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| Date | Action | Decided by |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-26 | Appointed Cezar Andrei | the board, by resolution |
| 2004-06-23 | Appointed Cliff Schmidt | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-17 | Terminate the Apache XMLBeans Project | special order | approved |
| 2004-06-23 | Establish the Apache XMLBeans PMC | special order | approved |
No report was submitted. Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted. AI: Doug to "offer" to send XMLBeans to the Attic if they continue to not report. Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
No report was submitted. AI: Doug: is this project still viable? Committee reports, excluding Maven and MyFaces, approved as submitted by General Consent.
No report was submitted. AI: Doug follow up with XMLBeans PMC to see if this project is still viable.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted. AI: Jim: start process to move XMLBeans to the Attic Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
No report was submitted.
About XMLBeans: XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. Since our last board report, XMLBeans had a new release 2.6.0 in August. Also, we're in the process to add a new committer, a vote is ongoing for a long time community member: Jerry Sy to become an XMLBeans committer. Also one PMC member, Ken Kress, opted to become emeritus and was marked as such in Apache records. There are no other issues requiring board's attention.
No report was submitted. AI: Sam to pursue a report for XMLBeans
About XMLBeans: XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. XMLBeans missed the reports to the board since March, I'm fully responsible for this. For the last six months, the traffic on mailing list went down with the exception of this month. The traffic in the last month is due to the proposed new release, release candidate 2 is already out 3 should come soon. Our last release was more than one year ago. Even though the traffic is low, there are non-committer people participating on the mailing list and even submitting patches. The involvement of many XMLBeans committers is very low or absent for the last six months. We're looking to attract new committers, I hope we'll have at least one proposal soon. There were no changes in PMC or new committers since last report. There are no other issues requiring board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the July 25, 2012 board meeting.
No report was submitted. Low level of activity. On Attic watch.
No report was submitted. AI: Greg to pursue a report for XMLBeans Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
No report was submitted. AI: Greg to pursue a report for XMLBeans
No report was submitted.
About XMLBeans: XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. XMLBeans continues with activity on the mailing list, latest release was made available in the maven 2 repository missing found by an outside user. But in the same time code contributions are down, partly due to code stability. There were no new committers or PMC changes in the last quarter. The only problem worth mentioning is the amount spam on the wiki. It can't be maintained manually anymore. I asked infrastructure@apache.org a couple of times but there was no response. In my opinion, we require a global solution for all Apache wikis, if there isn't one already. UPDATE: Infra sent a response but I didn't received it. I opened JIRA INFRA-4230: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4230 for tracking it.
About XMLBeans: XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. Not much code development happening since the last report but there was a flurry of emails on the mailing list and also wiki updates. There was no new releases but there is talk about a new release, if the current committers find the time to work on it. We need to bring new people to the project. There were no new committers or PMC changes for this period and now other issues requiring board's attention.
XMLBeans Board Report - July 2011 About XMLBeans: XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. XMLBeans missed the submission to last board meeting so this combines information for the last month and the previous quarter. This was a regular quarter for XMLBeans project, there were no release, no new committers or changes in PMC. Email traffic on mailing lists was lower than previous quarters, but for last month the number got closer to older rate, there are still new users with new usage questions that are answered promptly. XMLBeans PMC responded to boards request to remove the old releases from Apache dist.
XMLBeans is a technology for accessing XML by binding it to Java types. XMLBeans provides an XMLSchema Object Model, and in-memory XML store and a set of tools to make XML manipulation a lot much easier. Though the traffic on the lists went down for the last 3 month, there were a few instances when new users asked for new features and even submitted a simple patch for a possible solution. This most likely shows that new people are still using XMLBeans but in the same time it became a solid and stable technology. The PMC started discussions for a new XMLBeans release. Since our last report to the board there were no new releases or changes in the PMC or committers.
As usual there are a steady number of messages on the mailing lists, the code commits are mostly bug fixes as the technology becomes more stable. There is almost one year from the latest release, this should make us think about planning for triggering another release. For this last quarter, there were no new releases, no new committers or PMC changes. At this time there are no issues requiring the board's attention.
The community around XMLBeans remains the same, traffic seems steady on the mailing list, and people are asking lots of questions while others are answering them timely. Number of check-ins is getting lower, due probably to the fact that XMLBeans is a stable technology and also due to the summer time. There were no new committers, changes to the PMC or any other issues requiring board’s attention.
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XMLBeans is a technology for accessing XML by binding it to Java types. XMLBeans also provides APIs to handle XMLSchema metadata, to access XML as a DOM or as a low lever cursor based model. As usual the traffic is steady on the mailing lists, new bugs, questions, comments and most important answers were present both from committers and non-committers. There were no new releases, no new committers or pmc changes for this period. There are no issues requiring board’s attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the June 16, 2010 board meeting.
