Author: bayard
Date: Sat Apr 30 11:58:19 2005
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+<a name="March 2005 Board Report">
+<strong>March 2005 Board Report</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<p>
+<div class="section-body">
+ <div class="subsection">
+<div class="subsection-header">
+<a name="Status">
+<strong>Status</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection-body">
+
+<p>The last quarter is most notable for the Lucene promotion to TLP and the
promotion of JCS from within the Turbine subproject to its own subproject
status. Lucene is cleanly separated now while the only infrastructure tie left
between Turbine and JCS will be handled when JCS migrates to Subversion. </p>
+
+<p>On the promotion subject, HttpClient is still pending promotion to
subproject status and Slide is still planning on applying to be a TLP. </p>
+
+<p>The Jakarta site saw a lot of cleaning and revamping. It now mimics the
www.apache.org 3 column style and has had much in the way of superfluous
content removed. The download/mirror pages have been redesigned to increase
usability for both subprojects and users. This includes these board reports
being available online at
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/board-reports.html. </p>
+
+<p>Release-wise, continued Tomcat and Commons releases were joined by new
alpha releases from the Tapestry and Hivemind communities. </p>
+
+<p>Various legal-discussions have been spawned by Jakarta this quarter.
Apache's lack of oversight over unofficial translation sites, questions over
how to handle the ASF licence with javadoc pages and usage of government public
domain software. All are still not fully resolved at this stage. Very recently
there have been more branding issues with JBoss and Tomcat due to an SD
Magazine press release. </p>
+
+<p>Lastly, JetBrains have agreed to provide licences to their IDE, "Intellij
IDEA", on an Apache-wide committer basis and not per subproject/codebase. </p>
+
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection">
+<div class="subsection-header">
+<a name="Possible plans for the next quarter">
+<strong>Possible plans for the next quarter</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection-body">
+ <ul>
+ <li>HttpClient to subproject level. </li>
+ <li>Taglibs, ECS, BSF, JCS, Cactus SVN migrations. </li>
+ <li>Improved Jakarta level javadoc indexing. </li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="subsection">
+<div class="subsection-header">
+<a name="Releases">
+<strong>Releases</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection-body">
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>9 March 2005 - JCS moves to Jakarta Subproject</li>
+ <li>6 March 2005 - Commons Logging 1.0.5 Alpha1 Released</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>24 February 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-alpha-2 Released</li>
+ <li>22 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.1-alpha-1 Released</li>
+ <li>20 February 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.8-alpha Released</li>
+ <li>15 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.0.2 Released</li>
+ <li>14 February 2005 - Lucene moves to TLP</li>
+ <li>06 February 2005 - Commons HttpClient 3.0 RC1 Released</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>30 January 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.7 Voted Stable</li>
+ <li>28 January 2005 - Cactus 1.7 Released</li>
+ <li>20 January 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.7-alpha Released</li>
+ <li>19 January 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-alpha-1 Released</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>15 December 2004 - Commons Transaction 1.0 Released</li>
+ <li>15 December 2004 - Commons-Net 1.3.0 Released</li>
+ <li>12 December 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.6-alpha Released</li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="subsection">
+<div class="subsection-header">
+<a name="Community changes">
+<strong>Community changes</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection-body">
+
+<u>New Committers</u>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>3 December 2004 - Warwick Burrows (wburrows) - Slide</li>
+ <li>5 December 2004 - Siegfried Goeschl (sgoeschl) - Turbine</li>
+ <li>18 December 2004 - Thomas Draier (draier) - Slide</li>
+ <li>3 January 2005 - William Glass-Husain (wglass) - Velocity</li>
+ <li>3 January 2005 - Kazuhito Suguri (suguri) - Cactus</li>
+ <li>20 January 2005 - Carlos Villegas (cvillegas) - Slide</li>
+ <li>9 February 2005 - David Brosius (dbrosius) - BCEL</li>
+ <li>10 March 2005 - Dhiru Pandey (dhirup) - Taglibs</li>
+ <li>10 March 2005 - Martijn Blankestijn (mblankestijn) - JMeter</li>
+ <li>14 March 2005 - Jim Jagielski and William Rowe Jr both joining
Tomcat/mod_jk.</li>
+ <li>15 March 2005 - Magnus Grimsell has been voted in and is currently
submitting his CLA - Cactus</li>
+ </ul>
+
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="subsection">
+<div class="subsection-header">
+<a name="Infrastructure news">
+<strong>Infrastructure news</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection-body">
+
+<p>Jakarta has replaced most of the nagoya references. While there are still a
few (250 to 300) it's a good improvement on the 1300 or so there were at first
and many of the references remaining are in the less active areas (both
committer and user). </p>
+
+<p>BCEL, Commons, Regexp and the Jakarta website have all migrated from CVS to
SVN, joining ORO and Velocity. This represents about a third of Jakarta.
