The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 August 2019

Greetings, all. 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: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Catch the latest on ApacheCon™,  Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. 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 – this week, 882 Apache contributors changed 1,664,749 lines of code over 3,669 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Shad Storhaug, Tilman Hausherr, Claus Ibsen, Liang Zhang, and Andrea Cosentino.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.4 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
 - Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.1.0 released http://uima.apache.org

Databases --
 - Apache HBase 2.0.6 released http://hbase.apache.org
 - Apache Impala 3.3.0 released http://impala.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.29.0 released http://qpid.apache.org

Templating --
 - Apache FreeMarker 2.3.29 released http://freemarker.apache.org

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.45 and 9.0.24 released http://tomcat.apache.org
 - Apache Traffic Server 8.0.5 and 7.1.8 released http://trafficserver.apache.org

Did You Know?

 -  Did you know that ASF codebase is conservatively valued at least $20B, using the COCOMO 2 model? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

 - Did you know that workshops at ApacheCon North America will include Apache Beam, Apache OpenWhisk, Apache Spark and Scala, as well as the Apache-licensed Ballerina programming language? Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/

 - Did you know that "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation, will resume filming at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin https://youtu.be/UvuyBz1qMCE ? Support this project https://s.apache.org/trillions

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 09:16AM Aug 23, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 16 August 2019

Happy Friday! We've had a great week. Let's review what we've been up to:

ASF Annual Report – The Apache® Software Foundation announces Annual Report for 2019 Fiscal Year
 - Press release https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
 - Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 August 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin-- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Catch the latest on ApacheCon™ Big Data, Machine Learning and Streaming Tracks with Track Lead Felix Cheung exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. 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 – this week, 840 Apache contributors changed 13,780,155 lines of code over 3,721 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Etienne Chauchot, Mark Robert Miller, Mark Thomas, Tilman Hausherr, and Henrik Krohns.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache UIMA 2.10.4 released http://uima.apache.org/

Database --
 - Apache Druid (Incubating) 0.15.1 release http://druid.incubator.apache.org

HTTP --
 - Apache HTTP Server 2.4.41 released http://httpd.apache.org/
 - Apache Traffic Server 8.0.4 and 7.1.7 are released http://trafficserver.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.12.1 released http://logging.apache.org/
 - Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.9.4 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-beanutils/
 - Apache Commons VFS 2.4.1 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/

Network-Server --
 - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.33.2 released http://qpid.apache.org

Did You Know?

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 05:24PM Aug 16, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Annual Report for 2019 Fiscal Year

World's largest Open Source foundation’s 300+ freely-available, enterprise-grade Apache projects power some of the most visible and widely used applications in computing today.

Wakefield, MA —13 August 2019— 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 2019 fiscal year, which ended 30 April 2019.

Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, the world's largest Open Source foundation’s "Apache Way" of community-driven development is the process behind hundreds of freely-available (100% no cost), enterprise-grade Apache projects that serve as the backbone for some of the most visible and widely used applications in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Big Data, build management, Cloud Computing, content management, DevOps, IoT and Edge computing, mobile, servers, and Web frameworks, among many other categories.

The ubiquity of Apache software is undeniable, with Apache projects managing exabytes of data, executing teraflops of operations, and storing billions of objects in virtually every industry. Apache software is an integral part of nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to phones. Apache software is used in every Internet-connected country on the planet.

Highlights include:

