The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes November 20, 2019 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:30 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3zwe The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by the Secretary via Zoom. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Danny Angus Rich Bowen Shane Curcuru Ted Dunning Dave Fisher Myrle Krantz Daniel Ruggeri Craig L Russell Roman Shaposhnik Directors Absent: none Executive Officers Present: Tom Pappas Sam Ruby Matt Sicker Executive Officers Absent: David Nalley Guests: Daniel Gruno Greg Stein Henri Yandell Kevin A. McGrail Sally Khudairi Sander Striker Wangda Tan 3. Minutes from previous meetings Published minutes can be found at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html A. The meeting of October 16, 2019 See: board_minutes_2019_10_16.txt Approved by General Consent. 4. Executive Officer Reports A. Chairman [Craig] Kudos to the conference organizers for another excellent ApacheCon EU in Berlin. I had the honor of giving a keynote speech at the first Tencent Tech Echo (Techo) conference in Beijing. I also gave a presentation at Tsinghua University to an audience consisting mostly of undergraduate students. Special thanks to Sally Khudairi for her invaluable help in preparing these presentations. While in Beijing, I met with several people about how to make Apache projects more accessible to Chinese community members, including users, contributors, and committers. One result of these meetings is continuation of dialog to implement a bot to facilitate communications among e.g. mail lists, WeChat groups, Slack, Dingding, and issue tracking systems like GitHub and JIRA. The group is currently deciding on next steps. B. President [Sam] Regarding finances, "we are on pace to meet our budget". This is a quite notable change from previous months. Not a cause for concern, but definitely something to watch. Highlights from various areas: * Brand management is essentially treating direct to TLP projects the same as podlings for the purposes of name searches at this point. * Fundraising has modified its link policy to include rel="sponsored" on all links going forward. * Marketing and Publicity helped drive the Petri faq. * M&P published the Q1 report for FY2020 https://s.apache.org/a6s40 * ApacheCon NA 2020 is tentatively the last week in September in New Orleans. Four (and possibly more) roadshows are in various stages of planning. * Conferences has also assumed responsibility for small event planning. * A new photos.apachecon.com site is live. * New Expected time for a full report on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion analysis is May. Comms plan for D&I committee is on hold due to bandwidth to work on it and the survey. Focusing on the survey first. Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 8. C. Treasurer [Myrle] Operating Cash on October 31st, 2019 was $1,701K, which is down $659.9K from last month’s ending balance (Sept 19) of $2,360.9K. Total Cash as of October 31st, 2019 is $3,124.9K (includes the Pineapple, Restricted Donation as well as the Tides Restricted Donations) as compared to $3,564.4K on Sept. 30th, 2018, (a decrease of $439.5K year over year). The October 2019 ending Operating cash balance of $1,701K represents an Operating cash reserve of 7.3 months based on the FY20 Cash forecast average monthly spending of $233.7K/month. The ASF actual Operating reserve of 7.3 months at the end of October 2019 is bit behind the budgeted 7.7 month’s reserve for YTD through October 2019. The estimated YE Operating reserve of 8.1 months is ahead of the Budgeted YE reserve of 7.6 month. The ASF Operating reserve is above the ASAE standard average of 6 months of reserve for Non Profits. Reviewing the YTD Cash P&L, total Income is behind budget at this point in the Fiscal year by $322.2K. ACNA19 Sponsorship exceeded the budget, however ACNA 19 Registration is below budget. Public Donations are a bit behind as is Foundation sponsorship due to some timing of payments ( The open Accounts Receivable is very healthy at $945K). As compared to FY19, YTD revenue is behind by $107.8K primarily due to timing of some Sponsor payments. YTD expenses through October 31st, 2019 are under budget by $79.1K. Most departments are under budget, however due to the finalization of the amount owed to Leaseweb Infra is slightly over budget, again a timing issue as compared to the budget . Conferences expenses at this point are over budget, as the ANCA19 Hotel bill was paid in October. As noted in last month’s narrative the budgeted loss for ACNA19 is $55K and we were estimating it to be in the $110K-$120K loss range. At this point the Loss for ACNA19 stands at $110.5K. For ACEU19 as noted in last month’s narrative, estimated loss could be 107K Euros, however as ACEU19 took place in October 2019, it will be a month or two before we have a preliminary P&L. Regarding Net Income (NI), YTD FY20 the ASF finished with a negative <$712.9K> NI vs a budgeted negative <$469.7K> NI or $243.2K behind Budgeted NI for FY20 at this point in the Fiscal year. This is attributable to timing of Conference payments, Timing of TAC, Timing of the Leaseweb payment as well as timing of Sponsor payments vs the FY20 Budget. The cash forecast has been updated and at this point halfway through the Fiscal year, we are on pace to meet our budget. I would ask that all dept heads review the Cash forecast and let us know if there is anything that could change in the estimates for the remaining six months of FY2020. With regard to FY19, we are behind in revenue, by $107.8K as noted above, but we are also ahead on expenses by $691.2K (due to ACNA19 and the Leaseweb payment which should have taken place in FY19, but did not); thus, year over year NI for FY20 is behind FY19 by $799K. It is estimated that this will even out as the second six months of FY 20 progresses. Current Balances: Boston Private CDARS Account 2,265,241.60 Citizens Money Market 701,618.65 Citizens Checking 156,027.87 Paypal - ASF 2,011.82 Total Checking/Savings 3,124,899.94 Oct-19 Budget Variance Income Summary: Public Donations 1,682.91 2,276.96 -594.05 Sponsorship Program 31,000.00 170,000.00 -139,000.00 Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 Conference/Event Income 47,400.95 189,000.00 -141,599.05 Other Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 Interest Income 4,084.23 450.00 3,634.23 Total Income 84,168.09 361,726.96 -277,558.87 Expense Summary Infrastructure 162,378.47 85,733.08 76,645.39 Programs Expense 1,158.53 3,333.33 -2,174.80 Publicity 64,877.89 44,233.34 20,644.55 Brand Management 3,187.97 8,166.67 -4,978.70 Conferences 457,860.82 48,250.00 409,610.82 Travel Assistance Committee 16,837.65 10,000.00 6,837.65 Fundraising 14,330.37 16,080.00 -1,749.63 Treasury Services 3,350.00 3,350.00 0.00 General & Administrative 13,654.35 1,915.00 11,739.35 Diversity and Inclusion 0.00 5,833.33 -5,833.33 Total Expense 737,636.05 226,894.75 510,741.30 Net Income -653,467.96 134,832.21 -788,300.17 YTD FY20 Budget Variance Income Summary: Public Donations 21,895.59 104,079.73 -82,184.14 Sponsorship Program 345,000.00 582,000.00 -237,000.00 Programs Income 14,900.00 14,000.00 900.00 Conference/Event Income 512,725.81 520,000.00 -7,274.19 Other Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 Interest Income 5,988.19 2,650.00 3,338.19 Total Income 900,509.59 1,222,729.73 -322,220.14 Expense Summary Infrastructure 558,291.02 546,398.48 11,892.54 Programs Expense 1,158.53 19,999.98 -18,841.45 Publicity 232,355.86 235,975.04 -3,619.18 Brand Management 30,447.15 49,000.02 -18,552.87 Conferences 633,668.86 571,500.00 62,168.86 Travel Assistance Committee 30,805.21 95,000.00 -64,194.79 Fundraising 77,491.40 96,480.00 -18,988.60 Treasury Services 20,100.00 20,100.00 0.00 General & Administrative 29,066.57 22,990.00 6,076.57 Diversity and Inclusion 0.00 34,999.98 -34,999.98 Total Expense 1,613,384.60 1,692,443.50 -79,058.90 Net Income -712,875.01 -469,713.77 -243,161.24 D. Secretary [Matt] In October, we received 64 ICLAs, 5 CCLAs, and 6 software grants. E. Executive Vice President [David] I attended ACEU and gave the SoTF. ACEU was well produced and attended. Travel Assistance ================= TAC had a few last minute challenges around payment, but executed well. Kudos to Christopher Dutz for leading the TAC efforts in Europe. The TAC folks took advantage of being co-located at ACEU and spent some time planning for the rest of the Fiscal Year. See the Travel Assistance report for more details. Infrastructure ============== Infrastructure is largely operating normally. Of note, infrastructure has re-enabled per-project web statistics and is evaluating a new l10n platform. F. Vice Chairman [Shane] Nothing to report this month. Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 5. Additional Officer Reports A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Roman] See Attachment 9 B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik] See Attachment 10 C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Daniel] See Attachment 11 @Danny: speak with Mark about how to handle Ambari and Xerces D. VP of Data Privacy [John Kinsella / Myrle] No report was submitted. @Danny: pursue a change of chair for Data Privacy E. VP of Jakarta EE Relations [Mark Struberg / Danny] No report was submitted. @Roman: find out about bandwidth Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 6. Committee Reports Summary of Reports The following reports required further discussion: # Cassandra [myrle] # Security Team [da] # SystemML [myrle] # Tajo [df] # jUDDI [df] A. Apache Ambari Project [Jayush Luniya / Dave] See Attachment A B. Apache Ant Project [Jan Materne / Shane] See Attachment B C. Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo / Ted] See Attachment C D. Apache Brooklyn Project [Geoff Macartney / Rich] See Attachment D E. Apache Buildr Project [Antoine Toulme / Craig] See Attachment E F. Apache Cassandra Project [Nate McCall / Myrle] See Attachment F G. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Shane] See Attachment G H. Apache Cocoon Project [Cédric Damioli / Danny] See Attachment H I. Apache Community Development Project [Sharan Foga / Ted] See Attachment I J. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Roman] See Attachment J K. Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox / Daniel] See Attachment K L. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Craig] See Attachment L M. Apache DRAT Project [Tom Barber / Dave] See Attachment M N. Apache Drill Project [Charles Givre / Rich] See Attachment N O. Apache Empire-db Project [Rainer Döbele / Myrle] See Attachment O P. Apache Flume Project [Ferenc Szabo / Craig] See Attachment P Q. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Roman] See Attachment Q R. Apache FreeMarker Project [Dániel Dékány / Dave] See Attachment R S. Apache Geode Project [Karen Miller / Daniel] See Attachment S T. Apache Giraph Project [Dionysios Logothetis / Danny] See Attachment T U. Apache Gora Project [Kevin Ratnasekera / Ted] See Attachment U V. Apache Groovy Project [Paul King / Rich] See Attachment V W. Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin / Shane] No report was submitted. X. Apache HTTP Server Project [Daniel Gruno / Ted] See Attachment X Y. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Chamath Perera / Roman] See Attachment Y Z. Apache Ignite Project [Denis A. Magda / Craig] See Attachment Z AA. Apache Impala Project [Jim Apple / Shane] See Attachment AA AB. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean / Dave] See Attachment AB AC. Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili / Danny] See Attachment AC AD. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Rich] See Attachment AD @Rich: pursue a better report AE. Apache Juneau Project [James Bognar / Myrle] See Attachment AE AF. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Daniel] See Attachment AF AG. Apache Kibble Project [Rich Bowen] See Attachment AG AH. Apache Knox Project [Larry McCay / Rich] See Attachment AH AI. Apache Kylin Project [Shao Feng Shi / Shane] See Attachment AI AJ. Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Roman] See Attachment AJ AK. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus / Danny] No report was submitted. @Danny: pursue a report for Libcloud AL. Apache Logging Services Project [Matt Sicker / Craig] See Attachment AL AM. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Ted] See Attachment AM AN. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Daniel] See Attachment AN AO. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Myrle] See Attachment AO AP. Apache Oozie Project [Gézapeti / Dave] See Attachment AP AQ. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Huikyo Lee / Dave] See Attachment AQ AR. Apache OpenJPA Project [Mark Struberg / Danny] See Attachment AR AS. Apache OpenWhisk Project [Dave Grove / Shane] See Attachment AS AT. Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson / Rich] No report was submitted. AU. Apache Phoenix Project [Josh Elser / Myrle] See Attachment AU AV. Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler / Ted] See Attachment AV AW. Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell / Craig] See Attachment AW AX. Apache REEF Project [Sergiy Matusevych / Roman] See Attachment AX AY. Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone / Daniel] See Attachment AY AZ. Apache RocketMQ Project [Xiaorui Wang / Rich] See Attachment AZ BA. Apache Roller Project [David M. Johnson / Ted] See Attachment BA BB. Apache Samza Project [Yi Pan / Daniel] See Attachment BB BC. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Craig] See Attachment BC BD. Apache Serf Project [Branko Čibej / Roman] See Attachment BD BE. Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang / Dave] See Attachment BE BF. Apache SINGA Project [Wang Wei / Danny] See Attachment BF BG. Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux / Myrle] See Attachment BG BH. Apache Spark Project [Matei Alexandru Zaharia / Shane] See Attachment BH BI. Apache Stanbol Project [Rafa Haro / Shane] No report was submitted. @Shane: pursue a roll call for Stanbol BJ. Apache Submarine Project [Wangda Tan / Roman] See Attachment BJ BK. Apache Subversion Project [Stefan Sperling / Rich] See Attachment BK BL. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò / Daniel] See Attachment BL BM. Apache SystemML Project [Jon Deron Eriksson / Myrle] See Attachment BM @Myrle: pursue a roll call for SystemML BN. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Dave] No report was submitted. BO. Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo / Craig] See Attachment BO BP. Apache Tez Project [Jonathan Turner Eagles / Danny] See Attachment BP BQ. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Ted] See Attachment BQ BR. Apache Traffic Control Project [David Neuman / Danny] See Attachment BR BS. Apache Turbine Project [Georg Kallidis / Daniel] See Attachment BS BT. Apache Usergrid Project [Michael Russo / Roman] See Attachment BT BU. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Ted] See Attachment BU BV. Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby / Myrle] See Attachment BV BW. Apache Xalan Project [Gary D. Gregory / Dave] See Attachment BW BX. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Rich] No report was submitted. @Rich: pursue a report for Xerces BY. Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds / Craig] See Attachment BY BZ. Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo / Shane] See Attachment BZ Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent. 7. Special Orders A. Change the Apache jclouds Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrea Turli (andreaturli) to the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Andrea Turli from the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache jclouds project has chosen by consensus to recommend Ignasi Barrera (nacx) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrea Turli is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ignasi Barrera be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache jclouds Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. B. Change the Apache Ignite Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Denis A. Magda (dmagda) to the office of Vice President, Apache Ignite, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Denis A. Magda from the office of Vice President, Apache Ignite, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Ignite project came to a consensus to recommend Dmitry Pavlov (dpavlov) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Denis A. Magda is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Ignite, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dmitry Pavlov be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Ignite, 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 Ignite Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. C. Change the Apache Creadur Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Brian E Fox (brianf) to the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Brian E Fox from the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Creadur project has chosen by vote to recommend Philipp Ottlinger (pottlinger) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Brian E Fox is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Philipp Ottlinger be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, 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 Creadur Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. D. Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Peter Kovacs (petko) to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Peter Kovacs from the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OpenOffice project has chosen by vote to recommend Jim Jagielski (jim) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Peter Kovacs is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7D, Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. E. Establish the Apache Petri 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 shepherding communities, producing open-source software for distribution at no charge to the public, related to assessment of, education in, and adoption of the Foundation's policies and procedures for collaborative development and the pros and cons of joining the Foundation; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Petri Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Petri Project be and hereby is assigned and charged with the responsibility of creating and maintaining processes related to assessment of, education in, and adoption of the Foundation's policies and procedures for collaborative development and the pros and cons of joining the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Petri" 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 Petri Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Petri 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 Petri Project: Daniel Gruno Daniel Shahaf Dave Fisher David Nalley Greg Stein Ross Gardler NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dave Fisher be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Petri, 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, Establish the Apache Petri Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. 8. Discussion Items A. Convenience Binaries Official Apache releases are source code. But we have allowed "convenience binaries" to be created and even hosted on Apache infrastructure. Further, we have allowed projects to vote on, approve, and publish these artifacts as if they were official releases. And some of these artifacts are signed by Apache infrastructure tools. And some of these artifacts contain Category X components. I'd like to revisit the topic of convenience binaries and establish some ground rules for PMCs to follow. @Myrle: work with Roman to lead discussion on this 9. Review Outstanding Action Items * Rich: open up attic discussions to dev list [ Forrest 2019-05-15 ] Status: Vote happening on dev list right now: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c49f6223e82bf32b559dc4bf0a061a75369856e11cf05cf654e51036@%3Cdev.forrest.apache.org%3E * Rich: find out what the sentence in Issues means [ Open Climate Workbench 2019-05-15 ] Status: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ec419e4484046d767acc9673d7b2f06f27d0f36a2a6310d7f31ca578@%3Cprivate.climate.apache.org%3E To summarize, it sounds like some major chunk of code is being developed inside NASA, and then they're going to come back to the community with it. While this doesn't sound ideal to me, it at least explains what the statement in that report meant, all those months ago. * Tom: research what other nonprofits do for CoCs for boards [ Statement of Expectation of Conduct of Board Members 2019-05-15 ] Status: * Ted: clarify red tape and release process [ RocketMQ 2019-08-21 ] Status: * Danny: follow up to get a report for the normal reporting cycle [ Zeppelin 2019-08-21 ] Status: Done. Email sent offering to help get a report done. 2019-11-14. More informative report submitted for 11/2019 * Roman: Update docs around legal FAQ [ President 2019-09-18 ] Status: * Daniel: get project moved to Attic [ Falcon 2019-09-18 ] Status: * Ted: pursue Atticking [ Hama 2019-09-18 ] Status: Only one reply on private@ agreeing with Ted; Attic announcement needs to move to dev@ to let the community know the project is being Attic'd. * Myrle: follow up about build server breach [ Royale 2019-09-18 ] Status: sent e-mail * Ted: pursue a report for Tajo [ Tajo 2019-09-18 ] Status: * Sam: pursue a resolution for signing the agreement [ Jakarta EE Relations 2019-10-16 ] Status: I plan to take no further action unless asked again to do so by the board. * David: close the loop with Arrow and other communities with needs for CI [ Arrow 2019-10-16 ] Status: * Danny: pursue PMC roll call and potential Attic resolution [ Chukwa 2019-10-16 ] Status: In progress. Chukwa PMC have discussed this and are ready to Vote to move to the attic. more than 3 PMC members indicated +1 on the discussion thread. I anticipate an attic resolution in December. * Ted: discuss commit squashing from outside branches and loss of code [ DataFu 2019-10-16 ] Status: The situation was pretty much best-case of the scenarios we imagined. No issue at all. The squash didn't lose any author information. * Ted: follow up on tweet [ HBase 2019-10-16 ] Status: The HBase community is handling these issues well. No further action required. * Craig: pursue report for next month; possible Attic candidate [ Joshua 2019-10-16 ] Status: * Roman: pursue a report for next month [ OpenJPA 2019-10-16 ] Status: Done: report provided. * Dave: find out more details on Catalina requirements and how we can address [ OpenOffice 2019-10-16 ] Status: A past contributor, PMC member, and MacOS builder has returned to the project! The project is now experimenting with macOS Notarization and Windows certificate signing. * Dave: pursue a roll call for Samza [ Samza 2019-10-16 ] Status: Roll call completed with 6 affirmative responses and 1 resignation. Expected to report in November * Danny: pursue a report for Stanbol [ Stanbol 2019-10-16 ] Status: Done. Email sent offering to help get a report done. 2019-11-14 * Danny: work with Sally on info about the Attic process [ Tajo 2019-10-16 ] Status: Working on a blog post * Daniel: pursue a report for Tapestry [ Tapestry 2019-10-16 ] Status: Done; report submitted. * Craig: pursue a report for Tez [ Tez 2019-10-16 ] Status: Done; report submitted. * Danny: find out what help the PMC needs to improve reporting [ Zeppelin 2019-10-16 ] Status: Done. Email sent offering to help get a report done. 2019-11-14 * Sally: work with @Dave on an FAQ for Petri [ Establish Petri 2019-10-16 ] Status: 10. Unfinished Business 11. New Business 12. Announcements 13. Adjournment Adjourned at 11:55 a.m. (Pacific) ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Mark Thomas] * ISSUES FOR THE BOARD None. * OPERATIONS Covering the period October 2019 Responded to the following queries, liaising with projects as required: - Resolved 3 Podling name searches (PETRI, DORIS, SUBMARINE) - Redirected an enquiry about an ALv2 licensed font to the font owner - Request to reference Apache projects in a book - Use of R, TM and SM with PETRI - Naming of a training course for KAFKA - Use of KAFKA logo - Clarified that we don;t register marks for incubating projects - Produced the Q1 report for press and marketing - Declined to sign a license to use material in a book as the rights requested were either not ours to license or covered by the ALv2 Fixed a handful of syntax bugs on the brand web pages. Thanks to danielsh. Discussed whether a more formal process for direct to TLP name searches was required. No change is proposed. * REGISTRATIONS Redirected a SUBVERSION related renewal request to the correct trademark owner. Reviewed the domain transfer agreement for dubbo.io * INFRINGEMENTS ----------------------------------------- Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri] Fundraising continues operating smoothly. We are in the process of renewing additional sponsors --3 Platinum, 3 Gold, 1 Silver, and 1 Bronze-level Sponsors. Payment has been received by 1x Platinum, 1x Gold, and 1x Silver. We look forward to announcing a new Sponsor at the Silver level after identifying some issues with email (China firewall?) that caused a few weeks' delay. We continue working on two new Targeted Sponsorships: one to benefit the Apache Cordova project, and the other for ASF Infrastructure. The Infrastructure-supporting sponsor is being onboarded and is working with ASF Marketing & Publicity on messaging and related communications. We are beginning to support sponsorship planning for ASF Conferences in 2020, including Roadshows in North America and Europe, as well as ApacheCon North America. We are continuing to help Virtual/Accounting on remaining sponsor payments for 2019 ApacheCons in North America and Europe Campaign preparations for Individual Giving season, which includes Corporate Giving, has begun. These will launch in the next few weeks. We received about $1,185 from individual donors via Hopsie. We have modified our link policy for the "thanks page". Going forward, all new Sponsor links will be added with the rel="sponsored" tag. See http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html#Links. Existing links will be converted upon renewal or opt-in by the Sponsor. Site, policy, form, and agreement documentation has been updated. We were delighted to say hello to and thank several of our sponsors in person at COSCon in Shanghai Nov 2 and 3. Attending the event from the Fundraising team was Daniel Ruggeri (VP Fundraising) and Ted Liu (Sponsor Ambassador, COSCon organizer). ----------------------------------------- Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi] [REPORT] ASF Marketing & Publicity — November 2019 I. Budget: we are on budget as planned, with no outstanding payments due at this time. II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi continues to support ASF Fundraising by securing 15 sponsorship renewals to date (7 Platinum, 5 Gold, 3 Silver), and is working with Virtual/ASF Accounting on settling a small handful of overdue sponsor payments. She is working with ASF Sponsor Ambassadors Bob Paulin and Craig Russell (Bronze sponsors) and Ted Liu (Chinese sponsors) on renewals as well as new candidate sponsors at the Silver and Bronze level. In addition, we are onboarding a new Targeted Sponsor. We are also preparing Individual Giving & Corporate Contribution campaigns that will be launching in the coming weeks. Additional support continues at the Foundation/executive-level, along with ASF Conferences, ComDev, Brand Management, and Diversity & Inclusion as needed. We published the Q1FY2020 Foundation Operations Summary (quarterly report) https://s.apache.org/a6s40 , and are working on a Sponsor case study/profile (similar to https://s.apache.org/jKNc ) with support from Central Services/Editorial. Principal photography on "Trillions and Trillions Served" (the documentary on the ASF) resumed during ApacheCon Berlin https://blogs.apache.org/press/entry/trillions-and-trillions-served-a ; we have wrapped filming and are now entering post-production. III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe. - 4 November 2019: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® SINGA™ as a Top-Level Project IV. Informal Announcements: 6 items were published on the ASF "Foundation" Blog. 5 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 279 weekly summaries published to date. We tweeted 54 items to 55.3K followers on Twitter, and posted 23 items on LinkedIn that garnered more than 91.1K organic impressions. V. Future Announcements: 1 announcement is in development. Projects planning to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing to announce major project milestones, "Did You Know?" success stories, “Have You Met?” highlights, and “Project Perspectives” profiles are requested to contact Sally at with at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution. VI. Media Relations: we responded to 5 media queries. The ASF received 1,313 press clips vs. last month's clip count of 1,006. Media coverage of Apache projects yielded 2,260 press hits vs. last month's 2,240. ApacheCon received 15 press hits. We had done an exhaustive amount of work with local press in support of a Board-level keynote and overall ASF presence at a national developer conference, but the outcome was highly disconnected for myriad reasons: we are trying to see how it can be salvaged, if at all. This also impacted another event in the same country, with the same publisher, but with different Board members, who canceled their media activities as a result. VII. Analyst Relations: we received 1 analyst query. Apache was mentioned in 3 reports by Gartner; 4 reports by Forrester; 2 reports by 451 Research; and 7 reports by IDC. We are also working with a global top 5 FinServ on a research project. VIII. Central Services: Kenneth Paskett attended ApacheCon Berlin on behalf of ASF Marketing & Publicity/Central Services and met with the Open Source Design community to explore ways we can engage on future Apache-related projects. The timing is favorable, as a small handful of projects are seeking our assistance with various creative and UX/site-related projects. We are also finalizing the list of Central