[Jakarta Wiki] Update of "JakartaBoardReport-February2007" byMartinvandenBemt

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=== Infrastructure news ===

- Changes to the projects infrastructure. Migrations to Subversion, new vmware instances etc.
+ Started to investigate the moderators we have and contacting all the moderators asking if they are still active. If there are gaps, I will try to fill the void by finding volunteers. This way we prevent that lists aren't moderated.

=== Subproject news ===

- News related to various subprojects, if they have news. Volunteers for subproject news are desired, otherwise the Chair is responsible for finding out said news (and should mark that they had to do so).
+ News related to various subprojects, if they have news. Volunteers for subproject news are desired, otherwise the Chair is responsible for finding out said news (and should mark that they had to do so). Sections with a prefix of MvdB are notes added by the chair

==== BCEL ====

+ MvdB :
+
+ Some user questions, further no action taken on the future of BCEL (on the list is contacting the 2 currently exising forks out there, to see if there is interenst in moving development back to Jakarta. Afaik Findbugs and AspectJ have forks.
+
==== BSF ====

+ MvdB :
+
+ They are currently planning for a 3.0 release and for jsr223 they are investigating to get the TCK. Geir is in the process of arranging things.
+
==== Cactus ====
+
+ MvdB :
+
+ Cactus development was stalled and recently Petar Tahchiev sent a mail to the list, saying he had continued development of cactus on https://mamouth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mamouth. I (=Martin van den Bemt) am currently in the process of informing Petar on what actions to take (eg Code Grants/CLA/CCLA) to move development back to the cactus project. When the paperwork is there, we will run the code base through the incubator (at a minimum legal).

==== Commons ====

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==== JCS ====

+ MvdB :
+
+ JIRA notifications are send to the list now. Not much development happening currently.
+
==== JMeter ====

+ MvdB :
+
+ Active as always. The concern about the lack of committers for JMeter in my last report is weakened by the fact that other people are stil involved, although don't currently have any cycles to spare.
+
+
==== ORO ====

Apart from the occasional regexp question, the ORO is inactive and ready for dormancy.

==== POI ====

- Added Mark Thomas to the POI Committer list. Actively working on a release.
+ MvdB :
+
+ Added Mark Thomas to the POI Committer list. Actively working on a release, which is planned for the beginning of March. After that release next steps will be taken in a move to TLP.

==== Regexp ====

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==== Slide ====

+ MvdB :
+
+ Activity is picking up and a potential other committer candidate was introduced, which means more patches and more activity.
+ I am also currently investigating if I can use Slide for my self, so who knows :)
+
==== Taglibs ====

A 1.1.3 release of the Jakarta Standard Taglib is being worked on. The RDC taglig has activity - however apart from that all of the taglibs should be considered Inactive and available for dormancy.