July 2009 Board reports (see ReportingSchedule).
These reports are due here by Wednesday, 8 July 2009 so that the Incubator PMC can relay them to the board.
Your project might need to report even if it is not listed below, please check your own reporting schedule or exceptions.
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IPMC reviews: bdelacretaz (mentor)
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute software components, configuration data and other artifacts to target systems. ACE started incubation on April 24th 2009.
There are currently no issues requiring board or Incubator PMC attention.
Niclas Hedhman has stepped down as a mentor, and has notified the incubator PMC. Bertrand Delacretaz replied, suggesting we move on with the two remaining mentors, Bertrand and Carsten Ziegeler. See \[1\] and \[2\]. |
\[1\] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200907.mbox/%3ccaf30e2a0907022107s6ef28a82g85acf6e9326d90db@mail.gmail.com%3e |
\[2\] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200907.mbox/%3cf767f0600907060146t3d951bedxd155bd1d76b3b00e@mail.gmail.com%3e |
BlueSky has been incubating since 01-12-2008. It is an e-learning solution designed to help solve the disparity in availability of qualified education between well-developed cities and poorer regions of China.
During the past month, we've been still focusing on replacing FFmpeg and i forecast pretty progress in the next two months. A huge mistake, which we, shamefully, hadn't noticed all along, had been found out. It surely is acceptiable to our group, but it violates the rules of Apache. We are planning to apply for more committers and accounts to correct this mistake.
Next step:
*replacing FFmpeg;
IPMC reviews: jukka
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide a Java (and possibly others, like JavaScript) implementation of the upcoming CMIS specification. Chemistry entered incubation on April 30th, 2009.
There are currently no issues requiring board or Incubator PMC attention.
Community
Software
Licensing and other issues
Issues before graduation
Empire-db is a relational data persistence component that aims to overcome the difficulties, pitfalls and restrictions inherent in traditional Object Relational Management (ORM) approaches. Empire-db is on the Apache Incubator since July 2008.
Following a rather quiet period in April and May development activities have significantly improved in June and July. The main goal of the development team was to finally complete the release of the Empire-db-2.0.5 release including Maven project management. After an internal deadline had been set for code modifications, release permissions for the staging repository had to be acquired which took some extra time. It is our goal to finally complete staging and start voting on the release candidate within the next few days.
Recently code submissions from outside the current development team were received by users from different countries and backgrounds. The submissions are currently under review and are under consideration for an upcoming release. Another user offered his assistance in keeping project dependencies to Struts2 up to date. This gives us reasons to believe that the community is growing and demand for Empire-db is rising.
Imperius has been incubating since November 2007.
Imperius is a rule-based policy evaluation engine
Web site:
Code: Development and bug fixes continue on the code base.
Community: Several key bugs were fixed, two new committers were added to the community. Size and diversity of the community has not been improving as expected.
IPMC reviews: jukka
JSPWiki has been incubating since September 2007.
JSPWiki is a JSP-based wiki program.
During the past three months, the JSPWiki community has not increased significantly. The developer list now has 83 names, one more than the last time, and the user list is now 178 people strong, eleven more than three months ago.
We are completing the checklist on the graduation, but things have slowed down due to developers taking time on personal issues - some get married, some get children, some just enjoy holidays. JSPWiki is still fully a volunteer project, which shows. The checklist is kept in JIRA, at http://is.gd/1qkV8
Most of the checklist items are of practical nature rather than real showstoppers; there is some uncertainty as to when things can be called "done".
The development of the 3.0 still continues in the SVN, albeit at a reduced speed due to the aforementioned issues.
Olio has been incubating since September 2008.
Olio is a web 2.0 toolkit to help developers evaluate the suitability, functionality and performance of various web technologies by implementing a reasonably complex application in several different technologies.
Olio voted a new committer, Amanda Waite.
Olio made its first release, Olio-0.1. Being a complex piece of software with many third party dependencies and multiple languages, this was a major task.
Olio is continuing to gain users and being used for diverse purposes. There are 28 subscribers to the user list and 26 subscribers to dev. There are over a hundred JIRA issues filed, and continuous activity toward closing them.
The Java implementation for Olio has been checked into the repository, joining the Rails and Php implementations.
Graduation From Incubation:
Diversity of committers is the primary issue with the project, with all of the active developers coming from three organizations.
IPMC reviews: jukka
Sanselan has graduated to a sub-project of Apache Commons. This will be the last report in the incubator.
Active committers on the project have been voted committer status in Commons. The project infrastructure (mail lists, repository, and web site) are being migrated to Commons.
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography.
Apache Shiro has been incubating since June 2008.
ASF community at large helped us change our name to 'Shiro'. This was a large collaborative effort that really showed the power of the Apache Way and resulted in a name with which a large majority of people were content.
from it have allowed the development team to return focus to developing the framework and resolving issues rather than spending time on name-related administrative issues.
The project team is not considering graduation at this point, as the code is not ready for an Apache release. Once IP clearance is complete, and Mavne snapshots are working, we'll attempt our first incubator release.
The status is being maintained at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shiro/STATUS
Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.
The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud computing on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored in a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on by remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner.
Development activities have included adding a locality and layout service, integrating metrics into ganglia for monitoring, more complicated network isolation support, and preliminary code for the purpose of communicating with Maui, a cluster scheduler. Additionally, the documentation has been enhanced on the project webpage.
The project is still struggling to grow a substantial user community, but there are several active contributors. We are looking forward to the opportunity to present our work with PRS and Hadoop at SC'09 \[1\]. In addition, Tashi is deployed at Intel's [OpenCirrus] \[2\] site where it has more than 20 users. It is also being installed at CMU's [OpenCirrus] site. |
Items to be resolved before graduation:
\[1\] http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/tut168 |
\[2\] http://opencirrus.org/ |
IPMC reviews: Upayavira
Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between a variety of programming languages. Thrift entered the Apache Incubator in May 2008.
Recent Activity of Note:
Biggest next step for considering graduation is getting the release out successfully. Licensing issues all seem to be in good shape with no legal issues.
IPMC reviews: jukka
UIMA is a component framework for the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. UIMA entered incubation on October 3, 2006.
Some recent activity:
Items to complete before graduation:
Apache Wink is an incubating project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. Wink has been incubating since May 2009.
Notable activity in the Wink project:
Things to resolve prior to graduating: