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## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (17 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 36 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Giulio Speri was added to the PMC on 2023-12-21 - Mekika Leila was added to the PMC on 2023-12-21 - Nicola Mazzoni was added to the PMC on 2023-12-21 - No new committers. Last addition was Mekika Leila on 2022-09-28. ## Project Activity: * New releases: ** 18.12.11 was released on 2023-12-21 ** 18.12.12 was released on 2024-02-28 * with the two releases four security vulnerabilities have been disclosed and fixed: CVE-2023-50968, CVE-2023-51467, CVE-2024-25065, CVE-2024-23946 * trademarks: there are no trademark related concerns at the moment ## Community Health: No new committers have been invited during the last quarter but, as anticipated in our last report, three new members joined the PMC. Community activity over the last quarter has been on average with various topics discussed both on our mailing lists and ticketing system.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (17 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Daniel Watford on 2023-01-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Mekika Leila on 2022-09-28. ## Project Activity: * two new releases have been published since our last report: ** 18.12.09 was released on 2023-11-05 ** 18.12.10 was released on 2023-12-04 * with the two releases two security vulnerabilities have been disclosed and fixed: CVE-2023-46819 and CVE-2023-49070 * trademarks: there are no trademark related concerns at the moment; as regards the ofbiz.info domain (Christofer Dutz posted a question about it through the agenda tool), considering that it is currently free, the PMC is inclined to leave it as is rather than asking the ASF to register it ## Community Health: Community activity over the last quarter has been on average with various topics discussed both in the users and the dev list. One interesting topic that the community is discussing is about the stabilization branches: whether a new one will be created from trunk (e.g. 24.01) or not (keeping the existing, 22.01). No new committers or PMC members have been invited during the last quarter but we are in the process of voting for new PMC members: if everything goes well, they will be announced soon.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (17 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Daniel Watford on 2023-01-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Mekika Leila on 2022-09-28. ## Project Activity: No release was published since our last report: the last one was 18.12.08, released on 2023-06-01. The branch 18.12 is currently our release branch, and bug fix releases are published from it when needed. New features and work is contributed to the trunk, from which we will create the new release branch to replace the 18.12 branch. ## Community Health: The last quarter has been a bit slower than the average, possibly because of the summer season. However the community is engaged in various exchanges in our mailing lists, in which both technical and feature related questions and topics are posted, answered and discussed. We need to look more closely for new candidates for the PMC and committer roles since it has been a while since our last additions.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Daniel Watford on 2023-01-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Mekika Leila on 2022-09-28. ## Project Activity: - various contributions and bug fixes have been contributed and integrated into our codebase - two new releases have been published since our last report; they are both bug fix releases in the 18.12 series: -- 18.12.07 was released on 2023-04-10 -- 18.12.08 was released on 2023-06-01 - security handling: the release 18.12.07 has fixed a security vulnerability (CVE-2022-47501) and currently we do not have open vulnerability reports on our plate - release plans: in the next quarter we will continue using the 18.12 branch as the basis to publish bug fix releases as needed, while we complete the stabilization of the new 21.01 branch that will support Java 17 - the effort to migrate the official blog from Roller to Hugo is still ongoing and a bit behind of schedule; in the meantime, as agreed with the Infra team, archived posts are hosted on https://blogsarchive.apache.org/#ofbiz and any new post will be on ofbiz.apache.org/blog ## Community Health: No new committers or PMC members have been invited during the last quarter but we have some candidates in our watchlist. Community activity over the last quarter has been on average and similar to previous periods: various user questions have been posted and answered on topics including OFBiz configuration and deployment, data model customisations, bill of materials, inventory items etc...
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Daniel Watford was added to the PMC on 2023-01-18 - No new committers. Last addition was Mekika Leila on 2022-09-28. ## Project Activity: - No release was published in the last quarter: the next release will be the first of the 22.01 series. - Experiments on Docker based deployments for our demo instances hosted by the Apache Infra. - Code review is in process for the Codenarc integration - Migration of the official blog from Roller, that is going to be discontinued, to Hugo - Various contributions and bug fixes have been contributed. ## Community Health: We have invited a new PMC member. No new committers have been added but a few new contributors joined the project. Community activity over the last quarter has been on average: - In the user list questions were posted by our users and discussed/addressed on various topics such as accounting setup, sales and purchase order processing, payment methods, tips on user interface development and on deployment - In the dev list, where most of the traffic is originated from the activity on our code repository and on our ticketing system, topics discussed include: testing required on JDK17 in preparation of the new release, leveraging containers for the management of deployments of the OFBiz demo instances hosted by the Apache Infra, code review for the Codenarc integration, migration of the OFBiz website content from PHP to Hugo
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - Mekika Leila was added as committer on 2022-09-28 ## Project Activity: - We are still working (and a bit behind of schedule) at the preparation of the new release 22.01.01 but we should be able to publish it soon - We are in contact with the Infra team to resolve some access related issues to Roller, the platform we use to manage the project official blog posts ## Community Health: Community activity over the last quarter has been on average and similar to previous periods: the stats report increases in mailing list traffic but they are probably just fluctuations and not really relevant. No new PMC members have been invited but we have invited and added a new committer (that also increase the diversity of our community).
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 57 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - No new committers. Last additions were Giulio Speri and Nicola Mazzoni on 2022-03-23. ## Project Activity: - New releases: Apache OFBiz 18.12.06 was released on 2022-09-01; this is a bug fix release that introduces various corrections and fixes a series of security vulnerabilities - Release end of life announcement: as planned and anticipated in our previous reports, with the release 18.12.06 the release branch 18.12 has finally reached its end of life; this has been announced with the release and we are now working at the preparation of the first release of the new branch 22.01 ## Community Health: Community activity over the last quarter has been on average (in terms of threads/communications/topics discussed in our mailing lists and in terms of code contributions). No new committers and PMC members have been invited but we have some good candidates and hopefully we will increase our group soon.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 57 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - Giulio Speri was added as committer on 2022-03-23 - Nicola Mazzoni was added as committer on 2022-03-23 ## Project Activity: - No release has been published in the second quarter of 2022; the last release is 17.12.09, released on 2022-01-15 - The community is working at the stabilization of the 22.01 branch and is preparing a bug fix release for the currently active branch 18.12 - New data privacy policy: the OFBiz website has been updated to be compliant with the new data privacy policy; more specifically, we have added a link to the official privacy policy and we have updated our website to leverage Matomo, instead of Google Analytics. ## Community Health: It has been a good quarter with mailing list activity on average, contributions merged in our codebase or published in our Wiki; two new committers have been onboarded successfully.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 55 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Wiebke Pätzold on 2021-10-20. ## Project Activity: - Since the last report, several new releases have been published: -- 18.12.03 was released on 2021-12-12 -- 18.12.04 was released on 2021-12-19 -- 18.12.05 was released on 2022-01-03 -- 17.12.09 was released on 2022-01-15 - as planned, a new stabilization branch have been created at the beginning of 2022; the name of the branch is 22.01 - with the release 17.12.09, the branch 17.12 has reached its end of life; the branch 18.12 is stable and still active; the new branch 22.01 is undergoing the stabilization process and in a few months will be ready for the publication of new releases - among various bug fixes and enhancements, the new releases have fixed a series of security vulnerabilities, reported to the OFBiz security team ## Community Health: It has been a busy quarter for the community, with interesting development ideas and questions from users. The development activity has been mainly focused on bug fixing and preparation of the new releases (four in the last quarter).
