Hi all,
it's time to prepare our report for the ASF board meeting of August 20th. I'm looking to collect noteworthy news about our community project, and so far these are the topics I'm planning to put in the report. Comment & add as you see fit:
* ramping up towards a 2.1 release
* the noteworthy, tough but fruitful discussion about Flow & balcanization
* first (baby)steps towards form handling framework unification
* new committers
* Lenya's ongoing incubation + intention to participate with the GT
* (slowly) ongoing effort to migrate the Wiki -> ASF equipment
* charter discussions (I hope to be able to attach a revised & voted-upon charter for approval by the board, so stay tuned for more)
OK, here's the report I'll be sending out tomorrow noon 12:00 CET:
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Here's the report on Cocoon's state of affairs. We do hope this gives the board a feeling on how we are doing.
Let's first start with a brief run-through of the previous report (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=105344074224116&w=2) and see how we proceed:
1), 2), 3): no further action required or taken
4) recursive Cocoon charter: still needs to be worked upon
5) use of Cocoon brand by cocoondev.org and cocooncenter.com: ditto
6) ditto - work is slowly progressing with the infrastructure team to migrate the Cocoon wiki to ASF infrastructure, together with Steven Noels and Gianugo Rabellino from the Cocoon team - we believe it is fair to indicate that an ASF-operated shared and managed Java hosting service might accelerate this, and do hope the eventual migration of our Wiki might serve as an example to move further along that road.
7) solved: the XMLForms effort is being actively deprecated in favor of other form handling frameworks (JXForms and Woody).
8) transfer of HSSF (Excel) serializer from Cocoon -> POI: no further action has been taken yet.
9) Avalon Excalibur dependencies: Cocoon committers have now commit karma to an Avalon CVS module that hosts code in heavy use by the Cocoon project, making sure bugs can be fixed and patches applied in due time.
10) the Milestone release scheme has been applied successfully, and has resulted in a 2.1 release mid August.
11) Lenya incubation is still ongoing and monitored by the Cocoon PMC.
12), 13), 14): satisfactory ongoing.
New matter:
1) The Cocoon project has released a 2.1 version mid of August, and work is under its way to release a forthcoming 2.1.1 quickfix release.
2) Discussions are starting on the upcoming 2.2 development.
3) Most notable discussion was about the existence (and/or creation) of several overlapping ideas and frameworks for flow and form handling inside Cocoon, and even though the discussions were lenghty, at the verge of being flame-infested, the main discussion participants came to an agreement, showing off the maturity of the Cocoon community even when starting off from a discours of extreme technical dissonance.
4) As a result of all this, work is under its way to refactor and augment specific form handling code (Woody) into a truly community-owned artefact, and API changes have been allowed to make sure specific implementations (JS Flow with Continuations) leave room for alternatives, should the community see fit.
5) Several new committers since the previous report: Ugo Cei, Marc Portier, Guido Casper, Reinhard P�tz, Upayavira and Joerg Heinicke. There's a de facto policy that all committers can subscribe to the PMC list, but formalization of this, and whether this means they can cast a binding PMC vote still needs to be discussed. There's a certain tendency that there should be no distinction between active committership and PMC membership. Lenya hasn't signed up any new committers since it went into incubation, yet.
6) The Cocoon project guidelines and revised charter are under construction, being based on a de-formalized branch of the Jakarta ones.
Overall, the Cocoon project is a healthy and friendly community working along the Apache spirit, and we expect no sudden problems to emerge.
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Cheers,
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
