ASF Board Report 2015-03

Report for March 2015 for Apache OFBiz as a top level project.

## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise processes that includes framework components and business
applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM),
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP).

## Activity:

The community is healthy and active: users are supported in the mailing lists;
bug are reported and fixed; commits are steady and documentation is being improved.

A full OFBiz track has been included in the schedule of the upcoming
ApacheCon North America 2015 in Austin: the six presentations will
cover a range of community, business and technical topics:
- State of Apache OFBiz - Jacopo Cappellato
- Why Large Companies Use Apache OFBiz Open Source ERP - Hans Bakker
- Can OFBiz Stand the Stringent Regulatory Requirements of Pharmaceutical
Manufacturing - Sakthivel Vellingiri
- Building Mobile Business Applications with Apache OFBiz - Ean Schuessler
- Using Docker for Development of Production Systems
Based on OfBiz - Adam Heath
- How To Avoid Common Mistakes In OFBiz Development - Adrian Crum

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 29 committers and 14 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sharan Foga at Mon Sep 22 2014
- 4 New commmitters:
- Mridul Pathak was added as a committer on Fri Jan 02 2015
- Chatree Srichart was added as a committer on Thu Jan 15 2015
- Gavin Mabie was added as a committer on Fri Jan 02 2015
- Pranay Pandey was added as a committer on Fri Dec 19 2014

## Releases:
- No new released have been issued since our last report
- Last release was 13.07.01 on Tue Oct 07 2014
- A new release branch (14.12) has been created and the community
is working at stabilizing it for future releases

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 537 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months):
- 3884 emails sent to list (2914 in previous quarter)

- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 900 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 681 emails sent to list (912 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 238 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 271 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months