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VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a framework for doing cloud   VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines.

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• The Apache VCL community is growing and people from several organizations are contributing
• Questions about administration and end user use of Apache VCL are being asked and answered on the project's vcl-dev and vcl-user lists
• A growing number of community members from multiple organizations are answering questions
• Collaboration is occurring for architecture architectural design and release planning via the vcl-dev list
• Code patches have been discussed on the vcl-dev list and submitted to the Jira issue tracking system

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• The community is working to complete the final administrative tasks required to issue the first release (Apache VCL 2.1)
• Josh Thompson has volunteered to act as the release manager for 2.1 per the advice of Matt Hogstrom, one of the project mentors
• PGP keys have been created and added to the distribution area
• A release candidate artifact has been created and is currently being discussed, changes
• Code and documentation updates are being made to the release candidate per community consensus
• The tasks required to complete the release are being discussed on the vcl-dev list and tracked in Jira
• Jira is being used to track the release tasks and to assemble the release changelog
• Release procedures are being thoroughly documented as the community develops its release process

3rd Party Software UsageDependencies

• Procedures for handling 3rd The details regarding how to handle 3rd- party dependencies are being worked out by the VCL community with help from people on the ASF legal-discuss list
• Major components of VCL are written in Perl and the Apache VCL release will only contain Perl code developed by the ASF
• A Perl interpreter and supplimental Perl modules are required.  These are licensed under the Artistic License, GPL, and LGPL.The release will only contain Perl code developed by the ASF
• Concerns were brought up by the project mentors and a question was posed to the legal-discuss list.  The question was answered and we are working on implementing the recommendation.

Project Name

• The Apache VCL project name issue has been resolved
• NC State University NCSU has taken steps to clearly indicate on its Apache VCL instance website that Apache VCL is developed by the Apache Software Foundation on its VCL instance website - vcl.ncsu.eduthe ASF
• References to NCSU have been removed from the code
• NCSU employees affiliated with the Apache VCL project routinely communicate that VCL is an ASF project and encourage colleagues of other organizations to do the same

Documentation

• A large amount of documentation has been added to the project's Conflucence site
• People from multiple organizations have contributed to improving the documentation, both by editing the pages themselves and by pointing out areas for improvement on the lists

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