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Incubating Ex-Jakarta |
Various issues of note occurred this month:
Managing inactivity is becoming a critical issue. The promotion of the larger, more noticeably vibrant subcommunities from the Jakarta umbrella has made it a lot more obvious where there are gaping holes of inactivity. The community is reacting to deal with that, sometimes naturally, sometimes with a nudge and on some occasions it looks like we'll probably just need a state of dormancy for codebases. Here's a quick list that affects 50% of the subprojects:
PMC additions
SVN Migrations:
Agila (under incubation)
Slowly growing. 4 committers, August has seen 9 threads or so (with patches) from a new user, so a nice sign there. Another project, Twister, merged in relatively quietly in April/May. CactusCactus 1.7.1 Release: this was a minor release with some bug fixes and minor improvements, specially in the Maven plugin. The upcoming Cactus 1.8 will introduce major changes, like full integration with Cargo and (hopefully) being built by Maven (or Maven 2). Commons BetwixtCommons Betwixt 0.7 Release: this was a feature release consolidating a lot of new functionality added in the months since 0.6. The ratio of users to active committers remains too low. More developers but since patchers are interested in adding the bit of functionality they need for their project, it's hard to convert developers into committers. Some interesting new directions coming from db and webservices at Apache. Some interesting talks with members of the wider start-from-java community but these may lead in novel directions. Commons CLI(summarized from http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/CLI) The 1.0 jar file published on ibiblio at http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/commons-cli/jars was overwritten at some point by a snapshot of later code; therefore any project that uses Maven to build code which declares a dependency on commons-cli 1.0 may have downloaded and cached the incorrect file. The snapshot contained a number of API differences. The old 1.0 jar was renamed to commons-cli-20040117.000000.jar and a correct commons-cli-1.0.jar put in place. Commons EmailWith a few remaining issues resolved, CfV for Version 1.0 is again under way. The commons-email team expects a release in September. Commons HttpClientApparently many users have started switching to 3.0 release candidates, as bug reports have seen an increase recently. The team is tackling the real issues and is looking forward to a stable release soon. During the development of the 4.0 code questions about a new project scope arose and will eventually lead to a new name of the project. A new [http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-httpclient/NewProjectCharter project charter] is underway. GSOC: The student Samit Jain has contributed substantial code to support RFC-2965 (Cookie2). Development of this feature is still ongoing on a separate SVN branch and will not be included before release 3.1. Commons Math (GSOC summary)Xiaogang Zhang successfully completed his Summer of Code project, contributing significant additions and enhancements to the commons-math numerical analysis package and the beginnings of a transform package. Most of these improvements have been committed to svn trunk and will be included in version 1.2. Some of his contributions are still in review / revision. He also contributed enhancements and bug fixes outside of the scope of his SOC project, which will be included in the 1.1 release in preparation. Commons Sandbox
(No report from Hivemind, so notes from the chair. Hivemind will have a report in the next quarterly report) Nothing obvious to worry about with respect to Hivemind. It's ticking along with Howard, James, Achim and Knut all creating tasks/closing bugs. It's releasing a steady stream of alpha and beta's to reach a goal of a stable 1.1 release prior to Tapestry's next release. Looking at the last quarter's report from Hivemind, the major item to report is that Achim successfully became a committer. JMeter24 August 2005 - JMeter 2.1 released. Release 2.1 includes an additional script format - smaller, more compact, more readable - based on Xstream. There are updates to the JMS, JDBC, WSDL and XML processing. Also a new config item, CSV DataSet for easier test parameterisation. Still need to move code to SVN. The test migration showed up a few minor issues with the tool. Sebastian Bazley and Peter Lin elected to the Jakarta PMC. Taglibs (RDC)Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Taglib 1.0 was released on 26th July 2005. The RDC Taglib showed growing community interest over the months preceding the 1.0 release, with multiple contributions from users and it became evident that an initial 1.0 release would give users something to work with. Accordingly, Jakarta now offers a framework that allows speech, cross-channel and potentially, multi-modal applications to be developed using existing web application authoring paradigms. The RDC release resulted in the RDC Taglib being deemed to have graduated Taglibs Sandbox, and is now part of Taglibs Proper. The activity around the RDC Taglib has also been instrumental in the birth of a new Commons Sandbox component, Commons SCXML. We envision the next minor RDC release to incorporate State Chart XML for the dialog controller over a group of RDCs. Tapestry(No report from Tapestry, so notes from the chair, Tapestry will have a report in the next quarterly report) Tapestry 4.0 is the obvious target with 6 beta releases this quarter. Howard brought up the desire to do weekly beta releases to the PMC, which has raised some discussion that is not yet closed. TomcatThis is probably the final time Tomcat will be mentioned in a Jakarta board report. But just for the record, the Tomcat team plans to complete its TLP move during this month. That move includes both the CVS repositories, which have already been partially migrated to SVN outside the Jakarta SVN tree, and the web site materials. We will be putting up tomcat.apache.org with dedicated download, mailing list, and other pages. We plan to replace the Jakarta pages that are specific to Tomcat with a redirect to the tomcat.apache.org pages, in whatever the infrastructure team thinks is the most appropriate manner. This, of course, is no subtitute for a proper Tomcat PMC report to the board. One will be created and submitted as appropriate. I personally and the Tomcat PMC team in general would like to thank the Jakarta PMC for its help and support during the past years, and for its assistance with the migration to TLP. Turbine2. September 2005 - Turbine Stratum 1.0 released The Turbine team has decided to do some actual software paleontology and prepared a release of the long standing Turbine 2.3.x component layer called "Stratum". This release is intended as a closure to replace all thealpha and beta versions floating around. There is no further development beyond the 1.0 version planned. Building an official release of this component will allow all users of the Turbine 2.3 framework to build on a non-beta version and also give access to official release documentation from the Turbine project web site. 11. September 2005 - Turbine 2.3.2 RC 1 available 12. September 2005 - M.E.T.A. (Maven Environment for Turbine Applications) 1.3 RC1 available CfV for these two releases is currently scheduled for Mon, Sep. 19th. |
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