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Success at Apache: Why you'd want to become an Apache Committer
by Dmitriy Pavlov
All newbies in Open Source communities may sometimes think that they’ll never be able to become Committers. Many treat this role as a prestigious one, granted only for special feats, and after having written a ton of code. But not all things are so simple, and I hope my story will help you.
Election as Apache Committer
My journey with The Apache Software Foundation began relatively recently, in 2015. I was working for Openway Group, and was enthusiastic about in-memory computing. I got to know about Apache Ignite at a local developers conference. I implemented the POC of a backend system based on Apache Ignite. I was so impressed with the clear API and documentation, and it was also very convenient that I could start prototyping without passing through the approval process. I suggested using the Apache product instead of a source-available solution. I met Konstantin Boudnik (cos), who helped me to understand the difference between Apache projects and source-available/closely-governed products.
Luckily for me, GridGain, the company that initially donated Ignite to the Apache Incubator, has a development center in my city (Saint Petersburg, Russia). I joined the GridGain team in 2017.
As part of my day job, I provide patches to the product. I actively joined the dev.list discussions (some fellows sometimes say “too actively”). I’ve created a number of wiki pages - ‘Apache Ignite-Under the hood’ to help developers understand product internals. Also, I developed ‘Direct IO’ plugin. I was elected as a Committer.
In 2018 I was concerned about reviews of patches from members of the community not affiliated with GridGain. Since I had a commit-bit now, I’ve started to review patches and ask others to review them, too. I don’t know for sure, but I suppose - these social achievements in the community development were a basis for me being elected as Project Management Committee (PMC) member.
I asked several questions about The Apache Way on the Community Development (“ComDev”) dev list. I was very impressed by how friendly and welcoming they are. I very much like such a positive atmosphere, and feel it influences the success of Apache projects. Now I’ve also joined Apache Training (incubating) community as Committer and PPMC (Podling Project Management Committee) member.
Quite funny for a software developer with 17 years of experience… being elected as a Committer, that is to say, because of the social aspects and documentation.
Who is a typical Committer and where does his or her strength lie?
When creating an Open Source product, we always let the users explore it in action -- as well as allow them to modify it and distribute modified copies. But when such modified copies are replicated in an unsupervised manner, we don’t get contributions into the main codebase and the project stalls. It’s here where we need exactly such a person – the Committer – someone who is authorized to merge user contributions into the project.
Why should you become a Committer?
First of all, being assigned to a Committer role is extremely motivating. The professional community acknowledges you and your work, and you clearly see the results of your work in action.
How different is that from some enterprise project -- where you have no idea why you must continually keep shuffling various XML fields?
The second pure advantage of being a Committer is an opportunity to connect with top professionals and also pull some cool ideas from Open Source into your own project. But, if you aren’t one of the top professionals, certainly don’t be afraid to join -- the community has various tasks for different folks.
Besides, being a Committer is a jewel in your CV --and even a greater plus for junior programmers, because at interviews you are often asked to show code samples. If you know an Open Source project well, a company supporting or using it will be happy to hire you. There are some people who will tell you that great positions are unreachable without first committing in Open Source.
There are some bonus goodies, too! For example, Apache Committers get an IntelliJ Idea Ultimate license for free (albeit with some limitations).
How do you become a Committer?
You should be committed to the project --it’s just that simple. Development, writing tests and documentation, and simply answering questions on lists are also good ways to start working towards committership.
Yeah, the contributions of QA engineers and technical writers in the community are valued no less than the developers’ contributions.
If you think there are no tasks for you on some project, you are wrong. Just join the community you are interested in and start working on its tasks.
The Apache Software Foundation has this dedicated page that lists what contributions are needed.
Committer — to be or not to be?
Committer activity is a good and useful endeavor, but one shouldn’t strive to become a committer per se. This status can be granted not only for code and it doesn’t justify your proficiency.
Find a project you may be interested in: it will probably be a project whose software you already use. Dive into its code and say hi to the community; offer help, improve docs, complete a newbie ticket or answer to a user. You may just be surprised how welcoming and open folks are there.
Strive to gain the expertise (knowledge and experience) while researching the project, tweaking it and helping others to solve their problems, and, hopefully, enjoying collaborative development in an Open Source project.
Getting started at http://community.apache.org/ will help you on your way.
Dmitriy Pavlov is a Java developer enthusiastic about Open Source and in-memory computing. He is interested in system performance, information security, and cryptography. He created and donated utility for monitoring tests for Apache Ignite, and is a former Community Manager for Apache Ignite at GridGain. Dmitriy represents the Apache Ignite Project Management Committee (PMC) at local meetups in Russia. He runs workshops and training for Apache Ignite developers and users, and is a frequent speaker at meetups and conferences.
