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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 22 February 2019
We hope you are having a happy Friday. The Apache Community has had a productive week, as always. 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: 20 March. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
- Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
- CFP CLOSING TODAY: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
- Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.94% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 457 Apache contributors changed 794,949 lines of code over 2,520 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Colm Ó hÉigeartaigh, Michael Stack, Iñigo Goiri, Claus Ibsen, and Andrea Cosentino.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Apache Arrow™ Momentum https://s.apache.org/zhaP
- Apache Beam 2.10.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
- Apache Flink 1.7.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
- Apache Kafka 2.1.1 released https://kafka.apache.org/
- Apache NiFi 1.9.0 released https://nifi.apache.org/
Library --
- Apache Commons Codec 1.12 released http://commons.apache.org/
- Apache Olingo 2.0.11 released http://olingo.apache.org/
Messaging --
- Apache Pulsar 2.3.0 released https://pulsar.apache.org/
Testing --
- Apache JMeter 5.1 released https://jmeter.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that Amazon Music Recommendations is powered by Apache MXNet (incubating)? http://mxnet.apache.org/
- Did you know that China Merchants Bank, CMBChina Mall, and China Eastern Airline use Apache SkyWalking (incubating)? http://skywalking.apache.org/
- Did you know that you can review and share your feedback on the first milestone of Apache Camel 3? http://camel.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices:
- Apache in 2018 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits
- 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
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter 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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/
- Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- CFP open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/
- Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
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Posted at 02:04PM Feb 22, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Apache Arrow™ Momentum
- C# Library
- Gandiva LLVM-based Expression Compiler
- Go Library
- Javascript Library
- Plasma Shared Memory Object Store
- Ruby Libraries (Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet)
- Rust Libraries (Parquet and DataFusion Query Engine)
Posted at 11:00AM Feb 19, 2019
by Sally in General |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 February 2019
Mid-month already! Let's see what Apache Community worked on last week:
A little Valentine's appreciation to all our Sponsors, whose support demonstrates how they #LoveApache http://apache.org/foundation/thanks
ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 20 February. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
- Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
- CFP CLOSING TODAY: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
- Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.88% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 477 Apache contributors changed 776,105 lines of code over 2,899 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sean Busbey, Duo Zhang, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Sebastian Bazley.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Library --
- Apache Apache Commons Collections 4.3 released http://commons.apache.org/
Logging --
- Apache Log4j 2.11.2 released https://logging.apache.org/
Network/Server --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.38 released http://tomcat.apache.org/
- Apache Qpid Proton 0.27.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/
Search --
- Apache Lucene 7.7.0 and Solr 7.7.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/
- CVE-2017-3164 SSRF issue in Apache Solr http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201902.mbox/%3CCAECwjAVjBN%3DwO5rYs6ktAX-5%3D-f5JDFwbbTSM2TTjEbGO5jKKA%40mail.gmail.com%3E
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Apache HTTP Server (24 years --established prior to the ASF's incorporation!); Gump and Portals (15 years); Directory, MyFaces, and Xerces (14 years); Tapestry (13 years); Roller (12 years); Cassandra and Subversion (9 years); Chemistry (8 years); BVa and OpenNLP (7 years); Clerezza and Crunch (6 years); Knox, Open Climate Workbench, and Spark (5 years); and DataFu (1 year). Many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date
- Did you know that Apache Groovy was downloaded 30 million times during Q4 2018? http://groovy.apache.org/
- Did you know that Apache Edgent (incubating) can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices to enable real-time IoT data analytics? http://edgent.incubator.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices:
- Apache in 2018 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits
- 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
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter 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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/
- Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html- CFP now open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/
- Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
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Posted at 01:55PM Feb 15, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 February 2019
Hooray for Friday! It's time to review the activities of the Apache Community over the past week:
FINAL CALL: please share your thoughts on The Apache Way in our quick survey https://s.apache.org/oxTr
Success at Apache –the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
- For Love or Money: Volunteer vs. Professional Open Source by Rich Bowen https://s.apache.org/ePHl
ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 20 February. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
- Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
- CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
- Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.98% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 409 Apache contributors changed 780,780(!) lines of code over 2,663 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Sean Busbey, Andrea Cosentino, Duo Zhang, and Mark Thomas.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
BigData --
- Apache BookKeeper 4.9.0 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/
Cloud --
- Apache jclouds 2.1.2 released https://jclouds.apache.org/
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.1 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
IoT --
- Apache PLC4X (incubating) 0.3.0 released http://plc4x.apache.org
Library --
- Apache Commons VFS 2.3 released http://commons.apache.org/
- Apache Groovy (incubating) 2.5.6 released https://groovy.apache.org/
Network/Server --
- Apache Tomcat 9.0.16 and Tomcat Native 1.2.21 released http://tomcat.apache.org/
Web Framework --
- Apache MyFaces Core v2.3.3 released http://myfaces.apache.org/
- Apache Wicket 7.12.0 released https://wicket.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the European Commission's new bug bounty program target projects include Apache Kafka and Apache Tomcat? https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/eur-3000-eur-25000
- Did you know that you can participate in the Call for Entries for the ASF's 20th Anniversary logo? https://s.apache.org/pK8x
- Did you know that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services uses Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org
Apache Community Notices:
- Apache in 2018 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits
- 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
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter 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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/
- Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html- CFP now open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/
- Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
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Posted at 03:30PM Feb 08, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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Success at Apache: For Love or Money: Volunteer vs. Professional Open Source
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Success at Apache" reflects diverse, personal experiences from our community members, with particular focus on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". The post below is the result of a discussion with the author that originated in early September 2018 and remained unpublished as its tone deviates from the general tenor of this series.Over the past few months, this topic has increased in visibility and relevance with the greater community, and we have made an exception in publishing due its timeliness and representation of the evolution of Open Source communities, both within and without Apache.
