Re: Incubator Board Report - August 2010
hi, I am from BlueSky. i just finished my intern and went back home in the last two days. Sorry that i forget the monthly report.. will cover it soon. 2010/8/17, Noel J. Bergman : > > Matt Benson, Srinath Perera, and Michael McCandless all joined the > Incubator. Several more will be joining this week. > > Shiro is set to graduate, and it seems that at least a couple of projects > are in good shape to graduate in the near future. > > On to a topic for the Board's attention. There has been some lively > discussion this past week, initiated by Joe Schaefer regarding making > Incubator projects more self-governing. Although a valid goal, the actual > proposals appear troubling in terms of ASF governance structure. > > A specific proposal, for which Joe would like a formal vote, amounts to > whether the ASF Board approves the granting of Committer status without PMC > approval, and bypassing the PMC on the matter. Individual current and past > Directors have already engaged, but it is requested that the Board consider > the issue, and respond. > > -- > > = Amber = > > Amber is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API > specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of > the OAuth v1.0, v1.0a and v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism > that allows users to authenticate and authorise access by another > party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share their > username and password credentials. > > The most important issues that must be addressed before graduation are: > > * attract new users and developers > * making a release > > The Incubator PMC / ASF Board should be aware that: > > * Involved people have been very busy due to personal/business issues in > the last month. > > Latest activity: > > * apply the API definition choices approved by the community. > * started implementing the Signing algorithms. > > Next steps: > > * finalize the API definition. > * implementation of different specification versions (client and server). > > Community: > > * The community is in the first stages of formation and solely > consists of the developers, though a few users start to appear on the > mailing lists. > > > = Bluesky = > > Did not report, but has reported several months running. The only activity > observed is the following e-mail: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-bluesky-dev/201008.mbox/% > 3caanlkti=nafbwoofuu1faxkxyxaiqf2rat5zqdcl1p...@mail.gmail.com%3e > > > > = BeanValidation = > > Apache Bean Validation will deliver an implementation of the JSR303 Bean > Validation 1.0 specification. BVAL entered incubation on March 1, 2010. > > A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards > graduation. > > * First release of artifacts - Done > * Grow the community and committer base - ongoing > * Decide on graduation target of TLP or subproject - TBD > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware > of? > > * None at this time. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * Committer offer was extended and accepted by Matt Benson. > * A couple of new users on the dev list. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * Currently a 0.2-incubating RC2 release vote is underway. > > > > = Chukwa = > > Chukwa is a distributed log collection and processing system built on top > of > Hadoop. It is a former Hadoop subproject. CLAs are on file and ASF holds > all copyrights. We have been in incubation since July 13, 2010. Since > then, we have switched to incubation SVN naming and updated our website to > reflect this change. We still need to move mailing lists to incubation. > [Pending on Bernd.] We still need to move our website to > incubator.apache.org [Pending on permissions]. Should bring onboard more > committers; Bill Graham would be the first Chukwa commiter not originally > part of the project. > > > = Clerezza = > > Clerezza (incubating since November 27th, 2009) is an OSGi-based modular > application and set of components (bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic > Web applications and services. The are currently no issues requiring board > attention. > > Recent activity: > > * Added support for roaming useres with WebId > * Added support for ssl > * Started support for editing own foaf-profile with cleint certificate > generation > * Faster ScalaServer Pages using Scala 2.8.0 > * Improved User documentation > > Next steps: > > * Streamline architecture around type-handlers and type-renderer > * Add ability to easily overwrite the styling in full or partially > (skinning) with a bundle > > > Top 2/3 Issues before graduation: > > * Improve our website with tutorials and "getting started" content. > * Prepare some easy-to-run demos to get people interested in Clerezza. > * Prepare for a first release > > > = Deltacloud = > > Deltacloud is a cross-cloud RESTful abstraction API. The are curren
Re: JXTA Migration to ASF - Looking for a Champion
I've used JXTA as to complete the prototype system of my graduate thesis. I think it's a great tool. Hope it could join in the community. regards, Kevin 2010/10/23 Jérôme Verstrynge > Hi, > > The JXTA community has overwhelmingly voted in favor of migrating to ASF. I > understand that we first need to 'recruit' a champion. How does it work? Any > volunteers? > > Thanks, > > Jérôme Verstrynge > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev TeamXJTU Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
Re: Bluesky report missing
busy testing new system, will add up tonight! regards, Kevin 2011/1/18 Noel J. Bergman > Please post immediately. > >--- Noel > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev TeamXJTU Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!
Hi, Noel: 2011/6/30 Noel J. Bergman > Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Chen Liu wrote: > > > We propose to move future development of BlueSky to the Apache Software > > > Foundation in order to build a broader user and developer community. > > > You are supposed to be doing your development work in the ASF subversion > > repository, using ASF mailing lists, as peers. > > Chen, as Joe points out, these are what BlueSky should have been doing for > the past three (3) years, and yet we still here a proposal for the future. > > > Looking at the (limited) commit history, there is a total imbalance > between > > the number of people associated with the development work (20+) and the > > number of people with Apache accounts here (2). > > I guess i can explain that. Most of the developers of BlueSky project are students. As you all know, students come when they join in school and go after they graduate. So the active developers are around 10. Like we used to have 5 committers, but now we only have 2 committers in active. > Again, as Joe points out, ALL of BlueSky development should been done via > the ASF infrastructure, not periodically synchronized. We are a > development > community, not a remote archive. > > > What we really need you to discuss are *plans*, how you will implement > them, > > who will implement them, and how you will collaborate in the codebase as > peers. > > Joe, again, has this on the money. The BlueSky project must immediately > make significant strides to rectify these issues. Now, not later. > > We should see: > > 1) All current code in the ASF repository. > 2) All development via ASF accounts (get the rest of the people signed > up). > 3) Ddevelopment discussion on the mailing list. > 4) All licensing issues cleaned up. > > According to what you've listed, i would forward your suggestion to bluesky dev list and wish we could make a quick response after discussion. Appreciate your help. regards, Kevin >--- Noel > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev TeamXJTU Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!
