From: Carl Trieloff <[email protected]>
Subject: Qpid Graduation release
To: [email protected]
Cc: "ASF PRC Team" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 9:47 AM
Sally,
It took longer than expected, but here is what we have with
feedback people on the dev list and all that kindly provided
quotes.
Please let us know when you expect it will be released.
kind regards
Carl.
*The Apache Software Foundation Names Qpid a Top-Level
Project*
/Open source messaging implementation built on the AMQP
standard promoted to self-governed position by community
foundation/
*FOREST HILL, MD *--* January x, 2009* -- The Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) today announced the graduation of
the Qpid project from an Apache incubator project to a
Top-Level Project (TLP). With its promotion to TLP status,
Qpid has been recognized for its maturity and vibrant
community, as well as for being well-governed and practicing
the Apache process and principles.
"On the heels of its recent graduation, Qpid has also
reached the completion of the major Qpid M4 release.
We're thrilled to have been recognized by the Apache
Software Foundation for the growth and maturity of the Qpid
project," said Carl Trieloff, chair, Qpid and senior
consulting software engineer at Red Hat. "With the
promotion to an Apache Top-Level Project, our project is
recognized for outstanding development based on our rapidly
expanding community, infrastructure and for collaborative
development."
John O'Hara, Chairman of the AMQP Working Group and
Executive Director at JPMorgan, said "I am delighted
that the Apache Software Foundation has graduated the Qpid
AMQP server. AMQP is an open infrastructure for business
messaging over the Internet. Apache Qpid developers have
been active participants in the AMQP Working Group working
in partnership with other AMQP solution developers and
end-users. The ASF's provision of Qpid as its AMQP
implementation adds to the range of AMQP solutions
businesses can choose from to improve their
efficiency."
Apache Qpid, a messaging implementation built on the
Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP) specification,
provides transaction management, queuing, clustering,
federation, security, management and multi-platform support.
Qpid was initially proposed to the ASF in December 2006 by
Trieloff. The project was fortunate to be started with an
initial code donation created by some of the initial project
members. Since then, Qpid has and continues to expand its
committer base and diversity of organizations and
individuals represented. Today, it runs critical systems for
many users and large organizations while continuing to lead
through innovation and implementation.
"Since joining AMQP.org last year, we have seen how
valuable the AMQP specification is to the participating
customers," said Sam Ramji, Senior Director, Platform
Strategy, Microsoft. "It is great to see the
Apache/Qpid project maturing as the community strives to
address the customer need for choice and improved
enterprise-class messaging interoperability."
The Qpid team believes that the graduation of the project
is a fresh and exciting addition to the Apache Software
Foundation, as do many of those that use the project.
"WSO2 believes that Apache Qpid is an important
addition to addressing the enterprise messaging demands of
our customers, and we support connecting both C and Java
middleware to Apache Qpid for AMQP messaging," saidPaul
Fremantle, CTO at WSO2 and member of the Apache Qpid Project
Management Committee.
To use, interact and/or contribute to Apache Qpid,
visit _http://qpid.apache.org
<http://qpid.apache.org/>_.
*About the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)*
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation
provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a
broad range of Open Source software projects, including
Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web
server software for more than a decade. The Foundation
provides an established framework for intellectual property
and financial contributions that simultaneously limits
contributors' potential legal exposure. Through a
collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache
projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software
products that attract large communities of users. The
pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users,
commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products. For
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