1. ASF codebase is conservatively valued at least $20B, using the COCOMO 2 model;
2. Continued guardianship of 190M+ lines of code in the Apache repositories;
3. Total of 10 Platinum Sponsors, 9 Gold Sponsors, 11 Silver Sponsors, 25 Bronze Sponsors, and 6 Platinum Targeted Sponsors, 5 Gold Targeted Sponsors, 3 Silver Targeted Sponsors, and 10 Bronze Targeted Sponsors;
4. 35 new individual ASF Members elected, totalling 766;
5. Exceeded 7,000 code Committers;
6. 202 Top-Level communities overseeing 332 Apache projects and sub-projects;
7. 17 newly-graduated Top-Level Projects from the Apache Incubator;
8. 47 projects currently undergoing development in the Apache Incubator;
9. Top 5 most active/visited Apache projects: Hadoop, Kafka, Lucene, POI, ZooKeeper;
10. Top 5 Apache repositories by number of commits: Camel, Hadoop, HBase, Beam, and Flink;
11. Top 5 Apache repositories by lines of code: NetBeans, OpenOffice, Flex (combined), Mynewt (combined), and Trafodion;
12. 35M page views per week across apache.org;
13. 9M+ source code downloads from Apache mirrors (excluding convenience binaries);
14. 3,280 Committers changed 71,186,324 lines of code over 222,684 commits;
15. 18,750 authors sent 1,402,267 emails on 570,469 topics across 1,131 mailing lists;
16. Top 5 most active mailing lists (user@ + dev@): Flink, Beam, Lucene, Ignite, and Kafka;
17. Automated Gitbox across ~1,800 git repositories containing ~75GB of code and repository history;
18. Each GitHub account monitored for security compliance;
19. GitHub traffic: Top 5 most active Apache sources --clones: Thrift, Cordova, Arrow, Airflow, and Beam;
20. GitHub traffic: Top 5 most active Apache sources --visits: Spark, Camel, Flink, Kafka, and Airflow;
21. 24th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server (20 years under the ASF umbrella);
22. 770 Individual Contributor License Agreements (ICLAs) signed;
23. 28 Corporate Contributor License Agreements signed;
24. 26 Software Grant Agreements signed; and
25. ASF is a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code for 14th consecutive year.

The full report is available online at https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server —the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's merit-based process known as "The Apache Way," more than 770 individual Members and 7,000 Committers across six continents successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting billions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Anonymous, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, Leaseweb, Microsoft, ODPi, Pineapple Fund, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Workday, and Verizon Media. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

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Posted at 04:58PM Aug 13, 2019 by Sally in General  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 August 2019

Happy Friday! Let's take a look back on our activities over the past week:

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "The Path To Berlin" by Isabel Drost-Fromm https://s.apache.org/aq48m

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 August 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Register today for ApacheCon North America and Europe. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin! https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. 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 – this week, 830 Apache contributors changed 1,165,840 lines of code over 3,701 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel Gruno, Etienne Chauchot, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Tilman Hausherr.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Accumulo 2.0.0 released http://accumulo.apache.org/
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 released http://ranger.apache.org/

Embedded OS --
 - Apache Mynewt 1.7.0 and Apache NimBLE 1.2.0 released http://mynewt.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Tika 1.22 released http://tika.apache.org/
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.8.1 released http://tuweni.incubator.apache.org/
 - Apache Commons DBCP 2.7.0 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/
 - Apache Groovy 2.5.8 and 3.0.0-beta-3 released http://groovy.apache.org/

Did You Know?

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 09:24AM Aug 09, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

"Success at Apache: The Path To Berlin"

"A decade ago" - according to common wisdom for software engineering that's the equivalent of the stone age: The only constant is change - and rapid change at that.

This blog post is going to tell an entirely different story: One about what persistence, patience and continuous engagement can accomplish. One about what can happen when people are working together.

It was over a decade ago, in 2008, when I met with people interested in the then-hyped Apache Hadoop project to create a quarterly meetup on everything data analytics, text mining, scalable data storage. That was when the (Apache) Hadoop Get Together Berlin took place at newthinking store - a co-working space and event location before that format itself was turned into a business model http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/scaling-user-groups336.html.

A year later it was clear that an ApacheCon EU was unlikely to happen in Europe. When Simon Willnauer, Jan Lehnardt and myself approached The Apache Software Foundation about holding the event in Berlin - the kind people at Apache who did have experience with ApacheCon successfully stopped us: Given the baggage around the event, the trademark implication, the expectation that all sorts of different people had as well as the pure http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/how-hard-can-it-be-organising-a-conference.html logistics of creating an event that's bigger than 100 people, that was a safe and likely wise decision.