Hi, Luciano: Currently, we have 4 committers. And 2 of them stay inactive. The newest source code would be committed by me after the students grant warrant. regards, Kevin 2011/6/30 Luciano Resende > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Chen Liu wrote: > > We really appreciate both of your suggestions on Bluesky's development in > > ASF. > > > > We think that we are supposed to finish code release work of the 4th > version > > in the end of July.Due to the effective work we really need a experienced > > mentor to guide our release. In addition, there are about 8-9 developers > to > > do the release work, some of whom are green hands to release code in ASF > > owing to change of team members.We consider that it is important if there > is > > a disscussion about how to fast acquire this guide instructions. > > > > By the way, we have been developing the bluesky project. After the > release > > work of 4th version. We would like to discuss the deployment of the 5th > > version including IPTV function and so on. We appreciate collaboraters in > > ASF to give us some suggestions about mobile terminal and IPTV. > > > > Who are the current students/developers that worked on the so called > 4th version of the code ? The interesting part is that the last JIRA > was created on June 2010 (BLUESKY-10), which raises the question on > who is actually committing the other students code to the repository. > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev TeamXJTU Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!
Hi, Ralph: I am not avoiding the truth that we suck during the last three years, though we were once at the verge of release. It's* just* we *Bluesky Team @ XJTU ，Xi'an China* fail to make it good, please remember it well. I believe projects from school could also rock in Apache as well. You can look down up on us but you can't deny others. I had a propose that community give us the last chance for 1-2month and certain member could become our mentor to lead us finish releasing the newest version. During this time slot. What you would see includes: 1. gradually increasing discussion in bluesky-dev mailing list. Meaningless discussion would not count. 2. committing of source code after they were cleaned up. Inactive committers would be revoked and new committers would apply to join in. 3. preparing for what release needs and make the release successful. Thus the new developers and committers could completely experienced the release process and know about "How" things are done in Apache community better. If community accept my suggestion, individually, i want the BlueSky project under strict surveillance by community members. If we can't fulfill what we just promised, then just kick us out of here and i would have noting to say. Well, suppose we live through that, besides working in Apache way, we would continually working on to evolve BlueSky to make it much more easier to use in e-learning area and used in a larger scope(now bluesky has been deployed in China and is about to be applied in India ), so that more students in undeveloped district could share the same high quality education as the developed area. Sincerely, i would invite you Ralph to be our mentor in this 1-2 month if you were not busy enough and willing to guide us. Don't feel sorry if you want to refuse me.TOT regards, Kevin 2011/6/30 Ralph Goers > Sorry, but the explanation below makes things sound even worse. Apache > projects are not here to give students a place to do school work. What you > have described is not a community. If the project cannot build a community > of people who are interested in the project for more than a school term then > it doesn't belong here. > > Ralph > > On Jun 29, 2011, at 8:12 PM, SamuelKevin wrote: > > > Hi, Noel: > > > > 2011/6/30 Noel J. Bergman > > > >> Joe Schaefer wrote: > >>> Chen Liu wrote: > >>>> We propose to move future development of BlueSky to the Apache > Software > >>>> Foundation in order to build a broader user and developer community. > >> > >>> You are supposed to be doing your development work in the ASF > subversion > >>> repository, using ASF mailing lists, as peers. > >> > >> Chen, as Joe points out, these are what BlueSky should have been doing > for > >> the past three (3) years, and yet we still here a proposal for the > future. > >> > >>> Looking at the (limited) commit history, there is a total imbalance > >> between > >>> the number of people associated with the development work (20+) and the > >>> number of people with Apache accounts here (2). > >> > >> I guess i can explain that. Most of the developers of BlueSky project > are > > students. As you all know, students come when they join in school and go > > after they graduate. So the active developers are around 10. Like we used > to > > have 5 committers, but now we only have 2 committers in active. > > > >> Again, as Joe points out, ALL of BlueSky development should been done > via > >> the ASF infrastructure, not periodically synchronized. We are a > >> development > >> community, not a remote archive. > >> > >>> What we really need you to discuss are *plans*, how you will implement > >> them, > >>> who will implement them, and how you will collaborate in the codebase > as > >> peers. > >> > >> Joe, again, has this on the money. The BlueSky project must immediately > >> make significant strides to rectify these issues. Now, not later. > >> > >> We should see: > >> > >> 1) All current code in the ASF repository. > >> 2) All development via ASF accounts (get the rest of the people signed > >> up). > >> 3) Ddevelopment discussion on the mailing list. > >> 4) All licensing issues cleaned up. > >> > >> According to what you've listed, i would forward your suggestion to > bluesky > > dev list and wish we could make a quick response after > > discussion. Appreciate your help. > > regards, > > Kevin > >
