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  === Notable Happenings ===
  
+ After the last board report, the board sent us an inquiry about WS futures and structure, considering the wide breadth (the word "umbrella" came up :)) of the current project.  This spurred a conversation within the PMC revolving around how (and if) we should split Axis2 off as a separate TLP.  Although there was some broad acceptance of the idea, the conversation unfortunately devolved into some fairly acrimonious back-and-forthing at times, and we did not reach a successful resolution.  We hope to revisit this in the coming weeks and try to achieve some consensus.  In the meanwhile it's business as usual.
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+ As part of that conversation, it was noted that we really should do a review of our sub-projects and see which ones need a) to be retired, b) a new injection of effort, or c) to be split off into TLPs.  This will be happening in early 2009.
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+ We have several new committers, including Danushka Menikkumbura, Dave Parsons, Chris Twiner, Benson Margulies and Dan Kulp.
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+ We welcomed Nandana Mihindukulasooriya to the PMC.
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+ Sadly, Dims has once again decided to take a break from the WS project.  We wish him well and fervently hope he is able to return in the future.
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+ Activity levels have been pretty standard for us, which is to say bursty.
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  === Code Releases [since the last report] ===
  
- XmlSchema release 1.4.3: bugfixes and performance, driven in part by interoperation with CXF.
+  * XmlSchema release 1.4.3: bugfixes and performance, driven in part by interoperation with CXF.
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  === Subproject News ===
  
- No news below means nothing particularly notable for the board occurred this quarter.
+ (No news below means nothing particularly notable for the board occurred this quarter)
  
  ==== Apache Axis2 ====
  Apache Axis2 is the third generation Web service framework of the Apache Web service stack.  A highly extensible message processing engine focused on SOAP messages, it includes plugins for services, transports, MessageReceivers, and Modules (message interceptors).
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+ Axis2 is in the process of pulling together a 1.5 release.  Many of the WSO2 guys are flat-out on a development effort there, so there are only a few of us working it.  However it's mostly just a few bug fixes and getting the good work that's already happened post-1.4.1 into an official release.  Hope to release a beta by Dec 20, and perhaps get the release out the door by the end of the year.
  
  ==== Kandula ====
  Apache Kandula is an implementation of Web Services Coordination, Atomic Transaction and Business Activity protocols. The project provides implementations for both Apache Axis (kandula-1 branch) and Apache Axis2 (kandula-2 branch) platforms.
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  ==== Apache WS-Commons ====
  
- The XmlSchema subproject acquired two new committers.
+ Apache WS-Commons is a collection of projects that are primarily used as parts of various WS projects but useful even outside the WS space. WS-Commons houses Apache Axiom - the streaming XML object model, Apache XmlSchema -  an object model to manipulate XML schema documents, Apache Neethi - the WS-Policy implementation and various other smaller projects such as tcpmon.
  
- Apache WS-Commons is a collection of projects that are primarily used as parts of various WS projects but useful even outside the WS space. WS-Commons houses Apache Axiom - the streaming XML object model, Apache XmlSchema -  an object model to manipulate XML schema documents, Apache Neethi - the WS-Policy implementation and various other smaller projects such as tcpmon.
+ The XmlSchema subproject acquired two new committers from CXF-land, and did a new release.
  
  ==== Apache Muse ====
  Apache Muse is a Java implementation of WS-ResourceFramework, WS-Notification, and WS-DistributedManagement. It provides code generation tools and APIs that aid users in creating standards-compliant interfaces for manageable resources. Muse-based interfaces can be deployed in a J2EE or OSGi environment.