A few weeks ago, a colleague asked me what I believed to be the biggest threat facing Open Source today. I answered that I think it's full-time Open Source developers, and the effect they have on part-time volunteer developers.
Long ago (it actually hasn't been very long, it just seems that way sometimes) Open Source was developed primarily by part-time hobbyist developers, working on their evenings and weekends on things that they were passionate about. Sure, there were full-time developers, but they were in the minority. Those of us working a few hours on the weekends envied them greatly. We wished that we, too, could get paid to do the thing that we love.
Now, 20 years on, the overwhelming majority of Open Source development is done by full-timers, working 9-5 on Open Source software. And those who are working nights and weekends are often made to feel that they are less important than those that are putting in the long hours.
Most of the time, this is unintentional. The full-timers are not intentionally marginalizing the part-timers. It just happens as a result of the time that they're able to put into it.
Imagine, if you will, that you're an "evenings-and-weekends" contributor to a project. You have an idea to add a new feature, and you propose it on the mailing list, as per your project culture. And you start working on it, a couple of hours on Friday evening, and then a few more hours on Saturday morning before you have to mow the lawn and take your kids to gymnastics practice. Then there's the cross country meet, and next thing you know, it's Monday morning, and you're back at work.
All week you think about what you're going to do next weekend.
But, Friday evening comes, and you `git pull`, and, lo and behold, one of the full-timers has taken your starting point, turned it in a new direction, completed the feature, and there's been a new release of the project. All while you were punching the clock on your unrelated job.
This is great for the product, of course. It moves faster. Users get features faster. Releases come out faster.
But, meanwhile, you have been told pretty clearly that your contribution wasn't good enough. Or, at the very least, that it wasn't fast enough.
The Cost of Professionalism
And of course there are lots of other benefits, too. Open Source code, as a whole, is probably better than it used to be, because people have more time to focus. The features are more driven by actual use cases, since there's all sorts of customer feedback that goes into the road map. But the volunteerism that made Open Source work in the first place is getting slowly squelched.
This is happening daily across the Open Source world, and MOST of it is unintentional. People are just doing their jobs, after all.
We are also starting to see places where projects are actively shunning the part timers, because they are not pulling their weight. Indeed, in recent weeks I've been told this explicitly by a prominent developer on a project that I follow. He feels that the part timers are stealing his glory, because they have their names on the list of contributors, but they aren't keeping up with the volume of his contributions.
But, whether or not it is intentional, I worry about what this will do to the culture of open source as a whole. I do not in any way begrudge the full-timers their jobs. It's what I dreamed of for *years* when I was an evenings-and-weekends open source developer, and it's what I have now. I am *thrilled* to be paid to work full time in the Open Source world. But I worry that most new Open Source projects are completely corporate driven, and have none of the passion, the scratch-your-own-itch, and the personal drive with which Open Source began.
While most of the professional Open Source developers I have worked with in my years at Red Hat have been passionate and personally invested in the projects that they work on, there's a certain percentage of them for whom this is just a job. If they were reassigned to some other project tomorrow, they'd switch over with no remorse. And I see this more and more as the years go by. Open Source projects as passion is giving way to developers that are working on whatever their manager has assigned, and have no personal investment whatsoever.
This doesn't in any way mean that they are bad people. Work is honorable.
I just worry about what effect this will have, and what Open Source will look like 20 years from now.
Rich Bowen has been doing open source-y stuff since about 1995, and has been a member of the Apache Software Foundation since 2002. He currently serves on the ASF Board of Directors. By day, he's the CentOS Community Manager, working for Red Hat. Read Rich's earlier post, "Success at Apache: Wearing Small Hats".
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"Success at Apache" is a monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
Posted at 03:18PM Feb 05, 2019
by Sally in SuccessAtApache |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 1 February 2019
Happy February! We've had quite a productive week, so let's review what the Apache Community has been up to:
Have you shared your thoughts on The Apache Way? We appreciate your input! https://s.apache.org/oxTr
ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 20 February. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ASF Fundraising –oversees ASF Sponsorship as well as Individual and Corporate Giving programs.
- The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its Newest Sponsor https://s.apache.org/7UKJ
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
- Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
- CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
- Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.98% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 469 Apache contributors changed 954,152 lines of code over 3,244 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Radu Cotescu, Robert Munteanu, Andrea Cosentino, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, and Duo Zhang.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Content --
- Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M1 released http://jspwiki.apache.org/
- [CVE-2018-20242] Apache JSPWiki Cross-site scripting vulnerability on Apache JSPWiki http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201901.mbox/%3CCAMufup5Mj5hvg3%2BRFUYRTOXsrj%2BcY5mpU_1h9WS%2Be7Q3SW7zOg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
HTTP --
- Apache Traffic Server v8.0.2 released https://trafficserver.apache.org/
Identity Management --
- Apache Kerby 2.0.0 released http://directory.apache.org/kerby
Library --
- Apache Commons BCEL 6.3 released https://commons.apache.org/
Web Framework --
- Apache Wicket 8.3.0 released https://wicket.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you know that Apache Beam and Apache Kafka won InfoWorld 2019 Technology of the Year Awards? https://www.infoworld.com/article/3336072/application-development/infoworlds-2019-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html
- Did you know that you can graph analytics using Apache MADlib? http://madlib.apache.org/
- Did you know that you can participate in the Call for Entries for the ASF's 20th Anniversary logo? https://s.apache.org/pK8x
Apache Community Notices:
- Apache in 2018 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits
- 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
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter 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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/
- Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html- CFP now open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/
- Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
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Posted at 03:11PM Feb 01, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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