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- one new committer, Vikas Mayur, was voted in before the last report but his CLA and account had not been finalized; that is now complete
- there are various new contributors and there is increasing traffic on the mailing lists and in Jira issues, but no new candidates for committers have stood out yet
- some concerns about a single company with significant community presence has been voiced as Hotwax Media has 4 people on the PMC (out of 11) and 3 committers that are not PMC members (out of 10); the Hotwax Media leadership (including myself) is aware of this problem and we are making an efforts to grow from outside of the community and to help and encourage other service providers and end-user groups to participate more in the community; 4 of the 6 partners at Hotwax are OFBiz PMC members, and one more is a committer (the other 2 committers being employees), and it is understood that it is important for the OFBiz community and therefore for Hotwax as well that there be diversity and a wide base for stability within the community; any recommendations from the board or others experienced with this sort of thing is welcome
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- more effort is going into automated testing to help with stability and to find problems more quickly as the community grows and more people get involoved
- contributions continue in many areas including tools for more efficient development and analysis, core application improvements and extensions, and certain special purpose applications such as the existing project management app and the new sales force automation one
- Crypto Export Control: OFBiz does use cryptography libraries for various things so as we understand it we have to follow the guidelines for the export control notifications; as part of this we have done the following:
-- a Project listing has been added to https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/licenses/exports
-- an email has been sent to crypt@bis.doc.gov, enc@nsa.gov, web_site@bis.doc.gov, and relevant ASF email addresses for the TSU notice
-- a BIS/TSU exception notice has been added to the README and NOTICE files in the OFBiz trunk and the release4.0 branch
ALL PMC CHAIRS Export Notification policy
William A. Rowe, Jr. writes:
Each and every PMC chairman;
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