The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 December 2016
It’s a wrap! The Apache community’s final activities of 2016 include: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – Next Board Meeting: 18 January 2017. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running […]
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 December 2016
Happy holidays! The Apache community has worked hard this week on: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – Next Board Meeting: 18 January 2017. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running […]
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 16 December 2016
As we’re approaching the holidays, the Apache community has been busy this week on: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – ASF Operations Summary – Q2 FY2017 https://s.apache.org/oTOF – Feedback from The Apache Software Foundation on the Free and Open Source Security Audit (FOSSA) https://s.apache.org/romf – Next Board […]
Feedback from The Apache Software Foundation on the Free and Open Source Security Audit (FOSSA)
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx(at)apache(punto)org> December 2016, v1.09 Background The important role of open source software in key infrastructures was brought to collective attention by two major security vulnerabilities in the core of the internet infrastructure. Heartbleed and Shellshock of 2014 caused significant concern. It made a lot of people realise how important the collective […]
The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: August – October 2016
FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2017 (August-October 2016) "With hundreds of projects and thousands of committers, the Apache Foundation has found stunning success without knuckling under to the software titans."—Matt Asay, InfoWorld > President’s Statement: As a newly appointed President, my first priority has been to get a budget in place for the board […]
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 December 2016
Another brilliant week with the following accomplishments from the Apache community: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – Next Board Meeting: 21 December 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html Introducing Success at Apache –a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes […]
Success at Apache: Project Independence
By Mark Thomas I’ve been involved in The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) since 2003. I was using Apache Tomcat at work and I hit a problem that needed a new feature to be implemented. There was already an enhancement request in Bugzilla so I submitted a patch. After some re-work by the project committers, the […]
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 December 2016
Welcome, December! We’ve wrapped up another great week with the following activities: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – Next Board Meeting: 21 December 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure […]