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Appointments

Date Action Decided by
2013-09-18 Appointed Brent Atkinson the board, by resolution
2012-05-16 Appointed Brett Porter the board, by resolution
2008-02-20 Appointed Emmanuel Venisse the board, by resolution

Decisions

Date Decision Item Outcome
2016-05-18 Terminate the Apache Continuum Project special order approved
2008-02-20 Establish the Apache Continuum Project special order approved

Reports

2016-05-18 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

2016-04-20 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

@Brett: Put an Attic resolution on next month's agenda.

2016-03-16 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

2016-02-17 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

2016-01-20 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

2015-12-16 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

@Brett: pursue a report for Continuum

2015-11-18 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

2015-08-19 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security, and
integration with popular build tools and source control management systems.

Activity

As expected, activity remained low since last report. The spike in issue tracker
and commit activity seen two periods ago was driven driven by a single
contributor with some, but limited, additional activity seen in the issue
tracker and mailing lists. Work towards the 1.5 release has stalled, with a
single issue remaining. A release based on current state may be possible, but
will require the necessary PMC votes, an unknown given the failure of the 1.4.3
release due to lack of votes.

Board Issues

 - None at this time. However, failure to release 1.5 next period due to lack
   of PMC votes will likely result in a recommendation for a board-initiated
   move to the Attic due to a non-functioning PMC.

PMC/Committership changes

 - Currently 18 committers and 13 PMC members in the project.
 - No new changes to the PMC or committership since last report.

Releases

 - Last release was 1.4.2 on Fri Jun 13 2014

Mailing list activity

 - users@continuum.apache.org:
    - 286 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - dev@continuum.apache.org:
    - 105 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 3 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)

 - notifications@continuum.apache.org:
    - 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 4 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)

 - issues@continuum.apache.org:
    - 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (312 in previous quarter)

JIRA activity

 - No significant activity since last report

2015-05-20 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security, and
integration with popular build tools and source control management systems.

Activity

The increase in mailing list activity reported last period has settled back to
prior volumes. The spike in issue tracker and commit activity reported has
continued to be high with progress toward a 1.5 release, but contributions were
limited to an individual. The pending 1.4.3 vote reported last period failed due
to insufficient PMC votes.

Board Issues

 - There are no specific issues requiring board attention at this time

PMC/Committership changes

 - Currently 18 committers and 13 PMC members in the project.
 - No new changes to the PMC or committership since last report.

Releases

 - Last release was 1.4.2 on Fri Jun 13 2014

Mailing list activity

 - users@continuum.apache.org:
    - 286 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
 - dev@continuum.apache.org:
    - 106 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
    - 13 emails sent to list (13 in previous quarter)
 - notifications@continuum.apache.org:
    - 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 22 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
 - issues@continuum.apache.org:
    - 41 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 307 emails sent to list (72 in previous quarter)

JIRA activity

 - 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 66 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

2015-02-18 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Activity on the mailing lists was slightly increased since last report, but
still relatively low. Issue tracker and commit activity saw a significant spike
in the last month or so. There is currently an open vote for a 1.4.3 release and
work towards a 1.5 release has been steady.

The last project release was Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014.  The last
committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on
September 2, 2012.

2014-11-19 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Activity on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker was low as expected.

The last project release was Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014.  The last
committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on
September 2, 2012.

2014-08-20 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Since last period, the project released Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014. Among
the changes was an important security fix addressing the previously reported
remote execution vulnerability.

Volume on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker was slightly higher than
the last few periods leading up to and immediately following the release of
1.4.2, but still low as expected.

There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was
added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

2014-05-21 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Volume on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker was higher than the last
few periods, but still low as expected.

The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013. A release including
an important fix for the previously reported remote execution vulnerabilities
is still pending.

There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was
added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

2014-03-19 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

The heightened activity cited in the last report resulted in a temporarily
build to address the remote execution vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2
that lead to vmbuild being compromised and subsequently disabled by the
infrastructure team. The build has been running on vmbuild without incident
since January, 7 2014.

The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013. A release including
fixes for the previously mentioned vulnerabilities is still pending.

As expected, there has been low volume on the mailing lists and in the issue
tracker.

