This quarter has been quiet on the release front - nothing for a month and a half - however there is a lot lining up for the next quarter. Reorganization discussions are underway on general@ and commons-dev@ mailing lists and Tapestry is now a TLP (with this becoming visible/enacted in the next quarter).

Other subprojects are worthy of mention on the TLP subject.

• Slide is in favour of moving to TLP, but lacks the activity to get there.
• Cactus/JMeter are in favour of proposing a testing.apache.org TLP to the board - though again low on activity.
• Turbine and Velocity are both against moving to TLP. One of those reasons is a lack of activity.

In the next quarter I intend to make some time available to help get Slide and Cactus/JMeter to the point of a proposal.

Follow up on last months issues

• The Silk name has been dropped and will instead be called Jakarta Web Components. I could never get a solid answer on trademark handling.
• Inactivity. We continue to move forward in recognizing and labelling areas of inactivity.

• 29 January 2006 - HiveMind 1.1.1 Released
• 07 January 2006 - Tapestry 4.0 (final) Released
• 28 December 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-rc-3 Released
• 23 December 2005 - Commons FileUpload 1.1 Released
• 20 December 2005 - Commons Math 1.1 Released
• 20 December 2005 - Commons HttpClient 3.0 Released

New Committers

• Dennis Lundberg
• Sandy McArthur
• Max Pfingsthorn
• Jorg Schaible

New PMC

• Mario Ivankovits
• Rahul Akolkar
• Oliver Heger
• Siegfried Goeschl

Alexandria mailing list shut down.

Commons Configuration

Commons Configuration 1.2 was released in December 2005. This release mainly addressed some bugs related to file-based configurations and reloading strategies. There were only a few new features, e. g. a new configuration type or validation support in XMLConfiguration. At the moment work is in progress on some often requested features, especially support for XPATH syntax. So the next release will certainly be a feature release.

Commons FileUpload

After a protracted period of inactivity, FileUpload 1.1 was released just before Christmas 2005. Future work on FileUpload is targetted at a 2.0 release, with associated necessary API changes.

Commons Net

Version 1.4.1 released in December 2005 to restore JDK 1.3 compatibility, enabling VFS to be released as JDK 1.3 compatible.

Commons Math

Version 1.1 was released in December 2005. This release included numerous bug fixes and enhancements in the random data generation, numerics and matrix packages.

Commons Validator

Validator 1.2.0 was released in November 2005. The main new piece of functionality in this version had been in place for some time, however it had been held up by the number of outstanding bugs. A concerted effort on bugs (non-enhancement) in the second half of 2005 made the 1.2.0 release possible and currently bugs are being tackled in a timely manner with a validator 1.2.1 maintenace release planned shortly.

HiveMind

HiveMind has released version 1.1.1, which was a bug fix release. Conceptual work for version 1.2 has started.

HttpComponents

With the stable release of HttpClient 3.0 a major milestone has been reached. At the same time development of the HttpClient 2.x branch is discontinued. 2.x users are encouraged to migrate.

Roland Weber joined the team of committers. He is working hard on http-async. A lot of effort is going into the design of http-core and http-async currently. The content and design of new project website is shaping up.

Tapestry

- no report -

[chair] - Tapestry released the 4.0 release they've been building up to for 9 months or so; agreed on the move to TLP and are hard at work on 4.1. There's an interesting thread going on about whether to backport 4.1 fixes to 3.x.