Jakarta Board Report January
== December 2007 Board Report == === Status === The downsizing of Jakarta continued this quarter. HttpComponents became TLP and has finished moving all the resources to their own TLP. We wish them all the best with their new identity! Slide was retired (see Slide section for more details), with a notice on the Slide page (see http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/). The main focus this quarter will be (re)starting discussions about the future of the mature components/libraries like ORO, Regexp (maintained) and ECS and BCEL (not maintained). === Releases === * 29 September 2007 - JMeter 2.3 final * 9 October 2007 - !HttpComponents !HttpCore 4.0 alpha 6 * 7 November 2007 - !HttpComponents !HttpClient 4.0 alpha 2 * 30 November 2007 - JMeter 2.3.1 final === Community changes === No changes in the community === Subproject news === BCEL No activity this quarter. Since there is a lack of developer and user community, we should definitely retire BCEL this quarter and also point the users to possible alternatives. A discussion will be started about this. BSF There is an outstanding request for the TCK for scripting. Geir expressed the concern that this TCK could be part of the JDK 1.6 TCK and not independ. We are sitll waiting for the definitive answer on this. Cactus Development has picked up after Apachecon Atlanta and Petar is working towards a release. ECS No activity and not maintained. As with BCEL it is probably best to retire the project or see if it can find a home at Apache Commons. HttpComponents HttpComponents released one alpha each for HttpCore and HttpClient as a Jakarta sub-project. A TLP proposal was submitted for the November board meeting and accepted. Starting December 2007, HttpComponents submits separate board reports as a TLP. By end of December 2007, HttpComponents is no longer using Jakarta resources. Mailing lists, SVN, website, dist, and archive have been moved. The HttpComponents Wiki still has Jakarta in it's name, but it is a separate Wiki. JCS No developer activity going on at this moment, though there is user activity on the dev and user lists. JMeter JMeter released 2.3 and 2.3.1 final. ORO Since the mature nature hardly any activity (it is maintained). There are still a lot of users and bug reports are actively monitored and acted upon. Since the library nature of the subproject it is definitely worth investigating if Apache Commons can be the new home for this library. Regexp See ORO. Slide Due to the lack of a developer community, Slide has been retired on 03/Nov/2007. It is thus no longer actively maintained or supported by the ASF. Subversion, Bugzilla, and one of the mailing lists will remain open for a transition period. Slide users will be pointed to Apache Jackrabbit as a replacement. Every few weeks, somebody inquires about a separate WebDAV client project on a mailing list of Slide, Jackrabbit, Commons, or HttpComponents. There are some people, some of which are Apache committers, who expressed some interest to put in some time, if others are with them. But nobody seems to want to take the lead and request a sandbox or lab project in which to start. The presence of two separate codebases (Jackrabbit, Slide) from which one could start doesn't help. Jackrabbit is alive, Slide is used in the wild. Taglibs Development is still taking place, although not at a high priority. Bug fixing took place on the Standard Taglib and there is the intention to make a final release after all bugfixing is done. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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... snip ... BSF MvdB :Silent quarter. A talk for Apachecon US was accepted (Rony Flatcher), which will hopefully increase the user base (observation : since the user list is also pretty quiet it can mean that BSF is bug free or it needs more users) ... snip ... Sorry, oversaw that the release of beta 1 of BSF 3.0 fell into the second quarter (ant was able to report the result of the vote on 2007-04-16) and should have been reported as such by us! This is the version that brings JSR-223 (a.k.a. Java 6 scripting framework) to the Apache table: it allows de/employing the Java scripting framework starting with Java 1.4 (the Sun implementation is only available starting with Java 1.6/6, foregoing the entire pre-Java-6 installed base). ant has been trying to get word on receiving the appropriate Sun TCK from Geir, but so far no news can be reported here ---rony - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I've added it to the report.. Mvgr, Martin Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: ... snip ... BSF MvdB :Silent quarter. A talk for Apachecon US was accepted (Rony Flatcher), which will hopefully increase the user base (observation : since the user list is also pretty quiet it can mean that BSF is bug free or it needs more users) ... snip ... Sorry, oversaw that the release of beta 1 of BSF 3.0 fell into the second quarter (ant was able to report the result of the vote on 2007-04-16) and should have been reported as such by us! This is the version that brings JSR-223 (a.k.a. Java 6 scripting framework) to the Apache table: it allows de/employing the Java scripting framework starting with Java 1.4 (the Sun implementation is only available starting with Java 1.6/6, foregoing the entire pre-Java-6 installed base). ant has been trying to get word on receiving the appropriate Sun TCK from Geir, but so far no news can be reported here ---rony - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jakarta Board Report
