== Draft November Incubator report ==

Last Tuscany Incubator report

Tuscany simplifies the development, deployment and management of distributed applications built as compositions of service components. These components may be implemented with a range of technologies and connected using a variety of communication protocols. Tuscany implements relevant open standards including, but not limited to, the SCA and SDO standards defined by the OASIS OpenCSA member section.

Incubating since: 2006-11-30

Top issues?

• Diversity

Community aspects:

• A proposal was put forward to graduate as a TLP but the IPMC raised concerns about the level of diversity so the proposal was withdrawn while these are addressed
  • It should be noted that Tuscany does currently more than meet the Incubator minimum diversity requirements for graduation
• Dims stepped down as a mentor, Paul Fremantle and Matthieu Riou took his place
• Voted Brady Johnson, Simon Nash, Amita Vadhavkar, Mark Combellack as new committers
• Good community involvement - users are answering mailing list questions, providing patches, and being voted in as committers
  • Over seven hundred posts on the tuscany-user list in the last three months, up over 300% since a year ago

Releases since last report:

• Significant milestones were achieved with the 1.0 releases of Java SCA and SDO which implement the v1.0 of the SCA specifications and v2.1 of the SDO specification respectively
• An 0.99 release of Java SCA was also done prior to the 1.0 release
• Java DAS beta1 and beta2 released

Ongoing work:

• A Java SCA 1.0.1 maintenance release is currently being voted on
• A Native SCA, SDO and DAS release is in progress
• The Java SCA 1.1 release contents are being discussed
• Links with other Apache projects continue to be forged and lots of exciting new features are being worked on!