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| Date | Action | Decided by |
|---|---|---|
| 2004-05-26 | Appointed David Crossley | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-19 | Terminate the Apache Forrest Project | special order | approved |
| 2004-05-26 | Establish the Apache Forrest Project | special order | approved |
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues: After discussion on both the dev and user mailing lists, a successful vote agreed to move the project to the Apache Attic. The resolution has been added to the board agenda as "Item 7D". The vote thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c49f6223e82bf32b559dc4bf0a061a75369856e11cf05cf654e51036@%3Cdev.forrest.apache.org%3E The vote summary thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/42754945934baa9636ddb3894a57cd46217ed698a100fc6e6e0cae58%40%3Cdev.forrest.apache.org%3E
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.
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, three 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 4 people indicated presence: potential for sufficient oversight. None of the remaining project members have yet found time to raise the topic on the dev list about moving to the Apache Attic. So it falls to me as Chair. I am too busy at the moment, but intend to commence the next steps on my return in early September. By the way, many thanks to Rich Bowen for commencing an initial notice on our dev mail list. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: None.
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, three 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 4 people indicated presence: potential for sufficient oversight. None of the remaining project members have yet found time to raise the topic on the dev list about moving to the Apache Attic. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: None.
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. This quarter there has again been no activity on any Forrest mail list. So that is two sequential quarters of zero activity. At this report, three 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 4 people indicated presence: potential for sufficient oversight. Project status: Please see the detailed status notes for the June 2018 report. It seems that it is now time for the PMC to raise the topic on the dev list about moving to the Apache Attic. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: None.
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. This quarter there has been no activity on any Forrest mail list. 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Idle 3 people indicated presence: barely potential for sufficient oversight. Please see the detailed status notes for the June 2018 report. At that report a non-PMC member indicated that they intended to produce a release. During this past quarter (August-November) there has been no visible activity. The last action was my note to the dev list around 7 August, explaining a wrinkle in the documented release process, and summarising some history about the last release. There was no follow-up. It seems that we should tread-water for a while longer, to give the best chance for this to happen. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: None.
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. Please see the status notes for the previous report. Apart from the initial preparation for a potential release, there has been no activity. Project status: This quarter i did not get a chance to send a draft report to the project, so could not do my normal procedure to determine if anyone is listening. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Late in the quarter an old committer has commenced the early phases of the release process. One PMC member has assisted.
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. I needed to miss the normal May reporting period. So this report covers the previous four months. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. Some minor activity on the dev list, early in the quarter. For the last month, Gump has been trying to be helpful by telling about a problem with one of our various Gump runs. No one has found the time to do extended investigation. Four PMC members were present during the quarter. This was mainly initial discussion of a draft new logo, that was proposed to the private list. People were involved and encouraging. However there was no follow-up. For this last month there was no presence indicated by any PMC member. At this report, three 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Idle 3+ people have indicated presence, so has the potential for sufficient oversight. There was no discussion following board feedback at the previous report, which again wondered why no recent release, and how does the community benefit from any development of the past seven years. It does take effort to release Forrest. It is well-documented, and there have been past suggestions for making it a bit easier. As stated before, i hope to assist, but am not in a position to initiate or drive it. The project has been in a treading-water state for a long time, as notified in previous reports. My impression is that it is a dedicated group, that does not (in general) actively use or develop the project, but are still attached. However these days no-one has the energy to further the project. The project should probably again consider moving to the Attic, given the lack of attention to Gump and the state of no discussion about the board feedback. The abovementioned, was the state of things. Then in response to this draft report a non-PMC member said that they are intending to address the release and Gump. So it seems that we should continue to tread water for a while longer. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Apache Gump asked various projects if they were still interested. One of our committers replied that we are. Gump is still useful for us. Thanks.
No report was submitted.
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: 2017-10-09 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. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. Some minor activity on the issue tracker and dev list as an old committer returned. Three PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, one other PMC member responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: *Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. There was a little discussion about project status, indicating that the project is happy to stay as we are, with sufficient members being present to be able to make a decision if needed. In the recent past there some concern expressed that my method for assessing whether there are sufficient people present does not equate to whether there are sufficient for actual oversight. No better method was yet proposed. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Tweaks to stylesheets to address an old issue.
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: 2017-10-09 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. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. No activity on the dev mail list. Four PMC members were present during the quarter. One PMC member decided to become emeritus. 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Idle 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Last quarter there was Board feedback asking if it is time to move to the Attic. There has been some initial discussion. I will report further at the next quarter. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: None.
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. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. No activity on the dev mail list. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, three 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Idle 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Minor tweaks to docs to follow move of Gump's report URLs.
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. Still requires someone to initiate the release process. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. On the dev list, the only activity was related to our initial contribution received via GitHub. This brought the issue to the fore, that our mirror was was out-of-date. Many thanks to the PMC member who followed through with ASF Infra to solve that and apply the patch. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Add notes about develop-time use of Cocoon "server status" plugin. Add the "SupportApache" image and link to Contributing page.
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. Since then there have been some changes, but it will need someone to initiate the release process. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was a little activity on the dev mail list via the issue tracker. One PMC member encountered and commented on an old issue. No further comments. The same PMC member made a few enhancements to the new "fleece" skin. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. 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 or encourage new contributors. At the last quarter's report, there were some board comments: It was discovered that "svn" commit messages were not shown on the lists.a.o service. I followed up that. Many thanks to Seb for the excellent investigation. It revealed that the problem was much wider than Forrest. Initial configuration and loading of the lists.a.o archive was lacking. Now fixed. The other matter is that we should be making a release. Yes, i have noted this in each of our board reports. The procedure is documented, but it requires someone to commence it. The board prompt did not encourage any discussion by the project. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Some enhancements to the new "fleece" bootstrap-based skin.
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. Since then there have been some changes, but it will need someone to initiate the release process. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was some activity on the dev mail list. One PMC member continued development of the new "fleece" skin and related issues, and enquiries about integrating external components. Two other PMC members assisted with suggestions. Four PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, no other PMC members responded to my draft report. The presence of some during the quarter, indicates that there should be sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Continued minor development of the "fleece" bootstrap-based skin.
