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+ The Apache Software Foundation
+
+ Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
+
+ September 16, 2015
+
+ ABRIDGED VERSION TO FOCUS ON MATTERS RELATED TO APACHE OPENOFFICE
+ Authoritative full version at
+<http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2015/board_minutes_2015_09_16.txt>
+
+
+ [ ... ]
+ 6. Committee Reports
+
+ Summary of Reports
+
+ The following reports required further discussion:
+
+ # Bloodhound [bp]
+ # Drill [bp]
+ # Helix [bp]
+ # Incubator [rb]
+ # Lucene.Net [bp]
+ # OpenOffice [bd]
+ # Synapse [sr]
+ # Wink [bp]
+
+ [ ... ]
+ BQ. Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton/ Rich]
+
+ See Attachment BQ
+
+ Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
+
+ 7. Special Orders
+
+ A. Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair
+
+ WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jan Iversen (jani)
+ to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and
+
+ WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Jan
+ Iversen from the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and
+
+ WHEREAS, the Community of the Apache OpenOffice project has chosen to
+ recommend Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) as the successor to the post;
+
+ NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jan Iversen is relieved and
+ discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
+ President, Apache OpenOffice, and
+
+ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dennis E. Hamilton be and hereby is
+ appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, to serve
+ in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
+ Directors. and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation,
+ retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is
+ appointed.
+
+ Special Order 7A, Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair,
+ was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
+
+[ ... ]
+
+
+============
+ATTACHMENTS:
+============
+
+[ ... ]
+
+------------------------------------------------------
+Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton]
+
+This interim status provides early visibility on issues
+that will be rolled-up/revised as part of the regular quarterly
+report in October 2015.
+
+ - - - - - - - - - - - -
+
+Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
+suite providing six productivity applications based around the
+OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
+platforms and in dozens of languages.
+
+STATUS
+======
+
+The Project is working diligently toward maintenance release 4.1.2.
+There is adjustment to the change of Chair for the second time in
+2015. The PMC is moving all inessential private@ discussions to
+dev@ for engagement of the AOO community. Warning signs around
+sustainability are being brought to community attention.
+
+ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
+==========================
+
+The Board needs to be aware of warning signs concerning Sustainability
+reported in the Issues section, below.
+
+RELEASES
+========
+
+There is no release expected in the current August-October quarter.
+
+Release 4.1.2 is anticipated before year-end 2015.
+
+Complete Release History
+ 2014-08-21 4.1.1
+ 2014-04-29 4.1
+ 2013-10-01 4.0.1
+ 2013-07-17 4
+ 2013-01-30 3.4.1 refresh (8 more languages)
+ 2012-08-21 3.4.1 incubating
+ 2012-05-08 3.4 incubating
+
+
+ACTIVITY
+========
+
+Release Effort and Plans
+------------------------
+
+Developer focus is on provision of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2
+maintenance release. This will extend to localization, web site
+updates, and provision of any associated security advisories.
+
+Non-4.1.2-release-blocker issues and some anticipated features are
+targeted for th future Apache OpenOffice 4.2 release. There
+is no anticipated date at this time.
+
+Community Operations
+--------------------
+
+The developer and support channels (users mailing list and official
+forums) remain typical. There has been some finger-pointing in
+conjunction with the world-wide upgrading to Microsoft Windows 10,
+although complaints seem to be minimal considering the pace of
+upgrading.
+
+Issues brought to the developer and user lists about usage are
+addressed by volunteer users, sometimes unevenly. Discussion is
+just beginning on improved coordination of issues across the
+Bugzilla, lists, wiki and forums. The goal is more-reliable capture
+of issues and consistent provision of resolutions and work-arounds.
+
+PMC/COMMITTERS
+==============
+
+PMC
+---
+The AOO PMC consists of 26 individuals as of 2015-08-31
+
+ 19 have remained continuously out of the
+ 23 from TLP formation in October, 2012.
+ 7 are new or returned PMC members
+
+ 6 of the current PMC are Apache Software Foundation
+ Members, including the original Chair
+
+ 2015-08-23 Jan Iversen retired
+ 2015-02-13 Dennis E. Hamilton joined the PMC
+ 2015-02-11 Jan Iversen returned to PMC as Chair
+ 2015-01-03 Mechtilde and Dr. Michael Stehmann were added
+
+ The last preceding addition was on 2014-01-16
+ The last preceding retirement was on 2014-08-30
+
+PMC membership history is available in PDF at <http://s.apache.org/Tw8>.
