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List:       jakarta-general
Subject:    September Board Report
From:       Henri Yandell <bayard () apache ! org>
Date:       2004-09-21 0:44:33
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0409202135050.16647 () kongo
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For your information (and taking the place of a September Jakarta report):
(http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport_2dSeptember2004)
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== July-September 2004 ==

=== Status ===

This is a 2 month report due to the month-late report at the July board 
meeting.

The PMC bylaws have been updated to match the current practice. Most 
notably, we removed the 7-member limitation and monthly meetings, making 
the Jakarta PMC (on paper) less of a board and more of a group of active 
committers.

Turbine-JCS is planning to request promotion to a full Jakarta subproject. 
JCS is a Java cache. HttpClient's promotion from Commons to Jakarta 
subproject is still planned once a 3.0 final release has been made.

The PMC discussed whether action on protection of the Jakarta trademark 
was needed, though no action has been taken. It was agreed (through lack 
of argument) that projects should be referred to as Apache Xxxx and not 
Apache Jakarta Xxxx or some other combination. A side-effect of the 
conversation saw the sun.com sites mentioning Tomcat change to refer to it 
as "Apache Tomcat".

=== Possible plans for the next quarter ===

Robert Burrel Donkin has volunteered to migrate ECS over to SVN as a trial 
migration.

I (Henri Yandell) plan to organize improvements to the Jakarta download 
page, which is in dire need of improvements.

=== Releases ===

==== September ====
  * 19 September 2004 - Commons HttpClient 3.0 alpha2 Released
  * 16 September 2004 - DataGrid, Mailer and RDC Taglibs Released in the sandbox
  * 15 September 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.2-alpha Released
  * 12 September 2004 - HiveMind 1.0-rc-2 Released
  * 9 September 2004 - Jelly 1.0-beta-4 Released
  * 9 September 2004 - Digester 1.6 Released
  * 7 September 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.1 Released
  * 7 September 2004 - Commons JEXL 1.0 Released

==== August ====
  * 31 August 2004 - Tomcat 5.5.0 Released
  * 28 August 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.28 Released
  * 26 August 2004 - HiveMind 1.0-rc-1 Released
  * 25 August 2004 - Commons Validator 1.1.3 Released
  * 22 August 2004 - Commons Launcher 1.1 Released
  * 15 August 2004 - Commons Attributes 2.1 Released
  * 02 August 2004 - HiveMind 1.0-beta-2
  * 02 August 2004 - Commons BeanUtils 1.7
  * 01 August 2004 - Commons JXPath 1.2
  * 01 August 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0.1

==== July ====
  * 26 July 2004 - JK 1.2.6 Released
  * 21 July 2004 - Standard Taglibs 1.1.1 and 1.0.6 Released
  * 10 July 2004 - Commons Codec 1.3

=== Community changes ===

===== New PMC members =====

  * 14 August 2004 - Ingo Brunberg
  * 14 August 2004 - Unico Hommes
  * 14 August 2004 - Simon Kitching
  * 14 August 2004 - Stefan Lutzkendorf

===== New Committers =====

  * 13 September 2004 - James Carman (jcarman)
  * 13 September 2004 - Peter Courcoux (pcourcoux) - Turbine
  * 07 September 2004 - Peter Rossbach (pero) - Tomcat
  * 03 September 2004 - Shinsuke Sugaya (shinsuke) - Jetspeed (still in Jakarta CVS)
  * 03 September 2004 - Paul Ferraro (pferraro)
  * 09 August    2004 - Davide Savazzi (dsavazzi) - Slide
  * 09 August    2004 - Ryan Rhodes (rrhodes) - Slide
  * 31 July      2004 - Daniel Naber (dnaber) - Lucene


=== Infrastructure news ===

Henning Schmiedehausen is moderating the Turbine JCS list.

=== Subproject news ===

(** implies report based on the mailing lists by the chair)

==== **Commons ====

Both Jelly and Math are close to a 1.0 release. Grant is going to leave 
the sandbox to fold back into Maven.

==== **Taglibs ====

After a lot of domination by the JSTL implementation, the Taglibs project 
has some new activity with the announcement of three new taglibs in the 
sandbox. Mailer2, a complete rewrite of a previous Mailer taglib; 
DataGrid, a taglib for tabular representation; and RDC, Reusable Dialog 
Components, a taglib for voice applications.

==== Tomcat ====

Tomcat 5.5 is the next branch in the Tomcat 5.x major release. While it 
supports the same Servlet and JSP Specification versions as Tomcat 5.0.x, 
there are significant changes in many areas under the hood.  To indicate 
the magnitude of these changes, which include backwards-incompatible 
changes such as removal of some internal APIs and the default dependency 
on J2SE 5.0, we chose 5.5 as the branch number as opposed to 5.1.  We hope 
to improve the stability of the 5.5 releases this month, although a 
"stable" release cannot be announced until J2SE 5.0 Final Customer 
Shipment is available.  However, please note that multiple users (as well 
as Tomcat developers) have been using Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 on J2SE 5.0 for 
months, without any serious issues.

==== Watchdog ====

It was announced to the general Jakarta community that starting with 
Tomcat 5.5, Tomcat no longer uses Watchdog.  Tomcat was the only known 
user of the Watchdog product, so now the Watchdog project is completely 
dormant.



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