2011-January Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project

There are no items requiring board attention at this time.

Highlights

The OpenJPA web presence was evaluated with regard to the trademark
and branding requirements. Most of the requirements are already met,
with the exception of direct "sponsor", "thanks", and "security" links.
There are links to the Apache sponsor, thanks, and security pages but
these are linked by the OpenJPA sponsor, thanks, and security pages.

The trickiest issue is that OpenJPA is introduced as "a Java persistence
project" which is a noun, not an adjective. This will need to be changed to
"The Apache OpenJPA project is a Java persistence project".

We have identified a volunteer to migrate the existing Confluence-based
web tool to the Apache CMS, and the changes with regard to trademark and
branding will be done concurrent with the migration.

Community

A new JSR for JPA was just posted to the JCP web site.
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=338
The terms of the sample TCK appear to be similar to the previous versions
which are acceptable for use by Apache projects.

New committers were voted into the project: Jody Grassel and Heath Thomann.

Mailing lists continue to be very active, with close to 230 messages 
per month on the dev alias and approximately 110 messages per
month on the users alias.

OpenJPA email subscriptions are stable at approximately 150 subscribers to dev
and 240 to users.

Governance

We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and committers
for PMC members.

Releases

A branch 2.1.x has been created in preparation for a maintenance release
2.1 early in 2011.