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Incubator Board Report August 2011
Bluesky was retired by vote of the Incubator PMC. The project just never
managed to adjust to the ASF's community-orientation.
Olio likewise seems prime for retirement.
HISE (Human Tasks for WS-BPEL) again failed to report (that was an issue in
February as well). Activity has picked up aomewhat being mostly dead, but
the Incubator will inquire into the viability of the project.
Oozie failed to report, but is just getting started. There are no archives
for the -dev list.
ODF Toolkit, a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation,
scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format documents, was voted to
begin Incubation, and has filed its first report.
Giraph, a large-scale, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP)-based
graph processing framework that runs on Hadoop, was voted to begin
Incubation.
The Incubator PMC voted to submit Whirr for TLP status to the Board.
Richard Provarp joined the Incubator PMC.
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Airavata
Airavata is a software toolkit which provides features to compose, manage,
execute, and monitor large scale applications and workflows on computational
resources ranging from local clusters to national grids and computing
clouds. Airavata is incubating since May 2011.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
1. Update web service implementations from XSUL to Axis2. Update security
libraries and simplify the build process and provide sample use cases.
2. Package, document and release at least one Apache Incubator release.
3. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and well
aligned with existing ASF projects as outlined here:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AiravataProposal#Alignment
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No, not at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Web designer Barbara Hallock was voted in a commiter and PPMC member for her
contributions to the website design, logo and CSS contributions. The website
is now live with her contributions. Lahiru Gunathilake an existing apache
commiter from Axis2 & QPID projects has made significant contributions and
provided 25+ patches to Airavata. He is voted in as a commiter and PPMC
member. A new volunteer Patanachai Tangchaisin has been contributing to the
various components of the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Significant progress has been made towards a release. All components are
organized within the svn adding project level and module level maven build
profiles.
* Website is updated with documentation for build and eclipse development
instructions.
* The default database in WS-Messenger and XRegistry is changed from mysql
to Apache Derby. Derby is integrated as an embedded database to build and
deploy as a maven profile. This porting has removed the incompatible license
dependency on mysql-connector jar.
* WS-Messenger module is re-factored, packaged and tested. The messaging
system clients are being worked on, this component needs to integrated with
rest of the modules.
* XBaya module is cleaned up of unused legacy code, improved dependency
management and simple test cases are tested through.
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Amber
Amber has been incubating since July 2010. Amber is a project to develop a
Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally
compliant implementation of the OAuth v1.0, v1.0a and v2.0 specifications.
OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access
by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share
their username and password credentials.
The most important issues that must be addressed before graduation are:
- Clarify status of code grant
- Attract users and developers
- Generate a release
The Incubator PMC / ASF Board should be aware that:
- Community activity is relatively low
How has the community developed since the last report
- Some users have started asking for help or getting started guides on the
mailing list
How has the project developed since the last report
- Work has begun on updating the OAuth implementation
- Discussion about preparing for an initial release is ongoing
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Bigtop
Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Hadoop
ecosystem.
Bigtop entered incubation on June 20 2011
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation:
* Create Bigtop web site. Item in progress. See ticket BIGTOP-9
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of:
* No issues
How has the community developed since the last report:
* Discussions have been started about how to organize the development (RTC
vs CTR)
How has the project developed since the last report.
* Discussions have been started about how to organize our first release and
what should it include.
Licensing and other issues
* Work to obtain CCLA from Cloudera including grant for existing Bigtop code
from Cloudera GitHub repository is done.
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Bluesky
The incubator community voted to retire the Bluesky podling. It will be
closed in near future and reporting will stop with this period.
See here for the vote results:
http://s.apache.org/7oo
Some more context:
http://s.apache.org/4Q2
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Clerezza
(incubating since November 27th, 2009)
Clerezza is a framework and set of components designed to make it easy to
build application for the semantic and the social web.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation.
1. First release
2. Tutorial on how to build apps with clerezza
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of
- No issue
How has the community developed since the last report
- Intense discussions on the process. When is code acceptable into trunk,
when is it legitimate to veto changes with a -1 and what should the
consequences be. As a consequence to these discussions a "contributing" page
was added to the project site:
http://incubator.apache.org/clerezza/contributing/
- Daniel Spicar accepted as new contributor.
