Hola, We have to submit a report to the Board this month. Here's a draft, please comment if you've got changes or additions. I'd like to send it in around mid-week.
Thanks, Yoav --- Begin Draft --- Apache Tomcat Board Report, March 2007 Summary: Tomcat is chugging along, with significant development milestones achieved this quarter, and no issues requiring Board attention. Community: - We've voted in one new committer, Fabien Carrion, whose iCLA will hopefully be recorded this week. - We've voted in one new PMC member, Rainer Jung, as ACKed by the Board a couple of days ago. - We've restored one committer, Guenter Knauf, from inactive/emeritus status, back to active status, after re-verifying his iCLA and PGP key, and running an informal vote on the issue. Development: - We released the first stable version of Tomcat 6, version 6.0.10, after much testing and iteration. We feel very good about the quality, scalability, and performance of the release. Apparently it's pretty popular, too, judging by the various traffic spikes starting with the release announcement: http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/days-trend.html - We released a couple of versions of Tomcat 5.5, including a stable 5.5.23. - We released a couple of versions of the Tomcat Connectors, including mod_jk, 1.2.19, 1.2.20, 1.2.21. 1.2.21 is currently the latest stable and best release. - I personally am very happy with the distributed nature of our release management, in terms of how different people are cutting releases and can back the designated RM for each branch if need be. - We've worked hard to improve Tomcat-related security information on the web site, creating a new set of summary pages using a similar model to httpd's: http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html is a work in progress, but a great improvement over the previous (lack of) data, we think. - We've also worked to improve integration and co-operation with the Apache Security Team, triaging and communicating jointly on issues, and educating some of the newer Tomcat PMC members about the process. - We've also been working more closely with downstream packagers of Tomcat for Linux, specifically Gentoo, and getting their early feedback on each release as tested in their environment. I think that's a cool process improvement, just worth noting that it's been working well. --- End Draft --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