== June 2007 Jakarta Board Report == === Status === Another 2 projects have left Jakarta to live on their own : POI and Turbine and both of almost (or completely) finished the move. I like to wish the projects the best and a very good and long lasting future. In a seperate mail there is a TLP proposal for commons, which on acceptance will mean that the biggest part of the Jakarta community have no direct ties anymore with Jakarta. The focus after commons will be on the projects left at Jakarta and see if there is possibility for them to go TLP or when that is not viable or possible, find a suitable solution for those projects. My explicit wish is that there will be no deadline for projects to move so there will be enough time to find the best solution, instead of the quickest solution. We owe that to all the people in those projects who invest a lot of time and energy in those projects. One of the big discussions that took place was about the future of Jakarta and the thing we in majority agreed on (at least the people who spoke up) is that it is worth to save the Jakarta brand. Since I prefer to spend the energy and time I have in the projects that are left at Jakarta, I decided not to invest time on what will happen to the Jakarta brand at this time, simply because they deserve my time and energy and out of respect for the projects that still currently have their existance at Jakarta. If the board decides to not esablish the commons TLP, we need to go back to the drawing table. All in all : a lot is happening and a lot is going to happen in the months to come. If there is reason to do so, I will provide extra board reports besides the quarterly schedule. Reports prefixed with MvdB are written by me. === Releases === * 30 March 2007 - !HttpComponents !HttpCore 4.0 alpha 4 released * 4 April 2007 - Commons DBCP 1.2.2 * 8 April 2007 - Commons Configuration 1.4 * 18 May 2007 - POI 3.0 Final released * 6 June 2007 - JCS 1.3 released === Community changes === New committers, pmc persons, asf members and departures. * New Committers * Ben Speakmon was voted in as a Commons Committer * Alf Hogemark was voted in as a JMeter Committer * Asankha C. Perera was voted in as a !HttpComponents Committer * M. Johnson (although not new, his account was created just now, because of CLA problems). (POI) * PMC Members * Thomas Vandahl was voted on to the PMC * Danny Angus was persuaded to come back on the PMC. * Ant Elder was voted on the PMC. Fixed the bookkeeping on the addition of Nick Burch to the Jakarta PMC (that was reported in the December 2006 report. === Infrastructure news === The only things currently happening is the move of infrastructure for the Turbine and POI TLP projects. === General project news === The Jakarta PMC has started to review all Jakarta projects whether they contain or rely on cryptographic software and if they must be marked as described on http://apache.org/dev/crypto. This is an ongoing process and we expect some corner cases where we will need legal advice. === Subproject news === BCEL No activity. BSF MvdB :Silent quarter. A talk for Apachecon US was accepted (Rony Flatcher), which will hopefully increase the user base (observation : since the user list is also pretty quiet it can mean that BSF is bug free or it needs more users) Cactus MvdB: The ip clearance finally passed, so Petar is now able to (re)integrate his code into the cactus codebase. Commons A commons TLP resolution was sent to the Board at the same time of this board report. 31 March 2007 - vote passed to promote the JCI (Java Compiler Interface) to a proper component (from the Sandbox). ''Chain'' * Ready for a 1.2 bugfix release. ''CLI'' * Gearing up for a 1.1 release. ''Configuration'' * 8 April 2007 - Configuration 1.4 released ''DBCP'' * 1 April 2007 DBCP 1.2.2 released ''IO'' * Gearing up for a 1.3.2 bugfix release. ''JCI'' * Gearing up for a first 1.0 release. ''JXPath'' * Gearing up for a 1.3 release. ''Logging'' * Needs someone to do a 1.1.1 bugfix release. ''Math'' * Gearing up for a 1.2 release. ''SCXML'' * Working towards a 0.7 release. ECS Nothing happened on the ECS front. HttpComponents Work on the first alpha of !HttpClient 4.0 has made good progress. We expect to release client-alpha1 and the matching core-alpha5 shortly. There is currently no release manager for a potential !HttpClient 3.1 final release. Since the RC1 was released only in March, this is not an immediate problem. Bug reports are still dripping in, and bugs keep getting fixed. But we'll need to find a volunteer eventually. Various options to spin off !HttpComponents from Jakarta are being discussed. This could improve the focus of the active members of the !HttpComponents (sub-)community. JCS JCS 1.3 has been released. Thomas Vandahl acted as the release
Jakarta Board Report
