We are pleased to note that yesterday we reached the 50 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4. This milestone occurred within a few days of the first anniversary of the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4., on May 8th, 2012. Apache OpenOffice (formerly called OpenOffice.org) is the leading free and open source office application... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:19PM May 15, 2013 by robweir in General
What's new in Apache CloudStack? This issue, we take a look at progress towards the 4.1.0 release, major discussions in the community, and the upcoming CloudStack Collaboration Conference. We also welcome three new committers to the Apache CloudStack project, Clayton Weise, Isaac Chiang, and Phong Nguyen. As you may have noticed, we skipped the... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:41PM May 13, 2013 by jzb in News
The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta6 release! Apache log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:30AM May 13, 2013 by grobmeier in General
The Apache log4j team would like to welcome Nick Williams as a new committer! Welcome Nick! [Read more...]
Posted at 04:55AM May 11, 2013 by grobmeier in General
A quick update on our recent logo survey for Apache OpenOffice 4.0. We called on community members to submit proposals for a new project logo. The response was huge. We received over 40 logo proposals. To narrow down the choices we sought out feedback from users. We created a survey asking users to rate each logo on a... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:57PM May 10, 2013 by robweir in General
Are you using, supporting, or helping develop Apache CloudStack? Doing interesting work around Apache CloudStack? If so, you should be speaking at the second CloudStack Collaboration Conference this June in Santa Clara. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, May 12th. You can submit talks at http://www.cloudstackcollab.com/CfP/ . The Collaboration... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:21PM May 09, 2013 by jzb in Announcements
Thanks to Go Daddy switching from IIS to Apache Traffic Server (good choice!) we're now at around 4.2% market share according to Netscraft's latest survey. We're combined with Apache in general, so we helped Apache gain one of the largest market share increases in recent history. The study is available at http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:54PM May 03, 2013 by zwoop in General
This week, we had discussions about the release cycle and whether a six-month cycle may be more appropriate. Work continued on the 4.1.0 release, and Apache CloudStack 4.0.2 was released. Major Discussions Several major discussions this week, summarized below. Note that this is only a fraction of the activity in the project. For a full overview of... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:45PM May 02, 2013 by jzb in News
by Elliott Clarke HBase Committer and Cloudera Engineer NOTE: This blog post describes the server code of HBase. It assumes a general knowledge of the system. You can read more about HBase in the blog posts here . Introduction ... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:12AM May 01, 2013 by stack in General
We’re pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals (CfP) for the second CloudStack Collaboration Conference is now open! The conference is being held in Santa Clara, CA from Sunday June 23 through Tuesday June 25. The Collaboration Conference will feature tracks for users, developers, and integrators of Apache CloudStack. We’re looking... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:57PM Apr 29, 2013 by jzb in Announcements
The Apache Software Foundation is participating in GSoC again this year, and CouchDB is on the project list of course! By the end of the summer, we hope you've above all, had fun, and we've enabled you to make a valued contribution, and ideally help you continue in your involvement with the CouchDB project. I'm a student, how do I start?... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:36PM Apr 26, 2013 by dch in root
After a successful first run in Las Vegas, we’re bringing back the CloudStack Collaboration Conference for 2013! This time we’re gathering the community in Santa Clara, California from Sunday June 23rd through Tuesday June 25th. There’s a lot going on in the Apache CloudStack community, and you won’t want to miss the... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:54PM Apr 25, 2013 by jzb in Announcements
The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta5 release! Apache log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:37AM Apr 25, 2013 by grobmeier in General
By Matteo Bertozzi (mbertozzi at apache dot org), HBase Committer and Engineer on the Cloudera HBase Team. At first glance, the Apache HBase architecture appears to follow a master/slave model where the master receives all the requests but the real work is done by the slaves. This is not actually the case, and in this article I... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:25AM Apr 25, 2013 by stack in General
The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.0.2 release of the CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud orchestration platform. This is a minor release in the 4.0.0 branch, which contains fixes for 40 bugs. Apache CloudStack is an integrated software platform that allows users to build a feature-rich IaaS. CloudStack... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:22PM Apr 24, 2013 by jzb in News
The Apache TomEE project is proud to announce the availability of TomEE 1.5.2 , a maintenance release focused on driving stability and maturity into the 1.5.x codebase. The 1.5.2 release does contain minor new features and improvements around tooling, such as the Arquillian adapters and TomEE Maven Plugin as well as key upgrades such as Tomcat 7.0.39 and... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:24PM Apr 23, 2013 by dblevins in General
This time around, we have two release VOTEs in progress, which means that 4.1.0 is just about out the door. The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 has been announced for June 23rd through 25th . You'll also want to check in on the discussions about the length of the release cycle, Chip Childers and David Nalley appearing on FLOSS Weekly, and much... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:32PM Apr 23, 2013 by jzb in News
The Apache log4j team would like to welcome Remko Popma as a new committer! Welcome Remko! [Read more...]
Posted at 08:08AM Apr 23, 2013 by grobmeier in General
I should've written this blog right after the Strata BigData conference back in February '13, so it is long overdue. However, it is still very much actual, so better late than never. It was interesting and reassuring to see that so many commercial vendors have jumped on the Hadoop bandwagon this year. I won't even go into details regarding... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:27AM Apr 19, 2013 by cos in General
