[ANN] Apache Commons Compress 1.17 Released

2018-06-04 Thread Stefan Bodewig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons Compress 1.17. Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200, lzma, xz, Snappy,

Success at Apache: the Chance to Influence the World

2018-06-04 Thread Sally Khudairi
[this post is available online at https://s.apache.org/MfuS ] by Weiwei Yang I submitted my first patch to Apache Hadoop in 2015, a very simple bug fix with just a few lines of changes. However the feeling is still vivid to me when the patch was accepted, I felt great accomplishment. It was

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Traffic Control™ as a Top-Level Project

2018-06-04 Thread Sally Khudairi
[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/5DEl ] Open Source Content Delivery Network used by Cisco, Comcast, Cox, Qwilt, and others serves 30+ petabytes of content each day. Wakefield, MA —4 June 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers,