2009-October Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project

Highlights

OpenJPA continues to implement the latest JPA 2.0 JSR-317, which is in
Proposed Final Draft 2 status. The latest draft was issued 08-October-2009 
and is very close to what will be voted upon as the final release.

The Field Of Use restriction in the draft specification was resolved with
Geir's help, and an interim release of the problematic API was published.

A release of OpenJPA 2.0.0 Milestone 3 has been posted for download. 
This release is based on the Proposed Final Draft 2 of JSR-317.

Community

Rick Curtis and Tim McConnell were offered, and they accepted, committer
status on the project.

Mailing lists continue to be very active, with an average of close to 400
messages per month on the dev alias and approximately 250 messages per
month on the users alias.

OpenJPA continues to experience a modest increase in email subscriptions and
activity. There are over 150 subscribers to dev and over 230 to users.

The community voted to adopt a logo for OpenJPA. You can see it in action
at openjpa.apache.org.

Governance

Donald Woods, Milosz Tylenda, and David Ezzio were offered, and they
accepted, membership in the OpenJPA PMC.

Releases

OpenJPA 2.0.0 Milestone 3 has been posted for download.