Community project:
- A reformulation of the Cocoon project mission statement has been sent to the board for approval - pending.
- Guidelines are (still) under construction (but given the even-mindedness of the Cocoon community, and our debate/consensus culture they are hardly being missed).
- Wiki still resides outside ASF infrastructure, there's some W-I-P happening on a JSPWiki->moinmoin translator in a silent corner. The intention is to move all core logistical tools onto supported ASF machinerie.
Cocoon:
- The last ASL 1.1-licensed Cocoon release had been done on Friday 13th Feb 2004 (2.1.4) - upcoming releases, also of legacy branches, will be done using the new license.
- FirstFridays (a monthly online bug-fixing fest) are becoming a welcome established tradition.
- A lot of work has been done on the Cocoon Forms framework, and alternative frameworks will now be actively deprecated.
- The Pipelines-Flow-Woody trio quietly becomes the mainstream way of using Cocoon.
- The 2.2 codebase is moving on, relatively few but regular contributors.
- More systematic and structured use of bugzilla helps us get a clearer picture of what's happening.
- Three new committers since mid-October 2003: Unico Hommes, Timothy Larson and Daniel Fagerstrom.
Lenya:
- First 'outside', active committer has been attracted and voted upon (Rolf Kulemann).
- W-I-P on their second ASF-based release is ongoing.
- There's good efforts underway to continuously integrate between Lenya & Cocoon.
- Stale publication types are being deprecated.
- Legal issues with outside codebases have been eradicated.
- Incubation ongoing - no specific issues to report.
Legal:
- The situation with the Rhino fork Cocoon depends on still needs to be tackled - Rhino's murky legal past doesn't help a lot with that, and very few committers have time and energy to tackle this.
- We have been on an active pursuit of having CLAs on file for all Cocoon committers. We are aware of the fact that non-compliance could mean future lock-out.
Apart from some small nits, the Apache Cocoon project is both legally and community-wise very healthy - or aiming for achieving this future healthiness - and no issues are expected in the near future.
</Steven>, Cocoon PMC Chair -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