There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was
added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

2014-02-19 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Continuum

2013-12-18 — Brent Atkinson

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

There has been heightened activity since the last cycle, much of which has been
related to migrating the project to recent versions of Apache Struts. This is
primarily to address a remote execution vulnerability that resulted in vmbuild
being compromised and subsequently disabled by the infrastructure team.

The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013. A release to address
the mentioned vulnerabilities is pending, but still being worked towards.

There has been volume on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker, but still
relatively low.

There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was
added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

2013-11-20 — Brent Atkinson

No report was submitted.

AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Continuum

2013-08-21 — Brett Porter

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

There has been one burst of activity in the last cycle, cleaning up a number
of issues towards a further 1.4.2 release. No movement on that front yet,
however. There has been no activity on the users list.

Activity remains low as expected, but there are still enough PMC members
around to help when needed.

The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013.

We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added
December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

As there was another willing candidate, I have decided to stand down as chair
of the project. There were no other nominations from the PMC, so I expect to
include a resolution for the board's consideration once the vote has
completed.

2013-05-15 — Brett Porter

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

As expected, activity has dropped off after the 1.4.1 release last quarter.
A contributor has recently submitted some patches related to the upgrade
that would warrant a 1.4.2 release once they are reviewed and applied.

User list activity was likewise very low, but questions were responded to.

The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013.

We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added
December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

2013-02-20 — Brett Porter

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

This quarter saw the long overdue release of Continuum 1.4.1 on
January 7, 2013, including a number of accumulated improvements. This
also included a fix for a security vulnerability reported earlier,
based on the version of the Struts library used. We have recommended
all users upgrade and published details on a security page.

The project has moved to using svnpubsub for publishing the site and
documentation, and for release distributions.

All branding requirements have now been completed.

We are likely to have low activity from this point onwards, as the
application is mature and serves current user's needs. New
contributors would be welcomed, and there is enough attention from the
PMC to respond to new users and contributors as that arises, and to
produce a release if necessary.

We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added
December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.

2012-11-21 — Brett Porter

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

A number of issues blocking the Continuum 1.4.1 release have been resolved,
and the vote for that should be upcoming very shortly. Aside from that,
activity remains very low.

Occasional questions to the users@ list were responded to promptly.

Brent Atkinson was added as a PMC member on 2 Sep 2012.

The last release was Continuum 1.3.8, on 18 Sep 2011.

Still no movement on the branding requirements, which will be updated with
the next release.

We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added 8
Dec 2010.

2012-08-15 — Brett Porter

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

There has been some recent activity around getting the long awaited Continuum
1.4.1 release out the door.

The last release was Continuum 1.3.8, on 18 Sep 2011.

Still no movement on the branding requirements, which will be updated with
the next release.

We have not added any new committers or PMC members recently. The last
committer was added 8 Dec 2010, and the last PMC member was added on 17 Mar
2009.

2012-06-20 — Brett Porter

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Since reporting in May, progress towards the next release has remained slow.
One user is testing trunk to provide feedback about what is needed before it
should be released. There has been some early indication that the technical
issue we perceived as a release blocker may not be a problem after all.

Despite the quietness, we have the necessary PMC oversight to produce a
release when someone pushes that forward.

The project branding requirements and lack of DOAP file will be addressed in
the process of updating the site for the release.

2012-05-16 — Emmanuel Venisse

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Continuum has been suffering from low development activity, with just a handful
of commits each quarter. A discussion was started to move the project to the
Attic, however this encouraged at least one committer and a user to volunteer to
help produce another release. Others have since stepped forward.

There are a large number of fixes that reside on trunk that are worth releasing,
and it has been reported to be very stable. Only one blocker needs to be worked
through before the release.

Though available time is infrequent, there appears to be enough PMC oversight
still present to do a release, and through that we can assess who is likely to
remain active, and if the others should be brought into the PMC to continue the
project.

The current chair has stated that he is not available for the position any
longer and will be standing down. A resolution to appoint a new chair has been
proposed for the meeting.

In other matters, the project branding requirements have not yet been completed.

2012-04-18 — Emmanuel Venisse

No report was submitted.

AI: Dan to pursue a report for Continuum

2012-03-21 — Emmanuel Venisse

No report was submitted.

AI: Brett follow up with PMC

2012-02-15 — Emmanuel Venisse

No report was submitted.

AI: Doug to pursue a report for Continuum

2012-01-24 — Emmanuel Venisse

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Releases
--------

* None

Community
---------

* No activity.

