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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 September 2020
Farewell, September --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.- Next Board Meeting: 21 October 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
- The Apache® Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community Online at ApacheCon@Home https://s.apache.org/74zbx
- ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic Medical Records in dedicated track on Apache cTAKES https://s.apache.org/x1051
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
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7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 397 Apache Committers changed 2,254,525 lines of code over 3,335 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Claus Ibsen, and Duo Zhang.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache CouchDB 3.1.1 released https://couchdb.apache.org/
- Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
- Apache Beam 2.24.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
- Apache Kudu 1.13.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/
Cloud Computing --
- Apache Libcloud 3.2.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org/
FinTech --
- Apache Fineract 1.4.0 released http://fineract.apache.org/
IoT --
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® IoTDB™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/3xv3c
- Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.9 and J 8.0.1 released https://qpid.apache.org/
Servers --
- Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1 BETA1 released https://hc.apache.org/
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.106 released https://tomcat.apache.org/
Web Conferencing --
- Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.1 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that select ApacheCon@Home sessions will be presented in German, Hindi, Mandarin, and Spanish? https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/
- Did you know that you can download and use a variety of ASF Templates and Badges for personal, project, and corporate promotions? http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#template-and-usage
- Did you know that you can help Apache Struts with its vote on v2.5.25? https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re0ca300288262ab797ec0303c3b61daf2b1c9442222b92987a39ae88%40%3Cdev.struts.apache.org%3E
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3 | Daniel Gruno --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 02:23PM Sep 25, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® IoTDB™ as a Top-Level Project
Open Source Internet of Things-native database integrates with the Apache Big Data ecosystem for high-speed data ingestion, massive data storage, and complex data analysis in the cloud, in the field, and on the edge.
Wakefield, MA —23 September 2020— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® IoTDB™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP).
Apache IoTDB is an Open Source IoT database designed to meet the rigorous data, storage, and analytics requirements of large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. The project was first developed as a research project at Tsinghua University and entered the Apache Incubator in November 2018.
"The Internet of Things, especially Industrial IoT, has swept the globe with unimaginable volumes of data,” said Xiangdong Huang, Vice President of Apache IoTDB. "To date, both Relational and Key Value-based database solutions struggle to meet the demands of IoT data management. Apache IoTDB is the missing link between current IoT data and IoT applications, and is redefining how IoT data is managed, both in the cloud and on the edge. We are proud to graduate as an Apache Top-Level Project, which is an important milestone in our project’s maturity."
Apache IoTDB provides a compact and time series optimized columnar data file, which is able to efficiently store and access time series data. The database engine is specially optimized for time series-oriented operations, such as aggregations query, down-sampling, and time alignment query. Due to its lightweight structure, high performance, and deep integration with Apache Big Data ecosystem projects (such as Flink, Hadoop, and Spark), Apache IoTDB easily meets the requirements of storing massive data sets, ingesting high-speed data, and analyzing complex data, both on the edge and the cloud. Features include:
- High-throughput read and write: supports high-speed write access for millions of low-power and intelligently networked devices, and provides lightning-quick read access for retrieving data on billions of data points.
- Efficient directory structure: organizes complex metadata structure from IoT devices and large scale time series data, with fuzzy searching strategy for complex directory of time series data.
- Rich query semantics: supports time alignment for time series data across devices and sensors, computation in time series field, and abundant aggregation functions in time dimension.
- Flexible deployment: supports running on the edge (e.g., running on a Raspberry Pi), as well as forming a cluster in the cloud. It also provides a bridge tool between cloud platforms and data synchronization on premise machines.
- Deep integration with Open Source Big Data projects: supports analysis ecosystems, including Apache Flink, Hadoop, PLC4X and Spark, as well as other Open Source applications.
- Low hardware cost: reaches a high compression ratio of disk storage.
Apache IoTDB is in use at dozens of organizations that include ArcelorMittal AMERICA, BONC Ltd., the China Meteorological Administration, Datang Xianyi, Goldwind, Haier, Lenovo, NAVINFO, pragmatic industries GMBH, Shanghai Metro, Tsinghua University, Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Company, and more.
