The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes February 18, 2015 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:34 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2sep 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 joined at 11:02 Doug Cutting Bertrand Delacretaz Ross Gardler Jim Jagielski Brett Porter Sam Ruby Directors Absent: Greg Stein Chris Mattmann Executive Officers Present: Craig L Russell Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Sean Kelly Daniel Gruno Kevin A. McGrail Jake Farrell Shane Curcuru Andrea Pescetti Chip Childers Marvin Humphrey Hadrian Zbarcea Henri Yandell David Nalley Tom Pappas (Virtual) Mark Radcliffe joined at 10:55 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of January 21, 2015 See: board_minutes_2015_01_21.txt Tabled. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] I've started to pull together the resources for the Annual meeting in late March (after the next and final meeting of the current board). I plan to set the record date and send out formal notices in the next week. I hope to encourage people unable to attend the meeting to submit non-voting proxies well in advance of the meeting, and will see what we can do to make that process easier. I also expect to perform the Omnibus resolution using the voter tool again, so that we do not need to pass any resolutions during the meeting itself. B. President [Ross] Branding: Shane has requested that Mark Radcliffe join the board meeting during the discussion items to help us understand the role of trademarks within the ASF. He will join at 11AM PT. I hope that we can make time for this. EA: Usual support work. Shane has requested that our EA help more with branding items. This is something we have been offering for a long time. We are working on identifying concrete ways in which we can empower Melissa to take action. I intend to move Melissa too a PEO organization (Virtual) assuming no surprises in the cost of doing so or objections from Melissa (we do not expect it to increase ASF costs significantly, if at al). This may be a temporary measure but as previously reported we need to take action and this point a PEO is the only viable option. See the vice Chairman report for more detail. Branding: VP Brand Management expresses concern about management of our brands in projects where the brand is highly valuable. Our policies appear to be working to date. Delegating to the PMCs has spread the workload sufficiently that increased vigilance on complex cases is not posing a significant problem. However, Shane warns that the recent interest in external related foundations will only serve to increase the brand management workload. Shane has invited Mark Radcliffe of DLAPiper to speak to the board today, though this is not related to the concerns raised. The discussion item is the importance of brand management tot he ASF in preparation for budget planning. Fundraising: We continue to iron out wrinkles in the Fundraising process. Each month it seems to be running more smoothly. Processes are sufficiently well defined for Hadrian to participate in the exploration of a CRM for managing sponsor relations (something Melissa had previously been driving in her own time), No decision has been made at this point. Marketing and Publicity: Sally produced our first quarterly report. This is a good start though not quite what I had envisioned. We will continue to work on and improve this in the coming quarters. Sally helped with the CRM discussions and provided feedback to Hadrian. It is not felt that VP Marketing requires a CRM, however, if possible I would like to see us doing a better job of capturing knowledge from this office. That being said, fundraising support remains the priority. Sally has revisited the home page (not site) redesign discussions based on extensive feedback from the membership. Infrastructure: An excellent, productive month for Infra - well done team! Hardware budget is expected to be reduced thanks to a combination of credit with multiple cloud providers. My thanks go to VP Infra for making this happen. Whimsy was identified as a critical service that infra need to manage. This resulted in some discussion about how best to manage the service. Sam Ruby has been working with the infra team on this topic. There has been excellent progress on automating machine builds and retiring old machines. In the case of LDAP this introduced a few problems which are being addressed in order of priority. We had some initial discussion about the CMS used by many Apache projects. This system is very much hacked together and is largely unmaintainable without significant expense. No decisions has been made on how to proceed, future reports will update. Some project specific services (Maven and Cassandra) are progressing nicely. No report from Travel Assistance. Plans for ApacheCon NA are in progress. Budget: Budget planning is a little behind schedule but I do have complete numbers from Virtual now. We are progressing with one office having submitted their budget numbers already. Expect an early draft within the week. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] The 2013 990 Net Assets and other items have been clarified on our tax preparation for FY2013. Everything seems in order and Chris and Tom had a call to discuss on 1/23/15. The Treasurer’s Office initiated a series of wires to fully transfer all of the remaining funds in WFS to Citizen’s Bank leaving a small amount in WFS (less than 10K) to cover any incoming expenses. We expect to finalize the remaining funds transfer and decommission WFS in the next month. 1099s for contractors have been issued by Virtual. Virtual has been working with VP, Press and Marketing for the year in review reports and quarterly reports, providing financial data and other information to assist in the report preparation. Income and Expenses for January 2015 CASH BASIS Current Balances: Citizens Checking $701,087 Amazon- ASF Payments $17,926 Paypal - ASF $49,569 Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $399,259 Wells Fargo Savings $288,152 Total Checking/Savings $1,455,994 Income Summary: Public Donations $1,998 Amazon and Paypal Sponsorship Program $90,000 Programs Income $24,040 Interest Income $24 Total Income $116,062 Expense Summary: Infrastructure $40,219 Sponsorship Program $- Programs Expense $- Publicity $8,750 Brand Management $- Conferences $- Travel Assistance Committee $- Treasury Services $3,850 General & Administrative $16,670 Total Expense $69,489 Net Income $46,574 Jim: Will the audit be able to start soon? Tom: Can't start the audit until books are closed; looks like mid summer for the audit. D. Secretary [Craig] Secretary continues to operate smoothly. In January, 65 iclas, three cclas, and five grants were received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] I will be late to the meeting by about 30 minutes. I will be there to answer questions, if any, by the end of the meeting. I am scrambling to get the schedule for ApacheCon NA put together, and while I've received a LOT of help from various people, the current CFP tools are woefully inadequate for the task. However, we should have a schedule, and keynotes, announced early next week. Meanwhile, I have delegated most of the work for ApacheCon EU to Jan Iversen, so that I'm not trying to do manage two events, and I am looking around for someone that might be interested in stepping up to rotate ApacheCon NA events with me. Rich needs help with ApacheCon planning; Sam volunteered to help. F. Vice Chairman [Greg] Apologies for the short report, yet upon substantive matter: after speaking with Ross (President) and David (VP Infra), we have decided to move one contractor to an employee status via the PEO (professional employer organization) framework provided by Virtual as an experiment for the next two months. At the May Board meeting, a complete solution for all US-based contractors will be provided for Board review and consideration. Background: there are two options remaining open: PEO-based employment, and a third-party whole-option contract. Moving one contractor to the PEO solution will provide us needed detail. The goal for resolution of the contractor issue is to have a recommendation for the incoming board. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Ross] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Doug] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Rich] No report was submitted. B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Sam] See Attachment B C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Chris] See Attachment C D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Greg] No report was submitted. E. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Brett] See Attachment E F. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Bertrand] See Attachment F G. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Jim] See Attachment G H. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Sam] See Attachment H I. Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly / Greg] See Attachment I Report was submitted but rejected and requested the following month. J. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Rich] See Attachment J K. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Brett] No report was submitted. L. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Chris] See Attachment L M. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Bertrand] See Attachment M N. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim] See Attachment N O. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Doug] See Attachment O P. Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk / Ross] See Attachment P Q. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Sam] See Attachment Q R. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Chris] See Attachment R S. Apache Creadur Project [Brian Fox / Jim] See Attachment S @Jim: Clarify report T. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Doug] No report was submitted. U. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek / Bertrand] See Attachment U @Bertrand: Ask if the git CMS work could be documented for others to use V. Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi / Rich] See Attachment V W. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Greg] No report was submitted. X. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Ross] See Attachment X Y. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Brett] See Attachment Y @Brett: Are hangouts documents so non-attendees can participate later? Z. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Brett] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Greg] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Falcon Project [Srikanth Sundarrajan / Ross] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Rich] See Attachment AC AD. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Jim] See Attachment AD AE. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Sam] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Doug] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Chris] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Bertrand] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Jim] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Sam] No report was submitted. AK. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Doug] See Attachment AK AL. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Bertrand] See Attachment AL AM. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Chris] No report was submitted. @Chris: pursue a report for HttpComponents AN. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Ross] See Attachment AN AO. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Rich] See Attachment AO AP. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Brett] No report was submitted. @Brett: pursue a report for jUDDI AQ. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Greg] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Greg] See Attachment AR AS. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Rich] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Chris] See Attachment AT AU. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Brett] See Attachment AU @Brett: Any action on log4j? AV. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Bertrand] See Attachment AV AW. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Doug] See Attachment AW @Doug: Is there still an issue with infra? AX. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Jim] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Sam] No report was submitted. AZ. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Ross] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Bertrand] See Attachment BA BB. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Jim] No report was submitted. BC. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Chris] See Attachment BC BD. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Ross] See Attachment BD BE. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Greg] No report was submitted. BF. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Sam] See Attachment BF BG. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Brett] See Attachment BG BH. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Doug] No report was submitted. BI. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Rich] See Attachment BI BJ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Sam] No report was submitted. @Sam: Is anyone on the PMC looking at the reminders? BK. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Chris] See Attachment BK BL. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Ross] No report was submitted. BM. Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell / Rich] See Attachment BM BN. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Bertrand] See Attachment BN BO. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug] See Attachment BO BP. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Jim] See Attachment BP BQ. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Greg] See Attachment BQ BR. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Brett] See Attachment BR @Brett: What is the issue with infra? BS. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Bertrand] See Attachment BS BT. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Jim] See Attachment BT BU. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] See Attachment BU BV. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Ross] See Attachment BV BW. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Chris] No report was submitted. BX. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Greg] No report was submitted. BY. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Doug] See Attachment BY BZ. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Rich] See Attachment BZ CA. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Brett] No report was submitted. CB. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Sam] See Attachment CB CC. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Doug] See Attachment CC CD. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Chris] See Attachment CD CE. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Ross] No report was submitted. CF. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Brett] See Attachment CF Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Resolution to Change the Apache Geronimo Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jarek Gawor to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Jarek Gawor from the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Geronimo project has chosen by vote to recommend Alan Cabrera as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jarek Gawor is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Alan Cabrera be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, 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, Resolution to Change the Apache Geronimo Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Resolution to Change the Apache ServiceMix Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gert Vanthienen to the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Gert Vanthienen from the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ServiceMix project has chosen by vote to recommend Krzysztof Sobkowiak as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gert Vanthienen is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Krzysztof Sobkowiak be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Resolution to Change the Apache ServiceMix Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Resolution to Change the Apache Directory Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot from the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Directory project has chosen by vote to recommend Kiran Ayyagari as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kiran Ayyagari be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, 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, Resolution to Change the Apache Directory Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Resolution to Change the Apache OODT Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sean Kelly to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sean Kelly from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT project has chosen to recommend Tom Barber the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sean Kelly is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tom Barber be 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 7D, Resolution to Change the Apache OODT Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Resolution to Change the Apache OpenOffice Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrea Pescetti to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Andrea Pescetti from the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OpenOffice project has chosen by vote to recommend Jan Iversen as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrea Pescetti is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jan Iversen be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7E, Resolution to Change the Apache OpenOffice Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. F. Resolution to Change the Apache MINA Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Emmanuel Lécharny to the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Emmanuel Lécharny from the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache MINA project has chosen by vote to recommend Jean-François Maury as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Emmanuel Lécharny is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jean-François Maury be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7F, Resolution to Change the Apache MINA Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items Mark: Trademarks are a valuable asset for ASF. Trademark rules vary by country. Virtually all countries protect rights only through registration. Many unsavory people register other peoples' trademarks as a business. Risks are most often on ASF users, not ASF per se. As a practical matter, projects need to select brands that are available. Open source has "won the war" and is now ubiquitous. Now there are lawsuits based on GPL interpretation by people who are just trying to make money from the legal process, not community policing as we have seen in the past. Jim: Need to balance the cost versus benefit of registration. Shane: Looks like the "sweet spot" of registration is somewhat more than we are doing now. But consider that a third party has registered our Hadoop trademark in China. This is not a direct legal risk to Apache, although it could well prevent us from using the Hadoop name in China. Similarly, it may hurt downstream users relying on the Hadoop ecosystem, and in the long run it likely will hurt Apache Hadoop if the project loses support and/or future contributions from those users. Jim: Once a trademark is registered, we are then required to police it more vigorously. Mark: ASF is required to police brands regardless of registration (or not). If ASF doesn't have the money, users may well contribute to registration costs. Ross: Users are represented by PMCs. We need to make sure that PMCs step up, with foundation support. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Bertrand: Follow up with PMC regarding commercial sponsoring [ Isis ] Status: done, I'm happy with the clarifications provided in the "[REPORT] Apache Isis (January 2015)" thread on board@ * Brett: Remind PMCs to report on dates Status: * Brett: pursue a report for Axis Status: * Brett: Discuss how to work with Axis to make a release [ Synapse ] Status: * Brett: Request a better report for next month [ Deltacloud ] Status: * Doug: Is the project ready to retire? [ Wink ] Status: Done. Progress is slow, but PMC still able to make releases. * Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ] Status: * Greg: the report states a problem but no plan to address it [ Deltacloud ] Status: * Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ] Status: * Greg: pursue a report for MRUnit Status: * Greg: Please don't include mentors who didn't sign off [ Incubator ] Status: * Greg: Is it time to retire the project? [ Tuscany ] Status: * Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers, new PMC members Status: Sorry. Lack of cycles. Draft complete just haven't sent it yet. * Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts [ Flex ] Status: After the last salvo, I haven't heard anything more. I think that things have quieted down for now, but I will continue to check in. * Ross: Discuss with comdev how to get projects to engage with them more Status: * Ross: Bring statistics in line with reporting period [ OODT ] Status: * Ross: Discuss the "fork me" banner issue with the project [ Wicket ] Status: * Sam: follow up with PMC for clarification on the relationship between the addons and the project [ Isis ] Status: Clarification present in this month's report. Action item can be closed. * Sam: Follow up with a more complete report next month [ DirectMemory ] Status: Greg followed up. Action item can be closed. * Sam: Is the project ready for retirement? [ Rave ] Status: email sent today. Keep item open until I get a response. 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements Jim: The corporate sponsor of Groovy have dropped support, so the Groovy project might be interested in moving to Apache. 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:49 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] Fundraising/Virtual: • Working with a few new folks that have requested sponsorship info; one of which has become a silver sponsor (payment already received) • Work continues with Hadrian on upcoming renewals • Hadrian heading up the CRM for Fundraising effort • Responded to inquiry from Virtual re 2014 990 info ApacheCon: • Remaining ACEU 2014 exchange rates calculated and submitted to Nick • Invoice submitted to LF for reimbursement of $950 for three TACers they agreed to fund for ACEU 2014 • ACNA 2015: 8 applicants approved, 7 accepted. Info sent to the travel agent for 5 TACers to obtain proposed itins; prepping visa invitation letters, and secured hotel for the three that will require visas • Collaborating with Sally on giveaways • Working with LF regarding the logistics for the TACers and the conference in general ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] Worked on clearing podling name search entries; however not all PPMCs are performing the needed steps before submitting. Submitted two educational talks on branding plus a potential barcamp/PMC tutorial at ApacheCon Austin. Denied a services branding request using a derivative of a registered Apache mark that would highly likely be infringing if used. While it is positive this third party requested permission first, it is puzzling why they would request permissions for something so clearly inappropriate. Requested branding updates related to improper use of our HADOOP mark on the new opendataplatform.org website. As many popular Apache projects grow in widespread use and broad commercial interest, it will become more important than ever to ensure that our PMCs understand the importance of their trademarks in managing an independent project, and ensuring that they have the tools - education, access to counsel when needed, and the ability to register their marks - to do so. As a new website, the specific legal trademark issues on opendataplatform.org are limited (so far) and it's not clear how the relevant companies will present branding going forward. However third party projects like this that blur the lines between their software product offerings and the underlying Apache software products are likely to cause other issues about end user confusion as to the true source of software, as well as concern with many developers who may be interested in contributing to Apache projects. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Jim Jagielski] Fundraising continues steadily. There are a number of sponsors who indicated that will renew, but are late to respond. I hope that more communication will improve things in time. We did receive payments from Bloomberg, Hortonworks, Winwork, and Samsung. We are putting more effort in deciding on the CRM tool to manage the process. Hadrian got actively involved had a couple of chats with HotWax Media. It is very hard to find a solution that will make everybody happy. Hadrian did research open source alternatives and is now researching commercial, hosted alternatives. Hadrian is close to making a formal proposal, very likely using a hosted solution. The proposal and hopefully a decision should be done before the next board meeting. We made a recommendation to update the Thanks page and Daniel Gruno provided a concrete layout proposal. The proposal was accepted and Hadrian is working with Daniel to update the Thanks page. Hadrian had a couple of phone calls with sponsors. The goal is to improve the dialogue with the sponsors and find out what sponsors see as valuable and expect from the foundation. We anticipate this to lead to ideas and proposals for improvements, discuss on the fundraising@ lists and report back to the board. Cloudera upgraded its sponsorship to Platinum level. Yay, thanks Cloudera! ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: Sally Khudairi has been working with Tom Pappas of Virtual on the Marketing & Publicity FY2014 budget expenditures to date, as well as to prepare for the submission to ASF President Ross Gardler for the upcoming fiscal year. There were some items totaling $8,511.02 that were erroneously charged against the budget and were re-allocated to the TAC and Conferences budgets accordingly. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally continues to liaise with Trademarks & Brand Management with usage requests where needed. She continues to work with Hadrian Zbarcea on items relating to the transition of the new co-Vice Presidents of Fundraising, including brainstorming communications requirements for their CRM solution, and producing the first ASF quarter annual report. The next report in this cycle is the ASF FY2014 Annual Report, which is scheduled to be published the last week of May. Sally has also resumed discussions with HotWax Media for the new apache.org homepage project, and anticipates having design proposals for review/discussion during ApacheCon. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 03 February 2015 --Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association - 02 February 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: October-December 2014 - 27 January 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Samza™ as a Top-Level Project - 27 January 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ BookKeeper™ as a Top-Level Project IV. Informal Announcements: 9 items were published on the ASF "Foundation" Blog, and 26 items were tweeted on @TheASF. Four Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 22 weekly summaries published thus far. V. Future Announcements: one announcement is in development. Sally is working on new promotional guidelines for podlings both entering as well as those ready to graduate from the Incubator, and will be coordinating with Roman Shaposhnik on publishing them when ready. Those PMCs wishing to announce major project news are welcome to contact Sally at for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 6 media requests. The ASF received 1,429 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 696. VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 3 analyst queries. Apache was mentioned in 13 write-ups and 1 online Webinar by Gartner, 7 reports by Forrester, 3 write-ups by GigaOM, 11 reports by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and 5 reports by IDC. Sally is working with Forrester on a new report Apache CloudStack and received their newly-published report on Apache Spark, with thanks to the Apache Spark PMC. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with the Linux Foundation team on promotion tactics for ApacheCon, and has introduced them to the editorial team at OpenSource.com (where several ASF members are contributors) for a possible media partnership. She worked with Rich Bowen to include the ASF's new Code of Conduct as part of the registration process with thanks to Noah Slater and Jan Lehnardt of the Apache CouchDB PMC, who shared the experience from the .concat() conference. Sally is also working with Melissa Warnkin on production of promotional projects. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal activities at this time. X. Newswire accounts: we have 25 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of 2016, and continue to receive gratis news release distribution in the UK by Pressat. # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] New Karma: ========== none Finances: ========== 17.49 - Domain name renewals 979.12 - Amazon Web Services As a side note, we expect to spend dramatically less on hardwware than we originally budgeted. This difference is coming about due to a number of issues: Our build farm has been dramatically subsidized thanks to Yahoo who have provided ~30 physical machines (a long with hosting the hardware and providing smarthands support). We also now have multiple cloud providers giving us extensive credits, and we are moving a number of services to public cloud providers. This does mean a slight change from capital expenses to operational expenses, though I don't think that from our perspective that it matters much. Operations Action Items: ======================== n/a Short Term Priorities: ====================== Codesigning ----------- Tomcat generated two signing events this month, both for Tomcat 8.0.18 Machine deprecation ------------------- We've made significant progress in moving services off of some of our oldest hosts. In doing so we've also have spent a good chunk of time automating these services and making our deployment more robust. See more on this issue in the section on Automation in Long Range Priorities. Backups ------- We are just now beginning the deployment of a new centralized backup service. The client installation as well as the server has been autoamted, expect to see more in this space in the coming months. LDAP ---- The LDAP service has largely been rebuilt from the ground up. For background, the old machine that formerly served as our svn master was also one of our LDAP machines, and when it failed, we were down to one very poorly performing instance in the US. Subsequently, we've rebuilt the entire service using configuration management, we again have two LDAP hosts in OSUOSL, that are easily handling the load. This has sped up many of the authn/authz actions that were slow last month. We've also deployed new LDAP instances to several of our cloud zones. While the services seems to be working well at this point, we did have a few hiccups, where the old LDAP servers were removing newly created accounts. The older LDAP servers were left in place after we repeatedly found a number of services that had either minotaur or harmonia hardcoded as LDAP servers. Because of these problems we removed the legacy instances, and are dealing with the problems caused as we find them. Bugzilla -------- Our three Bugzilla instances were still running on a 6 year old machine but have since been successfully puppetized and migrated to VMs in one of our cloud accounts. In the process we've worked fastidiously on improving the software deployment mechanism (software is now deployed as an OS-native package). Long Range Priorities: ====================== Automation ---------- Significant progress to report this month. As indicated above, LDAP machines are all under configuration management. Additionally, we migrated all three of the Bugzilla instances and the git repositories to being completely managed by configuration management. After finding some problems with some of our CM-managed instances, we've adopted a process of destroying and recreating a service as a verification step prior to pressing a service into production status. Naturally the new services we are bringing online, like the backup