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. Since then there have been some changes, but it will need someone to initiate the release process. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was some activity on the dev mail list, with two PMC members participating: One committer commenced an additional skin based on the Bootstrap framework. Another committer assisted a little. I am surprised that there was not any other comment. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, four 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues published: None. Progress of the project: Initial Bootstrap-based skin. Improved documentation to link to the new lists.apache.org interface.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Since then there have been some minor changes, but it will need someone to initiate the release process. There has not been anyone with sustained activity to be considered as a potential new committer/PMC member. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was some tiny activity on the dev mail list, with one PMC member participating: A question was asked by a new developer, and answered with encouragement to pursue their proposed solution and to send a patch. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, five 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Reviewed our JIRA configuration.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was some tiny activity on the dev mail list, with two PMC members participating. See below. Two PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, three 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Backported the feature from the "scales" skin to the "pelt" skin for the "Conditional display of menuitems". Issue: FOR-1255 Improved the explanation of broken links found during processing. Added a reader and a serializer for JSON. There was some initial discussion between two PMC members on the dev list, regarding a discrepancy with content as images in v2 docs title element.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Two PMC members responded to the notification from Infra about potential denial of service via the download mirrors script. Forrest was already configured correctly, so nothing to do. One PMC member (with some minor assistance from me) attended to the re-establishment of our demonstration server following Infra setting up a new jails machine. A nasty avenue for unusual spam to our mail list was investigated by me and Infra, with assistance from one of our mail moderators. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. The only activity on the dev mail list was the issue tracker notifications regarding the new jail server upgrade. Three PMC members were present during the quarter. At this report, five 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: The Forrest demonstration server was upgraded to keep our own testing and demonstration facilities happening. Commenced the updating of the documentation for its management. Further tweaks to our issue tracker explanatory documentation.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was almost zero activity on the dev mail list. One PMC member (me) was present during the quarter. Immediately following our last (May) report, another PMC member indicated their presence. At this report, three 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Idle 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: I added a few comments to our issue tracker regarding some license improvements for any upcoming release. I made some commits for some improvements to documentation and examples, and better explained searches at JIRA to help people to navigate our issue tracker.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway. There was minor activity on the dev mail list. Late in the previous quarter, one PMC member started a dev discussion about contributing a new Bootstrap-based skin. As a PMC member, i assisted to move that discussion along and tried again late in this quarter. Going by the response to my draft report, we should see some action during the next quarter. During the previous quarter, as the Chair, i reminded the dev list that the project needs to make releases. During this quarter in late-April, i did follow-up as a PMC member to try to move that along. There was no comment. As Chair, in late-April i asked the private list to each do our bit to attend to the main community-health issues: having a recent release, increasing the committer/PMC base, and being a little active. There was no comment, but some murmurs in response to my draft report. At this report, three PMC members were present during the quarter and four 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Improved the "upgrading" notes to remind to keep any optional configuration files synchronised with the default. Updated our Description of a Project (DOAP) file, to rectify Forrest being missing from the projects-new.a.o site. In the previous quarter, Infra advised us that the machine hosting the Forrest project's build and demo server is being decommissioned. One of our PMC members asked for a new VM via the issue INFRA-9093 (FOR-1251). During this quarter, Infra made a little progress by asking us what packages we need to support that. Two PMC members responded.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. There was more activity on the dev mail list. Two PMC members discussed a potential improvement and the originator did follow through. They also assisted each other with strange erroneous messages from Buildbot. An emeritus PMC member returned to make some changes as a committer, was welcomed, and two separate PMC members did followup queries. Just prior to report submission a discussion commenced about a potential new skin based on Bootstrap. The Chair reminded the dev list that the project needs to make releases. The Chair replied to some obscure comment regarding the previous Board report, but there was no further followup (see 2014-11-25). At this quarter, 5 additional PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Activity: Low. 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Some improvements to i18n for the search box and the font size button. Minor tweaks to the i18n documentation. Some improvements to Javascript handling. Infra advised us that the machine hosting the Forrest project's build and demo server is being decommissioned. One of our PMC members asked for a new VM via the issue INFRA-9093.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. On the dev mail list there was a plea for help from a person who we have seen in the past, seeking assistance with one of the more recent parts of Forrest, the Dispatcher. Those who know a bit about this did not help, so it fell to our Chair to attempt assistance. Along the way the poster encountered a semi-related issue which was never fully resolved. Thanks to his persistence and followup, it seems that this may now be fixed. The only other activity on the dev mail list was one PMC member attending to an alert from our Gump server. While researching the issue mentioned above, it came to my attention again that there are a number of ASF projects that utilise Forrest for their project websites, but are having some difficulties. Rather than seek our assistance, they rant on their project mail lists and issue trackers, which spreads misguided and ill-founded comments. I reckon that this behaviour has done incredible damage to our project. I do not have the inclination to address this, so will just refer to some past attempts: http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2009/board_minutes_2009_11_18.txt Sent email to all ASF Forrest-using projects. Explained how the Forrest project manages our own docs. Explained the Anakia output plugin, to export content to basic xml format. http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2010/board_minutes_2010_11_17.txt Announce Markdown output plugin. Announce FAQ regarding Java 6+. http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2012/board_minutes_2012_08_15.txt Reminder to Forrest-using projects about Markdown output. At this quarter, one other PMC member responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are just sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Project status: Idle. 3 people have indicated presence, so has barely sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Tidied SVN to fix problems with svn:ignore properties that had Windows line-endings. As part of the dev list assistance, fixed the projectInfo plugin to enable resources to be found on Windows machines when using the Dispatcher Plugin (part of FOR-1108, FOR-1188).
