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Posted to dev@jackrabbit.apache.org by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> on 2007/03/15 09:20:50 UTC
Board report for Apache Jackrabbit
Hi,
See below for the Apache Jackrabbit report.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
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Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170).
The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level
issues at this time.
o Releases
We released three versions of Apache Jackrabbit; 1.2.1 in January,
1.2.2 in February, and 1.2.3 in March.
The 1.2 release candidate needed to be cancelled and repackaged as
1.2.1 due to a last-minute issue that was raised during the release
vote. This prompted a discussion on release candidates and versioning,
which in turn resulted in some improvements to our release process.
We are currently working on the 1.3 release.
o Community
Przemyslaw Pakulski was added as a committer and PMC member.
The user mailing list that was launched last year has reached the
activity level of the development list and continues steady growth.
The total mailing list activity is now higher than ever before.
One session and one tutorial on JCR/Jackrabbit have been scheduled
for the upcoming ApacheCon EU. We are also planning to organize a
Jackrabbit BOF during the conference.
Based on the experiences from last summer, we are proposing a
Google Summer of Code 2007 project to build a JCR demo application
based on Apache Jackrabbit.
There is interest in starting a new incubating content analysis toolkit
project named Tika. Hopefully the project will as a side effect build
more bridges between the Lucene and Jackrabbit communities.
o Development
The 1.2 releases include a new beta-level clustering feature that is
attracting much interest. Many corner cases are being ironed out based
on feedback and bug reports from the user community, and it seems that
we can soon declare the feature stable.
The main new feature in the 1.3 release is a set of "bundle persistence
manager" components contributed by Day. These components bring a major
performance boost to many Jackrabbit user cases. The contributed IP has
been cleared and is now being integrated into the Jackrabbit codebase.
There have been a number of cases where users have suggested some
internal changes to better handle specific performance and other
requirements. Unfortunately few of such discussions have resulted in
proposed patches. We should do better to encourage patch submissions.
o Infrastructure
The Solaris zone we requested is now up and running. We have a Continuum
installation doing nightly builds and continuous integration tests for
all the Jackrabbit release components. So far we've seen zero
build-breaking commits.