Apache Commons Board Report, December 2007
General
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o The process of electing PMC members and committers has been
fixated in writing
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/commons/templates/new-
pmc-workflow.txt
This brought up the question what should happen first: Ask
whether the person
wants to join the PMC before asking for the board's ack ...or
first checking
with the board so that a rejection is a more private affair and
does not harm
any feeling of the potential candidate. The general consensus
was to check with
the board first.
If there any thoughts we are happy get some further feedback on
this.
o JDK compatibility has always been a strong contract at Commons.
Support for older
java version has always been very important. There still is not
a single Commons
component that made the move to java 5. It has been raised that
this might become a
problem in the future if we don't move forward on this. More and
more users expect us
to also provide them with libraries that make use of the
features of new java platforms.
This seems especially crucial for Commons Collections and Lang.
The exact steps have not been decided yet but it seems like a
separate package
name and keeping the older libraries on a maintenance branch is
a viable option.
o Based on http://markmail.org/ user activity is slowly declining
while developer
discussions have picked up a bit.
o Quick news for some of the components:
o Question has come up whether commons codec is thread safe
- request for better documentation
o More activity on commons jexl
- discussion for a roadmap towards 2.0
o Discussion about moving commons jci fam (file alteration
monitor) component from jci to io
- overlap with commons vfs fam
- no agreement how to move forward yet
- options
- keep in jci (already own jar)
- own component (a bit small)
- move into io (increases the size of io)
o Again the question have been brought up about the status of
commons cli 2.0
- working but no release
- little activity
- cli 1.1 introduced some showstoppers
- other projects (like groovy) might look into other libraries
instead
o Concerns have been raised related to the retirement of Jakarta
Slide. It was suggested
that VFS could include an implementation of a webdav client.
This has been rejected as
out of scope.
Releases
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o Released
- commons configuration 1.5
- commons logging 1.1.1
- commons parent pom 5
- commons skin 2
o Upcoming
- commons SCXML 0.7
Infrastructure
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o The maven based release process has been discussed and improved.
o Created a pmc area in subversion with
- board reports
- tsu report
- process templates (new committer/new pmc member)
Community
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o New committers
- Jukka Zitting
o New PMC member
- James Carman
- Ben Speakmon
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