Apache Beam has been a top-level project since January 2017. This post describes some of our recent efforts to tackle the challenges of growing our community. We face two problems in our contributor/committer-base: Not enough committers to review all the code being contributed, in part due to recent departure of a few committers We want our... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:04PM Feb 22, 2019 by kenn in General
We hope you are having a happy Friday. The Apache Community has had a productive week, as always. Let's review: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 March. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.h... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:04PM Feb 22, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter
Apache OFBiz News January 2019 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have more news about OFBiz chat room migration from HipChat to Slack, planning to move from SVN to GIT, along with our usual list of features and improvements. OFBiz is now on Slack OFBiz chat room is migrated to Slack from HipChat. To... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:31AM Feb 22, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in General
Open Source Big Data in-memory columnar layer adopted by dozens of Open Source and commercial technologies; exceeded 1,000,000 monthly downloads within first three years as an Apache Top-Level Project Wakefield, MA —19 February 2019— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:00AM Feb 19, 2019 by Sally in General
Mid-month already! Let's see what Apache Community worked on last week: A little Valentine's appreciation to all our Sponsors, whose support demonstrates how they #LoveApache http://apache.org/foundation/thanks ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:55PM Feb 15, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter
Hooray for Friday! It's time to review the activities of the Apache Community over the past week: FINAL CALL: please share your thoughts on The Apache Way in our quick survey https://s.apache.org/oxTr Success at Apache –the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:30PM Feb 08, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Success at Apache" reflects diverse, personal experiences from our community members, with particular focus on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". The post below is the result of a discussion with the author that originated in early September 2018 and remained unpublished as its tone deviates... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:18PM Feb 05, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 2.5.6 of Apache Groovy. Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM. Further details can be found at the http://groovy.apache.org website. This release is a maintenance release of the GROOVY_2_5_X branch. It is strongly encouraged that all users using prior versions on... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:19PM Feb 04, 2019 by Remko Popma in General
Happy February! We've had quite a productive week, so let's review what the Apache Community has been up to: Have you shared your thoughts on The Apache Way? We appreciate your input! https://s.apache.org/oxTr ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:11PM Feb 01, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter
There's been lots of discussion in the Apache NetBeans community about how best to express the fact that Apache Maven and Apache Gradle are more modern choices to be aware of than Apache Ant, while at the same time not implying that there's anything wrong with using Apache Ant. Here's what we seem to have reached consensus around, i.e., move... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:31PM Feb 01, 2019 by Geertjan in General
Apache OFBiz News December 2018 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have news about our usual end of year tasks to create a new branch, a new Marketplace plugin, and also some news about various upgrades were are implementing. Gradle upgraded to version 5.0 OFBiz has been upgraded to Gradle 5.0 ... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:35AM Jan 30, 2019 by mbrohl in General
Apache OFBiz News November 2018 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have more news about new SMS gateway integration feature for OFBiz as well as our usual list of features and improvements. Short Messaging Service (SMS) Gateway Integration One of our contributor Pritam Kute has proposed Short Messaging... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:35AM Jan 30, 2019 by Pranay Pandey in General
Create a 20th Anniversary logo for the world's largest Open Source software foundation ! The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) develops, shepherds, and incubates hundreds of freely-available, enterprise-grade projects that serve as the backbone for some of the most visible and widely used applications in computing today. Through the ASF's... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:22AM Jan 30, 2019 by Sally in General
Hurray, the 'enterprise' cluster , constituting all the modules in Apache NetBeans GitHub that provide features for Java/Jakarta EE development, provided in the 2nd Oracle donation of NetBeans to Apache, has been integrated into the daily builds . Now, for the first time, out of the box, you'll have the support that was part of NetBeans IDE... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:03PM Jan 28, 2019 by Geertjan in General
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today welcomed Amazon Web Services (AWS), the latest company to sponsor the ASF at the Platinum level . "We are pleased to have AWS as a Platinum Sponsor," said ASF Chairman Phil Steitz. "In addition to helping support the ASF’s day-to-day operations through a Platinum sponsorship, AWS has been a... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:00PM Jan 28, 2019 by Sally in General
Over the past few days we have implemented rate limiting on selected services across the ASF. As our foundation grows, so do the number of users and robots utilizing our services. In order to accommodate as many as possible with what resources we have, we have opted to implement rate-limiting to ensure that everyone can get their fair share of use of... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:20PM Jan 27, 2019 by humbedooh in Notices
Junit 5 is, architecturally, so different to previous versions, that it should really be called Jupiter, instead. However, this is not a problem when you're using Maven, since Maven resolves all transitive dependencies for you, and is supported in that way from Apache NetBeans 10 onwards . Not so with Apache Ant, of course, where you need to set each... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:00PM Jan 27, 2019 by Geertjan in General
It's the final Friday of January already, and the Apache community is closing out the week with the following activities: Thanks in advance for helping the ASF by taking a very short survey on The Apache Way https://s.apache.org/oxTr ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:34PM Jan 25, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter
Enhanced scripting tutorial has just become part of Apache NetBeans documentation. It contains various examples showing how to communicate from Java with JavaScript , Python and other languages. The following topics are covered: Setup Get started Guest language "Hello World!" It's a polyglot world Add a... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:20PM Jan 24, 2019 by jtulach in Technology