The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes April 22, 2015 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:32 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2tf1 The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Rich Bowen Shane Curcuru Bertrand Delacretaz Jim Jagielski Chris Mattmann David Nalley Brett Porter Sam Ruby Greg Stein Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Craig L Russell James Carman Executive Officers Absent: none Guests: Sean Kelly Owen O'Malley Daniel Gruno Gavin McDonald Jake Farrell Jan Iversen Tom Pappas (Virtual) Christopher Douglas Marvin Humphrey Henri Yandell Hadrian Zbarcea Chris Nauroth 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of March 18, 2015 See: board_minutes_2015_03_18.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Brett] On March 24, we held the Annual Members Meeting. There are still a couple of days for the remaining applications to come in, so we'll hold off the formal announcement of who the new members are, but I'm pleased to say that we added more than 100 new members this year! Our gratitude goes to the Secretary & assistant for processing all of the applications in addition to their regular workload. We had no concerns reaching quorum this year, in part due to the easier method of requesting a proxy. This will still remain a topic of some interest as the Foundation continues to grow. This is the first meeting of the newly elected board, and we welcome back Shane Curcuru, and for the first time David Nalley. I'd like to again thank Doug and Ross for their service to the ASF on the board after they stood down at the meeting. Below is the report that I shared with the members for the Annual Meeting: ------ I'd like to welcome all of our Members to our Annual Members Meeting for 2015. Thanks for taking some time out to participate in the governance of the ASF, including electing new Members, and electing the new Board of Directors. A special welcome again to the 40 new members elected during 2014. This year the meeting is being held slightly earlier than it has been in recent years. This allows the new board to be in place before the end of our fiscal year, and to review and approve the budget for the next year - a pattern I hope will be continued in the future. Even with a shorter period of time since the last meeting, there has been a lot happening within the ASF! We have added 13 new top-level projects: Tez, Celix, VXQuery, Storm, DeviceMap, Drill, MetaModel, BookKeeper, Falcon, Flink, Samza, Aurora and Zest. We retired just one project, with Whirr moving to the Apache Attic. Finally, we wound up our second oldest committee - Conference Planning - with responsibility moving to the President/EVP and our event and community partners. We now have 162 Project Management Committees, with a further 37 podlings in the Incubator. This means that within the next month we should expect to cross the milestone of having 200 projects under management at the ASF. Further to that, we've appointed replacement PMC chairs 29 times, showing that PMCs continue to rotate important positions, share the load and avoid volunteer burnout. We have grown at this steady rate while continuing to ensure that our projects operate under the pattern of open, collaborative and independent development known as "The Apache Way". Over the last year we have streamlined some processes to support this growth - adding to and expanding the tools that help manage PMC membership, monthly project reports, and management of the monthly board agenda. I expect this to continue, and thank the volunteers who have initiated and contributed to those efforts. The operations team are building a stable base for future growth. Our income and reserves have to date kept pace with growth, and we have gradually seen a transition from a day-to-day mode of operation towards a mode of planning and execution as we move forward each year. This helps ensure that these areas are able to provide the support that the Foundation and projects need, with a minimum number of distractions from producing software and building communities. Communication between the operations team and the board has been effective, and the board has adequate oversight and input into the work without needing to get more directly involved. Many thanks go to the President, EVP, and the VPs and committees that work with them for their significant efforts. We thank the sponsors and individual donors that contribute financially to the success of the ASF and its projects. Our thanks also go to the Treasurer, Secretary and their assistants who as volunteers put significant amounts of time into those roles and have kept them running extremely smoothly. As we looked back in 2014 at the 15 years of incorporation of the ASF, we recognised the massive impact that the Foundation has had on both the open source landscape, and computing in general. Every committer, PMC member, and contributor to our projects should be proud of what we've achieved and the part they have played in it. While many aspects of hosting and developing an open source project have become easier to do independently over the years, the benefits of being backed by a Foundation are routinely recognised within the open source development community. The ASF will certainly play a valuable role for many, many years to come. Finally, I'd like to thank the directors who served in 2014-15 for their dedication to the ASF and their regular contributions to its success both inside and outside of the board's activities. Particular thanks go to Ross Gardler (who will continue to serve as President) and Doug Cutting, who have opted not to stand at the coming election. Their presence among the board will be missed. We are therefore assured of welcoming new directors to the board this year, and the members have once again put forward a wonderful group of nominees. I wish the new board all the best for the coming year! B. President [Ross] Welcome to the new board! This month has been a mixed month. On the one hand it has been relatively quiet since the members meeting and ApacheCon have sucked up most of our time and energy. On the other hand it has been very busy because the members meeting ad ApacheCon has sucked up most of our time. The most important item is the Budget. The proposed budget has been available for the previous board and the new board to consider for some weeks I trust that all Directors are familiar with it. However, I have made some significant last minute change requests to cover increased expenses for moving three contractors to Virtual as a PEO. I managed to speak with most directors in person about this (at ApacheCon) and have notified the others by email. In order to ensure a budget is passed I have called out the additional expenses so that the budget can be approved without these expenses if the board feel this is necessary. I request the board approve the budget as provided in Special Order G. From a financial position the foundation remains in good standing with a significantly higher cash surplus than the industry benchmark (as reported by Virtual). We have a surplus of 20.8 months at the FY15 spend rate, the benchmark is 6 months. This means the increased deficit is not problematic from a financial planning perspective. Though we should recognize that this increased cost is a recurring cost. I have started working on a 5 year budget estimate to ensure we monitor this situation. Brand management --------------------------- The currently brand budget covers US registrations only. VP Brand Management has received a request from a PMC to register in EU/CTM, India, and China in addition and, as a result has requested an increased budget of $2,425. I have denied this request indicating that it request should be repeated if the budgeted amount for the year falls short. Shane continues to work on a risk assessment indicates he will be ready to report next month. Fundraising ---------------- Migration to using ZoHo is well underway. Renewals are being processed. All is good. Marketing and Publicity ------------------------------- In addition to the "business as usual" items Sally reports the end of year report is in preparation. The refresh/redesign of the apache.org homepage has been completed with thanks to extensive work donated by HotWax Systems. Sally was also successful in securing a Proclamation from the City of Austin for the foundations 15 year anniversary. Infrastructure ------------------ A request for feedback on a proposal to deprecate the CMS caused some "interesting" reactions. Amongst the unnecessary noise there was a great deal of valuable feedback. The infra team are now formulating a plan for the CMS and will report to the community soon. Travel Assistance ------------------------ 6 successful applicants attended ApacheCon NA. Thanks to the team for their diligence and hard work that make this possible. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6. C. Treasurer [Chris] The Treasurer’s Office worked with Virtual to prepare a report for the ASF annual members meeting. Virtual and the Treasurer’s Office worked together to provide input to the ASF president and his FY16 budget activities for the foundation. Virtual and the Treasurer’s Office have worked with ASF officers over the last month to review their budgets, e.g., Brand. Income and Expenses for March 2015 CASH BASIS Current Balances: Citizens Checking $1,087,042 Amazon- ASF Payments $18,168 Paypal - ASF $52,702 Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $243,006 Wells Fargo Savings $288,191 Total Checking/Savings $1,689,109 Income Summary: Public Donations $2,403 Amazon and Paypal Sponsorship Program $115,000 Programs Income $- Interest Income $17 Total Income $117,419 Expense Summary: Infrastructure $44,363 Sponsorship Program $- Programs Expense $- Publicity $5,455 Brand Management $- Conferences $- Travel Assistance Committee $7,058 Treasury Services $2,850 General & Administrative $6,889 Total Expense $66,615 Net Income $50,805 D. Secretary [Craig] Secretary is running smoothly, with the Assistant Secretary picking up much of the workload. In March, a new record was set for activity, with 92 iclas, five cclas, 74 membership applications, four emeritus requests, and three grants received and filed. E. Executive Vice President [Rich] We held ApacheCon North America in Austin last week, April 13-16, and had 449 registrations, up by 50 from Denver. We had the honor of hosting several of the founding members of the httpd project at the event[1], and had a birthday celebration for the 20th birthday of the httpd project. We also received a proclamation from the City of Austin declaring April 13-16 to be Apache Days.[2] There was also a lively BarCamp on Thursday, with a good number of people in attendance. Several projects (Spark, Traffic Server, Cassandra) held project summits. On the whole, we appear to have had a successful event by most measures, although the size of the attendance is still a source of frustration for many. There was an incident at ApacheCon where a keynote speaker was subject to a verbal barrage while in the refreshment line in the exhibit area, and felt intimidated and threatened. A great deal of discussion has happened on the members list, as well as numerous other places, about what action should be taken. The conference producer has been made aware of the incident, but is still traveling and doing events, so I haven't had a chance to discuss this at length with her. Meanwhile, the individual in question has apologized to the speaker (cc'ing myself and the conference producer), and I am also awaiting communication from her regarding whether she wishes to pursue this further with the conference producer, pursuant to enforcing the conference Code of Conduct and blacklisting this individual from future events. I ask for the continued patience of the membership as we work through this. I've also discussed this incident directly with the individual in question, explaining our stance that this kind of thing won't be tolerated in our community. We had very productive meetings with the LF producers regarding how future events will be run. As reported before, LF is stepping up to provide more leadership in upcoming events, and have proposed that ApacheCon EU (September) have a much narrower content focus, with three days primarily focusing on our Big Data projects, and then a fourth day populated by community talks, and project-specific tracks. The goal is to make the conference easier to market, because we will be able to state what the conference is about in terms that the market understands. The secondary goal is to have the main part of the event fund the community portion of the event, which has, in a sense, been a goal of ApacheCon from the beginning. Projects are welcome to propose content in the CFP[3], as per earlier events, but LF will make the final content determination, rather than a committee of ASF people. This is a significant change from earlier events. It is anticipated that it will result in some tensions in the community, but given that we are asking LF to take 100% of the financial risk, it is reasonable that they also have the majority of the decision power also. We remind the board that our mandate was to license our brands to a producer, and get out of their way as much as possible, and this is the goal towards which we have been working for the last year. Jan Iversen will be our primary contact for ApacheCon Europe, while I (Rich) will focus primarily on the North America event. ApacheCon Europe will be held in Budapest [4], September 28 - October 1, 2015. The CFP is open, but has not been announced yet, as there is discussion about running two separate CFPs, one for the Big Data event, and a second of the yet-to-be-named community event. ApacheCon North America will be held in Vancouver, BC, May 9 - 12, 2016. The CFP will open soon, but a date has not yet been determined. I will be visiting the venue [5] while I am at the OpenStack Summit in 3 weeks. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbowen/sets/72157651553317030/ See also https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamamoose/63963722/ [2] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/at_apachecon_austin_mayor_steve [3] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/program/cfp [4] http://apachecon.eu/ [5] http://vancouver.hyatt.com/ F. Vice Chairman [Greg] No report was submitted. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand] See Attachment 7 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment 8 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Brett] See Attachment 9 Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim] See Attachment A B. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Chris] See Attachment B @Chris: Anyone identified as potential new committers/PMC members? C. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Shane] See Attachment C @Shane: Is this level of activity normal? D. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / David] See Attachment D @David: Please file board reports for the next three months to address PMC issues E. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Rich] No report was submitted. F. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Sam] See Attachment F @Jim: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members? G. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Greg] See Attachment G H. Apache Aurora Project [Bill Farner / Greg] See Attachment H I. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Jim] See Attachment I J. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Sam] See Attachment J @Sam: Need to resolve issues with Synapse PMC; please report next month K. Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik / Bertrand] See Attachment K L. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Rich] See Attachment L M. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Shane] See Attachment M @Shane: Please submit a more detailed report next month N. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / David] See Attachment N O. Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory / Chris] See Attachment O P. Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid / Brett] See Attachment P Q. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Sam] See Attachment Q R. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Rich] See Attachment R @David: The infra service was deprecated a while ago S. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Shane] See Attachment S @Shane: Need to review activity on sub-projects T. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Chris] No report was submitted. @Chris: pursue a report for Deltacloud U. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Brett] See Attachment U @Brett: Need a real report for this project V. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Greg] See Attachment V W. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Jim] See Attachment W X. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Bertrand] See Attachment X Y. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / David] See Attachment Y @David: Please don't include company names in reports Z. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Greg] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / David] No report was submitted. AB. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Rich] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Brett] See Attachment AC AD. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Sam] No report was submitted. AE. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips / Chris] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand] See Attachment AF AG. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Shane] See Attachment AG AH. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Jim] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey / David] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Rich] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Chris] See Attachment AK AL. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Brett] No report was submitted. AM. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Bertrand] See Attachment AM AN. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Greg] See Attachment AN AO. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Sam] See Attachment AO @Sam: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members? AP. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Shane] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Jim] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Chris] See Attachment AR @Chris: Very low activity; please report next month AS. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam] No report was submitted. AT. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett] No report was submitted. AU. Apache OpenOffice Project [Jan Iversen / Jim] See Attachment AU AV. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Greg] See Attachment AV AW. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / David] See Attachment AW AX. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Rich] See Attachment AX AY. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Shane] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Bertrand] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Greg] See Attachment BA @Greg: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members? BB. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Chris] See Attachment BB @Rich: Please don't put company affiliations in board reports unless there is a concern BC. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] See Attachment BC BD. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Rich] See Attachment BD BE. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Shane] See Attachment BE BF. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Jim] See Attachment BF BG. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Brett] See Attachment BG BH. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Sam] See Attachment BH BI. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Bertrand] See Attachment BI BJ. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / David] See Attachment BJ BK. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Brett] See Attachment BK BL. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / David] No report was submitted. @David: pursue a report for Tuscany; missed February as well BM. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Chris] See Attachment BM BN. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Greg] See Attachment BN @Greg: Is the community healthy? BO. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Bertrand] See Attachment BO BP. Apache Zest Project [Niclas Hedhman / Shane] See Attachment BP Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Orc Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to high performance columnar file formats for distributed computing. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Orc Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Orc Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to composite oriented programming; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Orc" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Orc Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Orc Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Orc Project Management Committee: * Chris Douglas * Alan Gates * Prasanth Jayachandran * Lefty Leverenz * Owen O'Malley NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Owen O'Malley be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Orc, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Orc Project be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Orc Project. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Orc Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Konstantin Boudnik to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Konstantin Boudnik from the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Bigtop project has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Purtell as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Konstantin Boudnik is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Purtell be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gabriel Reid to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Gabriel Reid from the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Crunch project has chosen by vote to recommend Micah Whitacre as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gabriel Reid is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Micah Whitacre be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Establish the Apache Parquet Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a columnar storage format for Hadoop. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Parquet Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Parquet Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a columnar storage format for Hadoop; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Parquet" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Parquet Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Parquet Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Parquet Project: * Chris Aniszczyk * Ryan Blue * Jonathan Coveney * Tim * Jake Farrell * Marcel Kornacker * Mickael Lacour * Julien Le Dem * Alex Levenson * Nong Li * Todd Lipcon * Chris Mattmann * Aniket Mokashi * Lukas Nalezenec * Brock Noland * Wesley Graham Peck * Remy Pecqueur * Dmitriy Ryaboy * Roman Shaposhnik * Daniel Weeks * Thomas White NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Julien Le Dem be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Parquet, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Parquet PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Parquet Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Parquet Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Parquet podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Parquet podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Parquet Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Change the Apache MyFaces Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gerhard Petracek to the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Gerhard Petracek from the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache MyFaces project has chosen by vote to recommend Mike Kienenberger as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gerhard Petracek is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mike Kienenberger be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7E, Change the Apache MyFaces Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. F. Terminate the Apache Lenya Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Lenya project due to inactivity NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Lenya project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache Lenya Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Lenya" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Lenya PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7F, Terminate the Apache Lenya Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. G. Change the Apache Mahout Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Grant Ingersoll to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Grant Ingersoll from the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Mahout project has chosen by vote to recommend Suneel Marthi as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Grant Ingersoll is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Suneel Marthi be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, 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 7G, Change the Apache Mahout Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. H. Change the Apache ActiveMQ Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hiram Chirino to the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Hiram Chirino from the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ActiveMQ project has chosen by vote to recommend Bruce Snyder as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hiram Chirino is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bruce Snyder be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, 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 7H, Change the Apache ActiveMQ Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. I. Approve the 2016 FY ASF Budget The board is requested to approve the following budget for FY16. This budget includes budget for using a Professional Services Organization for appropriate US contractors. The additional costs for using a PEO are $40k on Infrastructure and $20k on General & Administrative. Income Total Public Donations 60,000 Total Sponsorship 815,000 Total Programs 17,200 Interest Income 250 ======= Total Income 892,450 Expense Infrastructure 636,216 Progam Expenses 2,200 Publicity 124,000 Brand Management 39,250 Conferences 7,500 Travel Assistance 50,000 Treasury 49,200 General & Administrative 134,877 ========= 1,043,243 Special Order 7I, Approve the 2016 FY ASF Budget, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items Greg will take responsibility for tracking action items from board meetings. Executive Officer appointments will be postponed until the next board meeting. 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Bertrand: Ask if the git CMS work could be documented for others to use [ DeltaSpike ] Status: N/A, I misunderstood what they did with the CMS, there's nothing relevant to document. * Brett: pursue a report [ Axis ] Status: see report discussion * Brett: help Axis and Synapse PMCs to work together to unblock the release [ Synapse ] Status: see above * Brett: Are hangouts documents so non-attendees can participate later? [ Drill ] Status: CLOSED. answered on board list, answer was yes: http://s.apache.org/GpE * Brett: Any action on log4j? [ Logging ] Status: no progress * Brett: What is the issue with infra? [ SIS ] Status: no progress * Brett: follow up with PMC regarding board reports: please list PMC and committer list changes [ Chemistry ] Status: no progress * Brett: clarify report regarding email activity for oak-dev and oak-commits [ Jackrabbit ] Status: CLOSED. Minutes were updated. * Chris: help PMC improve report for next month [ Samza ] Status: * Chris: join the mail list to see if action needs to be taken to help and suggest discussing with comdev [ Flex ] Status: * Doug: ask if PMC needs help with release policy/procedure [ Portals ] Status: * Doug: please fix release history data [ Wicket ] Status: * Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ] Status: * Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ] Status: * Greg: Is it time to retire the project? [ Tuscany ] Status: * Jim: Clarify report [ Creadur ] Status: * Rich: could the PMC use some help from comdev to attract new blood? [ Deltacloud ] Status: Got an initial email from the Deltacloud PMC chair saying that they were interested, but they haven't turned up on the comdev mailing list. I will ask, myself, on ComDev, to see if anyone has any interest in trying to get the word out about Deltacloud and their desire for more contributors. * 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: * Ross: follow up with PMC regarding the resignation of PMC members and the health of the community [ Bigtop ] Status: Done per report. * Sam: pursue a report [ MRUnit ] Status: Report is present; PMC is discussing changes 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business * Self-Service ICLAs: There has been some discussion regarding automating our ICLA submission process to the point that it is completely self-service. There are some concerns about us exposing the ASF to risk by using a web form to submit the ICLAs. We need legal counsel to advise us. - James Carman - I talked to Jim at ApacheCon. I don't think that legal will be a problem. I have a demo that people can play with and contribute to: https://whimsy.apache.org/test/icla/ - Sam Ruby 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 12:14 p.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin] Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@, treasurer@, comdev@, tm-registrations@, and board@) and following-up with appropriate personnel Fundraising: • Hadrian has migrated the information from the spreadsheet over to Zoho CRM. We will be meeting in Austin to discuss workflow processes with Zoho • Payments received for renewals: • $50k for the first of two installments from a platinum • $5k for a bronze • $110 – prorated amount for a gold that upgraded to platinum (great work, team!!) • $40k from a gold Virtual: • Upon receiving and reviewing the employment offer from Virtual, I had discussions with Ross and Virtual to confirm salary details. Upon receiving feedback from Virtual, it was decided that the salary terms were not acceptable and the paperwork was not signed. The ASF is seeking an alternative. ApacheCon and TAC: • All work with TAC completed • Booth logistics all sorted • Giveaways all en route to the venue • Sorted hotel reservations for a few last-minute folks Trademarks: • Flowing smoothly – all requests have been caught up- some projects still need to provide the information to us in order to process the application, but they are aware of this and just need a little time to compile all of the data. Misc: I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you for being nominated and voted in as a Member. This is truly a huge honor, and it really made my heart smile! So, thank you very much! ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru] ## Budget: *Board action needed* * BUDGET REQUEST INCREASE: += $2,425.00 on behalf of the well organized Tomcat project who wishes to register their name as both a service mark in the US, as well as a software product mark in the EU/CTM, India, and China. Given the President's adjusted budget request for brand, the core budget is only meant to (primarily) cover a US software product registration for any TLP that requests one. Thus I would like to increase the brand budget request by +$2425 to meet the Tomcat PMC's request (which I support). Separately, please FYI that due to a billing error, over $12K of legal fees and outside counsel expenses incurred during 2014 was not actually billed to the ASF until last month; apologies if this caused some confusion as to the monthly brand expenses in the past. ## Operations: Gave two well-received talks at ApacheCon Austin related to brands, one focused on education for PMCs and the other focused on helping vendors working in our project technology spaces how to respectfully use Apache brands. The level of questions I got both after the talks and during the conference was much better than in past years in terms of PMC members asking more detailed and thoughtful questions. Work on the requested detailed risk analysis for the board of not registering our project trademarks is progressing slowly due to ApacheCon, budgets, and the like. Propose to present something next month. Interesting questions on trademarks@ this month about the recent Groovy project submission to the Incubator (no TM issues expected), the use of trademarks in relation to email addresses (to reduce spam), as well as questions about detailed uses of marks including the Apache Attic as well as a higher volume then usual from both PMCs and outside parties. (Outstanding) Waiting on infra to confirm if supporting a regularly maintained list of all Apache product trademarks is feasible; if it is not feasible, then I would expect to ask for an additional budget item to complete this task in the future. ## Registrations: At the request of the relevant PMCs, we submitted US registration applications this month for: Accumulo, ManifoldCF, Tomcat. The Tajo, ManifoldCF, DeltaSpike, Accumulo, Bigtop, OFBiz have requested to register their project names; we're still coordinating getting all the information needed for those and previous requests to counsel. The PMC requested Cassandra and CouchDB applications are on hold pending various legal consent issues. The Tomcat PMC has requested additional registrations, both as software products in the EU/CTM, India, China and as a service (i.e. the service of providing developer support to contributors) in the US. This is on hold pending a decision on budget. The Corinthia podling has requested to register their product name, and may have volunteers to donate the costs associated with the registration if the official Brand budget cannot be used to pay for podling registrations. Awaiting feedback from the Corinthia PPMC currently. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Jim Jagielski] Fundraising progresses very well (see Melissa's report for more details). Most notable event was Pivotal's upgrade to platinum (announced at acna). The "Thanks" page has been updated and looks much better. Many thanks to Daniel Gruno for making it happen and for his attention to details (a few follow up fixes). This happened before the site update and although a bit eclipsed by the whole site update it is still great. Information about all accounts is now in Zoho. Hadrian is in the process of adding data to all the accounts and potentials and uploading all the existing documents (invoices and payments) in zoho for reference and accuracy of reports. We will go back and upload docs starting with 01/01/2015, but not before that. While doing that we need to add tasks and renewal reminders. The desire and expectation is to fully finish this for all sponsors this cycle (i.e. until the next board meeting). For the next couple of cycles the plan is to iron out and document our process. There are still very few outstanding items that should be taken care this week, hopefully before the board meeting. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] I. Budget: Sally Khudairi submitted a request to augment the 2015-2016 Marketing & Publicity budget by at least $5,000 to accommodate the increasing number of requests for collateral/promotional items for project-related events. All vendor payments are up-to-date. II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally is working with Hadrian and Melissa on providing recognition for ASF Sponsors that require M&P visibility. She has begun work on the ASF FY2014 Annual Report which will be published the last week of May. The refresh/redesign of the apache.org homepage has been completed with thanks to extensive work donated by HotWax Systems; we are anticipating the new homepage to be launched the week of ApacheCon. