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September 2013
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - September 2013 Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: No new releases this quarter. Last release was 0.8.2, April 2013. Community: The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since the last report. The last PMC change was the addition of Andrew Bayer in November of 2012, and the last new committer was Graham Gear, also in November of 2012. - User mailing list: 147 messages - Dev mailing list: 114 messages - Commits: 6 commits (non-release-related) - 7 JIRAs have been resoled Issues: No Board level issues at this time
June 2013
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - June 2013 Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: No new releases this quarter. Community: Andrew Bayer has replaced Tom White as the PMC chair. No new committers have joined. - User mailing list: 27 messages - Dev mailing list: 179 messages - Commits: 22 commits (non-release-related) Issues: No Board level issues at this time
March 2013
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - March 2013 Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: No new releases this quarter. Community: The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since the last report. There was a good discussion on the dev list about the new Apache Provisionr project (incubating) and how it relates to Whirr, and in particular whether to bring it to the ASF as a part of Whirr. In the end the community decided to create a new project (Provisionr has now entered incubation). There is interest in using the Provisionr service in Whirr for more reliable machine provisioning. - User mailing list: 15 messages - Dev mailing list: 184 messages - Commits: 15 commits Issues: No Board level issues at this time
December 2012
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - December 2012 Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: Version 0.8.1 was released in October, with Tom White acting as the Release Manager. Community: We voted in one new committer, Graham Gear, in the last quarter. The PMC composition did not change. - User mailing list: 38 messages - Dev mailing list: 368 messages - Commits: 46 commits Issues: No Board level issues at this time
September 2012
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - September 2012 Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud. Releases: Version 0.8.0 was released last month, with Andrew Bayer as the Release Manager. We plan to have further 0.8.x releases coming soon. Community: We voted in one new committer, Andrew Bayer, in the last quarter. The PMC composition did not change. We recently moved to Git for our SCM system. - User mailing list: 45 messages - Dev mailing list: 492 messages - Commits: 81 commits Issues: No Board level issues at this time
June 2012
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - June 2012 Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. Whirr graduated from the incubator in August 2011. Releases: There have been no new releases in the last quarter. Community: The last quarter has been quieter than the previous one, with no new committers or PMC members voted in. There have been a number of new users on the mailing lists. - User mailing list: 164 messages - Dev mailing list: 659 messages - Commits: 82 commits Issues: No Board level issues at this time
March 2012
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - March 2012 Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. Whirr graduated from the incubator in August 2011. Community --------- We have a healthy, growing community as shown by the growing number of messages on the dev and user lists. Last month we voted in two new committers: Frank Scholten and Ioannis Canellos. Paul Baclace gave a lightning talk about Whirr at BigDataCamp before O'Reilly's Stata conference in February. No new PMC members have been added since the last board report (December 2011). There are no issues that require the board attention. Releases -------- Version 0.7.0 was released in December, and a bugfix release 0.7.1 was made last month. We are close to a 0.7.2 release later this month.
December 2011
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - December 2011 Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. Whirr graduated from the incubator in August and this is the fourth board report as a TLP (now on a quarterly reporting schedule). Community Adrian Cole gave a talk about Whirr at PAX in Fort Lauderdale, Florida earlier this month. We continue to get a good level of contributions and user activity. Releases/Development 0.7.0 has a release candidate which is being voted on. Branding checklist: Project Website Basics - done Website Navigation Links - done Trademark Attributions - done (not yet live on site) Logos and Graphics - done Project Metadata - done (not yet live on site) Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - done Issues for board consideration None.
November 2011
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - November 2011 Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. Whirr graduated from the incubator in August and this is the third board report as a TLP. Community We added David Alves as a committer. We continue to get a good level of contributions and user activity. Tom White gave a talk about Whirr at ApacheCon in Vancouver earlier this month. Releases/Development Lots of work has gone into the 0.7.0 release, which we expect to release imminently. Branding checklist: Project Website Basics - done Website Navigation Links - done Trademark Attributions - not done Logos and Graphics - not done Project Metadata - not done Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - not done Issues for board consideration None.
October 2011
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - October 2011 Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. Whirr graduated from the incubator in August and this is the second board report as a TLP. Community We continue to get a good level of contributions and user activity. Adrian Cole and Chad Metcalfe gave talks about Whirr at PuppetConf last month. Tom White will give a talk about Whirr at ApacheCon next month. Releases/Development Work has continued for the 0.7.0 release, which we hope to release in the next few weeks. Branding checklist: Project Website Basics - done Website Navigation Links - done Trademark Attributions - not done Logos and Graphics - not done Project Metadata - not done Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - not done Issues for board consideration None.
September 2011
Status report for the Apache Whirr project - September 2011 Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud. Whirr graduated from the incubator in August and this is the first board report as a TLP. Community We are getting more contributions and user activity than any time since the beginning of the project. We voted in Karel Vervaeke as a new committer last month. Adrian Cole gave a talk about Whirr at Javazone in September. Releases/Development We released Apache Whirr 0.6.0, our sixth release. Work has started for the 0.7.0 release, which will feature new services, new ways of writing services (using Chef or Puppet), as well as core enhancements. Branding checklist: Project Website Basics - done Website Navigation Links - not done Trademark Attributions - not done Logos and Graphics - not done Project Metadata - not done Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - not done Issues for board consideration None.