Board meeting on 16 Oct 2019; report to be submitted by 9 Oct
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
jclouds continues to squash bugs but little feature work. There is a community interest in a new release that incorporates recent work on Azure. We are releasing a new major and a bugfix release this week.
We are aiming to support newer Java versions, and many efforts have been put in upgrading to Java 8. There are several dependencies that still pin the project to this version of Java, and further upgrading it would require upgrading those core dependencies. We are trying to find champions in the community to lead that effort, as the energy and availability of the current Committers and PMC members are low (see the Community section below).
== Community ==
There have been small contributions from the community and bugfix reports as in previous quarters. We have seen, however, that the issues that are being reported recently are more about the core features of the project instead of the simple features of a specific provider. This is a bit encouraging since some of those reports had a level of detail that shows that there was interest in digging down and understanding the most complex parts of the codebase.
There is still a concern around the amount of time being dedicated to the project since most of the PMC and committers are now "pure" volunteers (with $dayjob no longer related to jclouds). Another concern keeps being the lack of traction, requests, and general interest from the community itself.
Last committer: 2018-07-23 (Daniel Estevez)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
Find a champion that helps us upgrade the core dependencies that pin us to old Java versions.
Keep engaging contributors on Slack, and propose them as new committers as appropriate.
Monitor the PMC and ensure we have enough resources to properly manage the project.
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.1.2, took place on 2019-02-07.