service are all managed under CM. Technical Debt -------------- The move of LDAP has uncovered a lot of hardcoded values and we've been working to pay that off. (referring to service names rather than specific machine identities, putting configuration in configuration management where possible. General Activity: ================= Bintray ------- As of January 30th, we enabled Cassandra's debian repository on bintray and have been monitoring it closely. The service seems to be working well and appears to have fulfilled the needs of reducing our overall webserver traffic and has the bonus of giving more insight into the downlaods. You can see some of the statistics on the dashboard here: https://s.apache.org/bintray1 https://s.apache.org/bintray2 Maven ----- A lot has been happening around Maven this period. We've successfully been able to sync a copy of the Maven central repository, and are working to provide access to that store for the Maven PMC. Additionally, Mark Thomas along with folks from the Maven PMC have been working on migrating the Maven contents of the Codehaus Jira instance to the ASF instance. Good progress has been made here, but much remains to be done. Uptime Statistics: ================== We experienced an issue where status.apache.org was reporting erroneous uptime statistics due to two unused LDAP checks, which unfortunately made it into the weekly ASF blog posts. Other than that, services have been running fairly smoothly aside from the Moin Moin Wiki which has experienced high load times for a couple of weeks. We are discussing what to do to remedy this. Overall, the total uptime for this year grew by 0.03%: Type: Target: Reality, total: Reality, month: Target Met: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Critical services: 99.50% 99.78% 99.82% Yes Core services: 99.00% 99.83% 99.92% Yes Standard services: 95.00% 99.02% 98.93% Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall: 98.59% 99.60% 99.63% Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contractor Details: =================== Chris Lambertus - on call duties - closed 3 jira issues - extensive work on centralized backup deployment - ongoing testing and validation of zmanda evaluation - puppet work to build fully configuration management deployed host - resolved hardware issues with oceanus/FUB/Dell Germany - ubuntu libc vulnerability patching Geoffrey Corey: - Resolved 25 JIRA tickets - Build out supporting environment in Puppet for bugzilla migration (sql database, webserver/proxy, bugzilla package building, etc) - Migrate and deploy bugzilla instances off baldr and into VMs - Investigate with others about missing LDAP accounts (and subsequently recreate) after LDAP server rebuilds - Fix dist.apache.org authorization template regeneration (related to svn master rebuild) - Work on getting postfix alias management in Puppet - Begin learning buildbot related things from Gavin Daniel Gruno: - Resolved 30 JIRA tickets - On-call duties - Worked on GitWcSub, the git version of SvnWcSub for potentially enabling git repos to act as web site sources - Puppetized and tested deployment of GitWcSub - Fixed a bunch of issues with the main MTA - Worked with others to resolve the aftermaths of the LDAP network redesign - Fixed some issues with uptime reporting and alert statuses on status.apache.org - Fixed some issues with hardcoded values in the PMC management tools - Reached out to contacts about the DNS system overhaul Tony Stevenson: - A lot of my time has been spent on 3 major tasks: - The rebuild of the LDAP service due to the poorly performing incumbent instances. This combined with the retirement of eris (old svn-master) following a terminal hardware fault, we were limited to 1 LDAP instance in the US and proved too much for minotaur to cope with. It appears that the version of slapd on FreeBSD on minotaur leaked memory at a phenomonal rate. The new LDAP service has been moved to the latest slapd available in Ubuntu 14.04, it has been fully built using puppet, and configured so that new LDAP hosts can be added with ease. - Continue preparation and understanding for a rebuild the email infrastructure. This has mostly taken a back seat but has been brought up to the top of my todo list now following the completion of the LDAP task above, and the CMS task below. - In line with our current policy of retiring hardware that is over 4 years old, and trying to make all services pupept managed; David asked me to review the CMS zone on baldr (which is now >7 years old) to ensure we can move the service and have it managed with puppet. However upon investigation it quickly became apparent moving the service was far from trivial given the requirement for ZFS alone. Further reading of the code highlighted some areas of concern for me that I felt needed highlighting as they would likely carry over technical debt into the future and that is something we are working extremely hard to remove. On the back of these findings and my inherited knowledge of the service I presented David with 3 options of how I thought we could manage the service going forward along with the estimated costs, and the pro's and con's of each option. There were: 1 - Move CMS to another FreeBSD host - undesireable given our current trajectory of moving away from FreeBSD, it meant entirely replicating the FreeBSD 9 jail too. This was the path of least change, but perhaps most difficult. 2 - Move the service to Ubuntu and fully puppet controlled the beginning. This might have been the ideal scenario, but the underlying hardcoded FreeBSD aspects, the need for ZFS (which is present in Ubuntu), and the very specific perl that is in place I felt this would take a long time to complete and would be significantly error prone. We would very likely miss something and this would need to fixed on demand. My confidence level was low that we could execute a clean migration. This would be the most time consuming option, but if retention of the CMS was important the best option. 3 - Deprecate the CMS, and allow projects to determine their own publishing/transformations options. We would still require use of pubsub technology, but projects can commit into that their HTML, either directly edited or dervied from markdown whcih they can keep in their project repo (some of the finer details will need to be worked out later. This would essentially be the cheapest option, remove technical debt, and while the timeline would be many months contractor/volunteer time could be kept to a minimum. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] The ASF was subpoenaed to provide documents and testimony related to U.S. Patent No. 6,691,302. I provided URLs for our mailing list archive and our release archive and provided testimony related to our release guidelines and procedures, especially as related to Apache httpd, mod_perl and ApacheJserv. No items requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox] 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. January 2015 2 Support question 2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report 6 Confused user probably due to Android licenses 8 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 2 [tomcat] (1 rejected) 1 [xerces] 1 [site] rejected 1 [cassandra] 1 [batik] 1 [httpd] 1 [roller] 4 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 1 [hadoop] 2 [tomcat] 1 [struts] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans] Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems. Releases: * April 22nd, 2014: ACE 2.0.1 release. Statistics: * Last committers added: March 27th, 2012 * Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013 * Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 months: 34 msgs (previous 3 months: 38 msgs) * Commits for last 3 months: 145 (previous 3 months: 45) Activity: * User reports with questions and issues about scripting. * Questions from committers at Apache Celix about interoperability. * Metatype and UI (making resource processors manageable) improvements. * Presentation about "Provisioning the Internet of Things" by Paul Bakker and Sander Mak at JFokus. [1] * Another contribution by NiclasH (shell command for logging). * Sizeable update to the ACE website, restructuring and updating the documentation part. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/SanderMak/provisioning-the-iot ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino] Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Community: * The development and user lists continue to stay active. * Robbie Gemmell became a committer 12/9/14 * Emeritus PMC members removed. * Arthur Naseef joined the ActiveMQ PMC * Dan Kulp joined the ActiveMQ PMC Development: * trunk branch renamed to master to follow git naming conventions. * Development on ActiveMQ 5.11 is in progress. * Development on ActiveMQ 6.0 is in progress. Trademark / Branding Status: * Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant /w TM policies * Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance Releases: * Apache.NMS 1.7.0 - 1/8/15 * Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.7.0 - 1/16/15 * Apache ActiveMQ 5.10.1 - 1/20/15 * Apache ActiveMQ 5.11.0 - 2/3/15 * Apache Apollo 1.7.1 - 2/3/15 ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru] ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako] Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters. Since the last report in Nov 2014, the community has released 1.7.0 which included resolution of more than 1600 issues. Since then, the community has been focused on development for the 2.0.0 release, which to-date has resolved more than 1200 issues. A branch will be cut to prepare for the 2.0.0 release soon. Mailing Lists: * user@ambari.apache.org: 279 subscribers (+14 since last report) * dev@ambari.apache.org: 165 subscribers (+2 since last report) Releases: * 2014-12-01 1.7.0 * 2014-07-16 1.6.1 * 2014-05-25 1.6.0 Committers: * 2015-01-20 Added Dilli Arumugam * 2014-12-20 Added Robert Levas * 2014-12-01 Added Jayush Luniya * 2014-12-01 Added Florian Barca PMC: * 2014-12-08 Added Jeff Sposetti Issues: * There are no board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It consists of 4 main projects: - Ant core and libraries (Antlibs) - Ivy - Ant based dependency manager - IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse - EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes o Release Status Core --------- Ant 1.9.4 was released on May 5, 2014 Ivy ------- Ivy 2.4.0 was released on December 26, 2014 Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013 EasyAnt ------------- The current release is still from the Incubator 0.9-Incubating. o Committers and PMC Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013 Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013. o Community Overall the Ant project is relatively quiet. There has been an ongoing transition from submitted patches to pull requests coming in from Github. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes] Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. ## Releases The votes for these releases closed on 2014/10/21 * Apache Aries Maven ESA Plugin (esa-maven-plugin) 1.0.0 * Apache Aries JNDI Core (jndi-core) 1.0.2 * Apache Aries JNDI URL Handler (jndi-url) 1.1.0 * Apache Aries Transaction Manager (transaction-manager) 1.0.2 * Apache Aries Transaction Blueprint (transaction-blueprint) 1.0.2 * Apache Aries Transaction Enlisting JDBC Datasource (transaction-jdbc) 2.1.0 * Apache Aries JMS Pool (transaction-jms) 2.0.0 The votes for these releases closed on 2014/11/04 * Apache Aries JPA Container (jpa-container) 1.0.2 * Apache Aries JPA Container Managed Contexts (jpa-container-context) 1.0.4 The votes for these releases closed on 2014/12/05 * **New** Apache Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.0.0 * Apache Aries Blueprint Annotation based authorization (blueprint-authz) 1.0.0 ## Project update Creation of a new project: blueprint-maven-plugin: for generating OSGi an blueprint.xml from CDI, JEE and Spring annotations. Contributions continue to come in from non-committers via GitHub. Newest PMC member voted in on 28th July 2013. There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe] The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= The level of participation in dev community is considerably low. No new committers (PMC members) during last quarter. Releases ======================== No releases for this quarter, and currently we are planning for Axis2 java release. We are also waiting for two release from WS project (Axiom and Woden) which are needed for Axis2 release. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Development ========================= Number of commits - 5 (Axis2 java) ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly] ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: 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. We made one minor release (v1.4.20 on August 23rd) since our last board report. Development and community activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) remains relatively low. Our last committer/PMC change happened in October 2013. We have no issues that require board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis] ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis] Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on interoperability between Java and C. Activity In the last months there has been a lot of activity, issues have been filed and resolved. Also we are working on removing the usage of APR. Issues with the website have been fixed, a getting started guide has been added [1]. Wrt publicity, a talk about Celix was given at the FOSDEM 2015. Statistics: * Last committer added: 2014-03-04 * Last PMC member added: 2014-07-17 * Mailing list activity in october - january: 93 messages on dev * Commits since october: 193 commits * Last release: 2014-02-24: Apache Celix 1.0.0 release [1]: http://celix.apache.org/documentation/getting_started.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang] Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop Clusters. Project Status: * Chukwa community have recently vote Sreepathi Prasanna as an committer. ICLA has been submitted by Sreepathi Prasanna. * Chukwa 0.6.0 was released on Nov-22-2014. * Chukwa is used, deployed, and actively developed, but volunteer time is not subsidized. * Highlight on going community activities to provide better visibility into Chukwa's community. Releases: * Last Release was 0.6.0, published Nov 22, 2014 Community: * The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013 * The last Chukwa committer addition: In progress Mailing lists: * 94 subscribers on dev * 160 subscribers on user ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan] DESCRIPTION Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASE Latest release (typhandlerspace-feature) was created on 22.09.2014 Vote result: http://s.apache.org/EjO ACTIVITY Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including: - Improve performance of smushing util - Implemented partial graph context functionnality - Fixed mime-type for n-triples - Preparing rdf.core bundle to base on "commons-rdf" COMMUNITY Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013 INFRASTRUCTURE - Website: Download page (http://clerezza.apache.org/downloads/) is to be updated ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: 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. Issues needing board attention: nothing Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair) Community Traffic on users and devs list had been a bit better then the last quarter. Some users asked about different hosting solution. Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions. Further Carlos a user and Francesco worked on the support for java8 and still maintaining support for 1.4. Releases 2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20. Development None Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 and cocoon 2.2 but still no committer has stepped up yet to do so. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk] The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become involved with Apache projects Project Status -------------- No issues require board attention at this time. PMC changes ----------- Daniel Gruno has been voted into the Community Development PMC on 2015-01-08. Since artifacts produced by ComDev are usually documentation on our website which is writable for all Apache committers, we usually do not add committers to the ComDev project. Google Summer of Code --------------------- GSoC applications are open for organizations and the ASF will submit an application again this year. A call for project ideas has been issued to projects. Initial responses were low in numbers but in the meantime we have gathered 88 project ideas at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas which should be enough for getting started. ComDev & Events --------------- Most of the discussions on the dev@community.apache.org mailing list currently revolve around ApacheCon 2015 in Austin with feedback and contributions coming from all corners of the foundation. Other ----- Daniel Gruno is spearheading an overhaul of projects.apache.org. The current work in progress is at https://projects-new.apache.org/. Bertrand has initiated a discussion about a maturity model for our projects that describes - on a high level - how our projects operate. A first version can be found at http://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson] 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. Activity on the mailing lists was slightly increased since last report, but still relatively low. Issue tracker and commit activity saw a significant spike in the last month or so. There is currently an open vote for a 1.4.3 release and work towards a 1.5 release has been steady. The last project release was Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014. The last committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] Description Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API. Releases None this quarter. Everyone is working hard to get 2.0 out. Recent Activity - Added Mango query language, contributed by IBM/Cloudant - Final stages of 2.0 release preparations - Continued major improvements to Fauxton admin UI. Community Including the following additions, CouchDB has 47 committers and 12 PMC members. New committers: Lynette Nolan Michelle Phung Kyle Snavely Tony Sun Eric Avdey New PMC members: None Mailing list stats: (Now generated automatically with [COUCHDB-1]) couchdb-announce: 0 message since end of October (-2) 222 subscribers (+15) couchdb-user: 282 messages since end of October (-449) 1334 subscibers (-10) couchdb-erlang: 1 message since end of October (-3) We retired this mailing list couchdb-dev: 3021 messages since end of October (+370) 569 subscribers (-5) couchdb-commits: 659 messages since end of October (-2046) 97 subscribers (-1) couchdb-l10n: 10 messages since end of October (+6) 41 subscribers (+-0) couchdb-replication: 1 message since end of October (-50) 68 subscribers (+5) couchdb-marketing: 317 messages since end of October (+84) 44 subscribers (+2) Issues There are recently no issues we would like to address to the board [COUHCDB-1]: https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git;a=tree;f=board-report; ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian Fox] Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Status ------ Since the last report in November there has been very little commit and email list activity. There are several new jira issues and the related Drat[1] project continues to get pull requests. We have had a successful release of Apache Rat 0.11 in August. [1] https://github.com/chrismattmann/drat Community --------- The last committer was elected in August, 2012. In September 2013 Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC. Releases -------- Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014 Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013. Community Objectives -------------------- Release Apache Whisker 0.1 Find more committers ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou] ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek] Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which are missing in the CDI core spec. DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers! DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans. Community --------- * No new Committers (since May 2014) * New PMC Members ** Thomas Andraschko (November 2014) We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis. The project-site was converted to AsciiDoc and moved to our Git-Repository (integrated with the Apache CMS). Releases -------- * DeltaSpike 1.1.0 (01/November/14) * DeltaSpike 1.2.0 (30/November/14) * DeltaSpike 1.2.1 (20/December/14) ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi] DESCRIPTION Apache Devicemap is a data repository containing devices attributes, and their related browsers, and operating systems. The project also maintains an api to classify these attributes. CURRENT ACTIVITY * W3C layer added to our current Java release. * Continuing work on 2.0 data specification. RELEASES * DeviceMap Data 1.0.2 was released on February 13th, 2015. * DeviceMap Java Client 1.2.0 was released on December 22nd 2014. COMMUNITY * Several people have expressed interest in joining the project for 2.0. * Last new committer was Eberhard Speer Jr on May 13th 2013. ISSUES * As questioned in the previous report, we did have an issue in January where a PMC member took issue with some of the project discussions and possible direction. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot] The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAPv3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools (Apache Directory Studio) and a client API that can be used to communicate with any directory server (Apache LDAP API). -- Community -- * Kiran Ayyagari has been voted as new Apache Directory Chair. * Three new committers voted (last previous addition: October 2014): * Colm O hEigeartaigh * Kai Zheng * Lin Chen * No new PMC member voted (last previous addition: October 2014). * Mailing lists: * Users mailing list: 292 subscribers * Development mailing list: 173 subscribers * API mailing list: 69 subscribers * Fortress mailing list: 19 subscribers -- Current activity -- * Apache Directory LDAP API: * Four releases during this quarter. * Good activity * Mainly bug fixes. * Apache Mavibot: * One release during this quarter. * Good activity * Many smaller fixes. * Work in progress on the bulk-loader and freepage management. * ApacheDS: * Two releases during this quarter. * Mainly bug fixes and an important fix to remove support for SSLv3. * Apache Directory Studio: * No releases during this quarter. * Build system was migrated from Maven to Tycho. * Apache eSCIMo: * Low activity. * No releases yet. * Fortress: * IP clearance for the project has been completed and the source code has been brought to the Directory Git repository. * The project now has its dedicated website, mailing list and Jira space. * No releases yet, but a first release is currently being processed. * Apache Kerby: * IP clearance for the project is currently being processed and the source code has been brought to the Directory Git repository. * Good activity * No releases yet. -- Releases -- * Four release for Apache Directory LDAP API: * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M25 (November 11th 2014) * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M26 (November 22nd 2014) * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M27 (December 29th 2014) * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M28 (January 15th 2015) * One release for Apache Mavibot: * Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M6 (November 16th 2014) * Two releases for ApacheDS: * ApacheDS 2.0.0-M18 (November 13th 2014) * ApacheDS 2.0.0-M19 (November 22th 2014) * No releases for Apache Directory Studio. * No releases for Apache eSCIMo, Fortress and Kerby. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau] Description: Apache Drill is a distributed query layer that supports querying JSON, NoSQL and Hadoop using SQL. Current Activity: There is lots of activity around Drill. JIRA issues continue to be opened and closed at a rapid rate. Regular Google Hangouts also bring the community closer together to better discuss questions and welcome new contributors to the community. Community is working towards the release of Drill 0.8. Releases: * No new releases since last report. * The 0.7 release of Drill was released on 12/23/2014. Community: * 530 emails on the dev mailing list in January * 402 subscribers to dev mailing list * 219 emails on the user mailing list in January * 374 subscribers to user mailing list * 1624 emails to issues list reflecting substantial activity on JIRA and commits. * The PMC has 16 members * Newest committer: Bridget Bevens (2/2/2015) * Newest PMC: None added since graduation Issues: * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: 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 latest stable release there has been little demand for changes of the codebase during the past three months. However the documentation on the web page has been extended describing how to generate code from an existing database. 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 No releases since last report. Latest release was Apache-Empire-db 2.4.3 released on 20/Aug/2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: 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. BOARD ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES * Apache Etch 1.4.0 was released on August, 06 2014. ACTIVITY * Still very low activity, one patch was added since last report. * Work on bug fix release 1.4.1, mainly for C++ binding * Talk about "Enabling lot With Apache Etch and Coap" was hold by Giorgio Zoppi at the ApacheCon Europe in November. With this talk we hoped to make more potential users and developers aware of our project, but still no additional traffic on mailing lists. COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE * No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation in January 2013. * No changes in our committer and user base. We were able to get exactly three binding PMC votes for the last release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Falcon Project [Srikanth Sundarrajan] ABOUT ----- Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters. ISSUES ------ There are no issues that require board's attention at this time. STATUS ------ Falcon was accepted as a TLP in December 2014. During the last 30 days 33 new issues were created in the issue tracking system and 30 were closed during the same period. During the last month we have witnessed good progress on the UI front for Falcon (FALCON-790). With UI, we expect users to find it more easier to work with the Falcon system. The community has been having regular bi-weekly sync ups. These sync ups are being very helpful in steering the project. Recipes (FALCON-634) and Lifecycle functions (FALCON-965) would open up Falcon system for easy extensions and are being actively worked upon besides other bug fixes. Community is also discussing on mailing list on the way forward with respect to usage of Apache Oozie for orchestration. The outcome will decide how pipeline and lifecycle function orchestration will happen in Falcon going forward. We also announced Falcon as a TLP in ASF blog (http://s.apache.org/GT2) RELEASES -------- * 2014-12-05: Released 0.6-incubating * 2014-09-22: Released 0.5-incubating COMMUNITY --------- * 14 PMC members (No additions since last report) * Last addition: 2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk * 14 Committers (No additions since last report) * Last addition: 2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk * 33 New issues created in last 30 days * 30 issues resolved in the last 30 day * 115 - Subscriptions to dev@ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen] DESCRIPTION Flink is a distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis. Flink’s stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala, a type analysis and serialization framework, a library of out-of-core enabled operators, distributed task scheduling, and a data streaming network subsystem. Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, and Tez. ISSUES There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS Flink graduated in December from the Incubator. The transition is complete by now, the first release and committer addition as a TLP have happened. The community is growing, judging from mailing list activity, number of meetup group talks, bug reports, etc COMMUNITY * Last committer was voted in February 6th, 2015 (Maximilian Michels) * Last PMC member was added December 17, 2014, when all committers and a subset of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC during graduation. * The project community is active (February 1st to 11th: 57 messages in user mailing list, 191 messages in dev mailing list, 244 messages in commits list, 887 messages in issues mailing list) * Community is actively developing the software. JIRA reports 139 new issues and 121 solved issues in the last 30 days * The issue of trademarking Flink is still ongoing. The process has started (same as last month) COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES * Growing the user community further * Integration with other Apache projects is work in progress. As of the last 30 days specifically SAMOA (incubating) and Tez (per mailing lists). RELEASES * Date of last release: January 19th, 2015 (version 0.8.0) * Candidate for release version 0.8.1 has been created (February 10th). ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: 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 * The last release of Flume was version 1.5.2, released on November 18, 2014. * Initial discussions around an incremental release version 1.6.0 are currently underway. CURRENT ACTIVITY * A total of 80 issues have been filed, and 33 issues have been resolved between the period starting November 4, 2014 and February 4, 2015. * Approximately 1095 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three months, while a total of 282 were exchanged on the user list in this period. COMMUNITY * The last time a new committer was added to the project was on September 24, 2013. * The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on November 4, 2014. * The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (9), CyberAgent (1), Data Fueled (1), Hortonworks (1), Nextiva (1), ScalingData (1), StreamSets (1), Vanderbilt University (1), Zymergen (1), Not Specified (2) * Currently there are: - Total of 263 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 617 subscribers to the user list - Total of 24 committers - Total of 21 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. There was more activity on the dev mail list. Two PMC members discussed a potential improvement and the originator did follow through. They also assisted each other with strange erroneous messages from Buildbot. An emeritus PMC member returned to make some changes as a committer, was welcomed, and two separate PMC members did followup queries. Just prior to report submission a discussion commenced about a potential new skin based on Bootstrap. The Chair reminded the dev list that the project needs to make releases. The Chair replied to some obscure comment regarding the previous Board report, but there was no further followup (see 2014-11-25). At this quarter, 5 additional PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low. 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Some improvements to i18n for the search box and the font size button. Minor tweaks to the i18n documentation. Some improvements to Javascript handling. Infra advised us that the machine hosting the Forrest project's build and demo server is being decommissioned. One of our PMC members asked for a new VM via the issue INFRA-9093. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor] Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators. Development: - Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) was low. - Some work being done on Java EE 7 specification jars and JavaMail component. Releases: - XBean 4.1 (October 2014) - JavaMail (February 2015) - EE 7 Specs (February 2015) - geronimo-ejb_3.2_spec - geronimo-jaxrs_2.0_spec - geronimo-jms_2.0_spec - geronimo-jta_1.2_spec Community: - The traffic on the user mailing list was low. - The last new PMC member was added in July 2014. - The last new committer was added in October 2014. Board-level issues - We are concerned with our current level of community activity and will begin taking public actions to start a next-gen Geronimo effort. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching] Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's Pregel system. Project releases * We do not anticipate any upcoming releases as 1.1.0 was recently completed. Overall project activity since the last report * Several bug fixes * In process ZooKeeper support added (Thanks Sergey!). When were the last committers or PMC members elected? * We have a new committer - Igor Kabiljob accepted on 2/10/15! New community development * We have an upcoming presentation at Facebook's F8 developer conference in March. Mailing list members We continue to see mailing list growth. user@ 437 -> 446 dev@ 260 -> 262 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: 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 last release of Gora (0.5) was on 20th September, 2014. Overall Project Activity since last report Consistent and encouraging. We see most activity happening on the dev@ list which is normal. There has been a consistent level of contribution to the codebase and community lists since the last reporting period. Recent activity includes work on utilising ASF Infra's Rackspace resources to run our GoraCI testing suite, an excellent effort to provide a suite of extension bridges to Gora from other langauges and upgrades of key module dependencies. The PMC are currently VOTE'ing on the release of Gora 0.6. It looks like 0.6 will be released by the February board meeting. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Talat Uyarer was elected as PMC member and committer on 2015-01-26 (yyyy-mm-dd). How has the community developed since the last report? We have recently seen users of Gora within the Apache Giraph community coming to our user Mailing list members are as follows user@: from 64 --> dev@: from 73 --> commits@ from 25 --> Changes to PMC & Committers Talat Uyarer was added as PMC and Committer on 2015-01-26 (yyyy-mm-dd). PMC and Committer diversity We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop, Any23, Climate & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). We also have committers from many other projects outside of Apache. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas] Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers. The 2.6 release added a large set of features and made many improvements, including transparent encryption, heterogeneous/tiered storage, support for Docker containers, reservation-based scheduling, node labels, S3a support, key management server (KMS), service registry, and rolling upgrades in YARN. Ongoing development in YARN includes a new round of improvements to the timeline server (YARN-2928), nodemanager decommission and work-preserving restart (YARN-914, YARN-1336, YARN-556), improved locking in the RM (YARN-3091), shared cache (YARN-1492), and disk as a resource (YARN-2139). Ongoing development in HDFS includes erasure coding (HDFS-7285), support for truncate (HDFS-3107), namenode synchronization (HDFS-7396), and a native client (HDFS-6994). MapReduce received a healthy set of bug fixes and stability improvements. RELEASES - hadoop-2.6.0 @ 2014-11-19 - hadoop-2.5.2 @ 2014-11-20 COMMUNITY (+ PMC Zhijie Shen @ 2014-11) (+ PMC Jian He @ 2014-11) (+ committer Yi Liu @ 2014-11) (+ committer Carlo Curino @ 2014-11) (+ committer Gera Shegalov @ 2014-12) (+ committer Robert Kanter @ 2014-12) (+ committer Tsuyoshi Ozawa @ 2014-12) (+ committer Akira Ajisaka @ 2015-01) (+ committer Wangda Tan @ 2015-01) (+ branch-HDFS-7285 Zhe Zhang @ 2014-11) (+ branch-HDFS-7285 Kai Zhang @ 2014-11) (+ branch-HDFS-7285 Bo Li @ 2014-11) (+ branch-YARN-2139 Wei Yan @ 2014-12) auth: 108 committers (including branch), 54 PMC members ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack] HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION WanDisco’s “Non-Stop HBase” product is in violation of our Apache trademark. One of our PMC members works for WanDisco and is actively working on getting this infringement addressed. RELEASES 0.94.25 11/14/2014 0.94.26 12/29/2014 0.98.7 10/16/2014 0.98.8 11/18/2014 0.98.9 12/23/2014 0.98.10 02/05/2015 We are about to put up our 5th RC for HBase-1.0.0. COMMITTERS Liu Shaohui (liushaohui) -- Xiaomi Virag Kothari (virag) -- Yahoo! Sean Busbey (busbey) -- Cloudera PMC We added no one to the PMC during this period. COMMUNITY We have a new look for our website and documentation. CfP for HBaseCon2015 in San Francisco May 7th closes 02/10/2015 We had the following HBase Meetups: January 15th, 2015 HBase meetup @ AppDynamics in San Francisco [1] November 20th, 2014 HBase meetup @ WANdisco in San Ramon [2] October 27th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Apple in Cupertino October 15th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Google on the night before Strata/HW in NYC STATS 37 committers [5] 1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/ 2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/205219992/ 3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/207386102/ 4. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/207655552 5. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener] Project Description =================== The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. Issues for the Board ==================== There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention. Releases ======== * 2.4.12 : Released on January 29, 2014 Older branches last release: * 2.2.x: 2.2.29 released September 3 2014 * 2.0.x(EOL) 2.0.65 released July 9, 2013 Bug Activity ============ * 164 bugs worked on, 60 new, 71 closed/fixed Community ===================== * Yann Ylavic was added to the PMC. * Date of last new committer : October 2014 (Steve Hay) * Date of last new PMC member: February 2015 (Yann Ylavic) * Overall development activity continues to slow, with the focus on security fixes andthe maintenance of 2.4.x which is making its way into various httpd distributions. * Thanks to Rich Bowen for organizing a httpd/TS/Tomcat track for ACNA 2015. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik] The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are currently 35 podlings undergoing incubation. One podling (NPanday) has retired from the incubation. The process of seeking nominations for the new IPMC Chair has concluded and the voting shall begin soon. * Community New IPMC members: none People who left the IPMC: none * New Podlings none * Graduations The board has motions for the following: none * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: johnzon-0.5-incubating apache-reef-0.10.0-incubating htrace-3.1.0-incubating apache-usergrid-1.0.1-incubating nifi-nar-maven-plugin 1.0.0 nifi 0.0.1 (incubating) streams-project-0.1-incubating The Incubator continues to use discretion when enforcing release policy. * Numerous releases have been approved despite having an out of date copyright year in the NOTICE file. Fixing for the next release has been considered a sufficient remedy. * The REEF release was approved with an incomplete incubation disclaimer in README (there was also a disclaimer on the podling website). * IP Clearance CouchDB Mango -- IBM Corporation have built a MongoDB API Layer for CouchDB and are donating it to the CouchDB project. This consists of of a module that exposes a set of actions that are similar to what MongoDB exposes. * Legal / Trademarks Taverna successfully cleared its name search. * Infrastructure * Miscellaneous -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator TinkerPop Zeppelin (delayed software grant) * Not yet ready to graduate No release: Corinthia Kylin Lens Ripple SAMOA Tamaya Taverna Community growth: Droids HTrace NiFi REEF Slider Twill * Ready to graduate Blur * Did not report, expected next month BatchEE * Retired Podlings NPanday * Report incomplete Sirona ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents BatchEE Blur Corinthia Droids HTrace Kylin Lens NiFi REEF Ripple SAMOA Sirona Slider Tamaya Taverna TinkerPop Twill Zeppelin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- 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. We anticipate pursuing graduation after our upcoming release. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? We continue to be small but active. - Subscriptions: user@ - 60[0]; dev@ - 66[0] How has the project developed since the last report? The majority of effort has been around stabilization for the upcoming release. We're pleased to have seen some new folks show up and contribute bug reports and patches. Date of last release: 2014-07-29 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-28 Signed-off-by: [ ](blur) Doug Cutting [X](blur) Patrick Hunt [X](blur) Tim Williams Shepherd/Mentor notes: Showing good dev and commit traffic and activity, still pretty low user mailing list activity. (tnachen) -------------------- Corinthia Corinthia is a toolkit/application for converting between and editing common office file formats, with an initial focus on word processing. It is designed to cater for multiple classes of platforms - desktop, web, and mobile - and relies heavily on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for representing and manipulating documents. The toolkit is small, portable, and flexible, with minimal dependencies. The target audience is developers wishing to include office viewing, conversion, and editing functionality into their applications. Corinthia has been incubating since 2014-12-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap 2. Grow the community 3. Finalize source structure change (easy access for new developers) 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? January has been a rather quiet month, Dave Fisher joined as PPMC/Committer (was Mentor) How has the project developed since the last report? Work is progressing on restructuring the filter development and 64bit testing is ongoing research of similar program has been structured in jira issues. Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2015-01-17 Dave Fisher added as PPMC/Committer Signed-off-by: [x](corinthia) Dave Fisher [x](corinthia) Daniel Gruno [x](corinthia) Jan Iversen Shepherd/Mentor notes: John D. Ament (johndament): Still a new podling, growing pretty well though. Small number of participants that may need further growth to be viable long term. -------------------- 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. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. We need to continue the name search. Branding has replied to the issue and provided additional searches that need to performed. It is hoped that these can be finished in the new couple weeks. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. How has the project developed since the last report? No change. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp -------------------- HTrace HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems written in java. HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community 2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts 3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into other Apache products Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Around January 20th HTrace successfully made the first release whilst in the Apache Incubator. This was the outcomes of no-less than 10 release candidates and as many VOTE's. In all every release candidate was very well managed with HTrace community providing excellent feedback to the release manager. Rather than then entire 10 release candidate exercise being a pain point for the community, it appears to have strengthened all involved. Well done HTrace. How has the community developed since the last report? It is early incubating days for HTrace. The community has attracted in particular a new member who is doing a sterling job on a new UI for HTrace. Additionally it should be noted that the entire htrace-3.1.0-incubating release effort has certainly brought the existing community on leaps and bounds. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has progressed significantly. In fact, it was highlighted on at least one occasion that documentation supporting a release candidate should be further clarified/improved due to the dynamic progressive nature of the HTrace codebase. As an early incubating project this is accepted as a positive move. Date of last release: 2015-20-01 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? ??? Signed-off-by: [X](htrace) Jake Farrell [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi [X](htrace) Michael Stack -------------------- Kylin Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to support extremely large datasets. Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make the first release from apache 2. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap 3. Grow user and contributor base. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? * Nothing How has the community developed since the last report? 1. Kylin topic has been confirmed to present at Strata+Hadoop World 2015 London, also proposed to HBaseCon, Hadoop Summit and Big Data Technology Conference 2015 Beijing 2. Offical twitter account created: @ApacheKylin * Followers 173 3. Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 587 (including imported from github.com) * Resolved: 283 (including imported from github.com) 4. Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 227 messages 5. Github activity: * Star 405 * Fork 172 * Contributors 17 How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Kylin website is available on http://kylin.incubator.apache.org 2. Making changes in build and packaging with respect to apache release process 3. Development are happening on v0.7.1 version which we are preparing for first release. Date of last release: None yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? NONE Signed-off-by: [ ](kylin) Owen O'Malley [X](kylin) Ted Dunning [X](kylin) Henry Saputra Shepherd/Mentor notes: Konstantin Boudnik (cos): Mailing list is active; most mentors are participating in the community. -------------------- Lens Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes. Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Make the first release from apache: the 2.0-incubating release is in progress 2. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs 3. Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name via PODLINGNAMESEARCH-63 How has the community developed since the last report? * Lens website is available on http://lens.incubator.apache.org * Abstract submissions made for ApacheCon, Hadoop Summit and OSCON 2015. How has the project developed since the last report? * Main activities include * Stabilizing the api and code for first stable release * Doing changes in build and packaging with respect to apache release process * Setting up regression suite for the project * Mailing list activity : * Dev * Janauary - 1011 messsages * Commits * January - 43 messages * User mailing list activity - None * Issues 70 created and 46 resolved via 30 day summary from LENS Jira. Date of last release: NONE. 2.0.0-incubating release process is in progress. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-12-24 Signed-off-by: [X](lens) Christopher Douglas [ ](lens) Jakob Glen Homan [X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre -------------------- NiFi NiFi is a dataflow system based on the concepts of flow-based programming. NiFi has been incubating since 2014-11-24. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow our community. 2. Establish rhythm for releases, review processes, and document how to most effectively bring on new committers. 3. Update our release process with items learned from initial release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Nothing we wish to raise at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? We have a new PPMC member - Jenn Barnabee. We continue to receive patches, code ideas, and bug reports from the community. Notable contributions during this reporting period outside the PPMC and committer base include a new website design, code which will automate much of the documentation production, and refactoring to improve code reuse. The dev mailing list has grown from 62 to 80 in the last report (commits has grown to 29). How has the project developed since the last report? We have successfully produced our first release within the Apache Incubator! Date of last release: 2015-01-29 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2015-01-17 Signed-off-by: [X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi [X](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar [X](nifi) Sergio Fernandez [ ](nifi) Benson Margulies [x](nifi) Brock Noland [X](nifi) Drew Farris [X](nifi) Andrew Purtell Shepherd/Mentor notes: Drew Farris (drew): Great report. Congratulations on the first release of NiFi at Apache. Excellent job honing the release process and keeping up the momentum with the Release Candidates. P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): The podling looks healthy, with active participation from 6 out of 7 mentors. Mentors were particularly helpful in guiding the community through a first release. -------------------- REEF REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is a scale-out computing fabric that eases the development of Big Data applications on top of resource managers such as Apache YARN and Mesos. REEF has been incubating since 2014-08-12. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Increase contributors and add them as committers 2. Make regular Apache releases 3. Increase efforts to reach out to potential users and contributors Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? * We have seen significant activity from the community - 87 JIRA issues created - 46 JIRA issues resolved - 900+ emails on dev (including auto-generated messages) * We have received significant contributions from non-Committers - Joo Seong Jeong and Josh Seol of Seoul National University have contributed significantly to the website * We have proposed a talk at Hadoop Summit How has the project developed since the last report? * The first release was made as 0.10.0-incubating - Release date: Jan 15, 2015 - Vote: 3 +1 binding votes and 0 -1 votes - 41 issues were closed/resolved for this release * Website added on Apache [REEF-4, http://reef.incubator.apache.org/] * Integrated with the Apache build servers [REEF-11] * Mesos runtime code has been added to the Apache repository [REEF-30] * .NET code has been added to the Apache repository [REEF-51] * Group communication code has been cleared by Microsoft to be added to the Apache REEF code base [REEF-118] Date of last release: Jan 15, 2015 (0.10.0-incubating) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None yet Signed-off-by: [X](reef) Chris Douglas [ ](reef) Chris Mattmann [ ](reef) Ross Gardler [ ](reef) Owen O'Malley Shepherd/Mentor notes: P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): The podling seems to be doing well despite low mentor participation (0 out of 4 mentors active on dev@ list for this reporting period; 1 of 4 mentors participating in REEF's first release threads). -------------------- 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. Ripple releases Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The community is working on making a release of the Ripple project. How has the community developed since the last report? Community working on making a release How has the project developed since the last report? Minor user contributions Date of last release: No releases have been made. Community working on When were the last committers or PMC members elected? June 2014 Signed-off-by: [ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting [X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier [ ](ripple) Andrew Savory Shepherd/Mentor notes: Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier): Ross Gardler stepped up as a mentor. There are new active people on the project which makes it likely to expand the committer team soon. -------------------- SAMOA SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza. SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Create bylaws for the project 2. Migrate documentation from the old website 3. Start committing patches Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? We have started using the official Apache channels to discuss about SAMOA. A couple of new people have showed up on the mailing lists. We have one new contributor submitting patches. Mailing list activity (since January 2015): * @dev 101 messages Jira issues backlog (since January 2015): * Created: 13 * Resolved: 2 How has the project developed since the last report? The project setup is going on nicely. We got the SGA from Yahoo and migrated the code to the Apache git repository, enabled GitHub integration (https://github.com/apache/incubator-samoa), migrated the website to the Apache infrastructure and added the Incubator branding (http://samoa.incubator.apache.org), enabled testing via Travis CI. Date of last release: None When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None Signed-off-by: [ ](samoa) Alan Gates [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar [X](samoa) Ted Dunning Shepherd/Mentor notes: Justin Mclean (jmclean): Just starting, mentors active. -------------------- Sirona Monitoring Solution. Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? How has the project developed since the last report? Some refactoring of the UI. A contributor made some development to have some features still working with java 1.5 Date of last release: 2014-06-26 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [x](sirona) Olivier Lamy [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez [x](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg Shepherd/Mentor notes: Matthew B. Franklin (mfranklin): Lot's of code is being committed to the project, but mostly by a couple of developers. There also does not appear to be much discussion on the list in last period, likely due to the low number of developers. I recommend the podling focus on increasing the size and participation of the community as one of the issues to address prior to graduation. -------------------- Slider Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Building a diverse developer and user community 2. Achieving broader adoption of the existing code and slider-deployable applications (examples: HBase, Accumulo) 3. Making slider better at deploying other applications, so improving takeup. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? We're getting more people on the mailing list asking for improvements; anyone with a patch is being helped to get it in. That builds up the developer base and is intended to move it from a single team to one distributed community development. As we grow, we're proposing moving from a single slider developer list to:a separate user mailing list, and a third list for the JIRA/svn/git events. This will focus the developer list around discussion, with a user list to help build that user community. We do of course expect developers to also subscribe to the user list. How has the project developed since the last report? We've done a source-only release in November, 0.60.0-incubating, in sync with features in Hadoop 2.6, with a binary packing version, 0.61.0-incubating has just been voted for release (3-feb 2015); the incubator vote is now pending. It was nice to see tests and a vote on the release from an external user & patch submitter -community engagement includes things like this. A new release, 0.70 is being created with the release planned mid-February. This will include improved features and fixes —especially those reported by users of the 0.60 release. For example, one group wanted short-lived applications on secure clusters, instances where Slider does not need to worry about keytab expiry. Another need of people writing slider-deployed applications was for a placement policy of "only ever ask for component placement where instances were before"; this is needed for Kafka. Some of the feature requests are quite "ambitious", especially those related to deployed components providing information back to the Web/REST GUIs, and extending the configuration model to include: more on-target-machine configuration, per-instance configuration and better strategies for placing components within the YARN cluster. These requests do represent real needs; even if they are long term features we need to think about how to get there. We're discussing supplementing the dev@ mailing list with issues@ and user@ lists; the issues list for all JIRA updates -creation and completion would still go to the developer list. This is to separate the noise of JIRA-centric development from a developer list focused on broader application features and building a community. We don't want to scare people off from too much JIRA, or worse: lose what they have to say in the emails. Similarly, the user@ list is where we want to encourage users. The original rationale for a single list was "one single community discussion", but it's not clear its worked out that way. Date of last release: 2014-11: Slider 0.60 (source, against Hadoop 2.6) 2015-02: (vote in progress) Slider 0.61.0 (binary, against Hadoop 2.6) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? September 2014, new committer, Gour Saha (works at hortonworks) Signed-off-by: [ ](slider) Arun C Murthy [x](slider) Devaraj Das [x](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré [x](slider) Mahadev Konar -------------------- Tamaya Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular, extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE environments. Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Publish a first release soon. 2. Keep focus for a reasonable functionality and way forward. 3. Keep up/increase community engagement. 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? Reinhard Sandtner was successfully elected to join as a new committer, PPMC member. During Zurich Hackergarten we implemented the backport of the current Java 8 core implementation. How has the project developed since the last report? We identified a minimalistic but extendible API. Basic implementation work for Java 8 and Java 7 is ongoing, but makes overall good progress. Date of last release: not yet defined, probably in Q2/2015 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 25th January 2015 (Reinhard Sandtner) Signed-off-by: [X](tamaya) John D. Ament [X](tamaya) Mark Struberg [ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek [ ](tamaya) David Blevins Shepherd/Mentor notes: jda: Initial growing pains seem to be resolved, initial members are working together better. Mailing list activity is steady and everyone is getting adjusted to The Apache Way. mbf: Community activity looks strong and the community is discussing and deciding on the list. -------------------- Taverna Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute data-driven workflows. Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. IP clearance 2. Release - understand/document release process 3. Grow community -- need to move forward from bootstrapping/IP issues 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? One new (potential) contributor One former plugin developer showing renewed interest There were 160 mail messages to dev@taverna.incubator.apache.org How has the project developed since the last report? The Taverna name search has been approved. IP clearance from University of Manchester was signed 2015-02-04. Helped release Apache extras Beanshell 2.0b5 to allow use in Taverna The dev community is dealing with licensing and discussing preparation for the first release. A partial website is in place and a full website is in-progress. Remaining infrastructure move includes - after IP clearance: * Github -> git.apache.org * Jira -> Jira (still discussing if this should be in bulk or manual) * Confluence -> Confluence * Web content (ongoing) Date of last release: None When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None Signed-off-by: [x](taverna) Andy Seaborne [ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann [ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas [ ](taverna) Suresh Marru [x](taverna) Marlon Pierce Shepherd/Mentor notes: Andy Seaborne (andy): Taverna remained on the monthly reporting cycle because the Software Grant had not been received. If it arrives as per schedule, Taverna can go onto its normal reporting cycle. Drew Farris (drew): Podling is active, 2 mentors participating on the mailing lists. -------------------- TinkerPop TinkerPop is a graph computing framework written in Java TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Software grant needs to be approved. 2. Migration to Apache infrastructure. 3. Getting our team comfortable with the new environment. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We have been hanging on the software grant approval for a week now. Be good to get that knocked out so we can move forward. How has the community developed since the last report? N/A How has the project developed since the last report? N/A Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Signed-off-by: [ ](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen [ ](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno [X](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea [X](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin [X](tinkerpop) David Nalley Shepherd/Mentor notes: John D. Ament (johndament): Links to mailing lists are still pointing to google, appears to be on purpose. By doing so keeps the mailing lists active from original state. -------------------- Twill Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the complexity of developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus more on their business logic Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. More committers from different organizations. 2. Regular releases. 3. Increase adoption. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report? - 8 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-11-01) - 12 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-11-01) - 3 new contributors submitted patches How has the project developed since the last report? - Version 0.4.1-incubating RC3 being voted upon Date of last release: - 2014-11-17: 0.4.0-incubating When were the last committers or PMC members elected? - No new committers since incubation. Signed-off-by: [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy [X](twill) Tom White [X](twill) Patrick Hunt [ ](twill) Andrei Savu Shepherd/Mentor notes: Konstantin Boudnik (cos): Very modest activity on the mailing list: pretty much just JIRAs and very light of it. -------------------- Zeppelin A collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for distributed, general-purpose data processing systems such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc. Zeppelin has been incubating since 2014-12-23. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. SGA: IP clearance to be signed by NFLabs 2. Finish migration to ASF infra: code and issues 3. Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64 Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? We've received several patches from contributors outside of the initial committers list. They are also participating in some discussions @dev How has the project developed since the last report? All code base is ready to be migrated. The project is waiting for the Software Grant from NFLabs legal department. Major features implemented are: custom Zeppelin interpreters-to-note binding and dynamic .jar dependency loading Date of last release: None. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? None since incubation Signed-off-by: [X](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik [X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik [X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning [ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi Shepherd/Mentor notes: Project just started to migrate to ASF infra, and good amount of initial discussions on dev/user list. (tnachen) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley] The Apache JMeter application is a pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. JMeter 2.12 was released on 10th November 2014. The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter developers. Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by the committers. We received many patches from external contributors during the end of last year period. JMeter is being increasingly used in different commercial offers ranging from Cloud SAAS to commercial plugins. We recently welcomed Andrey Pokhilko and Mikhail Epikhin as new committers. A proposal to a 3rd committer is still waiting for an answer from his side. Rahul Akolkar resigned from the PMC on 20th January 2015. Felix Schumacher joined the PMC on Feb 3rd 2015 The JMeter Twitter account has 1564 followers as of 4th Feb 2015. There are no board level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao] Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems. Development =========== We released Kafka 0.8.2.0. The highlights in this release include (1) a java-based new producer, which provides better performance and a cleaner api; (2) a more scalable Kafka-based offset storage management; (3) automated leader balancing and controlled shutdown; (4) delete topic support; (5) more than 200 bug fixes and improvements. We are actively developing a new java-based consumer and the security support in trunk. Community =========== Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 550, 464, 665 emails in Nov, Dec and Jan, respectively (up from 563 in Oct). kafka-dev has 1214, 881, 1632 emails in Nov, Dec and Jan (about the same as 1633 in Jul). We last elected a new committer Guozhang Wang on Nov. 19, 2014. We had a Kafka meetup in Mountain View, California on Jan. 27, 2015. Releases =========== 0.8.2.0 was released on Feb. 3, 2015. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder] # Description The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the perimeter. # Issues None # Status * New bug fix release 0.5.1 on 1/12/2015 # Releases * 0.5.1: 2015-12-01 * 0.5.0: 2014-11-04 * 0.4.0: 2014-04-21 * 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating) # Development Activity * Community has just released 0.5.1 * Jira: 499 total, +29 -20 (last 90 days) * Git (Source): 61 commits over last 90 days * SVN (Site & Docs): 1 commits over last 90 days # Community Activity ## Contributors Added * 1 new contributor added with multiple patches contributed ## Membership Changes * Sumit Gupta (sumit@apache.org) added as commiter and PMC member ## Mailing List Activity * dev@knox: 130 messages over last 90 days * user@knox: 5 messages over last 90 days ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp] The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system. Issues: The board submitted several questions to the PMC after the last report. 1) No commits - It appears that there are few places using Lenya yet. Most of the previous committers have moved their development efforts on to new places 2) No releases - There haven't been any releases as there haven't been any commits that have warrented a new release. So while there are the PMC numbers to vote on a release, no one has fealt that unreleased changes are worth a release. 3) Questions on the list - Questions aren't being asked, so they aren't being answered. Queries to the list aren't being ignored. The board follow up sparked conversation on list about options. It seems that the community feels that it is a good time to move to the attic. A formal vote on the resolution will be held. The voting time as per the Lenya guidelines would call for a one week voting period. That means that the resolution, if passed, would appear on next months agenda. Development: No new releases this quarter. Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14 Community: Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011. Activity: Another quarter of almost no activity. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: 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 - 0.16.0 on 11th of November 2014 - Vote for 0.17.0 release has just been started Community - Eric Johnson (erjohnso) has joined us as a committer and a PMC member on December 4th, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier] The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open- source software related to application logging. Currently there are no issues, which require the board’s attention. - Community Log4j 2 remains an active project. The overall community is healthy and friendly. Log4cxx is still active at the Incubator. In general, all subprojects are healthy. - Project Branding Requirements All components except Chainsaw meet the branding requirements. We will fix the Chainsaw branding with the next release. - Last three community changes * Matt Sicker joined as PMC Member on Aug 10 2014 * Bruce Brouwer joined as a Committer on May 16 2014 * Matt Sicker joined as a Committer on Mar 01 2014 (no changes since last report) - Releases * Log4j 2.1.0 (Oct 28, 2014) * Log4j 2.0.2 (Aug 22, 2014) * Log4j 2.0.1 (Aug 05, 2014) (no changes since last report) - Subproject summaries Log4j 2: Active. Log4j 1: No activity. Needs to be considered for EOL. Log4net: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered. Log4cxx: Active in the Incubator. Release is considered. Log4php: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered. Chainsaw: Ready for a new release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll] === Apache Mahout Status Report: February (missed January) 2015 === ----- Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering and frequent pattern mining Project Status -------------- The project continues to have a large and active user base. Development continues by a small number of dedicated individuals. The PMC is reviewing how we can improve contributions as well as exploring other options to make sure the project remains viable to the user base. Community --------- * As per the status, the main issue is we have only 2-3 committers who are contributing on a regular basis. While they are doing good work, it is concerning from a sustainment issue. We are discussing as a PMC how to rectify this situation. The main issue is that developing machine learning libraries is involved process that is hard to do on a part time basis and we have yet to find anyone that can be dedicated full time to the project. Community Objectives -------------------- Identify next steps for either growing the list of active committers or finding an appropriate home for the code that exists (attic or elsewhere). Releases -------- The migration to Spark is still ongoing and no new releases are planned at this time. Issues ------ See above. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright] ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: February 2015 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been ten major releases, including a 1.8 and 2.0 release on December 26, 2014, and a corresponding pair of point releases on February 3, 2015. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2015. ManifoldCF is now in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases (1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). We plan to continue this dual support for a period of roughly one year. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Alessandro Benedetti (abenedetti), on October 10, 2014. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been somewhat less active than last quarter, but still robust. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.0 release. There were plenty of people looking for integration advice as well. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository is quite slow, and takes well over an hour for a single ManifoldCF release candidate. We raised this issue with Infra but did not manage to resolve it. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank] Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data. Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the Incubator in November 2013. On December 5th Apache Marmotta 3.3.0 with several important new features was released: * Full LDP 1.0 support (Marmotta is listed as reference implementation) * Major improvements in the SPARQL -> SQL translation After the release and towards the end of the year, the mailinglists got quite silent. However, questions on the users-list are answered in a timely manner. Subscribers to the projects mailing list: dev@marmotta.a.o: 76 subscribers (+3 since last report, 2014-11) users@marmotta.a.o: 90 subscribers (+4 since last report, 2014-11) Releases 2014-12-05 (3.3.0) 2014-05-20 (3.2.1) Committers & PMC Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24) Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21) Issues for the Board There are no Board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen] Apache MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. Releases: * December 12th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.1 Statistics: * Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez) * Last PMC members added: 2014-11-20 (When the project graduated) * Mailing list activity for last 3 months: 300 messages * Mailing list subscribers: 58 * Commits the last 3 months: 26 Activity: * Discussions are starting about new connectors: Solr, Hive * Discussions on building a JDBC interface for MetaModel * No important activity at the moment ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny] Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. -- Community -- * No new committers (Last addition, october 2013) * One new PMC member : Jeff Genender (October 2014) A new committer is currently being voted in. Users mailing list : Sep 2014 : 479 subscribers Feb 2015 : 486 subscribers Dev mailing list : Apr 2014 : 388 subscribers Feb 2014 : 383 subscribers Jean-François Maury has been voted as the new MINA Chairman. (board note: subject to board approval as usual, the resolution has been added to this agenda), -- Current activity -- Apache MINA 2.0.9 has been released. It's a bug fix release, with some performance improvements. Some work has been initiated to get 2.0.10 release, but reverted, due to some API modification. The release has still to be completed. Apache MINA 3.0 SSL code has been completed. Apache SSHd 0.13.0 has been released, with on goung work. A slow quarter, so to speak. The only two projects that saw activity are MINA and SSHd. * Apache MINA : * MINA 2.0.9 has been released in october * Apache SSHd: * SSHD 0.13.0 has been released in november * Apache FtpServer: * No activity if the past 3 months * Apache Vysper : * Nothing done * Apache AsyncWeb: * No activity. -- Releases -- * SSHD 0.13.0 has been released. * MINA 2.0.9 has been released ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel] Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop data structures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASES Nutch 2.3 was released on January 24, 2015. The release includes an important upgrade of the Gora persistence layer. It also adds a REST API based Web Application which has been written within the Google Summer of Code 2014. There has been no release of the Nutch 1.x branch since the previous report (Nutch 1.9 was released in August 2014). The release of Nutch 1.10 is planned for the next weeks. CURRENT ACTIVITY Chris Mattmann has begun projects related to Nutch in his CSCI 572 Search Engines class at USC. This includes dynamic page rendering and parsing with Ajax: porting of REST services from 2.x to 1.x and visualization of the crawl graph. We plan to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015. COMMUNITY Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez has been invited to become a PMC member and committer on Feb 7, 2015. Boarding process is ongoing. Last new committer: Talat Uyarer joined the PMC and committers on Mar 31, 2014. The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen] Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS In this reporting period we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT We started developing a new monitoring console for ODE, based on AngularJS, talking directly to the SOAP API. The goal is to replace the current console and then continuously improve the console. Besides of this effort, we continued working on bug fixes and some infrastructure improvements (mainly docker-based CI). COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam] DESCRIPTION Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts). RELEASES * Apache Oozie version (4.1.0) is released CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/bb9 (since last report, Nov 2014) COMMUNITY * No new PMC member added since last report. * Committers composition has not changed since last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 428 (+12) subscribers to the user list - Total of 128(+3) subscribers to the developer list - Total of 17 committers (+0) - Total of 13 PMC members (+0) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce] Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote sensing observations to climate model outputs. Project Activity: Development activity on the project has been great since the last reporting period. The 0.5 release was pushed out in mid January and had many significant toolkit improvements. The project agreed that we're nearly ready for our first major 1.0.0 release and we're actively working towards that goal. Progress has been consistent and a number of key issues have been resolved. We should see this major release pushed out before the next reporting period. We saw a bit more user interaction the list recently which is always great to see. That being said, we haven't had any major contributions from new people. We have seen some committers who had been on hiatus become more active recently. Issues for the Board: None When was the last release: 0.4 - 11 September 2014 0.5 - 14 January 2015 When was the last committer or PMC member elected: Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. == Releases == Version 3.0.3 has been released in September. Since then no major release was published. There is still ongoing work on the 3.0.x tree to fix recording and streaming issues. We are still waiting on a Red5 release and will start a vote as soon as that is available (expected next weeks). There is also ongoing work in trunk on the 3.1.x tree. == Activity == The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits. There are some initiatives around logos and call for help. == Community == Peter Dähn has been voted as a new member to the PMC, boarding process is still ongoing. Maxim Solodovnik is going to the ApacheCon EU and do a presentation about OpenMeetings. == Infrastructure == No outstanding issue. == Board == There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor] Phoenix is a relational database layer for accessing NoSQL datastores such as Apache HBase for low latency applications. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and supports querying and managing NoSQL tables using SQL. Releases: 2014-11-17    3.2.1 2014-11-17    4.2.1 2014-12-10    3.2.2 2014-12-10    4.2.2 Recent Activity: - Adopted new logo and improved website look-and-feel [1]. - Created "Who's using Phoenix" page with user/company quotes [2]. - Voting open on 3.3 and 4.3 releases. Notable features include map-reduce integration, many-to-many joins and functional indexes. - James will be presenting Apache Phoenix at the Hadoop Innovation Summit on 2015-02-13. - Created 202 JIRAs and resolved 208 in the past 3mo. PMC/Committers: Samarth Jain was elected as a committer on 2014-12-06. Thomas D'Silva was elected as a committer on 2015-02-09. Last PMC member was elected on 2014-04-08. Community: First ever Phoenix meetup scheduled for 2015-02-24. User list activity decreased 9% (197 -> 179 msg/mo) vs last 3mo Dev list activity decreased 4% (1052 -> 1005 msg/mo) vs last 3mo User subscribers increased 24% (211 -> 262 subscribers) vs last 3mo Dev subscribers increased 17% (102 -> 119 subscribers) vs last 3mo Board Issues: None [1] http://phoenix.apache.org/index.html [2] http://phoenix.apache.org/who_is_using.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment BL: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell] Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, a message 'router', and client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python, Perl and Ruby. * Releases: Qpid Dispatch Router 0.3 was released on 22nd January 2015. The most recent Qpid release, 0.30, occurred on 26th September 2014. The most recent Qpid Proton release, 0.8, occurred on 6th November 2014. * Community: The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are being raised and addressed. Ernest Allen became a committer on the Qpid project on 21st Nov 2014. Dominic Evans became a committer on the Qpid project on 12th Dec 2014. There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report. The last addition to the PMC was Fraser Adams who joined on 6th March, 2014. * Development: - CVE-2015-0203 and CVE-2015-0224 were raised, fixes were made available and announcements made. - The release process has kicked off for Qpid 0.32, an alpha has been created and trunk is scheduled to branch for beta around 18th February. - Following the 0.32 branch there is intent to reorganise the trunk structure to better facilitate releasing different components independently in future. - There have been a couple of alphas for Qpid Proton 0.9, to verify process following migration from svn to git. Work progresses with intent to release in the next few weeks. - Work on the new AMQP 1.0 compliant JMS client is progressing well, we will begin thinking about an initial release in the near future. * Issues: There are no Board-level issues at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BN: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan] Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally donated by Sun Microsystems. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no board-level issues at this time RELEASES Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013 Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013. COMMUNITY The last change in the PMC was in June 2014, when Patricia Shanahan returned from emeritus to active status as a committer and PMC member. ACTIVITY There is on-going development in the following areas: * Improved examples - important for community building by providing a good initial experience for new users and developers. * Update code for Java 8. * Usability * Security issues associated with Java Serialization. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson] Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.1, which was released on October 2, 2014 and includes a handfull of minor bug fixes. The announcement is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201410.mbox/%3C542CCE9C.80903@gmail.com%3E Community The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new release and fielding support questions about that release. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini who joined on July 3, 2014. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini] Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework built on top of Apache Kafka and Apache YARN. Project Status: * Samza graduated to a TLP on Jan-21-2015. * Samza 0.8.0 was released on Dec-08-2014. * Adoption has been growing. Added four new adopters to Samza's PoweredBy page. * Mailing list activity is a healthy mix of committers and users. Releases: * Last Release was 0.8.0, published Dec-08-2014. Community: * The last Samza PMC addition: Aug-13-2014 * The last Samza committer addition: Aug-13-2014 Mailing lists: * 179 subscribers on dev ----------------------------------------- Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh] The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security standards for XML. The PMC continues to actively manage the project, and there are no issues or concerns to report to the board at this time. There were two new bug-fix releases of the Apache XML Security for Java project over the last quarter, 2.0.3 and 1.5.8. There were 25 commits to the trunk branch of the Java project over the last quarter. Development on a patch release for the C++ library addressing a number of accumulated bug reports over the last year or two is complete, and the release should be completed some time in March. Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012. Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BR: 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: Started the port of the framework to be used for map projections. Work by newly added committer (Marc Le Bihan in November) on Shapefile format. Community: Following on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting in December, OGC would like to start a discussion with a larger community about geospatial API. One reason is the fact that many projects take the XSD published by OGC (e.g. [1]) as a starting point, then translate them to Java API using JAXB or Eclipse. The result is a hardly usable API, but those projects continue to use this approach. Apache SIS is one of the few projects trying to push for standardization by OGC of a clean Java API. Consequently we are invited to speak again about this issue in the next OGC meeting (March), to a wider audience than previous meeting. Branding: Community board report drafts are now on Google Docs and available to those who have the URL [2] Issues: New PMC member (Marc Le Bihan) still not added to the LDAP. Attempts by Martin Desruisseaux and Adam Estrada to execute “modify_committee.pl sis -add=mlebihan” resulted in following error message: Insufficient access at /usr/local/bin/modify_group_members.pl line 102 modify_group_members.pl failed: 255 The Maven snapshot repositories [3] is polluted with old releases. A JIRA task has been filled to INFRA for this issue [4], but the task has been closed without being actually fixed. We apparently do not have the karma to reopen the task. But the issue is not SIS-specific anyway. More generally: how do we cleanup the snapshot repository after a release? We mean, how to delete all “0.5-SNAPSHOT” artifacts after the version number has been increased to “0.6-SNAPSHOT”? Releases: SIS 0.5 release this week (around February 11th). We are late on the schedule, both on the release time (it was initially planned for December) and on the release content (it contains only a fraction of what we said would be in Apache SIS 0.5). Consequently this release is more like a milestone than a full-featured release. Press: None [1] http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/20070417/gmd/ [2] http://goo.gl/yXD9Qf [3] https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/sis/ [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7553 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia] Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, and Python as well as a rich set of libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics. Project status: - We posted our 1.2.0 release in December, with contributions from 172 developers. Major features included stable APIs for Spark's graph processing module (GraphX), a high-level pipeline API for machine learning, an external data source API, better H/A for streaming, and networking performance optimizations. - We posted the Spark 1.2.1 maintenance release on February 9th, with contributions from 69 developers. - We cut a release branch and started QA for Spark 1.3.0, which should be released sometime in March. Some features coming there include a data frame API similar to R and Python, write support for external data sources, and quite a few new machine learning algorithms. - We had a discussion about adding a committer role to the project that is separate from PMC (before, Spark had PMC = C) to bring in people sooner, and decided to do that from this point on. Releases: Our last few releases were: February 9, 2015: Spark 1.2.1 December 18, 2014: Spark 1.2.0 November 26, 2014: Spark 1.1.1 September 11, 2014: Spark 1.1.0 Committers and PMC: The last committers were added February 2nd, 2015 (Joseph Bradley, Cheng Lian and Sean Owen) The last PMC members were added August 12th, 2014 (Joseph Gonzalez and Andrew Or). ----------------------------------------- Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana] Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. Releases ======== * Last release - Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released on June 20th Community and development ========================== * One new committer/PMC member added * Chip Childers has resigned from the PMC * Announced pre-alpha and alpha developer previews for up coming 4.1.0 release. * One public hangout for educate developers * PMC member was spoken at ApacheCon Europe * Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 1250 messages in November, 962 messages in December, 1246 messages in January. * 574 commits in November, 757 commits in December, 413 commits in January New Committer/PMC member addition * Gayan Gunaratne - 2014.12.22 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BU: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein] Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations. * Board Issues There are no Board-level issues of concern. * Community The community is getting ready to branch 1.9.x as part of our release process. Assuming the branch occurs in the next week or two, then the release should appear late March or early April. There is some planning in-process for a Subversion hackathon to occur around the same time as ApacheCon (Austin). Mailing list activity: users@ (779 subscribers): 390 messages across Nov/Dec/Jan. dev@ (330 subscribers): 583 messages across Nov/Dec/Jan. Our last PMC addition was February 2014, and our last (non-PMC) committer was added in July 2013. * Releases The project made two releases to resolve CVE-2014-3580 and CVE-2014-8108: 1.8.11 -- Current series, released on December 15, 2014 1.7.19 -- Prior series, receives maintenance/security patches, released on December 15, 2014 Information about our 1.9.x releases should be present in our next quarterly report. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BV: 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 The mailing lists' traffic has returned quite stable, the number of subscribers to user@ and dev@ has again slightly increased if compared to last quarter. New and coming users are asking for support and reporting bugs; in some cases patches are also provided, fact that can constitute ground for discussion about inviting new committers. Besides bugfixing of current stable release from the 1_2_X branch, we have started a deep code re-organization towards next stable release, which will also include a consistent contribution we received lately about integration with Camel. The PMC has briefly discussed in January about the opportunity to rotate the PMC chair; such discussion brought anyway to confirmation of the current chair. Last committer addition (Giacomo Lamonaco) is dated January 2015. Last addition to PMC (Guido Wimmel) is dated April 2014. Releases since last report * 1.2.1 (Nov 17th, 2014) * 1.2.2 (Jan 30th, 2015) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BW: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BX: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BY: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications. Work on TomEE 2.0 has slowed. The 2.x branch now passes the Java EE 6 Web Profile TCK, however work towards Java EE 7 compliance is understandably difficult. The 2.x branch now passes the CDI 1.2 TCK, which is openly available from RedHat. Some work has been done to integrate ActiveMQ 6 into TomEE 2.x. The community is running out of threads to pull on Java EE 7 without a TCK. Meanwhile the TomEE 1.7.x branch remains the center of the day-to-day. A version 1.7.2 is likely to come out in the next quarter. This will be the first release since the project switched from SVN to Git. The change in SCM went fairly smooth despite the kind of "the rails are off" discussions that arise from being now largely unrestricted. The community is trying out various Git flows. This will probably continue for quite a while before the dust truly settles. Website traffic still slowly increasing and at an overall high of around 72k visits/month. User list traffic stable compared to the last 6 months, but down from last year. This would seem to be indicative of a community in stabilizing/maintenance mode, but growing popularity. Last release was 1.7.1 on 2014-09-15. Last committer was added November 2013. Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl] Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. Status The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter. The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time. Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2012/09/19). No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30). Turbine core project A few commits have been done in the core project. The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25). Fulcrum component project A few commits have been done in the Fulcrum project. The last released component was Fulcrum json 1.0.0 (2014/04/07) ----------------------------------------- Attachment CA: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] ----------------------------------------- Attachment CB: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects. RELEASES * Last release was master POM, May 2012 * Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010 CURRENT ACTIVITY * One committer has been moderately active this month doing cleanup COMMUNITY * Last committer added April 28, 2013 * Mailing list has been quiet community-wise. ----------------------------------------- Attachment CC: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] Releases within this quarter: * WSS4J 1.6.18 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * WSS4J 2.0.3 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh) * Xmlschema 2.2.0 (RM - Daniel Kulp ) * Xmlschema 2.2.1 (RM - Daniel Kulp ) Last releases for other subprojects: * Neethi : Jan 2014 * Axiom : Dec 2012 * Woden : Feb 2011 Community and development: * Last committer addition - Sept 2014, * Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013 Development * WSS4J - 110 commits by 2 committera. * Axiom - 15 commits by 1 committer. * Xmlschema - 19 commits by 1 committer.. * Woden - 0 commits * Neethi - 0 commits. Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters (Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos) * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * XmlSchema * Woden * XML-RPC Subprojects ----------- Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically requiring the board's attention this quarter. * Apache Woden Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification. * Apache Axiom Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree. * Apache XmlSchema Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing XML Schema. * Apache Neethi Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications. * Apache WSS4J Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC. ----------------------------------------- Attachment CD: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway] The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries. Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers who can upgrade the project to address the newer XPath and XSLT standards. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD None. CURRENT ACTIVITY Xalan is a mature product. There is little development activity other than patch maintenance. Most of the activity is in the Xalan-J subproject. The Incubator Corinthia project since ApacheCon EU 2014 has been soliciting expertise from Xalan. We are providing what we can with limited resources. We are planning an appearance at ApacheCon NA 2015. MEMBERSHIP Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last new committer: May 2014 PROJECT RELEASES Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014 Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012 Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014. OTHER ISSUES Moving the original XML parent project to the Attic has caused some frustration on the mailing lists, but these have mostly been overcome. We still get messages posted to the old XML project with Xalan as subprojects. Moderating these messages has helped. No new issues regarding moving original XML parent project to the attic have occurred. We still have enough active members to vote on releases and other PMC issues. BRANDING ISSUES None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment CE: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] ----------------------------------------- Attachment CF: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch] The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. ==Issues for the Board== No issues at present. ==Community== Last new committer: Simon Steiner on 2014/04/11 Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 2013/03/04 ==XML GRAPHICS COMMONS== 0 commits to SVN this quarter. There were no releases this quarter The latest release is 2.0 (3 October 2014) ==FOP== 19 separate commits to SVN. These are mostly bug fixes (including a couple of patches from the community); but also includes the completion of the fo:float feature by Luis Bernardo. This is a major milestone for the FOP project as it represents the implementation of one of the last remaining significant XSL-FO features. The next release (planned to be 2.0) is currently dependent on the completion of the release of the Batik sub project. The FOP User list has a slow but steady stream of questions being raised and answered; 75 e-mails in total. There were no releases this quarter The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012) ==BATIK== 49 separate commits to SVN. This breaks down into some feature development for Complex Script support, and some bug fixing in preparation for the release. There were some discussions about starting the release, but the Complex Script development is still in progress. The decision is to wait for this to be completed. The mailing lists are fairly quiet, with only 8 e-mails to the users list this quarter. There was an e-mail received on January 23, 2015 Entitled: Vulnerability in Apache Batik Framework (Responsible Disclosure). The team has discussed this vulnerability, and we’ve contacted our primary Batik developer. One committer has agreed to review & commit a PATCH as soon as one has been submitted. We hope to have this issue resolved as quickly as possible. There were no releases this quarter. The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008) ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the February 18, 2015 board meeting.