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was one PMC member attending to an alert from our Gump server. Another PMC member (not the chair) forwarded the ApacheCon CFP. The Chair replied to feedback from the previous Board report, and included the private@f.a.o list (see 2014-05-22). At this quarter, four 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 or encourage new contributors. Project status: Idle. 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Clarified some project notes about the PMC member election process to reflect recent changes. Thanks again sebb. Enable 'java' to be found on a modern Mac. Fixed the Lucene search results to properly show the "note" when zero hits are returned.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was one PMC member attending to an alert from our zone server. On the private list there was some discussion among four PMC members, so we do know that people are still present. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: None.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was me doing a few issue tracker comments to show people some easy things that they could do to help the project to move forward. We received a request from a maintainer endeavouring to enable the Homebrew package manager to handle Forrest, beyond their current workaround. I did explain to our project what needs to happen. There has been no response. The project was asked to review our situation regarding the recently revised branding guidelines. No-one commented that they have done so. At this quarter, eight PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. The draft report did re-start a small discussion on private@ list about the state of the project. People were reminded about the outcome of the last time that this arose, i.e. it is okay for the project to be quiet, as long as it is still able to make decisions. People were asked to make effort on the dev mail list, and to assist with project tasks, and reminded about the need for a release. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Enabled per-project configuration of Cocoon error handling. Updated our JSch supporting product.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. No activity on the user mail list. The only activity on the dev mail list was me making the progress that is described below. That will hopefully continue the efforts to re-vitalise this community. Soon after my almost-late board report in August, two PMC members responded. At this quarter, four PMC members responded to my draft report. This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Upgraded some of our supporting products, in particular Cocoon-2.1 and Batik and FOP and XML Graphics Commons and Xerces. In conjunction, upgraded our PDF output plugin to utilise FOP-1.0 version. (Note that Cocoon uses an old version of Java so we cannot do FOP-1.1). Finished configuring Gump. This utilises whatever products that Gump does provide, and uses our packaged supporting products for the rest (including Cocoon-2.1.*). So now we have various jobs for Forrest that also test some of our key plugins. This is great news, as we are now back to getting potential notifications from the head of some of our key supporting stuff and potential project interaction. Thanks to Gump. Improvements to some documentation, especially regarding building plugins and utilising extra JavaScript and CSS in project sites. Added some examples of the latter, and some tweaks to the system to better enable such. Last quarter i missed reporting that another of our PMC members did the follow-on upgrade work on our jail server following the machine upgrade by ASF Infra.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None. Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Some tiny activity on the user mail list. A little activity on the dev mail list. This was just between Stefan and me regarding the Gump build. No other participation. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Took up the Apache Gump invitation to continue. It has been good for both Forrest and Cocoon. Thanks. We will now configure Gump to utilize whatever products that Gump does provide, and use our packaged supporting products for the rest (including Cocoon-2.1.*). It has been just me (and Stefan) doing this so far. I am hoping that it will encourage others. Improved the download page in response to a user misunderstanding.
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: Jeremias Märki (jeremias) resigned. Last modified: 2013-04-08 Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 New committers: None Most recent addition: 2009-06-09 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Some tiny activity on the user mail list, where a "status" question was well handled by another PMC member. No activity on the dev mail list. Three other PMC members thanked the efforts of Jeremias. So we know that there are 4+ people hanging around, meaning that we can potentially still make decisions. Nice. Response to my late draft report showed that I can stop squinting. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: One PMC member did assist at the Apache Cocoon project to do testing prior to their 2.1.12 release, by testing it inside Forrest. Bumped some related items in our issue tracker which will hopefully stimulate some developer interest. We still need to follow through and update our use of Cocoon and blocks (especially the FOP block).
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. There was no activity on the user mail list. A user did add a comment for a workaround to an issue. There was some activity on the dev mail list, with one PMC member seeking assistance with their work (see below) and being assisted by two other PMC members. No other PMC members have been active during this quarter. Three people did respond to my draft board report. This confirms that there are at least four people hanging around, and so we are potentially able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Following the December quarter, the board feedback was returned to the private list, i.e. it is okay to appear to be "dormant" as long as there are 3+ PMC members actively following. This quarter the activity seems to have risen a little. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: There was good progress on the "wiki" plugin, which handles input from various wikis. The plugin should now support all relevant jspwiki markup. That also spurred some interaction in the community. Continued work on one of our Gump projects, which now deploys some plugins and then uses the built 'forrest' to generate a sample site. Discussion was commenced regarding extending commit access. Not much activity yet. The project was reminded that Apache Cocoon is attempting to release the next Cocoon-2.1 version, which the current forrest depends upon. No developer assisted with the required move to 'svnpubsub', so the chair stepped up again to arrange that. All done now. Thanks to Infra.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: Be aware that the project appears to be dormant. Suggestions for next steps. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Development has been non-existent for the quarter. There was no activity on any mail list. No other PMC members have been active during this quarter. Two people did respond to my draft board report. This confirms that there are at least three people hanging around, and so we are potentially able to make a decision or encourage new contributors. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: None. There was no response to the previous quarter reminder about our need to move to 'svnpubsub'. This quarter I added notes about that to our issue tracker to assist others (FOR-1237). During the next quarter I will proceed to request the infrastructure move.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Three PMC members have been active a little during this quarter. Development has been non-existent for the quarter. There was low activity on the user mail list. One return user was assisted with a known issue by PMC members and encouraged to follow through to add to the issue tracker. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Not much happening, but still some signs of life. I just now reminded our PMC about our need to move to 'svnpubsub'. That should be easy for Forrest as we already commit generated docs to svn using our semi-automated 'forrestbot'. Anyway, i will commence the process soon. Another reminder to other ASF projects that use Forrest: We have some docs that explain how the Forrest project publish our own documentation to svn, thereby making it easy to use svnpubsub for the final publication step rather than a personal cron job on people.a.o to 'svn up'. Also if projects want to move completely to the Apache CMS, then we have the Forrest "Markdown output" plugin and the "Anakia output" plugin.