Apache Commons Board Report, March 2008
General
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o Activity
The past few months have been quite busy. A couple of releases
(see below)
have gone out. Based on http://markmail.org/ user activity is
slowly
declining while activity on the development list has significantly
increased at the beginning of the year. It's slowly declining
again.
Question of dormancy have been raised for 'commons vfs' and
'commons
launcher'.
o Re-release of old source distributions
This has been brought to the board's attention before. For the
user's
convenience we would like to re-package old source releases and
provide
them also as source jars. This of course affects releases that
have been
made under ASL 1.1. While new releases have to be ASL 2.0 the
current
opinion is that (as long as nothing is changed during the
process) this
"re-packaging" does not classify as a new release. So we can
still provide
the new artifact under ASL 1.1. Basically it would have to
adhere to the
rules when the orignal release has been made.
No action has been taken yet. It would be great to get the board's
agreement on the PMC's notion.
o Commons Sandbox Incubator
While the Commons Sandbox works quite straightforwardly for ASF
internal
use, the question is what to do with external component level code
donations that may or may not been already covered by CLA.
Building a
community around a single component inside the normal Incubator
might
be tough. The idea has been brought up to work with Labs or the
Incubator
to find a solution to this.
o Removal of Cobertura reports (as the resulting reports may GPL)
Cobertura is a code coverage plugin for maven. It's been used
through the
ASF to generate reports that are part of the website. As at
least part
of the generated site is covered by the GPL we decided not to
use it
anymore. Otherwise we cannot ship the website for a release.
o Support for OSGi
New Commons releases will now include the metadata that is
required to be
used inside OSGi out of the box.
o We got two new components into the Commons sandbox
- monitoring
http://wiki.apache.org/commons/Monitoring
- commons build plugin
Which got promoted to proper pretty much straight away for the
infrastructure and build improvements (see below)
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/
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Releases
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o Released
- commons SCXML 0.7 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons pool 1.4 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons sandbox parent POM 3 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons IO 1.4 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons fileupload 1.2.1 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons math 1.2 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons build plugin 1.0 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons proxy 1.0 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons parent POM 6 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons parent POM 7 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons parent POM 8 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons sandbox parent POM 4 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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- commons parent POM 9 http://mail-archives.apache.org/
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Infrastructure
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o The maven based release process has been discussed and improved.
o For some components missing/broken redirects from jakarta have
been fixed.
o Old bugzilla entries have been removed and we are 100% jira now.
We hope
to get redirects in place so people will not hit broken links
but get to
correct jira issue instead.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/200803.mbox/
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Community
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o No new committers
o New PMC members
- Gary Gregory
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