ASF Board Report 2013-06

Report for June 2013 for Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) as a top level project.

Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) is an open source
enterprise automation software project. By enterprise automation we mean:
ERP, CRM, E-Business / E-Commerce, MRP, SCM, CMMS/EAM, and so on.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases

• new release: "Apache OFBiz 12.04.01" has been released in April 2013; this
  release is an important milestone for the project because it contains all
  the features of the trunk up to April 2012 and since then has been
  stabilized with bug fixes. It is now the OFBiz current stable release:
  users of the 11.04 series are encouraged to migrate to this release in
  order to get all the new features implemented from April 2011
  thru April 2012
• we are in the process of preparing new bug fixes releases for the 10.04,
  11.04 and 12.04 series; the release for the 10.04 series will be the last
  of this series
• we have decided to postpone the creation of the 13.0x series (initially
  planned for April) of a few weeks because we wanted to include in it a
  series of important framework refactorings that we are doing in the trunk

Community and Project

• Al Byers resigned from the OFBiz PMC; Al was one of the early (pre ASF)
  committers of OFBiz but has never been very active since years and was not
  an active PMC member
• no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the
  last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in
  November 2012
• mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but it is still
  relevant and there is good community interaction

Infra/Legal
We have no issues.