Apache Month in Review: November 2020

[Swapnil M Mane <sw...@apache.org>]

[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/Nov2020 ]

Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache
community. Here's a summary of what happened in November:

New this month --

 - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
   -- ApacheCon@Home 2020 was a huge success
https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-was-a
   -- Videos of all sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes, are
available https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

 - Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May -
July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr

 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® TVM™ as a
Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/59g4a

 - "Inside Infra" – the interview series featuring members of the ASF
Infrastructure team
   -- Meet Gavin McDonald --Part I
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and Part II
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
   -- Meet Andrew Wetmore --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew

 - Apache Month in Review: October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020


Important Dates --

  - Next Board Meeting: 16 December 2020. Board calendar and minutes
http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html


Infrastructure --

Our seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our
highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP
Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg
Stein. ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their
communities across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories,
5-6PB in traffic annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily
emails on 2,000+ lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure
services are available around the clock. The average uptime in
November was 99.91%. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Committer Activity --

In November, 762 Apache Committers changed 11,586,940 lines of code
over 14,829 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest
contributions, in order, were: Jarek Potiuk, Jean-Baptiste Onofré,
Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, and Kaxil Naik.

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache APISIX (API); BookKeeper (Big Data); Commons
VFS (Libraries); CXF(Libraries); HBase (Big Data); Jackrabbit
(Content); Log4j (Libraries); Lucene (Search); Oak (Content); Qpid
Proton (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Shiro (Security
Framework); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Tomcat
(Servers); Unomi (Data Management Platform); Wicket (Web Frameworks);

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to
become an official part of the ASF. We invite you to review the many
projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator
http://incubator.apache.org/ . New releases from incubating podlings
include: Apache Daffodil (Incubating; Libraries); NLPCraft
(Incubating; Natural Language Processing); Tuweni (Incubating;
Blockchain);

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Best regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org