Please remove the entries for Hermes, Muse and Apollo. they have graduated. (or may be we should add a line saying that they have graduated...either is ok)
thanks, -- dims On 7/25/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Status report for the Apache Incubator Project > ================================================ > > The Incubator continues to see good progress in a number of projects and > their communities, with more projects graduating to TLP status, or to > existing TLPs. > > IP issues continue to be a major aspect of life in the Incubator. We > welcome Cliff Schmidt's appointment as VP of Legal Affairs, and look forward > to his help. Congratulations, Cliff. > > Aa number of new projects have entered the Incubator, with a corresponding > increase in the Incubator PMC. The Incubator PMC has established the policy > that an ASF Member who is a Mentor or Committer on an Incubator project is > automatically entitled to be on the Incubator PMC pending acceptance by the > Member and board notification. > > Continued thanks to our manual ForrestBot, David Crossley, for helping to > keep the web site built, and to others contributing their time. > > - 0 - > > The list of projects in the Incubator is at > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/. Here are the STATUS reports from the > PPMCs. Several projects are missing, as noted below, and are again > reminded. > > > Status Report for Apollo > ======================== > > > Status Report from the Agila PPMC > ================================= > > Agila has been moving slowly, but there is clear interest with the > addition of the Twister project, a pure BPEL engine, and the addition > of a new Agila committer, Chris Lim. There are other individuals we > are looking at. > > At ApacheCon EU, we were approached by another workflow engine that > would consider coming to the project. As our goal is to build a > strong workflow/BPM community, this was welcomed and I look forward > to some follow-up > > It's clear I need to dedicate some additional time to Agila, both in > code and community. > > > Status Report for AltRMI > ======================== > > > Status Report from the Beehive PPMC > =================================== > > [Note: Beehive is currently preparing to ask for TLP status] > > Beehive did a 1.0m1 incubating milestone release on June 6/2005. With > the recent finalization of JSR-181 (Annotated Java Web Services) and > its associated TCK, the wheels are turning to get Beehive certified as > 181 compliant. > > The big news, we're in the middle of a vote to graduate from the > Incubator to TLP status. We are well poised to do a 1.0 final release > should that vote pass. > > There has been increased traffic on the dev list, and we're seeing > ongoing interest from other projects (Geronimo, Struts, etc) in a > variety of forums -- a session at JavaOne a few weeks ago was well > attended. We are also in the midst of a vote for a new committer. > > > Status Report from the Derby PPMC > ================================= > > [Note: Derby is about to leave the Incubator, and enter the DB PMC] > > Here is what Derby has been up to in Q2 (April-June). > > Derby added Tomohito Nakayama as a new committer. > [Early Q3 note: two more committers were added and derby-dev is voting > on another.] > > Plans were completed for a 10.1 incubator release and candidate jars > were made available for testing and review. [Early Q3 note: the vote > passed for the candidate and Andrew McIntyre requested permission from > general@incubator.apache.org to make it available as an incubator release.] > > The Derby community is thriving. Today > http://people.apache.org/~coar/mlists.html#db.apache.org shows that the > derby-dev list is up to 225 subscribers and derby-user up to 322 (both > figures include digest subscribers). > > There is heavy development activity on both the code front and the doc > front. > > Many code challenges are being worked on via the derby-dev list and the > number of Derby developers working on Jira issues has increased to 36 > (the number in the derby-developers Jira group). > > One doc challenge is how to make a DITA stylesheet, which is under the > CPL license, available on incubator.apache.org/derby to improve the > format of the html documentation. A Derby mentor advised asking the > author if he would be willing to license that particular file to the ASF > under the Apache License. It turns out the DITA Toolkit team is > interested in releasing the Toolkit itself under the Apache license, and > hopefully all details will get worked out in Q3. > > Status Report for FtpServer > =========================== > > > Status Report from the Graffito PPMC > ==================================== > > * The main news in this quarter is that we have expanded the committer > base beyond the original contributors with the addition of Oliver > Kiessler and Sandro Boehme. > > * Both are busily working on building support for JCR (through > Jackrabbit). > > * Work is also underway to use Graffito as a native CMS engine > in Jetspeed 2. > > > Status Report from the Harmony PPMC > =================================== > > In it's first month+ of existence, Harmony has attracted quite a bit > of attention, and we are now settling down to resolve some of the > issues we've identified in the beginning. We have on our website our > proposed policy framework to monitor contributions and technology > contributions. This policy is in addition to the standard ASF policy > and we do not believe that it will cause any concerns. It will be > posted for review by the Apache Incubator PMC before it goes into > effect, but we're working to get the last nips and tucks done. > > On the technology side, there's been a slow start, in part due to the > contribution framework getting established, but I plan to push hard > for contributions now that we're almost done and people can get a > sense of how