- Registration of Apache Clerezza for an evaluation through OSS Award
(http://www.ossaward.ch/)
How has the project developed since the last report.
- The code has been improved to a stage ready for release. Procedure for
releasing the code base has been initiated. We are now very closed to a
first release, already 3 release candidates have been presented for voting.
Hoping that soon an acceptable one will be proposed.
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Deft
Deft is a non-blocking, asynchronous, event driven high performance web
framework running on the JVM.
Deft entered incubation on July 8rd, 2011.
Project development
We are still working in the sandbox
(https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/deft/sandbox/). We have signed
and sent the software grant and also received signed ICLA from the external
contributors that submitted patches to Deft before the Apache incubation. A
chairman is currently being voted. All (Github) issues have been migrated to
Apache JIRA. We have already attracted some new contributors.
Most important issues to address
* Finalize the sandbox work (almost done)
* Converge the coding standards discussion (discussed on the dev ML)
Issues before graduation
* Create Deft web site (or migrate deftserver.org)
* Put together a first incubation release
* Find new committers
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Deltacloud
(Incubating since July 2010)
Deltacloud is a cross cloud abstraction API that allows management of
resources (compute and storage) across different IaaS cloud computing
providers using a single, open API. At present Deltacloud supports
management of Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Gogrid, Rimuhosting, Terremark, RHEV-M,
vSphere, IBM SBC, Eucalyptus, Opennebula compute resources, as well as
Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus and Rackspace Cloudfiles storage
resources.
The last three months have been characterized by ceaseless work towards our
0.4.0 release, which has now been posted as a release candidate.
We also voted three new committers in during that time.
We are in the process of preparing for graduation to a TLP under the Board;
hopefully, a resolution will be posted before the August Board meeting.
Improvements/Fixes/Additions included in upcoming 0.4.0 release (and since
the last report) include:
Server:
* deltacloudd: new option --drivers to list all drivers
* deltacloudd: new options --ssl, --ssl-key and --ssl-cert to
enable HTTPS support
* API entrypoint reports features in JSON
* unify response behavior: any operation returning a 201 Created also
sets the Location header to point to the new resource; ensure the
status for an operation is the same regardless of output format
* Add type to public addresses; type can be one of 'ipv4', 'mac', 'vnc',
and 'hostname'
* Complete overhaul of the HTML UI, now uses jquery-mobile
* Response status for attach/detach storage is now 202 (instead of 302)
* Response status for get/set blob metadata is 204 No Content
* Response status for (un)register with load balancer is 204 No Content
* The user_name feature now reports the permissible length of the name
as the 'max_length' constraint
* Add Date header to responses as per RFC 2616
* New collection 'firewalls' for managing sets of firewalling rules
* split server/config/drivers.yaml into individual files so each driver
can be packaged separately; gives deployers better choice of what
drivers they want enabled
* Numerous bug fixes and improvements to the test suite
* Drivers
+ Condor
- new driver to run a simple cloud based on the Condor grid scheduler
+ EC2
- Fix bug in reboot instance so that the details returned are those
of the stopped instance, not some random instance
- Support getting and updating blob metadata
- support destroying images
- support firewalls (security groups)
- do not support user_name anymore; instance tagging is too fragile
in EC2 to be used reliably for this
- do not support registering an instance with a load balancer upon
creation anymore
- stream blob PUT to backend (requires thin)
- support attaching EBS snapshot to instance upon creation (feature
'attach_snapshot')
- support elastic IP's
+ Eucalyptus
- support firewalls (security groups)
- support elastic IP's
+ Gogrid
- when retrieving single realm, make sure we return the right one
- correctly capture load_balancer params
- report a listener if load_balancer has no instances
+ Mock
- support destroying images
+ Rackspace
- support destroying images
- stream blob PUT to backend (requires thin)
+ RHEV-M
- support creating and destroying images
- report VNC address of instances
- can use Audrey's confserver to fetch IP of an instance
+ vSphere
- turns a VMWare vSphere installation into a cloud
- driver stateless, state is stored in vSphere's data store in
'deltacloud' folder
- images are template VM's
- single HWP, whose max_cpu and max_memory are based on available
cpus and memory across all vSphere hosts
- support data injection via user_data and user_iso (upload entire
ISO image) For both, instance gets virtual CD-ROM with injected
data
Client:
* make authentication info for instances available
* retrieve type and address for public addresses of an instance
* deltacloudc: allow specifying bucket location when creating a bucket
Site:
* Major rewrite of REST API docs, covers the entire API now
* Add libdeltacloud API docs
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Droids
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered
incubation on October, 2008.