March 2007 Jakarta Board Report Status Activity seems to pick in projects that haven't been so active, so that's really good news. Besides the releases and the code donation (see Cactus) and the releases, there is nothing in particular that needs board attention at this moment. On a side note : I really hope we can go back to the 3 month schedule again. If there is something out of the ordinary however, I will add an extra report. Releases * 13 February 2007 - Commons Fileupload 1.2 Released * 17 March 2007 - Commons HttpClient 3.1-rc1 Released * 18 March 2007 - Commons Transaction 1.2 Released * 18 March 2007 - Jakarta Regexp 1.5 released Community changes Ant Elder - Voted as a committer for the BSF. Stephen Kestle - Voted as a committer for Commons BSF Ant Elder - Voted as a committer for the BSF. Cactus Currently in the process of voting on a new committer (Petar Tahchiev). After this vote a vote will be started to finish the code donation by Petar, for more details of the code grant, please see http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/jakarta-cactus-tahchiev.html. Commons FileUpload The release 1.2 of Commons Fileupload 1.2 introduces a new streaming API, which allows to use the library with arbitrarily large files and an extremely low memory profile. POI Gearing up for a release of 3.0, which hopefully will be in a month or so's time. Regexp Released 1.5 version of Regexp which brings number of known issues down to 3. Dev and user lists are quiet. Mvgr, Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Previous Board reports have been archived here: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/board-reports.html Would be good to continue this IMO. Niall On 2/19/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakarta Board Report Status This board report was mainly constructed by other people than me, which is a big improvement (thanks everyone). I also moved the board report to a fixed location on the wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-current), so it's easier to locate for people. The code grant for the not yet commons SSL (formerly named commons-ssl), has been completed, so we can progress to having a vote where SSL should end up on general and based on that result take the correct incubator path (legal / full incubation). What is not completely clear for me at this point, is the board report schedule. An extra report was requested (lack of commons projects in the report). Reporting next month again will be a lot of work, since my goal is to report on every subproject (even if there is no or hardly any activity). Inactive projects Disclaimer : we have lot's of active projects ! Definition list : Inactive project = a project that has no *developer* community. The Apache Way : To become committer on a project you have to earn that right, you have to stand out, submit patches, show you care, learn the apache way and have to get noticed by the current committers who can nominate such a person. Problem : If that didn't happen enough in the past, it can happen that at a certain point no developer community is active anymore. Which causes : A catch22 situation. Since there is no developer community, no one is able to determine if people deserve to become a committer. Even if you are monitoring such a list (such as I do for all Jakarta lists), it is hard to determine if people deserve committership. Solution : The only thing we know for sure : inactive projects needs someone to mentor the project to become active again. This goes for all possible scenario's : 1. Actively support forks and when they show they are capable to work on the project, get the code back (needs mentoring, grants, etc) 2. More liberal in getting committers on board 3. Actively following the user / dev lists and issue trackers to see if there is someone ready for committer ship. (is the normal way, although the focus here is not if patches etc are technically correct) I like to prevent Jakarta becoming some kind of collection with inactive project, so the first goal is preventing that this scenario occurs on our current subprojects where possible. So I would like to ask the current active developers to invest a little bit more time in looking what others are doing. I think this discussion is also useful to have on the incubator list. Releases * 13 February 2007 Commons Lang 2.3 * 13 February 2007 Commons IO 1.3.1 * 30 January 2007 Commons IO 1.3 * 30 December 2006 Commons Betwixt 0.8 * 30 December 2006 Commons VFS 1.0 * 19 December 2006 Commons SCXML 0.6 Community changes New committers, pmc persons, asf members and departures. PMC Members * Yoav Shapira resigned from the PMC The following new commiters were voted in: * Yegor Kozlov (POI) * Luc Maisonobe (Commons Math) * Matt Benson (Commons JXPath) Infrastructure news Started to investigate the moderators we have and contacting all the moderators asking if they are still active. If there are gaps, I will try to fill the void by finding volunteers. This way we prevent that lists aren't moderated. Subproject news Sections with a prefix of MvdB are notes added by the chair BCEL MvdB : Some user questions, further no action taken on the future of BCEL (on the list is contacting the 2 currently exising forks out there, to see if there is interenst in moving development back to Jakarta. Afaik Findbugs and AspectJ have forks. BSF MvdB : They are currently planning for a 3.0 release and for jsr223 they are investigating to get the TCK. Geir is in the process of arranging things. Cactus MvdB : Cactus development was stalled and recently Petar Tahchiev sent a mail to the list, saying he had continued development of cactus on https://mamouth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mamouth. I (=Martin van den Bemt) am currently in the process of informing Petar on what actions to take (eg Code Grants/CLA/CCLA) to move development back to the cactus project. When the paperwork is there, we will run the code base through the incubator (at a minimum legal). Commons Switching from Maven-1 to Maven-2 gets closer - we can now build the website from Maven-2. Next we need to look at how we would do a release under Maven-2 and whether it passes our requirements. Key: * Inactive - No activity, no one watching it. Candidate for dormancy. * Maintenance - No activity, someone watching it. There are thirty-two components in the Commons 'Proper', that is the released components. Attributes Inactive - however
