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VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a framework for doing cloud management of physical and virtual machines.
Community Involvement
- 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 on the project's lists
- A growing number of community members are answering questions
- Collaboration is occurring for architecture 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
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 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 are being made 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 assemble the release changelog
- Release procedures are being thoroughly documented as the community develops its release process
3rd Party Software Usage
- 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
- 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
Project Name
- The Apache VCL project name issue has been resolved
- NC State University has taken steps to indicate that Apache VCL is developed by the Apache Software Foundation on its VCL instance website - vcl.ncsu.edu
- References to NCSU have been removed from the code
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
Unresolved Issues
- As noted in the May 2009 report -- questions were asked of the mentors regarding the rules governing wiki contributions from individuals who have not signed the CLA. It is the community's understanding that a separate wiki will be needed -- one for official documentation included with releases and one containing contributions from individual who have not signed the CLA. A request has been made to one of the mentors who had offered to create a 2nd wiki instance. This has not been completed yet.
- A request has been made to the mentors to create a Confluence committers group that contains the Apache VCL community members with a CLA on file
- A request has been made to the mentors to create a Jira Committers role that contains the Apache VCL community members with a CLA on file
- Some committers have lost administrative access to Jira. The project mentors have been asked to restore the permissions.