things work. > > We have the following outstanding issue that I will be talking to the > Apache Incubator PMC about - parts of the community have asked that > we change our default license for mail list contributions to a > license compatible with the GPL, as the Apache License is deemed > incompatible by the FSF. It's in our interest to ensure that we can > have the broadest participation possible, but also recognize that we > wish to balance that with the aspects of the Apache License that are > important to us. Expect more on this soon. > > > Status Report for Hermes > ======================== > > > Status Report from the Jackrabbit PPMC > ====================================== > > Jackrabbit has attracted public interest from many different > projects, both open source and commercial in nature, and has over > 250 people reading the developer list. During the past quarter > we added one new committer, Edgar Poce, and cleared the minimum > threshold of three independent committers. > > The big news is that JCR, the Content Repository for Java > Technology 1.0 API, has been completed by the JSR 170 expert group > and received final approval from the J2SE/EE executive committee > at the end of May. We are currently working on restructuring the > Jackrabbit project directories in preparation of an eagerly > anticipated first release candidate and passing the official TCK, > at which point we are hoping to graduate from Incubator to > TLP status for the 1.0 release. > > > Status Report from the JDO PPMC > =============================== > > New committers were added to the project: Matthew Adams, Xcalia; Erik > Bengtson, JPOX. We might have a quorum of independent committers: Sun, > Xcalia, JPOX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] although I'd like to see more commit action > from > everyone. > > > JIRA accounts have been set up for everyone who needs them. > > > The API sub-project has been synchronized with the latest version of the > specification. The TCK sub-project is about 80% complete. Still lacks full > testing for O/R mapping and detached objects. > > > The Apache JDO web site is now active at http://incubator.apache.org/jdo > > > Status Report regarding Juice > ============================= > > Juice: Still no signs of life. We need to decide how/when to shut this down. > > > Status Report regarding log4net > =============================== > > > Status Report regarding log4php > =============================== > > > Status Report regarding lucene4c > ================================ > > The implementation strategy has been changed from a pure C port to > wrapping a C library around a GCJ compiled version of the Java code, > and we've added a new committer (Paul Querna). Unfortunately > progress has slowed recently due to "Real Life (tm)", but hopefully > it will pick up again soon. > > > Status Report regarding Muse > ============================ > > > Status Report regarding Oscar > ============================= > > Just getting started. Has a number of IP and external community issues to > address. > > > Status Report from the Roller PPMC > ================================== > > Development status > > - Work is proceeding on Roller 2.0, which will be ready in August. The > main (and possibly only) new feature of Roller 2.0 will be group > blogging support -- this is a big feature and requires a very large > number of changes to the code base and user interface > - Work is proceeding on Roller 1.3, which will be ready this month. The > main feature will be better theme management. > - Roller 1.2 was released from Java.Net as a totally non-Apache > release, but using code from the Apache incubator's Subversion > repository (we hope to do the same thing for 1.3, but that's up for > discussion). > > Licensing issues > > Roller requires several LGPL components and we're working to resolve > LGPL issues. We have been discussing this challenging issue in depth, > here is a summary of the apparent consensus: > > - We hope that ASF will come to some agreement with either FSF or > Hibernate folks which will allow us to continue to use Hibernate > - We are investigating ways to download our dependencies at > build/install time, so that we don't have to distribute LGPL jars (but > other work is taking priority right now) > - We're willing to wait out the LGPL issue for a reasonable period of > time, as long as there is some way for us to continue to make releases > to our existing user community > > Infrastructure issues > > - Roller code base has been moved into the Apache incubator's > Subversion archive > - Roller project is now using Apache incubator dev and user mailing > lists > - A draft of our STATUS file has been created and is ready for review > by mentor > - We're not listed on any of the incubator pages yet (can we fix this?) > > > Status Report from the STDCXX PPMC > ================================== > > stdcxx: Mailing lists have been created, initial accounts have been created > for the stdcxx committers (where CLAs have been received), and Subversion > directories have been created. Roy has just sent the 'welcome' email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other words, real progress can be made now. > > As always, others can feel free to chime in and add their comments about > stdcxx's progress. > > > Status Report regarding TSIK > ============================ > > [Note: TSIK is still pending these issues] > > TSIK: We have a few conf calls lined up with Microsoft this week. > Engaged with Jeff Thomson from IBM on legal-discuss. Nothing else > happening. Infra work is done. Need paperwork from Verisign (after > wrapping up discussions with MSFT/IBM) > > > Status Report regarding Woden > ============================= > > > Status Report regarding WSRP4J > ============================== > > > -- Davanum Srinivas -http://blogs.cocoondev.org/dims/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
