Follow up on last months issues

• Commons BeanUtils. A better understanding of the issue now exists. 6 methods (3 fixed by Niall by refactoring to use other code, 3 as yet unchanged) were introduced from a patch by Craig many eons ago. Geir's going to talk to Sun to ask what they would like us to do.
• Commons HttpClient is to move to Jakarta Http Components.
• The Silk naming issue for the desired Jakarta Web Components project is still unresolved.
• Commons Sandbox. More sandbox'd components moved to dormancy.
• Inactivity. Commons is actively discussing methods to improve the development process so it can grow its community again. Subprojects with a greater inactivity are not being resolved yet.
• BSF PMC oversight is now resolved (there are 3 committers on the PMC now)

New issues

• There were legal issues regarding the JCS codebase. GPL (jisp), Sleepycat (berkeley) and LGPL (jgroups) codebases were found. The former two have been deleted, the LGPL dependency (an optional feature) has not currently been deleted. Waiting for Cliff's official LGPL statement.
• There was a legal-come-personal issue to do with the POI mailing list. At least some of the board should be aware of this and the PMC is waiting on a draft question to be written for legal-internal.
• I am actively pushing subprojects to move to TLP, with the intent of making Jakarta more Commons-like so that Commons and the rest of Jakarta may fold into a single community.

• 18 December 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-rc-2 Released
• 17 December 2005 - Commons Configuration 1.2 Released
• 07 December 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-rc-1 Released
• 03 December 2005 - Commons Net 1.4.1 Released
• 15 November 2005 - Commons Validator 1.2.0 Released
• 14 November 2005 - Velocity Tools 1.2 Released
• 13 November 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-13 Released
• 01 November 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-12 Released
• 26 October 2005 - HiveMind 1.1 Released
• 17 October 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-11 Released
• 11 October 2005 - Commons HttpClient 3.0rc4 Released
• 10 October 2005 - Commons IO 1.1 Released
• 09 October 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-10 Released
• 04 October 2005 - JMeter 2.1.1 released
• 03 October 2005 - Turbine M.E.T.A. 1.3 Released
• 03 October 2005 - Turbine 2.3.2 Released
• 25 September 2005 - Tapestry 1.1-beta-8 Released
• 24 September 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-rc-1 Released
• 19 September 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-7 released

New PMC

• 14th December 2005 - Jacob Lund (Slide)
• 21st November 2005 - Andy Oliver (POI)
• 26th September 2005 - Will Glass-Husain (Velocity)
• 26th September 2005 - Nathan Bubna (Velocity)
• 26th September 2005 - Felipe Leme (Taglibs/Cactus)
• 28th September 2005 - Rony Flatscher (BSF)
• 28th September 2005 - Dave Brosius (BCEL)
• 28th September 2005 - Knut Wannheden (Hivemind)
• 28th September 2005 - Sanjiva Weerawarana (BSF)

New committers

• 29th July 2005 - Kenney Westerhof (Cactus)
• 6th October 2005 - Brian Stansberry (Commons)
• 4th December 2005 - Jesse Kuhnert (Tapestry)
• 11th December 2005 - Joerg Schaible (Commons)

• Howard Lewis Ship updated the jakarta-site2 build scripts and stylesheets to generate a site RSS feed and to make it easier to add news items.
• POI, JMeter migrated to SVN. All of Jakarta is now in SVN.

Commons Sandbox

Commons-CSV was recently added to the sandbox, based on a code grant from Netcetera in Switzerland.

Commons Configuration

See next quarter. Only just released.

Commons HttpClient

• 3.0rc4 was released in October as a number of small bugs continued to roll in since rc3.
• A vote on 3.0 final has been held and a release should follow by the end of December.
• Work on Jakarta HttpComponents has continued and should pick up following the release of HttpClient 3.0. Presently Jakarta HttpComponents committers are working toward the first ALPHA release of the HttpCore components, which will form the foundation of Jakarta HttpClient 4.0. The HttpCore components are currently undergoing a peer code review and are being optimized for performance and memory footprint

Commons IO

Commons-IO released version 1.1. This had a number of new features including accessing the free space on a hard disk without using a native call, and reading and writing line-based files.

Commons Net

No report. Will ensure it has one next quarter.

Commons Validator

No report. Will ensure it has one next quarter.

HiveMind

HiveMind has released a 1.1 final release.

Tapestry

Tapestry has attempted the unusual feat of regular, weekly beta releases. Two new committers, Jesse Kuhnert and Kent Tong (pending CLA), have been voted onto the project. A first release candidate for 4.0 has been created, and final 4.0 release is expected shortly.

Turbine

After two release candidates, the Turbine team released v 2.3.2 of the Turbine framework. This is a bug fix release for the 2.3 branch of the framework. Also an updated version of the Maven Environment for Turbine Applications (M.E.T.A.) to support this version was released.

Velocity Tools

VelocityTools 1.2 was released to more publicity than its predecessor thanks to an interview article on Yahoo's InfoWorld. It incorporates a wide variety of new tools, bug fixes, and miscellaneous improvements and is fully compatible with the Struts 1.2.x series. The release of 1.2 also frees the developers to begin experimenting more seriously with some significant architectural changes. At this point it seems likely that the next version will need to be 2.0, though there is still a possibility of a 1.3 release if Velocity 1.5 comes out soon.

The subproject continues to gain new users and would like to add another committer or two if only some of our handful of erstwhile contributors would step up their effort.