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

Project Name

  • The Apache VCL project name issue has been resolved
  • North Carolina State University (NCSU) has taken steps to indicate that Apache VCL is developed by the Apache Software Foundation on its VCL instance website - vcl.ncsu.edu
    • "powered by Apache VCL" has been added to the title image
    • The text on the main vcl.ncsu.edu page has been updated to make it obvious that VCL is ASF software
  • References to NCSU have been removed from the code

Community Involvement

  • The Apache VCL community is growing and people from several organizations are contributing
  • Questions about development, administration, and use of Apache VCL are being asked and answered on the project's lists
  • Architecture design and planning for the next release are being done via the vcl-dev list
  • Code patches have been discussed on the vcl-dev list and submitted to the Jira issue tracking system

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

Release Preparation - Apache VCL 2.1

  • 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 one of the project mentors - Matt Hogstrom
  • A release candidate has been cut
  • The tasks required to complete the release are being discussed on the vcl-dev list
  • Jira is being used to track the release

Community Tasks to Work On

  • The community will be further discussing/refining/documenting its community guidelines over the next couple months

Open Issues

  • Some committers have lost administrative access to Jira for some unknown reason.  The project mentors
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