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe: - 30 March 2015 --The Apache™ Software Foundation to celebrate 15 years of community-led innovation at ApacheCon - 17 March 2015 -- The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization - 11 March 2015 --Groovy Submitted to Become a Project at The Apache Software Foundation IV. Informal Announcements: 7 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 26 weekly summaries published thus far. V. Future Announcements: there is one announcement in development that will be released during ApacheCon. Projects preparing to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing to announce major project milestones and "Did You Know?" success stories are welcome to contact Sally at for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 4 media requests. The ASF received 1,040 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 1,611. VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 4 analyst queries. Apache was mentioned in 1 report by Gartner, 6 reports by Forrester, 6 reports by 451 Research, and 4 reports by IDC. Sally received the 451 Research report on Apache CloudStack. VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally submitted the M&P highlights to Ross Gardler for the State of the Feather presentation and has arranged for a special recognition for the ASF. She has also assisted the producers with outreach to potential attending members of the media/analyst community, and will be at the ASF booth alongside Melissa Warnkin through 15 April. IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal activities over the past month. Sally created promotional materials for several Apache project events, including the Cincinnati Apache Spark Meetup. X. Newswire accounts: we have 19 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: ========== $53 domain renewals $2165 Cloud Services Operations Action Items: ======================== n/a Short Term Priorities: ======================= LDAP ---- We've increased our spread of LDAP so that all of our cloud regions now possess an LDAP server for authentication to work over the local network. CMS ---- We've generated a FAQ to catalog issues and questions that came up during the RFC. We hope to have some direction during or shortly after ApacheCon. Long Range Priorities: ====================== Automation ----------- We've been working on a number of automation efforts. One of our recent deployments of LDAP has proven we can deploy a new host in less than 10 minutes from provisioning to functional service. Additionally we've been working on moving more services. One of the highlights this month includes the SteVe deployment. We now have the service in a state where it is trivial for us to deploy a fresh machine with a STeVe deployment for projects to use. Resilience ---------- We've begun moving VMs off of our internal VMware deployment. At the same time we have been working on spinning up our VMware-based cloud deployment at PhoenixNAP. Technical Debt -------------- We suspect (but are unable to prove) that some of our VMware issues are related to using EOL/EOS software from VMware that requires us to run the deployment for at least one machine in a suboptimal manner. Monitoring ---------- While monitoring has been useful in identifying issues, we haven't materially expanded its use this month, something we hope to remedy this month. General Activity: ================= Incidents ------------ We had a total of 98 incidents in the month of March that we alerted on and paged the on call contractor out for. The relatively high number has caused some concern, and we are tracking ways to reduce the number of alerted incidents to the truly severe. http://s.apache.org/WjC http://s.apache.org/jQs Jira ----- A number of Jira imports have successfully been handled. These include the plethora of Maven project imports, Tinkerpop, and Groovy among others. The bulk of this work has been done by Mark Thomas who deserves special thanks for tackling this work. VMware hosts ------------- One of our VMware hosts has been suffering from intermittent network failures as well as the entire machine dying. This originally appeared to be time related. We've begun migrating services off of this host in order of priority, but the outages have affected a number of important services to include the git services as well as blogs. Uptime Statistics: ================== Contractor Details: =================== Gavin McDonald -------------- Engage with OpenOffice community regarding a few Infrastructure related issues, such as the Mac Buildbots Revisit and engage with CouchDB PMC to sort out 2 outstanding Domain Name transfers. Sort out couch.[org|com] domains with Dotster, Domains are successfully transferred. Next step is to sort out secondary DNS and httpd configs. Covered on-call whilst folks were travelling to ACNA Jira Tickets: 68 worked on and 56 competed as of 04/20/15 Confluence Wiki migration was completed. Began work on moving the Blogs service to Puppet 3 and a new home in the cloud. Began work on preparing to migrate TLP playgrounds to Puppet 3 and the cloud. Prepared a draft policy covering VCS canonical locations. on 4/17 qmail stopped sending mails and the queue went above 100000. Resolved issues and service running normally again. commonsrdf cms setup refuses to create a staging site. Looked extensively into the problem but remains unresolved at this time. This is a blocker for the project as they have no website and are waiting on it to do a release. See: INFRA-9260 ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] Note that this is a pre-ACNA board report. A full report on how things went at ACNA will be reported next month. The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) exists to help those that would like to attend ApacheCon and/or other ASF Sponsored events, but are unable to do so for financial reasons. Overall Activity since last report ---------------------------------- * Everything is set to go for ApacheCon NA in Austin Texas. Jan with assistance from Nick and Lewis are taking on the ‘man on the ground’ position in organising the TAC attendees to perform their roles as needed and also to ensure they get the most out of the event itself. * 8 applicants were accepted with 2 later dropping out so 6 successful applicants are attending this time around. That is a lower than usual figure so we need to find a way to get more successful applicants next time. * We have deprecated use of IRC in favour of using HipChat as our synchronous communication channel. Any ASF member is welcome to join this channel and hang out. Ask Infra for a HipChat invite as guests will not be invited in to the private channel. How has the community developed since the last report? ------------------------------------------------------ No members have joined or left. There are currently 13 subscribers to the main mailing list. Budget: ------- We missed the original request for a budget submission. Since then we have replied to a board email stating that we’d like the same budget as last year, i.e $50,000 to supply 2 ApacheCons and up to 2 smaller events. Decision is pending. Future Events: -------------- ApacheCon EU is the next event TAC is supporting. Nothing has been started on this yet but imagine that we’ll get started around the end of May - there may be a meeting to discuss some details including a timeline at ACNA. Any ASF member that wants to help out are welcome, see the resources section for details. Jan - whom has been a prolific contributor to ACNA and previous ApacheCons, has indicated he will be much less available for ACEU. Therefore we need to consider this and encourage others to join the effort for this next event. Resources : www: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAC/ :: https://apache.org/travel ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski] The draft of the privacy policy is still being reviewed; the DMCA policy is (still) being drafted. Numerous JIRA items have been closed. A dis- cussion regarding online submission of (i)CLAs has started, in cooperation with the Operations team. The question of whether or not the ASF could use Github as the canonical and official repo for any ASF project was asked: the decision of VP Legal is that the unavailability of the push logs from Github results in an increased risk to our developers and end-users, and would make the consumption of, or leverage of, ASF projects by end-users a more difficult proposition due to the ASF not being able to completely and independently verify and perform the required IP provenance of our released code. A blog post and/or JIRA ticket, to further make this policy decision more known, is likely. No issues 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. March 2015 3 Support Question 5 Confused user probably due to Android licenses 11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org 3 [site] rejected 2 [httpd] 1 [solr] 1 [camel] 1 [ambari] 1 [activemq] 1 [flex] 1 [cordova] 5 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists 1 [sling] 1 [hive] 1 [httpd] 1 [struts] 1 [tomcat] rejected ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder] Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom Syndication Format and Publishing Protocol specifications. No activity and it looks like Abdera will be retired to the attic now. We need to mention this on the dev list and then if there are no objections i'll endevour to get a retirement resolution by the next report. No board issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi] The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift. Releases Version 1.6.2 was released on 2/16/2015. Activity The number of subscribers to the user list is the same as in the last report, 384; however, 28 subscribers left and 28 were added. The dev list went down by 6 to 227 subscribers, with 16 leaving and 10 new. Mailing lists are active. In the past 3 months, there have been 345 commits from 14 authors, 5 of whom are not yet committers. We are in the process of triaging open tickets for 1.7.0 and will begin testing it on Monday April 13th in preparation for a release. Community Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014. No new committers have been added since the last report. We have a couple of contributors actively working on patches. This month will be the second annual Accumulo conference [1]. [1]: http://accumulosummit.com/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: 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: 30 msgs (previous 3 months: 34 msgs) * Commits for last 3 months: 8 (previous 3 months: 145) Activity: * Discussions about moving to Java 8 and Dependency Manager 4. * Improvements in the Workspace API (for scripting). * User questions about templates, Jenkins and Apache Karaf integration. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: 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. * Several ActiveMQ based presentation were given at Apachecon NA. * The ActiveMQ community has voted to name the HortnetQ code donation ActiveMQ Artemis. * Apache board members requested a special report to address what the plan is of the hornetq code donation. There were some specific question what were directed at the PMC: Q. Red Hat has a product, called HornetQ, which includes a website; branding, etc. http://hornetq.jboss.org/ A. ActiveMQ PMC does not intend to use the HornetQ branding in any code, docs or website. The code donation has been updated to remove such references. The HornetQ open source project is now considered a legacy project and the code is no longer maintained as the open source project HornetQ. The ActiveMQ community is beginning to work together to develop a plan to take the donated code base forward and to develop community around this code base. Q. The ActiveMQ PMC needs to deliver a plan for: A. Apache ActiveMQ has multiple products with multiple versions: a. ActiveMQ - (version 5.x.x) b. ActiveMQ Artemis - (version 1.x.x) This means that we are not yet ready to declare that ActiveMQ Artemis is the successor to ActiveMQ 5.x. We will wait until the product matures to make that decision. Q. The current chair has been the chair for *many* years and based on the current status and issues in the community, I would strongly suggest having a plan for potentially replacing the chair of the project. A. The PMC agrees. * The PMC has voted to give the code donation a code name so that it is not referred to as HornetQ anymore within ActiveMQ. * IP clearance for the code donation is almost complete: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/hornetq.html * At least one member of the PMC, as well as several members of the community, feels strongly that disagreements and concerns are not getting addressed. They would rather have Artemis go through the incubator. * PMC is in discussions looking for ways to increase community diversity * PMC has voted to appoint Bruce Snyder as the ActiveMQ PMC chair. The PMC requests that the board approve the the following resolution: ---------------------------------------------------------- WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hiram Chirino to the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Hiram Chirino from the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ActiveMQ project has chosen by vote to recommend Bruce Snyder as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hiram Chirino is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bruce Snyder be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, 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. ---------------------------------------------------------- Development: * Development on ActiveMQ 5.12 is in progress. * Development on ActiveMQ Artemis 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 ActiveMQ 5.11.1 - 2/17/15 * Apache ActiveMQ 5.10.2 - 2/17/15 * Apache ActiveMQ-CPP v3.8.4 - 2/19/15 ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru] ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: 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 Last report was February. The following releases have been created with promotion to maven central dates: * Apache Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.4.3 2015/02/23 * Apache Aries Blueprint CM (blueprint-cm) 1.0.6 2015/02/23 * Apache Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.1.0 2015/03/03 * Apache Aries Blueprint no-OSGI (blueprint-noosgi) 1.1.0 2015/03/03 * Apache Aries Blueprint Web (blueprint-web) 1.1.02015/03/03 * Apache Aries JMX Core (jmx-core) 1.1.3 2015/03/09 * Apache Aries Transaction Enlisting JDBC Datasource (transaction-jdbc) 2.1.1 2015/03/09 * Apache Aries SPI Fly Core (internal module) (spi-fly-core) 1.0.2 2015/03/24? * Apache Aries SPI Fly Dynamic Weaving Bundle (spi-fly-dynamic-bundle) 1.0.2 2015/03/24? * Apache Aries SPI Fly Static Weaving Bundle (spi-fly-static-bundle) 1.0.2 2015/03/24? * Apache Aries SPI Fly Static Weaving Tool (spi-fly-static-tool) 1.0.2 2015/03/24? Together the new SPI Fly releases pass the OSGi Enterprise R5 Service Loader Mediator 1.0 CT tests * Apache Aries Subsystem API (subsystem-api) 1.1.0 2015/03/24 * Apache Aries Subsystem Core (subsystem-core) 1.2.0 2015/03/24 * Apache Aries Subsystem OBR (subsystem-obr) 1.0.1 2015/03/24 * Apache Aries Subsystems Bundle (subsystem-bundle) 1.2.0 2015/03/24 Along with enhanced documentation. ## Project update User questions across many of the Aries modules continue on the users@ list. Discussions about the refactoring of JPA and Quiesce modules on the dev@ list. A new contribution from a non-committer: esa-ant-plugin for building Enterprise Subsystem Archives (ESAs), made it into trunk. The SPI Fly releases were successfully voted, but the voting thread wasn't closed off in the usual way with a results tally. It looks like it was closed on 2015/03/24 as stated above. There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell] ## Description: - The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away. ## Activity: - Whirr is being added to the Attic, per the previous board meeting. - Sebb identified that various old Jakarta websites went offline and Infra are looking into this: INFRA-9251 - It was reported that the Excalibur API docs have also gotten lost. - Retirement of 3 Web Services projects needs closing out. ## Issues: - There are no board issues at this time. ## PMC changes: - Currently 21 PMC members in the project. - Sebastian Bazley was added to the PMC on Sun Mar 22 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - general@attic.apache.org: - 32 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 20 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Bill Farner] ## Description: Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos. ## Activity: - Graduated from the Incubator in March. - Promising adoption increase in the last 3 months: increased dev@ and IRC activity, and patches from the community. - Community activity has identified some promising candidates to add as committers and/or PMC members. - Release and deprecation processes are starting to take shape, making for a clear development path between releases. - 0.8.0 release is likely to be cut in April. ## Issues: No major issues. We endured a long bout of CI noise due to Jenkins slave flakiness (INFRA-9019, now resolved), but continue to face a whack-a-mole of other related issues. ## PMC/Committership changes - New PMC member: Zameer Manji, 2014-01-14 - New committer: Joshua Cohen, 2015-02-02 ## Releases Last release: 0.7.0-incubating, Release Date: Feb 05, 2015 ## Mailing list activity - dev@aurora.apache.org: - 126 subscribers - 487 e-mails in the last 3 months [1] ## JIRA activity - 264 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months [2] - 176 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [3] [1] http://s.apache.org/4uA [2] http://s.apache.org/AT6 [3] http://s.apache.org/W6r ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White] Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system. == Issues == There are no board-level issues at this time. == Community == Since the last board report in January, 31 Jira issues were filed and 7 resolved. Committer activity is lower than last quarter. Mailing list activity is also lower with around a hundred messages total per month. No new committers have been added since January 2015. No new PMC members have been added since September 2012. == Releases == There have been no releases this quarter. Avro 1.7.7 was released in July 2014. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: 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/PMC community was considerably low, while there were some activities in user community. No new committers (PMC members) during last quarter. Releases ======================== Apache Synapse is waiting for an Axis2 release and now Axis2 is also waiting an Axiom release from WS project. The good news is WS is working on it and hopefully we will get it soon. Soon after Axiom release we will do a release. Axis2 release will include (Rampart, Sandesha2 as well). Last releases: =================== Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik] ## Description: A 100% community-driven Bigdata management platform. ## Activity: - PMC has voted new project committer Nate D'Amico with assignment to be Apache Bigtop community manager, helping PMC with project outreach, conferences and marketing materials. Vote thread http://s.apache.org/1Mf - Amazon EM2 team has reached with an offer to host Bigtop CI infrastructure, which is CPU and RAM intensive. We are currently investigating the options - As per project bylaws a new PMC Chair election has been started (vote thead: http://s.apache.org/B40; vote result: http://s.apache.org/Mla). Andrew Purtell was elected as the new Chair. - All other project activities were outlined in the March 2015 project report to the board. ## Issues: Following up on a number of discussion within this PMC and some of the now former board directors the following "social media" guidelines were developed in consensus with the project community https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Social+Media+Guidelines The consensus has been confirmed by two votes: http://s.apache.org/6i4 - Social media guidelines http://s.apache.org/gMc - Amending the guidelines w/ more precise language The twitter account @ASFBigtop is now hosted on Twitterdeck where any community member can be added and make posts as per the guidelines above. Hence the issue seems to be fully resolved via normal community process. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 32 committers and 20 PMC members in the project. - New commmitters: - Evans Ye was added as a committer on Fri Jan 02 2015 - Dasha Boudnik was added as a committer on Fri Jan 23 2015 - R J Nowling was added as a committer on Fri Mar 06 2015 - Olaf Flebbe was added as a committer on Fri Jan 23 2015 - Youngwoo Kim was added as a committer on Thu Mar 05 2015 - Nate D'Amico was added as a committer on Tue Mar 24 2015 - New PMC members - Jay Vyas was added to the PMC on Wed Dec 17 2014 - Sean Mackrory was added to the PMC on Fri Jan 16 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.8.0 on Fri Oct 03 2014 - Community is preparing to release Bigtop 1.0 around ApacheCon time in April, 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@bigtop.apache.org: - 120 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 3203 emails sent to list (1815 in previous quarter) - user@bigtop.apache.org: - 154 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 137 emails sent to list (152 in previous quarter) - ci@bigtop.apache.org: - 13 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 418 emails sent to list (273 in previous quarter) - announce@bigtop.apache.org: - 30 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) - issues@bigtop.apache.org: - 5 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months) ## JIRA activity: - 217 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 189 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin] Project Description =================== Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing. Issues ====== There are no issues requiring board attention at the current time. Releases ======== There has no release over the last three months. The last releases were: * apache-bloodhound-0.6 (16th July 2013) * apache-bloodhound-0.7 (23rd August 2013) * apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014) PMC/Committer Changes ===================== There are currently 15 PMC members on the project. * New PMC members: * Last additions were in January 2014 * Resigning PMC members: * Hyrum K Wright resigned on 16th February 2015 The last new committers were added in May 2014 for the GSoC scheme. Community & Development ======================= Committer activity has remained low over this quarter though there have been efforts from committers to get unstable automated builds working and we have also been taking time to update the issue tracker to the latest version of Bloodhound. This in particular has brought one of our original PMC members into a position to increase his involvement in the project. There have been a few long running INFRA tickets for work related to Bloodhound that remain open. In particular access to a read-only nfs mount of the bloodhound svn repository continues to be missing. However, no attempt has been made to press for progress on this issue from the PMC. In contrast INFRA were able to provide site monitoring for the main issue tracker and demo sites in a reasonable time. This gives us good confidence in the stability of the main issue tracker but appear to show that our demo servers are struggling under their load. Although we have been involved with GSoC for the previous two years, we did not organise ourselves to continue for this year. It was also suggested that we should put more effort into the integration of previous work before considering taking on further students. The user email list has increased in response to our release in December. Discussions on the dev mailing list have also increased in comparison to the previous quarter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: 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 * Moved from SVN to GIT * Worked on removing APR Statistics: * Last committer added: 2014-03-04 * Last PMC member added: 2014-07-17 * Mailing list activity in february - now: 39 messages on dev * Commits since october: 41 SVN commits, 46 GIT commits ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang] ## Description: Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems. ## Activity: - Switch source code repository from svn to git. - New committer - Sreepathi Prasanna. - Some development to integrate Chukwa + Gora + HBase for log storage. - Trunk is updated to Hadoop 2.6 + HBase 1.0. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 17 committers and 12 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Grace Huang at Sun Dec 01 2013 - Sreepathi Prasanna was added as a committer on Mon Mar 16 2015 ## Releases: - Latest Chukwa 0.6.0 released on November 22 2014 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@chukwa.apache.org: - 94 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 149 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter) - user@chukwa.apache.org: - 159 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 12 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory] The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java components. The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within Apache and without. The last report was in December 9 2014. No issues require board attention at this time. Overall project health is good with 7 releases this period. Releases: - 2014-12-18: Apache Commons Configuration 2.0-alpha2 - 2014-12-28: Apache Commons Math 3.4 - 2014-12-31: Apache Commons Pool 2.3 - 2015-01-12: Apache Commons Math 3.4.1 - 2015-01-14: Apache Commons Validator 1.4.1 - 2015-02-24: Apache Commons DBCP 2.1 - 2015-04-07: Apache Commons Lang 3.4 New committers - None News - 2014-12: All Apache committers can commit to Apache Commons. - Charles Matthew Chen has resigned from the Apache Commons PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service. - Rahul Akolkar has resigned from the Apache Commons PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service. - Stephen Colebourne has resigned from the Apache Commons PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service. - Rory Winston has resigned from the Apache Commons PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service. - Apache Commons Lang is planning to migrate from Subversion to Git. - Discussions have started to migrate the Commons RDF component that is currently incubating to Apache Commons. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid] Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop. Project Status -------------- The project has been moving at a similar pace to the previous quarter, with 20 new JIRA issues logged since the previous board report, with 15 of them being closed in that time. The majority of the work on the project continues to focus on maintenance. The addition of a new committer was successfully voted on, but the person in question decided to make a major career change just at the same moment, which was an unfortunate loss for the Crunch community. This report also marks the resignation (due to the term of one year being up) of Gabriel Reid, the current PMC chair. There has been a successful vote to recommend Micah Whitacre as the new PMC chair. There are no board-level issues at this time. Community --------- Community activity continues to be similar with the previous reporting period. The user mailing list was more active, with an average of more than one message per day (nearly double of the previous reporting period), while the dev mailing list activity has dropped slightly in comparison with the previous reporting period. Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014. Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013. Releases -------- There were no releases made in this quarter. The last releases were: * Apache Crunch 0.11.0, released Sept 10, 2014 * Apache Crunch 0.8.4, released Sept 13, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman] ## Description: A set of Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier. ## Activity: - Normal activity for Curator. We continue to support the community and grow the project. - In addition to maintenance releases we have a separate task to support the upcoming ZooKeeper 3.5.x ## Issues: - None ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Scott Blum at Fri Aug 29 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Scott Blum at Thu Aug 28 2014 ## Releases: - 2.7.1 was released on Fri Jan 16 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@curator.apache.org: - 41 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 296 emails sent to list (416 in previous quarter) - user@curator.apache.org: - 137 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 95 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp] ## Description: Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. ## Activity: - Work is progressing to get 3.1.0 released, hopefully later this month - Work is also progressing to get CXF Fediz (WS-Federation project) 1.2 released - In support of the above, lots of work around some new features related to management, metrics, logging, etc... - Lots of work with the WebServices project to get WSS4J updated to the latest OpenSAML release to support CXF 3.1.0. ## Issues: - No major issues at this time. However, there was an "issue" last week that we are concerned about. The process that is used to keep CXF's website up to date stopped working. An issue was raised (INFRA-9328) on May 24th, it wasn't looked at at all (from what I can tell) for 50 hours when it was assigned to someone. And then nothing. On March 31st, I raised the priority to Critical as it was blocking SEVERAL projects (CXF, ActiveMQ, Camel, etc...) from getting sites updated. Joe had it diagnosed 10 minutes later, but the "fix" was not applied for another 26 hours. So 9 days to fix something that was causing problems for multiple projects. That's concerning. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 35 committers and 22 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Andriy Redko at Wed Sep 10 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Jan Bernhardt at Wed Sep 10 2014 ## Releases: - 3.0.4 was released on Mon Feb 16 2015 - 2.7.15 was released on Mon Feb 16 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@cxf.apache.org: - 994 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months): - 649 emails sent to list (924 in previous quarter) - dev@cxf.apache.org: - 437 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 198 emails sent to list (274 in previous quarter) - notifications@cxf.apache.org: - 28 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 452 emails sent to list (551 in previous quarter) - jaxrs-tck@cxf.apache.org: - 4 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - issues@cxf.apache.org: - 126 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1130 emails sent to list (955 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 166 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 127 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren] The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects: o DdlUtils: a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database Definition (DDL) files. o Derby: an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. o JDO: focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data persistence. o Torque: an object-relational mapper for Java. == Status == Issues requiring attention from the board: At this time, I'd like to gently alert the board to the fact that I have sent a message to private@db to indicate my intention to resign the chair position because of time constraints and to ask for a volunteer to replace me. This was on March 23. No one has stepped up yet. It is now clear that the Derby project, which was the most active of our subprojects until October 2014, is suffering because key companies have pulled back their support of the project. Although some people are still monitoring the lists, the effects are very obvious. The last several PMC chairs (including myself) all have been from the Derby project, and this well has now dried up. It seems possible that taking on the responsibilities for all subprojects is a hurdle in finding a replacement for the chair position. I will follow up on this when I have more time to look into things. Activities over the last quarter a) The JDO community released JDO version 3.1. in March. b) The Derby community has embarked on a Google Summer of Code project, with a mentor and student. c) The Derby community is still answering questions. However, new development outside of GSoC has stopped. === Community === No PMC changes since January 2014. No new committers since August 2010. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou] ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi] Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet. * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17 ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari] I have been elected as the new Chairman of the project. I have been contributing to Directory project since January, 2008. I thank my mentors and PMC for entrusting me with this duty. Current Activity and Status --------------------------- The last three quarters have seen an increased activity on almost all of the Directory projects. After years of stable number of committers and PMC members, we have added 5 new committers (all of them active) and 2 new PMC members (and we are thinking about voting another in) From the project point of view, we are still moving forward with stable releases, but released as milestones. Hopefully, we can expect an RC for the LDAP API soon, a couple of more milestone for Mavibot, followed by an RC for ApacheDS. At the same time, we are cutting the first RC for Fortress, which was added as a sub-project last September. The release is currently blocked by a problem with Nexus, but that should be solved quickly. We do think that the new Kerberos server (Kerby) will be better than the current implementation we have, and the goal is to simply replace what we have with the new code. At the same time, we will most certainly benefit from some of the modules of this project, like the new ASN.1 codec, for ApacheDS. In the similar fashion, Kerby might benefit from a stable version of Mavibot. Studio is expecting to be released soon too. A new build system is put in place, which lead to a lot of modifications. At the same time, many additional plugins have been injected (template editor, OpenLDAP configuration editor, and we also have a new contribution for an eDirectory configuration editor). There is an increased activity on the user and developer mailing lists. We are quite happy with the recent evolution of the project! ------------------------- Detailed Information ------------------ -- Community -- * One new committer (last previous addition: Feb 2015): * Radovan Semancik * One new PMC member (last previous addition: October 2014). * Pierre Smits * Mailing lists: * Users mailing list: 297 subscribers (+4) * Development mailing list: 175 subscribers (+4) * API mailing list: 68 subscribers (-2) * Fortress mailing list: 19 subscribers (+2) -- Current activity -- * Apache Directory LDAP API: * One release during this quarter. * Good activity * Mainly bug fixes and improvements in schema loaders. * Apache Mavibot: * One release during this quarter. * Good activity * Many smaller fixes. * Work in progress on the freepage management. * ApacheDS: * No new releases during this quarter. * Low activity. * Apache Directory Studio: * No releases during this quarter. * Good activity. * Added support for editing OpenLDAP configuration. * Added template editor. * Apache eSCIMo: * Low activity. * No releases yet. * Fortress: * Good activity preparing for releasing the first version. * Apache Kerby: * Good activity * No releases yet. -- Releases -- * One release for Apache Directory LDAP API: * Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M29 (March 30th 2015) * One release for Apache Mavibot: * Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M7 (March 27th 2015) * No releases for ApacheDS: * No releases for Apache Directory Studio. * No releases for Apache eSCIMo, Fortress and Kerby. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera] ## Description: Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators. ## Activity: - Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) was low - Some work being done on Java EE 7 specification jars and XBean ## Issues: - We are concerned with our current level of community activity and will begin taking public actions to start a next-gen Geronimo effort. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 69 committers and 42 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau at Thu Aug 07 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Hendrik Saly at Thu Oct 23 2014 ## Releases: - Geronimo XBean-4.2 - EE 7 Specs (April 2015) - geronimo-jcdi_1.1_spec-1.0 - geronimo-annotation-1.2_spec v1.0 - geronimo-interceptor-1.2_spec v1.0 - geronimo-jms_2.0_spec alpha2 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@geronimo.apache.org: - 366 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 121 emails sent to list (150 in previous quarter) - servicemix-tck@geronimo.apache.org: - 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - xbean-scm@geronimo.apache.org: - 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 16 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter) - xbean-user@geronimo.apache.org: - 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org: - 4 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - user@geronimo.apache.org: - 466 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 49 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter) - geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org: - 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months) - scm@geronimo.apache.org: - 102 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 167 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter) - xbean-dev@geronimo.apache.org: - 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 15 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: 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. In YARN, the next iteration of the TimelineServer, work on network shaping, per-queue policies, and collecting node metrics for scheduling have made progress. Work on erasure coding in HDFS continues. A design document for the object store (HDFS-7240) also appeared. Activity is low in MapReduce, mostly bug fixes and repairs for unstable tests. Overhaul of shell scripts continues in Common, in addition to changes supporting pluggable authentication and authorization. RELEASES None COMMUNITY (+ PMC Haohui Mai 2015-02) (+ committer Arun Suresh 2015-03) (+ committer Xiaoyu Yao 2015-03) auth: 110 committers (including branch), 55 PMC members ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell] HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION None RELEASES 0.94.27 03/25/2015 0.98.10 02/05/2015 0.98.10.1 02/13/2015 -- Patch release for HBASE-12979 0.98.11 03/09/2015 1.0.0 02/21/2015 NEW COMMITTERS Srikanth Srungarapu (ssrungarapu) -- Cloudera Jing Chen (Jerry) He (jerryjch) -- IBM NEW PMC Sean Busbey (busbey) -- Cloudera PMC CHANGES We rotated our Chair from Michael Stack (stack) to Andrew Purtell (apurtell) COMMUNITY HBaseCon 2015 happens in San Francisco May 7th, 2015 [1] We had the following HBase Meetups: January 15th, 2015 HBase+Phoenix developer meetup @ Salesforce in San Francisco [2] January 15th, 2015 HBase