Another third are slowly on their way, while the last third would rather stay
with CVS such a time as announcements are made to curtail CVS usage. </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="subsection">
+<div class="subsection-header">
+<a name="Subproject news">
+<strong>Subproject news</strong>
+</a>
+</div>
+<div class="subsection-body">
+
+<p>(based on projects that have had a notable event, ie) release, change of
location within Jakarta)</p>
+
+<u>Commons HttpClient</u>
+
+<p>Commons HttpClient has had its first 3.0 release candidate and a final
release should happen shortly.</p>
+
+<p>Much work has also been put into planning for Jakarta HttpClient
(HttpClient 4.0), and initial development has begun. The focus of Jakarta
HttpClient will be on making HttpClient more compact, modular, and reusable. We
are currently putting together use cases to help guide the 4.0 development.</p>
+
+<u>Commons Logging</u>
+
+<p>Alpha release containing improved memory recycling during hot deployment in
containers without explicit support for JCL. Pushing towards a full 1.0.5
release.</p>
+
+<u>Commons Net</u>
+
+<p>Commons Net 1.3.0 was released in late December. This release contained a
large number of enhancements and bug fixes, but the most important change was
the addition of NTP/SNTP support. Since 1.3.0, there have been more
enhancements to the FTP parser (currently in CVS), with the ultimate aim of
making the FTP client configuration much more flexible and consequently being
able to support different locales seamlessly. This, plus other bug fixes
currently in the works, will form the basis of the 1.4 release.</p>
+
+<u>Commons Transaction</u>
+
+<p>1.0 final has been released in December. 1.1 already is feature complete
and in beta status. It mainly adds deadlock detection and a partially revised
interface layout. Slide 2.2 and OJB 1.1 are likely to use it.</p>
+
+<u>Cactus</u>
+
+<p>Cactus 1.7 has been released preparing the way for a big refactoring. We
are indeed going to refactor Cactus to leverage Cargo
(http://cargo.codehaus.org). Nicolas Chalumeau (contributor) and Vincent Massol
have been working on this. That should lighten Cactus and allow supporting many
more containers and features (like hot deploy, etc) which our users have been
asking for a while. Two new committers have been voted in recently (Kazuhito
and Magnus). EJB Cactification has been added recently by Magnus and he's busy
adding new improvements to it. Felipe is continuing with improvements to the
Maven plugin for Cactus.</p>
+
+<u>JCS</u>
+
+<p>JCS has been adjusting to to its recent move to a site level project and is
working on its first formal release. There are no known open issues. </p>
+<u>HiveMind</u>
+
+<p>Many new features have been recently added to HiveMind, driven by the needs
of Tapestry primarily; this includes the ability to switch the locale on the
fly (on a per-thread basis). This is used when accessing per-module message
catalogs. In addition, HiveMind may now make ordinary POJOs into services
(without a specific interface). The XML descriptors have been simplified, as a
package for the module may now be specified, allowing the many class names in a
descriptor to be abbreviated.</p>
+
+<p>Discussions are in place now about limiting the scope of 1.1 so that we can
progress to a beta and final release.</p>
+
+<u>Tapestry</u>
+
+<p>An early alpha release of Tapestry 3.1 has been released. Tapestry 3.0.2
may not be the final bug fix release for 3.0; there are discussions about