"IoTDB has attained Apache Top Level project status at a time of confluence of database, IoT and AI technologies in conjunction with a wider adoption of Industry 4.0 and automation approaches to further enable remote work and increased efficiencies," said Prof. C. Mohan, recently retired IBM Fellow, Former Chief Scientist of IBM India, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. "I am excited since this is the first Chinese University originated open-source project to reach this status. While I have been associated with the researchers behind IoTDB as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the School of Software at China's prestigious Tsinghua University, I have seen this project reach maturity and build up a vibrant OSS community around it. It has a bright future ahead of it and I plan to collaborate on it."
"Apache IoTDB is a perfect fit for edge computing," said Dr. Julian Feinauer, CEO at pragmatic industries GmbH. "The high compression helps to use the (limited) amount of memory we have very efficiently. IoTDB is a perfect fit, especially in IIoT use cases, where network and compute capabilities are limited on the edge."
"Apache IoTDB was initially launched by a Chinese University and then incubated successfully in the Apache Community," said Prof. Hong Mei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "Following the Apache Way, it has created a healthy and active international open source community. It is a successful practice of open source education and culture advancement in China."
"Apache IoTDB has made many optimizations for different runtime environments, operating systems, and workloads in both the edge and the cloud. As a core infrastructure software in Industrial Internet, it innovates a series of IoT data management and analysis techniques," said Prof. Xiangke Liao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. "Through the open source model, Apache IoTDB shares its creative techniques to the world."
"With the continuous growth of intelligent devices, machine-generated data is growing day by day, which poses extraordinary challenges on storing process, query speed, and storage space," said Dawei Liu, architect at AutoAI Inc., a subsidiary of NAVINFO, and member of the Apache IoTDB Project Management Committee. "We tried and tested a variety of solutions and finally chose IoTDB as our core database for its high performance, openness to the enterprise, and its active community. We built our Wecloud platform based on Apache IoTDB, which has served well for BMW, Toyota, and Great Wall Motors, among other auto manufacturers. The project deeply attracted me to become a part of the community. The coolest thing is that I finally became an IoTDB committer and now share our ideas to the community."
"Apache IoTDB is an open source project and software technology innovation developed for the need of AIoT Big Data applications," said Prof. Jianmin Wang, Dean of the Tsinghua University School of Software, who originally decided to donate the project to the ASF. "It is also a very beneficial attempt for training leading talents. There will be a long way to go and the future is promising."
"Apache IoTDB is on its way to becoming a standard IoT data management and analysis solution, and we’re excited to build upon our work thus far," added Huang. "We believe Apache IoTDB will help more users and companies to solve their real problems. The process to achieve the goal is exciting and honorable, and we invite more contributors to join us. Following the Apache Way, let's bring this interesting, meaningful, and powerful software to the whole world."
A published paper on Apache IoTDB written by members of the Apache IoTDB Project Management Committee is available at http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p2901-wang.pdf . An introduction to Apache IoTDB from ApacheCon Europe 2019 is available on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/2019/09/12/hello-world-introducing-apache-iotdb-a-database-for-the-internet-of-things-xiangdong-huang-julian-feinauer/
Catch Apache IoTDB in action at ApacheCon@Home, 29 September-1 October 2020 https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/iot.html
Availability and Oversight
Apache IoTDB software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache IoTDB, visit http://iotdb.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheIoTDB
About the Apache Incubator
The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects enter the ASF through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to 813 individual Members and 206 Project Management Committees who successfully lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with 7,800+ Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way". Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media, and Workday. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
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Posted at 11:01AM Sep 23, 2020
by Sally in General |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 September 2020
Greetings everyone --it's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.- Next Board Meeting: 21 October 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.89%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 382 Apache Committers changed 3,359,513 lines of code over 3,557 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Jarek Potiuk, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Shad Storhaug.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Kylin 4.0.0-alpha released https://kylin.apache.org/
IDE --
- Apache NetBeans 12.1 released http://netbeans.apache.org/
Identity Management --
- Apache Syncope 2.0.16 and 2.1.7 released https://syncope.apache.org/
- Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.7.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.3 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/
Messaging --
- Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.14.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
Servers --
- Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0.2 GA released https://hc.apache.org/
