Greets, Here's a proposed draft for the first report to the ASF Board of Directors on the newly established Apache Lucy project.
The next board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 18th. Reports have been trickling into the [email protected] list for the past week or so. I believe that the hard deadline is 72 hours before the meeting when the agenda is frozen, but as the guidelines indicate that reports should be filed "well in advance", it seems to me that the PMC chair should seek to file a week or more before the meeting. Here are the guidelines for project board reports: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting If anyone is interested in seeing how other TLP reports look (note that fidelity to the guidelines varies significantly) check out the minutes of past board meetings: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html Lastly, note that this is technically our PMC chair's report, not the PMC's (so we don't vote on it): http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair Quarterly report to Board. The schedule is listed in committee-info.txt along with the procedure. If there are issues requiring board assistance, then make that apparent, separate from any general project news. The report is mainly about the status of the project, together with any community and legal issues or other general impediments. You can seek input from your PMC, but it is mainly your report to the board. The chair does not report to the PMC. The chair reports to the board (i.e. ultimately to the ASF membership). The reporting page describes what the reports should contain. Look at Board Meetings and Calendar for examples of past PMC reports and to find out when the next meetings are due. Marvin Humphrey ========================== The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. This report is the first since the board approved the charter establishing the Apache Lucy project on March 21, 2012. ACTIVITY * The transition to TLP has effectively been completed save for drafting our bylaws. * Development of the codebase has been active, with a focus on enabling compiled extensions. RELEASES * None during this period. * The last release was 0.3.0, an incubating release dated 2012-01-15. COMMUNITY * No change to committer/PMC membership ranks during this period. * The dev list has been active, the user list has been quiet. * Commit diversity within the existing community is satisfactory and continues to improve. BRANDING * We believe that we are in full compliance with the ASF branding guidelines. ISSUES * None requiring board-level attention at this time.