Services/Editorial projects through 2019. IX. Events liaison: we will be supporting the Apache community with signage, stickers, and swag for the ASF booths at Devnexus and FOSDEM in February 2020. Per usual, we are standing by to assist ASF Conferences with planning, advisory, and oversight for 2020 Roadshows and ApacheCon as needed. X. Newswire accounts: our pre-paid press release package with GlobeNewswire expires in 2021, but we will likely need to renew before then. # # # ----------------------------------------- Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley] General ======= Infrastructure is operating as expected, and has no current issues requiring escalation to the President or the Board. Highlights ========== We are engaging a third-party to assist us with translations. This should provide projects with a translation/crowdsource tool for their translations. We're currently evaluating, with optimism. Short Term Priorities ===================== - Ensure stable backups after several disk failures/swaps. Long Range Priorities ===================== - Finalize a service for our projects' translations needs. - Move qmail off our archaic fbsd servers to a new Ubuntu/Puppet install. General Activity ================ - Migrated/upgrade our Subversion service to a new server. - New features in the ".asf.yaml" service; several provided by Bryan Ellis (an infra volunteer). - Our translation service/VM has been incredibly difficult to upgrade. We are testing a new, outsourced service for performing translations. Apache OpenOffice is the primary user, so we are working with them on testing and evaluation. - A couple disks failed on our backup server, but thankfully not at the same time. Our service provider is *very* fast with disk replacements (about 15 minutes), but then it took several days each time to "resilver" the RAID array. We are stable now, and will monitor the system over the next few weeks. During this process, we took a few extra steps at our cloud providers to create snapshots and replications "just in case". We'll unwind those additional precautions once we see our needed stability in the RAID array. - Working with a potential service on our CI/CD. A new Jenkins Master has been stood up, and testing is progressing. - Working on moving many qmail/ezmlm configuration files into svn for recovery/audit purposes. - Nearing turn-down of our local Sonar analysis install, after moving many projects to the hosted SonarCloud service. Several new projects have signed up for the service. - Implemented a new frontend component of our centralized blocking service (blocky) that explains bans to affected users and guides them through the unban process, should they request such. We hope this new process will lessen the communication load when people find themselves blocked on Apache services. - Improved the infra-provided website statistics[1] available to all projects, including adding a human-readable YAML version of the various sheets of statistics. [1] https://uls.apache.org/exports/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen] VP Conferences took about a month "sabbatical" after ApacheCon North America, which resulted in rather slower response to issues for that period. He is back on the job now, and activity on the various event-related mailing lists has picked back up. ApacheCon Europe was held in Berlin, in October. While it was smaller than its cousin in Las Vegas, the event itself was great, with truly amazing keynotes, and a very engaged group of attendees. At ApacheCon Europe we announced tentative dates for ApacheCon North America 2020, which will (again, tentatively - nothing is signed yet) be held in New Orleans in the last week of September. Due to the closeness of ACNA and ACEU in 2019, we intend to skip ACEU in 2020 in order to get back onto a six-month gap between events. However, it is also being considered to alternate North America and Europe years, in order to have a broader range of date options. This has not yet been determined, and there are strong arguments on both sides. In addition to ApacheCon, we are building out or 2020 calendar of events, and they are listed on events.apache.org The list is currently: * Apache Roadshow Chicago (Proposed) - 2020-05-27 to 2020-05-30 * Apache Roadshow, Seattle - 2020-06-10 to 2020-06-13 * ApacheCon North America, New Orleans - 2020-09-28 to 2020-10-03 * Apache Roadshow China (Proposed) - 2020-10-24 to 2020-10-26 An event has also been proposed in DC in May, but it is unclear at this time whether this is a Roadshow or something else. A call for volunteers to manage Small Events was sent to the members list. Isaac Goldstand has stepped forward to manage that process, but other volunteers are still welcome to assist in that. We intend for it to be a very lightweight process. The goal is to encourage small events such as meetups, focused on Apache technologies. A budget was approved for this for the past several years, but we have not, to date, spent any of that budget. A discussion is ongoing on the planners list regarding policy around approving events that conflict with other Apache official events. This begins with defining what a conflict is. Member input into that is welcomed on that list (planners@apachecon.com). You should expect to see more calls for volunteers around 2020 and 2021 events in the coming weeks, as we try to be more aggressive about announcing our event schedule further in advance. This makes sponsor acquisition easier, and also helps avoid conflicts with other conferences in our ecosystem. A new photo site has been launched at photos.apachecon.com in order to have our event photographs all in one place, which we control and back up. This was largely spurred by the recent changes to the Flickr limits, which resulted in many of our historic photographs disappearing. If you have photographs from past events, please contact the planners list for information on how to share them with the community. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald] Travel Assistance Report (November 2019) ======================================== ApacheCon EU 2019 Berlin ===================== TAC had 14 people attend Berlin after a couple of late withdrawals and one visa denial. We had a TAC 'Lunch' on the Monday comprising the 14 attendees and some invited long time ASF folks. As usual, this was received very well by the attendees and they got a lot out of the lunch. Right after lunch we had a meeting to go through what is expected of the attendees for the week and went through what sessions they would be hosting. Having some of this pre-filled before arrival meant that this went pretty smoothly. During the week, the attendees all performed their duties well and the organisers were happy with the level of assistance given. Post event surveys are yet to be sent out. Congrats from the entire TAC Committee go to Chris Dutz as Lead TAC organiser for this event, for a well prepared and well executed Conference from the TAC side of things. Hard work from the beginning through to the event itself ensured a smooth process and a successful ACEU from the TAC standpoint. TAC Meeting ========== committer supported / small events ----------------------------------------------- A few members of the TAC Committee had a face to face meeting in Berlin which lasted just over 2 hours. Present at the meeting were Gavin McDonald, Daniel Gruno, Chris Dutz and Nick Burch. A number of items were discussed, raw notes of which were posted to the main travel-assistance mailing list. Follow up and further discussions of some of those have continued on list. Some of these are mentioned below. TAC has approved funding for committers; and funds for smaller/non ApacheCon events. We are trialing use of the new committer funding by supporting taking a group of committers to Fosdem 2020 at the beginning of February. Gavin is Lead for this event. The application process for this and other smaller/committer events will be revamped and simpler. Note that at the time of writing, the approval of Stands/Booths has not been released. There is a list of other suggested non ApacheCon events to support, the next one after Fosdem is likely to be Berlin Buzzwords. Projects should note that TAC has funds to support travel/hotel for project organised meetups/hackathons. An email to all PMCs will start to be sent quarterly reminding/informing them of this. Travel Arrangements ---------------------------- A major topic and one that has been under scrutiny quite recently. Making Travel arrangements for successful applicants is quite a time consuming process. Liaising with a Travel Agent by email and by phone (and recently even in person!), getting many quotes to approve, sending them to the applicant for approval, then back to the TA. Travel Insurance, Visa support letters, Hotel room booking dates to be timed with flight arrival/departures etc. This was hard enough for 10 to 20 people. Now, we also have increased budget to have at least another 20+ people (per event) on top of that, more than doubling the work effort. (In a one year period, our budget could allow us to take around 100 people) Add into the mix recently for ACNA there was a poor experience with a Travel Agent, often taking days to respond, adds pressure. Therefore, during our TAC Committee meeting , we agreed to ask about the possibility of getting paid help in this area, a part time contract possibly, where that person gathers all the information needed and performs all the booking tasks, from quote, to visas, support letters, to ticketing and ensuring payment. Keeping the TAC committee in the loop at each stage, but taking away all that work that volunteers currently do, allowing them to concentrate on other important aspects. TAC has asked EVP about this and are awaiting a reply. Payment Methods ------------------------- Another important topic discussed was that of payment methods. Payments to Travel Agents, Hotels etc. Payments to Travel Agents involve lump sum amounts sent via international wire transfer, usually needing a final top up via the TAC credit card. Payments to Hotels for TAC recipients rooms sometimes also require a wire transfer - as was the case for Berlin. This was not without its own issues either - the Hotel received the wire transfer into their account on the Monday afternoon, our TAC attendees arrived the day before, so payment was asked for by Credit Card monday morning. Therefore the Hotel actually received 2 x payments. They have refunded the duplicate amount to the event organisers, who are calculating what we owe them and refunding the rest back to us. A messy process that might have been avoided if TAC had something like Transferwise - international payments made instantly and at mid-market rates and small fixed fee. This would make things much easier in the future. TAC has asked EVP to inquire about this and are awaiting a reply. TAC Credit Card ---------------------- The TAC card, in addition to a relatively small maximum allowed balance, also has a maximum daily withdrawal limit. Although since having a TAC card, which has been extremely invaluable, there has been instances on occasion where the daily limit was exceeded and so had to borrow from another staffer until the next day when it could be paid back. The maximum limit may also soon become an issue , with an increased budget, comes increased TAC attendees, comes increased on site expenditures. TAC Chair has a todo to ask the Treasurer for an increase in both the daily limit and the overall maximum balance. Committee Membership ================== TAC is a working Committee, and likes to align its membership with active members every couple of years. Inactive members are always welcome to re-join should they find themselves with time to become active again. Inactive members were notified on list last month. TAC Chair will make the changes known to the President in the next few days. There are also some additions to the committee to announce at the same time. --- Gav... ----------------------------------------- Attachment 7: Report from the VP of Finance [Tom Pappas] * Continued work with Fundraising committee * Assisted Seattle Roadshow team, with agreement and insurance * Working on Travel and General Liability insurance for the Foundation * Verified D&O insurance is current * Renewed Foundation Registered Agent ----------------------------------------- Attachment 8: Report from the VP of Diversity and Inclusion [Gris Cuevas] October 2019 Report ## Description: - The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team who contributes towards generating a current description of the D&I landscape in the industry and for the foundation. The team also focuses on developing resources the projects can leverage to increase diversity and inclusion in their communities. ## Issues: Two points that are not really issues, but more resetting expectations: The feedback and decision making process to launch the survey has pushed the entire project by 2 months since the holidays get on the way of new deadlines. New Expected time for a full report on EDI analysis is May. Comms plan for D&I committee is on hold due to bandwidth to work on it and the survey. Focusing on the survey first. ## Activity: *** Project: Survey revamp*** We're in the final review for V1.0 for the survey (see final deck here [1] There is a vote to finalize best way to send survey [2], current plans are: 1. Use LimeSurvey as the platform for the EDI Survey and share visibly a link to their data privacy policy. 2. Upload a list of all apache.org email addresses to LimeSurvey and send direct emails to individuals 3. Use a re-usable token for a universal link that we'll use to promote the survey in social media I re-opened the vote and intent to close it on Friday, will assume lazy consensus. *** Project: UX Research on new contributors *** Nothing has happened yet since this part is pending some initial results from the survey. As soon as we get the survey published, we'll start working on the questions for the interviews. *** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) *** We are working on the migration of previous meeting notes to Confluence to create a report that includes all action items, to make the process more transparent. The contributions period started on Oct. 1t and ended on Nov. 5th. Two projects out of three got contributions recorded. 