It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and
extend existing web robots.
The last three months have been very productive and focused on our first
official release. However a discussion on the general incubator list raised
concern about the absence of binding votes of IPMC members. This leaded to
abort the first release. In the last member meeting we selected one of our
Droids committer as member and he subscribed now to the incubator PMC to
have a binding vote as well.
Issues before graduation :
* Do a release
* IP clearance
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EasyAnt
Work has started to clean up the work done by one of the initial committer
of Easyant as he doesn't have provided its ICLA:
- some work has been identified as containing no IP and will be kept.
- some other work will be just removed, as it doesn't impact the
functionality of Easyant
- and some piece seems to have some IP issue and EasyAnt will probably not
work without it. The developers have started a discussion about how to deal
with a such delete, how could it be rewrote for instance.
This work is reviewed by the mentors.
The www.easyant.org site is now redirecting to incubator.apache.org/easyant
The developer community is not super active, but it is there and responsive
to discussion like the management of the continuous integration, discussion
about some design of some plugins, or discussion about debugging tools for
Ant (discussion which has migrated on ant-dev).
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Flume
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.
Issues before graduation:
* Migrate mailing lists from Cloudera infrastructure to Apache mailing
lists.
* Create Flume web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
* Licensing and trademark issues.
Community:
* Mailing lists:
- flume-user@incubator is now fully active. flume-user@cloudera.org is
read-only
- flume-dev@incubator is nearly fully active, pending code import.
* Added two contributors.
* Discussion and voting about CTR / RTC.
Project developments:
* CCLA from Cloudera regarding license grant for existing Flume code from
Cloudera has been received by ASF.
* Flume project imported to Apache Jira from cloudera.org Flume jira.
(Thanks medthomas, gmcdonald!)
* Initial svn import completed (Thanks joes!)
* Initial inquiry into trademark status.
* Confluence Wiki space is started to get populated with resources and
design information.
* An initial implementation of masterless acknowledgement announced.
* Proposals for next generation master being discussed.
* OpenTSDB connector availability announced.
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Giraph
Giraph is a large-scale, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel
(BSP)-based graph
processing framework that runs on Hadoop. Giraph entered the incubator in
August 2011.
Project developments:
* Project status page created.
* Subversion directories created and authorization granted.
* Code grant received from Yahoo!
* Mailing lists created.
* Mentors all subscribed to private
* Jira created.
* Initial check on trademark status.
* Confluence wiki requested.
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HISE
Failed to report.
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Jena
Jena is a semantic web framework in Java that implements the key W3C
recommendations for the core semantic web technologies of RDF and SPARQL.
Jena entered incubation in November 2010.
Progress since the last report:
The project uses the Apache-based developer list exclusively and is now
encouraging users to use the Apache-hosted user mailing list by regular
reminder and an automatically added a trailer on all messages on the old
user list.
The Apache-hosted website is "under construction" in staging. The project
selected the Apache CMS and buildbot system. The design and navigation is
done. Next step is to populate the website with the content from the old
sites.
One module, LARQ, is being used to learn about the Apache release process
and the requirements it brings with it.
Important issues to address for graduation:
* Create a code base in Apache with legal clearance.
There are about 10 small contributions (a few line upto a single class file)
across the whole codebase that that need to be resolved. All are currently
covered by BSD licences.
* Do a full release
Issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
None.
Technical development:
The new transactional native SPARQL storage systems, TxTDB has been
advertised as a prototype snapshot. Some users have offered to help with
testing.
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Kafka
(introduced to Apache incubator on Jul 4, 2011)
Kafka provides an extremely high throughput distributed publish/subscribe
messaging system. Additionally, it supports relatively long term persistence
of messages to support a wide variety of consumers, partitioning of the
message stream across servers and consumers, and functionality for loading
data into Apache Hadoop for offline, batch processing.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
1. Package, document and release at least one Apache Incubator release.
2. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No, not at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Just get started. The mailing list is pretty active, including people other
than the initial committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Moved everything (svn, website, mailing list, jira, wiki) in Kafka to
Apache. CCLA from LinkedIn filed with Apache.
