Hi All: Please let me know if you have any feedback or corrections ASAP.
Thank you, Gary -- Status report for the Apache Commons Project December 2013 The Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components. Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within Apache and without. There are no issues that require board attention at this time. Overall project health is good with six releases this period, including the long anticipated [pool] 2.0 and [collections] 4.0. The [csv] component is still inching towards 1.0 releases and [imaging] is very close to 1.0 as well. Releases: - Apache Commons JCI 1.1 on 2013-10-14 - Apache Commons Email 1.3.2 on 2013-10-23 - Apache Commons Compress 1.6 on 2013-10-26 - Apache Commons Configuration 1.10 2013-10-27 - Apache Commons Pool 2.0 on 2013-11-11 - Apache Commons Collection 4.0 on 2013-11-24 The mailing list and JIRA activity is good, most support issues get timely replies, and development discussions are positive. One of the recurring topics is migration from Subversion to Git, the current plan is to try this with one component, [cli]. Another discussion is how to reflect component liveliness into the site and what to do with mostly inactive components. To this end, the main page lists the version and latest release date for each component. Another recurring theme is when and how to update the dated look and feel of the site; the current thinking here is to use the Fluido skin. A perennial concern is how to attract new developers, one proposal is to better integrate our processes with git and GitHub. The following new committers have joined us: - Ate Douma (ate) on 2013-10-14 - Woonsan Ko (woon_san) on 2013-10-14 There are no new PMC members. The PMC changed its chair from Luc Maisonobe to Gary Gregory. The Commons community is grateful for Luc’s service. Gary -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
