Apache Jakarta Project Board Report, June 2009

Apache Jakarta Project Board Report, June 2009

Status
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Note: The board determined that the Jakarta report provided in May was 
lacking
in detail. This report seeks to address this criticism.

_From outgoing Chair, Martin van den Bemt_

It has been a while since I reported the last time. In june 2008 I announced
that I wanted to be replaced because of time constraints, with no one
volunteering. After that however I got caught up with what was happening 
in my
personal life and also was shutdown for over 3 months, which ended up in a
long period of silence. Now all major personal events (positive I might add,
so please don't worry) have passed, I however still find myself fighting to
find time (and energy) to spend at Apache.

In the light of this, I hand in my resignation as VP Apache Jakarta. To my
relief a discussion about the (in reality already effective) vacancy started
and some people stood up to volunteer to take over the position.

I myself regret the long absence and silence and I hope it didn't cause to
much worry and problems.
-- EOM --

_New chair?_

We are in the process of electing a new chair (voting is in progress).

Apart from the need to elect a new chair the Jakarta has no board level 
issues
at this time.

Releases
========

  * Cactus-1.8.1 - January 26, 2009
  * BSF-3.0-b3 - April 5, 2009
  * JMeter 2.3.3 - May 24, 2009

Subproject news
===============

_BCEL_

No activity - maintenance mode.

_BSF_

Did a 3.0 beta3 release to fix a bug for a user. Otherwise very quiet.
-- sebb, antelder

_Cactus_

Cactus version 1.8.1 was released in January. This version fixes a number of
bugs, provides a maven2 plugin to cactify WAR and EAR files and a sample
application showing how to test EJB3 projects.
-- ptahchiev

_ECS_

No activity - maintenance mode.

_JCS_

There were a bunch of new features added at the end of last year. I'm in the
process of fixing a few bugs and plan to cut a tag for a new release in the
next month or so.
-- asmuts

_JMeter_

Lots of fixes and incremental improvements have been made to the JMeter 
code.

JMeter user list is quite busy. There are a good few experienced JMeter 
users
who help out with user questions.

JMeter 2.3.3 was released on May 24.
-- sebb

_ORO_

No activity - maintenance mode.

_Regexp_

No activity - maintenance mode.

_Taglibs_

Standard Taglib (implementation of JSTL) migrated to Maven2. All 
non-deprecated
Taglibs have migrated to Maven2.

Discussing possibility of Taglibs moving to Tomcat with the Tomcat PMC.

Random, Datetime and I18N taglibs deprecated (aka retired).

An RDC 1.1 release is planned next month.
-- bayard, rahul

_Retired Projects_

   * Slide

[Report edited and submitted by Scott Eade with contributions by many.]