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I am actually maintaining that, although at a pace that makes you fall a sleep ;) Mvgr, Martin Niall Pemberton wrote: Previous Board reports have been archived here: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/board-reports.html Would be good to continue this IMO. Niall On 2/19/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakarta Board Report Status This board report was mainly constructed by other people than me, which is a big improvement (thanks everyone). I also moved the board report to a fixed location on the wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-current), so it's easier to locate for people. The code grant for the not yet commons SSL (formerly named commons-ssl), has been completed, so we can progress to having a vote where SSL should end up on general and based on that result take the correct incubator path (legal / full incubation). What is not completely clear for me at this point, is the board report schedule. An extra report was requested (lack of commons projects in the report). Reporting next month again will be a lot of work, since my goal is to report on every subproject (even if there is no or hardly any activity). Inactive projects Disclaimer : we have lot's of active projects ! Definition list : Inactive project = a project that has no *developer* community. The Apache Way : To become committer on a project you have to earn that right, you have to stand out, submit patches, show you care, learn the apache way and have to get noticed by the current committers who can nominate such a person. Problem : If that didn't happen enough in the past, it can happen that at a certain point no developer community is active anymore. Which causes : A catch22 situation. Since there is no developer community, no one is able to determine if people deserve to become a committer. Even if you are monitoring such a list (such as I do for all Jakarta lists), it is hard to determine if people deserve committership. Solution : The only thing we know for sure : inactive projects needs someone to mentor the project to become active again. This goes for all possible scenario's : 1. Actively support forks and when they show they are capable to work on the project, get the code back (needs mentoring, grants, etc) 2. More liberal in getting committers on board 3. Actively following the user / dev lists and issue trackers to see if there is someone ready for committer ship. (is the normal way, although the focus here is not if patches etc are technically correct) I like to prevent Jakarta becoming some kind of collection with inactive project, so the first goal is preventing that this scenario occurs on our current subprojects where possible. So I would like to ask the current active developers to invest a little bit more time in looking what others are doing. I think this discussion is also useful to have on the incubator list. Releases * 13 February 2007 Commons Lang 2.3 * 13 February 2007 Commons IO 1.3.1 * 30 January 2007 Commons IO 1.3 * 30 December 2006 Commons Betwixt 0.8 * 30 December 2006 Commons VFS 1.0 * 19 December 2006 Commons SCXML 0.6 Community changes New committers, pmc persons, asf members and departures. PMC Members * Yoav Shapira resigned from the PMC The following new commiters were voted in: * Yegor Kozlov (POI) * Luc Maisonobe (Commons Math) * Matt Benson (Commons JXPath) Infrastructure news Started to investigate the moderators we have and contacting all the moderators asking if they are still active. If there are gaps, I will try to fill the void by finding volunteers. This way we prevent that lists aren't moderated. Subproject news Sections with a prefix of MvdB are notes added by the chair BCEL MvdB : Some user questions, further no action taken on the future of BCEL (on the list is contacting the 2 currently exising forks out there, to see if there is interenst in moving development back to Jakarta. Afaik Findbugs and AspectJ have forks. BSF MvdB : They are currently planning for a 3.0 release and for jsr223 they are investigating to get the TCK. Geir is in the process of arranging things. Cactus MvdB : Cactus development was stalled and recently Petar Tahchiev sent a mail to the list, saying he had continued development of cactus on https://mamouth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mamouth. I (=Martin van den Bemt) am currently in the process of informing Petar on what actions to take (eg Code Grants/CLA/CCLA) to move development back to the cactus project. When the paperwork is there, we will run the code base through the incubator (at a minimum legal). Commons Switching from Maven-1 to Maven-2 gets closer - we can now build the website from Maven-2. Next we need to look at how we would do a release under Maven-2 and whether it passes our requirements. Key: * Inactive
