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- == Month Year Board Report ==
+ == June 2007 Jakarta Board Report ==
  
  === Status ===
  
- Chair to summarize Jakarta-wide news + the current state of affairs. 
+ Another 2 projects have left Jakarta to live on their own : POI and Turbine
+ and both of almost (or completely) finished the move. I like to wish the
+ projects the best and a very good and long lasting future. In a seperate
+ mail there is a TLP proposal for commons, which on acceptance will mean
+ that the biggest part of the Jakarta community have no direct ties anymore
+ with Jakarta. The focus after commons will be on the projects left at
+ Jakarta and see if there is possibility for them to go TLP or when
+ that is not viable or possible, find a suitable solution for those projects.
+ My explicit wish is that there will be no deadline for projects to move so
+ there will be enough time to find the best solution, instead of the quickest
+ solution. We owe that to all the people in those projects who invest a lot
+ of time and energy in those projects.
+ One of the big discussions that took place was about the future of Jakarta
+ and the thing we in majority agreed on (at least the people who spoke up)
+ is that it is worth to "save" the Jakarta brand. Since I prefer to spend
+ the energy and time I have in the projects that are left at Jakarta, I
+ decided not to invest time on what will happen to the Jakarta brand at this
+ time, simply because they deserve my time and energy and out of respect for
+ the projects that still currently have their existance at Jakarta.
+ If the board decides to not esablish the commons TLP, we need to go back
+ to the drawing table.
+ 
+ All in all : a lot is happening and a lot is going to happen in the months
+ to come. If there is reason to do so, I will provide extra board reports
+ besides the quarterly schedule.
+ 
+ Reports prefixed with MvdB are written by me.
  
  === Releases ===
  
@@ -22, +48 @@

      * Ben Speakmon was voted in as a Commons Committer
      * Alf Hogemark was voted in as a JMeter Committer
      * Asankha C. Perera was voted in as a !HttpComponents Committer
+     * M. Johnson (although not new, his account was created just now,
+       because of CLA problems). (POI)
  
    * PMC Members
      * Thomas Vandahl was voted on to the PMC
-     * (??? A vote for Nick Burch to join the PMC passed, but the formalities were not completed ???)
+     * Danny Angus was persuaded to come back on the PMC.
+     * Ant Elder was voted on the PMC.
+ 
+ Fixed the bookkeeping on the addition of Nick Burch to the Jakarta PMC (that
+ was reported in the December 2006 report. 
  
  === Infrastructure news ===
  
- Changes to the projects infrastructure. Migrations to Subversion, new vmware instances etc.
+ The only things currently happening is the move of infrastructure for the Turbine and POI TLP projects.
  
  === General project news ===
  
- The Jakarta PMC has started to review all Jakarta projects whether they contain
+ The Jakarta PMC has started to review all Jakarta projects whether they
- or rely on cryptographic software and if they must be marked as described on http://apache.org/dev/crypto.
+ contain or rely on cryptographic software and if they must be marked as
+ described on http://apache.org/dev/crypto. This is an ongoing process and
- This is an ongoing process and we expect some corner cases where we will need legal advice.
+ we expect some corner cases where we will need legal advice.
  
  === Subproject news ===
  
- News related to various subprojects, if they have news. Volunteers for subproject news are desired, otherwise the Chair is responsible for finding out said news (and should mark that they had to do so). 
  
  ==== BCEL ====
  
+ No activity.
+ 
  ==== BSF ====
  
+ MvdB :Silent quarter. A talk for Apachecon US was accepted (Rony Flatcher),
+ which will hopefully increase the user base (observation : since the user
+ list is also pretty quiet it can mean that BSF is bug free or it needs
+ more users)
+ 
  ==== Cactus ====
  
+ MvdB:
+ The ip clearance finally passed, so Petar is now able to (re)integrate
+ his code into the cactus codebase.
+ 
  ==== Commons ====
+ 
+ A commons TLP resolution was sent to the Board at the same time of this board report.
  
  31 March 2007 - vote passed to promote the JCI (Java Compiler Interface) to a proper component (from the Sandbox).
  
@@ -133, +178 @@

  
  ==== ECS ====
  
+ Nothing happened on the ECS front.
+ 
  ==== HttpComponents ====
  
  Work on the first alpha of !HttpClient 4.0 has made good progress. We expect to release client-alpha1 and the matching core-alpha5 shortly.
@@ -144, +191 @@

  
  
  ==== JCS ====
- JCS 1.3 has been released.
+ JCS 1.3 has been released. Thomas Vandahl acted as the release manager.
  
  ==== JMeter ====
  
+ Very active (as always) and gained a new committer recently.
+ 
  ==== ORO ====
+ 
+ Mature and therefor no activity needed.
  
  ==== POI ====
  Released 3.0 Final.
  
- Following a vote and board approved, became a TLP
+ Following a vote and board approved, became a TLP. Please see the POI board report for more information on the move.
  
  ==== Regexp ====
  
+ Mature and therefor no activity needed.
+ 
  ==== Slide ====
+ MvdB (since I am considering myself Slide committer, this report is done
+ from that "position")
+ Codebase wise not much happening at this stage. Searching for future options
+ for Slide outside of Jakarta and one of the options is to merge the Slide
+ and HttpComponents communities. Setting up a proposal for the community to
+ discuss and vote on will soon follow. Goal is to not split up the Slide
+ server and client codebase and have the client build on top of the new
+ HttpComponents version. We suffer from lack of cycles to spare (meaning the committers).
  
  ==== Taglibs ====
- The possibility of consolidating all of the existing taglibs such that we end up with three active taglib release units (Standard, RDC, "unstandard" -- name TBD) was discussed, and there seems agreement (amongst the 5 developers who expressed any opinion) that this is a reasonable way to proceed.
+ The possibility of consolidating all of the existing taglibs such that we
+ end up with three active taglib release units (Standard, RDC, "unstandard"
+ -- name TBD) was discussed, and there seems agreement (amongst the 5
+ developers who expressed any opinion) that this is a reasonable way to
+ proceed.
  
  ==== Turbine ====
- Turbine is in the process of going Top-Level. Site and mailing lists are already in place. SVN and other
+ Turbine is in the process of going Top-Level. Site and mailing lists are
- stuff still needs to be moved.
+ already in place. SVN and other stuff still needs to be moved. For the latest update on Turbin I refer to the Turbine board report.
  

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