== Draft from previous board November Incubator report ==
Last Tuscany board Incubator report
Tuscany provides infrastructure for developing service-oriented applications based on Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification and Service Data Objects (SDO) specifications. These specifications were submitted to OASIS in March 2007 by OSOA (www.osoa.org) and now form the basis of the standardization effort being undertaken by the Open CSA member section and its associated technical committeessimplifies the development, deployment and management of distributed applications built as compositions of service components. These components may be implemented with a range of technologies and connected using a variety of communication protocols. Tuscany implements relevant open standards including, but not limited to, the SCA and SDO standards defined by the OASIS OpenCSA member section.
Incubating since: 2006-11-30
Top issues?
- Completing the process of graduationDiversity
Community aspects:
- A proposal was put forward to graduate as a TLP but the IPMC raised concerns about the level of diversity so the proposal was withdrawn while these are addressed
- It should be noted that Tuscany does currently more than meet the Incubator minimum diversity requirements for graduation
- Dims stepped down as a mentor, Paul Fremantle and Matthieu Riou took his place
- The community has voted to ask the IPMC to make a proposal to the ASF board for graduation as a top level project
- Discussion is underway in the IPMC regarding project diversity
- Good community involvement. Users are providing patches, helping to answer questions and being voted in as committers
- Voted Brady Johnson, Simon Nash, Amita Vadhavkar, Mark Combellack as new committers
- Dims stepped down as a mentor, Paul Fremantle and Matthieu Riou took his place
- The native implementations have a new ant base build system that is consistent across SCA, SDO and DAS
- The community members working on the native implementations are currently working up a contents list for the next release
- Community is working on OSGI Integration and discussion about an SCA OSGI Runtime is underway
- Provided couple Tools (Eclipse Plugins) to simplify the user experience while running SCA Applications
- Good community involvement - users are answering mailing list questions, providing patches, and being voted in as committers
- Over seven hundred posts on the tuscany-user list in the last three months, up over 300% since a year ago
- Working with Apache ODE to provide BPEL integration. Initial support available on SCA 1.0 release.
- Working with Apache Geronimo to provide Tuscany hosting. A simple scenario is now working.
- Utilizing Apache Felix for OSGI Integration
- Discussions around utilizing Apache Abdera for Feed support
Releases since last report:
- Release Java SCA 0.99, 1.0, the next release (1.0.1) is currently being voted on A java implementation of Significant milestones were achieved with the 1.0 releases of Java SCA and SDO which implement the v1.0 of the SCA specifications Java SDO 1.0 released A java implementation of and v2.1 of the SDO specification respectively
- An 0.99 release of Java SCA was also done prior to the 1.0 release
- Java DAS beta1 and beta2 released
Ongoing work:
- A Java SCA 1.0.1 maintenance release is currently being voted on
- A Native SCA, SDO and DAS release is in progress
- The Java SCA 1.1 release contents are being discussed
- Links with other Apache projects continue to be forged and lots of exciting new features are being worked on!