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 55 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - Wiebke Pätzold was added as committer on 2021-10-20 ## Project Activity: In the last quarter the project published the first and the second release from the 18.12 branch: - 18.12.01 was released on 2021-10-28 - 18.12.02 was released on 2021-11-22 With these releases, the 18.12 branch is now the active stable branch and the 17.12 branch is obsolete. In addition to the continued work on the 18.12 line, various bug fixes, refactoring, code cleanups and enhancements have been contributed to the project. The community has planned to create a new stabilization branch in the beginning of 2022; the branch will be named 22.01. ## Community Health: Community health is good and community activity over the last quarter has been on average for our project (the metrics show an increase of activity on all the channels over the past quarter but this is simply because we had a slow quarter during the summer). We have added a new committer and we have some good candidates in our watchlist for committers and PMC members.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 54 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Priya Sharma on 2021-03-11. ## Project Activity: - new release: Apache OFBiz 17.12.08 was released on 2021-08-09 - security team: with the release 17.12.08 a security vulnerability has been fixed and announced (CVE-2021-37608); during the last quarter the team has received a few other vulnerability reports, not qualifying for CVEs, that could be addressed by the community thru the standard bug ticketing system's workflow - upcoming releases: the community is preparing to release the first release from the 18.12 branch, that will become the new active branch; when this will happen, the 17.12 branch will be archived; the community is also discussing to create a new branch out of trunk to initiate the stabilization process for future releases - Various bug fixes, refactoring, code cleanups and enhancements have been contributed to the project - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty ## Community Health: The last quarter has been slower than usual, possibly because of the summer season. However the community is engaged in improving the trunk, preparing for the new releases, addressing security vulnerability reports, publishing new releases (1 in the last quarter) and in various discussions and support requests posted in the mailing list and in our issue tracker. No new committers and PMC members have been invited but there are a few candidates in our watchlist.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (14 years ago) There are currently 54 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Akash Jain on 2021-01-28. - Priya Sharma was added as committer on 2021-03-11 ## Project Activity: - two new releases have been published since the previous report: -- 17.12.06 was released on 2021-03-19 -- 17.12.07 was released on 2021-04-26 - software security handling [1]: three vulnerabilities have been reported, resolved and announced by the OFBiz community: CVE-2021-26295, CVE-2021-29200 and CVE-2021-30128 - after the announcement of JFrog to shut down Jcenter, that was used by OFBiz as a dependency repository, the community has successfully completed the migration to Maven Central and published the updated releases before the deadline - various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed to the project - Official blog [2]: three new posts have been published since the previous report with the summary of project news and activities in February, March and April 2021 - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] https://ofbiz.apache.org/security.html [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ ## Community Health: It has been a regular quarter for the community and the project with average amount of activity: a few new contributors joined the project, one new committer has been onboarded; two new releases have been published, resolving 3 security vulnerabilities and the switch to Maven Central.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (14 years ago) There are currently 53 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Girish Vasmatkar was added to the PMC on 2021-01-27 - Akash Jain was added to the PMC on 2021-01-28 - Daniel Watford was added as committer on 2021-01-01 - Martin Becker was added as committer on 2021-03-03 ## Project Activity: - Various bug fixes, refactoring, code cleanups and enhancements have been contributed to the project - new release: 17.12.05 was released on 2021-01-09 - Some highlights about relevant discussions and content produced by the community in the last quarter: adopting Docker for OFBiz deployments, creating new tutorials, the video series about OFBiz as an Omni-channel Order Management System goes on with 4 new videos, a new video series with interviews to OFBiz users and their success stories has started with the first video interview - The summary/news articles, published every month in the official blog [1], are a great way to stay up to date with what is going on in the OFBiz community and provide an useful reference to tickets resolved, new documentation, new videos and other material published on the project's channels; since our last report two new articles have been published: [2] and [3] - Updates about the community activities are also published on LinkedIn [4], Twitter [5], YouTube [6] and other social media [7]. - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/apache-ofbiz-news-december-2020 [3] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/apache-ofbiz-news-january-2021 [4] https://www.linkedin.com/company/apache-ofbiz/ [5] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [6] https://www.youtube.com/user/ofbiz [7] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz ## Community Health: It has been a positive quarter for the community and the project with valuable communication, average amount of activity, a new release published, various content produced, two new committers and two new PMC members.