Board meeting on 18 Apr 2018; report to be submitted by 11 Apr
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
We have released jclouds 2.1.0, which support for OpenStack Keystone v3, a long-standing issue that prevented jclouds from supporting modern OpenStack versions. This has been eagerly awaited by the community and we have already received (although off-list) some positive feedback from users. In this release, several providers have reached a good level of maturity and have been promoted out of "labs": Azure ARM, Packet and OpenStack neutron for compute, and Google Cloud Storage and Backblaze B2 for storage.
Another discussion that is taking place is the need to move to Java 8 as our officially supported Java version. This presented some compatibility issues with the Guava library, which is widely used in the project, but we have finally been able to come to an agreement on the upgrade plan. There has been valuable feedback from the community regarding this topic and we now feel comfortable in moving forward with the Java and Guava versions.
== Community ==
The project continues to receive contributions in the form of code and issues from new developers, indicating that development is healthy and that users are feeding back their problems and feature suggestions. We're also working to see if an Aliyun user can contribute work done on a private branch back into the open-source repository.
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In particular, we are receiving sizeable contributions from DimensionData and 1&1, who are developing providers for their cloud and bare metal servers, respectively.
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It has been great to see a contributor-initiated effort to move the project forward to Java 8 and a newer Guava version. It is not an easy change given our codebase and we are happy to see people is not afraid of trying to change the project core, as one recurrent topic is that the learning curve to understand the jclouds core is quite high.
Last committer: 2018-01-26 (Jim Spring)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
- Upgrade to Java 8 to a newer Guava version. This will have a significant impact on users but we hope it won't be an issue at this point.
- Continue to monitor our community for potential new committers and PMC members
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.1.0, took place on 2018-02-21.