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Board reports

Reports submitted to the Apache Board

August 2011

Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services 
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
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The community has changed a bit:
   * Christian Schneider has been voted in as a committer
Mailing lists:

We can note an increase of projects powered by Karaf.
Apache ServiceMix and Apache Geronimo already use Karaf.
We're discussing with Apache Directory about the usage of Karaf.

Development
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Three releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.1.6
* Apache Karaf 2.2.1
* Apache Karaf 2.2.2

NB: we turned Apache Karaf 2.1.x branch in End Of Life mode. Apache Karaf 2.1.6 is the latest version on this branch.

We created the first Apache Karaf sub-project: Apache Karaf Cellar.
Apache Karaf Cellar is a cluster and cloud solution for Apache Karaf, powered by Hazelcast and jclouds.
We already released:
 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.1
 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.2

Web Site
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Web site has been updated to provide visibility to sub-projects such as Apache Karaf Cellar.
We also gave more visibility to the documentation, allowing to download the PDF format of our guides.

Branding
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 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by Karaf" logo
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
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None so far. 

March 2011

Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services 
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
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The community has changed a bit:
  * Andreas Pieber has been voted in as a committer and PMC member
  * Achim Nierbeck has been invited to the PMC
Mailing lists:
  * 58 subscribers to dev@, roughly 775 mails in the past 3 months
  * 94 subscribers to user@, roughly 290 mails in the past 3 months

Development
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Two releases have been voted
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.4
 * Apache Karaf 2.2.0

Web Site
========
The website has been moved switched out of confluence
to a scalate based solution.  Confluence will still be
kept has a wiki for a few pages.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we're still missing the TM on the logo
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
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None so far. 

December 2010

Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services 
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
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We've voted in 3 new committers:
 * Adrian Trenaman
 * Achim Nierbeck
 * Łukasz Dywicki
One committer has been invited to the PMC:
 * Ioannis Cannellos

Development
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Two releases have been voted on:
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.1 on November 14th, 2010
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.2 on November 25th, 2010

We're working towards the 2.2.0 release, currently
targetted  for January. It has been delayed because
we're waiting for Aries to release a new version.

We've voted a new logo and are discussing a possible 
web site design change.  We're also planning to move
out of confluence for the website, possibly using
Scalate.

Branding
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 * project website basics: home page is ok
 * website nav links: we're missing nearly all the links 
   but the one to the main ASF web site
 * trademarks: not really compliant here
 * logo: not really compliant yet
 * metadata: we have a registered doap file

Issues for board consideration
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None so far.  The community is growing and healthy.
We have currently two active contributors that aren't yet
committers.

September 2010

Community
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We added the following committers:
 *  Hiram Chirino
 *  James Strachan
 *  Ioannis Canellos
James and Hiram were committers before we moved to TLP and asked 
to get their committership back, so they've been voted in back.  
Ioannis is a new Apache committer.
We also have other active contributors, so we expect some new
committers in the coming months.

Development
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No releases this month so far, but development continues towards 
our next point release of Karaf, with attention coming from users 
testing new features and suggesting improvements. We expect to 
release this new version before the end of the month.


Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.  The community is growing and healthy.

August 2010

Since the last July report, Apache Karaf 2.0.0 has been released.

Several patches have been supplied by contributors, but due to the 
holiday season, development has slowed down a bit during the past 
weeks.

July 2010

It has been only a few weeks since the Karaf TLP has been established,
but the activity level is very high.   All resources have been set up
by infra (thx) and we have moved the opened JIRA issues and svn tree
from Felix to Karaf.

We've already received some patches from non developers, so I expect
the community to grow very soon.

We haven't released anything yet, and we're waiting for trunk to 
stabilize before releasing a 2.0 (new major version due to package
renaming).
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