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"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 11:48PM Sep 21, 2019
by Sally in SuccessAtApache |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 September 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: 16 October 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 Europe --REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
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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 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 Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.8 and Oak 1.8.17, 1.10.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
Identity Management --
- Apache Syncope 2.0.14 and 2.1.5 released http://syncope.apache.org
Libraries --
- Apache Commons Configuration 2.6 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration
Web Frameworks --
- Apache Wicket 8.6.1 and 9.0.0-M3 released http://wicket.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the Open Source Design community (ApacheCon Europe Community Partners) are holding a FREE workshop on October 25th (immediately following ApacheCon)? Register today, as space is limited! https://aceu19.apachecon.com/open-source-design-workshop
- Did you know the four things "Father of Java" James Gosling loves about Apache? Learn more in "My personal journey to Open Source", James's keynote at ApacheCon North America https://s.apache.org/0q20b
- Did you know that the ASF exceeded 7,000 code Committers https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
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
- "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 (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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.
Posted at 08:51AM Sep 20, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 September 2019
Happy Friday! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:
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 Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
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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 100.00%. 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, 857 Apache contributors changed 4,388,161 lines of code over 3,161 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, and Michael Stack.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Calcite 1.21.0 released http://calcite.apache.org/
Build Management --
- Apache Maven 3.6.2 released http://maven.apache.org
Content --
- Apache Traffic Control 3.0.2 released http://trafficcontrol.apache.org
Data Management Platform --
- Apache Geode 1.9.1 released http://geode.apache.org
Enterprise Processes Automation
- Apache OFBiz 16.11.06 released http://ofbiz.apache.org
Libraries --
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org
- Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.10 GA released http://hc.apache.org
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.1 released http://commons.apache.org
- Apache Milagro Crypto C & JS Libraries (Incubating) 1.0.0 released http://milagro.apache.org
Messaging Platform --
- Apache Pulsar 2.4.1 released http://pulsar.apache.org
Did You Know?
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- Did you know that 35 new individual ASF Members elected, totaling 766 https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
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
- "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 (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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.
Posted at 03:43PM Sep 13, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 September 2019
Happy September! Let's take a look at the activities from the Apache community 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: 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.
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7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.75%. 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, 800 Apache contributors changed 1,666,694 lines of code over 3,132 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Chesnay Schepler.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Myriad 0.4.0 (Incubating) released http://myriad.apache.org
Build Management --
- Apache Ant 1.10.7 released http://ant.apache.org
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.5 and 2.18.3 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
Databases --
- Apache HBase 2.1.6 released http://hbase.apache.org
Libraries --
- Apache Juneau 8.1.0 released http://juneau.apache.org
- Apache Commons Text 1.8 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org
released http://hc.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous donations of our Sponsors? The ASF is supported by 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 https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
- Did you know the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many Happy Returns to Apache ServiceMix (12 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (9 years); Airavata, Bigtop, SIS, and Stanbol (7 years); Curator (6 years); Storm (5 years); Yetus (4 years); DRAT, RocketMQ, and Royale (2 years); and Pulsar (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date
- Did you know that ApacheCon sponsors and community partners include Aiven, AWS, Comcast. CrowdStrike, DataStax, Google Cloud, IBM, HotWax Systems, Instaclustr, Linode, LinuxMagic, Manning Publications, Red Hat, PCCC, ShapeBlue, SK Telecom, StreamNative, The Last Pickle, and more? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/
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
- "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 (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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.
Posted at 06:05AM Sep 06, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 August 2019
Farewell, August --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: 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.
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7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.97%. 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, 923 Apache contributors changed 13,694,508 lines of code over 3,419 commits. Top 5 contributors, in
order, are: Tilman Hausherr, Jun Zhao, Radu Cotescu, Christofer Dutz, and Claus Ibsen.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Flink 1.9.0 released http://flink.apache.org
- Apache NiFi Registry 0.5.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/registry
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.4 and Oak 1.8.16 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
Databases --
- Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.8.0 released http://iotdb.apache.org
Libraries --
- Apache Qpid JMS 0.45.0 released http://qpid.apache.org
- Apache Libcloud 2.6.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org
- Apache ServiceComb 0.5.0 released http://servicecomb.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the ASF continued guardianship of 190M+ lines of code in the Apache repositories https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
- Did you know that ApacheCon North America is featuring 19 Tracks overseen by Apache Projects and their communities? From Big Data, Community, Content Delivery, Geospatial, Graphs, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile, Observability, Streaming, Servers & more --plus Apache project events such as Beam Summit, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and special workshops-- there's Apache goodness for everyone. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/
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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
- "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 (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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.
Posted at 06:03AM Aug 30, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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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
- "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 (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
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 09:16AM Aug 23, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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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?