What they didn't achieve though was to stop us from running some event the following year: We at least wanted to give friends from the Big Data and search communities an excuse to make their employers pay for a trip to Berlin in summer: http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/my-highly-subjective-berlin-buzzwords-recap290.html. This was possible due to some lucky conditions we found ourselves in: Knowing conference organisers who were willing to share their know-how such as legal issues and boundaries with us Finding an event company (newthinking.de) that was supporting the idea.

Being employed by a company https://www.neofonie.de/ that saw value in sponsoring the event by allowing me to do so during my working hours.

While successful, part of the ASF community was still missing though. Fast forward several years to 2017, a new conference concept was born. Under the name of FOSS Backstage, we focus on the one topic that every project at Apache has to deal with: Governance, legal, security, economics https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/success-at-apache-cookie-monster Issues that are not an Apache exclusive issue, but true for everyone - individuals as well as legal entities - involved in open source projects.

The only caveat: We had intentionally left all technical content out of scope for FOSS Backstage. For the data analytics crowd the event was conveniently co-located with Berlin Buzzwords. For the remaining content, Sharan Foga kindly volunteered for coordinating to run an Apache Roadshow alongside FOSS Backstage together with newthinking for two days after Berlin Buzzwords and in parallel to FOSS Backstage. With a name different than ApacheCon this left quite some room for experimenting beyond the traditional ApacheCon format.

Little over a year after that ApacheCon finally is on its way to the city of Berlin: With https://twitter.com/plainschwarz as event organisers, in collaboration with the Apache Software Foundation - with Myrle Krantz as event chair to coordinate between the ASF and the local event team.

In retrospect, the series of events was an interesting journey. There's a couple of lessons I've learned that carry over to open source software development - but also a few that are distinctly different.

1.Patches welcome - turn people that come with feature requests into active contributors

Instead of accepting feature requests from people, it helps to pull them in to submit their own patches: Early on there were requests for a barcamp, for a lightning talk session, for trainings. My response back then: Submit the idea through the CfP form, find someone to run it and we'll run it through the regular submission process adding it to the schedule if it fits.

For the trainings we went for a slightly different approach: Instead of directly offering them ourselves we reached out to established training providers suggesting to run with a co-location/ co-promotion approach.

For those that asked for free tickets we would turn them into helping hands - either on site, during setup or (in the first year) as local guides taking groups of up to twenty people out for dinner in a restaurant close by that they had selected.

For those that asked for more content on some specific topic we offered the option of organising a deep dive satellite event on Wednesday after the conference at one of the many companies willing to host these in Berlin.

In general we left a lot of room and freedom to those who wanted to get involved and add content to the event that they found missing.

2. Decisions are made by those doing the work

While feedback is important, there is a limit to what can feasibly be realised for any given conference budget. While we value feedback from anyone involved, the final decisions need to be taken by those actively contributing time to the event. As a result, that also means that not all feedback can always be taken into account - at least not right away, maybe at a later stage or in a different event, the consecutive year or just taken as an impulse to come up with new fresh ideas.

3. "It's done when it's done" is not an option

Conferences are slightly different from open source releases in that there are hard deadlines - in combination with a fixed budget coming in from attendees and sponsors and some hard features that cannot be postponed to the next release (unless you're organising a remote only conference, running without a venue is pretty much impossible.) That circumstance makes organisation slightly more prone to conflict than your average open source project: There's no cheap way to go down both paths and only at the very last minute decide which is better - or even offering both options.

4. Balancing public and private communication

At Apache we value public communication: Often having discussions in the open invites others to participate and shows where contributions are needed. When it comes to budget, ticket pricing, communication with sponsors, contracts including specific prices for venues this approach becomes a whole lot harder. Even though it helps to provide a dedicated mailing list for program committee members as well as interested attendees to get in touch.

It also helps to make some of the planning background public - either while discussions are ongoing, or at least after a conclusion has been reached: http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/berlin-buzzwords-scheduling-behind-the-scenes118.html (caveat: the algorithm has changed substantially since this was published, but the article did help answer a lot of questions.)