* The end-to-end compression feature is almost complete.
* Received various patches from 3 different companies, including dynamic
topic discovering for cross-cluster mirroing, mx4j support, .net client,
etc.
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Lucene.NET
Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.
Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:
* Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
with the Java Lucene release schedule.
* High-performance C# search engine library.
* Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that takes
advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.
Recent Activity:
* Lucene.Net 2.9.4 & 2.9.4g are being worked on and tested. The 'g' stands
for generics. The 2.9.4g version now uses .NET 4.0
* Prototyped build scripts with ncover, fxcop, style cop, nunit/mbunit, and
sandcastle have been made.
Current Activities:
* New site design per new Lucene.Net logo. StackOverflow was gracious enough
to put together a logo contest including footing the bill. The incubation
site now shows the logo that was picked from the contest.
http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/
* Working towards getting CI installed.
* The shingle filter was ported
* A simple faceted search contrib project was created.
* Develop a process to automatically (as much as possible) convert the Java
Lucene code to C# (to maintain our line by line port)
Goals for graduation:
* Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
* Release Lucene.Net 3.0.3 (port of Java Lucene 3.0.3)
* Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms
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NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven. NPanday allows .NET projects to be converted into Maven projects thus
allowing them to fully utilize the other technologies driven by Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since August 2010.
We have successfully released NPanday-1.4.0-incubating. Now we are currently
polishing off the NPanday-1.4.1-incubating.
We are also happy to report that our community has gained a lot of new
people in terms of patch contributors and reporters on issues.
The top priorities towards graduation are:
* regular release
* guide regular patch contributors towards becoming committers
* improve engagement of existing committers
There are no issues for the Incubator PMC or board at this time.
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Nuvem
Apache Nuvem will define an open application programming interface for
common cloud application services, allowing applications to be easily ported
across the most popular cloud platforms.
Nuvem was accepted for Incubation on June, 2010.
* Pasindu Madubashana continue making progress on Data Services project as
part of GSoC 2011
* Community continue small but active, with about 3 to 4 active committers +
the new GSoC student.
Top things to resolve prior to graduation:
* Increase the number of active committers.
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ODF Toolkit
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation,
scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF)
documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of
heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is
lightweight and ideal for server use.
* ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011.
* Most important issues to address.
1) Moving the community from the ODF Toolkit Union to Apache and learning
the Apache Way
2) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers
3) Grants for the transfer of existing code, documentation etc to Apache
4) Migration of existing things to Apache infrastructure, including code
repository, website, mailing list, bugzilla and wiki.
5) Successful podling release.
* Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of
None at this time.
* How has the community developed since the last report
Just getting started. After mailing lists are ready (INFRA-3809), we will
start to discuss migration and new release. At the same time, we will invite
the existing users to this new community and try to attract more new people
join us.
* How has the project developed since the last report.
None at this time. Just getting started.
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OGNL
Apache OGNL is a Java development framework for Object-Graph
Navigation Language, plus other extras such as list projection and
selection and lambda expressions.
The project joined the Incubator on April 26, 2011.
There are no other important issues open before a possible graduation.
Actually the project is discussing its graduation into Apache Commons.
* Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
aware of
- due to OpenSymphony dismissing, we need importing old issues to ASF
jira. We finally contacted someone from OpenSymphony and obtained the huge
Issue dump/XML backup, there is someone that is working on it, but due to
security policy (the dump contains also users and password hashes), before
importing it, an open-heart surgery is needed.
- The software grant has been received
* How has the community developed since the last report
- Community activity decreased since codebase has been imported and
polished.
- Luc Blanchard has joined the committers lists (one of original authors
of OGNL)
* How has the project developed since the last report.
- Codebase has been imported & polished, we are in the middle of a big
refactoring stripping off generated code by JavaCC that was versioned in the
SCM and modified.
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Oozie
Just starting. Failed to report.
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OpenNLP
OpenNLP is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural
language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization,
sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction,
chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually
required to build more advanced text processing services.
OpenNLP entered incubation on 11/23 2010.
We almost finished the development for our next release (1.5.2) and second
release in the Incubator and will start testing it soon.
The development team is still active and most of the changes have been done
by four independent committers.