XMLBeans missed the report last month; we're following up this month. Since the last report in December, XMLBeans had finished the 2.5.0 release, new bugs and fixes went in since than. After the holidays the traffic on the mailing lists came back up, as always there are questions from new people all the time, and answers from both committers and non committers. There were no new committers or PMC changes this quarter, nor any other issues requiring board's attention.
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This quarter was a busy one for the developers of XMLBeans with the v2.5.0 release preparations. Right now we're in the process of voting for RC1 to become the official v2.5.0 release. Community wise, the involvement on the mailing lists with questions, answers, feature requests and release continues steadily. There were no new committers or PMC changes this quarter. There are no issues requiring board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the December 16, 2009 board meeting.
XMLBeans Report There was a regular quarter for XMLBeans. On the development side there were quite a few new fixes checked in, which brings us on the brink of a new release. And on the community side the mailing lists are busy as usual and the PMC voted on adding Jacob Danner and Wing Yew Poon to its ranks. The vote ended with only positive answers, they were acknowledged by the ASF board and they were added to the XMLBeans PMC. There are no other issues that require board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the September 23, 2009 board meeting.
(updated from June report that missed the deadline) This last quarter was a usual quarter for XMLBeans. There were commits with bugs fixes and a few new features, notably a patch for a new feature from a non committer contributor. Activity on the mailing lists continue at the same levels, there are always new users asking but also answering questions. Out of the ordinary, XMLBeans PMC is sponsoring the proposal of Apache VXQuery project for incubation. At this moment the proposal has met the requirements of the Incubator PMC. There were no new committers or PMC changes, and no new releases this quarter. There are no other matters requiring board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the July 15, 2009 board meeting.
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The activity on the mailing lists stays at the same levels with a slight increase in the last few weeks. There were a few bugs on JIRA that were promptly responded and closed. Also a bigger feature is in discussion that came from a non committer. For this quarter, there were no new releases though there were code fixes going into trunk. There were no new committers and no PMC changes and no other issues requiring board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the March 18, 2009 board meeting.
As usual traffic on the mailing list remains stable, there are many questions from fresh new users. The process of adding Wing Yew as a new committer has been finished. Development was focused mainly on bug fixes, many of them found by the community, some even had fix patches. There were no new releases this quarter, and there were no issues requiring board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the December 17, 2008 board meeting.
On July 8, there has been a new official XMLBeans release v2.4.0 that included numerous features and bug fixes requested by the community. A few of the improvements in this release: . Finer grained support for CDATA . Upgraded support for Saxon 9 . Added more fine-grained control over XML to Java name mapping . Add support for JVM-supported encodings . Advanced XPath and XQuery support is provided through Saxon-9.0.0.4. . Bug fixes The community continues to grow both through presence on the mailing list but also by adding a new committer. The project voted this quarter on the addition of Wing Yew Poon as a new committer. There are no other issues requiring board's attention at this time. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the September 17, 2008 board meeting.
XMLBeans board report, June 2008 Last quarter was a little busier than usual; there were more checkins than usual, including new features and fixes in preparation for the next release. The process for the new v2.4.0 release has started. Activity on the mailing lists also seems to have increased in the last month. There are no new committers or pmc changes. Also there are no issues to require board's attention. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the June 25, 2008 board meeting.
As usual, development continues with small fixes. On the community side, the mailing list seems to have increased the traffic lately, mostly with user questions that get answered quite promptly. There were no releases, no new committers and no issues to be brought to board's attention this quarter. The Cryptography discussion was brought on dev list, and we believe that XMLBeans project doesn't contain or directly use any cryptographic code, so there is no requirement for export control notifications. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the March 19, 2008 board meeting.
The project continues to be active. The development continues mostly with bug fixes. The traffic on mailing lists continues to be high. There are many user questions but many show XMLBeans as part of complex applications. There are no new releases this time. There were no PMC changes. Jacob Danner was added as a new committer to the project. Also we found out that the latest release of IntelliJ Idea (7.0.1) includes out of the box integration with XMLBeans.
The project continues to be active. There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time. For the last months activity on user list is about the same, on the dev list decreased a little compared to previous quarter when the 2.3 release was prepared. A new feature that allows XMLBeans instance objects to interact with Hibernate and other frameworks that use public empty constructors, was discussed on the dev list. Jacob Danner was voted and added as a new committer. There were no PMC changes this quarter. ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the September 19, 2007 board meeting.
