Hearing no objection, and learning that the deadline is the 6th, I've gone ahead and submitted this report.
Karl On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Apparently putting together the June board report is my > responsibility. Here's a stab at it; does anyone think I should > revise anything? > > Also, being the first report, I'd like to (a) assure myself that this > is the right process, and (b) make sure that [email protected] is where > I would send it.... so please chime in if you have comments. > > Karl > > > Board Report, ManifoldCF PMC > > ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright ([email protected]) > Date: June 2012 > > Project description > ============== > > ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting > source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, > to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer > or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target > repositories > that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. > > Milestones > ======== > > ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012, one day after > the latest major release on May 15, 2012. Since then there has been a > limited point > release as well (on May 22, 2012). > > Mailing list activity > ============== > > The mailing lists have been ported to their new TLP location for about 10 > days. > There has been some activity pertaining to certain specific connectors, > especially the SharePoint connector and the need to develop a SharePoint 2010 > version of this, including offers of contribution. Also within the > last month there > have been requests for assistance from those using the web connector for > extremely challenging session authentication situations. The dev > lists have been > occupied with getting the releases out the door and looking at a connector for > a new open-source pipeline release. > I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. > > Committer and PMC membership > ======================== > > The last new committer signed on was in February, 2012. Since then we've had > a number of offers for contribution from outside the community but > insufficient > demonstrated commitment to offer committership or PMC membership to any > individual. We are actively working to have a broader committer base, > as always, > and try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. > > Branding > ====== > > We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. > > Legal > ==== > > A legal issue we are looking to resolve pertains to how we interface > to .NET services. > The ticket is LEGAL-137. There has been a fair bit of discussion of the issue > raised here but no definitive conclusion as of yet. Until such time > as I hear back > from either HP or Apache Legal about this, we will continue to treat > generated .NET > interface documents as copyrightable materials. > > Infrastructure > ========== > > As per the graduation documents [1], I've filed graduation tickets with INFRA > (see INFRA-4841). We await movement of our web, dist, and svn resources from > our incubator area to their final TLP locations. After this move, we > intend to request > that a Git svn mirror be created also. > > ManifoldCF's unique nature (specifically, its purpose of connecting to > third-party and > possibly proprietary systems) has led to a significant amount of > back-and-forth on > at least one of the infrastructure subtickets we created. As a > result, we've already revamped > our website (CONNECTORS-473), and we are also in the process of improving our > build and release process (CONNECTORS-474). It does not appear that the > issues > raised are sufficient to prevent migration, and yet migration has not > occurred as of this > writing. We have been unable to complete the setup of the ManifoldCF > project for > this reason. > > We will continue to use Incubator resources until such time as the migration > actually takes place. > > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#life-after-graduation
