ASF Board Report 2014-06

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*
* the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is complete now;
the first release out of it (13.07.01), initially planned in February has
been delayed in order to give to the community enough time to enhance some
parts of the system (multi tenant support and other areas); now we are ready
to start a new vote that will happen after the completion of the release processes
(currently in progress) for the new bug fixes for 12.04 and 11.04 (see next items)
* the vote for the release of “Apache OFBiz 12.04.03” is in progress: this is
a scheduled bug fix release of the 12.04 branch and will be bundled with the
latest version of Tomcat (with fixes for the vulnerabilities announced by the
Tomcat community)
* we are also working to the release of “Apache OFBiz 11.04.05” in order to
bundle a fixed version of Tomcat; this release was initially scheduled in July
2014 and it will be the latest release from the 11.04 branch

*Community and Project*
* no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the
last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in
November 2012; the last PMC member was Erwan de Ferrieres (erwan),
invited in December 2009
* the PMC is aware of the importance of working with the community in order to
encourage new contributors and promote them to committers and PMC members;
however we still need some time to discuss and find together the best way to
implement the actions to make the PMC and committers group more dynamic; from
now on I will include a paragraph to the report with updates about this.
* mailing list traffic and commits are lower than in the past years but they
are still relevant

*Infra/Legal*
We have no issues that require Board assistance.