Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here’s a summary of what happened in October:
New this month —
– ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.
— ApacheCon@Home 2020 was a huge success https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-was-a
— All sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes from ApacheCon@Home are available https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/
– Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May – July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr
– The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of OpenOffice https://s.apache.org/86lex
– “Inside Infra” – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team
— Daniel Gruno –Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
– Apache Month in Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020
Important Dates —
– Next Board Meeting: 18 November 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
Infrastructure —
seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our
highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP
Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein.
ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities
across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, 5-6PB in traffic
annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+
lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are available around the clock. The average uptime in October was 100%. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
In October, 789 Apache Committers changed 12,272,284 lines of code over 15,524 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest
contributions, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Mark Miller, Mark
Thomas, and Andi Huber.
Project Releases and Updates —
New releases from Apache Ant (Build Management); Any23 (Content); Arrow (Big Data); APISIX (API); BookKeeper (Big Data); Calcite (Big Data); Camel (Integration); Commons DBCP (Libraries); Commons NET (Libraries); Commons Pool (Libraries); Druid (Big Data); Flink (Big Data); Groovy (Programming Languages); Hadoop (Big Data); HBase (Big Data); HttpComponents Client (Servers); Ignite (Data Management Platform); Jackrabbit (Content); Kylin (Big Data); Lucene (Search); NiFi (Big Data); Oak (Content); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); Pulsar (Messaging); Qpid Broker (Messaging); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Solr (Search); Struts (Web Frameworks); Tomcat (Servers); Tuweni (Blockchain); Wicket (Web Frameworks); XMLBeans (Library).
The
Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/ . New releases from incubating podlings include: Apache Teaclave (Incubating; Computing); StreamPipes (Incubating; IoT); TVM (Incubating; Machine Learning).
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