November 2009 Board reports (see ReportingSchedule).
These reports are due here by Wednesday, 11 November 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.
Please remember to include:
- The "incubating since" info.
- The project's top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation.
- A short description of what your project's software does.
The Signed off by mentor: is for Mentor(s) to show that the Report has been reviewed.
Aries
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Bluesky
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Droids
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PhotArk
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Pivot
Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It has been in incubation since January 2009.
Pivot 1.3 was released in September. Major features in this version included:
New FileBrowser component - Pivot now includes out-of-the-box support for navigating the local filesystem.
New FlowPane component - though Pivot previously included a FlowPane container for laying out components in a horizontal line, the previous version did not support wrapping (the former FlowPane class is now called BoxPane).
- Enhanced scripting support - script code (written in any JVM-compatible scripting language) can now be embedded directly within a WTKX document (previously, it had to be stored in an external file), and event handlers are now much easier to define in WTKX.
- Platform support for context menus and menu bars - While these components were available in previous releases, they are significantly easier to work with in Pivot 1.3.
New card pane transitions - CardPane now supports a number of selection change transitions, allowing developers to easily add visual interest to an application.
- Support for bounded preferred sizes - callers can now specify minimum and maximum values for preferred width and height, ensuring that a component does not grow or shrink beyond a certain size.
- Support for resource inheritance - Resource instances can now define parent resources, inheriting resource properties and optionally overriding values set by the parent instance.
- A new logo, created by new contributor Thien Luh.
A new Pivot tutorial was published on IBM developerWorks:
The team is actively working on version 1.4, tentatively scheduled for release in January. Major improvements in Pivot 1.4 include:
Complete TextArea component.
- Support for baseline alignments.
New ColorChooser component.
- Hit detection for drawing primitives.
- Support for declaring event handlers in WTKX attributes.
- Improved support for automated testing.
- Complete documentation for all features.
Top 3 issues prior to graduation:
The Incubator PMC voted on a graduation proposal in September. The proposal technically passed, but only by a very slim margin. As a result, Pivot PPMC elected to cancel the vote and focus on the issues raised by those who voted -1, in hopes that a more unanimous approval might be obtained later.
The primary concern was that the project had not yet established sufficient community and was still largely driven by two of the initial committers. Since that time, there has been a significant increase in activity from the other committers, and the project has received several patches from outside contributors. One such patch, an improvement to table column resizing, was committed to the platform. The developer responsible for the patch demonstrated very strong knowledge of the platform and would be considered for addition as a committer should the quality of his code submissions continue to be high.
The team hopes to present a renewed graduation proposal early next year, to coincide with the release of Pivot 1.4.
Signed off by mentor: Niclas Hedhman
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Wookie
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