+1 Looks good to me! On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Alexander Broekhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > It's reporting time again, so please find a first draft here, if there are > any remarks, please reply somewhere in the coming 24hours. I'll add the > text to the report tomorrow. > > > ============= > Celix > > Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on > interoperability between Java and C. > > Celix has been incubating since 2010-11-02. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow the community > 2. Find more committers > 3. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > None. > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > Activity on the mailing list is still a bit slow, but there is still > progress. But more importantly, the Native-OSGi effort has taken a few big > steps. The most important one is the publication of an RFP at the OSGi > Alliance [1]. The purpose of this RFP is to standardise OSGi for native (C > and C++) languages. After the RFP is finalised work will be started on a > RFC, this will be done in conjunction with writing a reference > implementation. For this purpose Apache Celix will be used. This also means > that C++ will be introduced in the Celix project. Most likely large parts > of C++ code will be donated by 2 participants of the Native-OSGi project. > This gives us a great opportunity to add extra committers and increase the > diversity of Celix. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > As mentioned above, to be able to write a reference implementation for > Native-OSGi the scope of Celix will be extended to also include C++. > Details of this extension still need to be worked out. But for continuity > the current (C) code base will (for now) remain the same. So any work > related to Native-OSGi will (for now) be done independently from the > current implementation. > Also work is underway to make a second release. Whereas the first release > focused primarily on the releasing itself, this second release will focus > on the actual implementation. Important points are: > * API consistency > * Win32 support > * APR usage > More details can be found in [2] > > Date of last release: > 16-12-2012 > > Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Celix. > > Signed-off-by: > Marcel Offermans: [ ](celix) > Karl Pauls: [ ](celix) > > > [1]: https://www.osgi.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165 > [2]: http://incubator.markmail.org/thread/fza43iypjutcw2rm > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Alexander Broekhuis
