== Draft from previous board report ==

Last Tuscany board report

Tuscany provides infrastructure for developing service-oriented applications based on Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification and Service Data Objects (SDO) specifications. These specifications were submitted to OASIS in March 2007 by OSOA (www.osoa.org) and now form the basis of the standardization effort being undertaken by the Open CSA member section and its associated technical committees.

Incubating since: 2006-11-30

Top issues?

• Completing the process of graduation

Community aspects:

• Project has voted to ask the IPMC to make a proposal to the ASF board for graduation as a top level project
  • Discussion is underway in the IPMC regarding project diversity
• Good community involvement. Users are providing patches, helping to answer questions and being voted in as committers
• Voted Brady Johnson, Simon Nash, Amita Vadhavkar, Mark Combellack as new committers
• Dims stepped down as a mentor, Paul Fremantle and Matthieu Riou take his place
• The native implementations have a new ant base build system that is consistent across SCA, SDO and DAS
• The community members working on the native implementations are currently working up a contents list for the next release

Releases since last report:

• Release Java SCA 0.99, 1.0, the next release (1.0.1) is currently being voted on
  • A java implementation of v1.0 of the SCA specifications
• Java SDO 1.0 released
  • A java implementation of v2.1 of the SDO specification
• Java DAS beta1 and beta2 released