draft - for comment before I plug into board@ and send to the dev list a bit later today.
Status report of APR Apache Portable Runtime project ---------------------------------------------------- Activity has been slow/steady since the previous board report. For the period March through May, we had some 75 commits to trunk (the future 1.3 or 2.0 version) by 11 active committers, many maintenance commits on the legacy branches, and some 25 APR, 3 APR-iconv and 10 APR-util bugs were resolved this period, with some 37 open bugs remaining. There were no new releases in that period. (Three packages were tagged in June for release votes - still ongoing.) No significant interest/pressure has occurred to push to the next 1.3 or 2.0 release. By APR versioning rules, 2.0 occurs once there is action to fix broken ABI or naming convention issues which render the libraries incompatible, and this isn't foreseen at this time. It's very possible that either httpd or another consuming project will be the driving factor for development of, and for shipping the next version. Prior to releasing 1.3 or 2.0, the md4/md5 code license issue raised by the BSD project is the only apparent showstopper (RSA license grant). The project welcomes appropriate patches to resolve that. Three committers were added, fuankg, davi and rpluem. There were no new PMC members added, and this is a yellow-flag that the project should now be considering PMC nominations. Garrett, as mentioned in March, did step down from the Chair of the APR project, and the project members thank him for his service and dedication as Chairman. As an incoming project chair, I was able to take advantage of Sally's Media Training in Amsterdam, and strongly encourage the board to convince her to repeat this, and find the funding to make it happen, at future ApacheCon events for our PRC members, project chairman, as well as other ASF contributors as space permits. I believe it's a win for our projects to gain some of her insight into communicating with the technical press. Bill