- Did you know that at this year's ApacheCon Europe/Berlin include Miguel Gamiño, Executive Vice President Global Cities at Mastercard, will discuss new models of urban collaboration in response to shared challenges? Learn more at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/session/city-possible-addressing-shared-urban-challenges-harnessing-super-power-collaboration
- Did you know ApacheCon North America keynoters include sci-fi author David Brin; IBM Fellow Chris Ferris; "Father of Java" James Gosling; 11-year-old CoderBunnyz CEO Samaira Mehta; the ASF Founders Panel; DataStax co-Founder Jonathan Ellis; plus ASF President Sam Ruby on the State of the Feather, the Apache Community Development panel, and more? https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/s/#/schedule
- Did you know that 202 Top-Level communities are overseeing 332 Apache projects and sub-projects? https://projects.apache.org/
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
- "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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 05:24PM Aug 16, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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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?
- Did you know that the Geospatial Track at ApacheCon North America is organized in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium?
Learn more at https://feathercast.apache.org/2019/07/31/apachecon-qa-with-geospatial-software-track-leader-george-percivall-of-open-geospatial-consortium/
- Did you know that 11-year-old ApacheCon keynoter Samaira Mehta will hold a "Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code" Hackathon to help kids (first grade and up) to learn how to code? Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-1-billion-kids-can-code-registration-66834093573
- Did you know that you can have swag from your favorite Apache project added to the ComDev store on RedBubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/comdev ? Grab the project logo from http://www.apache.org/logos/ and request it be added by emailing dev@community.apache.org
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
- "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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 09:24AM Aug 09, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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"Success at Apache: The Path To Berlin"
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/
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Posted at 01:18PM Aug 06, 2019
by Sally in SuccessAtApache |
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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?
- Did you know that new workshops on Apache OpenWhisk and Apache Spark/Scala Hands-on have just been added to the ApacheCon Las Vegas schedule? https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/s/#/schedule/2019-09-09
- Did you know that 11-year-old ApacheCon Las Vegas keynoter Samaira Mehta will be holding “Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code”, a one-hour Hackathon to help kids of all ages (first grade and up) learn how to code? Join us: advanced sign-up required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-1-billion-kids-can-code-registration-66834093573
- Did you know that ApacheCon Berlin keynoters include Thomas Gageik, Director of Digital Business Solutions at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics; Miguel Gamiño, Executive Vice President Global Cities at Mastercard; and Nanjala Nyabola, noted attorney, writer, and a political analyst? Sign up today https://aceu19.apachecon.com/
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
- "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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 02:02PM Aug 02, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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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?
- Did you know that ApacheCon Europe keynoters include 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? Join us! https://s.apache.org/07g1l
- Did you know presentations from the Apache Roadshow/Chicago are now online? https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation/
- Did you know that you can support the ASF at any time with a tax-deductible donation? The cost of a premium cup of coffee is what it takes to support a single Apache project for one day. Raise a cup! https://donate.apache.org
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
- "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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 01:41PM Jul 26, 2019
by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter |
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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
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program for ApacheCon™ Europe
- Registration is OPEN for ApacheCon North America/Las Vegas (9-12 September) and Europe/Berlin (22-24 October) https://www.apachecon.com/
- TRAVEL ASSISTANCE applications for ApacheCon Europe CLOSE 14 July. Everyone --including members of all underrepresented communities-- are encouraged to apply today! http://www.apache.org/travel/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a perfect 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 –this week, 402 Apache contributors changed 792,946 lines of code over 2,566 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Etienne Chauchot, Gary Gregory, Lei Zhang, Andrea Cosentino, and Julian Reschke.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Arrow 0.14.0 released http://arrow.apache.org/
- Apache Kudu 1.10.0 Released https://kudu.apache.org/
- Apache Kylin 2.6.3 released http://kylin.apache.org/
Blockchain --
- Apache Tuweni (incubating) 0.8.0 released http://tuweni.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Commons Text 1.7 released https://commons.apache.org/
- Apache Log4j 2.12.0 released https://logging.apache.org/
Messaging --
- Apache Pulsar 2.4.0 released http://pulsar.apache.org/
Network-Server --
- Apache Qpid Broker-J versions 7.1.4 and 7.0.8 released http://qpid.apache.org
Servers --
- Tomcat 8.5.43 and Tomcat 9.0.22 released http://tomcat.apache.org/
Usability --
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js v2.0.0 released http://flagon.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that ApacheCon Europe keynoters include 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? Join us! https://s.apache.org/07g1l
- Did you know presentations from the Apache Roadshow/Chicago are now online? https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation/
- Did you know that you can support the ASF at any time with a tax-deductible donation? The cost of a premium cup of coffee is what it takes to support a single Apache project for one day. Raise a cup! https://donate.apache.org
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
