== Draft November Incubator report ==
Tuscany simplifies 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?
- Diversity
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was put forward to graduate as a TLP but the IPMC raised concerns about the level of diversity so the proposal was withdrawn while these are addressed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
- Voted Brady Johnson, Simon Nash, Amita Vadhavkar, Mark Combellack as new committers
- 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
Releases since last report:
- Significant milestones were achieved with the 1.0 releases of Java SCA and SDO which implement the v1.0 of the SCA specifications 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!