Activity on XMLBeans increased in the last months, there was more traffic on the mailing list and there were more commits than usual in preparation for a new release. After four release candidates, XMLBeans v2.3.0 was released on June 1st. Few of the improvements in this release, for a more complete list of changes see CHANGES.txt. * Added options to handle serialization of CDATA sections * Improved XQuery support by updating support of SaxonB-8.8 * Numerous bug fixes There were no new committers or PMC changes this last quarter.
Development increased to the end of the quarter in order to push for a new release. The preparations for the new release influenced traffic on both dev and user lists, but weve also seen an increased traffic from user community unrelated to the release. There were no new committers or PMC changes. A new release is in the process, there has been already 2 RC-s, and the third is in the making to include a change request to remove the QName and NamespaceContext classes from the xmlbeans jar. xmlbeansc++ subproject: XMLBeans PMC and subproject mentor Cliff Schmidt recommended in the last board report to close the subproject due to lack of interest from committers and community.
Following the request of the board regarding the status of xmlbeanscxx subproject, Cliff Schmidt, mentor of the project, sent out a message on the project's email list cxx-dev@xmlbeans.apache.org asking if the project needs to be closed since there wasn't any serious activity in the last 6 months. Cliff received a couple private emails from xmlbeans-cxx committers saying that they don't believe this project is likely to become more active in the foreseeable future. Given the circumstances, with regrets, XMLBeans PMC and Cliff's recommendation is to officially close xmlbeanscxx subproject.
Development continues with small enhancements and bug fixes. Traffic on mailing lists seems to be at the same levels after a little slowdown during holidays. There were no new releases this quarter but discussion started on dev list for a new 2.3 release. There arent any new committers or PMC changes. Xmlbeanscxx subproject: Report not yet received.
Development continues on the same trend, there was an upgrade to use the latest version of Saxon 8.8 for XPath/XQuery support in XMLBeans and a more flexible Schema generator and bug fixes related to xml saving, error handling of type system, dates and duration. Traffic on the mailing lists is at the same levels, though new users are asking questions, sometimes quite advanced. There were no new releases, though it's probably a good time to start thinking of a new minor release. There were no new committers or PMC changes. Status for XMLBeanscxx subproject: 1) 2 committers granted karma 2) initial code drop into ASF 3) some discussions w/ other Apache projects re: usage of xmlbeanscxx
1. Development continues with a few new features like options for controlling when CDATA is used, update executing XQuery with Saxon-B version 8.6.1 engine and bug fixes for synchronization, locking, serialization and XQuery execution. 2. XMLBeans v2.2.0 was released on 23rd of June. 3. There were no new committers or PMC changes this time. 4. For XMLBeansCxx project in Incubator, from Cliff Schmidt: The xmlbeanscxx proposal has been resubmitted with a somewhat different set of committers and a new code base. Just after being accepted for incubation some time ago, the committers discovered that another open source developer had a similar code base. The two groups got together before anything got started at Apache and have come back with a new proposal, which is being voted on now by the XMLBeans pmc (results will be known Tuesday morning PDT).
1. Development is going as usual, a few small features but mostly bug fixes, this probably explains dev list traffic slowing but traffic is going up on user list and JIRA. 2. The process for a new release v2.2.0 is going on right now. 3. PMC Chair change Cezar Andrei replaced Cliff Schmidt. 4. There were two JavaOne BOF's that talked about XMLBeans: XMLBeans 2.1: A Java(tm) Technology Developer's Perspective and What You Need to Know About Schema Design Patterns and Java(tm) Technology. 5. From xmlbeanscxx subproject: Still moving slowly after the new subproject proposal sent out 03/29/06. The current plan is to call for a vote on this proposal after a new mentor is found to help Cliff Schmidt - the current mentor.
1. Development is going as usual, a few small features but mostly bug fixes, this probably explains dev list traffic slowing but traffic is going up on user list and JIRA. 2. The process for a new release v2.2.0 is going on right now. 3. PMC Chair change Cezar Andrei replaced Cliff Schmidt. 4. There were two JavaOne BOF's that talked about XMLBeans: XMLBeans 2.1: A Java(tm) Technology Developer's Perspective and What You Need to Know About Schema Design Patterns and Java(tm) Technology. 5. From xmlbeanscxx subproject: Still moving slowly after the new subproject proposal sent out 03/29/06. The current plan is to call for a vote on this proposal after a new mentor is found to help Cliff Schmidt - the current mentor.
* Added Lawrence Jones as an XMLBeans committer * No new major development lately -- mainly bug fixes lately to the 2.1 release. Should be releasing a 2.1.1 in next quarter. * Related to the note above, there has recently been a drop in traffic on the dev list (other than lots of jira activity). However, the user list is stronger than ever. * xmlbeanscxx folks are slowly getting started. * I'm thinking it's about time I step down as XMLBeans PMC chair. I'm not actively involved in the project, but have been doing my best to handle chair responsibilities. I think the project would benefit from having an active committer take my place, while I stay on as a PMC member.
