2008-October Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project

Highlights

OpenJPA has shipped a minor feature release, OpenJPA 1.2.0.  Please see 
http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/1.2.0/apache-openjpa-1.2.0/RELEASE-NOTES.html 
for details.

Two new committers have been voted in: Jeremy Bauer and Fay Wang.

Community

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

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

Releases

OpenJPA 1.2.0 has shipped. The maintenance branch 1.3.x currently is 
tracking bugs fixed in the trunk.

Discussion is underway regarding the next major release that will
correspond to the release of Java Persistence 2.1.
The consensus is that we will branch the trunk to continue the
1.3.x code line and transform trunk into the 2.x line corresponding
with the to-be-released Java Persistence specification.