2008-April Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project

Highlights

OpenJPA has shipped another maintenance release, OpenJPA 1.0.2, and is
planning a minor feature release, OpenJPA 1.1.0.

The crypto web page was reviewed and OpenJPA does not fall into the
category ECCN 5D002, and therefore needs no special export classification.

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 continues to experience an increase in email subscriptions and
activity. There are over 140 subscribers to both dev and users.
The dev list currently logs approximately 300 messages per month; 
the users list around 250.

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.

Marc Prud'hommeaux has resigned from the OpenJPA PMC. He was a strong
community member and will be welcomed back when/if he returns.

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

Releases

OpenJPA 1.0.2 has shipped. The maintenance branch 1.0.x 
currently is tracking bugs fixed in the trunk and currently has a few
patches. 

The need for a new release based on the trunk has been identified, and
a volunteer will be recruited to release the update while work goes on 
in the trunk.

It was brought to the attention of the PMC that the 1.0.2 release was not
properly signed before being distributed. Releases will be subject to
a bit more oversight in future.