This week Boris Galitsky proposed on the mailing list to contribute a
component for syntactic generalization which we will hopefully be able to
accept.
Furthermore we started to work on tooling for an annotation project in our
sandbox and hope to be able to attract new contributors through this effort.
A list of the the most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation:
* Establish open regression tests for the parser and coreference component
* Identify and encourage new contributors on the path to committership
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OpenOffice.org
* OpenOffice.org entered incubation 2011-06-13.
OpenOffice.org is an open-source, office-document productivity suite
providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format
(ODF). OpenOffice.org is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations
support 110 languages worldwide.
* Issues
Some challenges exist: Under SUN/Oracle, semi-autonomous single focus
"projects" were the basis of structure of OOo, many would like a similar
system to be used under Apache. By contrast a single overarching authority
is proposed with oversight of the entire project by the (P)PMC. Discussions
are ongoing.
Discussions with regard to licensing, especially with regards to
documentation, are continuing.
* Community development progress
As of 2011-08-06, 71 committers, 52 on the PPMC up from 56 and 49 at last
report. Steps are continuing to bring onboard the last of the initial
Committers who have not yet provided an ICLA.
208 people are subscribed to the ooo-dev list. 124 people have posted to
the list of those 59 have more than 10 posts. 9 posters have more than 50
posts each.
User related queries or posts were virtually nil.
The shape and methodology of the Community Outreach is still in discussion.
An OOo blog has been initiated and is getting a high number of hits daily
* Project development progress
The grant from Oracle America, Inc for OpenOffice trademarks, logos, domain
names has been received.
Work with Infra: OOo Mediawiki has been successfully moved onto Apache
infrastructure. Some concerns relating to IP of materials on the wiki are
still in the proces of resolution.
www.openoffice.org is now in an Apache sandbox and work is being done to
recreate it in the Apache CMS
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PhotArk
Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application
including a content repository for the images, a display piece, an access
control layer, and upload capabilities.
PhotArk was accepted for Incubation on August 19, 2008.
* Umashanthi Pavalanathan elected as Photark committer
* Subash Chaturanga continue making progress on "Face Recognition" project
as part of GSoC 2011
* Umashanthi Pavalanathan continue making progress on making Photark more
"Social" as part of GSoC 2011
* Issues before graduation :
* PhotArk started as a project with no initial code-base, and we have
grown the community to the minimal independent committer size required for
graduation and have been seeing slow but continuous interest in the project.
The community started discussion graduation and based on mentors feedback we
are going to recruit couple committers before we start the graduation
process.
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SIS
Apache SIS is a toolkit that spatial information system builders or users
can use to build applications containing location context. This project will
look to store reference implementations of spatial algorithms, utilities,
services, etc. as well as serve as a sandbox to explore new ideas. Further,
the goal is to have Apache SIS grow into a thriving Apache top-level
community, where a host of SIS/GIS related software (OGC datastores,
REST-ful interfaces, data standards, etc.) can grow from and thrive under
the Apache umbrella.
* Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Development progress has really slowed, and there isn't much mailing list
activity. Nothing to
stop the project for (yet), but something to keep an eye on.
* Community progress since the last report
Development and mailing list activity have significantly slowed down.
This is a small core set of committers and community though. It would be
great to get some new blood and folks interested in the project.
I still believe that we should try and target a 0.2-incubating release with
a layer service and some basic integration with Apache Tika (a GDAL parser
is
being worked on in that community with an eye towards integration into SIS).
Also we are looking at Apache OODT as a mechanism for geospatial storage and
persistence.
The ESRI interest mentioned in the last board report hasn't really gone
anywhere.
* Project progress since last report
SIS was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on February 21, 2010.
Development progress has been pretty much nil. Chris hopes to start work on
the
layer service this quarter, but again, it would be great to have some new
blood
here. Folks that are interested in geospatial services, data presentation,
and
such would be much welcomed within the project.
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Sqoop
A tool for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and
structured datastores such as relational databases.
Sqoop was accepted into Apache Incubator on June 11, 2011. Status
information is available at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sqoop.html.
Progress since last report:
* CCLA from Cloudera regarding license grant for existing Sqoop code from
Cloudera has been received by ASF.
* Source code has been migrated to Apache SVN.