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.58, 9.0.38, 10.0.0-M8 released https://tomcat.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home features keynotes by Jonathan Ellis of DataStax, Sam Lightstone of IBM, Gian Merlino of Imply, Anil Inamdar of Instaclustr, Thomas Huang of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Edmon Begoli of Oak Ridge National Labs, Kim Huang of Red Hat, Sheng Wu of Tetrate, Camille Fournier of Two Sigma, and Catherine McGarvey of VMWare? Sign up today https://hopin.to/events/apachecon-home
- Did you know that Solr is de-coupling from Apache Lucene to be an independent Apache project? Learn more from Atri Sharma, as interviewed by Rich Bowen, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/2020/09/01/apache-solr-and-lucene-atri-sharma/
- Did you know that recent entries into the Apache Incubator include BlueMarlin (Data Streaming), Liminal (Machine Learning), Pegasus (Big Data), and Sedona (Geospatial)? http://incubator.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3 | Daniel Gruno --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 11:17AM Sep 18, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 September 2020
Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:
Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
- Meet Daniel Gruno --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.93%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 396 Apache Committers changed 2,112,475 lines of code over 3,612 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel Gruno, Mark Miller, Nick Vatamaniuc, Robert Newson, and Andrea Cosentino.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Ranger 2.1.0 released http://ranger.apache.org/
- Apache Accumulo 1.10.0 released http://accumulo.apache.org/
Content --
-Apache Jackrabbit 2.12.11 and Oak 1.34.0 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
Database --
- Apache Geode 1.13.0 released http://geode.apache.org/
- Apache ZooKeeper 3.6.2 released https://zookeeper.apache.org/
- Apache OpenJPA 3.1.2 released http://openjpa.apache.org/
- Apache Commons IO 2.8.0 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/
- Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.18 released http://openwebbeans.apache.org/
Servers --
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.25 released https://tomcat.apache.org/
Web Conferencing --
- Apache OpenMeetings 4.0.11 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home keynoters include
Edmon Begoli, Director of Scalable Protected Data Facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory;
Ben Bromhead, CTO and Co-Founder at Instaclustr;
Jonathan Ellis, Co-founder and CTO at DataStax;
Camille Fournier, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma;
Kim Huang, Content Strategist at Red Hat;
Thomas Huang, Technical Group Supervisor and Strategic Lead for Interactive Analytics at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
Sam Lightstone, Chief Technology Officer for AI Strategy at IBM; and
Catharine McGarvey, Development Engineering Lead for Tanzu at VMWare? https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/keynotes.html
- Did you know that Apache Druid are holding a series of MeetUps in September? http://druid.apache.org/
- Did you know that Apache MXNet (incubating) was listed among the best machine learning and deep learning libraries for building and training machine learning and deep learning models? https://mxnet.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 02:54PM Sep 11, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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Inside Infra: Daniel Gruno --Part I
The fourth interview in the "Inside Infra" series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team. Meet Daniel Gruno, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity.
Posted at 02:47PM Sep 07, 2020
by Sally in SuccessAtApache |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 September 2020
Welcome, September! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.76%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 387 Apache Committers changed 2,230,138 lines of code over 3,461 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Miller, Hervé Boutemy, Tellier Benoit, Andrea Cosentino, and Claus Ibsen.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Content --- Apache Jackrabbit 2.18.6 and Oak 1.8.23 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Commons Codec 1.15 released http://commons.apache.org/codec/
Messaging --
- Apache Proton 0.32.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
Search --
- Apache Lucene 8.6.2 and Solr 8.6.2 released http://lucene.apache.org/
Web Frameworks --
- Apache MyFaces Core 2.3-next-M4 released http://myfaces.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that details about the online/virtual format, presentation sessions, Apache projects and communities featured, schedule selection, languages available, sponsors, Slack channel & more are available at https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-is-just ?
- Did you know that Target uses Apache Druid to ingest more than 3 trillion rows of data across 3,500+ data sources? http://druid.apache.org/
- Did you know that Apache Kylin enables SQL developers and BI users to achieve sub-second response times for queries against petabytes of data? http://kylin.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
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Posted at 11:28AM Sep 04, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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Apache Month in Review: August 2020
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in August:
New this month --
- ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year
-- Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
-- Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
-- ApacheCon @Home 2020: ApacheCon North America and Europe have been combined and will be held online and free of charge 29 September - 1 October 2020. Sponsorship opportunities available. Join us! https://apachecon.com/acah2020
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"Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF
filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019.
-- “Apache
Innovation”, the fourth and final segment of the series now available https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- Success at Apache: the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
-- I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster! by Eric Pugh https://s.apache.org/hney3
- Apache Month in Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020
Important Dates --
- Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
- ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020 https://apachecon.com/acah2020
Infrastructure --
In August, 822 Apache Committers changed 16,077,266 lines of code over 14,003
commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in
order, were: Mark Miller, Daniel Klco, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, and Andrea Cosentino.
Project Releases and Updates --
New releases from Apache Calcite (Big Data); Cocoon (Web Frameworks); Commons Imaging (Libraries); Commons NET (Libraries); Commons Pool (Libraries); Commons Validator (Libraries); Commons JCS (Libraries); CXF (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); HBase (Big Data); HTTP Server (Servers); Kafka (Big Data); Log4cxx (Libraries); Lucene (Search); NiFi (Big Data); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenNLP (Machine Learning); Parquet (Big Data); PDFBox (Content); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); and Solr (Search).The
Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review
the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/ . New releases from incubating podlings include: Apache APISIX (API) and IoTDB (IoT).
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Posted at 09:11AM Sep 01, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 August 2020
Farewell, August --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.76%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 396 Apache Committers changed 3,762,638 lines of code over 3,973 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel Klco, Radu Cotescu, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, and Andrea Cosentino.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --- Apache HBase 2.3.1 released https://hbase.apache.org/
- Apache Calcite 1.25.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
- Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
Content --
- Apache PDFBox 2.0.21 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/
IoT --
- Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.10.1 released https://iotdb.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Commons JCS 3.0 released https://commons.apache.org/jcs/
- Apache Log4cxx 0.11.0 released https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/
- Apache CXF 3.4.0 released https://cxf.apache.org
- Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.0-M4 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home keynoters include Thomas Huang of NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; Camille Fournier of Two Sigma; and Edmon Begoli of Oak Ridge National Labs? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/
- Did you know that Shopify is building a new streaming analytics pipeline powered by Apache Beam, Druid, and Kafka? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data
- Did you know that Apache Royale Jewel UI set already provides 60+ components to quickly build Web applications? https://royale.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 10:52AM Aug 28, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 August 2020
Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.76%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over
the past week, 233 Apache Committers changed 1,491,530 lines of
code
over 1,662 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Luca Burgazzoli, Kaxil Naik, Liang Zhang, Nick Vatamaniuc, and Boris Zhu.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
API --
- Apache APISIX Dashboard 1.5 (Incubating) released https://apisix.apache.org/
Application Performance Monitor --
- Apache SkyWalking Chart 3.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/
- Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.0-alpha released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
- Apache NiFi 1.12.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/
Messaging --
- Apache Qpid JMS 0.54.0 and Dispatch 1.13.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
Search --
- Apache Lucene 8.6.1 and Solr 8.6.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that Apache projects' ongoing sustainability is ensured through the generosity of our Sponsors and individual donors, whose support helps ensure that the ASF continues to steward 227M+ lines of code and provide more than $20B worth of software to the public-at-large at 100% no cost? http://donate.apache.org
- Did you know that you can learn about Apache Beam, Calcite, Camel, CarbonData, Groovy, Hadoop, Karaf, Labs, NetBeans, OFBiz, OpenOffice, PLC4X, Rya, Spark, Tomcat, Unomi, and more in the "Apache Innovation" short segment of the "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary? https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- Did you know that projects undergoing development in the Apache Incubator are in a variety of categories that include AI, Annotation, Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptography, Data Visualization, Distributed Computing, Email, Embedded Systems, Geospatial Data, Graphing, Hardware Acceleration, IoT, Messaging, Monitoring, Natural Language Processing, Scheduling, Streaming, Training, Usability Testing, and more? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 12:45PM Aug 21, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 August 2020
Hooray for Friday! The Apache community has been busy over the past week; let's review what happened:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.76%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 151 Apache Committers changed 4,892,020 lines of code over 678 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sebastian Bazley, Gary Gregory, Nick Vatamaniuc, Liang Zhang, and Kaxil Naik.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --- Apache Kafka 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 released https://kafka.apache.org/
- Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob-3.0.0-alpha released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
- Apache Parquet 1.11.1 released https://parquet.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Commons Imaging 1.0-alpha2 released https://commons.apache.org/imaging/
- Apache Commons NET 3.7 released https://commons.apache.org/net/
- Apache Commons Validator 1.7 released https://commons.apache.org/validator/
- Apache HTTP Server 2.4.46 released https://httpd.apache.org/
Web Frameworks --
- Apache Struts CVE-2019-0230 (Possible RCE) and CVE-2019-0233 (DoS) security issues https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r42ff5f78b46f751c48eee1fe4201a49ab48524f33ac8f8975f2029b8%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Did You Know?