* One committer at ApacheCon in November expressed interest in helping to
  pick up work on a release and reignite activity.

* The PMC needs to review who is still active and whether the project can
  move forward.

Development
-----------

* Zero development activity since the last report in September.

* Lots of fixes still on trunk but with no real strategy to release 1.4.1.

Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------

* Project Website Basics - done
* Project Naming and Descriptions - not yet done
* Website Navigation Links - not yet done
* Trademark Attributions - not yet done
* Logos and Graphics - not yet done
* Project Metadata - not yet done
* Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - not yet done

Issues
------

No other board level issues at this time.

2011-12-21 — Emmanuel Venisse

No report was submitted.

2011-11-16 — Emmanuel Venisse


2011-09-21 — Emmanuel Venisse

Continuum Board Report for September 2011
----------------------------------

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

Releases
--------

* Continuum 1.3.8 was released on Sept. 18. This contains the security fixes
  that came out of the work in Archiva, which was reported in the last board
  report.

Community
---------

* Wendy Smoak resigned from the Continuum PMC.

Development
-----------

* Activity in the project is still low. There are commits coming in and
  there's also movement in the JIRA issues but very little discussion going
  on in the dev list.

* Lots of fixes going in on trunk but with no real strategy to release
  1.4.1.

Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------

* Project Website Basics - done
* Project Naming and Descriptions - not yet done
* Website Navigation Links - not yet done
* Trademark Attributions - not yet done
* Logos and Graphics - not yet done
* Project Metadata - not yet done
* Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - not yet done

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2011-08-17 — Emmanuel Venisse

No report was submitted and will be requested for next month.

2011-05-19 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since February.

Releases
--------

No release.

Development
-----------

Since february, we have a very little activity on the project. Nothing on the
dev mailing list this month.
However, some patches were applied for security vulnerability that came out of
the work in Archiva. We should do a release off Continuum 1.3.x branch and
trunk as mitigation for these security issues.

Community
---------

No new committer.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2011-02-16 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since November.

Releases
--------

Continuum 1.3.7 was released on 11 February 2011. This is a security and bug
fix release.

This release covers the security issue CVE-2010-3449, first reported against
Archiva but which originated in a shared library.

The release also covers the security issue CVE-2011-0533, which was reported
to infrastructure against vmbuild.apache.org (which was patched immediately).
This originated from some poor defaults in a third party library.

Development
-----------

...

Community
---------

Added a new committer, Brent Atkinson, in December.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2010-11-17 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since August.

Releases
--------

No releases since the report in August.

Development
-----------

Development activity has been very quiet this quarter. Some work on
distributed build continues on trunk.

Community
---------

Continuum project name is reserved on apache-extras.org

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2010-08-18 — Emmanuel Venisse

Releases
--------

No releases since the report in June.

Development
-----------

Development activity has been quiet this quarter. Some work on distributed
build continues on trunk.

Community
---------

VMBuild was rebuilt as a VM on nyx. All of the long-standing issues in the
INFRA JIRA were resolved and it seems to be running much more smoothly.
Thanks primarily to Gavin McDonald for his help in the transition.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2010-06-16 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since February.

Emeritus
--------

* We have had 1 inactive PMC member step down and become Emeritus:
    - Joakim Erdfelt

Releases
--------

* Continuum 1.3.6 (GA) was released April 7, 2010
* Continuum 1.4.0 (Beta) was released May 6, 2010

Development
---------


Community
---------

The Selenium tests for the Continuum web app were fixed to run offline by
Brett to speed up the execution of the tests. This took off more or less 1
minute (~7%) of the time it took to run.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2010-05-19 — Emmanuel Venisse


2010-02-17 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since November.

Releases
--------

* Continuum 1.3.5 (Beta) was released January 19, 2010

Development
---------

The number of issues left for the 1.3.6 release is in single digits and is
likely to be the first GA release of the series.

The developers discussed and agreed on a roadmap for 1.4 and beyond.

Community
---------

Dennis Lundberg was added as a committer, after offering to help with the
documentation.

Emmanuel fixed some problems with the Continuum instance on VMBuild. The host
instance now seems to be stable, but work is still needed to clean up old
projects and upgrade to the latest release.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2009-11-18 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since August.

Releases
--------

* Continuum 1.3.4 (Beta) was released on September 4, 2009

Development
---------

Slowly working towards a GA release of Continuum 1.3.

