[REPORT] Isis - Nov 2012 (updated)

[Dan Haywood <da...@haywood-associates.co.uk>]

Apache Isis - November 2012

Apache Isis graduated from the incubator last month (approved at the Oct
2012
board meeting).  This is the first of the monthly reports required for three
months post-graduation.


Project Description:

Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using
domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked
objects
architectural pattern


Membership:

Dan Haywood is the new PMC chair.  Those listed in the graduation
resolution [1] have been added to the PMC group.


Development:

Two of the Isis committers (Dan Haywood and Jeroen van der Wal) are
currently
engaged on a project where the client (Eurocommercial Properties NV) is in
effect funding development of Isis.  The work is being done under ICLAs of
the committers; ECPNV understand they have no claim to IP.  Commits have
continued to be made to the codebase during the reporting period. This
project will continue through 2013.

We have started to work with infra to transition to a TLP [2], [3].

The community has also voted to move from SVN to GIT.  We will be working
with infra to effect this change [4].

The community has also decided to transition to using the CMS website,
rather
than the static Maven site currently supported.  We now have a basic
placeholder site up and running [5].


Community Activity:

A presentation on RestfulObjects (a submodule of Isis) was made at
J-Fall 2012 conference in the Netherlands [6].

At the same conference, a set of hands-on lab sessions were also run [7].

At ApacheConEU, a presentation was made on Apache Isis [8].

No new committers or contributors this month.


Infrastructure Changes:

The following post-graduation tasks were performed [2], [3]:
* New root aliases and groups
* New mailing lists have been established, subscribers moved over
* SVN code has moved out from under the incubator branch
* Begin setting up of new CMS-based website


Website:

In addition to the new CMS site, currently a placeholder [5], the old
incubator site [9] is still live.


Project Branding:

The CMS site was adapted from an existing CMS site.  The branding of Isis on
the old incubator site is now inaccurate, since the project is no longer
incubating.  We expect to retire the incubator site before Xmas 2012.


Issues:

There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ISIS/GraduationResolution
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-276
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5480
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5502
[5] http://isis.apache.org
[6] http://www.nljug.org/pages/events/content/jfall_2012/sessions/00086/
[7] http://www.nljug.org/pages/events/content/jfall_2012/sessions/00029/
[8] http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/171/
[9] http://incubator.apache.org/isis