The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheT AlluraT as a Top-Level Project

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FOREST HILL, Md., April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Apache

Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and

incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives,

announced today that Apache Allura has graduated from the Apache

Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the

project's community and products have been well-governed under the

ASF's meritocratic process and principles.

Apache Allura is an Open Source, extensible, web-based platform that

provides integrated software tools for collaborative software

development. Initiated by SourceForge in 2009 to manage source code

repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more

for any number of individual projects, collection of projects or

hierarchies of projects, the Allura forge was submitted to the Apache

Incubator in June 2012.

"The journey through the Apache Incubator made Allura a project for

the community by the community," said Dave Brondsema, Vice President

of Apache Allura. "I can't wait to see other Apache projects start

using Allura, and hope to catch up with other Apache projects at the

upcoming ApacheCon 2014 in Denver!"

"SourceForge has demonstrated their dedication to Open Source by

putting their crown jewels into the custodianship of the Apache

Software Foundation, and I'm excited to see where the project goes

next as it embraces a larger community of users and developers," said

Rich Bowen, Executive Vice President, Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Allura features include:

-- integrated issue tracking;

-- markdown formatting, including links to other artifacts (tickets,

discussion/comments, commits, etc);

-- artifact subscriptions through mail and RSS;

-- a built-in discussion forum with a granular permission facility

that allows for posts either via web or mail;

-- a blog tool with threaded discussion;

-- a code repository that hosts code with git, Mercurial, or

Subversion with graphical representation formats

Allura allows for accelerated collaborative development across an

array of user communities. Sites powered by Apache Allura include

SourceForge, Open Source Projects Europe, DLR German Aerospace Center

and DARPA's VehicleForge, among others.

"BerliOS recommends the SourceForge platform for migrating projects

currently hosted on BerliOS. We value the fact that the SourceForge

platform was first accepted as an Apache Incubator project and we are

glad to see it now graduated," said Lutz Henckel, berliOS project

leader. "This achievement means SourceForge platform --now known as

Apache Allura-- is backed by a diverse and well-structured community.

For projects hosted on SourceForge it also reduces the risk of vendor

lock-in, as developing projects can get their data and software

directly from the platform."

"Apache Allura is an Open Source modular forge platform using a

scalable architecture and with well-known technologies around Python,"

says Alvaro del Castillo, Apache Allura committer and CTO of Bitergia.

"It is easy to install and configure, a good bet for the future of

collaborative software development around forges."

Apache Allura helps community members effectively manage any number of

projects, including groups of projects known as neighborhoods, as well

as sub-projects under individual projects. It has a modular design to

support tools attached to neighborhoods or individual projects. The

tools within Apache Allura were designed to support version control

for source code repositories, ticket tracking, discussions, wiki

pages, blogs and more. Additional external and third-party tools can

be installed.

"We entered the Allura community to suggest the introduction of new

functionalities to improve awareness of people and projects. We found

that the community was open to our ideas," said Elisabetta Di Nitto,

Associate professor of the University of Milan. "As a researcher I

think this was a very interesting experience. We are glad we could

influence the development of the forge and that the Allura community

found our suggestions useful."

"SourceForge is very happy that Apache Allura, already used by 431,000

projects, will now be extended and available to an even wider

developer community," said Gaurav Kuchhal, General Manager of

SourceForge and Slashdot. "We stay committed to promoting open source

projects by providing free marketing and global distribution, no

matter where projects are developed."

Apache Allura is the result of an estimated 53 years of effort (as

calculated by the COCOMO - Constructive Cost Model), with nearly 3,496

commits by 24 individual contributors (representing 208,417 lines of

code).

Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Allura

software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by

a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project

Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations,

including community development and product releases. For

documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Allura, visit

http://allura.apache.org

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the

all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy

leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the

world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's

meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 400

individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to

develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting

millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are

distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively

participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and

ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and

expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by

individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct,

Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei,

IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban,

WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit

http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.

"Apache", "Apache Allura", "Allura" and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of

The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are

the property of their respective owners.

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