2008-01 Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project

Highlights

OpenJPA has shipped a maintenance release, OpenJPA 1.0.1.

There are no board issues at the moment.

Community

EasyBeans has integrated OpenJPA to provide JPA services. EasyBeans is 
an open source, lightweight and modular EJB3 container hosted by the 
OW2 consortium. http://www.ow2.org. EasyBeans is the EJB container 
of the JOnAS application server. http://jonas.objectweb.org.
OpenJPA is the default persistence provider in some JOnAS packages.

OpenJPA is experiencing a slowdown in email activity as the year end
approaches. Happy New Year.

The assumption is that this is a seasonal variance. An analysis will
be made in one year's time.

Several new contributors have uploded patches to JIRA issues. 

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

Governance

There has been little traffic on the openjpa-private alias, reflecting
the relative calm of the project.

The PMC continues to track contributors with an eye toward making them
committers, and committers PMC members.

Releases

OpenJPA 1.0.1 has shipped. The maintenance branch 1.0.x 
currently is tracking bugs fixed in the trunk and currently has a few
patches. Once a need for another release is identified, a volunteer
will be recruited to release the update while work goes on in the trunk.