Meetup @ AppDynamics in San Francisco [3] February 27th, 2015 HBase Strata+Hadoop World meetup @ Hortonworks in Santa Clara [4] STATS 43 committers 27 PMC 1024 subscribers to the dev list (Was 1011 at last report) 2253 subscribers to the user list (Was 2218 at last report) 1. http://www.hbasecon.com/ 2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219648544/ 3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/ 4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219260093/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna] Project Description =================== Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix automates reassignment of resources in the face of node failure and recovery, cluster expansion, and reconfiguration Development =========== - 0.6.5 Release with support for handling thousands of partitions - Improved activity on github PR. 9 PR's merged. - New visualization module (helix-ui) contributed. - 28 new JIRAS since last report - 37 issues resolved in last 12 weeks Community ========= - 40+ emails on the dev list - 150+ emails on the user list ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning] The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. There are 40 podlings currently in incubation. There is another climate project in discussion for incubation which is an interesting continuation of the nascent trend of academic projects coming to Apache. This may be a singleton due to Chris Mattmann's efforts, but it would be an interesting development if it gathers momentum. There is a new ASFIncubator twitter entity. It has little activity so far, but has had a lot of followers jump on after Sally's announcement on @ASF. Datafu and ODF Toolkit are showing very low activity. This isn't necessarily a serious problem yet, but may be a leading indicator. Wave has previously had a warning, but may be doing a little better. * Community New IPMC members: Andrew Bayer Gary Gregory People who left the IPMC: None * New Podlings Groovy SINGA (Myriad vote result was sent on March 1st, but the project is just barely beginning) * Graduations Parquet * Releases The following releases were made since the last Incubator report: 2015-03-03 apache-lens-2.0.1-beta-incubating 2015-03-16 nifi-0.0.2-incubating 2015-03-23 apache-calcite-1.1.0-incubating 2015-03-24 incubator-ignite-1.0.0-rc3 2015-03-27 slider-0.70.1-incubating * IP Clearance Usergrid is working feverishly to finish up their IP Clearance. Updated SGA sent to secretary@a.o CommonsRDF SGA filed 2015-03-27. Zeppelin SGA submitted and acknowledged on 2015-03-20. * Legal / Trademarks The old debate about how to submit SGAs for ALv2 projects with huge numbers of copyright holders reappeared with Groovy's SGA. In the end, the SGA was signed by a single community member. Ambiguity around Legal Policy language on when optional GPL library dependencies are permitted caused confusion. * Infrastructure The "Marvin" report reminders have not run in a timely manner for podlings for 4 months in a row. A dedicated Incubator-specific replacement is being contemplated. * Miscellaneous An official Twitter account for the Incubator was initialized but has not yet been used. Access will be maintained via TweetDeck. -------------------- Summary of podling reports -------------------- * Still getting started at the Incubator AsterixDB CommonsRDF Groovy Myriad OpenAZ SINGA * Not yet ready to graduate No release: Parquet (some components released but not others) Ripple TinkerPop Zeppelin Community growth: Calcite Lens Usergrid Wave * Did not report, expected next month DataFu ODF Toolkit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents AsterixDB Calcite CommonsRDF DataFu Groovy Lens Myriad ODF Toolkit OpenAz Parquet Ripple SINGA TinkerPop Usergrid Wave Zeppelin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AsterixDB Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large collections of semi-structured data. AsterixDB has been incubating since 2015-02-28. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get SGA signed from UCI and others. 2. Code drop and start actively using lists. 3. Do an Apache release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, still getting started. How has the community developed since the last report? Account setup is mostly done and code repositories are in place. Right now working mostly on the SGA to do the code drop. How has the project developed since the last report? Account and other infrastructure setup mostly done. SGA and code drop still open. Date of last release: No Releases yet. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No elected PMC and/or committers Signed-off-by: [X] (asterixdb) Chris Mattmann [X] (asterixdb) Henry Saputra [ ] (asterixdb) Ted Dunning [X] (asterixdb) Ate Douma [ ] (asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann -------------------- Calcite Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.) Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to build community 2. Add more committers and PPMC members 3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among multiple project members Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? In March, there were 159 messages on dev@, 41 commits, 52 issues created, 37 issues resolved by 8 contributors. Julian Hyde gave a talk “Why you care about relational algebra (even though you didn’t know it)" about Calcite at Enterprise Data World in March. He also spoke at a Phoenix meet-up in San Francisco about Phoenix-Calcite integration. Collaborations are under way with other Apache projects: * Phoenix is going to use Calcite for SQL parsing and planning; and a separate project is using Calcite’s Avatica component to build a remote JDBC driver. * Added support for parsing/validating streaming SQL and collaborating with the Samza project on adding streaming SQL to Samza. * Collaboration with Hive and Drill continues. How has the project developed since the last report? We completed our milestone 1.0 release, continued our monthly release tempo with release 1.1, and are preparing 1.2. Date of last release: 2015-03-23 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? December 2014. Signed-off-by: [x](calcite) Ted Dunning [X](calcite) Alan Gates [X](calcite) Steven Noels [X](IPMC) Chris Mattmann Shepherd/Mentor notes: Chris Mattmann: * Calcite being discussed by Tom Barber at ApacheCon NA 2015. -------------------- CommonsRDF Commons RDF is a set of interfaces and classes for RDF 1.1 concepts and behaviours. The commons-rdf-api module defines interfaces and testing harness. The commons-rdf-simple module provides a basic reference implementation to exercise the test harness and clarify API contracts. CommonsRDF has been incubating since 2015-03-06. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the CommonsRDF Community such that we can progress towards gradution 2. Further engage the podling with the nuances of the Apache Incubation process 3. Drive towards the first incubating release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? A SGA was recently filed with secretary@ and the CommonsRDF codebase now resides at the ASF with the canonical source residing at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-commonsrdf.git Project is not yet decided on goal of TLP or Commons component - but still aiming at the Commons component. How has the community developed since the last report? There have been no new committers, however the overwhelming majority of project-related development conversation is already taking place on the Apache lists. How has the project developed since the last report? CommonsRDF very recently joined the Apache Incubator. Bootstrapping and migration have quickly progressed (mailing lists, git, Jira) and the initial committer community is transitioning very well into the Apache incubator ecosystem. Web site remains to be sorted - evaluating technologies (considering INFRA's proposed CMS deprecation). Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? N/A Commons RDF has only just joined the Apache Incubator. Signed-off-by: [X](commonsrdf) Rob Vesse [X](commonsrdf) John D Ament [ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory [X](commonsrdf) Lewis John McGibbney [X](IPMC) Chris Mattmann Shepherd/Mentor notes: Chris Mattmann: * template dates can be removed. -------------------- Groovy Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform. Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static- typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’ productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain- Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and functional programming. Groovy has been incubating since 2015-03-24 The most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. All the ICLA of all the PMC / Committers have been sent. Most Apache accounts have already been created. 2. On behalf of the whole Groovy development team and the community, Guillaume Laforge signed and scanned the SGA, and sent it to Secretary on April 1st. 3. We've communicated to the historical mailing-lists about the new lists, encouraging subscribers to join the new ones. The JIRA migration should be taking place over the week-end, and we'll also communicate with our community about that change. And last but not least, we need the Git repository to be created and import our current sources from Github. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No, just getting started. How has the community developed since the last report? Currently, the pretty large Groovy community is happy about the move into the ASF, but continues to be centered around our old infrastructure. That’s why we’re going to start attracting the community towards our new lists, to get them involved in this new era for the project. How has the project developed since the last report? No last report, as this is the first! Date of last release: We did a last non-Apache release as the vote for incubation was still ongoing, but we haven’t yet planned the next release dates. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? No new elected PMC or committers. Signed-off-by: [X](groovy) Bertrand Delacretaz [X](groovy) Emmanuel Lecharny [X](groovy) Jim Jagielski [X](groovy) Roman Shaposhnik [ ](groovy) Andrew Bayer [X](groovy) Konstantin Boudnik Shepherd/Mentor notes: Bertrand Delacretaz: Thanks Guillaume for taking the lead on this! Emmanuel Lecharny: Quite a good start for a podling... Even the user mailing list starts to be active ! Waiting for the JIRA migration this week-end, and the code migration asap, then the podling will be almost fully setup, as soon as the web site will be available. Great work by the Groovy fellows, and the Infra peeps ! John D. Ament: Project seems to be going well initially, doing the expected up front house keeping required considering the largish size of the code base. I would expect email volume to pick up quickly as the Codehaus services begin to shutdown. -------------------- 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. Grow user and developer community and add more committers 2. Document all features and do one more release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? NONE How has the community developed since the last report? - Apache Lens talk accepted at ApacheCon and GIDS, 2015 - We saw user queries coming up on user mailing list regarding usage - Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name : CLOSED through PODLINGNAMESEARCH-63 - Subscriptions: - dev@: 37 - user@: 29 - commits: 17 How has the project developed since the last report? - The first release: 2.0.1-beta-incubating has been published - Added improvements in the project to reduce time taken for rest api response - Add features for metering, partition timeline cache, namespace level jars - Mailing list activity : * Commits@ : 266 in feb, 61 in March * dev@ : 1512 in feb, 965 in March * user@ : 18 in feb, 1 in March - Issues : * 30 Day Summary (as on 2nd March) 116 created and 81 resolved * 30 day Summary (as on 29th March) 98 created and 78 resolved Date of last release: 2.0.1-beta-incubating on 2015-03-04 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 -------------------- Myriad Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center infrastructure. Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get ebay to donate the code to ASF. Ebay is willing and has done this before. The process is started, but will take time. 2. Get ICLAs from all committers and give them Apache accounts and karma. 3. Integrate with Apache infrastructure and make our first release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. Just getting started. How has the community developed since the last report? First report. Now we have mailing lists and discussions have started on dev@. In addition to committers/contributors from the 3 initial organizations (ebay, MapR, Mesosphere), we have 5 more contributors from at least two different organizations. Gave presentations at Strata/Hadoop World and the March Bay Area Mesos Users Group and London MUG meetups. Upcoming presentations at ApacheCon, Data Science MD, and East Bay Big Data Group. How has the project developed since the last report? First report. Recent commits/PRs include: 1. Mesos framework authentication 2. Gradle builds, checkstyle, and Spock unit testing 3. In progress: Remote binary distribution 4. In progress: High availability for the Scheduler/RM 5. In progress: Dockerizing the Scheduler and Executor Date of last release: No releases yet. Still at 0.0.1 in the source. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Still working on getting ICLAs for intial committers. Then we will vote in new committers from the existing developer community. Signed-off-by: [ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman [ ](myriad) Danese Cooper [X](myriad) Ted Dunning [ ](myriad) Luciano Resende Shepherd/Mentor notes: P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz): The Myriad podling is still ramping up. -------------------- ODF Toolkit Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents Shepherd/Mentor notes: Justin Mclean (jmclean): Did not report. Low activity on the mailing list but code still being worked on, some discussion about graduation but community seems to be lacking motivation to do so. May need some help. Chris Mattmann: * report missing? -------------------- OpenAz OpenAz is a project to create tools and libraries to enable the development of Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) Systems in a variety of languages. In general the work is at least consistent with or actually conforming to the OASIS XACML Standard. OpenAZ has been incubating since 01-2015 Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Get ICLA’s from all the committers. So far AT&T and JP Morgan have done, but Oracle is taking more time. 2. Merging the source code from AT&T, JP Morgan and Oracle and creating POM’s. AT&T and JP Morgan source code has been merged and POM’s created, it needs uploading into the Apache repository. 3. Get our first release done. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. Just getting started. How has the community developed since the last report? First report. Now we have mailing lists and discussions have started on dev@. Moving all communications onto the new mailing lists. How has the project developed since the last report? First report. Will be committing initial codebase by the end of the week April 10th. Date of last release: No releases yet. Still at 0.0.1 in the source. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Still working on getting ICLAs for initial committers. Then we will vote in new committers from the existing developer community. Signed-off-by: [ ](openaz) Paul Fremantle [X](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny [ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh [ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea Shepherd/Mentor notes: Konstantin Boudnik: The podling is in the initial stages: nothing to shepherd on just yet. Marvin Humphrey: Report was filed late. Emmanuel Lecharny Until we get all the iCLAs filed, it will stale. We probably should urge Oracle fellow to get it done. -------------------- Parquet Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop. Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20. Three most important issues - 1st releases toward org.apache Parquet 1.6.0 GA - Expanding the community and adding new committers - Ensuring timely code reviews by committers, developing reviewers Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - None at this time Latest Additions: * PMC addition: None * Committer addition: Dan Weeks and Alex Levenson (from last report) Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 34 * Resolved: 50 Mailing list activity since last report: * dev 560 messages: 111 in Jan, 136 in Feb, and 313 in Mar How has the project developed since the last report? - Preparing last commits for the first parquet-mr release candidate - Planned parquet-mr 1.6.0 release schedule - ASF required changes to parquet-mr are finished - Released parquet-format 2.3.0, with org.apache packages - Parquet presentation at Strata 2015 San Jose and the Presto meetup Date of last release: - parquet-format 2.3.0 released 19 Feb - Not yet released: parquet-mr and parquet-cpp Signed-off-by: [ ](parquet) Todd Lipcon [X](parquet) Jake Farrell [X](parquet) Chris Mattmann [X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik [ ](parquet) Tom White -------------------- Ripple Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks and the Mobile Web. Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16. Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Making a new release of Ripple 2. Contributors and community engagement Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Working on making a release for Ripple How has the community developed since the last report? Added 3 new committers - Ilya - Tim Barham - Parashuram N How has the project developed since the last report? Working on a new release. We started a new vote, but it was reverted due to issues. A new package has been generated and we are in [DISCUSS] mode Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PMC members elected? March 2015 Signed-off-by: [ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting [X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier [ ](ripple) Andrew Savory Shepherd/Mentor notes: Christian Grobmeier: The project faces more activity recently. -------------------- SINGA SINGA is a distributed platform for deep learning that is easy to use, exetendible and scalable. SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community of developers and users. 2. Finish moving the project to Apache infrastructure. 3. Add examples, documents, tests and benchmarks for the first release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? N/A. The project Incubation Status file is NOT yet up to date The current project URL is: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dbsystem/singa What has been done since the last report? N/A. This is the first report. Other project activities: 1. The Github repository now has 12 forks as developers are contributing features and doing testing. 