2008-July Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project

Highlights

OpenJPA has shipped a minor feature release, OpenJPA 1.1.0.  Please see 
http://openjpa.apache.org/2008/06/25/openjpa-110-now-available.html 
for details.

Two PMC members have been voted in.

Community

Mailing lists continue to be very active, with an average of almost 300
messages per month on the dev alias and nearly 200 messages per month on
the users alias.

OpenJPA continues to experience an increase in email subscriptions and
activity. There are over 140 subscribers to dev and 160 to users.

The community is working well together. Questions from the community
are answered promptly, often resulting in a JIRA being filed. 

Governance

Pinaki Poddar and Albert Lee have been voted onto the OpenJPA PMC. Both
are active committers and have demonstrated continued commitment to the
project.

The PMC continues to track contributors with an eye toward making them
committers, and committers PMC members. A couple contributors are on track 
to be voted into committership this summer.

Releases

OpenJPA 1.1.0 has shipped. The maintenance branch 1.1.x currently is 
tracking bugs fixed in the trunk. A new maintenance release 1.0.3 and
minor feature release 1.2.0 are being planned.

It was brought to the attention of the PMC that the 1.1.0 release was not
properly signed before being distributed. Changes will be made to the 
release process and better tested prior to the next release.

Discussion is underway regarding the next major release that will
correspond to the release of Java Persistence 2.1.