== Draft February 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: 2005-11-30
Top issues?
Community aspects:
- There has been open discussion about what are the next steps towards graduating Tuscany as a TLP, trying to address concerns raised by the IPMC related to the level of diversity in Tuscany.
- It should be noted that Tuscany does currently more than meet the Incubator minimum diversity requirements for graduation
- Voted Rajini Sivaram as new committer
- PPMC voted to invite Mark Combellack to join the PPMC
- Good community involvement - users are answering mailing list questions, providing patches, and being voted in as committers
o 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:
- Java SCA 1.0.1 and Java SCA 1.1 released
Ongoing work:
- SDO 1.1 is being worked on
- A Native SCA, SDO and DAS release is slowly being worked on
- The Java SCA 1.2 release contents are being discussed
- Links with other Apache projects continue to be forged and lots of exciting new features are being worked on!