- Did you know that tracks for ApacheCon@Home include Big Data, Community, Content Delivery, Fintech, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Messaging, Mobile, Natural Language Programming, Observability, Programming Languages, Search, Servers, Streaming, and Usability, as well as emerging innovations from the Apache Incubator? Learn more, including featured projects, at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/
- Did you know that mobile transportation platform Didi Chuxing uses Apache Kylin to return exact distinct count on billions of rows of data with sub-second latency to generate the most accurate picture of its business? http://kylin.apache.org/
- Did you know that the "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on The Apache Software Foundation comprised 65 hours of filming over 8 terrabytes of footage? https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020
- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 02:17PM Aug 14, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 August 2020
Welcome, August! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:
Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
- "I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!" by Eric Pugh https://s.apache.org/hney3
ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year
- Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
- Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is OPEN (and free) for ApacheCon@Home taking place online 29 September - 1 October. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
-
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.86%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 399 Apache Committers changed 2,461,830 lines of code over 3,074 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Sebastian Bazley, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, and Claus Ibsen.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Application Performance Monitor --
- Apache SkyWalking 8.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/
- Apache Commons Pool 2.8.1 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/
Machine Learning --
- Apache OpenNLP 1.9.3 released https://opennlp.apache.org/
Web Frameworks --
- Apache Cocoon 2.1.13 released https://cocoon.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the ASF stewards more than 227M+ lines of code, valued at more than $20B? https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
- Did you know that the top 5 most active Apache projects over FY2020 were, in order: Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Lucene, POI, and ZooKeeper? https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- Did you know that Apache projects' ongoing sustainability is ensured through the generosity of our Sponsors and individual donors, whose support helps ensure that the ASF continues to provide more than $20B worth of software to the public-at-large at 100% no cost? http://donate.apache.org
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/July2020
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 have been released: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" short https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" teaser https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” shorts https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 10:05AM Aug 07, 2020
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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Success at Apache: I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!
by Eric Pugh
On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! On July 2nd, 2007, I opened SOLR-284, a ticket for adding content extraction to Solr.
A committer on an open source project under the Apache Foundation umbrella is someone who is trusted to contribute code to the project and to help manage and drive its ongoing development. It’s an honour to have been asked and I was very proud to accept the invitation!
So, you did the math, and you realized that it took me 153 months, or 13 years (rounding up), to become a committer, and you’re wondering “What if I don’t want to wait that long?” So here’s my quick cheat sheet on ways to become a committer on an open source project, illustrated by my own journey:
- Start by learning the culture of the project. How are decisions made? What tools do people use? What do the various acronyms mean? Join the mailing lists and read every commit.
- Start small and work your way in. Some great ways to do this are to:
- Take existing patches and test them. Update them to the latest code base. Document what you’ve learned.
- Take advantage of being new to a project to bring fresh eyes to the documentation. Every time you find yourself scratching your head on how something works, contribute a fix to the docs. It’s a powerful way to immediately contribute. This is the fastest way to get involved and involves the least cognitive load! See SOLR-2232 or this email thread.
- Answer questions on the mailing list! Being able to articulate reasonable responses to questions demonstrates how much you have learned.
- Bug fix, bug fix, bug fix! Pick bugs that have an obvious answer so that the “correct” solution is easy to figure out. If the right approach to solving it is very ambiguous, you probably won’t get much traction. Remember to remind committers to apply your fixes when they have the time! See SOLR-13965 and SOLR-11480 and SOLR-2611 and SOLR-2263.
- Ready to start slinging some code? Don’t go and refactor the core foundations of the project (at least not yet). Instead, be like a pilot fish and latch onto one of the core committers who is being very active in the project.