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC. General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Six PMC members have been active a little during this quarter. Development has been quiet for the quarter. Some little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker. An old issue was discussed. No follow on, but still a sign of life. There was zero activity on the user mail list. In late March it came to our attention that our past release votes were conducted on packages that contained third-party binaries in addition to our project's open-source code. Our chair removed the packages from the mirror system. The 0.9 packages were then reconstructed to have separate "sources" and "dependencies" packages. The project then voted again for the 0.9 release using the new "sources" package. Security issues reported: None. Progress of the project: Again, the only commits were a few documentation edits.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC. Security issues reported: None. General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Development has been very quiet for the quarter. Only two PMC members have been active [*] a little during this quarter. (* In past reports i used the word "present". Sorry i meant "active" meaning that i can see commits or mail. People could be reading, only speaking up when necessary.) Some little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker. Some little activity on user mail list was answered by more than one. Those are similar statements to last quarter. Actually a bit more quiet, yet still operating. Progress of the project: Again, the only commits were a few documentation edits. Attend to project branding: During the last quarter I re-read the revised branding docs, and reckon that Forrest does meet the requirements, as reported previously. The following is the comment from last quarter (no further action): Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. As this gradually happens, the changes will be reflected.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-10 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Development has been quiet for the quarter. Five PMC members have been present a little during this quarter. Some little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker which was answered by more than one developer. Some little activity on user mail list was answered by more than one developer. Yes, those are similar statements to last quarter. Progress of the project: The only commits were a few documentation edits. Attend to project branding: The following is the comment from last quarter (no further action): Since last report our other project logo now has a TM symbol added. Still need to apply that to all plugin sites. So that completes the major parts of our branding. During next quarter will have another look at the revised branding guidelines docs. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. As this gradually happens, the changes will be reflected.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: None. Changes in the PMC membership: None. Last modified: 2011-01-02 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07 Development has been quiet for the quarter. Four PMC members have been present a little during this quarter. Some little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker which was answered by more than one developer. Some little activity on user mail list was answered by more than one developer. Progress of the project: A small amount of continuation on the potential OSGi framework that was commenced last quarter. A new plugin called "logo" to assist with the case where a project does not have the original source for a logo. This uses SVG to apply a trademark to an existing PNG to produce a new PNG. Remember that Forrest can also be used as a tool (with this and other plugins) to do once-off gathering and transformation tasks. Attend to project branding: Since last report our other project logo now has a TM symbol added. Still need to apply that to all plugin sites. So that completes the major parts of our branding. During next quarter will have another look at the revised branding guidelines docs. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. As this gradually happens, the changes will be reflected.
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 General status: The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Development has generally been quiet for the quarter. (However see the OSGi note below.) Two PMC members have been active this quarter, and three others have indicated their presence.. On the dev mail list there was some interest from another ASF committer and a patch. If they return then perhaps a new committer candidate. The user mail list is the most quiet that i have ever seen it. It has never been a big volume list. There was no follow-up regarding the recent release. Perhaps we did such a good job that nobody needed help. There was one question on the user mail list which was attended to by a PMC member. Progress of the project: Some important supporting products were upgraded. One of our PMC members commenced a new effort for Forrest as OSGi framework. We encourage other people to investigate this initial work. Our dist and archives area was always tidy, many thanks to Stefan's Mirror Guide document. Attend to project branding: (Same note as last report.) Most of this is now done. The main banner now has TM. Not yet done for the other project logo. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. As this gradually happens, the changes will be reflected.
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: Gavin McDonald (gmcdonald) resigned. Progress of the project: We finally released 0.9 on 2011-02-07. Many thanks to everyone involved over the almost four years since the previous release. The result of lots of effort is now available. Enjoy. Please come to our Forrest mailing lists for assistance with upgrading your sites, and help us to add features. Attend to project branding: Most of this is now done. The main banner now has TM. Not yet done for the other project logo. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. As this gradually happens, the changes will be reflected. General status: Development has been quiet for the quarter. The 0.9 release late in this quarter seems to have sparked some interest in post-release development. Questions on the user mail list are being attended to by a few PMC members. That list is very quiet. In December I prepared a release plan to draw attention, gather enthusiasm, and set out a schedule to encourage people to help with the release. That release plan was well-supported. For the actual release, we had a few people help with testing and review. The vote scraped through. So not sure what is the state of project health. Hopefully the release will re-invigorate the project.
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. General status: Development is quiet. On the dev mail list, developers are assisting each other. Some patches were received this quarter, but not yet applied. Questions on the user mail list are being attended to by a couple of PMC members. That list is quiet. Progress of the project: Added a new whiteboard plugin output.Markdown Discovered that some people think that forrest cannot be run with Java 6. Added an FAQ to explain that it is only for some non-necessary validation of some configuration files, and show two workarounds. A few PMC members did some more work towards sorting out the issues needing to be addressed prior to our upcoming release. Our zone is moved to the new server. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18. Attend to project branding: # Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org Yes. # Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. Yes, done. FIXME: The home page description is done. Need to ensure that any other use of the description is using this new copy. # Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included Yes done for our main site. FIXME: Need to check all "plugin" sites. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. # Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. Yes done for our main site. FIXME: Need to check all "plugin" sites. Many plugin sites need to be re-deployed. # Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site Not yet included TM. Do not have source for one logo. For the other banner, we do have the source and a way to generate it in tools/logos but not yet done this. # Project Metadata: DOAP file checked-in and up to date We were an early adopter of DOAP, so do have it. Need to ensure that it is up-to-date.
