ActiveMQ Incubation Status - Apache Incubator

The ActiveMQ project is a robust and high performance Message Orientated Middleware provider which is integrated into Apache Geronimo but also be usable from inside any JVM.

News

2005-12-09 Project announced publicly.
2005-11-18 Project proposed and accepted for incubation in Apache.
2006-03-29 ActiveMQ 4 fully integrated into Geronimo 1.2.
2006-04-10 Added Nathan Mittler as a committer
2006-04-10 Working on the ActiveMQ 4.0 RC2 release candidate
2006-04-10 Currently working to accept a donation from Amazon for the ActiveMQ C++ API
2006-06-13 Version 4.0 Released
2006-04-10 Working started on next 4.1 version
2006-06-20 Version 4.0.1 Released
2006-07-31 Amazon code accepted
2006-09-10 Accepted Tim Bish as a committer
2006-11-13 ActiveMQ Version 4.0.2 Released
2006-11-24 ActiveMQ CPP Version 1.0 Released
2006-12-04 ActiveMQ Version 4.1.0 Released

Project info

If the project website and code repository are not yet setup, use the following table:

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/
Mailing list	dev	activemq-dev@geronimo.apache.org
	users	activemq-users@geronimo.apache.org
	commits	activemq-commits@geronimo.apache.org
	pmc	activemq-private@incubator.apache.org
Bug tracking	JIRA	https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ
Source code	SVN	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/activemq/
Proposal	Wiki	http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ActiveMqProposal
Mentors	jvanzyl	Jason van Zyl
	jstrachan	James Strachan
	noel	Noel Bergman
Committers	ammulder	Aaron Mulder
	adc	Alan D. Cabrera
	brianm	Brian McCallister
	dain	Dain Sundstrom
	djencks	David Jencks
	gregw	Greg Wilkins
	chirino	Hiram Chirino
	jstrachan	James Strachan
	jvanzyl	Jason van Zyl
	proyal	Peter Royal
	aco	Adrian Co
	dflores	Darwin Flores
	djcook	Dennis Cook
	foconer	Frederick Oconer
	gnodet	Guillaume Nodet
	jlim	Jonas Lim
	jgapuz	Joseph Gapuz
	pvillacorta	Patrick Villacorta
	rsaba	Ramzi Saba
	rajdavies	Rob Davies
	nmittler	Nathan Christopher Mittler
	tabish	Tim Bish

Incubation Status Reports

2006/Q1

The full status of incubation is here. In summary we're most of the way through incubation now, things have been progressing very well; the code is clean and using only Apache-compliant libraries, it has the correct copyright notices and is in the org.apache.activemq namespace and is generally working well now. We've got the software grants sorted and most developers have their CLAs on file and accounts created (we've a few more to do once we know the CLAs are on file).

We've voted on a milestone release which should go out soon once we've figured out the practicalities of doing an incuabtor milestone release. Our main outstanding issue now is creating the full website at Apache - which should be done in the next week or two - for now there is a simple home page.

2006/March

The ActiveMQ project is progressing toward graduation and things are moving along well. Below are the highlights of activity on the project:

Website status Updated
Added Nathan Mittler from Amazon as a committer
Working on the ActiveMQ 4.0 RC2 release candidate
Currently working to accept a donation from Amazon for the ActiveMQ C++ API

2006/April

The ActiveMQ project is progressing toward graduation and things are moving along well. Below are the highlights of activity on the project:

Website status Updated
Added Nathan Mittler from Amazon as a committer
Working on the ActiveMQ 4.0 RC2 release candidate
Currently working to accept a donation from Amazon for the ActiveMQ C++ API

2006/May

The STATUS file for the project is up to date. The code is clean and using only Apache-compliant libraries, it has the correct copyright notices and is in the org.apache.activemq namespace. We've got all the software grants sorted and all developers have their CLAs on file and accounts created. The project's active mailing lists are proof of the vibrant community behind ActiveMQ. Nathan Mittler was voted in as committer due to his excellent work on the C++ client for ActiveMQ.

The Java code base has has being going through QA and stabilization for the past few months and several release candidates for 4.0 have been cut. The 4.0 final release is currently under Vote and we expect to have a final release very shortly. Development is starting to gear up now for the 4.1 release and we are excited to find out where the community and committers drive the development of the next 4.1 release.

The website home page has now been sorted out and is being checked into svn. The static HTML is being generated from a Confluence wiki and content is very easy to update now. See: http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/

2006/June

The Apache ActiveMQ 4.0 final has successfully been released. For more information about the release, see: [WWW] http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/activemq-40-release.html Development has started on the next 4.1 release. In tandem, the 4.0 branch has continued to stablize and a 4.0.1 release should be ready shortly. Bug fix releases should start occurring now with more frequency.

2006/September

The ActiveMQ community continues to grow as evidenced by the mailing list volumes. Each month mailing list volumes continues to grow. Last month we had 574 emails sent to the developer list and 905 email sent to the user list! We have also seen a big increase in the amount of patches and contributions submitted from non ActiveMQ committers.

A large amount of development work and community interest has been around the Native clients used to access the Messaging broker. Tim Bish's excellent work on the STOMP c++ client has earned him an invitation to become an ActiveMQ committer. Amazon did a in house c++ client to ActiveMQ and that source code donation was accepted and committed to the source tree.

All the source headers in the 2 active branches have be update to comply with the new policies outline at: [WWW] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html.

The Apache ActiveMQ 4.0.1 has successfully been released. For more information about the release, see: [WWW] http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/activemq-401-release.html Development continues on the next 4.1 release. In tandem, the 4.0 branch has continued to stabilize and a 4.0.2 release should be ready shortly.

The project has discussed graduating and feels that ActiveMQ is ready and would prefer to become a TLP. Once the 4.0.2 release is completed expect more serious discussions regarding graduation to pop up on the incubator mailing lists.

Incubation work items

Project Setup

This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.

Item assignment is shown by the Apache id. Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the project to be incubated

date	item
2005-12-05	Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product.
N/A	If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external package, then ask the Apache project for the SVN module and mail address names.
2005-11-18	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
N/A	If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the incubator address/module names if accepted.

Interim responsibility

date	item
2005-11-18	Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors.
2006-03-17	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
2005-12-05	Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository. (to be done by PMC chair)
2005-12-05	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date	item
2006-02-04	Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
2005-12-09	Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Verify distribution rights

date	item
2005-12-09	Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, e have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
2005-12-09	Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms.

Establish a list of active committers

date	item
2005-12-15	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
2006-02-01	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
2005-12-15	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on people.apache.org.

Infrastructure

date	item
2005-12-07	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
2005-12-05	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists.
2006-03-22	Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira).
2005-12-09	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Project specific

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Incubation

These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.

These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they may change during incubation. They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and completed in the request for incubation signoff.

Collaborative Development

Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and acknowledged as committers on the project? DONE
Are there three or more independent committers? (The legal definition of independent is long and boring, but basically it means that there is no binding relationship between the individuals, such as a shared employer, that is capable of overriding their free will as individuals, directly or indirectly.) DONE
Are project decisions being made in public by the committers? DONE
Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of the committers? DONE

Licensing awareness

Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and acknowleged by all committers? DONE

Project Specific

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Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?
If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it?

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of the above tasks?