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This talk describes the OGCE group's motivations for and early experiences participating in the Apache Software Foundation.

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Experiences with the Apache Software Foundation Marlon Pierce, Suresh Marru, Raminder Singh, Gerald Guo, Lahiru Gunathilake
E-Science Software Sustainability • The National Science Foundation has recognized that it needs strategies for sustainable software that it funds. – Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Report from an NSF-funded workshop • C. Stewart, et al. – Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) – Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program
What Are Ingredients for Sustainable Software (Besides Funding)? • Open source or free licensing – Apache or GPL license families • Code should use supporting tools such as those from SourceForge, GitHub, etc – Version control software, trouble tickets, mailing lists, IRC, etc. • Project management philosophy • Meritocracy, benevolent dictator, etc. • Reproducible build and test • Committed user base • Open community – Overlooked but key – Process for attracting new developers – Encourage and reward projects for diversifying – Need to go beyond the SourceForge model
Some Organizational Models for Sustainable Academic Software • Institution-led consortia – Sakai, Kuali, HUBzero • NSF-funded communities – Globus CDIGS – NCAR • Non-profit spin-offs – HDF Group • But these don’t scale down for smaller projects
Problem and Proposed Solution • Problem Statement: how can we improve the chances of good academic software surviving the departure of its principal developer(s). • Our proposed solution: Use the Apache Software Foundation – Not model ourselves after it—join it. – Apache will provide the necessary community support and project lifecycle enforcements to improve the chances that good software flourishes. • Evaluating this hypothesis is part of our NSF SDCI funding.
Apache Software Foundation Key Elements • Open community, not just open source – Decisions are made by voting from the project members – Projects succeed by attracting more contributors and committers, not just downloads – All discussions and decisions must be done on public mailing lists. • Successful members can be selected to steer Apache as a whole.
Apache Project Lifecycle • Projects are proposed and voted in or out. – Usually this is to publicize a new project – But Open Office was very contentious. • New projects go through an incubation phase – Champion, mentors from Apache – Code donations – Defined criteria to graduate • Failure is an option – Incubation projects can fail to graduate – Other projects can be retired, moved to the attic, suspended, etc (Xalan)
Getting Started • We have started two Apache Incubators – Rave: OpenSocial and W3C widget portal – Airavata: Scientific Workflows • First step: make a software disclosure to IURTC. – This was fairly painless – Key is to make sure you get permission from any one who has contributed to the code. • Second step: find a champion – An established Apache member – Will propose your project as an incubator
Further Steps • Sign and submit an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) – “You hereby grant to the Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works.” • Get someone wearing a tie to sign a Software Grant Agreement and an Corporate CLA.
Last First Steps • Expunge inappropriately licensed and export restricted code from your code base • Contribute it. – Basically, do and “svn import” of your code into your area of the Apache SVN. • Congratulations, you are now an incubator and must figure out how to graduate – There is no set criteria. – Your champion and mentors help determine this.
• Apache Rave is a joint submission of OneHippo, MITRE, SURFNet, and IU. – Unusual submission • It’s a generalization of the OGCE Gadget Container • Champion: Ate Douma • Mentors: – Sylvain Wallez – Upayavira – Ross Gardler – Hadrian Zbarcea
• Apache Airavata consists of the workflow tools developed by the OGCE – More traditional submission • Champion: Ross Gardler • Mentors: – Alek Slominski – Ate Douma – Sanjiva Weerawarna – Paul Fremantle – Chris A. Mattmann • Website design by Barbara Hallock
Apache Connections • Successful incubator graduation depends on establishing connections with other Apache projects. • Rave: Shindig, Wookie • Airavata: ODE, Axis2, QPID, OODT
Is It Worth It? • Early impressions are positive • We’ve been introduced to a number of great developers. – It is useful to spend time looking at other people’s codes – And it is useful to have even informal code reviews, so make sure your code is clean and you have your unit tests in place.
Apache Contributions Aren’t Just Software • Apache contributors and committers aren’t just code writers. • Successful communities include – Web developers – Documentation and tutorial writers – Testers, requirements providers, and constructive complainers • Using Jira and mailing lists
More Information • Links below are to the Websites – Further links to mailing lists, SVN browsing, Jira system, Jenkins, Sonar, and other Apache infrastructure • Apache Rave: http://incubator.apache.org/rave • Apache Airavata: http://incubator.apache.org/airavata/

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Experiences with the Apache Software Foundation

  • 1. Experiences with the Apache Software Foundation Marlon Pierce, Suresh Marru, Raminder Singh, Gerald Guo, Lahiru Gunathilake
  • 2. E-Science Software Sustainability • The National Science Foundation has recognized that it needs strategies for sustainable software that it funds. – Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Report from an NSF-funded workshop • C. Stewart, et al. – Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) – Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program
  • 3. What Are Ingredients for Sustainable Software (Besides Funding)? • Open source or free licensing – Apache or GPL license families • Code should use supporting tools such as those from SourceForge, GitHub, etc – Version control software, trouble tickets, mailing lists, IRC, etc. • Project management philosophy • Meritocracy, benevolent dictator, etc. • Reproducible build and test • Committed user base • Open community – Overlooked but key – Process for attracting new developers – Encourage and reward projects for diversifying – Need to go beyond the SourceForge model
  • 4. Some Organizational Models for Sustainable Academic Software • Institution-led consortia – Sakai, Kuali, HUBzero • NSF-funded communities – Globus CDIGS – NCAR • Non-profit spin-offs – HDF Group • But these don’t scale down for smaller projects
  • 5. Problem and Proposed Solution • Problem Statement: how can we improve the chances of good academic software surviving the departure of its principal developer(s). • Our proposed solution: Use the Apache Software Foundation – Not model ourselves after it—join it. – Apache will provide the necessary community support and project lifecycle enforcements to improve the chances that good software flourishes. • Evaluating this hypothesis is part of our NSF SDCI funding.
  • 6. Apache Software Foundation Key Elements • Open community, not just open source – Decisions are made by voting from the project members – Projects succeed by attracting more contributors and committers, not just downloads – All discussions and decisions must be done on public mailing lists. • Successful members can be selected to steer Apache as a whole.
  • 7. Apache Project Lifecycle • Projects are proposed and voted in or out. – Usually this is to publicize a new project – But Open Office was very contentious. • New projects go through an incubation phase – Champion, mentors from Apache – Code donations – Defined criteria to graduate • Failure is an option – Incubation projects can fail to graduate – Other projects can be retired, moved to the attic, suspended, etc (Xalan)
  • 8. Getting Started • We have started two Apache Incubators – Rave: OpenSocial and W3C widget portal – Airavata: Scientific Workflows • First step: make a software disclosure to IURTC. – This was fairly painless – Key is to make sure you get permission from any one who has contributed to the code. • Second step: find a champion – An established Apache member – Will propose your project as an incubator
  • 9. Further Steps • Sign and submit an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) – “You hereby grant to the Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works.” • Get someone wearing a tie to sign a Software Grant Agreement and an Corporate CLA.
  • 10. Last First Steps • Expunge inappropriately licensed and export restricted code from your code base • Contribute it. – Basically, do and “svn import” of your code into your area of the Apache SVN. • Congratulations, you are now an incubator and must figure out how to graduate – There is no set criteria. – Your champion and mentors help determine this.
  • 11. • Apache Rave is a joint submission of OneHippo, MITRE, SURFNet, and IU. – Unusual submission • It’s a generalization of the OGCE Gadget Container • Champion: Ate Douma • Mentors: – Sylvain Wallez – Upayavira – Ross Gardler – Hadrian Zbarcea
  • 12. • Apache Airavata consists of the workflow tools developed by the OGCE – More traditional submission • Champion: Ross Gardler • Mentors: – Alek Slominski – Ate Douma – Sanjiva Weerawarna – Paul Fremantle – Chris A. Mattmann • Website design by Barbara Hallock
  • 13. Apache Connections • Successful incubator graduation depends on establishing connections with other Apache projects. • Rave: Shindig, Wookie • Airavata: ODE, Axis2, QPID, OODT
  • 14. Is It Worth It? • Early impressions are positive • We’ve been introduced to a number of great developers. – It is useful to spend time looking at other people’s codes – And it is useful to have even informal code reviews, so make sure your code is clean and you have your unit tests in place.
  • 15. Apache Contributions Aren’t Just Software • Apache contributors and committers aren’t just code writers. • Successful communities include – Web developers – Documentation and tutorial writers – Testers, requirements providers, and constructive complainers • Using Jira and mailing lists
  • 16. More Information • Links below are to the Websites – Further links to mailing lists, SVN browsing, Jira system, Jenkins, Sonar, and other Apache infrastructure • Apache Rave: http://incubator.apache.org/rave • Apache Airavata: http://incubator.apache.org/airavata/