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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+Copyright 1999-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+<document>
+
+ <properties>
+ <author email="general.AT.jakarta.DOT.apache.DOT.org">Apache Jakarta Project</author>
+ <title>March 2004 Board Report</title>
+ </properties>
+
+<body>
+
+ <section name="March 2004 Board Report">
+
+<p>The Jakarta community would like to mention an official thanks and warm and heartfelt appreciation to our outgoing chair, Sam Ruby. We recognize that he was instrumental in guiding it through a sometimes difficult period of high growth, and we all value his considerate and thoughtful contributions. </p>
+
+ <p>As the board is obviously aware, the Jakarta PMC has changed chairs, with the retirement :) of Sam Ruby and the appointment of Geir Magnusson Jr. </p>
+
+ <p>We officially added 37 committers to the Jakarta PMC. These additions were from the previous two months, and we are starting the process of identifying new candidates and voting again. </p>
+
+ <p>We feel we had a successful transition to the new Apache Software License v2.0 The entire Jakarta Commons and commons sandbox has been converted, and the community is very aware of the need to ensure that both the spirit and letter of the boards instructions regarding the license are followed. Thanks to all at the ASF for help in clearing up our questions regarding the process. </p>
+
+ <p>The HiveMind codebase currently located in Jakarta Commons has completed it's software grant from WebCT, the employer of the primary author, and the Jakarta PMC has approved a proposal to make HiveMind a new Jakarta sub-project. Along with the PMC's support, the community response to the proposal was very positive. We have checked with the Incubator PMC, and there have been no other issues raised preventing this from happening. </p>
+
+ <p>The Jakarta Struts sub-project has voted to apply for ASF top-level project status. The Jakarta PMC supports this and urges the board to accept their proposal ASAP. </p>
+
+ <p>The HttpClient component of Jakarta Commons has voted to apply for Jakarta sub-project status. We are waiting the formal proposal, and don't foresee any problems. </p>
+
+ <p>We recognize that our charter is woefully inadequate, and intend to produce a revision to submit for board approval in the near future. </p>
+
+ <p>The Jakarta PMC had a long and sometimes heated discussion about the board's recommendation that author tags be removed from code. I think that we collectively understand the motivation and how a community has to be careful that author tags don't lead to territorial ownership of what is community-owned code. However, I urge that the board do not mandate their removal, allowing the individual communities to police themselves on this issue. Many of us, myself included, value the author tags because we recognize that it's human nature to be proud of one's work, and the author tag is (one) way in which new community members can initially find value in contribution. Finally, we would appreciate some clarification on how removal of the tags changes the legal exposure of the committers or the ASF. I, for one, don't grok the legal argument. </p>
+
+ </section>
+
+ </body>
+</document>
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+Copyright 1999-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+<document>
+
+ <properties>
+ <author email="general.AT.jakarta.DOT.apache.DOT.org">Apache Jakarta Project</author>
+ <title>September 2004 Board Report</title>
+ </properties>
+
+<body>
+
+ <section name="September 2004 Board Report">
+
+<subsection name="Status">
+
+<p>This is a 2 month report due to the month-late report at the July board meeting. </p>
+
+<p>The PMC bylaws have been updated to match the current practice. Most notably, we removed the 7-member limitation and monthly meetings, making the Jakarta PMC (on paper) less of a board and more of a group of active committers. </p>
+
+<p>Turbine-JCS is planning to request promotion to a full Jakarta subproject. JCS is a Java cache. HttpClient's promotion from Commons to Jakarta subproject is still planned once a 3.0 final release has been made. </p>
+
+<p>The PMC discussed whether action on protection of the Jakarta trademark was needed, though no action has been taken. It was agreed (through lack of argument) that projects should be referred to as Apache Xxxx and not Apache Jakarta Xxxx or some other combination. A side-effect of the conversation saw the sun.com sites mentioning Tomcat change to refer to it as "Apache Tomcat". </p>
+
+</subsection>
+<subsection name="Possible plans for the next quarter">
+
+<p>Robert Burrel Donkin has volunteered to migrate ECS over to SVN as a trial migration. </p>
+
+<p>I (Henri Yandell) plan to organize improvements to the Jakarta download page, which is in dire need of improvements. </p>
+
+</subsection>
+<subsection name="Releases">
+
+<u>September</u>
+<ul>
+<li>22 September 2004 - HiveMind 1.0 (final) Released</li>
+<li>19 September 2004 - Commons HttpClient 3.0 alpha2 Released</li>
+<li>16 September 2004 - DataGrid, Mailer and RDC Taglibs Released in the sandbox </li>
+<li>15 September 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.2-alpha Released</li>
+<li>12 September 2004 - HiveMind 1.0-rc-2 Released</li>
+<li>9 September 2004 - Jelly 1.0-beta-4 Released</li>
+<li>9 September 2004 - Digester 1.6 Released</li>
+<li>7 September 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.1 Released</li>
+<li>7 September 2004 - Commons JEXL 1.0 Released</li>
+</ul>
+
+<u>August</u>
+<ul>
+<li>31 August 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.0 Released</li>
+<li>28 August 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.28 Released</li>
+<li>26 August 2004 - HiveMind 1.0-rc-1 Released</li>
+<li>25 August 2004 - Commons Validator 1.1.3 Released</li>
+<li>22 August 2004 - Commons Launcher 1.1 Released</li>
+<li>15 August 2004 - Commons Attributes 2.1 Released</li>
+<li>02 August 2004 - HiveMind 1.0-beta-2</li>
+<li>02 August 2004 - Commons BeanUtils 1.7</li>
+<li>01 August 2004 - Commons JXPath 1.2</li>
+<li>01 August 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0.1</li>
+</ul>
+
+<u>July</u>
+<ul>
+<li>26 July 2004 - JK 1.2.6 Released</li>
+<li>21 July 2004 - Standard Taglibs 1.1.1 and 1.0.6 Released</li>
+<li>10 July 2004 - Commons Codec 1.3</li>
+</ul>
+
+</subsection>
+<subsection name="Community changes">
+
+<u>New PMC members</u>
+
+<ul>
+<li>14 August 2004 - Ingo Brunberg</li>
+<li>14 August 2004 - Unico Hommes</li>
+<li>14 August 2004 - Simon Kitching</li>
+<li>14 August 2004 - Stefan Lutzkendorf</li>
+</ul>
+
+<u>New Committers</u>
+
+<ul>
+<li>13 September 2004 - James Carman (jcarman) - HiveMind</li>
+<li>13 September 2004 - Peter Courcoux (pcourcoux) - Turbine</li>
+<li>07 September 2004 - Peter Rossbach (pero) - Tomcat</li>
+<li>03 September 2004 - Shinsuke Sugaya (shinsuke) - Jetspeed (still in Jakarta CVS)</li>
+<li>03 September 2004 - Paul Ferraro (pferraro)</li>
+<li>09 August 2004 - Davide Savazzi (dsavazzi) - Slide</li>
+<li>09 August 2004 - Ryan Rhodes (rrhodes) - Slide</li>
+<li>31 July 2004 - Daniel Naber (dnaber) - Lucene</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+</subsection>
+<subsection name="Infrastructure news">
+
+<p>Henning Schmiedehausen is moderating the Turbine JCS list. </p>
+
+</subsection>
+<subsection name="Subproject news">
+
+<p>(** implies report based on the mailing lists by the chair) </p>
+
+<u>**Commons</u>
+
+<p>Both Jelly and Math are close to a 1.0 release. Grant is going to leave the sandbox to fold back into Maven. Betwixt close to 0.6 release. </p>
+
+<u>HiveMind</u>
+
+<p>Voted in James Carman as a new committer and proceeded through to a 1.0 final release. Work is underway on 1.1 features. </p>
+
+<u>**Taglibs</u>
+
+<p>After a lot of domination by the JSTL implementation, the Taglibs project has some new activity with the announcement of three new taglibs in the sandbox. Mailer2, a complete rewrite of a previous Mailer taglib; DataGrid, a taglib for tabular representation; and RDC, Reusable Dialog Components, a taglib for voice applications. </p>
+
+<u>Tapestry</u>
+
+<p>Work on the 3.1 release (including significant reworking around a HiveMind infrastructure) is under way. No new releases expected for several weeks at the minimum. </p>
+
+<u>Tomcat</u>
+
+<p>Tomcat 5.5 is the next branch in the Tomcat 5.x major release. While it supports the same Servlet and JSP Specification versions as Tomcat 5.0.x, there are significant changes in many areas under the hood. To indicate the magnitude of these changes, which include backwards-incompatible changes such as removal of some internal APIs and the default dependency on J2SE 5.0, we chose 5.5 as the branch number as opposed to 5.1. We hope to improve the stability of the 5.5 releases this month, although a "stable" release cannot be announced until J2SE 5.0 Final Customer Shipment is available. However, please note that multiple users (as well as Tomcat developers) have been using Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 on J2SE 5.0 for months, without any serious issues. </p>
+
+<u>Watchdog</u>
+
+<p>It was announced to the general Jakarta community that starting with Tomcat 5.5, Tomcat no longer uses Watchdog. Tomcat was the only known user of the Watchdog product, so now the Watchdog project is completely dormant. </p>
+
+<u>ECS</u>
+
+<p>Quiet. </p>
+
+
+</subsection>
+ </section>
+
+ </body>
+</document>
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+Copyright 1999-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+<document>
+
+ <properties>
+ <author email="general.AT.jakarta.DOT.apache.DOT.org">Apache Jakarta Project</author>
+ <title>PMC Quarterly Board Reports</title>
+ </properties>
+
+<body>
+
+ <section name="PMC Quarterly Board Reports">
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="board-report-march2004.html">March 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-july2004.html">July 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-september2004.html">September 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-december2004.html">December 2004</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ </section>
+
+ </body>
+</document>
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