2. SINGA is being used for several scientific papers being under submission. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? 1. Finish moving the project to the Apache's ecosystem. 2. Focus on the scalability feature, documentation and testing. Date of last release: N/A. Signed-off-by: [ ](SINGA) Daniel Dai [ ](SINGA) Alan Gates [X](SINGA) Ted Dunning [X](SINGA) Thejas Nair -------------------- 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. Releasing TinkerPop 3.0.0.M8 out under Apache Incubator. 2. Getting more active committers on the project. 3. Growing the homepage and documentation presence. 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 added Daniel Kuppitz as a Committer. A long time Gremlin designer and promoter. How has the project developed since the last report? We have fully migrated to Apache infrastructure and are very close to our first Apache release. Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2 weeks ago. Signed-off-by: [X](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen [X](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno [ ](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea [ ](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin [X](tinkerpop) David Nalley Shepherd/Mentor notes: Daniel Gruno: While I am happy that a new committer has been invited to the group, it seems that the project is struggling with the how-to of the ASF. We need to further educate the PPMC on our procedures. -------------------- Usergrid Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database (Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers. Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Continue to grow the Usergrid Incubating Community 2. Clarify the SGA for Apache Usergrid Incubating codebase 3. Drive towards another Usergrid incubating release Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The Usergrid community has been working to clarify the status of the SGA for the Usergrid codebase. The original SGA listed a GitHub repo that did not include all of the source code that Apigee intended to grant. We are preparing a new SGA that will cover all code that is currently part of the project. How has the community developed since the last report? In short, the Usergrid incubating community is healthy with loads of mailing list and development traffic from a growing community. Usergrid continues to see new community members making themselves known on the mailing lists. How has the project developed since the last report? Development is very dynamic. The codebase is being actively developed with correspondence taking place on the Usergrid JIRA instance. The processes and workflows for development are pretty solid now. Date of last release: 2015-01-21 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? John D. Ament (johndament) 05 Jan 2015 Signed-off-by: [X](usergrid) Dave Johnson [X](usergrid) Jake Farrell [X](usergrid) Jim Jagielski [X](usergrid) John D. Ament [X](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney [ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende -------------------- Wave A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication. It can be used like email, chat, or a document. Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Wave is very close to making its first release. This is the top priority. 2. The project needs to determine what the next few technical goals are. 3. The project needs to attract more developers and users. 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? The community has been slow to develop. There are still many people downloading and using the software, we have seen several bug reports and questions, but there has not been much contribution by new members. How has the project developed since the last report? The code for the release has largely been finalized. We believe that major legal and technical issues have been overcome. Only a few finals steps remain. The project believes that we are finally ready to make a release. Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PMC members elected? July 2014 Shepherd/Mentor notes: Christian Grobmeier: The mentors have missed to sign this report last time. For that reason I am adding it again. Since last month there was some discussion on how to prevent the project going to the attic. Upayavira: We have received a GSoC application, and a committer has accepted the role of mentor. The task involves simplification of the codebase which will make it more accessible to others, hopefully facilitating greater involvement, as it seems the greatest impediment to Wave is the (over)complexity of its codebase. Signed-off-by: [X](wave) Christian Grobmeier [X](wave) Upayavira -------------------- Zeppelin A collaborative data analytics and visualisation 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. Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64. 2. Finish issues migration to ASF JIRA. 3. First Apache release. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? First vote on a new committer happened this month. At least 2 new contributors actively participating on the mailing lists\sending patches regular. There is also a fair amount of discussion @dev on the feature project direction. How has the project developed since the last report? SGA was submitted and acknowledged. Source code have been migrated to ASF infrastructure (with GH mirror). Work on running interpreters in a separate processes is finished. Python interpreter was implemented with a pyspark support. Scatter chart visualisation added. Support of Spark 1.3.0. Support of Debian (.deb) package. Date of last release: None When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2015-03-27 first new commiter\PPMC vote passed. Signed-off-by: [X](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik [X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra [X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik [X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning [ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi ----------------------------------------- Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood] ## Description: Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven applications in Java. ## Activity: Mailing list activity has been steady, while this quarter we also released v1.8.0, a major release of approximately 4 months development effort. Plans for v1.9.0 include tidying up and fully testing the code contribution from one of our user community [1,2] to update our dependency on DataNucleus; this will enable us to properly support JDK 1.8 (important with support for Java 7 about to end). We have also solicited quotes from the user community and have used these (with permission) to update the Apache Isis home page [3]. ## Issues: After our last report Bertrand Delacretaz contacted the Isis PMC through private@i.a.o with two concerns. The first related to the Isis Addons website: "from your report It sounds like the Isis PMC owns that external addons website, which we don't think is right." The second related to our mention some corporate entities for whom some Isis committers are working: "independence from corporate entities and not paying for development work are core principles of the ASF". We replied to Bertrand on the private list to clarify the position. Without repeating the entire thread here, we committed to: 1) explicitly state that Isis Addons is not directly related to Apache 2) avoid mentioning employers in future reports Bertrand was happy with these assurances. I have since gone through the Isis website and ensured that any links to the Isis Addons website are followed by "(non ASF)", and there are explicit statements on the site [4]. There are also similar statements on the Addons site [5]. Accordingly we believe there are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 11 committers and 11 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Tue Dec 16 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Thu Dec 11 2014 ## Releases: - 1.8.0 was released on Mon Feb 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@isis.apache.org: - 121 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months): - 406 emails sent to list (408 in previous quarter) - dev@isis.apache.org: - 72 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1126 emails sent to list (997 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 132 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 113 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-789 [2] https://github.com/apache/isis/pull/27 [3] http://isis.apache.org/ [4] http://isis.apache.org/documentation.html#modules [5] http://www.isisaddons.org/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment AD: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AE: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips] A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API. # Project Status jclouds has carried out one successful release (1.9.0) in the last quarter. After a quiet period during the 2014 holiday season, development activity has picked up quite substantially at the beginning of 2015, with both Google and Microsoft contributing resources to the project. The latest release is also the first to make use of an almost fully-automated release process, which will hopefully make it much easier to publish minor versions on a more regular basis. # Community Last committer: 2014-07-30 (Andrea Turli) Last PMC member: 2014-11-30 (Chris Custine) # Community Objectives * Ensure that functionality for the most widely used clouds works and is up-to-date: * Remove API and provider cruft (async APIs, stale providers) * Increase integration test coverage * Broaden portable abstractions * Continue to support the ongoing contributions by new committers * Provide example code demonstrating current best coding and design practices * Create a more predictable "graduation path" for new contributions # Releases * 1.9.0 (2015-03-29) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne] ## Description: A framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data applications in Java. ## Activity: The project has one potential GSoC proposal in progress. Amongst several major features in the last release, the project added Jena Elephas (RDF processing support for Hadoop). This has had interest from users both during development and on release. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 12 committers and 10 PMC members in the project. - Bruno P. Kinoshita was added to the PMC on Wed Mar 25 2015 - Bruno P. Kinoshita was added as a committer on Wed Jan 28 2015 ## Releases: - 2.13.0 was released on Fri Mar 13 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@jena.apache.org: - 570 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months): - 673 emails sent to list (349 in previous quarter) - dev@jena.apache.org: - 154 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 1177 emails sent to list (760 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 73 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 263 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months The project engaged in some clearing up recently. Jena does not usually close this many JIRA per quarter! ----------------------------------------- Attachment AG: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley] ## Description: Pure Java application for load and functional testing ## Activity: The JMeter website has been refreshed to use a more modern design. This is sensitive to the screen size, improving the readability on smaller devices such as tablets and phones. 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. The JMeter Twitter account has 1725 followers as of 8th April 2015. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - Felix Schumacher was added to the PMC on Tue Feb 03 2015 - Last committer addition was Mikhail Epikhin at Wed Oct 29 2014 ## Releases: - 2.13 was released on Sat Mar 14 2015 This included a new backend listener which allows live viewing of results. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@jmeter.apache.org: - 128 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 335 emails sent to list (371 in previous quarter) - issues@jmeter.apache.org: - 38 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 392 emails sent to list (503 in previous quarter) - user@jmeter.apache.org: - 789 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 431 emails sent to list (308 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AH: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos] ## Description: A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard J2EE components (Java, servlets, JSP). ## Activity: - Again, slow pace of development, including (but not limited to) some interesting functionalities committed into trunk: * Portable builds of JSPWiki. * Complete rewrite of AJAX functionality. * JSPWiki configurable via environment variables, which allows easy dockerization. - Few questions at user@j.a.o, with their follow-ups, with dev@j.a.o mostly containing JIRA notifications. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 15 committers and 10 PMC members in the project. - David Vittor was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 22 2015. - Last committer addition was David Vittor at Fri Jan 02 2015. - Glen Mazza resigned from PMC on 31/03/2015, we all thank him for his service. ## Releases: - Last release was 2.10.1 on Thu May 29 2014. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@jspwiki.apache.org: - 86 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 127 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter). - user@jspwiki.apache.org: - 173 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 29 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter). ## JIRA activity: - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months. - 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey] ## Description: The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search engine library for Java. ## Activity: Development activity continues to focus on adding new language bindings, with Go being the top priority and Python next in line. A "Virtual MeetUp" via Google Hangouts is scheduled for Tuesday April 7. It is hard to get Lucy's developers to congregate at an ApacheCon or another conference; instead, we will attempt to build on our positive experiences with the virtual Lucy Book Club. Naturally, any discussions will be taken back to the dev list, just as they would for an in-person MeetUp. Commit activity for this quarter was below average. The last several releases were maintenance releases; making a feature release may provide a spark. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 14 committers and 13 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Tim Wilkens at Thu Oct 02 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Tim Wilkens at Fri Sep 26 2014 ## Releases: - 2014-12-30 Apache Lucy 0.4.2 - 2014-12-30 Apache Clownfish 0.4.2 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@lucy.apache.org: - 64 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 72 emails sent to list (87 in previous quarter) - user@lucy.apache.org: - 91 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 22 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter) - issues@lucy.apache.org: - 22 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 24 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll] 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. The project now has integrations with Spark and H2O execution engines, this is in addition to the traditional MapReduce. Integration with Apache Flink is next on the cards with a possibly dedicated resource available from the Flink community to work with Mahout. The new integrations with H2O and Spark engines extend Mahout Machine Learning to other more popular Big Data platforms. Community --------- * We have added 3 new PMC members: Pat Ferrel, Andrew Musselman and Andrew Palumbo There is a healthy committer base to the project that are actively working on the project on a voluntary basis. There is no dedicated full time resource available for the project yet as most large scale Machine Learning libraries cannot be built and sustained on voluntary contributions. Community Objectives -------------------- The project has an active committer base and there’s a renewed interest in the project with the new Scala based Engine agnostic distributed linear algebra library with bindings for Spark, H2O and Flink in the future. The project got a shot in the arm with backing from Apache BigTop community and we are looking to keep that momentum going for future releases. The project is targeting more frequent minor releases and a major release once every quarter. While the 0.10.0 release is targeted for the week of April 7-11 2015, a subsequent 0.10.1 release is planned in the subsequent releases. Releases -------- The team is working towards Mahout 0.10.0 release targeted for the week of April 7-11 in time for ApacheCon North America 2015. Issues ------ None now. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy] Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build lifecycle. * General Information * Work on plugin releases to define common 2.2.1 minimum Maven version and Java 5 requirements is near done: automated report [1] shows 48 plugins are ready from 49. The plan to start 3.x.x line of plugins with Maven 3 and Java 6 minimum requirements has been announced [2]: implementation will start shortly. * JIRA migration from Codehaus to Apache was done on April 5th: 60 Maven projects were migrated [3]. The PMC thanks Codehaus for the support during this migration and more generally for the great service given to us for many years. The PMC thanks Mark Thomas, volunteer at Infra, for the huge work done on import. * There was a major Maven 3.3.1 release with new requirements: - Support for Win9x has been dropped -> mvn.bat has been renamed to mvn.cmd, as well as for mvnDebug - Java *Runtime* Environment 1.7 required -> Improved toolchains support, so plugins can still use older JDKs (e.g. maven-compiler-plugin) * Community * Currently 54 committers and 27 PMC members in the project. * No new PMC members added in the last 3 months * Last PMC addition was Karl Heinz Marbaise on Mon Aug 25 2014 * New Committers Chris Graham (2015-04-06) * Mailing List activity - users@maven.apache.org: - 1798 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months): - 620 emails sent to list (679 in previous quarter) - dev@maven.apache.org: - 653 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 1319 emails sent to list (1525 in previous quarter) - notifications@maven.apache.org: - 175 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 946 emails sent to list (1492 in previous quarter) - announce@maven.apache.org: - 692 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 30 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter) - issues@maven.apache.org: - 250 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 1886 emails sent to list (4865 in previous quarter) * JIRA activity - 277 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 309 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months * Releases Core * Maven 3.3.1 (2015-03-21) Plugins * Maven JarSigner Plugin 1.4 (2015-01-24) * Maven Dependency Plugin 2.10 (2015-01-27) * Maven PMD Plugin 3.4 (2015-02-03) * Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.14 (2015-02-05) * Maven PDF Plugin 1.3 (2015-02-16) * Maven Repository Plugin 2.4 (2015-02-22) * Maven Stage Plugin 1.0 (2015-03-03) * Maven Patch Plugin 1.2 (2015-03-09) * Maven Jar Plugin 2.6 (2015-03-09) * Maven DOAP Plugin 1.2 (2015-03-17) * Maven JavaDoc Plugin 2.10.2 (2015-03-18) * Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.15 (2015-03-20) * Maven Compiler Plugin 3.3 (2015-03-26) * Maven Invoker Plugin 1.10 (2015-04-03) * Maven JavaDoc Plugin 2.10.3 (2015-04-14) * Maven Verifier Plugin 1.1 (2015-04-14) Other * Maven JarSigner 1.4 (2015-01-21) * Maven Dependency Analyzer 1.6 (2015-01-21) * Maven Enforcer 1.4 (2015-01-29) * Maven Shared Resources 2 (2015-02-05) * Apache Resource Bundles 5 (2015-02-24) * Apache Source Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.5 (2015-02-24) * Maven Archetype 2.3 (2015-03-13) * Maven Invoker 2.2 (2015-03-24) * Maven SCM 1.9.4 (2015-04-01) [1] https://builds.apache.org/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/dist-tool-prerequisites.html [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-announce/201503.mbox/%3C20150320213920.6AE4B17423%40minotaur.apache.org%3E [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProjects.jspa#10510 ----------------------------------------- Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AM: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury] 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) * No new PMC member (Last addition october 2014) Users mailing list : Feb 2015 : 486 subscribers (64 emails) April 2015: 489 subscribers (84 emails) Dev mailing list : Feb 2015 : 383 subscribers (326 emails) April 2015: 374 subscribers (395 emails) ftpserver-users mailing list: Feb 2015: 139 subscribers (6 emails) April 2015: 140 subscribers (8 emails) Jean-François Maury has been approved by the board as the new MINA Chairman. -- Current activity -- 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 SSHd 0.14.0 has been released. 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 2014 * Apache SSHd: * SSHD 0.14.0 has been released in march 2015 * Apache FtpServer: * No activity if the past 3 months * Apache Vysper : * Nothing done * Apache AsyncWeb: * No activity. -- Releases -- * SSHD 0.14.0 has been released. -- JIRA activity -- 63 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 59 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AN: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland] ## Description: Apache MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop map reduce jobs. ## Activity: - The project is quite stable and the API which the project is built for is is not changing. As such activity other than downloads has came to a crawl. - The community needs to have a discussion about the direction of the project. ## Issues: - The current Chair (the author of this report) has been MIA. We'll discuss internally if someone else would like to take up the role. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 15 committers and 12 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - New commmitters: - Mac Noland was added as a committer on Tue Feb 10 2015 - Jason E Tedor was added as a committer on Tue Jan 27 2015 ## Releases: - Last release was 0.9.0 on Tue May 01 2012 - As mentioned above, the API this is built for has become quite stable. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@mrunit.apache.org: - 39 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 10 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter) - user@mrunit.apache.org: - 79 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek] The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. Community --------- * No new Committers (since November 2013) * No new PMC Members (since July 2011) * No new Contributors The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases, we discuss upcoming topics. -> Community business as usual (nothing special to report). Releases -------- * MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report: * MyFaces Core 2.0.23 (12/January/15) * MyFaces Core 2.1.17 (12/January/15) * MyFaces Core 2.2.7 (12/January/15) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.6 (24/February/15) * MyFaces Tobago 2.0.7 (22/March/15) Issues ------ The TCK issue mentioned in our January report for 2014 still exists. Werner Punz [1] and Leonardo Uribe [2] discussed the impacts of this issue and the impacts are summarized as follows: * It reduces our marketability, since consumers are more likely to pick an open-source JSF implementation certified as "TCK-compliant" over a non-certified one. * It reduces our ability to be distributed as part of a Java EE stack, such as Apache TomEE and Apache Geronimo, since their TCK certification depends upon our TCK certification. [1] http://s.apache.org/OdR [2] http://s.apache.org/RuK There are no new issues that require the board's attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AP: 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 There have been no releases since the last board report: - Nutch 2.3 was released on January 24, 2015, - Nutch 1.9 in August 2014 The release of Nutch 1.10 is planned to be soon after release of Tika 1.8 which will fix a licensing issue of a library dependency (TIKA-1581). CURRENT ACTIVITY We hope to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 and have 3 mentors and 6 students registered. Nutch is used to prepare datasets for the TREC Dynamic Domain Track (http://trec-dd.org/) as part of Memex and NSF Polar projects. COMMUNITY Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez has joined the PMC and become a committer on February 18, 2015. Mo Omer followed on March 21. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AQ: 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 and improved our Jenkins CI builds. We also got three GSoC applications and will enter the ranking phase soonish. 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 console code is now in a separate git project so that we can enter an independent release cycle. There are still some minor issues to fix before we can make the first release. We have also improved our Docker-based CI builds to that we can now reliably build our branches again. We basically use Docker to avoid installing build dependencies on Jenkins. Instead, we mount the working copy into the docker container and run the build process within this container. This also ensures that the environment is always under our control. COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael] DESCRIPTION Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities. MILESTONES Onami-Persist 1.0.1 has been released CURRENT ACTIVITY PMC are discussing how to manage releases using GIT. And has now setup a trial GIT repo on github (just to experiment with for the release process). COMMUNITY Currently the project are migrating from SVN to GIT. Users community is quiet silent. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AT: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner] ----------------------------------------- Attachment AU: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Jan Iversen] ## Description: Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms and in dozens of languages. ## Activity: Andrea Pescetti resigned as Chair after 2 years in order to enable a "rotating" Chair role (i.e., a change every 1-2 years). Andrea remains an active PMC member. Jan Iversen was elected as new Chair and the transition was smooth. The mailing lists for users and the development list are fairly active, while specialized lists see a lower, but steady, activity (which is natural considering their specialized nature). The support channels (users mailing list and official forums) are very active as usual, thanks to the work of many of volunteers. New volunteers for development show up regularly, but our lack of mentors have made it very difficult to keep them active. The level of commits on trunk remain low, only a few simple fixes have been committed. The challenging position as release manager remains open since Jürgen Schmidt announced he wanted to resign as release manager. Jürgen is still an active PMC member. The 2 Mac (buildbot) delivered Q3 2014 from Infra are not operational, but a little group of volunteers work on installing the AOO development platform. Proof of concept for Digital Signing was made mid. 2014, no further work have been done. Once version 4.1.2 is ready for internal testing, work will continue. OpenOffice was present at FOSDEM (January 2015 in Brussels,Belgium), with talks and had a table that was well visited. We look forward to the idea of having an Apache Stand in 2016, where AOO want to be an integrated part. A BoF was held in CSDN OSTC (March 2015, China). 2 Volunteers worked on preparing a AOO track for Austin, in the end it was decided not to make a track. Traditionally Europe is stronger for AOO so we look forward to Budapest. A major issue for AOO is the current activity level (practically no development). The community only has a few active developers, which makes a bootstrapping a challenge. As always AOO wants to cooperate with derived project, and believe derived projects benefit from a AOO with a high development level. Talks are (as usual) ongoing and are currently focused on how development in derived projects can be integrated in AOO and thereby help the whole eco-system. Talks in particular with one project, has been more intensive, but has currently not lead to any agreements, except it is clear that a cooperation must be a win-win situation, where AOO make changes adapting to the needs to the derived project. ## Issues: The current CMS discussion based on a proposal to decommission the tool and ask projects to find other solutions would cause a significant problem for AOO. The AOO Web pages depend on the features of CMS that cannot be easily ported to other tools. If Infra is to stop the service, AOO will need to either only maintain only a few pages or run CMS on a project VM. The Board should remember to look at the total cost of this change, not only the Infra costs. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 140 committers and 29 PMC members in the project. - New PMC members: - Jan Iversen was added to the PMC on Wed Feb 11 2015 - Mechtilde Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015 - Dr. Michael Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015 - Dennis E. Hamilton was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 13 2015 - Last committer addition was Tal Daniel at Tue Apr 29 2014 ## Releases: - Last release was 4.1.1 on Thu Aug 21 2014 Even though AOO remains committed to bring out version 4.1.2, it is only progressing slowly. It is decided this will be the first digitally signed release. The slowness is due to focus on other challenges (like electing a new chair) and to lack of developers / release manager. ## Mailing list activity: - users@openoffice.apache.org: - 569 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months): - 917 emails sent to list (866 in previous quarter) - dev@openoffice.apache.org: - 500 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1377 emails sent to list (1195 in previous quarter) - private@openoffice.apache.org: - 507 emails sent to list (624 in previous quarter) We are working on reducing the amount of unnecessary mails as it is too high for the private mailing list. - progetto-it@openoffice.apache.org: - 203 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 6 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter) - marketing@openoffice.apache.org: - 171 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 22 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter) - geral-ptbr@openoffice.apache.org: - 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) - doc@openoffice.apache.org: - 149 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 20 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter) - forum-admin@openoffice.apache.org: - 3 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - utenti-it@openoffice.apache.org: - 356 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 109 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter) - announce@openoffice.apache.org: - 11334 subscribers (down -37 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - general-ja@openoffice.apache.org: - 24 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - issues@openoffice.apache.org: - 97 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - 1698 emails sent to list (1919 in previous quarter) - general-es@openoffice.apache.org: - 87 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 4 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter) - l10n@openoffice.apache.org: - 251 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): - 257 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter) - qa@openoffice.apache.org: - 280 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months): - 57 emails sent to list (57 in previous quarter) - api@openoffice.apache.org: - 155 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months): - 65 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AV: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler] ## Description: The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. ## Activity: - Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association, see http://s.apache.org/Wsf for further details - there is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community - we've just released another bugfix release 1.8.9 - the work on our next major release 2.0 is an ongoing effort - we are planning to cut a first release candidate in April ## GSoC: - PDFBox participates in GSoC2015 with issue PDFBOX-2530 - Tilman Hausherr is the registered mentor - there have been two applications ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Tue Feb 11 2014 - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014 ## Releases: - 1.8.9 was released on Sat Mar 28 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@pdfbox.apache.org: - 480 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months): - 589 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter) - dev@pdfbox.apache.org: - 151 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 3710 emails sent to list (4297 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 153 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 196 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment AW: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov] Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats. Releases -------- There were two releases in the last quarter: POI 3.12-beta1 on 28 February 2015 POI 3.11-FINAL on 21 November 2014 Community --------- No new committers/PMC members added in the last quarter. Project Status --------- Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been steady in the last 3 months. Most patches are applied without much delay. General Comments ---------------- There are no issues that require Board attention. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin] Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. ISSUES Low community activity. COMMUNITY The community activity has continued to wane. New contributors to the list are being encouraged to contribute more. The existing community needs to expand efforts to engage new individuals. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES 02/17/15 - Stanton Sievers was added as a new committer & PMC member. RELEASES 01/07/14 - 0.23 released. ACTIVITY The list activity saw an increase in traffic and the community has laid out a path forward. Little progress has been made against it, but at this point, it would be prudent to see the year through and if there is no significant traction, re-evaluate the project's status. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AY: 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. * Release was 0.9.0, published Apr-03-2014. * Mailing list activity is a healthy mix of committers and users. Releases: * Last Release was 0.9.0, published Apr-03-2014. Community: * The last Samza PMC addition: Aug-13-2014 * The last Samza committer addition: Aug-13-2014 * Vote finished Apr-06-2014 to add a new committer. Mailing lists: * 209 subscribers (up 39 in the last 3 months) (912 emails sent in the past 3 months, 505 in the previous cycle) ----------------------------------------- Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter] DESCRIPTION Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the Incubator in January 2010. ISSUES The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention. COMMUNITY The Shindig community has seen a noticeable decline in mailing list activity as well as contributions to the code base over the past few months. Some of this might have to do with the OpenSocial Foundation being dissolved and portions of the OpenSocial specification being taken over by the W3C (http://www.w3.org/2014/12/opensocial.html.en). The Shindig community has not seen any contributions due to specification changes coming from the W3C since the move has taken place. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES No PMC member changes. RELEASES Apache Shindig 2.5.2 was released the 2014-10-26. The community is currently working towards a 2.5.3 release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BA: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail] ## Description: SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into virtually any email system. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 26 committers and 7 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Joe Quinn at Sun Mar 02 2014 - We do not have any new people moving moving towards committer but do have commits and rules being discussed and passed through to current committers to vet and apply showing good community development health. We are trying to encourage this more. - We have one mentor for GSoC, Kevin A. McGrail and one project we are excited if it is chosen from Sarang Shrivastava: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2015/xlr_24/5629499534213120 He is an open source enthusiast from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. ## Project Branding Requirements - IN PROCESS - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site. The artist has finished adding the TM mark to all our logos ready for publishing. NOTE: Will announce the new logo along with the powered by logo with the 3.4.1 release. - We have created the new Powered By logo for the press kit last week. - No decision has been made to register the trademark of the project. ## Activity - Releases: - 3.4.0 was released on 2014-02-11. - 3.4.1-rc2 was release on 2015-04-16. All blockers for this release are closed and we are hopeful to announce a release in the next few days. Thanks to Sally and her work for the press release about the upcoming release. - Our rules releases have continued and with 81 rule sets published since the last quarterly report. - We have some exciting ideas for what will likely be Apache SpamAssassin 4.0 ## Mailing list activity: - users@spamassassin.apache.org: - 1685 subscribers (down -20 in the last 3 months): - 1216 emails sent to list (1419 in previous quarter) - dev@spamassassin.apache.org: - 269 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months): - 672 emails sent to list (289 in previous quarter) - announce@spamassassin.apache.org: - 2392 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - friends@spamassassin.apache.org: - 15 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - blogspam@spamassassin.apache.org: - 25 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - ruleqa@spamassassin.apache.org: - 36 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 53 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar] DESCRIPTION Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. It can be used to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational databases and enterprise data warehouses. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.99.5, released on February 24, 2015 from the sqoop2 branch. * Work has started on the next release from main branch for Sqoop version 1.4.6, and on the next release from sqoop2 branch for Sqoop version 1.99.6. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 branches. * A total of 223 issues have been resolved between the period starting from January 1, 2015 to April 1, 2015. * In the past three months, a total of 185 messages were exchanged on the user list and a total of 4285 messages were exchanged on the dev list. COMMUNITY * The last addition of a new committer was done in January 2015. * The last appointment to the PMC was done in March 2015. * Currently there are: - Total of 429 subscribers to the user list - Total of 149 subscribers to the dev list - Total of 22 committers - Total of 15 PMC members * The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (5), Dell Software (2), Etcetera (1), Hortonworks (1), JPL (1), Pivotal (1), StreamSets (1), Zymergen (1) * A proposal was accepted by Sqoop community to conduct regular contributor meetings. The details of the proposal are available at [1]. The first contributors meeting is currently being planned for late April. The Sqoop PMC will oversee the execution of these meetings to ensure that: - all decisions are made on the dev list - the meetings are open to all current and future contributors - sufficient notice is given before every meeting with published agenda - all meeting minutes are captured promptly and shared on the dev list ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. REFERENCES [1] http://s.apache.org/sqoop-contrib-meetings ----------------------------------------- Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski] Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * As expected, the annual ASF Members Meeting and elections have resulted in a *huge* flurry of activity, especially from one of our new PMC members: Daniel Gruno. Work on a Python version of STeVe, codenamed pysteve, is ongoing, with some detailed implementation designs being discussed. COMMUNITY * The previous 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then we have 4 new committers and PMC members: o Alan Cabrera (03/2015) o Sean Kelly (03/2015) o Daniel Gruno (03/2015) o Rich Bowen (04/2015) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen] The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON. The Struts team made no releases in the last quarter. A release vote for Struts 2.3.22 test build was canceled, a vote for a Struts 2.3.23 release is currently underway. The last GA release was Struts 2.3.20 (2014-12-07) Within the last quarter we saw reasonable development and community activity. Since moving to git based SCM along with our git mirror being available at GitHub, we see an increase in pull requests issued by community members contributing valuable patches to the project. In combination with requiring JIRA tickets for pull request to be accepted as contributions, we seem to a have a lightweight yet solid process in place, enabling both for easy accessible contributions as well as meaningful and documented code reviews and a well guarded patch acceptance workflow. No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter. The PMC voted to invite Christoph Nenning (cnenning) to join the PMC, we are currently awaiting his response. Last PMC member addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on 2014-01-06. We have no issues that require board assistance at this time. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship] Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific performance. Any issues for the Board? There are no Board-level issues at this time. When did the project last make any releases? The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.7) has been released 2013-04-29. We have made available the a series of beta builds of the upcoming 5.4 release, (most recently, 5.4-beta-26, on 19 Jan 2015), following successful votes. A release candidate is expected in the coming quarter. Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter. Activity on the user mailing list is fair. Questions are answered with participation of not only the core contributors but also by the community at large. Discussion focuses especially around new features of the upcoming 5.4 release. There are also frequent announcements concerning third-party libraries developed entirely outside the Tapestry team. Activity on the dev mailing list is medium. The focus of development currently lies on the upcoming Tapestry 5.4 which will bring major improvements in JavaScript support and other new features. At this point we are primarily looking at fixing bugs (from our large backlog) and documenting the significant new features. When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Jochen Kenmade has been voted in as a committer on 25 Apr 2014, and subsequently been voted into the PMC (2 Mar 2015). PMC and committer diversity PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time. Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally. No known issues. Branding requirements progress: * "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed * "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc." - completed * "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included" - License and Security links are missing * "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc." - completed * "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site" - TM missing from logo * "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed Legal issues or questions: None. Infrastructure issues or strategic needs: None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi] Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current projects are * Rivet * Websh Board issues: No issues relevant to the board Community: The last committer and PMC member joined the project in November 2014. We tried to privately contact 3 PMC members who have been totally inactive for very long time. I asked them if they still had interest in Apache Tcl or if they could see ahead any chance to be actively involved. I will make one more attempt to have a formal resignation statement to ease the procedures, but in case I won't have it we will ask the board to have them removed from the PMC. I want to stress that this is not meant to be an exclusion, we would be happy to have them back on Apache Tcl if they will find a renewed interest in Apache Tcl. There is a similar issue with some committers. I will tackle it soon. Current number of subscribers to our public mailing lists are rivet-dev@: 46 subscribers websh-dev@: 15 subscribers + 2 bug reports were filed for rivet. Fixes for these bugs are making urgent a rivet 2.2.2 bugfix release which is due this month Releases: + Rivet released version 2.2.1 on Jan 20 2015. A rivet 2.2.2 RC is under evaluation + Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after 3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah] ## Description: Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs) of data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects. ## Activity: There has been decent activity over the past few months. The maintenance lines for 0.5 and 0.6 are going strong with various fixes. Users are looking forward to a new release of 0.6.1 which hopefully should happen in the next few weeks. New enhancements such as making the more performant PipelinedSorter the default sort implementation as well as initial work on a PipelinedShuffle have gone into the master branch. Branch TEZ-2003 created for work related to allowing Tez to co-ordinate execution with external services ( initial focus to work with Hive’s LLAP engine) The release for 0.6.0 ( with the emphasis on the Tez UI ) went out in January. On a different note, although the PMC has been following the same implicit policies that had been applied whilst incubating, we are now finally getting around to formalizing them into the project by-laws (jira TEZ-2231). ## Issues: There are no major issues at this time that require the Board’s attention. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 33 committers and 31 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Jonathan Turner Eagles at Mon Oct 20 2014 - Prakash Ramachandran was added as a committer on Thu Jan 08 2015 - Alan Gates resigned from the PMC in February, 2015, citing his lack of activity on the project and the presence of enough other experienced Apache people on the project. ## Releases: - 0.6.0 was released on Fri Jan 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@tez.apache.org: - 152 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months): - 247 emails sent to list (202 in previous quarter) - issues@tez.apache.org: - 55 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 3701 emails sent to list (2874 in previous quarter) - user@tez.apache.org: - 157 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months): - 107 emails sent to list (157 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 359 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 227 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ----------------------------------------- Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell] Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization. Project Status --------- Since our last 0.9.2 release Apache Thrift has seen an increase in user list traffic as well as activity from pull requests coming in from Github. We have been working towards our next release, 0.9.3, which will contain developer velocity improvements such as docker build environments, improved test coverage, py3 support and initial cmake support. We anticipate having a release candidate available soon Community --- Latest Additions: * PMC addition: Ben Craig, 3.20.2014 Henrique Mendonca, 3.20.2014 * Contributor addition: Konrad Grochowski, 9.22.2014 Issue backlog status since last report: * Created: 154 * Resolved: 105 Mailing list activity since last report: * @dev 1693 messages * @user 116 messages Releases --- Last release: 0.9.2, Release Date: Nov 7, 2014 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle] What is Tika? ========================= Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies. Issues ========================= There are no issues that need the boards attention. Releases ========================= The last release (1.7) was made in January 2015. There has been much progress since then with a release candidate for 1.8 currently being voted on. Community ========================= The Tika PMC added Luis Filipe Nassif in March 2015 and Giuseppe Totaro in April 2015 as committers and PMC Members. There are six talks related to Tika scheduled to take place at ApacheCon NA 2015. Chris Mattman has registered to be a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2015 with some Tika issues marked as potential projects. Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 445, 891 and 107 messages in February, March and April 2014, respectively. user@ was at 15, 15 and 1 messages, during the same timeframe. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BJ: 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 remains slow as noted in the February report. Work towards Java EE 7 compliance is understandably difficult and the community is running out of threads to pull on Java EE 7 without a TCK. The TomEE 1.7.x branch remains the center of the day-to-day. Some fixes and minor enhancements are in progress for a future 1.7.2 release likely to come out in this quarter. The stability and gradual movement of the 1.7.x branch seems to be carrying the project forward. Particular new developments in the 1.7.x branch involve the addition of a enhanced command-line library for managing TomEE. It was added externally by some non-committers in a Github project, however discussion has moved to the Apache lists and we'll see if we can get the ideas added and potentially some good new committers as well. There has been some discussion in the community around Apache rules for including snapshot downloads links in the website. There is a page[1] that includes them and features a red disclaimer. Links to this page were recently removed by request. Looking at the Google Analytics project for the last 12 months, exactly 0.09% of the website traffic ever saw the snapshot page. This would seem to me be in an acceptable range. With my VP hat on -- and barring board disapproval -- I'm inclined to rule it responsible use and allow links to be restored as it does appear to enable the right people yet still discourage the general public. Last release was 1.7.1 on 2014-09-15. Last committer was added November 2013. Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26. [1] http://tomee.apache.org/download/tomee-2.0.0-snapshot.html ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom] Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid and Varnish in functionality and features. Issues ====== There are no issues that needs the board's attention. Community ========= One new committer was added since last report, leaving us with a total of 41 committers and 40 PMC members. Our last committer and PMC member was added on 2/13/2015. Activity on mailing list is normal, growth in subscriber list is less than previous reports: users@ - 461 subscribers (up 1% since last report) dev@ - 298 subscribers (identical to last report) In Jira, 216 new tickets were opened and 167 were resolved or closed since the last board report, which had 178 and 258 respectively. 459 changes were committed to our git repository from 36 contributors. Last report had 786 commits from 31 contributors. Events ====== In addition to several presentations being given at ApacheCon in Austin, we're also holding our Spring Summit Thu-Fri the same week. More details at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit Releases ======== Three new releases were made since last report: - v5.2.1 was released on Mon Mar 30 2015 (latest release) - v4.2.3 was released on Tue Feb 03 2015 The v4.2.x versions will be supported until Q3 2015, this is extended by an additional 6 month from the initial plan. Future adjustments to the release schedules are planned after the v6.0.0 release. Planned releases include: - v5.3.0: April 2015 (currently in -RC1) - v6.0.0: July 2015 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BM: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann] Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. STATUS Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July 2014. The paper that we reported on was finished but has not been published yet. Apache VXQuery 0.5 was released incorporating the changes that were required for the paper. Mailing list activity has picked up, mostly due to the release and interest in Google Summer of Code. COMMUNITY All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members. The community is still small. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013. COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES Continued focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. In the past Google Summer of Code has helped the project to grow, hopefully this year will be similar. RELEASES Apache VXQuery 0.5 was released on Mar 5, 2015 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga] No releases within this quarter. Last releases for other subprojects: * Xmlschema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015 * WSS4J 2.0.3/1.6.18 : Feb 2015 * Neethi 3.0.3 : 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 - 82 commits by 2 committers. * Axiom - 1 commits by 1 committer. * Xmlschema - 0 commits . * 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 BO: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson] Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications. ISSUES As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on the development side and also the community has not grown since 2013. The reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary adoption of the W3C widget specification. FUTURE Having said that, there have been some new use cases suggested in the community which have lead to development discussions on the part of the primary team. One use case suggestion has been to develop a github link allowing widgets to be directly imported from github thus facilitating an easy mechanism to develop and deploy widgets outside of the wookie tree. RELEASES Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014. ACTIVITY Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0. COMMUNITY Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Zest Project [Niclas Hedhman] Inception: 18 March 2015 Last PMC addition: 18 March 2015 Last Committer additions: n/a (In progress) Description Apache Zest contains platforms and tools to explore the Composite Oriented Programming paradigm. Activity 3 weeks has passed since the inception of the project and being one of very few TLPs not coming from the Incubator, some smaller stumbling blocks were encountered by infra. But infra has been great, and we have gotten; - Mailing lists dev, users, private and commits has been created - Subversion repository for static HTML website has been created - Git repositories has been created. - Requests for Software Grants from all previous contributors have been sent - Jira is set up. Community The PMC had no objections to invite the previous contributors, and invitations has been sent out, including requesting ICLAs (standard invite letter). One previous contributor passed on the invitation (moved on to other things) Mailing list activity Development discussions have started on dev@zest, and the Google groups one is quickly deserted. Next Steps * Ensure IP is free of encumbrance. * Migrate website (incl re-design and branding compliance) * Import codebase ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the April 22, 2015 board meeting.