Embrace their vision, and start picking up tasks related to whatever major chunk of work they are doing. Write some unit tests. See about opportunities for refactoring. Do some manual testing over multiple platforms. Once they see that you’re contributing (and accelerating what they are pushing), then work to get some of your own tickets assigned to you under that vision. I’ve seen this lead directly to committership many times, and if I had followed this route, I might have joined sooner!
Here’s to the next 4,662 days of being active in the Apache Solr project!
Eric Pugh is a member of the ASF and a committer Apache Solr. He co-authored the book Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server. Eric is co-founder and CEO of OpenSource Connections, where he helps OSC clients, especially those in the ecommerce space, build their own search teams by leading projects and by acting as a trusted advisor. He also stewards Quepid, a platform for assessing and improving your search relevance.
[this post first appeared at https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2020/07/10/i-became-a-solr-committer-in-4662-days-heres-how-you-can-do-it-faster/ ]
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Posted at 12:21PM Aug 03, 2020
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Apache Month in Review: July 2020
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in July:
New this month --
- ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year
-- Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
-- Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019, watch “Apache Innovation”, the fourth and final segment of the series https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
-- Announcing ApacheCon @Home 2020: ApacheCon North America and Europe
have been combined and will be held online 29 September - 1 October
2020. Join us! https://apachecon.com/acah2020
- "Inside Infra" – a new interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team
-- Meet Greg Stein --Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Apache Month in Review: June 2020 https://s.apache.org/June2020
Important Dates --
- Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
- ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020 https://apachecon.com/acah2020
Infrastructure --
In July, 846 Apache Committers changed 14,227,571 lines of code over 16,062
commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in
order, were: Mark Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Sebastian Bazley, and Zhang Yonglun.
Project Releases and Updates --
New releases from Apache Annotator (Libraries); APISIX (API); Arrow (Big Data); Atlas (Big Data); Avro (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); BVal (Libraries); Calcite (Big Data); Commons Lang and Numbers (Libraries); Commons Text (Libraries); Curator (Messaging); Daffodil (Libraries); Druid (Big Data); Flink (Big Data); Geometry (Libraries); Groovy (Programming Languages); Guacamole (Network Client); HBase (Big Data); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); Kylin (Big Data); Lucene (Search); MyFaces (Web Frameworks); NiFi (Big Data); Nutch (Web Crawler); OFBiz (Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP); Qpid (Messaging); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Storm (Big Data); Tomcat (Servers);Tuweni (Blockchain); TVM (Machine Learning); Wicket (Web Frameworks).The
Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. Congratulations to
Apache APISIX, which graduated as a Top-Level Project this
month https://s.apache.org/29wd9. We invite you to review
the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 July 2020
Farewell, July --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:
ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year
- Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
- Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- Registration is OPEN (and free) for ApacheCon@Home taking place online 29 September - 1 October. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
- Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
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7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. Performance checks across 50
different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 414 Apache Committers changed 4,407,598 lines of code over 3,792 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Guillaume Nodet, and Shen Yi.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Application Performance Monitor --
- Apache SkyWalking CLI 0.3.0 and SkyWalking Python 0.2.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/
- Apache Arrow 1.0.0 released https://arrow.apache.org/
- Apache Calcite 1.24.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
- Apache Beam 2.23.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.3 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Commons Text 1.9 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/
Messaging --
- Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.33.6 and JMS 0.53.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that there were 150TB+ in source code downloads from Apache mirrors (excludes convenience binaries) in FY2020? https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
- Did you know that workflows for the Creative Commons Catalog project are powered by Apache Airflow? https://opensource.creativecommons.org/blog/entries/data-flow-API-to-DB/
- Did you know that, after two years in development, Apache Cayenne v4.1 GA is now available? https://cayenne.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices
- Apache Month In Review: June 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/June2020
- "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 have been released: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" short https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" teaser https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” shorts https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation
- The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary
- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u
- Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
- Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
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Posted at 07:12AM Jul 31, 2020
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The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Annual Report for 2020 Fiscal Year
World's largest Open Source foundation provides 227M+ lines of code, valued at more than $20B, to the public-at-large at 100% no cost.