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: Ross Gardler asked to be moved to emeritus state. That was effected early in this quarter. General status: Development is quiet. On the dev mail list, the developers are assisting each other. Questions on the user mail list are being attended to by a couple of PMC members. That list is quiet. Progress of the project: A few PMC members did some more work towards sorting out the issues needing to be addressed prior to our upcoming release. Upgraded some supporting products. Commenced assessment of the status of all plugins. Improved the presentation of plugin details. Commenced moving our zone to the new server. We now have Apache Gump again building Forrest. Many thanks to Stefan Bodewig for the assistance. A couple of PMC members did some assessment of the well-known XML vulnerability that was recently discussed in other project reports. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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. General status: Development is quiet. On the dev mail list, the developers are assisting each other. Issues on the user mail list are being attended to by a couple of PMC members. A little more activity than last quarter. A few PMC members did some work towards sorting out the issues needing to be addressed prior to our upcoming release. Commenced a discussion about some aspects of deciding the content of the upcoming release. Not sufficient progress yet. Thanks to Brian Dube and Tim Williams who were elected as new ASF Members at the recent Members meeting. Progress of the project: Made a decision to use Java 1.5 for the upcoming release. The vote received response from various PMC members. A couple of PMC members resolved an issue with the license of a supporting product, which was one of the release holdups. Worked on an issue with our docs build demo of JIRA reports interaction. Received help from a committer from another project. Thanks. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: Be aware that activity appears to be generally quiet, but obviously some efforts are being made. Changes in the PMC membership: None. General status: Development is very quiet. Issues on the user mail list are being attended to by a couple of PMC members. That list is extremely quiet this quarter. A few PMC members worked on sorting out the issues needing to be addressed prior to our next release. A PMC member merged a development branch, the next version of the Dispatcher, a new skinning/theming/structuring mechanism. Some post-merge issues were identified. Since late-December there has been very little activity. The next quarter should give a better idea of the state of the project. Progress of the project: No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation. Issues needing board attention: Be aware of response to last quarterly report's queries. Changes in the PMC membership: None General status: Development is still rather quiet, as noted in previous reports. Issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is extremely quiet this quarter. Encouraged one new developer to send some documentation patches. Those patches were applied. However, in general, the patch queue is not getting shorter. Some minimal progress with the upcoming release. See EHcache and licensing notes below. See October discussion on the dev list. There are many aspects where people can assist, but it seems difficult to encourage them to. There was an attempt to re-kindle the project with a "Status and future direction" discussion starter: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/27325/focus=27384 and a couple of other related threads around the same time. No substantial outcome yet. The discussion (which we have had on various past occasions) seems to have two important themes: Forrest, in terms of its original intent, is still relevant to people; The current, overly complex, implementation seems to be holding development back. Sent an alert message to the private@ list to remind anyone who might not be closely watching the dev list. Sent an "assistance with Apache Forrest" message to every ASF project that uses Forrest to manage its project website. Intentional multiple-meaning: showed some useful facilities that people might not be aware of (e.g. documenting how the Forrest project manages our own docs), and alerted them to the Status thread, and asked to assist us. Progress of the project: Made some improvements with the method for declaring the licensing situation for supporting products. The license header situation for source files was already attended to. Now also using Apache RAT (in incubation) to monitor. Enabled EXSLT stylesheets to be utilised by core and by plugins and by project sites. A committer added a new iCal output plugin, which assists with virtual meeting notes. We replaced the custom caching implementation with EHCache in the LocationMap feature. Given how integral the LM has become, this gives us much better overall performance, concurrent behavior, and cache configuration options. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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: Sina Heshmati is a new committer and PMC member. General status: Development is still rather quiet, as noted in previous reports. Issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is very quiet this quarter. As usual when voting in a new committer/PMC member, discussions arose about various aspects of the project. A number of people came out of dormancy to air their views. This indicates that the project is still breathing and that people do care. There were a few suggestions, such as elaborating on our existing public statements about the status and potential directions for the project. These were not acted on in the subsequent three months. Progress of the project: FOR-1172 enable validation of the internal xml Improved "Trademark" statements on our website. Some improvements to the TEI input and output plugins. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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 General status: Development is still rather quiet, as noted in previous reports. Some users were encouraged to discuss issues and contributions on the development mail list. Most issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is also still quiet, but there is a slight increase compared to the past year. Progress of the project: Discussion commenced about merging some whiteboard development into the trunk. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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 General status: Development is still rather quiet, as noted in previous reports. Developers are still assisting each other when needed. Low traffic on the user list. Still being answered by various developers. Progress of the project: One committer continued to progress the next version of "Dispatcher" in our whiteboard area. Two committers presented sessions at German "tcworld conference 2008" (tekom-Jahrestagung 2008). Also there were several other presentations for smaller groups all through 2008 year. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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 General status: A spurt of developer activity early in the quarter, as a couple of committers fixed a long-standing issue with our version of Apache Cocoon. See below, about that and other progress. Otherwise development is still rather quiet, as noted in previous reports. Developers are still assisting each other when needed. Low traffic on the user list. Still being answered by various developers. Progress of the project: Our packaged version of Apache Cocoon has been changed to use the latest version of their stable 2.1 branch. This is a major step forward for Forrest. It enables us to use a reliable and up-to-date Cocoon. Forrest developers can again participate at Cocoon to fix issues or develop new blocks. A number of major performance issues are already fixed in this version. In previous versions of Forrest we were using a development version of Cocoon trunk (i.e. 2.2). A number of things happened which caused us to fall out of synchronisation with Cocoon. They started using Maven as a build system, which took a long time to settle down. In turn that meant that Apache Gump could not perform continuous integration, which shut Forrest off. At the same time Cocoon trunk was making technical advances which changed some of the ways that Forrest interacts with Cocoon. In particular the command-line interface which Forrest uses to build a complete static site. See other notes via FOR-1017. Cocoon-2.1 is closer to our stalled version of Cocoon-2.2 than the current head of Cocoon-2.2 trunk. One committer continued to progress the next version of "Dispatcher" in our whiteboard area. Another committer improved the PDF plugin, with assistance from others to define naming conventions. The PDF output plugin can now utilise a FOP configuration file, e.g. to specify the font family via configuration. Work progressed with using i18n catalogues for each plugin. The PDF plugin demonstrates. A committer presented a session at ApacheCon US 2008. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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 General status: Progress has been generally slow this quarter. Most developers seem busy with other stuff. This quarter feels stronger, committers are obviously still around and helping each other when occasional issues arise for them. Last quarter we reported that the user mail list was hardly used. This quarter it is a little better. One user was encouraged to contribute a patch. Issues are being attended to by various developers. Some users were helping other users. Checked for weak SSH keys on our zone server. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC: Improve the project guidelines document. Improve our way of presenting license information for included products. Progress of the project: Defined a naming convention for plugin properties. Added XInclude to our xdoc DTD. XInclude was already handled by Cocoon processing. Now it can be used in input source XML without validation errors. Discussion commenced about a potential new plugin which has some obvious legal issues. Discussion was re-kindled (towards end of this report period) about moving our internal document format to be XHTML2. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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 ----------------------------- Jeremias Maerki is a new committer and PMC member. General status -------------- Progress has been generally slow this quarter. Most developers seem busy with other stuff. Most issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is also quiet. In fact there were almost no non-developer postings during this quarter. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Improve the project guidelines document. Improve our way of presenting license information for included products. Progress of the project ----------------------- Attended to final step of "Export Notification policy". Sent BIS email notice soon after our last quarterly board report, i.e. 2008-03-05. See FOR-1069. Good collaboration at beginning of the quarter to get newest Apache FOP integrated. Followed on soon after to use its new "any protocol" ability to solve a long-standing images-in-pdf bug. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
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 General status -------------- Progress has been generally slow this quarter. Most developers seem busy with other stuff. Most issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is also quiet. Progress of the project ----------------------- A committer is working on a branch to utilise an updated Apache FOP. An initial proposal for a "Windows installer". An issue was raised about Forrest including some not-yet-released Cocoon code. Forrest PMC needs to follow up to summarise. We already attend to legalities of included products on a day-to-day basis, and some efforts have been made to better document our licensing situation. Started to attend to "Export Notification policy". Commenced review of our SVN, added Forrest entry to "exports" page, encouraged PMC to help with review, waiting for more input before sending BIS email. See FOR-1069. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- None General status -------------- Progress has been generally slow this quarter. Most devs seem busy with other stuff. Most issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is also quiet. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Just the usual continue to develop project guidelines doc. Progress of the project ----------------------- Some enhancements to the FOAF plugin. One committer started a new effort in the whiteboard to package some important Forrest components as Apache Cocoon "blocks". Perhaps this will also lead to the important job of getting Forrest's use of Cocoon up-to-date. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18. Last quarter we reported discussion commenced with Apache Maven project about a section of code in the Forrest SVN (codename "forrestdoc") which was rescued long ago from the defunct Apache Jakarta Alexandria project. It has never been actually used by Forrest. This is now smoothly handed over to Maven. Issue FOR-820.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None. Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- Brian Dube (bdube) is a new committer and PMC member. He was in the process of being added at the time of the last report and is now established. General status -------------- Progress has been generally slow this quarter. Most devs seem busy with other stuff. We have two "Google Summer of Code (GSoC)" students this year. Progress was disappointing. Input from the rest of development community also seemed slow. Any issues on the user mail list are being attended to by various developers. That list is also quiet. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Just the usual continue to develop project guidelines doc. There was another short discussion about branch development. Progress of the project ----------------------- Two new plugins have been commenced in the whiteboard as a result of GSoC: - "skos" to handle input documents as Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems (SKOS). - "foaf" to handle input documents in Friend of a Friend (FOAF) format. Another new plugin commenced in the whiteboard - "tei" to handle input and ouput documents as TEI-Lite Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Also the "doap" plugin has received some attention, which has driven the Dispatcher forward in a "power use" environment, ironing out some bugs. This has enabled us to create considerably more flexible sites and plugins which take Forrest to a new level of utility. No releases since 0.8 on 2007-04-18. There was some discussion commenced with the Apache Maven project about a section of code in the Forrest SVN (codename "forrestdoc") which was rescued long ago from the defunct Apache Jakarta Alexandria project. It has never been actually used by Forrest. The Forrest developers have had a discussion about their position, but not yet finalised by following up with Maven.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- We elected one new committer and PMC member Brian Dube <bdube>. Brian accepted, but the process is still happening. General status -------------- Progress has been generally slow this quarter. Most devs seem busy with other stuff. We have two "Google Summer of Code" students this year. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Just the usual continue to develop project guidelines doc. Progress of the project ----------------------- At the end of April we gathered some steam and released Forrest-0.8 version. Locationmaps define the mapping from requests to locations, which enables content and resources to be located at various different sources.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- None General status -------------- Progress has been slow this quarter. Most devs seem busy with other stuff. Steady activity on the user list. Committers and other developers are assisting. We became aware of a book soon to be published about Forrest. The author has recently been participating on the dev list. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Just the usual continue to develop project guidelines doc. Progress of the project ----------------------- Still not released the pending 0.8 version. However there has been progress with discusions about how to package the product into separate sections rather than as a monolith. Forrest has a problem regarding our many packaged supporting products in the lib/core directory. Work has commenced on a branch for converting our build system to use Ivy dependency management. A new Forrest plugin is in development for integrating output with an Apache Lucene Solr search server. Such efforts might encourage new developers.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None. Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- New committer/PMC member Sjur Moshagen (sjur). General status -------------- Progress has been slower this quarter. Most devs seem busy with other stuff. Some new developers are participating on the mailing lists. Seems to be a bit more activity on the user list. Committers and other developers are assisting there. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Continue our project guidelines document. Been making links to various dev email discussions about how to deal with new development and when to branch. Need to get that into words. No progress since last report. Continue the discussion about our use of IRC (monthly sessions been on hold). Progress of the project ----------------------- Discussed the architecture of the framework, especially in relation to how we use Cocoon. Needs more exploration. No release date has yet been set for 0.8 but we are continuing the phase of trimming the list of scheduled issues, so the release is likely to be soon. That is what we said in the last three board reports, but yes we are making some progress.