5 contributions recorded in total. [3] We encounter some problem while attracting applicants to record contributions. We think that there could be two reasons for this: the skill level required in the project is too high, the wording of the project is a bit intimidating due to the technical language or unclear goals and/or high system requirements. In order to address this issue, we took the following action: setup cheat sheet + more guided or explained tasks. Include this sheet in the project submission to guide applicants in their initial contributions. we've seen sometimes there is no time to address all queries/questions from applicants, therefore we could include this sheet to help them guide themselves. We opened a conversation to create a "Tooling training for ASF projects" [4]. we need a more easy-to-start development environment. regarding applicants with less experience. In this case, it is hard to find a solution other than committing enough mentor time, which is hard to find. We opened a discussion. The period for the selection of interns start on Nov. 6th and ended on Nov. 14th. After rating contributions, one intern has been selected. [5] Friction log: we started working with the coordinators of the friction log of the Survey Design & Contributor Experience Research project. First draft of the friction log template has been shared on the mailing list dev@ [6]. *** Operations *** First payment to Bitergia was approved on the 15th. This payment is for Milestone 1, total amount $30,000 out of the total $75,000 for the project. *** Community Highlights *** New contributors have been collaborating in the EDI projects: Laura Zanella Arianne Navarro ## Health report: Mailing list continues to be active with regular emails from the working groups. A few new members have joined and participated. Some people have been sharing interesting articles and started good discussions. ## Committee members changes: None ## References [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tCQvR1NmR8ds8dqECr0Hs6vheKjouDclBjhZQfMoLlQ/edit [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/250bf12767efb5a6d433834c489677b9bba3ca5e5d69b06596a38836@%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E [3] https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/applicants/ [4] 2019-10-31 Outreachy Meeting notes [5] https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/applicants/ [6] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/diversity-dev/201911.mbox/%3cCAN_Ypr3cHMcSgd3t1xH3pzMCBof6B9dK0i2WDFtFJ1Q+P1aQdw@mail.gmail.com%3e ----------------------------------------- Attachment 9: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne] Nothing to report this month. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik] For the past months we've had a regular amount of usual requests flowing through LEGAL JIRA and legal-discuss. Hen and the rest of the volunteers took a good care of resolving most of these in time. We're dow 2 to 20, unresolved issues this month. Sadly, there has been no progress with Eclipse foundation mainly because lack of time on our end with key volunteers (Roman and Mark Struberg) we will try to do better next month. Two noteworthy discussions are around LEGAL-488 and LEGAL-489 where we are trying to figure out how to help NetBeans community in particular (and anyone in business of build end-to-end end-user facing project at ASF be able to ship their binaries based on modularization framework available in modern JREs). ----------------------------------------- Attachment 11: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox] Continued work on incoming security issues, keeping projects reminded of outstanding issues, and general oversight and advice. Stats for October 2019: 3 [license confusion] 14 [support request/question not security notification] Security reports: 29 (last months: 28, 46, 26, 23) 5 [site] 4 [httpd], [tomcat] 3 [guacamole] 2 [cloudstack], [netbeans] 1 [airflow], [deltaspike], [dubbo], [hadoop], [infrastructure], [jmeter], [ofbiz], [struts], [xmlgraphics] In total, as of 31st Oct 2019, we're tracking 74 (last month: 81) open issues across 37 projects, median age 88 (last month: 75) days. 37 of those issues have CVE names assigned. 7 (last month: 8) of these issues, across 5 projects, are older than 365 days. ----------------------------------------- Attachment 12: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [John Kinsella] ----------------------------------------- Attachment 13: Report from the VP of Jakarta EE Relations [Mark Struberg] ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Jayush Luniya] ## Description: The mission of Apache Ambari is the creation and maintenance of software related to Hadoop cluster management ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Ambari was founded 2013-11-19 (6 years ago) There are currently 106 committers and 48 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ishan Bhatt on 2018-10-25. - Masahiro Tanaka was added as committer on 2019-11-07 ## Project Activity: - 2.7.4 was released on 2019-09-13. - 2.7.3 was released on 2018-11-17. - 2.7.1 was released on 2018-08-27. ## Community Health: - The development community and engagement remains good, however many committers and PMC members have moved to other projects. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Jan Materne] ## Description: The mission of Apache Ant is the creation and maintenance of the Ant build system and related software components. It consists of 3 main projects: - Ant - core and libraries (AntLibs) - Ivy - Ant based dependency manager - IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse Additionally Ant provides several extensions to Ant (antlibs). ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Ant was founded 2002-11-18 (17 years ago) There are currently 29 committers and 23 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last (re)addition was Magesh Umasankar on 2018-07-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Jaikiran Pai on 2017-06-14. ## Project Activity: - Ivy 2.5.0 was released on 2019-10-24 (after a long period of minor activity). - Ant 1.10.7 was released on 2019-09-05. - (Ant 1.10.6 was released on 2019-05-08). ## Community Health: For Ant we feel healthy enough to apply patches, and get a release done. But basically we are in "maintenance mode". There isn't much development. For IvyDE we lack the knowledge of building Eclipse plugins on actual Eclipse versions. We hope to get the build running again so we could update that. ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo] ## Description: BookKeeper is a scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency storage service optimized for append-only workloads. It has been used as a fundamental service to build high available and replicated services in companies like Twitter, Yahoo and Salesforce. It is also the log segment store for Apache DistributedLog and message store for Apache Pulsar. Apache DistributedLog is a high-level API and service layer for Apache BookKeeper, providing easier access to the BookKeeper primitives. It is a subproject of Apache BookKeeper. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache BookKeeper was founded 2014-11-19 (5 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Charan Reddy G on 2019-07-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Andrey Yegorov on 2018-02-09. ## Project Activity: - 4.9.1 was released on April 7 2019 - 4.9.2 was released on May 16 2019 - 4.10.0: was released on November 6 2019 - The growth of Apache Pulsar community also help grow the adoption of BookKeeper. This helps building the ecosystem around BookKeeper. - The project is also extending its scope to cover long term distributed storage and now bundles a new KV distributed database (StreamStorage). - We released a new Python client for the StreamStorage service. - We are working on a brand new CLI interface GitHub issues: 19 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (35% increase) 35 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (191% increase) GitHub PR activity: 37 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (2% increase) 26 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-33% decrease) ## Community Health: - During the last quarter there development slowed down a little and we missed one scheduled release (we started a Time based release plan this year). - During the last months new users and contributors appeared especially from Apache Pulsar community and from other OSS projects that were born recently and are based on Apache BookKeeper. - Mailing list discussions are brisk, in particularly around the active projects. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Report from the Apache Brooklyn Project [Geoff Macartney] ## Description: The mission of Apache Brooklyn is the creation and maintenance of software related to a software framework for modeling, monitoring and managing cloud applications through autonomic blueprints. ## Issues: - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Brooklyn was founded 2015-11-18 (4 years ago) There are currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Duncan Grant on 2018-08-30. - No new committers. Last addition was Duncan Grant on 2018-06-13. ## Project Activity: - Brooklyn is quite stable at present, with a low level of development activity. Discussions and assistance to users continues on the mailing list. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.0.0-M1 on Mon Sep 17 2018 ## Community Health: - The project continues with a low turnover of pull requests and commits. - We continue to monitor our community for potential new committers and PMC members with the aim of regularly adding individuals. - We had previously discussed releasing Brooklyn 1.0.0, but have not yet managed to get this organised. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Antoine Toulme] ## Description: Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - We have released 1.5.8 in July. We haven't had any activity since. ## Health report: - We still have a small PMC presence of 3 active members still able to vote releases. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Peter Donald on Tue Oct 15 2013 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 10 committers. - Olle Jonsson was added as a committer on Wed Dec 12 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 1.5.8 on July 14th 2019 ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Nate McCall] ## Description: The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data. Cassandra's support for replicating across multiple datacenters is best-in-class, providing lower latency for your users and the peace of mind of knowing that you can survive regional outages. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Cassandra was founded 2010-02-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 54 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Chris Lohfink was added to the PMC on 2019-10-01 - No new committers this quarter. ## Project Activity: This quarter has been active. We have had a very successful ApacheCon with 2 well attended tracks over three days. Of the vendors there, five of them had Cassandra product offerings while two were focused exclusively on Cassandra. We have already begun talking a similar sized effort for ApacheCon NA 2020. We have begun migrating our site off of SVN as that has been a barrier to entry in accepting documentation patches in a timely manner. We have released two alphas of the upcoming 4.0 and received helpful feedback and bug reports from the community. All other active versions were released as well. A list of releases follows: - 2.2.15 was released on 2019-10-29. - 3.0.19 was released on 2019-10-29. - 3.11.5 was released on 2019-10-29. - 4.0-alpha2 was released on 2019-10-29. - 2.2.15 was released on 2019-10-29. ## Community Health: Interesting statistics from community health: - dev@cassandra.apache.org had a 163% increase in traffic in the past quarter (329 emails compared to 125) - 44 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (69% increase) - 20 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (53% increase) - 124 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-21% decrease) - 52 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-40% decrease) We think this reduction of new and closed issues in JIRA in conjunction with the rate of PRs addressed is indicative of the community efforts focused on the alpha releases of 4.0. Dev list traffic is up as a result of some good discussions regarding development processes (soon to be published), releases and documentation. ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan] DESCRIPTION Apache Clerezza models the RDF abstract syntax in Java and provides supports for serializing, parsing, managing and querying triple collections (graphs). Apache Clerezza modules aim at supporting the development of Semantic Web applications and services. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASE Latest release of the parent module was created on November 04, 2019. All other modules will be released within Q4 2019 and Q1 2020. Since each module has its own release version, only independent modules can be released together. ACTIVITY Parent module's pom.xml has been cleaned up, including update of dependencies to latest version of various artifacts. COMMUNITY Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 27.12.2018 INFRASTRUCTURE Latest update of the Apache Clerezza Website was in February 2018. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Cédric Damioli] ## Description: Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based. ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: Still very few activity on the project. Still active PMC members around here. Question on dev list showed that there is still someone to answer (quickly). An email to users@infra.a.o about our git mirror remains unanswered. The most recent release is 2.1.12 on 2013-03-14 A few JIRA issues opened or resolved since last report. A little activity on both users and dev mailing-lists, even if still at a low level. The project is mainly in maintenance mode. ## PMC changes: None. Most recent addition: 2012-07-06 ## Committer base changes: None. Most recent addition: 2012-07-06 ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Sharan Foga] ## Description: The mission of Community Development is to help, support and create resources for people to become involved with Apache projects ## Issues: - No issues require board attention at the moment ## Membership Data: Apache Community Development was founded 2009-11-01 (10 years ago) There are currently 33 committers and 31 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Christofer Dutz on 2019-06-21. - No new committers. Last addition was Christofer Dutz on 2019-06-21. ## Project Activity: Redbubble Projects have continued to request setup for the Redbubble store and we now have nearly 50 different logos available. Some training has been done so that we have additional administrators to help setup new logos when requested. ApacheCon In preparation for both ApacheCon NA and ApacheCon EU we asked projects to let us know if they wanted stickers ordered for the event. We especially let incubating projects know they too could be included. In total approx 50,000 stickers were ordered and the Apache booth at booth was completely covered. Feedback from attendees was extremely positive and for some projects this was the first time that they had their stickers available New Reporter Tool One of the tools provided for projects to use, is a reporter tool for preparing their quarterly reports to the ASF Board. This tool has been updated and now includes a new interface, additional community statistics and is integrated into the Board agenda itself.The new version was trialled and has now been adopted. Apache Local Community One of the discussions this quarter was around setting up local groups of Apache and open source contributors that would be responsible for organising meetings and events.A new organisational structure has been proposed and it is still unclear if these will form part the general ASF