* Apache Mailing Lists and JIRA for Sqoop are now in active use. The
Cloudera Mailing Lists and JIRA have begun the process of being phased out.
* Development activities have started with two issues resolved and others
under active development.
Issues before graduation
* Create Sqoop web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
* review all license headers (all contains Cloudera).
* change java package from com.cloudera.sqoop to org.apache.sqoop.
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Stanbol
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for
semantic content management.
Entered incubation on 2010-11-15.
1. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation.
- make a first release (depends on a first release of Apache Clerezza to
eliminate SNAPSHOT dependencies)
- create demos showing the power of Stanbol to grow the community
- improve documentation and web site to lower the barrier for new users
2. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
aware of
- none
3. How has the community developed since the last report
- Florent Andre was elected as a new committer
- some new users showed up on the mailing list
- Potentially new users from the CMS industry were attracted in a Stanbol
hands-on session during a CMS community workshop organized by the IKS
project in Paris
(http://www.iks-project.eu/news-and-events/events/mycms-and-web-data-iks-com
munity-workshop)
4. How has the project developed since the last report.
- Code preparations for first release (solved incompatible license issues,
license headers, release profile, etc.)
- Added new component "FactStore"
- Integration tests added to EntityHub
- CMIS module added to CMS Adapter
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VCL
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing
platform for the management of physical and virtual machines.
Community Involvement
As stated in the previous report, the Apache VCL community continues to
grow. We're seeing more people start to contribute to our online
documentation and file JIRA issues. We're also starting to see more patches
attached to JIRA issues.
We continue to see growing interest in the VCL project from a variety of
locations.
We are currently working on growing the committers for Apache VCL project.
Releases
The Apache VCL 2.2.1 version was release on April 8th 2011 and addressed
bugfixes and minor improvements.
Our next release Apache VCL 2.3 is on track and we are targeting late fall
timeframe. New features planned include support for the KVM hypervisor which
is to be contributed by the community. In addition to KVM, the committers
will address server loads, and the improvement of cluster reservations.
Top Issues Before Graduation
Continue to increase contributors to establish a more diverse development
community
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Whirr
Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud.
Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status information is
available at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.
Progress since the last report (May 2011): We have made a fifth incubator
release (0.5.0-incubating). We added three committers to the PPMC. We
continue to get contributions from outside the initial committer base. Whirr
was covered in two presentations at the end of last month at OSCON.
The Whirr PPMC and the Incubator PMC have voted for Whirr to graduate as a
TLP (http://s.apache.org/ZbH, http://s.apache.org/Ebj).
Plans for the next period:
* Perform post-graduation steps.
* Do a sixth release.
* Encourage community growth.
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Wink
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST
style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311)
standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage
certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver
component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of
environments.
Apache Wink has been incubating since 2009-05-27.
Notable Activity:
* New users are starting to post to the wink-user mailing list.
Planned Activity:
* JAX-RS 2.0 is starting up in the JCP. May attempt to prototype/develop
against the next specification to provide an eventual JAX-RS 2.0 compliant
runtime.
* Work towards graduation.
Top issues before graduation:
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Wookie
Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such
as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.
Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009
Since May 2011:
* Release 0.9 put out for vote
* Published a new CMS website with more documentation
* Explored with Apache Rave(incubating) community and Wookie community
members idea of separate common "widget store" for handling metadata and
discovery of widgets. Rough consensus was to develop separately for now,
identify potential for merging later. Community members associated with two
EU-funded projects (ROLE and ITEC) have been developing Wookie-based widget
stores, and we hope to get their code submissions to kickstart this work.
* Community members exploring Apache Amber (incubating) for oAuth
support within Wookie
Next steps:
* Finish 0.9.0 release and move onto a 0.9.1 release
* Continue to work and liase with other projects
* Create a new "widget store" sub-project, aiming to bring in code
submissions from ROLE and ITEC projects
Issues before graduation:
* complete first release
* build community/expand user base
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Zeta Components
Apache Zeta Components are a high quality, general purpose library of loosly
coupled components for development of applications based on PHP.
What has been done:
- bug fixes
What is still in progress:
- getting a release
- one critical bug fix is still in review board waiting for
comments/approval, it is necessary for the next release
- minor bugs that should be fixed for the release have almost all been fixed
What needs to be done:
- get reviews and commit the patch in review board
- get a release, really
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