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- New committer/PMC member Gavin McDonald <gmcdonald> General status -------------- The project still feels a nice place to be. Collaborative and productive. Some developers are participating more on the mail lists. Most committers seem to be very busy, but obviously still have time to dedicate to the project. Multiple committers are attending to tasks such as fine-tuning the release process and regularly publishing the website. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Continue with our project guidelines docs. Progress of the project ----------------------- Updated our source license headers. Investigated possibilities for distributing optional plugins that have ASF-licensed bridge-code connecting to non-distributed products. Reviewed and documented our release procedure in readiness for the upcoming release. Discussed our monthly IRC sessions. Since then, these seem to be on hold. The project has not yet decided how to conduct future sessions. Started to re-organise the website navigation to improve before release. As mentioned last time, the next release is still not yet ready. Progress is being made.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None. Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- No new committers/PMC members. General status -------------- The development community is healthy. We recently encountered some issues with communication style and with respect to what constitutes an "active" developer/PMC member (see below). These issues have led to healthy and open discussions, first on the private PMC list so that we could be frank with each other and later on the dev lists once the "rawness" had been removed. As a result of these discussions, the development community has once again become focused and clearly defined. The development community is steady, but not growing at a desirable rate. Some new developers are taking a keen interest and making contributions. Some longer-term developers are gathering steam. There are three potential sessions for ApacheCon EU 2006. This is expected to encourage an influx of developers. We are experimenting with "project management roles" to clearly define certain tasks that need to be done to keep the project flowing. With the tasks being well-defined, the hope is that various people will be able to assist and so not rely on a couple of individuals to do all the work. Our initial project guidelines were based on copies from various other projects and included the term "Active PMC Members". This seems to lead to trouble. For example when voting, it is difficult to define who is active. So we decided to drop the "Active" concept altogether. We encourage everyone to just do whatever work that they can manage, with absolutely no pressure from the project. PMC members can still declare themselves "emeritus" if they feel the need. For background: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=406530&view=rev Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ Continue our project guidelines document. Been making links to various dev email discussions about how to deal with new development and when to branch. Need to get that into words. Discussion has been re-kindled recently. Progress of the project ----------------------- We have been making very good use of our Issue Tracker. This has enabled us to have a better view of the state of the project and seems to be encouraging developers to get involved. No release date has yet been set for 0.8 but we have reached the phase of trimming the list of scheduled issues, so the release is likely to be soon. That is what we said in our last board report, but yes we are making progress.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ Dirk, as our shepherd, made some useful notes on our last board report. As it takes such a long time for the minutes to become public at http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html is it okay for me to pass on Dirk's comments as-is to our private pmc list or do i need to paraphrase it? I would prefer to follow up with issues on our dev list rather than our pmc list. Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- No new committers/PMC members. General status -------------- * The development community is healthy. * Thanks to Antonio Gallardo and Ross Gardler who are now ASF members. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ * Continue our project guidelines document. Been making links to various email discussions about how to deal with new development (when to branch). Need to get that into words. * Need to read up about how other projects deal with PMC members becoming emeritus and then define a policy. Progress of the project ----------------------- * No release date has yet been set for 0.8 although our move to fully utilising the locationmap internally is almost complete, and so the release is likely to be soon. That is what we said in our last board report, but yes we are making good progress. * Strong progress has been made on the new Dispatcher system. This is the Structurer and Themer to build a reliable common structure for documents, incorporate other content and provide hooks for applying themes. Soon to move it into the core plugins. * forrest.zones.apache.org (see details of usage in our last board report). Since then we have one more committer become active on the zone. That helps with the admin load. * Forrest Friday. Our monthly get together on IRC are getting even better. See details in last month's board report about logs and summaries, together with the comments from Dirk. The techniques are functioning well. Yes we need to improve on IRC nicknames matching up with committer IDs. Some committers use "cloaks" to declare their ASF ID. We need to encourage more. See forrest.apache.org/forrest-friday.html
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None Changes in the PMC membership ----------------------------- Added Cyriaque Dupoirieux <cdupoirieux> [2005-08-25] as a new committer and PMC member. Nicola Ken Barozzi resigned from the PMC on 2005-11-02 which was a sad day. The reason is work-related pressure. Don't worry, nothing to do with community-related issues, other than the fact that the community is a lesser place with Nicola Ken's departure. Thanks to you. We do hope to see you back some day. General status -------------- * The development community is healthy, with various new people becoming more involved. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ * Continue our project guidelines document. Progress of the project ----------------------- * Steady progress has been made on the new Dispatcher system, previous codename "views". This is the Structurer and Themer to build a reliable common structure for documents, incorporate other content and provide hooks for applying themes. New developers are getting involved. * No release date has yet been set for 0.8 although our move to fully utilising the locationmap internally is almost complete, and so the release is likely to be soon. * The Google Summer of Code project was completed. This provides a basis for an Eclipse plugin for Forrest. Thanks to the student Anil Ramnanan, and to Ross Gardler the mentor, and of course to Google. It didn't result in new committers or steady new contributions, but Anil still pops in occasionally. The GSoC did stimulate some more community-related discussions about what it means to be a committer, although we already do this anyway. * We have been making good use of our zone for continuous building of our samples and our code. This reports issues to our dev community within the hour, so breakages are quickly fixed. Also assisted the Cocoon project to generate their experimental new documentation system. * ForrestFriday. We have started a monthly get together on IRC. This channel is a different name each month and it is only open for the day. We make efforts to keep the main discussion channel at the mailing lists. The log is added to our "events" SVN. It has been very succesful, and we think that it also assists with community-building and getting to know each other. dirkx: notes -> 7 active committers; 20 odd developers. Dev and Users about the same patterns. Active. Overlapping commits in both directions. JIRA shows pattern. -> IRC discussion positive and interaction richt; at least on par with mailing list. Fact that it is archived and published thus means it gets into 'google'. -> First event had an excelent summary for those not participating. Later ones do not. -> 'sort -u' on PMC, recent commits and those participating in the channel leaves holes; compounded by IRC handles being obscure/anonymous. General discussion item -> encourage/allow more of this IRC but experiment with better ID's and summaries to mailing list until we confirm wide community participation ?
