ASF Board Report 2015-12

## Description:
Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) is an open source
enterprise automation software project

## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
- a full day of OFBiz sessions was successfully held at ApacheCon Core
EU, Budapest; we are now planning our presence at ApacheCon NA 2016
- new components, features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed
and integrated into the official code base
- we are organizing the third OFBiz Community Day, scheduled in December:
the Community Days are virtual meeting where committers and contributors
work together for one day to resolve as many Jira tickets as possible
- the activity in the official blog and Twitter accounts is steady
- we have delayed the publication of our releases in order to be able to
complete the resolution of some issues being reported; we should be able
to release before the end of the current year

## Health report:
- the community is friendly and active, contributing new code, documentation
and ideas for the growth of the project
- the committers' group is slowly growing
- besides code maintenance and programming, the community is successfully
managing the website, documentation, blog and other official channels

## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Nicolas Malin on Mon Mar 23 2015

## Committer base changes:
- Currently 39 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Wei Zhang was added as a committer on Mon Oct 05 2015
- Gil Portenseigne was added as a committer on Fri Oct 02 2015

## Releases:
- Last release was 13.07.02 on Sat May 23 2015

## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 550 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 2210 emails sent to list (1594 in previous quarter)
- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 912 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 535 emails sent to list (443 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
- 150 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 188 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months