== Draft February 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: 2005-11-30

Top issues?

• Graduation discussion
• Getting the wiki to handle Chinese characters in order to support Chinese documentation

Community aspects:

• There has been open discussion about what are the next steps towards graduating Tuscany as a TLP, trying to address concerns raised by the IPMC related to the level of diversity in Tuscany.
  • It should be noted that Tuscany does currently more than meet the Incubator minimum diversity requirements for graduation

• Voted in Rajini Sivaram as new committer

• Community involvement continues apace - users are answering mailing list questions, providing patches, and being voted in as committers

Releases since last report:

• Java SCA 1.0.1 and Java SCA 1.1 released

Ongoing work:

• SDO 1.1 is being worked on

• A Native SCA, SDO and DAS release is slowly being worked on

• The Java SCA 1.2 release contents are being discussed

• Links with other Apache projects continue to be forged and lots of exciting new features are being worked on!

Last Tuscany Incubator report