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== Apache Turbine Project Board Report, February 2008 ==

=== Status ===

There has been good progress towards resolving the outstanding ECCN issues 
within the Turbine project.  See below for details.

The final tasks relating to Turbine becoming a TLP have ''finally'' been 
completed - the mirrored downloads and archived releases have been moved from 
jakarta to turbine directories.

Other than this the Turbine project continues on with a fairly low level of 
activity.

The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.

==== ECCN Status and activity ====

[Siegfried : Can you please review the following for accuracy.]

While this issue has been highlighted by Bill for the current round of reports, 
it has been on our radar for some time now.

The following areas '''''had''''' the potential to require ECCN registration 
due to their use of a "symmetric algorithm employing a key length exceeding 56 
bits" and/or because they "were designed to work with strong cryptographic 
libraries":
 1. fulcrum-crypto - used the cryptix library
 1. The Crypto Service in Turbine Core, from which fulcrum-crypto was extracted 
- also used the cryptix library
 1. fulcrum-yaafi - supports decryption of strongly encrypted configuration 
files
 1. fulcrum-pbe - supports strong encryption/decryption of files

In particular, the following actions have taken place:
 * the cryptix dependency has been removed from fulcrum-crypto and Turbine 
core's Crypto Service (replaced with 
org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.ldap.UnixCrypt from the JetSpeed Portal 
project). 
 * the exposed interfaces and underlying implementation of fulcrum-yaafi and 
fulcrum-pbe have been modified to ensure that only DES (56 bit key length) can 
be used (strong encryption was never used but was available through the exposed 
interfaces).

It is our understanding that after our next release of the following 
components, no aspects of the Apache Turbine project will require ECCN 
registration:
 * fulcrum-crypto-1.0.7 - ETA some time in the next few weeks
 * turbine-2.3.3 - ETA some time in the next month or so
 * fulcrum-yaafi-1.0.6 - ETA some time in the next few weeks
 * fulcrum-pbe-1.0.0 - Not yet a released component so no release required in 
order to comply.

=== Community changes ===

No new committers were voted in since the last board report.

No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.

=== Turbine core project ===

The Turbine Core trunk and turbine-site modules have been updated to ASL 2.0 - 
this was long overdue and is in preparation for a future release.

The changes to fulcrum-crypto have been backported to the Crypto Service so as 
to eliminate the ECCN registration requirement for Turbine core.

We are working on releasing Turbine 2.3.3 - this has primarily been waiting on 
the DB Project's Torque 3.3 release which is likely to appear in the next 
couple of weeks.

No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.

=== Fulcrum component project ===

Mostly ECCN related activity, but progress on migrating from Maven 1.x to Maven 
2.x for project builds has commenced.

No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.

=== META project ===

No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.

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