Fellow researchers, please find attached the drafted board report.
Anything I missed, misunderstood or misspelled? Thanks, Bernd >>>> = Apache Labs Board Report, June 2009 = Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers. [SUMMARY] Nothing that requires board attention. [DETAILS] == Labs Statistics == - new: 3 - status changes (last 3 months): 1 - vysper (moved to Apache MINA) - total number: 27 - active: 23 - idle: 1 - promoted: 2 - completed: 1 - labs with commits: bananadb, orthrus, magma, vysper, pinpoint, consite, clouds, penihip == New Labs = clouds (PI Steve Loughran): This is a special lab. It's not about code. It's about documentation of cloud related projects at Apache and provides general cloud info. Besides Steve, Robert Burrell Donkin is a major contributor to it. In Clouds' own words, its about "Architecture, tools and tests for integrating Apache products into to 'the cloud'". consite (PI J. Aaron Farr): consite is about "conference website management". The lab consists of "a web application for managing apachecons". penihip (PI David Crossley): penihip is a tool generating "new words by applying a caesar cipher to existing words". == Re-activated labs == None. == Completed labs == Orthrus (PI Paul Querna) has moved out of the ASF realm over to Google Code. Vysper lab (PI Bernd Fondermann) has been completed. Apache MINA voted to take it aboard as a subproject. Code and issues are already moved over, with confluence pages still to be done. == Outreach == There was a proposal to use the new blogging facilities to tell about new labs and maybe have a 'Lab of the Month' entry once in a while. Not much feedback on this. == Labs & Google Summer of Code == It has been discussed whether or not Labs can have GSoC students. The concern was that Labs does not provide a sufficient environment for mentoring and learning Open Source 'The Apache Way'. In the end, this also became the general consent. A big part of that discussion took place on the closed [email protected]. list. For the Vysper lab (which already received interest from students at that point) we compromised to let it take students as a lab, if only the lab would move out immediately to some of the other projects where community is more homogenious. This destination has now become Apache MINA. Michael Jakl gained a GSoC student slot for the Vysper lab for implementing the PubSub extension spec. == Lab hacking == Magma again saw many commits this months. Clouds received a number of contributions to its confluence pages. =end of report= <<<< --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