One downside to this mode of operation is that people who potentially could provide valuable insight or help out have no idea of what is going on. Another downside is that for the outside world it becomes invisible how large a team it takes to make the event successful. As a tiny fix for that we always tried to make the team involved publicly known.

5. Bringing people together

At Apache we have a tradition to work asynchronously - on archived, searchable, referenceable mailing lists. Without that way of working we wouldn't be able to build bridges across timezones, geographies, cultures and organisations. It wouldn't be possible to collaborate for people with wildly different time schedules. Despite all this hearing people speak when reading their texts makes it easier to understand their tone correctly. Despite all this there are topics that are best shared face to face only for deniability reasons. Despite all this, meeting someone in person who so far has been communicating only remotely with you can be a ton of fun. I hope that you will join that fun in October in Berlin: Looking forward to seeing you there!

Join us! ApacheCon Europe/Berlin 22-24 October 2019 https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

"Success at Apache" is a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works" https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 01:18PM Aug 06, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 August 2019

Welcome August!! --let's take a look back at what the collective Apache community has been working on 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: 21 August 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Register today for ApacheCon North America and Europe. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin! https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.95%. 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 – this week, 851 Apache contributors changed 7,567,471 lines of code over 3,914 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Etienne Chauchot, Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, and Juan Pan.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Cloud --
 - Apache VCL 2.5.1 released http://vcl.apache.org/

Content Management --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.16.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Rya (Incubating) 4.0.0 released http://rya.incubator.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Pool 2.7.0 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/
 - Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.5.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.96 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 02:02PM Aug 02, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 26 July 2019

Farewell, July --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are updates on 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 August 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Register today for ApacheCon North America and Europe. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin! https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. 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 – this week, 821 Apache contributors changed 14,108,000 lines of code over 3,709 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Juan Pan, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, Tilman Hausherr, and Liang Zhang.

Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Arrow 0.14.1 released http://arrow.apache.org/
 - Apache Knox 1.3.0 released http://knox.apache.org/

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Unomi 1.4.0 released http://unomi.apache.org/
 - Apache Ignite 2.7.5 released http://ignite.apache.org/

IDE --
 - Apache NetBeans 11.1 released http://netbeans.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - HttpComponents Client 5.0 beta5 (GA candidate) released http://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Commons Codec 1.13 released http://commons.apache.org/codec/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.2.0 and Solr 8.2.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Version Control --
 - Apache Subversion 1.9.12, 1.10.6, and 1.12.2 released https://subversion.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 01:41PM Jul 26, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 12 July 2019

Happy Friday: it's time to look back at our activities 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: 17 July. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Posted at 02:37PM Jul 12, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program for ApacheCon™ Europe

Attendees will join The Apache Software Foundation in celebrating its 20th Anniversary with special events and activities, including dynamic discourse with select ASF founders, and keynotes by European Commission Director of Digital Business Solutions Thomas Gageik, Mastercard Executive Vice President for Global Cities Miguel Gamiño, and political analyst and writer Nanjala Nyabola.

Posted at 09:01AM Jul 11, 2019 by Sally in General  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 July 2019

Hi hi --welcome July! Let's review our activities 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: 17 July. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Posted at 12:46PM Jul 05, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 June 2019

Farewell, June --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here's what happened:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Statement by The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors https://s.apache.org/y2w0
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 July. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Posted at 02:23PM Jun 28, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

Statement by The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors

Posted at 11:48PM Jun 24, 2019 by Sally in General  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 June 2019

Happy Friday, everyone. Let's take a look at how the past week has progressed:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 July. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Posted at 09:36AM Jun 21, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 June 2019

The week has flown by and it's been brilliant. Let's review what we've been up to:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 June. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Posted at 08:19PM Jun 14, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 June 2019

Happy Friday! Happy June! We've had a great week. Let's review:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 June. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Posted at 04:02PM Jun 07, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   |