Wendy Smoak spent considerable effort ensuring the issue tracker was up to
date so that current issues are visible.

Community
---------

A couple of developers continue to help maintain the Continuum instance on
VMBuild for Apache projects, and now also have access to a Windows machine
for testing. We're looking to reinstall these soon after the 1.3 GA release.
VMBuild was recently moved to a different VM box, and we plan to work with
infrastructure to ensure it meets their criteria for standardised VM
deployments.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2009-08-19 — Emmanuel Venisse

Continuum Board Report for August 2009
---------------------------------------

Below are the important events that happened in the project since May.

Releases
--------

* Continuum 1.3.3 (Beta) was released on May 29, 2009

Development
---------


Community
---------

* New committer: Marecor Baclay

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2009-05-20 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since February.

Releases
--------

* Continuum Data Management 1.2.3.1 (Beta) was released on March 4, 2009
* Continuum 1.3.2 (Beta) was released on March 26, 2009

Development
---------

* We are working on Continuum 1.3.3 (GA)

Community
---------

* New commiter: Jevica Arianne B. Zurbano
* New PMC member: Marica Tan

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2009-02-18 — Emmanuel Venisse

Below are the important events that happened in the project since November.

Releases
--------

* 1.2.3 was released on January 13, 2009

* 1.3.1 (Alpha) was released on January 21, 2009

Development
---------

* We started a discussion/implementation about distributed build in
  October/November 2008.
  Initial implementation of the feature was included in 1.3.1 (Alpha)
  release.

* We started a discussion/implementation about parallel build in December
  2008.
  Initial implementation of the feature was included in 1.3.1 (Alpha)
  release.

* We started discussion about plugins system "a la" maven and creating a
  prototype branch based on osgi/felix

Community
---------

* No new committers or PMC members.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2008-11-19 — Emmanuel Venisse

Releases
--------

* 1.2 release was released on September 21, 2008

* 1.2.1 was not released due to problems discovered during the vote

* 1.2.2 was released on November 3, 2008

Development
---------

* We started a discussion/implementation about distributed build.

* We started discussion about plugins system "a la" maven.

Community
---------

* No new committers or PMC members.

Issues
------

No board level issues at this time.

2008-08-20 — Emmanuel Venisse

Releases
--------------
* No new release since previous report

* Steady progress on the release, continued discussion on dev list.
  We'll probably release Continuum 1.2 at the begin of September

Community
--------------

* Discussion continue for the internal architecture in future versions

* One new committer has been voted in, Maria Catherine Tan, but the
  account isn't created yet. There have been no changes to the PMC.

Issues
--------

* No issues related to the board.

2008-05-21 — Emmanuel Venisse

This is the third board report submitted by Continuum since becoming a TLP.
Below are the important events that happened in the project since April.

Releases
--------------
* No new release since previous report

* Steady progress on the release, continued discussion on dev list

Community
--------------

* Discussion continue for the internal architecture in future versions

* No new committer

Issues
--------

* No issues related to the board.

2008-04-16 — Emmanuel Venisse

This is the second board report submitted by Continuum since becoming a TLP.
Below are the important events that happened in the project since March.

Releases
--------
* No new release since previous report

* All issues are defined for Continuum 1.2, but the release isn't scheduled yet

Community
---------

* Discussion started to redesign the web site

* Discussion started for the internal architecture in future versions

* Two new Continuum commiters (Olivier and Arnaud) are helping out with vmbuild

Issues
------

* The Java Service Wrapper has moved to GPL for version 3.3.0+. Continuum uses
  this wrapper but will be sticking with the 3.2.3 version.

2008-03-19 — Emmanuel Venisse

This report for March is the first report since Continuum graduation
last month.

Continuum resources have been completely moved out of the Maven area.
The web site has moved to its final location (http://continuum.apache.org).
The svn repo has moved to its final location
(http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/continuum/).
The mailing lists has been moved too.

We are  currently working on Continuum 1.2, which isn't planned yet.
Discussions are started about the next major version (2.0).

About cryptography, a review of http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html
has determined that Continuum does not have any reporting obligations
since it does not contain any cryptographic code under the ECCN 5D002
definition. Although Continuum might be used by developers with
cryptographic libraries, it is not "specially designed or modified for"
such a purpose.

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