Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 17 June 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:03AM May 22, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Apache NetBeans 12.0 will be released once many people: Download Apache NetBeans 12.0 Beta 4: bit.ly/download-12-0-beta-4 Try it out. Here is an overview of the newest features, though incomplete: cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+12.0 Fill in this very quick survey: bit.ly/12-0-community-acceptance-survey [Read more...]
Posted at 02:16PM May 19, 2020 by Geertjan in Technology
The Apache® OpenOffice® Project is on the road to a bigger update for the leading open source office suite. This is your chance. OpenOffice needs people to help in the development process. Don't panic, you do not need to be a software engineer or programmer though those skills are always welcome. You can already contribute a lot if you just... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:34PM May 17, 2020 by marcus in General
Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week: "Apache Everywhere" – the first "short" from the "Trillions" documentary filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year (just released!) https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI Success at... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:46AM May 15, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many other modern features such as support for Markers, lambda expressions for lazy logging, property substitution using Lookups, multiple patterns on a PatternLayout... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:40AM May 15, 2020 by rgoers in General
Open Source distributed, scalable Big Data store celebrates a decade of processing zettabytes of data across highly scalable large tables for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem Wakefield, MA —13 May 2020— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:00PM May 13, 2020 by Sally in General
The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of CloudStack 4.13.1.0 as part of its LTS 4.13.x releases. The CloudStack 4.13.1.0 release contains c. 80 fixes on top of the CloudStack 4.13.0.0 release. CloudStack LTS branches are supported for 20 months and will receive updates for the first 14 months. For the final six months, only... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:44PM May 11, 2020 by Andrija in Announcements
by Marvin Humphrey I "arrived" at the Apache Software Foundation in 2005, unreasonably angry about a bug in Apache Lucene. By "arrived", I mean that I sent the first few emails among several thousand I would go on to send over the next 15 years — the ASF didn't have a physical office where I could show up to buttonhole... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:05PM May 11, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
Greetings everyone --it's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week: Support Apache – help the ASF continue to provide $20B+ worth of software –at 100% no cost– for the public good https://s.apache.org/GivingTuesdayNow2020 Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:38AM May 08, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Support The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and help the world's largest Open Source foundation continue to provide $20B+ worth of software for the public good at 100% no cost. Apache projects are helping millions of individuals and businesses struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic in numerous ways, including: Accessing one’s desktop... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:25AM May 05, 2020 by Sally in General
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) community has voted to release 0.8.0 . This is the first release after YuniKorn is accepted by Apache Incubator . Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) is a standalone resource scheduler, designed for managing, and scheduling Big Data workloads on the container orchestration... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:39AM May 05, 2020 by Weiwei Yang in Technology
by Julián Bruno Creating the Apache Beam firefly was the first opportunity I had to contribute my skills as a designer and illustration artist to an open source project. I didn’t know anybody working in open source until I moved to San Francisco from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I knew about open source software for video games, like Unity or Unreal... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:41PM May 04, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Assembly Plugin, version 3.3.0 . The Assembly Plugin for Maven is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files into a single distributable archive. You can download the... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:00PM May 01, 2020 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
Welcome, May! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened: The Apache Software Foundation – the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives. - The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 34 New Members https://s.apache.org/q14mx Inside ... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:35AM May 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in April: New this month -- - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors https://s.apache.org/Board2020 - ASF Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19 -... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:45AM May 01, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members' Meeting on 31 March - 2 April 2020: John Andrunas, Paul Angus, Zaheda Bhorat, Timothy Chen, Andrea Cosentino, Adina Crainiceanu, Griselda Cuevas, Fokko Driesprong, PJ Fanning, Julian Feinauer, Drew Foulks, Von Gosling, Susan Hinrich,... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:47PM Apr 30, 2020 by Sally in General
The second in the "Inside Infra" interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team features Drew Foulks, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. " I am in the business of making life easy for people who do phenomenal stuff. " ... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:45PM Apr 27, 2020 by Sally in General
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Resolver, version 1.4.2 Apache Maven Artifact Resolver is a library for working with artifact repositories and dependency resolution. Maven Artifact Resolver deals with the specification of local repository, remote repository, developer workspaces, artifact transports... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:22PM Apr 27, 2020 by khmarbaise in Maven Resolver Release
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven Wagon 3.4.0 . Apache Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Mavens artifact and repository handling code. You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page . Release Notes – Maven Wagon – Version 3.4.0 ... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:15PM Apr 25, 2020 by khmarbaise in Maven WAGON