The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 December 2020

Welcome, December –we’re opening the month with another great week. Here’s what the Apache
community has been up to:

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 – Andrew Wetmore –Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 16 December 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.
 – all videos from ApacheCon@Home now available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/  

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 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 – Over the past week, 407 Apache Committers changed 1,758,756 lines of code over 3,611 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Paul King, Daniel Sun, Hugh Miles, and Jarek Potiuk.                    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API —
 – Apache APISIX 2.1 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Application Performance Monitoring —
 – Apache SkyWalking 8.3.0 and CLI 0.5.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Content —
 – Apache Tika 1.25 released https://tika.apache.org/
 – Apache Jackrabbit 2.18 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IoT —
 – Apache IoTDB 0.11.0 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Programming Languages —
 – Apache Groovy 2.4.21 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Machine Learning —
 – The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® TVM™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/59g4a
 – Apache SINGA 3.1.0 released http://singa.apache.org/

Servers —
 – Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.14, 5.0.3 GA, and 5.1 BETA2 released https://hc.apache.org/
 – Apache Traffic Server 8.1.1 and 7.1.12 released https://trafficserver.apache.org/

 
Did You Know?

– Did you know that 17 Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many happy returns to Apache Portable Runtime (APR; 20 years); Logging Services (17 years); Cayenne and OFBiz (14 years); Synapse (13 years); Camel (12 years); Axis, OpenWebBeans, Pivot (11 years); Aries (10 years); Flex (8 years); Helix (7 years); Flink (6 years); Beam (4 years); Trafodion (3 years); Airflow (2 years); and Druid (1 year)! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

– Did you know that organizations wishing to support Apache do so through Sponsorship, Corporate Giving Programs, Matching Gifts, and more. Thank you for considering a one-time tax-deductible donation today! http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html 

– Did you know that Apache TVM is the ASF’s first full stack software and hardware co-optimization project? http://tvm.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

– Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

– ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

– “Trillions and Trillions Served” documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) “Apache Everywhere” https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) “Why Apache” https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation 

 – The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 – The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 – Apache in 2019 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 – The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 – Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 – “Success at Apache” focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF “just works”. https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

 – Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team –meet 
    Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
    Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew
    Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
      …Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
    Daniel Gruno Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1 and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
    Gavin McDonald Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2

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