+
+Committers
+----------
+ - Currently 141 committers
+
+ 2015-08-23 Jan Iversen resigned
+ 2015-08-06 Manik Malhotra
+ 2015-07-27 Gavin McDonald
+
+ - Last previous committer addition was Tal Daniel on 2014-04-29
+
+ISSUES
+======
+
+The lack of progress on all fronts in the project has been a
+continuing issue. Obstacles are being identified and brought before
+the entire community for its wisdom in identification of consensus-
+based direction.
+
+Initial achievements on this approach will be reported in October.
+
+Sustainability
+--------------
+The following warning signs are noticed with regard to
+sustainability.
+
+CUSTOM IT SUPPORT. The Project has not maintained consistent
+support of the servers that is has agreed to operate as part of its
+agreement with Infra. The services are at risk. (See Infrastructure
+in the next section.)
+
+RELEASE MANAGEMENT. A single Release Manager has undertaken all
+releases up until now. On the stepping down of that RM, Andrea
+Pescetti has stepped in for 4.1.2 and others are needed to rotate
+into Release Management duties thereafter.
+SKILL DEVELOPMENT. The learning curve required to contribute
+effectively to the current code base has proven to make it difficult
+to develop or attract experienced developers to the project. While the
+ASF is traditionally about the people and not companies, the AOO
+project is evaluating engagement with companies that might
+have a strategic reason for contributing skills to the project.
+
+EXISTING CAPACITY. The depth and breadth of developer coverage of
+the code base will be assessed by October when the sprint toward
+4.1.2 can also be appraised and development capacity assessed.
+
+ISSUE CLEARANCE AND TECHNICAL DEBT. Analysis of bugzilla status
+since the inception of that database provides the following portrait
+of issue legacy as of 2015-08-05
+
+ * the oldest unresolved issue is #497 created on 2001-03-02
+ * 24115/121298 (20%) issues are unresolved from before November,
+ 2012 commencement as a TLP
+ * 2232/5139 (43%) issues unresolved of new issues from November,
+ 2012 through July, 2015
+ * 192/452 (42%) issues unresolved of those created in the first
+ seven months of 2015
+
+There are a number of factors that impact the quality of these
+statistics (PDF details at <http://s.apache.org/OEy>), including
+
+ * Unresolved issues are not here differentiated by type. Feature
+ and enhancement requests are counted among confirmed defects.
+ * The resolved proportion includes issues rejected as duplicates,
+ as lacking supporting information, and as usability/support
+ matters rejected as not being bugs, even when obviously about
+ defects.
+
+There is every reason to fear that, after such adjustments, the rate
+of technical debt accrual is even greater than 42-43%.
+
+ The disposition of bugzilla issues will continue to be monitored
+along with improved coordination of issues across the user-facing
+activities of the project now beginning discussion.
+
+PMC OPERATION. The AOO PMC was unable or unwilling to find a
+replacement in its own ranks for retiring Chair, Andrea Pescetti.
+The election of a new Chair was held between two non-PMC nominees
+after there was no consensus on the only PMC member who stood as a
+nominee.
+
+ On the subsequent retirement of that new Chair, the only nominee
+to step forward had been on the PMC six months and had no PMC
+involvement since graduation of the AOO podling in October 2012.
+Whatever the level of confidence that reflects, it remains that
+there does not appear to be a strong, ready bench and easy
+succession. The Chair-elect intends to retire in September, 2016.
+
+Infrastructure Issues/Needs
+---------------------------
+Apache OpenOffice, by long-standing agreement with Apache Infra,
+takes responsibility for the custom MediaWiki and Forum servers
+operating on Infra-provided VMs. Limited support is achieved;
+more is required. Although operational, the software is out-of-
+date.
+
+ There is also need to support buildbots from within the
+project.
+
+ ACTION: Clarify the situation and achieve a sustainable arrange-
+ment in consultation with Infra. Identify at least temporary
+relief by October, with solid arrangement by January.
+
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+End of minutes for the September 16, 2015 board meeting.
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