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Happy Friday! Here's what the Apache community has been up to this week:
Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure
team.
- Gavin McDonald --Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation
in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 December 2020. Board calendar and minutes
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's
Technology Today since 1998.
- ApacheCon@Home sessions now online at
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's
infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.74%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers
around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 310 Apache Committers changed
806,646 lines of code over 3,127 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are:
Jarek Potiuk, Kaxil Naik, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Miller, and Maruan Sahyoun.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Application Performance Monitoring --
- Apache SkyWalking Could on Kubernetes 0.1.0 and SkyWalking Client JS version
0.2.0 released http://skywalking.apache.org/
Big Data --
- Apache BookKeeper 4.11.1 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/
- Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0-alpha released http://shardingsphere.apache.org/
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.36 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Log4j 2.14.0 released http://logging.apache.org/
- Apache CXF CVE-2020-13954 Reflected XSS in the services listing page via the
styleSheetPath https://s.apache.org/tsb9p
Messaging --
- Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.33.8 released http://qpid.apache.org/
Servers --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.60, 9.0.40, and 10.0.0-M10 available
http://tomcat.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating their
anniversaries this month? Three cheers to Apache Ant (18 years); HttpComponents
(13 years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, and Qpid (12 years); Community Development
("ComDev", 11 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (10 years); Kafka and Syncope (8
years); Ambari (7 years); BookKeeper, Drill, and MetaModel (6 years); Brooklyn,
Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (5 years); Geode (4 years); Guacamole, Impala, and
Mnemonic (3 years); Griffin (2 years); and Petri (1 year). Many happy returns!
https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date
- Did you know that you can make a tax-deductible individual or corporate
contribution to the ASF to help us continue to provide more than $20B worth of
software to the public at 100% no cost? Donate today at
https://donate.apache.org/
- Did you know that Alibaba’s real-time computing platform processed data
streams totaling 4 billion items per second during Singles Day, the largest
global online shopping event, using Apache Flink? https://flink.apache.org/
- Did you know that more than 300 videos from ApacheCon@Home are now available,
including keynotes, plenaries, and sessions on Big Data, Clinical Data,
Community, Content Delivery, Fintech, Incubator, Integration, IoT, Machine
Learning, Mobile, Observability, Search, Servers, Streaming, and more are now
available? https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature
https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere"
https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache"
https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation”
https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus
Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership
https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements
http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF
"just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF
infrastructure team --meet
Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew
Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
...Part II
