Below is the May report for Apache River Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini Specification.
Releases: No new releases since last report, several submissions have been made for inclusion into our next release and are currently being reviewed prior to merging them onto the trunk. Branding: The River website had one branding issue (missing DOAP file) for which a Jira was raised (thanks Shane) and has been resolved. Progress: There are a trickle of SVN commits being made. We are a small community and so this is expected. There was a discussion on building a reference implementation to showcase River since there is little public knowledge of River/Jini installations, similar to the Java Pet Store. We hope this will help to get people involved in contributing to that application, but also make it easier for end users to understand the offering of this tech. Community: One PMC member has resigned citing the difficulty of working with the code and understanding how best to measure the changes she was trying to make. This is a valid point given the lack of hard data and particular performance issues encountered by end users. The PMC recently discussed the the health of our community. Whilst we all agreed that things were pretty quiet, many of the contributors reaffirmed their commitment to the project. Since we are such a small community we can hardly expect the same levels of noise and activity as those projects with many more members or who have greater numbers of end users. As such, we have no particular concerns that the project is slipping into dormancy. Issues: No board issues at this time
