Please comment on the proposed November board report, to be submitted by November 6th, below.
Thanks! Karl [REPORT] ManifoldCF Board Report, ManifoldCF PMC ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright ([email protected]) Date: November 2013 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. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been five major releases, including a 1.4 release on October 28, 2013. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Other contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these encounters took place in September. We are not entirely sure why people who are obviously interested and to some degree committed to the project seem unwilling to become full committers. I suspect that corporate restrictions make this a challenge in some cases. Also, we seem to be interacting more with contractors than with employees recently, and it may well be that contractors have less interest in a long-standing relationship with our project. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around voting, extensions to the SharePoint connector, people looking for integration advice, etc. ManifoldCF also participated in Google Summer of Code, and MCF committers mentored one student developer through end of September. External contributions and even committer contributions have been somewhat lighter this cycle than in the last quarter. Communication with committers indicates that this is due in some degree to the maturity of the product, but also to an uptick in everyone's work load. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Both Infra issues that were outstanding at the time of the last report have been resolved. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
