DRAFT version of the quarterly report of the Apache MyFaces PMC. Feel free to edit

MyFaces Quarterly Report April 2010

Summary

• Some community changes
• New releases
• Discussions
  

Community

• New committer:
  • Jakob Korherr
  • Mark Struberg
• No new PMC members..
  

Releases

• MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report:
  • MyFaces Trinidad (Maven) Plugins 1.2.12
  • MyFaces Trinidad (Maven) Plugins 2.0.0
  • MyFaces Trinidad (Maven) Plugins 2.0.1
  • MyFaces Trinidad 1.2.13-core
  • MyFaces Trinidad 1.0.12-core
  • MyFaces Trinidad 2.0.0-alpha
  • MyFaces Trinidad 2.0.0-alpha-2
  • MyFaces Extensions Validator 1.1.3
  • MyFaces Extensions Validator 1.2.3
  • MyFaces Extensions Validator 2.0.3
  • MyFaces Core 2.0.0-beta (TCK not (yet) passed)
  • MyFaces Core 2.0.0-beta-2 (TCK not (yet) passed)
  • MyFaces Core 2.0.0-beta-3 (TCK not (yet) passed)
    

Milestones

• none
  

Discussions

• The Trinidad subproject now has a new skin (look-and feel). Since the skin was a large code contribution by someone who is not a committer, we checked on the "general AT incubator.apache.org" mailing list to determine if we needed a software grant for the skin. Since nothing indicated that we required a software grant (http://j.mp/cTpWak and http://j.mp/bX1TvY), we merged the donation to our code-base (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-1689).
• A new subproject "CODI" has been created. The goal is to deliver jsf extensions for the JSR299, and we continue to closely work with the Apache OpenWebBeans community on this project.
• We have finally received an updated version of the TCK which takes into account our challenges and are rerunning the TCK.
• We are slowly following up on a security report. We feel it's acceptable to take a slower approach since the issue has been well-known for several years.
• Google Summer of Code: The Apache MyFaces team has submitted the following ideas for which students can apply:
  • Module for automated webapp tests for MyFaces core + extensions: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACESTEST-6

  • [MAB] MyFaces Application Builder: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-2635

  • MyFaces 2.0 performance improvements: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-2634
  • HTML 5 renderkit for MyFaces: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-2632
• We will update the documentation and move it to http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYFACES/Index (step-by-step)