Date: 2005-02-27T21:39:28 Editor: HenriYandell Wiki: Jakarta Wiki Page: JakartaBoardReport-July2004 URL: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-July2004
no comment Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1,183 +1 @@ -(Has been sent to the board. Please do not edit.) -== April-July 2004 == - -=== Status === - -Prior to his departure, Geir started some discussion (PMC list) concerning Jakarta charter revisions and the various documents describing the governance of Jakarta. The current documents are quite out of date in places - "The number of PMC seats is set at seven". Expect more on this. - -The PMC resolved a lack of oversight issue concerning the tomcat-security list, and two committers have stepped up to moderate it. Equally, the General list turned out to be lacking many moderators, so one of the themes for the next month may be to double-check our moderation coverage. - -Discussions on improved download pages to make it easier for user's to download distributions and more obvious on how to handle PGP/MD5 signatures have occured on the general list. - -Dion Gillard has volunteered to be a Junior Apmail Apprentice to try and take some of common workload off of infrastructure. - -=== Releases === - -==== April ==== - * Commons Net 1.2.0 - * Jetspeed 1.5 - * Tapestry 3.0 - * Velocity 1.4 - -==== May ==== - - * Cactus 1.6, 1.6.1 - * Commons IO 1.0 - * Commons Net 1.2.1 - * Tomcat 5.0.24 - * Slide 2.0 - * Velocity Tools 1.1 - -==== June ==== - - * Commons Collections 2.1.1, 3.1 - * Commons DBCP 1.2, 1.2.1 - * Commons Logging 1.0.4 - * Commons Net 1.2.2 - * Commons Pool 1.2 - * Tomcat 5.0.27 Beta - -==== July ==== - - * Tomcat 5.0.27 Stable - * Commons Betwixt 0.5 - * HiveMind 1.0-beta-1 - -=== Community changes === - -==== May ==== - -The following were all added to the Jakarta PMC: - - * Jeff Dever - * Mark Diggory - * James Taylor - * Mark Thomas - * Michael Becke - * Oleg Kalnichevski - * Steve Cohen - * Adrian Sutton - * Ortwin Gluck - * Daniel Florey - * Martin Holz - -==== June ==== - - * Emmanuel Bourg joins as a committer to Commons. - * Matthew Inger joins as a Jakarta committer. - * Knut Wannheden joins as a committer to HiveMind. - * Roy Winston joins as a committer to Commons. - * Geir Magnusson Jr resigning as PMC Chair, Henri Yandell taking over. - -==== July ==== - - * Travis Savo joins as a committer. - * James M. Mason joins as a committer to Slide. - -Four new PMC members have been voted on to the PMC and will be passed onto the board when they have all replied. - -=== Subproject news === - -(** implies report based on the mailing lists by the chair) - -==== Alexandria ** ==== - -(dormant project) - -==== BCEL ** ==== - -User list is active, Dev list is less so. - -==== BSF ** ==== - -Again, User list is active, Dev list is less so. - -==== Cactus ** ==== - -User list very active, dev list very quiet, mainly automated emails. I believe a Cactus-2 is in the planning. - -==== Commons ** ==== - -Commons has, as always, been very active. Outside of the components themselves, -work over the last quarter has gone into the build and site generation system using Maven. - - * Chain was promoted from the Sandbox to Commons Proper. - -==== Commons HttpClient ==== - - * 2.0.1 and 3.0 alpha 2 releases are planned for the near future. - * HttpClient plans to move to the Jakarta level after version 3.0 - -==== ECS ** ==== - -The developer list has been quiet for the last quarter. Occasional questions are asked on the user list. - -==== HiveMind ==== - -HiveMind is moving steadily towards an initial beta release. - -==== JMeter ** ==== - -Very active user and dev lists. The JMeter sub-community appears to be busily working on bugfixing. - -==== Lucene ==== - -Lucene 1.4 Final has been released. - -==== ORO ==== - -Pattern matching engine factories were added in response to needs expressed -by Commons, including a wrapper for J2SE 1.4 java.util.regex. Also, subpackages -were separated out into separate jars for users who need only one pattern matching -engine and are sensitive to jar file size. A combined jar with everything is still -provided as users fall into two camps on this issues. More discussion of ORO has -occurred on commons-dev than on oro-dev recently. There's no ETA for the next -release, which will probably be version 2.1. - -==== POI ==== - -Work on the next release of POI has been ongoing, but no release date has been set. - -==== Regexp ==== - -Nothing happened this month. No release date for the next release, 1.4, has been set. - -==== Slide ==== - -Slide 2.1 release is under preparation including lots of nice new features. A first beta is to be expected in August. CVS will branch with the release of this beta. - -==== Taglibs ** ==== - -The sub-community is largely dealing with user queries concerning JSTL and the Standard tag-library, Apache's implementation of JSTL. A new version of the String taglib was released in May. A new sandbox taglib, datagrid, was also added in May. - -==== Tapestry ==== - -Work on the next release of Tapestry, Tapestry 3.1, based on a new infrastructure provided by HiveMind, has begun. In addition, some annoyances in the final Tapestry 3.0 release may result in a 3.0.1 bugfix release. - -==== Tomcat ==== - -The Tomcat CVS has branched, creating a TOMCAT_5_0 branch for continuing maintenance on Tomcat 5.0.x releases, and allowing work on Tomcat 5.1 to begin. For some discussion about Tomcat 5.1 features and changes, search the tomcat-dev mailing list archives for threads whose subject contains "5.next." - -==== Turbine ==== - -To make the creation of Web applications using Turbine easier, a plugin for Maven has been designed and is currently -tested in the 2.3 branch of the Turbine framework. Some work towards the 2.4 release is going on, but no release date -has been set. - -==== Velocity ==== - -Both user and dev lists are active, but project is stable and widely used. - -Upcoming plan is to release a new core 1.4.1 because of a non-backwards compatible change -made to in the 1.4 release that prevents people from using a 'word' token in a directive other than in #macro() call or -a #foreach(). This bit users of the Webwork framework (and probably others) and will revert back with a log notice -that the feature is deprecated. - -After that is planned the core 1.5 release of current features in CVS, and then a large pile of new features in patch form -including floating-point support as core 1.6. - -The Tools part of the project is at version 1.1. - -==== Watchdog ==== - -The PMC discussed the status of Watchdog. It is a dormant project with no active committers. However, it is still used by Tomcat as part of Tomcat's release testing. In addition, the PMC would like to retain the option of future work on Watchdog, so the web site and accompanying materials will not be removed. A dormancy notice has been placed on the Watchdog web page and the mailing list subscription links replaced with a note to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] +Sent to the board and published at: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/board-report-july2004.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