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (14 years ago) There are currently 51 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Mridul Pathak was added to the PMC on 2020-09-17 - Swapnil Shah was added to the PMC on 2020-09-18 - No new committers. Last addition was Devanshu Vyas on 2020-08-17. ## Project Activity: - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed to the project: improvements to online help, support for REST based APIs and many others. - The summary/news articles, published every month in the official blog [1], are a great way to stay up to date with what is going on in the OFBiz community and provide an useful reference to tickets resolved, new documentation, new videos and other material published on the project's channels. - Some highlights about relevant discussions and content produced by the community in the last quarter include: OFBiz as an Omnichannel Order Management System (9 videos), OFBiz as an Headless commerce platform (3 Wiki documents), How to implement REST APIs in OFBiz (a plugin and 2 videos), B2B commerce with OFBiz (1 video), OFBiz integration with Shopify (1 video). - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty - No new releases in this quarter; the last release was Apache OFBiz 17.12.04, released on 2020-07-13 - Updates about the community activities are published in the official blog [1], LinkedIn [2], Twitter [3], YouTube [4] and other social media [5]. ## Community Health: The community is collaborating to improve the trunk, fix vulnerabilities and stabilize the two active release branches. While the traffic in the mailing lists has been lighter than that of the first half of the year, the community is also exploring new ways to socialize, communicate and produce valuable content such as the chat sessions in the Slack channel of the project or the tutorials and conversations around various OFBiz topics that are recorded and published in the official YouTube channel [4]. The community continues its slow growth: 2 new PMC members have been added in the last quarter. [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://www.linkedin.com/company/apache-ofbiz/ [3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [4] https://www.youtube.com/user/ofbiz [5] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (14 years ago) There are currently 51 committers and 28 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Aditya Sharma was added to the PMC on 2020-07-05 - Arun Patidar was added to the PMC on 2020-07-06 - Pawan Verma was added to the PMC on 2020-07-27 - Suraj Khurana was added to the PMC on 2020-07-04 - Devanshu Vyas was added as committer on 2020-08-17 ## Project Activity: - Apache OFBiz 17.12.04 was released on 2020-07-13: this is a bug fix release published to address, among other minor issues, two security vulnerabilities (see below) - with the latest release two security vulnerabilities have been resolved: CVE-2020-9496 and CVE-2020-13923 - in August we have held our "Community Days" celebration: during a long weekend (from the 21st to the 25th) the community worked together at resolving as many tickets as possible - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [1], on Twitter [2], YouTube [3] and other social media [4]. [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.youtube.com/user/ofbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz ## Community Health: It was a good quarter, maybe a bit slower than usual probably because of the summer season. The community is engaged in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the two active release branches, publishing new releases (1 in the last quarter) and in various discussions and support requests posted in the mailing list and in our issue tracker. We are continuing to onboard new PMC members (+4 in the last quarter) from our active committers watchlist; one new committer has been invited as well.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (13 years ago) There are currently 50 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - James Yong was added to the PMC on 2020-04-22 - Swapnil Mane was added to the PMC on 2020-04-23 - Rishi Solanki was added to the PMC on 2020-04-28 - Girish Vasmatkar was added as committer on 2020-04-20 ## Project Activity: - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk and back-ported to the two active release branches (17.12 and 18.12) - Recent releases: 17.12.02 was released on 2020-04-17. 17.12.03 was released on 2020-04-27. - The community has revived our traditional "Community Days" celebration with the addition of associating a theme (i.e. focusing on specific tasks/topics): during a long weekend we work together at resolving as many tickets as we can in the selected theme; the community has widely accepted the theming and has been accomplishing more with the contributions. - Details about the community activities are published in the official blog [1], on Twitter [2], YouTube [3] and other social media [4]. - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty - Vulnerability reports: as anticipated in our last report, with the publication of two releases in the 17.12 series, we have resolved the last two CVEs in our backlog: CVE-2019-0235 and CVE-2019-12425 [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.youtube.com/user/ofbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ ## Community Health: As anticipated in our last report we have invited new PMC members (3) that were in our watchlist of active committers; one new committer has been invited as well. The migration to Git is complete and the community is still refining the documentation and workflows around the new source repository. As usual the community is engaged in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the two active release branches, publishing new releases (2 in the last quarter) and in various discussions and support requests posted in the mailing list and in our issue tracker.