Status report for the Apache Directory Project No new committers, no new PMC members. Studio 1.3 has been released in november. A lot of work has been done to migrate to MINA 2.0. we have to refine the 2.0 roadmap, as the current roadmap is a bit irrealistic. Right now, we are mainly focused on replication and on the Disaster Recovery System. The idea is to get a 2.0-RC1 out by the next Apache conference (Amsterdam).
Releases ======== Studio 1.3 has been released. It does not contain a lot of visible modifications, but a lot of new small features and bug fixes. We expected to release ADS 1.5.5 by the end of last year, but failed to meet this milestone. This is still a target for the next few weeks, as we have a lot of bugs fixed in this version. Community ========= No new committer this quarter. No new PMC members either. We gained 19 new subscribers on the users' mailing list since july's report (147 against 128). We didn't had a lot of activity for many of the main committers, as many of us are on a day job. Alex was MIA for 3 months, but it was announced, and he is now back. Obviously, being one of the most active committer, it impacted negatively the activity. Emmanuel had to spend one month on MINA to get the 2.0.0-M4 out, as there were blocking issues in the library, forbidding us to use it for ADS. As there is a starting Infrastructure project (using ADS inside The ASF) we also spend some time installing ADS on a solaris zone, and to do a first has injection of Apache committers into the ldap base. Until we get a working replication system, we won't go any further, though. Conclusion/Summary ================== A slow quarter, but an active beginning of year, as we have a lot of communication around the replication system first because it's a major feature we want to have in 2.0, and second because it's mandatory for ADS to be used by Infra. We are pretty happy to have the OpenLDAP community participating in this area, through mails. Thanks to Howard Chu and Quanah Gibson-Mount. The number of downloads (ADS and Studio) has stabilized to 350 downloads per day (10 000 per month), down from a peak of 56 000 downloads in April, according to V. gritsenko stats (people.apache.org/~vgritsenko). Google Analytics gives a more accurate number of downloads for each product : 1.5 : 41 472 downloads in 2008 (113 per day) 1.0 : 6 116 downloads in 2008 (16 per day) Studio : 52 188 downloads in 2008 (142 per day) -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