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ None New committers and new PMC members ---------------------------------- Diwaker Gupta <diwaker> [2005-07-19] Tim Williams <twilliams> [2005-07-20] Cyriaque Dupoirieux (received CLA, account still not established) General community status ------------------------ * ApacheCon was a great success. Our first presentation about Forrest. Two of our committers combined well to present an overview. There was plenty of interest at the BoF. * The mailing lists seem to be gaining momentum. Capable new developers are assisting and contributing. * Ongoing discussion of what it means to be a committer at Forrest and the ASF in general. Good to see people involved who are not yet committers. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ * Continue our project guidelines document. Progress of the project ----------------------- * Apache Forrest 0.7 was released on 2005-06-23. An architecture for Plugins which enables a smaller Forrest core and the ability to add new features in a modular way. * Moved our Jira Issues over from cocoondev.org Thanks to Outerthought and Steven Noels for providing the service. Thanks to Jeff Turner for the flawless export/import. * forrest.zones.apache.org is established and starting to demonstrate some of our wares. * We have one Google Summer of Code person working with us to assist with enabling Forrest to be used with Eclipse. General observations during last quarter ---------------------------------------- * The delay with creating new committer accounts is causing anguish. Are there ways that the PMC can assist?
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ Last quarter i asked that the board clarify the change to the copyright line in each source file (added "or its licensors, as applicable"). The board did discuss this, but there was no outcome, so mentioned here again. New committers and new PMC members ---------------------------------- Two new people were added to the PMC. They are also new committers. Johannes Schaefer josch@apache.org Ferdinand Soethe ferdinand@apache.org General status -------------- * Some of our older committers/PMC have gone quiet for a while. That is not a problem at this stage, we expect people to come and go. However with a small committer base in a new project, we need to pay attention. * Two of our committers are presenting a Tutorial at ApacheCon EU. This is the first ever for Forrest. We seek new developers and technical users. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ * Move our Jira issue tracker to apache.org from cocoondev.org This had been stalled, but is starting to happen again. * Demonstration forrestbot on brutus needs to move to an appropriate home. Progress of the project ----------------------- * Steadily working on 0.7-dev and getting very close to its release. * Good work done on the new plugin system. * Started planning our use of the soon-to-be available server zone. General observations during last quarter ---------------------------------------- * A "Legal FAQ" is required at the top-level ASF website to assist all committers/PMCs.
Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ Clarification of the recent discussion on legal-discuss about the new Copyright line in the source license header. New committers and new PMC members ---------------------------------- None General status -------------- * Published our initial "project guidelines". We looked around many other projects and distilled our own set. http://forrest.apache.org/guidelines.html * Updated the license headers for all our source files to reflect the recent Board resolution to change the Copyright line. * The community is developing at a steady pace on dev and users lists. There are some potential new committers which we will get to soon. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ None at this stage. Progress of the project ----------------------- * Steadily working on 0.7-dev * Good work done on the new plugin system. * Demonstration forrestbot now on brutus. General observations during last quarter ---------------------------------------- * A "Legal FAQ" is required at the top-level ASF website to assist all committers/PMCs.
Issues needing board attention
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None.
New committers and new PMC members
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* Two existing committers are now also PMC members, so now all active
committers are on the PMC:
Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org>
Thorsten Scherler <thorsten@apache.org>
* Elected a new committer and PMC member:
Rick Tessner <rick@apache.org>
General status
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* The section of our draft bylaws dealing with new committers and new
PMC members has been completed, so now we can finally vote some new
people in.
* As discussed last quarter, we turned our attention to enhance
the top-level ASF docs, especially the "how-it-works" document.
Where possible our project guidelines are simply referring.
Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC
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* Still not yet completed our project bylaws, but it is a lot closer
than last quarter.
* Handling sudden growth of the project is an ongoing issue.
Progress
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* Released Forrest-0.6 on 2004-10-15
* Working on a plugins system and restructured our SVN. This will
make it easier for users to add features and to contribute in
smaller and more manageable chunks.
* We seem to have a big influx of new users.
General observations during last quarter
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* Apache Infrastructure needs more help. There is a backlog,
especially with root creating new committer accounts.
* We declined the kind offer from the PRC to assist with promotion of
the project. We feel that we are too small to bear the load of many
new users that would ensue from an official press release. So we
want to grow steadily, then make a bigger splash when we reach the
Forrest-1.0 release.
* Despite this low-profile, we are getting a stack of new users, and
not sufficient new developers to ease the load. We are gradually
recruiting new committers. If any other project has smart solutions
and hints for steadily growing a project, then we would be pleased
to help to enhance the top-level docs at /dev/ and Incubator, to
assist current and future PMCs.
Issues needing board attention ______________________________ None New committers and new PMC members __________________________________ None General status ______________ * Successfully moved to top-level forrest.apache.org * The community is steadily expanding and contributing. * A bit hampered by not enough people to get a release out, and supporting a growing user base on the old 0.5 version. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ________________________________________________ * Not yet completed our project guidelines. Some of us have turned our attention to the top-level ASF docs, especially the "how-it-works" document. We will continue to enhance those docs, then our project guidelines can just refer. * This delay with defining roles means that we cannot yet bring in any new committers or PMC members. We have had good PMC discussion about the procedure and are now close. Progress ________ * Created as top-level project, with all that entails. * Thanks to infrastructure@ for their help with the move. * Moved from old xml.apache.org/forrest and added .htaccess * Retained links and association at Apache XML project. * Started process to move Jira Issues from cocoondev.org (thanks to Outerthought for getting us started). * Since creation of user@f.a.o list we have many new users. * New distribution mirrors for Forrest (still old 0.5.1). * Ever closer to 0.6 release, we use it for our website. General observations during last quarter ________________________________________ * Need improved and consistent top-level ASF docs. * Need guidelines for PMCs to assess licenses and to know what to do when unlicensed code is committed by accident. * The process with infrastructure@ to set up a new project is difficult for everyone. It was a lot of work for us to get ready and to define our needs, and then a lot of work in dribs and drabs to get actually established. Don't know what to suggest, other than we need to encourage more people to help at infra@ and need to steadily improve the /dev/ web-space to provide guidelines and templates for requests.