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We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Some feedback from the board on the infrastructure issues would be helpful.

Community:

• One new PMC member has been added: Bilgin Ibryam (2008-10-18).
• No new committers have been added.

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• The OFBiz Symposium at ApacheCon US 2008 was a great success. There was significant community involvement in presentation and attendance, and a lot of building relationships with others in the ASF. There was also a lot of discussion about the project as well, including future strategy and direction, getting more involvement from the large numbers of people working with OFBiz on a regular basis but not really contributing a lot (and why it is in their best interest to contribute and get more involved, ie how they could solve some issues they have been facing by going it alone), and in general how different people/groups with different objectives can work together to achieve goals (like continuing to allow contributions without test cases, but encourage everyone who wants something to work or continue to work a certain to contribute test cases to the already fairly large test library).

Project:

• Lots of new functionality in both business applications and framework
• New effort to gather requirements and designs to drive and organize the next generation of enhancements
• New objective, mostly just discussion so far, to move toward using OFBiz to manage the project, and perhaps eventually more of the ASF

Project:

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Infrastructure:

It has been brought up as a concern that OFBiz is not using available ASF infrastructure for various things. Thanks especially to Ted Husted of the PRC for feedback on this.

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This was not a high priority during incubation, and I understood that in general it wasn't a big deal as the official URL for Apache OFBiz is now ofbiz.apache.org. I'd be happy to donate the domain name, I just haven't been asked to yet, and while I've thought about doing so it also hasn't been a priority. The biggest part of the effort would be finding and trying to change references to old ofbiz.org email addresses (I think Andrew Zeneski and I were the only ones to ever use those). For me personally I wouldn't mind... most of the emails I get on that address are things that should really go to the project mailing lists, and 99% of the time I reply with a "form letter" type email that asks them to subscribe and discuss it there with the community instead of with me personally.

Possible Resolutions

1. Move all of these resources to current ASF infrastructure
2. These resources are hosted at Contegix. Matthew Porter at Contegix has mentioned to us that they are doing some hosting for Maven repositories that is somehow official ASF infra, but I don't really know what that means or if it is helpful. Matthew is currently looking into the details so we have some ideas, and feedback from infra would be helpful as well (though we have not requested that yet).