Board meeting on 18 Jul 2018; report to be submitted by 11 Jul
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
We have upgraded to Java 8 to a newer Guava version. It will have a significant impact on users but we believe it will simplify jclouds adoption in modern environments. We have discussed it long enough to have a clear upgrade path, and will keep the old branches JDK 7 compatible. Users already know that the next major release will require Java 8, so although the impact is significant, there should be no issues.
We are working with the Karaf community to complete the migration of our jclouds-karaf integration to Java 8 too and then we'll be ready to release.
== Community ==
The project continues to receive contributions in the form of code and issues from new developers, indicating that development is healthy and that users are feeding back their problems and feature suggestions. We have detected, though, that interactions in the mailing list have slowed down, and we are starting to have some discussions on how to improve engagement.
We're kicking off the process of supporting Alibaba Cloud hoping to get contributions from users of that cloud.
Last committer: 2018-01-26 (Jim Spring)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
- Continue to monitor our community for potential new committers and PMC members. In particular, we are getting very good contributions from Daniel Estevez especially around Microsoft Azure cloud. The team is thinking about offering him to become committer as we believe it would be a great contributors for compute core too.
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.1.0, took place on 2018-02-21.