And here's the link (wasn't immediately obvious, at least to me): http://blogs.apache.org/foundation/#the_apache_software_foundation_announces4
--Thilo On 5/4/2010 15:36, Marshall Schor wrote: > UIMA included in this Apache PR -Marshall > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Press Release Issued: The Apache Software Foundation Announces > New Top-Level Projects > Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 05:34:49 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected], [email protected] > To: ASF Marketing & Publicity <[email protected]> > CC: Apache Board <[email protected]> > > > > We're live! Thanks, everyone, for your help. > > Final copy is below in plaintext; we're up on the Foundation blog and on > @TheASF Twitter feed. > > Cheers, > Sally > > = = = > > Release headline: The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level > Projects > Word Count: 1646 > Product Summary: > US1 Technology > ReleaseWatch > Complimentary Press Release Optimization > PR Newswire's Editorial Order Number: 292739-1-1 > > Release clear time: 04-May-2010 08:01:05 AM > > = = = > > The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects > > Record Number of Projects Launched via Apache Incubator and Current > Initiatives > > FOREST HILL, MD – 4 May, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) –-the > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of 143 Open Source > projects and initiatives-- today announced the creation of six new Top-Level > Projects (TLPs), setting an all-time record of the most new TLPs launched in > a single month. > > A Top-Level Project signifies that a Project's community and products have > been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic, consensus-driven process and > principles. Whilst a project is developing within the Apache Incubator or as > a sub-project of an existing TLP, it benefits from hands-on mentoring from > other Apache contributors, as well as the Foundation’s widely-emulated > process, stewardship, outreach, support, and community events. > > "Becoming a Top-Level Project is a vote of confidence from the Foundation > at-large, demonstrating a project has proven its ability to be properly > self-governed," said ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski. "We are proud of our > Committers' dedication in building robust communities under the ASF process > known as 'The Apache Way'." > > All Apache Projects are overseen by a self-selected team of active > contributors to the project. Upon a Project's maturity to a TLP, a Project > Mangement Committee (PMC) is formed to oversee its day-to-day operations, > including community development and product releases. > > The six new TLPs include both a graduating project from the Apache Incubator > as well as sub-projects of existing TLPs. They are: > > Graduating from the Apache Incubator > > - Apache Traffic Server is a richly-featured, fast, scalable, and extensible > HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server. Formerly a commercial product, > Yahoo! submitted Traffic Server to the Apache Incubator in 2009. Traffic > Server is widely recognized as an “edge” service in cloud computing; an > example of its use is to serve static content such as images and JavaScript, > CSS, and HTML files, and route requests for dynamic content to a Web server > such as the Apache HTTP Server. Highly performant, Apache Traffic Server has > been benchmarked to handle in excess of 75,000 requests per second (RPS), and > is used in production in large-scale deployments such as Yahoo!, where it > handles 400 terrabytes of traffic per day, and serves more than 30 billion > objects daily across its various properties including the Yahoo! homepage, > and its Sports, Mail, and Finance sites. > > > Former Sub-projects of Existing Top-Level Projects > > - Apache Mahout provides scalable implementations of machine learning > algorithms on top of Apache Hadoop and other technologies. It offers > collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, feature > reduction, data mining algorithms, and more. Begun as a sub-project of Lucene > in 2008, Mahout's team of nearly a dozen contributors is now actively working > towards release 0.4. > > - Apache Tika is an embeddable, lightweight toolkit for content detection, > and analysis. Powering by MIME standards from IANA, advanced language > detection features and on the ability to rapidly unify existing parser > libraries, Tika provides a one-stop shop for navigating the modern > information landscape. Tika entered the Incubator in 2007 and graduated to a > Lucene sub-project in 2008. Tika is used in a broad range of Lucene products > ranging from Solr, to Nutch and Mahout and is in deployment at NASA, Day > Software, the Internet Archive, and at a number of Web startups including > Bixo labs. > > - Apache Nutch is a highly-modular, Web searching engine based on Lucene Java > with added Web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, and > parsers for HTML and other document formats. > Its architecture allows developers to create plugins for media-type parsing, > data retrieval, querying, clustering, and more. Following a successful 100 > million page demo system, the project graduated the Apache Incubator in 2005 > to become a sub-project of Apache Lucene. > > - Apache Avro is a fast data serialization system that includes rich and > dynamic schemas in all its processing. A sub-project of Apache Hadoop, Avro > features rich data structures; a compact, fast, binary data format; a > container file to store persistent data; remote procedure call (RPC); and > simple integration with dynamic languages. Not only is code generation not > required to read or write data files nor to use or implement RPC protocols, > it is an optional optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed > languages. > > - Apache HBase is a distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable. The > project started at Powerset and became a sub-project of Apache Hadoop in > 