draft quarterly report + resolution

[Hugo Trippaers <hu...@trippaers.nl>]

All,

please review this draft report for this quarter for our project.

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage 
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable 
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

The board has a resolution on it's agenda for this meeting to change
the Apache CloudStack PMC chair (special order #FIXME).

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is still working on the next major release (4.5.0) of Apache 
CloudStack. The fourth release candidate is voted to become the release, 
but a critical bug has been identified.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.1 was released on Mar 4 2015. Apache
CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack  
* The community making steps to structurally improved the development
process with regards to quality insurance. The community has asked a small
group to work on a way of working proposal.
* <PLACEHOLDER, waiting for input from Mark on the foundation>


RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.3.2 was released on Jan 9, 2015.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.1 was released on Mar 4, 2015

COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 100 (+4) committers and 33 (+1) 
PMC members.

New Committers:
Erik Weber (erikw) - Dec 11
Wilder Rodriques () - Feb 25
Harikrishna Patnala () - Mar 3
Karen Vuong () - Mar 7

New PMC Members:
Will Stevens (swill) - Feb 17

The Apache CloudStack project is a decent volume community, activity 
on the mailing-list has been dropping steadily over the last few months. Current
mailing-list numbers are less than 50% of similar months a year earlier.

dev@ msgs = Dec: 1190, Jan: 796, Feb: 870
users@ msgs = Dec: 570, Jan: 436, Feb: 543
issues@ msgs = Dec: 1131, Jan: 380, Feb: 750
commits@ msgs = Dec: 659, Jan: 519, Feb: 566
marketing@ msgs = Dec: 21, Jan: 92, Feb: 102 
users-cn@ msgs = Dec: 97, Jan: 155, Feb: 49

Re: draft quarterly report + resolution

[Daan Hoogland <da...@gmail.com>]

Hugo,

few remarks inline

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Hugo Trippaers <hu...@trippaers.nl> wrote:
...

> ISSUES
>
> The board has a resolution on it's agenda for this meeting to change
> the Apache CloudStack PMC chair (special order #FIXME).
>
> CURRENT ACTIVITY
> * The community is still working on the next major release (4.5.0) of Apache
> CloudStack. The fourth release candidate is voted to become the release,
> but a critical bug has been identified.
The release is out but a bug was found right after. A fix release is planned

> * Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.1 was released on Mar 4 2015. Apache
> CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
> CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
> * The community making steps to structurally improved the development
> process with regards to quality insurance. The community has asked a small
> group to work on a way of working proposal.
> * <PLACEHOLDER, waiting for input from Mark on the foundation>
>
>
> RELEASES
> Apache CloudStack 4.3.2 was released on Jan 9, 2015.

Apache CloudStack 4.4.2 was released on ???.
Apache CloudStack 4.5.0 was released on ???.
> Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.1 was released on Mar 4, 2015
>
> COMMUNITY
> Including the following additions, CloudStack has 100 (+4) committers and 33 (+1)
> PMC members.
>
> New Committers:
> Erik Weber (erikw) - Dec 11
> Wilder Rodriques () - Feb 25
> Harikrishna Patnala () - Mar 3
> Karen Vuong () - Mar 7
do we need to Rohit (depending on when the report is due)?

>
> New PMC Members:
> Will Stevens (swill) - Feb 17
>
> The Apache CloudStack project is a decent volume community, activity
> on the mailing-list has been dropping steadily over the last few months. Current
> mailing-list numbers are less than 50% of similar months a year earlier.
>
> dev@ msgs = Dec: 1190, Jan: 796, Feb: 870
> users@ msgs = Dec: 570, Jan: 436, Feb: 543
> issues@ msgs = Dec: 1131, Jan: 380, Feb: 750
> commits@ msgs = Dec: 659, Jan: 519, Feb: 566
> marketing@ msgs = Dec: 21, Jan: 92, Feb: 102
> users-cn@ msgs = Dec: 97, Jan: 155, Feb: 49
>
>



-- 
Daan