A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.
Project Status
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We have continued to receive contributions from various community sources, including several vendors that are developing and contributing providers for their offerings. It is encouraging that we've found them to be very open to discussing design decisions; some of these discussions have also resulted in small additions to the jclouds core, which thus also continues to evolve.
We recently added support for Blackblaze B2 storage and expect to have an Azure ARM provider completed shortly. The plan is to then release jclouds 2.0.
Community
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Activity on the user and development lists has remained pretty stable. Questions continue to be answered in a reasonable amount of time, and we have been able to encourage users to (with some guidance) open pull requests for their desired changes themselves.
There were two jclouds presentations at ApacheCon NA. Unfortunately, we weren't able this time to meet representatives from downstream users such as Apache Brooklyn or Apache Stratos, as they weren't attending. We find these kinds of meetings, which we have conducted at past ApacheCon EU events, to be very useful in understanding the needs of those projects and helping us plan our roadmap.
We have one student working on a GSoC project, which looks likely to be completed on time.
There are currently 11 PMC members and 23 committers.
Last committer: 2016-02-05 (Reijhanniel Jearl Campos)
Last PMC member: 2015-09-20 (Zack Shoylev)
Community Objectives
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Our immediate aim is to wrap up work on the Azure ARM provider in preparation for a subsequent jclouds 2.0 release. More generally, we continue to try to encourage and supervise, where necessary, new contributors to grow the committer base.
Releases
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The last jclouds release, 1.9.2, took place on 2016-01-16.
As discussed above, we are aiming to release jclouds 2.0 shortly. Depending on the time required, we are considering an interim jclouds 1.9.3 release to address issues resolved since 1.9.2 for users.