fixing a few more bugs and integrating Paul Ferraro's "friendly URLs" patch
into the code base for 3.0.3.</p>
+
+<p>Refactorings continue in the 3.1 code base, in pursuit of JSR-168 Portlet
support.</p>
+
+<u>Tomcat</u>
+
+<p>This has been a quiet period for Tomcat, partially because I've been
extremely busy at school ;) We released versions 5.5.7 (stable) and 5.5.8
(alpha for now), each of which was a maintenance release addressing a good
number of bugs and user requests. Version 5.5.9 should be out within the next
couple of weeks, also addressing a number of recently reported issued (none
serious).</p>
+
+<p>Two noteworthy items: first, adoption of Tomcat 5.5 has really accelerated
following the first couple of stable releases. Many users are reporting
satisfaction with the increased performance and stability. And second, we have
kept in touch with the Geronimo project, especially with Jacek Laskowski (sp
probably), working towards seamless Geronimo/Tomcat integration.</p>
+
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+</div>
+ </div>
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@@ -167,16 +167,19 @@
<ul>
<li>
-<a href="board-report-march2004.html">March 2004</a>
+<a href="board-report-march2005.html">March 2005</a>
</li>
<li>
-<a href="board-report-july2004.html">July 2004</a>
+<a href="board-report-december2004.html">December 2004</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="board-report-september2004.html">September 2004</a>
</li>
<li>
-<a href="board-report-december2004.html">December 2004</a>
+<a href="board-report-july2004.html">July 2004</a>
+</li>
+ <li>
+<a href="board-report-march2004.html">March 2004</a>
</li>
</ul>
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--- jakarta/site/xdocs/site/pmc/board-report-march2005.xml (added)
+++ jakarta/site/xdocs/site/pmc/board-report-march2005.xml Sat Apr 30 11:58:19
2005
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+Copyright 1999-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
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+
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+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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+<document>
+
+ <properties>
+ <author email="general.AT.jakarta.DOT.apache.DOT.org">Apache Jakarta
Project</author>
+ <title>March 2005 Board Report</title>
+ </properties>
+
+<body>
+
+ <section name="March 2005 Board Report">
+ <subsection name="Status">
+
+<p>The last quarter is most notable for the Lucene promotion to TLP and the
promotion of JCS from within the Turbine subproject to its own subproject
status. Lucene is cleanly separated now while the only infrastructure tie left
between Turbine and JCS will be handled when JCS migrates to Subversion. </p>
+
+<p>On the promotion subject, HttpClient is still pending promotion to
subproject status and Slide is still planning on applying to be a TLP. </p>
+
+<p>The Jakarta site saw a lot of cleaning and revamping. It now mimics the
www.apache.org 3 column style and has had much in the way of superfluous
content removed. The download/mirror pages have been redesigned to increase
usability for both subprojects and users. This includes these board reports
being available online at
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/board-reports.html. </p>
+
+<p>Release-wise, continued Tomcat and Commons releases were joined by new
alpha releases from the Tapestry and Hivemind communities. </p>
+
+<p>Various legal-discussions have been spawned by Jakarta this quarter.