- "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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 02:37PM Jul 12, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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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
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
- Registration is OPEN for ApacheCon North America/Las Vegas (9-12 September) and Europe/Berlin (22-24 October) https://www.apachecon.com/
- TRAVEL ASSISTANCE applications for ApacheCon Europe CLOSE 14 July. Everyone --including members of all underrepresented communities-- are encouraged to apply today! http://www.apache.org/travel/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a blazing 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 –this week, 365 Apache contributors changed 755,749 lines of code over 2,196 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Tilman Hausherr, Claus Ibsen, Andrea Cosentino, and Jan Piotrowski.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Content Management --
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.14 released and Apache Jackrabbit 2.10 retired http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.0 released https://commons.apache.org/
- Apache Log4j 2.12.0 released https://logging.apache.org/
Network-Server --
- Apache Qpid JMS 0.44.0 released http://qpid.apache.org
Servers --
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.23 released http://tomcat.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that Apache NetBeans 11.1 beta-3, with Java EE 8 and Payara support out-of-the-box, will be entering its voting period next week? http://netbeans.apache.org/
- Did you know presentations from the Apache Roadshow/Chicago are now online? https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation/
- Did you know that you can support the ASF at any time with a tax-deductible donation? The cost of a premium cup of coffee is what it takes to support a single Apache project for one day. Raise a cup! https://donate.apache.org
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
- "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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 12:46PM Jul 05, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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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
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
- Registration is OPEN for ApacheCon North America/Las Vegas (9-12 September) and Europe/Berlin (22-24 October) https://www.apachecon.com/
- TRAVEL ASSISTANCE applications for ApacheCon Europe now open. Apply today! http://www.apache.org/travel/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a smashing 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 –this week, 442 Apache contributors changed 1,110,628 lines of code over 2,911 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Brahma Reddy Battula, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas,Claus Ibsen, and Ash Berlin-Taylor.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Atlas 0.8.4 released http://atlas.apache.org/
- Apache Calcite 1.20.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
- Apache Druid (incubating) 0.15.0 released https://druid.apache.org/
- Apache Kafka 2.3.0 released https://kafka.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that Apache Kibble has begun to share a series of factoids on the ASF --called "Apache Social Facts"-- that contain great insight on the evolution of the Foundation and Apache community at large? Visit http://kibble.apache.org/ and follow @ApacheKibble on Twitter!
- Did you know the ASF has more than 7,000 committers, and more than 10 times as many have contributed to Apache projects since the ASF's incorporation 20 years ago? https://projects.apache.org/timelines.html
- Did you know that you can support the ASF at any time with a tax-deductible donation? The cost of a premium cup of coffee is what it takes to support a single Apache project for one day. Raise a cup! https://donate.apache.org
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
- 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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- CFP and Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 02:23PM Jun 28, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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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
ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
- Early Registration is OPEN for ApacheCon North America/Las Vegas (9-12 September) and Europe/Berlin (22-24 October) https://www.apachecon.com/
- TRAVEL ASSISTANCE applications for ApacheCon North America accepted through 21 JUNE (NOTE: special funds earmarked for female Latin Americans). Applications for ApacheCon Europe now open. Apply today! http://www.apache.org/travel/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. 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, 527 Apache contributors changed 1,453,810 lines of code over 3,408 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Zhang Duo, Mark Robert Miller, Jonathan Hung, Claus Ibsen, and Hendrik Krohns.
Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Bigtop 1.4.0 released https://bigtop.apache.org/
- [CVE-2017-15694] Apache Geode metadata modification vulnerability https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/86d3b80a6dd45b7a06d3afcf1d5093f020f648ed167825b3e722f27d@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Content Management --
- Apache Allura 1.11.0 released https://allura.apache.org/
- CVE-2019-10085 Apache Allura XSS vulnerability https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a20914c4251a2ae3caebd8d0dd0056f3ac89209d6c216bb89efabd9@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Search --
- Apache Lucene Solr Reference Guide for 8.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/
Servers --
- [SECURITY] CVE-2019-10072 Apache Tomcat HTTP/2 DoS https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ac0185ce240a711b542a55bccf9349ab0c2f343d70cf7835e08fabc9@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Did You Know?
- Did you know that the program for ApacheCon North America is up? Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/
- Did you know that the ASF's email list activity over the past 14 days has comprised 89,139 on 62,103 topics sent by 5,345 people across 729 active lists? https://lists.apache.org/
- Did you know that Baidu, Cisco, Didi Chuxing, eBay, JP Morgan, Samsung, and Yahoo Japan use Apache Kylin to support extremely large datasets? http://kylin.apache.org/
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
- 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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- CFP and Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Posted at 09:36AM Jun 21, 2019
by Sally in Newsletter |
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