* Resolved JSR-173 RI licensing issue. BEA licensed the necessary parts under the Apache License; so, there is no longer any licensing issue there. * Released XMLBeans 2.1.0, which includes the relicensing mentioned above, plus some minor fixes. * Still waiting on the incubating C++ XMLBeans subproject to get started. I saw a couple of the initial committers attached to the proposal at ApacheCon -- they believe they should be getting something started very soon. I'd be more concerned if any company was out issuing press releases about it without having done anything yet, but it doesn't appear that has been the case. * No new committers or PMC members this quarter, but still a very active user and developer community.
1. Added a new committer: Yana Kadiyska, a long-time contributor to XMLBeans. 2. Added a new PMC member: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro, who has been a committer for several months. There are now nine PMC members. 3. Discussed concerns about the licensing of the JSR-173 RI, on which XMLBeans currrently depends. The RI was licensed by BEA, under terms that they thought would be compatible with ASF distributions. Members of the PMC raised the issue with BEA, and they are now investigating options to relicense it. Until that happens, this remains an open issue.
- PMC approved new xmlbeanscxx subproject proposal from RogueWave. This proposal also caused another potential contributor (Tomasz Wielga) for a C/C++ version of xmlbeans to come forward! Currently waiting on CLAs from initial committers. - Candidate for the final xmlbeans v2 release is now posted for final community review. Vote to happen later this week. todo list: - Contact PRC about the v2 release - Help get xmlbeanscxx started in the Incubator - Help get XML Federation discussion going again (still on todo list) - Draft xmlbeans charter (still on todo list)
Done over last quarter: - release of 1.0.4 (jdk 1.4), 1.0.4 (jdk 1.3), and beta of 2.0 - getting very close to a final v2.0. - discussed RogueWave's proposal for a C++ port/subproject of XMLBeans. The PMC didn't see any blocking issues with it, but we've asked them to propose it on the dev list for a public discussion and vote. If all goes well, we'll be asking the Incubator PMC to take them on. Still on the todo list: - Get XMLBeans charter agreed on and approved - Work with XML community to define XML federation ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the April 27, 2005 board meeting.
NO SUBMITTED REPORT ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the March 30, 2005 board meeting.
Actions taken in the last quarter: 1. Moved from CVS to SVN! Thanks to the help of David Waite and the Infrastructure team (IIRC, mainly Justin) 2. Removed David Remy as committer and PMC member at his request due to employer IP issues :-( 3. ApacheCon: Strong attendance at ApacheCon XMLBeans session. Also held a tutorial on XMLBeans/Schema. 4. User list and dev list continue to grow. 5. Did not complete a few items that I had hoped we would by this time. See below. Intentions for next quarter (some originally planned for this last quarter, but didn't get done): 1. Get XMLBeans charter agreed on and approved 2. Get a project logo 3. Work with XML community to define XML federation 4. Release new distribution. Note that this will require clearing legal issues around use of JSR-173 - will follow up on legal mailing list.
Actions taken in the last quarter:
1. TLP and Incubator-graduation transition
- web site moved to xmlbeans.apache.org
- mailing lists moved to @xmlbeans.apache.org
- updated all files (readme's, url references
site docs) to reflect Incubator graduation.
- TODO: move from cvs: xml-xmlbeans
to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlbeans
- TODO: xmlbeans charter
2. Created v1.0.3 release after graduation
3. Added two new committers
4. Confirmed to have XMLBeans tutorial and session
at ApacheCon US 2004
5. Agreed on process for voting on new committers.
Nominations and forthcoming vote are announced
publicly (dev list). Most discussion occurs
on dev list. However, pmc list is where actual
votes are posted. Results posted on -dev list.
6. Thanks to Vadim Gritsenko, we now have site stats
on http://www.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/xmlbeans.html.
7. Hosted the second annual XMLBeans BOF at OSCON.
8. Participated in JavaOne panel on Java-XML binding.
Intentions for next quarter:
1. Get XMLBeans charter agreed on and approved
2. Get a project logo
3. Work with XML community to define XML federation
4. Release new distribution, either another v1
update or an early-release of v2
5. Use ApacheCon to further cultivate active
developer community (future committers).
We're out of the Incubator and doing well with
community, but we could still improve the diversity
of those who are actively contributing/committing
code.
6. Discuss when we will be ready to move to svn.
Latest consensus was to wait until next major
release.
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End of minutes for the September 22, 2004 board meeting.