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials. MILESTONES Oltu graduated from the Apache Incubator on January 16, 2013. Since then, there have been no new releases. CURRENT ACTIVITY - the main activity at the moment is related to the "After graduation tasks". We have been following the instruction as for http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#transfer. We are tracking our progress in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5772 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBER-76; - development is freezed because of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5777; we would rather continue tracking issues on AMBER as soon as possible in order to avoid any confusion in our community; - we have been discussing to widen a bit the scope of Oltu in order to provide Open Id Connect support, some implementation around this has already started; - development activity is healthy, new contributors are emerging as potential new committers; - users activity is almost quiet. COMMUNITY - PMC composition has not changed since graduation. - Committers composition has not changed since graduation. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur] 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). NEW RELEASES * Apache Oozie version 3.3.0, released on DEC/03/2012 * Apache Oozie version 3.3.1, released on JAN/25/2013 CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/WQq (since last report, November 2012) COMMUNITY * PMC composition has not changed since last report. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (1), Cloudera (2), Continuity (1), Ebay (1), Hortonworks (2), Microsoft (2), Yahoo (2). * Committers composition has not changed since last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 106 (+8) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 241 (+28) subscribers to the user list - Total of 13 committers - Total of 11 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools like calendar, invitations and emails using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. == Releases == The PMC has not made a release this reporting period. But we have elected a release manager (Maxim Solodovnik) and, issues have been assigned and ordered, features to be put into version 2.1 are discussed. Target date for release 2.1 would be beginning of March. == Activity == The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits. The main focus in the last couple of weeks since incubation have been: - Moving all resources to top level project infrastructure - Status complete, except the incubator releases that currently remain on the incubator mirrors. - Discussion about release - Status: See point -Releases- - Main features working on: SIP integration/Asterisk VoIP bridge, clustering and load balancing, minor improvements around source code organization and feature enhancements. == Community == We have been starting to search for ideas for GSoC 2013 program. Probably we will try to offer a project around integration of OpenMeetings with Khan Academy to provide Virtual classrooms. There have been contributions around Joomla integration and Ldap that have been applied or are in the process of reviewing by developers. There are currently two Votes processing for new committers and PMC members. == Outreach == There is no dev coming to ApacheCon NA because developers are located in Russia, Australia and New Zealand and can’t make it to the conference. == Infrastructure == All resources have been moved to new infrastructure except the incubator releases that are still on incubator mirrors. == Board == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. Releases -------- Version 3.9 was released on 3rd December 2012 Community --------- No new committers/PMC members. 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 (Nov 01 2012 - Feb 01 2013): - User mailing list: 354 messages - Dev mailing list: 319 messages - Commits: 161 commits Most patches and bug fixes are applied without much delay. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk] Apache River is a service oriented architecture platform, based on the JSK Starter Kit source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini Specification. Releases: No new releases since last report, but a release is expected in early March. Board: No board level issues to report Progress: We've had a flurry of activity recently surrounding a problem exposed by Oracle's JDK 7 transition. This activity will lead to a release in early March. Work also continues on improved user experience and refactoring of the QA suite. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson] 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 at 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 we gained one committer, Glen Mazza, who single-handedly moved the Roller home page to the new Apache CMS. Glen has also been working to clean up the project's JIRA backlog, and closing hundreds of obsolete issues, and our wiki space. Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. There were no new releases during the last quarter. Overall project activity was quiet. The main development activity was focused on the forthcoming 2.0 release of the Java library, which will support a new streaming XML Security model. This work is mostly complete, and a release is expected in the next few months. The svnpubsub migration is not finished yet, but is almost complete. We are working with INFRA on finishing this task. No changes to the PMC or new committers in this quarter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada] Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs. Development: There have been 87 commits since the last Board Report including the build helper module [1], removal of an internal ThreadPoolExecuter[2] and refinements to the Eclipse IDE integration build process[3]. SIS is moving towards a reference implementation of GeoAPI, which is one of the few in existence. Chris Mattmann was also added as a voting member of the GeoAPI community. Chris et al also suggested a major release, and Martin mentioned that we may want to have the next release be for sis-metadata, and then the one after be for sis-referencing. These will mark the first milestone releases for Apache SIS. We have been slowed down recently because of the work temporarily shifted on GeoAPI and Unit of Measurement side. While invisible work from Apache SIS perspective, we believe that this was a necessary step to help ensure a more robust and full-featured Apache SIS implementation. Community: OGC meeting at ESRI in Redlands California, where Martin, Paul Ramirez, and Chris Mattmann met face to face for the first time. Interactions from Johann Sorel and Geomatys were also visible on the mailing list. Additionally, Chris Mattmann was contacted by a PhD student from the University of Maine, Pathum Mudannayake , working on Spatial Information Science and Engineering. Pathum is interested in continuing his doctoral research in geoinformatics and contributing his research to Apache SIS. Branding: The Website[5] and Project logo[6] are currently being worked on and will be finalized soon. Andrew Hart worked with @infra to get the site moved to the new CMS. The old site under incubator was in flux when SIS was moved to TLP. This caused some confusion that Andrew is currently sorting out. Issues: Martin has reported ongoing issues with building and running unit tests on ASF infrastructure. This issue is being logged with Sun for JDK7 and ASF infra@ personnel are aware that these issues exist. Additionally, the CMS integration with the SIS website is still being worked on. On the Jenkins build, we would like to try with an updated JDK (the current one is one year and half old). We don't know if there is any way to help the build infra@ to update their JDK installation so that the ASF infrastructure can support multiple versions of the JDK. Press: Members of the SIS PMC met in person at the OGC meeting held in Redlands, California in January 2013[4]. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-75 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-76 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-77 [4] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1301tc ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] * Board Issue There are no Board-level issues of concern. * Community We have two new "partial" committers (their work is primarily constrained to branches). One is Gabriela Gibson (gbg), who was accepted as part of the [GNOME] Outreach Program for Women (https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen), with Stefan Sperling acting as her mentor. The second committer is Prabhu Gnana Sundar (prabhugs). elego is hosting a hackathon in Berlin in June. The past few years have been a great success, with many from the Subversion community in attendance. This year, there will not be an associated conference as in the past, allowing for a stronger ASF branding and wider range of visibility/invitations. * Releases Apache Subversion 1.7.8 was released on December 20th. The pre-ASF Subversion had a maintenance update to 1.6.20 on January 8th. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco] Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. Status There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. Community user@ ML activity is raising, with new users evaluating the project and asking questions: currently 47 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. dev@ ML activity is quite consistent: currently 42 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses. The month of January 2013 made some significant activity peak: 45 issues resolved, 271 commits, 1359 emails exchanged in our mailing lists. The new CXF RESTful interface has been triggering relevant architectural discussions and brought some roadmap adjustment. We have two new committers, Christian Schneider and Andrei Shakirin. Releases 1.0.5, a maintenance release from the 1_0_X branch, was cut last Jan 23rd. The next major release 1.1.0 is approaching, only few issues (including final checks and documentation) are left open. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl] Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to 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 No new committers were voted in since the last board report. 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. The following components have been released in the last quarter - Turbine Parent POM, version 2 - Maven Archetype for a Turbine 2.3.3 web application - Maven Archetype for a Turbine 4.0 web application (based on Turbine 4.0M1) The Turbine project has not yet switched its site publication method. We are working with Infrastructure to sort this out. Fulcrum component project There has been no activity on the Fulcrum sub-project in this quarter. No beta or final releases were made since the last board report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende] 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 IPMC has approved the graduation of Apache Nuvem as a Tuscany subproject and the project merge process has just started. - The Tuscany community has voted a new committer, but is waiting on acceptance, pending his employer reviewing Apache ICLA. - Traffic hasn't change much, and continue on the lower side in the past few months. BRANDING - We still need to update logos with ™ and review project doap file. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] 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. The rise of client-side development has undercut one of the major sources of users and thus developers. While Velocity remains quite useful for generating text on the server, overall demand seems unlikely to rise. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende] Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. This is our second report after graduation, the project is working with the infrastructure team to complete the remaining necessary migration tasks. Releases: * None. Activity: * The community is working on the first Apache Wink TLP release. * The community is working on website and source code cleanup to remove incubator references. Trademark/Branding: The project needs to review website and other related artifacts to remove any remaining mention of Incubation and to certify it complies with Trademarks policy (in-progress). Legal Issues: * None ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries. Project Releases ---------------- There has been no new release since the last report. The release of Xalan C 1.11 has been well received. Some of our people are working to add support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. We are moving forward with another patch release of Xalan-C. There is still patch integration work required for the Xalan-Java release. General Activity ---------------- We are being represented at ApacheCon NA 2013 in Portland, Oregon. A staff of language specialists has volunteered to translate some of our web documentation to languages commonly spoken and written in Eastern European countries. Our website is fully compliant with svnpubsub. Before Apache XML was retired to the attic, we confirmed that Apache Xalan dependence on Apache XML artifacts and links were properly removed and resolved elsewhere. This includes both our Xalan-C and Xalan-Java projects. There is still good activity in the mail lists for our C/C++ and Java products. Committer and PMC membership ---------------------------- There are no changes in our membership. Board and Infrastructure Issues ------------------------------- There are no outstanding issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] Xerces-J The development focus continues to be on improving the quality of the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. Several bugs were fixed in this area and a large set of XML Schema 1.1 unit tests were contributed. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 100+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of November 2012. No new releases this quarter. Xerces-C Discussion continues about the possible donation of icXML (a high performance version of Xerces-C++) to the Xerces project. Rob Cameron is currently looking for a champion to help get this on track and understands that building a community of developers and users around icXML is key for it to be a successful subproject here. One minor bug was fixed during the reporting period. Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 70+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of November 2012. 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 postings to the mailing list or 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. General We recently put in a request to the Infrastructure team to migrate the Xerces website to svnpubsub. Everything is set up on our end (in SVN) for the migration. We're just waiting for Infrastructure to turn the switch. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch] General ------- No new committers or PMC members this quarter Moving to CMS based websites ---------------------------- The switch took place on the 26th November, which was about 3 weeks after our original planned date. During December, the committers made a number of tweaks to fix minor issues, such as broken links etc. Most major issues are resolved now. Switching from Bugzilla to Jira ------------------------------- Infra completed the import of Bugzilla issues into Jira on the 6th December. The XML Graphic Teams and contributors have been using it successfully ever since. FOP --- A number of patches have been processed and several bugs fixed. The most significant is the re-working of the column balancing algorithm so that it works for more than 2 columns. There have also been some changes to improve the performance of the Complex Scripts feature. XML Graphics Commons -------------------- 4 bugs resolved, including adding support for Little Endian TIFF generation Batik ----- No commits to SVN this quarter. A handful of new bugs have been reported by users via JIRA ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux] Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Status ---------- Migration to a plugin exclusive architecture well under way but we are waiting on infra for a number of new repos to facilitate this. Community ---------------- - No new committers. - Both DOAP files updated! - Cordova documentation is now hosted on Cordova project website! - Incubation retirement for http://incubator.apache.org/projects/callback.html remains. Releases ------------- 2.4.0 released Feb 7 ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the February 20, 2013 board meeting.