[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/Aug2020 ]
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache
community. Here's a summary of what happened in August:
New this month --
- ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the
2020 Fiscal Year
-- Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
-- Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
-- ApacheCon @Home 2020: ApacheCon North America and Europe have
been combined and will be held online and free of charge 29 September
- 1 October 2020. Sponsorship opportunities available. Join us!
https://apachecon.com/acah2020
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the
ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019.
-- “Apache Innovation”, the fourth and final segment of the series
now available https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- Success at Apache: the monthly blog series that focuses on the
people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
-- I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you
can do it faster! by Eric Pugh https://s.apache.org/hney3
- Apache Month in Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020
Important Dates --
- Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes
http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
- ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020 https://apachecon.com/acah2020
Infrastructure --
Our seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our
highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP
Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg
Stein. ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their
communities across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories,
5-6PB in traffic annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily
emails on 2,000+ lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure
services are available around the clock. The average uptime in August
was 99.79%. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Committer Activity --
In August, 822 Apache Committers changed 16,077,266 lines of code over
14,003 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions,
in order, were: Mark Miller, Daniel Klco, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary
Gregory, and Andrea Cosentino.
Project Releases and Updates --
New releases from Apache Calcite (Big Data); Cocoon (Web Frameworks);
Commons Imaging (Libraries); Commons NET (Libraries); Commons Pool
(Libraries); Commons Validator (Libraries); Commons JCS (Libraries);
CXF (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); HBase (Big Data); HTTP Server
(Servers); Kafka (Big Data); Log4cxx (Libraries); Lucene (Search);
NiFi (Big Data); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenNLP (Machine
Learning); Parquet (Big Data); PDFBox (Content); Qpid (Messaging);
ShardingSphere (Big Data); Skywalking (Application Performance
Management); and Solr (Search).
The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite
you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache
Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/ . New releases from incubating
podlings include: Apache APISIX (API) and IoTDB (IoT).
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Best regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org
