[Jakarta Wiki] Update of JakartaBoardReport-February2007 by MartinvandenBemt
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[Jakarta Wiki] Update of JakartaBoardReport-February2007 by MartinvandenBemt
Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on Jakarta Wiki for change notification. The following page has been changed by MartinvandenBemt: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-February2007 -- === Infrastructure news === - Changes to the projects infrastructure. Migrations to Subversion, new vmware instances etc. + Started to investigate the moderators we have and contacting all the moderators asking if they are still active. If there are gaps, I will try to fill the void by finding volunteers. This way we prevent that lists aren't moderated. === Subproject news === - News related to various subprojects, if they have news. Volunteers for subproject news are desired, otherwise the Chair is responsible for finding out said news (and should mark that they had to do so). + News related to various subprojects, if they have news. Volunteers for subproject news are desired, otherwise the Chair is responsible for finding out said news (and should mark that they had to do so). Sections with a prefix of MvdB are notes added by the chair BCEL + MvdB : + + Some user questions, further no action taken on the future of BCEL (on the list is contacting the 2 currently exising forks out there, to see if there is interenst in moving development back to Jakarta. Afaik Findbugs and AspectJ have forks. + BSF + MvdB : + + They are currently planning for a 3.0 release and for jsr223 they are investigating to get the TCK. Geir is in the process of arranging things. + Cactus + + MvdB : + + Cactus development was stalled and recently Petar Tahchiev sent a mail to the list, saying he had continued development of cactus on https://mamouth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mamouth. I (=Martin van den Bemt) am currently in the process of informing Petar on what actions to take (eg Code Grants/CLA/CCLA) to move development back to the cactus project. When the paperwork is there, we will run the code base through the incubator (at a minimum legal). Commons @@ -209, +221 @@ JCS + MvdB : + + JIRA notifications are send to the list now. Not much development happening currently. + JMeter + MvdB : + + Active as always. The concern about the lack of committers for JMeter in my last report is weakened by the fact that other people are stil involved, although don't currently have any cycles to spare. + + ORO Apart from the occasional regexp question, the ORO is inactive and ready for dormancy. POI - Added Mark Thomas to the POI Committer list. Actively working on a release. + MvdB : + + Added Mark Thomas to the POI Committer list. Actively working on a release, which is planned for the beginning of March. After that release next steps will be taken in a move to TLP. Regexp @@ -225, +248 @@ Slide + MvdB : + + Activity is picking up and a potential other committer candidate was introduced, which means more patches and more activity. + I am also currently investigating if I can use Slide for my self, so who knows :) + Taglibs A 1.1.3 release of the Jakarta Standard Taglib is being worked on. The RDC taglig has activity - however apart from that all of the taglibs should be considered Inactive and available for dormancy. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Jakarta Wiki] Update of JakartaBoardReport-February2007 by MartinvandenBemt
Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on Jakarta Wiki for change notification. The following page has been changed by MartinvandenBemt: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-February2007 The comment on the change is: Personal notes and some additions -- === Status === - Chair to summarize Jakarta-wide news + the current state of affairs. + This board report was mainly constructed by other people than me, which is a big improvement (thanks everyone). I also moved the board report to a fixed location on the wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-current), so it's easier to locate for people. + The code grant for the not yet commons SSL (formerly named commons-ssl), has been completed, so we can progress to having a vote where SSL should end up on general and based on that result take the correct incubator path (legal / full incubation). + + What is not completely clear for me at this point, is the board report schedule. An extra report was requested (lack of commons projects in the report). Reporting next month again will be a lot of work, since my goal is to report on every subproject (even if there is no or hardly any activity). + + Inactive projects + + Disclaimer : we have lot's of active projects ! + + Definition list : + + Inactive project = a project that has no *developer* community. + + The Apache Way : + + To become committer on a project you have to earn that right, you have to stand out, submit patches, show you care, learn the apache way and have to get noticed by the current committers who can nominate such a person. + + Problem : + + If that didn't happen enough in the past, it can happen that at a certain point no developer community is active anymore. + + Which causes : + + A catch22 situation. Since there is no developer community, no one is able to determine if people deserve to become a committer. Even if you are monitoring such a list (such as I do for all Jakarta lists), it is hard to determine if people deserve committership. + + Solution : + + The only thing we know for sure : inactive projects needs someone to mentor the project to become active again. This goes for all possible scenario's : + + 1. Actively support forks and when they show they are capable to work on the project, get the code back (needs mentoring, grants, etc) + 2. More liberal in getting committers on board + 3. Actively following the user / dev lists and issue trackers to see if there is someone ready for committer ship. (is the normal way, although the focus here is not if patches etc are technically correct) + + I like to prevent Jakarta becoming some kind of collection with inactive project, so the first goal is preventing that this scenario occurs on our current subprojects where possible. So I would like to ask the current active developers to invest a little bit more time in looking what others are doing. + + I think this discussion is also useful to have on the incubator list. === Releases === @@ -241, +276 @@ MvdB : Added Mark Thomas to the POI Committer list. Actively working on a release, which is planned for the beginning of March. After that release next steps will be taken in a move to TLP. + All headers, notices are up-to-date and the build process have been updated to accomodate a correct release. Regexp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
