The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 December 2014

With more than 200 projects and initiatives under development at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), here’s what’s happened over the past week:

ASF Fundraising –supporting Sponsorship and fundraising initiatives for The Apache Software Foundation
 – Upayavira steps down as VP Fundraising; Jim Jagielski and Hadrian Zbarcea named new Vice Presidents http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html

ASF Infrastructure –leading the ASF’s multi-datacenter, multi-cloud deployment running 24x7x365 on multiple continents, distributing terabytes of artifacts per week and archiving more than 11 million Apache email messages.
 – ASF Subversion master’s emergency maintenance https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/subversion_master_undergoing_emergency_maintenance

Apache Incubator –the entry path for all code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join the ASF’s efforts as official Apache projects.
 – Hadoop Development Tools, HTrace, Lens, NiFi, and Tamaya entered the Incubator in November as new podlings http://incubator.apache.org/

Apache Flex™ –a highly productive, Open Source application framework for building and maintaining expressive Web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices.
 – Apache Flex TourDeFlex 1.2 released http://flex.apache.org/tourdeflex/

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