Apache's lack of oversight over unofficial translation sites, questions over
how to handle the ASF licence with javadoc pages and usage of government public
domain software. All are still not fully resolved at this stage. Very recently
there have been more branding issues with JBoss and Tomcat due to an SD
Magazine press release. </p>
+
+<p>Lastly, JetBrains have agreed to provide licences to their IDE, "Intellij
IDEA", on an Apache-wide committer basis and not per subproject/codebase. </p>
+
+</subsection>
+<subsection name="Possible plans for the next quarter">
+ <ul>
+ <li>HttpClient to subproject level. </li>
+ <li>Taglibs, ECS, BSF, JCS, Cactus SVN migrations. </li>
+ <li>Improved Jakarta level javadoc indexing. </li>
+ </ul>
+</subsection>
+
+<subsection name="Releases">
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>9 March 2005 - JCS moves to Jakarta Subproject</li>
+ <li>6 March 2005 - Commons Logging 1.0.5 Alpha1 Released</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>24 February 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-alpha-2 Released</li>
+ <li>22 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.1-alpha-1 Released</li>
+ <li>20 February 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.8-alpha Released</li>
+ <li>15 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.0.2 Released</li>
+ <li>14 February 2005 - Lucene moves to TLP</li>
+ <li>06 February 2005 - Commons HttpClient 3.0 RC1 Released</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>30 January 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.7 Voted Stable</li>
+ <li>28 January 2005 - Cactus 1.7 Released</li>
+ <li>20 January 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.7-alpha Released</li>
+ <li>19 January 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-alpha-1 Released</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>15 December 2004 - Commons Transaction 1.0 Released</li>
+ <li>15 December 2004 - Commons-Net 1.3.0 Released</li>
+ <li>12 December 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.6-alpha Released</li>
+ </ul>
+</subsection>
+
+<subsection name="Community changes">
+
+<u>New Committers</u>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>3 December 2004 - Warwick Burrows (wburrows) - Slide</li>
+ <li>5 December 2004 - Siegfried Goeschl (sgoeschl) - Turbine</li>
+ <li>18 December 2004 - Thomas Draier (draier) - Slide</li>
+ <li>3 January 2005 - William Glass-Husain (wglass) - Velocity</li>
+ <li>3 January 2005 - Kazuhito Suguri (suguri) - Cactus</li>
+ <li>20 January 2005 - Carlos Villegas (cvillegas) - Slide</li>
+ <li>9 February 2005 - David Brosius (dbrosius) - BCEL</li>
+ <li>10 March 2005 - Dhiru Pandey (dhirup) - Taglibs</li>
+ <li>10 March 2005 - Martijn Blankestijn (mblankestijn) - JMeter</li>
+ <li>14 March 2005 - Jim Jagielski and William Rowe Jr both joining
Tomcat/mod_jk.</li>
+ <li>15 March 2005 - Magnus Grimsell has been voted in and is currently
submitting his CLA - Cactus</li>
+ </ul>
+
+</subsection>
+
+<subsection name="Infrastructure news">
+
+<p>Jakarta has replaced most of the nagoya references. While there are still a
few (250 to 300) it's a good improvement on the 1300 or so there were at first
and many of the references remaining are in the less active areas (both
committer and user). </p>
+
+<p>BCEL, Commons, Regexp and the Jakarta website have all migrated from CVS to
SVN, joining ORO and Velocity. This represents about a third of Jakarta.
Another third are slowly on their way, while the last third would rather stay
with CVS such a time as announcements are made to curtail CVS usage. </p>
+</subsection>
+
+<subsection name="Subproject news">
+
+<p>(based on projects that have had a notable event, ie) release, change of
location within Jakarta)</p>
+
+<u>Commons HttpClient</u>
+
+<p>Commons HttpClient has had its first 3.0 release candidate and a final
release should happen shortly.</p>
+
+<p>Much work has also been put into planning for Jakarta HttpClient
(HttpClient 4.0), and initial development has begun. The focus of Jakarta
HttpClient will be on making HttpClient more compact, modular, and reusable. We
are currently putting together use cases to help guide the 4.0 development.</p>
+
+<u>Commons Logging</u>
+
+<p>Alpha release containing improved memory recycling during hot deployment in
containers without explicit support for JCL. Pushing towards a full 1.0.5
release.</p>
+
+<u>Commons Net</u>
+
+<p>Commons Net 1.3.0 was released in late December. This release contained a
large number of enhancements and bug fixes, but the most important change was
