svn commit: r515478 - in /velocity/site/site/src/site/apt: board-reports.apt reports/report-2007-02.apt

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Author: henning
Date: Tue Mar  6 23:04:12 2007
New Revision: 515478

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=515478
Log:
Add February board report. Reshuffle links to the reports to read
"newest first".


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    velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/reports/report-2007-02.apt
Modified:
    velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/board-reports.apt

Modified: velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/board-reports.apt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/board-reports.apt?view=diff&rev=515478&r1=515477&r2=515478
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  quarterly due and public. As part of our move to become a top-level
  project (TLP), we have to report monthly for the first three months.
 
- * {{{reports/report-2006-11.html}November 2006 Report}}
+ * {{{reports/report-2007-01.html}January 2007 Report}}
+
+ * {{{reports/report-2007-02.html}February 2007 Report}}
 
  * {{{reports/report-2006-12.html}December 2006 Report}}
 
- * {{{reports/report-2007-01.html}January 2007 Report}}
+ * {{{reports/report-2006-11.html}November 2006 Report}}
 

Added: velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/reports/report-2007-02.apt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/reports/report-2007-02.apt?view=auto&rev=515478
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--- velocity/site/site/src/site/apt/reports/report-2007-02.apt (added)
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+ ----
+ The Apache Velocity Project
+ ----
+ dev@velocity.apache.org
+
+Apache Velocity Project Board report for February 2007
+
+* General Information
+
+ The Velocity project is inches away from the eagerly anticipated
+ release of Velocity 1.5, the first major release of our engine in
+ almost three years.  December and January saw a flurry of activity in
+ cleaning up last minute bugs, updating documentation, and preparing
+ the release.
+
+ We have had passionate recent discussion on the dev and private list
+ about release procedure.  In part, this is due to the anticipated
+ visibility of the Velocity 1.5 release and in part due to the
+ relatively young nature of the Velocity TLP / PMC as we establish
+ correct release practice.
+
+ For recent beta / rc releases we have had a "vote-then-build" process
+ in which a PMC member announces they are ready to release, a vote is
+ held, then the release is shipped.  In mid-January such a vote was
+ announced for Velocity 1.5.  Midway through the vote one of the PMC
+ members expressed concern that there were no binaries to examine.  A
+ consensus opinion urged a switch to a "build-then-vote" procedure and
+ the current vote was tabled.  A few days later, a second vote was
+ held to release Velocity 1.5 with +1's from almost all parties except
+ for a last-minute -1 (from a different PMC member).  The concerns
+ driving the -1 vote were not serious (minor documentation / site
+ issues), but the -1 voter felt strongly that these issues should be
+ addressed before release.  (Being a release vote, the -1 was not
+ binding but our release manager agreed to table the release in light
+ of the concerns).
+
+ A frustrating aspect of this process was that these issues could not
+ be directly fixed, but needed to wait for the vote to conclude, then
+ a rebuild of the distro then a new vote.  The departure of our chair
+ (who had been driving the release) on a month-long vacation has
+ temporarily paused this process.  Will Glass-Husain has offered to
+ push the release through to conclusion in the meantime but personal
+ committments have led to a several week delay.
+
+ In related news, we have prepared a press release for distribution
+ regarding the Velocity 1.5.  Due to the wide-spread use of this
+ library in the Java community we anticipate getting plenty of
+ attention when the release occurs.  The release was shared with the
+ PRC committee list (which was somewhat unresponsive) but suggestions
+ for improvements were received from several members.
+
+ The Velocity project has no board-level issues at this time.
+
+* Community Changes
+
+ No new committers were voted in since the last board report. No new
+ PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
+
+* Velocity Engine project
+
+ As noted above, the entire Velocity community is eagerly awaiting the
+ upcoming release of Velocity 1.5.  We fully expect this release to
+ conclude as previously predicted during Q1.
+
+* Velocity Tools project
+
+ Velocity Tools 1.3 was released on February 8.  Work on the next 1.x
+ version has already begun.
+
+* Velocity DVSL project
+
+ There were no changes in the DVSL code base. No DVSL development
+ happened in the last month.