Board meeting on 17 Oct 2018; report to be submitted by 10 Oct
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
Project development has slowed down. Most contributions are bug fixes and small additions, but no big features have been developed recently.
We are getting continued contributions to the DimensionData provider, and we hope we can move it to a stable state and release it out of labs soon.
We are also actively working with the Karaf community to move our jclouds-karaf integration to Java 8. This is taking more time than we expected, but the Karaf community is taking ownership of this and is directly working on jclouds-karaf. They also proposed to implement a Karaf compute service in jclouds to leverage jcloud provisioning features to provision applications Karaf and manage their lifecycle. We look forward to discuss this as we think it would be a great new functionality and addition to jclouds.
== Community ==
We continue to receive contributions from several individuals. We've found that having the slack channel facilitates communication and training, as the codebase has a considerable learning curve. In particular, there is a contributor that is doing great at learning new technologies. He opened a pull request a while ago but he is still actively addressing issues, tweaking, and learning. His feedback and participation in slack is being valuable for us and we are happy to see this kind of new contributions and engagement.
Mailing list activity is low, mainly because all recent contributions have been mostly bug fixes. Also slack conversations are mostly about training and explaining some isolated codebase internals, so there are not many things that are relevant to be moved to the mailing list.
Two of the most active PMC members have changed their job recently, and although their dayjob was not about directly contributing to jclouds, it was related to the project, so we expect their code contributions and related activities to decrease since the new jobs are not related to the project. We have not many active PMC members, so this is a situation we will have to handle carefully and plan accordingly if we see that this change affects the project.
Last committer: 2018-07-23 (Daniel Estevez)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
- Release jclouds 2.2.0 with Java 8 support.
- Keep engaging the slack contributors and propose them as new committers.
- Monitor the PMC and ensure we have enough resources to properly manage the project.
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.1.1, took place on 2018-08-16.