the addition of NTP/SNTP support. Since 1.3.0, there have been more
enhancements to the FTP parser (currently in CVS), with the ultimate aim of
making the FTP client configuration much more flexible and consequently being
able to support different locales seamlessly. This, plus other bug fixes
currently in the works, will form the basis of the 1.4 release.</p>
+
+<u>Commons Transaction</u>
+
+<p>1.0 final has been released in December. 1.1 already is feature complete
and in beta status. It mainly adds deadlock detection and a partially revised
interface layout. Slide 2.2 and OJB 1.1 are likely to use it.</p>
+
+<u>Cactus</u>
+
+<p>Cactus 1.7 has been released preparing the way for a big refactoring. We
are indeed going to refactor Cactus to leverage Cargo
(http://cargo.codehaus.org). Nicolas Chalumeau (contributor) and Vincent Massol
have been working on this. That should lighten Cactus and allow supporting many
more containers and features (like hot deploy, etc) which our users have been
asking for a while. Two new committers have been voted in recently (Kazuhito
and Magnus). EJB Cactification has been added recently by Magnus and he's busy
adding new improvements to it. Felipe is continuing with improvements to the
Maven plugin for Cactus.</p>
+
+<u>JCS</u>
+
+<p>JCS has been adjusting to to its recent move to a site level project and is
working on its first formal release. There are no known open issues. </p>
+<u>HiveMind</u>
+
+<p>Many new features have been recently added to HiveMind, driven by the needs
of Tapestry primarily; this includes the ability to switch the locale on the
fly (on a per-thread basis). This is used when accessing per-module message
catalogs. In addition, HiveMind may now make ordinary POJOs into services
(without a specific interface). The XML descriptors have been simplified, as a
package for the module may now be specified, allowing the many class names in a
descriptor to be abbreviated.</p>
+
+<p>Discussions are in place now about limiting the scope of 1.1 so that we can
progress to a beta and final release.</p>
+
+<u>Tapestry</u>
+
+<p>An early alpha release of Tapestry 3.1 has been released. Tapestry 3.0.2
may not be the final bug fix release for 3.0; there are discussions about
fixing a few more bugs and integrating Paul Ferraro's "friendly URLs" patch
into the code base for 3.0.3.</p>
+
+<p>Refactorings continue in the 3.1 code base, in pursuit of JSR-168 Portlet
support.</p>
+
+<u>Tomcat</u>
+
+<p>This has been a quiet period for Tomcat, partially because I've been
extremely busy at school ;) We released versions 5.5.7 (stable) and 5.5.8
(alpha for now), each of which was a maintenance release addressing a good
number of bugs and user requests. Version 5.5.9 should be out within the next
couple of weeks, also addressing a number of recently reported issued (none
serious).</p>
+
+<p>Two noteworthy items: first, adoption of Tomcat 5.5 has really accelerated
following the first couple of stable releases. Many users are reporting
satisfaction with the increased performance and stability. And second, we have
kept in touch with the Geronimo project, especially with Jacek Laskowski (sp
probably), working towards seamless Geronimo/Tomcat integration.</p>
+
+ </subsection>
+ </section>
+
+</body>
+</document>
Modified: jakarta/site/xdocs/site/pmc/board-reports.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta/site/xdocs/site/pmc/board-reports.xml?rev=165413&r1=165412&r2=165413&view=diff
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--- jakarta/site/xdocs/site/pmc/board-reports.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/site/xdocs/site/pmc/board-reports.xml Sat Apr 30 11:58:19 2005
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@
<p>Every 3 months, the Jakarta PMC has to provide the Apache Software
Foundation board with a report on the state of affairs. These reports are
created on the Wiki and moved to this page when sent to the board. </p>
<ul>
- <li><a href="board-report-march2004.html">March 2004</a></li>
- <li><a href="board-report-july2004.html">July 2004</a></li>
- <li><a href="board-report-september2004.html">September 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-march2005.html">March 2005</a></li>
<li><a href="board-report-december2004.html">December 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-september2004.html">September 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-july2004.html">July 2004</a></li>
+ <li><a href="board-report-march2004.html">March 2004</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
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