Wakefield, MA —29 July 2020— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of the annual report for its 2020 fiscal year (1 May 2019 - 30 April 2020).
Now in its 21st year, the world's largest Open Source foundation’s "Apache Way" of community-driven development is the proven process behind thousands of developers successfully collaborating on hundreds of Apache projects. The Apache Way has directly influenced the InnerSource methodology of applying Open Source and open development principles to an organization. The Apache Way has been adopted by countless organizations, including Capital One, Comcast, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, SAP, T-Mobile, Walmart, and countless others.
Valued at more than $20B —and provided to the public-at-large at 100% no cost— Apache software is used in every Internet-connected country on the planet.
Apache software comprises 227M+ lines of code, is integral to nearly every end user computing device, manages exabytes of data, executes teraflops of operations, and stores billions of objects in virtually every industry. Countless mission-critical projects in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, build management, Cloud Computing, content management, DevOps, Deep Learning, IoT and Edge computing, mobile, servers, Web frameworks, and many other categories are powered by Apache. [Learn more about the ASF’s reach and influence at https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere ]
Every Apache Top-Level Project (and its sub-projects, if applicable) is overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC) that guides its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases.
At the close of FY2020, 201 PMCs managed 339 Top-Level Projects and dozens of sub-projects; 9 projects were newly-graduated Top-Level Projects from the Apache Incubator, and 8 projects retired to the Apache Attic. Apache Incubator PMCs mentored 45 projects under development in the Apache Incubator; 6 projects were new entrants to the Incubator, and 3 were retired.
FY2020 highlights include:
- ~8M lines of Apache code added, valued at approximately $600M worth of work; total code value exceeding $20B (CoCoMo model);
- Stewardship of 227M+ lines of code in the Apache repositories;
- Foundation operations supported by contributions from 10 Platinum Sponsors, 9 Gold Sponsors, 11 Silver Sponsors, 25 Bronze Sponsors, 6 Platinum Targeted Sponsors, 5 Gold Targeted Sponsors, 3 Silver Targeted Sponsors, 10 Bronze Targeted Sponsors, and more than 500 individual donors;
- 34 new individual ASF Members elected, totalling 813;
- Exceeded 7,700 code Committers;
- 206 Top-Level communities overseeing 339+ Apache projects, plus dozens of sub-projects and initiatives;
- 9 newly-graduated Top-Level Projects from the Apache Incubator;
- 45 projects currently undergoing development in the Apache Incubator;
- Web requests received from every Internet-connected country on the planet;
- 35M+ page views per week across apache.org;
- ~2 Petabytes source code downloads from Apache mirrors;
- Top 5 most active/visited Apache projects: Kafka, Hadoop, Lucene, POI, ZooKeeper;
- Top 5 Apache repositories by number of commits: Camel, Flink, Beam, HBase, Lucene Solr;
- Top 5 Apache repositories by lines of code: NetBeans, OpenOffice, Flex (combined), Mynewt (combined), Trafodion;
- 2,892 Committers changed 60,132,710 lines of code over 174,889 commits;
- 12,413 people created 63,172 new issues; 2,868 people closed 54,633 issues
- 19,396 authors sent 2,137,560 emails on 907,870 topics across 1,417 mailing lists;
- Top 5 most active mailing lists (user@ + dev@): Flink, Tomcat, Royale, Beam, Lucene Solr;
- Top Senders: (Apache Projects + Committers): GitBox, AsterixDB, Whimsy, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Thomas
- 2,045 git repositories, containing ~250GB of code and repository history;
- GitHub traffic: Top 5 most active Apache sources --clones: Thrift, Beam, Cordova, Arrow, Geode;
- GitHub traffic: Top 5 most active Apache sources --visits: Spark, Flink, Camel, Kafka, Beam;
- 25th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server (21 years under the ASF umbrella);
- 748 Individual Contributor License Agreements (ICLAs) signed;
- 33 Corporate Contributor License Agreements signed;
- 40 Software Grant Agreements signed; and
- ASF was a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code for the 15th consecutive year.
The full report is available online at https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to 813 individual Members and 206 Project Management Committees who successfully lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with 7,800+ Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way". Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, Leaseweb, Pineapple Fund, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media, and Workday. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
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Posted at 12:00PM Jul 29, 2020
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