2007. Apache HBase adds random read/write access to the Hadoop stack, > extending offline processing capabilities and enabling realtime serving of > very large datasets. The project's goal is the hosting of big tables -- > billions of rows X millions of columns -- running atop commodity hardware. > HBase has been successfully deployed at Adobe, Flurry, Meetup, Mozilla, > StumbleUpon, Trend Micro, and Twitter, among others, to perform analytics > and as a datastore for live Websites. > > > Additional New Top-Level Projects Created in 2010 > > - Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) is a > framework for analyzing unstructured information, such as natural language > text. It supports the writing, deployment and reuse of analysis components in > a wide variety of settings. Created at IBM and submitted to the Apache > Incubator in 2006, UIMA has been adopted as the de-facto enabling platform by > a significant part of the natural language processing community. Apache UIMA > graduated from the Apache Incubator in March 2010. > > - Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation “NoSQL” distributed data > store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra decentralized > model provides massive scalability, and is highly available with no single > point of failure even under the worst scenarios. Originally developed at > Facebook and submitted to the ASF Incubator in 2009, the Project has added > more than a half-dozen new committers, and is deployed by dozens of > high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, > Reddit, and Twitter. Apache Cassandra graduated from the Apache Incubator in > March 2010. > > - Apache Subversion is a widely-used versioning control system. The project > was initated at CollabNet in 2000 and was accepted into the Apache Incubator > in 2009; many of the people who founded Subversion also actively contribute > to various initiatives at the ASF. All of the ASF's projects use Subversion > for source code version control, and Subversion itself relies on many Apache > projects such as Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and HTTP Web Server. For > nearly a decade, both communities have benefited from open feedback channels, > where requirements from the Subversion project have helped drive new features > to various Apache projects, and vice versa. Apache Subversion is used in > Bounty Source, CodePlex, Django, ExtJS, Free BSD, FreePascal, GCC, Google > Code, MediaWiki, Mono, PHP, Ruby, SourceForge, and Tigris.org, as well as > numerous corporations. Apache Subversion graduated from the Apache Incubator > in February 2010. > > - Apache Click is a modern Java EE Web application framework that provides a > natural, rich client style programming model. Apache Click's intuitive design > makes it very easy to learn and use, with most developers getting up and > running within a day. As opposed to traditional component oriented Web > frameworks, Click is stateless by design although stateful pages are > supported. Click exposes few abstractions to learn and understand; the Java > Servlet API is fully exposed to the developer to ease the upgrade path from > an action-based framework to a component-based one to alleviate developers > from maintaining redundant markup. Apache Click entered the Apache Incubator > in 2008 and graduated in February 2010. > > - Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting > OpenSocial apps quickly by providing the code to render gadgets, proxy > requests, and handle REST and RPC requests. By providing a language-neutral > infrastructure for those wishing to host OpenSocial applications on their > Websites, Apache Shindig allows new sites to start hosting social apps in > under an hour. Originally created as a port of Google's iGoogle gadget > container for hosting OpenSocial compatible widgets in any Website, Shindig > entered the Apache Incubator in 2007, and graduated in January 2010. > > "The ASF has been at the center of innovation over the past 10 years, > providing key pieces for much of the software and services we rely on every > day," said RedMonk analyst Michael Coté. "These new Top-Level Projects are > another example of that in action: projects that aim to help developers and > organizations build the next round of useful applications." > > > Availability > > All Apache products are released under the Apache Software License v2.0. > Downloads, documentation, and related resources are available at > http://www.apache.org/. > > About the Apache Incubator and Incubation Process > The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to > become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code > donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing > to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are > in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities > that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly > accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, > communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner > consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not > necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it > does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one > hundred leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the > world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic > process known as "The Apache Way," more than 300 individual Members and 2,300 > Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available > enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands > of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the > community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, > and ApacheCon, the Foundation’s official user conference, trainings, and > expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors > including Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, > SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo! For more information, visit > http://www.apache.org/. > > # # # > > > > > > > >
