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We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Issue with the OFBiz Release Management strategy:
..However we know that there are some concerns about the OFBiz release strategy and we want to assure the Board that we are aware of the ASF policies about releases, we took in serious consideration the concerns and we are in the process of discussing a different release strategy that will work well for OFBiz and will be in line with the ASF policies.

Community and Project

• Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high, here are the number of subscribers to project mailing lists in early March:
  user@ofbiz.apache.org: 718
  dev@ofbiz.apache.org: 466
  commits@ofbiz.apache.org: 218
• number of commits (from 2009-12-10 to 2010-03-10) is 1132
• Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features
• Apache Commons has granted Adrian Crum (OFBiz PMC member) karma to move the OFBiz conversion framework to Apache Commons sandbox, with the goal being to have it replace their abandoned Convert project
• Jacopo Cappellato has been voted new PMC Chair after the resignation from this role of David Jones; David is still actively involved in the project both as PMC member and committer

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