initiative around Apache Small events, or if it will be managed as part of ComDev.Two events (24th August & 28th September) have already been held, both in Indore, India Events Members from the community participated in events such as All Things Open, where we had a booth and CCOSS 19 in Guadalajara, Mexico. There was an Apache track with talks ranging from Getting Started to Governance and Open Source Licences. This was a great opportunity to connect with potential new contributors to open source. We have applied for a booth at FOSDEM and are awaiting the result. We are still receiving requests to participate at events and have recently offered a booth at Devnexus in Atlanta in March 2020. ## Community Health: Mailing list traffic has decreased significantly this quarter. This could be as a result of the holiday season and also that both ApacheCon NA and ApacheCon EU took place this during this period. dev@community.apache.org had a 46% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (292 emails compared to 531): ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt] ## Description: Apache CouchDB software is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 64 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on 2017-11-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Jay Doane on 2019-01-05. ## Project Activity: - project management tasks and work tickets to close up all remaining tasks for the 3.0 release are commencing nicely. - foundational work for 4.0 is going on concurrently. - a number of our committers are attending the FoundationDB Summit this week, to meet with the larger FoundationDB community (see previous reports for a detailed explanation) ## Community Health: In the past quarter we’ve been in chugging-along mode mostly on all official channels. The unofficial CouchDB Slack instance is seeing a continuous uptick in activity, which might explain the decrease in user@ traffic. A lot of work is happening in PRs as opposed to merges to master at the moment, which explains the relative shift in numbers there. dev@couchdb.apache.org had a 2% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (153 emails compared to 156) user@couchdb.apache.org had a 75% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (36 emails compared to 140) 318 commits in the past quarter (-19% decrease) 32 code contributors in the past quarter (28% increase) 147 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (59% increase) 135 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (62% increase) 113 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (43% increase) 70 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (79% increase) ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox] Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and build system are welcomed. Status ------ Creadur is primarily used by other Apache projects to help check for conformity to ASF standards. This is why the project team is primarily comprised of members and committers from other ASF projects. The risk of the project foundering is therefore very low despite the ongoing lack of progress. If someone has an itch to scratch, it will no doubt get fixed. Community --------- This month we are proposing to rotate the PMC chair from Brian Fox to Phil Ottlinger. See associated agenda item. In July, Sebb stepped down from the PMC In September 2016 Karl Heinz Marbaise was elected to join the PMC Releases -------- Apache Rat 0.13 was released Nov 5th, 2018 Apache Rat 0.12 was released in June 2016 Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014 Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013 ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg] ## Description: The mission of DeltaSpike is the creation and maintenance of software related to Portable CDI extensions that provide useful features for Java application developers ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache DeltaSpike was founded 2013-04-17 (7 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 19 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Harald Wellmann on 2016-05-19. - Christian Beikov was added as committer on 2019-10-21 ## Project Activity: We are right now preparing for a 1.9.2 release. We expect it in the next 2 weeks. There are user requests coming in and we react in a decent time frame. We also right now go through old tickets and clean them up. With the advent of MicroProfile we got a bit competition, but overall that's healthy and the communities are working well with each other. ## Community Health: We have a new committer and are always actively looking out for new folks which might be a good addition. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Report from the Apache DRAT Project [Tom Barber] ## Description: - Apache DRAT is a distributed, parallelized (Map Reduce) wrapper around Apache RAT™ and other code auditing tools to allow it to complete on large code repositories of multiple file types. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - DRAT is still awaiting a 1.0 release and is still currently blocked by the latest Apache OODT codebase. Work is still progressing to resolve that. - A new React based user interface has also been prototyped and plans are being worked on to integrate that UI into the Apache DRAT codebase. ## Health report: - Slow pace of development, but functioning PMC and looking to get 1.0 released. ## PMC changes: - Currently 14 PMC members. - Ahmed Ifhaam was added to the PMC on Thu Aug 30 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 14 committers. - Ahmed Ifhaam was added as a committer on Tue Aug 28 2018 ## Releases: - Work is ongoing to ready a 1.0 release ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list activity was pretty flat, but expected - dev@drat.apache.org: - 16 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (50 in previous quarter) - issues@drat.apache.org: - 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) ----------------------------------------- Attachment N: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Charles Givre] ## Description: The mission of Drill is the creation and maintenance of software related to Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Apache Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Drill was founded 2014-11-18 (5 years ago) There are currently 55 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sorabh Hamirwasia on 2019-04-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Anton Gozhiy on 2019-07-22. ## Project Activity: - Drill 1.16 was released on 2019-05-02. - Drill 1.17 was delayed until end of November. ### Next Release The next release of Drill (1.17) resolved many issues and added a lot of new functionality including: - Enhanced Drill metastore - Hive complex types support (arrays, structs, union) - Canonical Map support - Schema provisioning via table function - Empty parquet files read / write support - Run-time row group pruning - Numerous enhancements and upgrades to Drill with Hive - Format plugin for Excel Files - Format plugin for ESRI Shape Files - Add Variable Argument UDFs - Add UDF to parse user agent strings ### Future Functionality in Development There are a number of enhancements for which there are active PRs or discussions on the various boards. - Integration between Apache Drill and Apache Daffodil (Incubating) - Storage plugin for Apache Druid - Upgrading Drill to use Hadoop v. 3.0 - Format plugin for HDF5 ## Community Health: Drill seems to be recovering from the collapse of Drill's major backer MapR. ### Development Activity - 96 issues opened in JIRA (1% increase from last quarter) - 85 issues closed in JIRA (28% increase from last quarter) - 55 commits in past quarter (14% increase from last quarter) - 15 contributors from last quarter (25% increase) - 53 PRs opened on GitHub (no change from last quarter) - 63 PRs closed on GitHub (no change from last quarter) ### Email Lists - dev@drill.apache.org - 46% increase in traffic in past quarter (1574 compared to 1073) - issues@drill.apache.org - 47% increase in traffic in past quarter (2027 compared to 1377) - users@drill.apache.org - 27% decrease in traffic in past quarter (116 compared to 157) ----------------------------------------- Attachment O: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Rainer Döbele] ## Description: The mission of Empire-db is the creation and maintenance of software related to Relational Data Persistence ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Empire-db was founded 2012-01-24 (8 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:10. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jan Glaubitz on 2016-07-10. - No new committers. Last addition was Jan Glaubitz on 2015-10-05. ## Project Activity: During the past three months considerable work has been done on the project: 17 issues have been opened in JIRA. 51 commits have been performed by 3 contributors. As soon as the issues have all been resolved and features are complete a new release will be published. ## Community Health: Attracting new committers has not been easy and remains difficult. This may be due to serveral reasons like e.g. relational database access is a rather old subject that is not the most trendy among young developers. Also there is not a lot of change in the underlying relational database systems either. However we acknowledge that especially our website needs more attention and updates. This will probably be done with or after the upcoming release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment P: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Ferenc Szabo] ## Description: The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (7 years ago) There are currently 31 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Attila Simon on 2017-11-04. ## Project Activity: The project has a slow but steady activity. Some documentation fixes came in and as a new feature the Kudu sink thanks to the Kudu community. ## Community Health: The community is still alive. New contributors show up time to time. Reviewing is a bit slow. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 None on the horizon. General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. At this report, two other PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision. Project status: Activity: Idle There is a vote underway on the Forrest developers mailing list to determine the desire of the project regarding the potential retirement and move to the Attic. Also notified the users mail list. It is due to be tallied in early December to allow plenty of time for people to respond. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: None. ----------------------------------------- Attachment R: Report from the Apache FreeMarker Project [Dániel Dékány] ## Description: Apache FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output based on templates. Apache FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for programmers. FreeMarker 2 (the current stable line) produces releases since 2002. The FreeMarker project has joined the ASF in 2015, and graduated from the Incubator in early 2018. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We have released a new version mid August, with some major features. Development slowly but steadily continues towards the next version, addressing feature requests from the users. ## Health report: Activity is low but steady, as it's usual for this project. User questions (mostly on StackOverflow) and new Jira issues are being answered promptly. The short term goal is to develop the next micro version (2.3.30). The long term goal is continuing the ongoing development on the 3.0 branch, so that the project can innovate and the code base can become much cleaner and more attractive for new committers. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No changes since the graduation on 2018-03-21 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 7 committers. - No changes since the graduation on 2018-03-21 ## Releases: - 2.3.29 was released on 2019-08-17 ----------------------------------------- Attachment S: Report from the Apache Geode Project [Karen Miller] ## Description: The mission of Apache Geode is the creation and maintenance of software related to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Geode was founded 2016-11-15 (3 years ago) There are currently 104 committers and 52 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Bill Burcham was added to the PMC on 2019-09-08 - Mario Ivanac was added to the PMC on 2019-09-08 - Bill Burcham was added as committer on 2019-09-09 - Mario Ivanac was added as committer on 2019-09-09 ## Project Activity: - Released Apache Geode 1.10.0 on 2019-09-26. - Released Apache Geode 1.9.1 on 2019-09-06. - Released Apache Geode 1.9.2 on 2019-10-29. ## Community Health: The community is actively contributing to the Apache Geode code base. In the past quarter: - 61 code contributors - 347 issues opened in JIRA - 275 issues closed in JIRA - 434 PRs opened on GitHub - 426 PRs closed on GitHub Enjoyed great attendance at the Apache Geode Summit held October 7, 2019, in Austin, Texas, with 500 attendees at the 12 sessions. ----------------------------------------- Attachment T: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Dionysios Logothetis] ## Description: The mission of Giraph is the creation and maintenance of software related to Iterative graph processing system built for high scalability ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Giraph was founded 2012-05-15 (7 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Dionysios Logothetis on 2018-04-22. - No new committers. Last addition was Dionysios Logothetis on 2018-04-23. ## Project Activity: - Mechanism for maintaining counters depends on the underlying resource management (e.g. Hadoop, Yarn). Made a change that allows the use of counters independently from the resource management system. - Made the thrift client configurable. This ensures users with different requirements with respect to the thrift services can plug their own client (e.g. the may require security-related configuration). - Currently working on upgrading the Netty dependency. This is a core dependency that hasn't been updated for many years. It requires a lot of experimentation to ensure there are no regressions. This will be committed in the next couple of months. ## Community Health: - Even though it did not come from new contributors, due to the development of the features mentioned above, there was increased activity this last quarter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment U: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Kevin Ratnasekera] ## Description: - The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key-value stores, document stores, distributed in-memory key-value stores, in-memory data grids, in-memory caches, distributed multi-model stores and hybrid in-memory architectures. Gora also enables analysis of data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Apache Pig support. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Gora was founded 2012-01-24 (8 years ago) There are currently 30 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Chanaka Balasooriya was added to the PMC on 2019-09-07 - John Mora was added to the PMC on 2019-09-24 - Sheriffo Ceesay was added to the PMC on 2019-10-01 - Chanaka Balasooriya was added as committer on 2019-09-08 - John Mora was added as committer on 2019-09-25 - Sheriffo Ceesay was added as committer on 2019-10-01 ## Project Activity: - Last quarter was mainly about post release work and GSoC mentoring efforts. Apache Gora 0.9 was released on 2019-08-15. - Apache Gora community elected new 3 committer / PMC members to the project based on solid contributions. This includes two of recent GSoC students as well as one external contributor. - We also received several other contributions which are at the moment, under our community review process. Hopefully we will finish these and potentially evaluate to further extend our committer base. ## Community Health: There has some decent level of Github and Mailing list activity, even though it's post release period for us. Current plan is to reignite discussions around, steps for our next release development drive. Time to time we observe some external contributors, making effort in joining our community. - dev@gora.apache.org had a 76% increase in traffic in the past quarter (586 emails compared to 332) - 16 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (60% increase) - 6 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-33% decrease) - 41 commits in the past quarter (41% increase) - 9 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-52% decrease) - 12 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (no change) ----------------------------------------- Attachment V: Report from the Apache Groovy Project [Paul King] ## Description: Apache Groovy is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the Groovy programming language. Groovy is a multi-faceted JVM programming language. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Groovy was founded 2015-11-18 (4 years ago). There are currently 18 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Daniel Sun on 2019-05-06. - Eric Milles was added as committer on 2019-08-21 ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - 3.0.0-rc-1 was released on 2019-10-25. - 2.5.8 was released on 2019-08-07. - 3.0.0-beta-3 was released on 2019-08-07. Downloads for the quarter: over 58 million ## Community Health: Last quarter stats: - 88/86 PRs opened/closed on GitHub. - 88/95 issues opened/closed in JIRA. Master/all branch commits: - 237/551 commits were contributed from 12/13 contributors including 7 non-committer contributors (6 new). Apache Groovy continues to rank well on the TIOBE index being 11th most popular language for September and October. ----------------------------------------- Attachment W: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin] ----------------------------------------- Attachment X: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Daniel Gruno] ## Description: The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. The Apache HTTP Server ("httpd") was launched in 1995 and it has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. It is celebrating its 25th birthday as a project in February 2020. ## Issues: There are currently no issues for the board. ## Membership Data: Apache HTTP Server was founded 1995-02-27 (25 years ago) There are currently 122 committers and 53 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Stefan Sperling on 2019-01-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Sebb on 2018-07-14. ## Project Activity: - There were no new releases since the last report. Last release was 2.4.41 on 2019-08-14. - Discussions have kicked off about the next httpd (2.6 or 3.0)[1], and while still not at the end of the discussion (which is of course going to take time), there is traction towards getting this done, with most of the current discussions hovering around the more technical aspects of how to create the split/fork from trunk. - Another hot topic is integration testing on docker and/or travis[2], with Luca Toscano and Joe Orton generally being on point for this and handling it well, with the usual hiccups that happen when you try new approaches. A proof-of-concept build is already working[0], and I am confident we'll get this further set up and running smoothly within the month. - The discussion surrounding migrating from subversion to git seems to have stalled a bit[3]. That is not in itself a bad thing, rather I see it as indicative that the inherent benefits are not viewed by the larger populace of the PMC as a must, but rather something that comes second to the larger discussion about the next version of httpd. Priorities :) - A sizeable httpd crowd was present at both ApacheCon North America and ApacheCon Europe, giving presentations and participating in press events. - Other topics of heavy interest this quarter were, among others: SSL/TLS protocol inheritance and defaults[4] (based on users@ inquiries[5]), HTTP/3 specs and adoption thoughts[6], as well as subjects on race conditions in cleanups and maintainer mode builds. (with httpd chiefly written in C, I thought I'd start the footnotes at index 0) [0] https://travis-ci.org/apache/httpd [1] https://s.apache.org/hyn24 : Time for httpd 2.6.x? [2] https://s.apache.org/jinvq : Integration tests on docker [3] https://s.apache.org/vivhy : Migrate to git? [4] https://s.apache.org/gykrv : Opt in(/out?) for TLS protocol per vhost [5] https://s.apache.org/bpioq : [..]possible to have in Apache 2.4[..] [6] https://s.apache.org/jdgt3 : [..]Google Chrome, and Firefox Add HTTP/3[..] ## Community Health: While the commit rate has dropped slightly this quarter, owing to a very busy end of the previous quarter, the development process has actually picked up steam, with a significant (+120%) increase in traffic to the dev list. As laid out in the above paragraph, much of the discussion and work has been done around improving continuous integration and unit testing, as well as the 2.6/3.0 discussions and standards and defaults going forward. Our users list has also seen a significant (+30%) increase in traffic, which is a nice thing to see. Questions and suggestions from our user-base are actively being turned into improvements in our software. There is ample oversight on the PMC (I counted at least 12 PMC members actively participating in discussions this past quarter) and a good, diverse distribution of active developers in both the code and documentation department (in fact, a lot of documentation work has been done in the past quarter, rocketing docs commits up by 420%). We saw a slightly increase (+2) in the diversity of committers actively pushing code/docs this quarter. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Y: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Chamath Perera] ## Description: The mission of HttpComponents is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java toolset of low level HTTP components ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. - There is a steady stream of small contributions in the projects in the form of pull requests at Github but so far there is no one meriting a consideration for project committership. ## Membership Data: Apache HttpComponents was founded 2007-11-14 (12 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 10 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Ryan Schmitt was added to the PMC on 2019-08-28 - No new committers. Last addition was Ryan Schmitt on 2018-11-13. ## Project Activity: We are preparing to release GA version 5.0 of our core and client component libraries which would mark a formal completion of a 4 year long development cycle. We are about start a discussion about directions and the scope of future development efforts. ## Community Health: - The project remains low-profile but overall healthy. - We are seeing more and more project related questions posted to StackOverflow rater than our user list. - There is a decrease in the number of emails on the dev and users lists as well as some drop in the number of PRs. We expect the overall activity to pick up once 5.0 GA versions have been released. ----------------------------------------- Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Ignite Project [Denis A. Magda] ## Description: Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Ignite was founded 2015-08-18 (4 years ago) There are currently 48 committers and 29 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ilya Kasnacheev on 2019-08-05. - Maxim Muzafarov was added as committer on 2019-08-27 The community nominated Dmitry Pavlov as the next Ignite PMC Chair and waits for the board approval. ## Project Activity: - 2.7.5 was released on 2019-06-04 - 2.8 is in development and should be released in the next few months. This release incorporates a lot of improvements that were added to the project thoughout the last year. ## Community Health: Both user and dev communities are active with a constant traffic increase and bigger interest in the technology. Several new contributors joined the community and experienced community members have been mentoring them to help with contributions. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Impala Project [Jim Apple] ## Description: Apache Impala is a high-performance distributed SQL engine. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Impala was founded 2017-11-14 (2 years ago) There are currently 50 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Fredy Wijaya on 2019-07-27. - No new committers. Last addition was Laszlo Gaal on 2019-06-19. ## Project Activity: Notable activity in the last quarter includes: - Version 3.3.0 was released on August 22 - A number of correctness and functional-parity fixes for transactional tables and their tests. Transactional tables are relatively new in Impala - A number of minor improvements to the webui - Improves memory estimation for clusters with dedicated coordinators (i.e. nodes that are not acting as executors) - Continued support for the new catalog version in the pre-merge tests - A JSON formatting of the query profile. For years, the query profile has been unstable, in that the developers reserved the right to change it or its formatting at any time. This is a first step in the direction of stability, which could increase usability and allow tooling built on top of the profile to be more reliable. - Support for .DEFLATE text data files in tables - By default, limits SQL statements to 16 million characters or fewer - A variety of improvements to compatibility with other Apache projects, including Knox, Tez, Derby, Kudu, Ranger, and Hive - The publication of CVE-2019-10084 - Support for cookie-based authentication - Numerous improvements to the end-stages of query lifespans, including some enhancements in resource deallocation - A large number of commits about spooling, which had zero presence in the commit log before July of 2019 - Some support for ZORDER - The addition of DATE support for Avro files; the removal of DATE support for the year 0 - Support for distributable impala-shell. It can be installed from pypi ## Community Health: While the number of commits labeled a "fix" has held steady over the last three quarters at 58, 54, and 59, this last quarter the number of non-"fix" commits dropped to 196 from 252 and 247 the previous quarters. Impala has not had this few commits (of any flavor) in an August-September-October timeframe before (although the repository contains an anomaly in which almost all pre-2014 commits landed in a single moment in January 2014). Overall activity is a mixed bag, but mostly down, with a decrease in email traffic, JIRA activity, and number of distinct patch authors, in addition to the commit number mentioned above. Furthermore, there is usually a lull in activity during our November-December-January reporting quarter due to US holidays. While this is a slowdown, development activity is still high in the context of open-source projects, with dozens of patch authors and activity on hundreds of JIRAs. ----------------------------------------- Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean] # Incubator PMC report for November 2019 The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. This monthly report is in markdown so that it's easier to read. If you are not viewing this in that format, it can be seen here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/November2019 There are presently 48 podlings incubating. In October, podlings executed 13 distinct releases. We added one new IPMC members and no IPMC members retired. There were 5 IP clearances. There were some discussions about the IP clearance process. We have two new podlings this month Apisix and TubeMQ. StreamPipes will soon to be added. Other project Sparklyr was discussed but decided not to enter incubation due to a large number of GPL licensed dependencies it had. SINGA graduated last month. The Amaterasu project was retired after the PPMC failed to respond to queries about its status. Edgent also retired. Omid and Tephra have decided to "graduate" and become sub-projects of the Phoenix project. A couple of podlings are heading towards graduation in the next few months. BatchEE has now failed to report twice in a row. Looking at the low activity in the project, it may be time to considering retirement. It seem there was an attempt to transfer the project to Geronimo but It's unknown if that was completed. All other projects reported. Graduation of Weex was discussed but was withdrawn after the project realised it needed to do some more work around branding and community growth. Further ongoing work was done on cleaning up the incubator web site, but there are still a number of pages that need to be reviewed and updated. Podlings have continued to use the new disclaimer policy, and this has reduced the friction in making releases. Extra votes from the wider IPMC community are needed to get the 3 +1 votes, with not all mentors voting on releases. A new straight to top level project has been proposed called Petri as another way of educating external projects and the Apache Way with the option of them bypassing the Incubator and going straight to being a top level project. It's still under consideration by the board. A FAQ is being worked on, but it currently unknown what impact this might have on the Incubator in the short or long term. At ApacheCon Europe there was a Podling's Shark Tank, a talk on incubating process and talks involving several incubating projects. The podling reporting groups have been rearranged so that there is an evener distribution of projects reporting each month. A couple of mentors were added and removed from projects. ## Community ### New IPMC members: - Evans Ye ### People who left the IPMC: - None ## New Podlings - Apisix - TubeMQ ## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month - BatchEE ## Graduations - SINGA The board has motions for the following: - None ## Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of October: - Datasketches hive 1.0.0 - Datasketches java 1.1.0 - Datasketches pig 1.0.0 - Datasketches postgresql 1.3.0 - Doris 0.11.0 - ECharts 4.4.0 - Hudi 0.5.0 - Iceberg 0.7.0 - IoTdb 0.8.1 - Milagro dta 0.1.0 - Superset 0.34.1 - Tuweni 0.9.0 - Weex 0.28.0 ## IP Clearance - ServiceComb toolkit contribution - ServiceComb osa-validator - python-dubbo - NetBeans - dukescript presenters - Weex Loader ## Legal / Trademarks - N/A ## Infrastructure - N/A |---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents [Annotator](#Annotator) [APISIX](#APISIX) [DataSketches](#DataSketches) [DolphinScheduler](#DolphinScheduler) [Doris](#Doris) [ECharts](#ECharts) [Heron](#Heron) [PageSpeed](#PageSpeed) [Pinot](#Pinot) [Ratis](#Ratis) [S2Graph](#S2Graph) [SDAP](#SDAP) [Tamaya](#Tamaya) [Toree](#Toree) [Training](#Training) [Tuweni](#Tuweni) |---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ## Annotator Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and humans. Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Release initial versions (should happen this week!) 2. Increase activity from current committers and community. 3. Demonstrate good governance through voting and learning the Incubator process (some more). ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? None at this time. ### How has the community developed since the last report? Community activity was quiet. However, code is underway for a first release to be ready in the coming week(s) which we hope will increase interest and activity. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Code for a first release is hoped to be available in the coming days with more community members participating in review and critique. Additionally, work in the W3C's ARIA (accessibility) Working Group and on various browser vendor repositories has highlighted new annotation related activity and opportunity for this project. Sadly, we've mostly failed at raising awareness on the list, so the communities "radar" looks quieter than it should... ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: None yet, but we hope to release before the end of November 2019. ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? No new committers nor PPMC members have been added since the last report. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? No check-ins with/from/by mentors in the last 4 months, but we should do one over email within this next quarter. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (annotator) Nick Kew Comments: - [ ] (annotator) Steve Blackmon Comments: - [X] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: Justin Mclean: Please provide the dates that you last voted in committers and PPMC members even ion this hasn't happen in the last reporting period. The project has been 3 years in incubator why has it taken so long to made a release? Can we expect faster progress in the future? -------------------- ## APISIX APISIX is a cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices. APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and plug-in hot loading, which is especially suitable for API management under micro-service system. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating 1. Make an Apache release 2. More committers and PPMC members 3. Branding issues in the documentation, code, website, etc. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? None ### How has the community developed since the last report? - Learning Apache way and its value behind rules, working in Apache way. - Our Apache website is constructed. - We have 12 committers and 35 contributors (including 12 committers) contributing to Apache APISIX. - Over 13 company users have announced that they are using APISIX and more than 50% of them also submitted code or fixed the documentation for APISIX : https://github.com/apache/incubator-apisix/issues/487 ### How has the project developed since the last report? The project has been quite health, with ~50 pull requests being merged in October. These pull requests are authored by a diverse set of contributors(~30 authors last month). Some highlights of recent developments: - APISIX support etcd V3. - Supported cluster limit-req and limit-conn. We are planning to have a 0.9.0 release in November. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: None ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? No new committers nor PPMC members have been added. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Mentors are responsive and helpful. Things tend to be on the right way. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (APISIX) Willem Ning Jiang Comments: APISIX is growing well and I'm quite impressed. - [X] (APISIX) Justin Mclean Comments: Off to a good start. - [x] (APISIX) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments: - [ ] (APISIX) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## DataSketches DataSketches is an open source, high-performance library of stochastic streaming algorithms commonly called "sketches" in the data sciences. Sketches are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream and can provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to computationally difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional, exact methods. DataSketches has been incubating since 2019-03-30. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Finish the transfer and bring-up of our website to github.com/apache/... This is now in process. 2. __Team Interactions:__ We want to have our exchanges on the ASF Slack DataSketches-dev channel posted to our dev@datasketches.a.o list on a daily basis for improved visibility and searchability. We have an open INFRA ticket on this issue. We are searching for a solution to provide more open access to our video conference sessions when we have them. We are in the process of moving more of our interactions into the slack DS-dev channel and dev@ list. This is a culture change for us and will take some getting used to. We clearly want open access to our team discussions. 3. We would like to see a few more folks join our contributors list. We have several folks that have come forward and offered help because they are interested in the project. This is great. It is our hope that they will grow into active contributors. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? None ### How has the community developed since the last report? * We have added 1 new Mentor, Dave Fisher (thank you!) to our project and we have been approached by another Apache member who would also like to be a mentor, and eventually a contributor as well. This is very positive! ### How has the project developed since the last report? * We have now managed 7 releases, 6 Java releases and 1 C++ release. We have one more C++ release pending. These are across 6 different components of the DataSketches library. With the last pending C++ release, all of the code components targeted for release will be complete. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2019-10-19 01:55 GMT DataSketches-pig ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? * Dave Fisher: 16 Sep 2019 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? * Helpful and responsive, Yes. Having additional mentors has helped the voting move forward more expeditiously! * I want to thank Dave Fisher for jumping in and helping us with a number of issues! ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (datasketches) Liang Chen Comments: - [x] (datasketches) Kenneth Knowles Comments: - [X] (datasketches) Furkan Kamaci Comments: - [X] (datasketches) Dave Fisher Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## Dolphin Scheduler Dolphin Scheduler is a distributed and easy-to-expand visual DAG workflow scheduling system dedicated to solving the complex dependencies in data processing, making the scheduling system out of the box for data processing. Dolphin Scheduler has been incubating since 2019-8-29. #### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Make first Apache releases (In progress) 2. Fix the content of official website about Non-ASF release and notice. 3. Make more interactive e-mail discussion besides github, wechat #### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? None #### How has the community developed since the last report? 1. Now there are 42 external contributors besides 8 PPMC members who contributes codes to github. 2. We held a offline Meetup in Shanghai. 5 Speakers (including 4 PPMC member and 1 user) gave their presentation. 30 people came and 10 people online watch the meetup. 3. Github star grew from 2291 to 2648 in October. 4. Over 61 company users is willing to announce that he is using Dolphin Scheduler: #### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. Solid Apache verson plan is created and we planed to start a Apahce release in November. 2. Some new important feature developerd by contributor was merge to project(Docker file, S3 support, Flink job support, job import/export, etc.) 3. 178 issues created，181 PRs merged (from #932 to #1113) . 4. Developers and Contributors are steadily developing the project = 2019-08-05 ] - 121 JIRA tickets resolved since the past quarter [ project in ("Apache Submarine") AND resolutiondate >= 2019-08-05 ] ### Mailing list, slack channel, activity: We just created mailing lists @submarine.apache.org, will promote it for contributors to subscribe. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Stefan Sperling] The Apache Subversion® version control system exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control solution characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations. * Board Issues There are no Board-level issues of concern. * Community The Subversion development community is fairly quiet these days. A small trickle of development is ongoing. The community usually responds to bug reports and is willing to help the reporter or any other volunteer to develop a fix. However, in many cases there is no such volunteer, and those bug reports are filed but often remain unresolved. Our user support forums (Email and IRC) receive questions and answers regularly. We have added two PMC members since the last report: Nathan Hartman (hartmannathan@) and Yasuhito Futatsuki (futatuki@). * Releases Subversion 1.13.0-rc1 and 1.13.0 have been released. Subversion 1.12.x reaches end of life. Subversion 1.10 and Subversion 1.9 are still supported. Discussions about the frequency of minor releases have taken place on dev@. The community is still evaluating the cost and benefits of the time-based release schedule which was introduced in 2018. https://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html#release-planning ----------------------------------------- Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò] ## Description: The mission of Syncope is the creation and maintenance of software related to managing digital identities in enterprise environments. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Syncope was founded 2012-11-21 (7 years ago) There are currently 24 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matteo Alessandroni on 2017-12-22. - Misagh Moayyed was added as committer on 2019-10-04 ## Project Activity: After recent releases, branch 2_0_X is now in pure maintenance mode, while 2_1_X is currently under work for small improvements and bugfixes. Work to finalize and implement the many features planned for next stable version 3.0.0 is in progress. We started seeing an increase in contributions via pull requests from GitHub. Latest releases: - 2.0.14 was released on 2019-09-12 - 2.1.5 was released on 2019-09-12 ## Community Health: New and returning users use mailing lists to query for help and customization and get supported by the community, as incremented traffic seem to validate. We welcome a new committer (Misagh Moayyed) and also decided to report in our team page a contributor, which has not responded yet to our invitation. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BM: Report from the Apache SystemML Project [Jon Deron Eriksson] ## Description: SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to distributed computations such as Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark. ## Issues: There were no commits to the project this quarter. Activity on the project has largely stopped. ## Membership Data: Apache SystemML was founded 2017-05-16 (2 years ago) There are currently 26 committers and 23 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arvind Surve on 2017-05-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Guobao Li on 2018-08-28. ## Project Activity: There has been only 1 commit since May. No pull requests have been opened or closed since May. The most recent release was 1.2.0 on Aug 24, 2018. ## Community Health: The community is unhealthy. There is little email activity. Adding significant features to the project in the future will be difficult without support from existing contributors with a deep knowledge of SystemML, and these contributors do not appear to be active anymore. ## Answers to Board Questions: myrle: Thank you for answering my question. Are there any plans to add new committers or make the existing committers PMC members? It might help with project activity levels and with working through your hanging pull requests Currently there are no plans to add new committers since there is so little activity on the project. There are only 2 commits from people who are not already committers in the last year. WRT PMC members, 23 of the 26 committers are already PMC members, and there is no activity in the last year from 2 of the 3 committers who are not PMC members, and only 3 commits from the other committer, so my feeling is that making existing committers PMC members probably would not help jumpstart project activity. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo] ## Description: The mission of Tapestry is the creation and maintenance of software related to Component-based Java Web Application Framework ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Tapestry was founded 2006-02-14 (14 years ago) There are currently 27 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Dmitry Gusev was added to the PMC on 2019-09-02 - No new committers. Last addition was Balázs Palcsó on 2019-01-17. ## Project Activity: A new beta, 5.5.5-beta-3 was released in September 15th. We've been preparing for the new major release, 5.5.0, and waiting for user feedback, specially the CSS changes (being able to use Twitter Bootstrap 3 out of the box, Bootstrap 4 out of the box, or no Bootstrap at all. ## Community Health: dev@tapestry.apache.org had a 1283% increase in traffic in the past quarter (83 emails compared to 6) users@tapestry.apache.org had a 46% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (43 emails compared to 79) 6 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (200% increase) 4 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (400% increase) 14 commits in the past quarter (180% increase) 3 code contributors in the past quarter (50% increase) 3 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (300% increase) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Jonathan Turner Eagles] ## Description: Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex DAGs of data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects. ## Issues: Last release was 6 months ago, seeking new release manager. ## Membership Data: Apache Tez was founded 2014-07-15 (5 years ago) There are currently 38 committers and 35 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kuhu Shukla on 2018-03-25. - No new committers. Last addition was Kuhu Shukla on 2017-05-10. ## Project Activity: Last release: 0.9.2 was released on 2019-03-29. Work toward JDK 11 support is almost completed. ## Community Health: Overall more activity in the last quarter than the previous. - dev@tez.apache.org had a 116% increase in traffic in the past quarter (67 emails compared to 31) - issues@tez.apache.org had a 251% increase in traffic in the past quarter (267 emails compared to 76) - 18 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (63% increase) - 6 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (50% increase) - 7 commits in the past quarter (600% increase) - 3 code contributors in the past quarter (200% increase) - 10 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (400% increase) - 4 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (300% increase) ----------------------------------------- Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins] ## Description: Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications. ## Health Both the dev@ and user@ mailing lists have seen increased traffic over the last quarter, with messages numbers up 20% and 100% on the two lists respectively compared with the previous quarter. The project tends to see increased activity over the Christmas period with new users and contributors trying the project out for the first time over the holidays. ## Activity The community released TomEE 8.0.0 in September, after 3 milestoned releases. The TomEE 8 branch targets compliance with Jakarta EE 8. Although compliance has not yet been achieved with the Web MicroProfile it is deemed production ready. TomEE 8 runs on both Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. Work continues to achieve full Jakarta EE 8 Web Profile compliance. The community is about to release 7.1.2 and 7.0.7 maintenance releases which provide dependency updates and bug fixes. The dependency updates mitigate CVE issues in upstream components, including Jackson-Databind, Commons-Beanutils and Mojarra: CVE-2019-17091 (XSS in Mojarra) CVE-2019-13990 (XXE in Quartz) CVE-2019-10086 (ability for an attacker to access the classloader via the class property in commons-beanutils) Additionally, these will include fixes from commons-daemon for JVM crashes with X86 JVMs on certain X64 Windows servers, and fixes for transaction handling with JMS2. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Andy Gumbrecht on Tue Aug 11 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - Last committer added was Cesar Hernandez on July 1st 2019. ## Releases: - Apache TomEE 8.0.0 on September 16, 2019 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Traffic Control Project [David Neuman] ## Description: The mission of Apache Traffic Control is the creation and maintenance of software related to building, monitoring, configuring, and provisioning large scale content delivery networks (CDN) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Traffic Control was founded 2018-05-15 (a year and a half ago) There are currently 24 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Derek Gelinas on 2019-03-17. - No new committers. Last addition was Brennan Fieck on 2019-07-26. ## Project Activity: Took part in ApacheCon NA as part of the Content Delivery Track. This was a great experience for our community and something we look forward to doing again. Release Apache Traffic Control 3.0.2 to address a security issue. Released Apache Traffic Control 3.1.0 ## Community Health: The community is healthy! We have definitely seen the "post summit bump" where the community gets re-invested after a conference/summit that has lead us to having more contributions and activity on the mailing lists. We are starting to become more mature as a community by agreeing to get better at how we do releases and working towards a more consistent cadence. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Georg Kallidis] ## Description: The mission of Turbine is the creation and maintenance of software related to a Java Servlet Web Application Framework and associated component library. Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base of many other projects. It allows experienced Java developers to quickly build web applications. ## Issues: - The SVN-GIT Mirror was reactivated again successfully. ## Membership Data: - Apache Turbine was founded 2007-05-16 (12 years ago) - There are currently 11 committers and 9 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jeffery Painter on 2017-11-12. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: - Hackathon took place at Apache Europe and was attended by two PMC members. Focus has been on upstream component Apache Torque 4.1 (version label may be changed to 5.0) and finally Turbine 5. - Java Docker Testcontainer integration in Turbine 5 (and prospectively Torque-Test) - Discussions about Turbine pipeline components - Last quarters backlog / discussion are still in follow-up work/work in process. - No releases were done this quarter. ## Community Health: - The Turbine project's quarter activity has been mainly in the dev mailing list with ongoing code changes on low/medium level. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Usergrid Project [Michael Russo] ## Description: The mission of Usergrid is the creation and maintenance of software related to The BaaS Framework you run ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Usergrid was founded 2015-08-18 (4 years ago) There are currently 28 committers and 25 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Dunker on 2016-01-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Keyur Karnik on 2019-03-18. ## Project Activity: - CI setup with ASF Jenkins still in progress. Daily builds are in place but configuration needs to be investigated as builds are not green. - Various Bugfixes around index querying and maintenance. - Improved test stability. - Experimentation with using newer versions(5.x) of Elasticsearch vs. supported older version (1.7). ## Community Health: Growth is flat. Some of the historical core contributors are no longer active with the project. However, there is a new committer and additional interest for modernizing Usergrid -- upgrading Cassandra to the latest version and containerizing Usergrid. Getting the project to a healthier state will continue to be a focus. This includes more discussion on the mailing lists, better use of JIRA, and planning of a new release -- master branch is currently stable and contains many stability fixes over the last release in 2016. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BU: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna] ## Description: The mission of Velocity is the creation and maintenance of software related to A Java Templating Engine ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Velocity was founded 2006-10-24 (13 years ago) There are currently 14 committers and 9 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2017-07-27. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2017-01-30. ## Project Activity: VelocityTools has seen some light improvements. Our Maven build infrastructure has gotten a few patches. Velocity Engine 2.2rc1 is out with some nice log, custom parser, and backwards-compatibility improvements. It has received two PMC votes for GA release. It is waiting on a third. ## Community Health: We are getting community input and contributions, but development is still largely handled by a single PMC member. Dormant PMC members also outnumber active ones. As the project is extremely stable by intent, the minimal committer activity is appropriate, but it should not take this long to get more PMC response on a release candidate quality. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby] ## Description: The mission of Apache Whimsy is the creation and maintenance of software related to tools that help automate various administrative tasks or information lookup activities ## Issues: I (Sam) remain concerned that there are not enough developers on the board agenda tool. Current status is that if something is broken, the fix waits until I am available. For things that are not broken but merely are feature requests, I tend to respond with pointers to how/where the fix needs to be made, and generally that's as far as it goes. Given how important this particular tool is to the foundation, this represents a "bus factor" concern. Tools other than the board agenda tool have multiple people who attend to problems and suggestions. ## Membership Data: Apache Whimsy was founded 2015-05-19 (4 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 9 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was John D. Ament on 2017-06-11. - No new committers. Last addition was John D. Ament on 2017-06-08. ## Project Activity: Notable changes over the last quarter: * Updates to the MACOSX developer instructions. * Updates to agenda template and logic to reflect new Zoom and Directors. * Increased test coverage * Centralized unsubscribable checks * Move away from usage of .archives * Bug fixes: terminate resolution and time zones * Strengthen non-standard resolution checks * Allow directors to update the board list in the roster tool * Update collate minute tool and incubator signoff tool to handle Wiki markup in the incubator report ## Community Health: More than enough oversight, no new committers for over two years. One tool (as noted above) has a bus factor isssue. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BW: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Gary D. Gregory] ## Description: Apache Xalan exists to promote the use of XSLT. We view XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) as a compelling paradigm that transforms XML documents, thereby facilitating the exchange, transformation, and presentation of knowledge. The ability to transform XML documents into usable information has great potential to improve the functionality and use of information systems. We intend to build freely available XSLT processing components in order to engender such improvements. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Xalan was founded 2004-09-30 (15 years ago) There are currently 57 committers and 5 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Bill Blough on 2019-02-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Bill Blough on 2019-03-20. ## Project Activity: No significant activities to report. No new releases. ## Community Health: The project is not really active at the moment, there is a desire to create a release but nothing's happened yet. Low mailing list activity aside from a ton of SPAM I must reject every day. ----------------------------------------- Attachment BX: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich] ----------------------------------------- Attachment BY: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds] Apache XML Graphics Project Board Report ================================== The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software components. ISSUES FOR THE BOARD ===================== No issues at present. ACTIVITY ======== * Apache Batik 1.12 * Apache FOP 2.4 * Apache XML Graphics Commons 2.4 PROJECT HEALTH REPORT ======================= The level of community and developer activity remains at a consistent, moderate, level with respect to the previous reporting period. RECENT PMC CHANGES ================== Currently 11 PMC members. * Simon Steiner was added to the PMC on Tue Jan 19 2016 * Clay Leeds became XML Graphics PMC Chair on March 26, 2018 Committers ========== Currently 21 committers. * No new committers added in the last 3 months * Former PMC member Glenn Adams is re-engaging in the project * Last committer added was Matthias Reischenbacher at Wed May 13 2015 Most Recent Releases ==================== * XMLGraphics Commons 2.4 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 * XMLGraphics FOP 2.4 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 * XMLGraphics Batik 1.12 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 = SUB PROJECTS = ================ XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==================== Community activity was light, although there were a few bugs resolved. New Release? ------------ XMLGraphics Commons 2.4 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 Latest Release -------------- XML Graphics Commons 2.4 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 FOP === A number of patches have been processed into TRUNK and several bugs fixed. New Release? ------------ XMLGraphics FOP 2.4 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 Latest Release -------------- XML Graphics FOP 2.4 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 BATIK ===== Apache Batik 1.12 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 New Release? ------------ Apache Batik 1.12 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 Latest Release -------------- Apache Batik 1.12 was released on Sat October 31, 2019 ----------------------------------------- Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache Zeppelin Project [Lee Moon Soo] ## Description: - Apache Zeppelin is a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for general-purpose data processing systems. ## Issues: - PMCs are trying to fix and announce security issues that have been addressed and released. Most of them are PR ready, waiting for review and get merged. We are sorry that we didn't pay much attention on this instead of working new features. We would fix them by the end of this year when we plan to make the next release 0.9 ## Activity: - Jetbrain integrate Zeppelin into their IDEA plugin Big data tools, we are working closely with Jetbrain on this. - There're 2 major frontend rework in community, one is via VUE, another is via Angular. These work will improve the frontend user experience of Zeppelin much. We expect user can experience these new changes pretty soon(maybe next release) - And we plan to move the frontend modules into sub projects of Zeppelin, so that we can make Zeppelin frontend more pluggable and customizable. - Several new interpreters are added, KSQL, Kotlin(in review) Overall the ecosystem of Zeppelin is pretty healthy in our perspective. ## Health report: - +4 new code contributors since last report. 291 total ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - Last PMC addition was Jeff Zhang on Thu Jan 25 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - Last committer addition was Xun Liu at April 18 2019 ## Releases: - 0.8.2 was released on Wed Sep 29 2019 - 0.8.1 was released on Wed Jan 23 2019 - 0.8.0 was released on Wed Jul 18 2018 - 0.7.3 was released on Wed Sep 20 2017 - 0.7.2 was released on Mon Jun 12 2017 - 0.7.1 was released on Fri Mar 31 2017 - 0.7.0 was released on Sun Feb 05 2017 - 0.6.2 was released on Fri Oct 14 2016 - 0.6.1 was released on Aug 15 2016 - 0.6.0 was released on Jul 02 2016 - 0.5.6-incubating was released on Jan 22 2016 - 0.5.5-incubating was released on Nov 18 2015 - 0.5.0-incubating was released on Jul 23 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - users@zeppelin.apache.org: - 237 emails sent to list ( 153 in previous quarter) - dev@zeppelin.apache.org: - 1182 emails sent to list ( 947 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 143 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the November 20, 2019 board meeting.