Status Report for the Apache HttpComponents project, September 2008
[quarterly reporting schedule]
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-- Status --
There are no items needing immediate attention of the board except to
note that we've missed the last report due to my fault - I'm again very
sorry for that.
Fortunately Oleg Kalnichevski immediately stepped up to make sure that
we
are not missing it again this months - thanks!
-- Releases --
We have had one release since the last report:
29 August 2008 - HttpComponents HttpClient 4.0 beta 1
-- Community --
No arrivals or departures.
We have been getting a reasonable amount of feedback and contributions
in terms of patches and development ideas. A number of patches have been
contributed by the users of Apache Synapse.
Several committers on the project expressed willingness to support the
incubation of the Droids project, currently at home at Apache Labs.
Droids is an intelligent standalone robot framework that may become a
part
of the HttpComponents community after incubation. An alternative
destination
of Droids may be the Lucene TLP in case a too strong emphasis on the
HTTP
protocol proves to be too constraining for Droids.
There is quite some activity on both user and developer mailing lists.
Overall the whole community looks and behaves quite healthy.
-- Migration --
Items still in work:
- finalize and approve project bylaws
- re-instate deployment of website via Subversion
(currently deployed by Maven due to TLP migration)
-- Development --
HttpClient beta1 has been released.
The first beta brings yet another round of API enhancements and
improvements
in the area of connection management. Among the most notable ones is the
capability to handle stateful connections such as persistent NTLM
connections
and private key authenticated SSL connections.
This is the first API stable release of HttpClient 4.0. All further
releases
in the 4.0 code line will maintain API compatibility with this release.
General Notes.
HttpClient & HttpCore are now shipped with the Google Android platform.
We see this a major endorsement of our work.
The project is also still waiting for an answer from MS in regard to the
licenses required for an implementation of NTLM. We have been quiet
about
that in the last couple of months but will try to resume activity in
this
area around ApacheCon US.
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I've also added the report to the agenda in parallel.
Cheers,
Erik
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