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Apache ActiveMQ Now A Top Level Project

The Apache ActiveMQ project has completed incubation. Please go to the main project site :

http://activemq.apache.org/

The ActiveMQ project graduated on 2007-02-06

Description

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 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.

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.

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/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'
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?