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (13 years ago). There are currently 49 committers and 21 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Mathieu Lirzin was added to the PMC on 2019-11-12 but then resigned on 2020-02-24 - Second last addition was Gil Portenseigne on 2019-11-08. - Yoav Shapira resigned from the PMC on 2020-03-04 - Olivier Heintz was added as committer on 2020-01-16 ## Project Activity: - the main focus, after the switch from SVN to Git in the last quarter, has been that of streamlining the contribution workflow, documenting best practices, leveraging the new tools available, maintaining a clean repository history; this is still a work in progress but good progress is made on the dev list on all these topics - The community worked together on bug fixes, improvements and documentation during the OFBiz Community Days event [1] for Q1 of 2020, that was held from 21st to 25th of February. - new releases: Apache OFBiz 16.11.07 was released on February, 2020; it is the 7th bug-fix release of the 16.11 series and probably the last one in the series; Apache OFBiz 17.12.01 was released on March, 2020; it is the first release of the 17.12 series, that is now the active release branch - Vulnerability reports: since our last report, with the publication of the two new releases, we have resolved two CVEs: CVE-2019-12426 and CVE-2020-1943; - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk and backported to the various release branches - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [2], on Twitter [3] and other social media [4]. - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ ## Community Health: We are currently considering for PMC and committers membership a group of candidates from our watchlist; the community is actively involved in finalizing the migration to Git and as usual in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches, publishing new releases and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in our issue tracker.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-20 (13 years ago) There are currently 49 committers and 23 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Mathieu Lirzin was added to the PMC on 2019-11-12 - Gil Portenseigne was added to the PMC on 2019-11-08 - Pranay Pandey was added to the PMC on 2019-09-24 - No new committers. Last addition was Deepak Nigam on 2019-06-12. ## Project Activity: - The main event in the last quarter has been the migration from svn to Git; thanks to our committers and to the amazing Infra team the migration was smooth and it is completed now; we are now reviewing with our community the best practices for contributions in order to leverage the advantages offered by the new versioning system - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk and backported to the various release branches - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [3], on Twitter [4] and other social media [5]. [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/trademarks/trademarks.txt [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/security/vulnerabilities.txt [3] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [4] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [5] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ ## Community Health: since our last report we have added three new PMC members; the vote for one of them started at the time we submitted our previous report while the other two have been invited after we reviewed our committers group in search for potential PMC members, as suggested by this Board in response to our last report; we have other candidates in our watchlist and we will do our best to grow both groups as soon as we identify good candidates; as usual the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in our issue tracker.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management). Apache OFBiz provides a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache OFBiz was founded 2006-12-19 (13 years ago) There are currently 49 committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Paul Foxworthy on 2018-03-18. - Deepak Nigam was added as committer on 2019-06-12 - Pawan Verma was added as committer on 2019-06-12 Please notice that the addition of the two new committers has been included also in our previous report. ## Project Activity: - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk and backported to the various release branches - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] - 16.11.06 was released on 2019-09-08; this is the 6th bug-fix release of the 16.11 series and fixes a series of bugs, including some vulnerability fixes - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [2], on Twitter [3] and other social media [4] [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/trademarks/trademarks.txt [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ ## Community Health: we have a few candidates in our watchlist for the committers and PMC groups and we have started a vote to invite a new PMC member; as usual the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in our issue tracker.
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk - The OFBiz project will be represented at ApacheCon North America 2019, Las Vegas: 3 presentation proposals have been accepted and they will be scheduled in one half-day track dedicated to OFBiz - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] - Releases: no news since our last report and our plan is the same: we will probably release 16.11.06 in the next few weeks; the stabilization of the new release branches is ongoing but we do not have a publication date, yet; however the 17.12 branch is quite stable and the community may release 17.12.01 sometime soon; - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [3], on Twitter [4] and other social media [5]. ## Health report: two new committers have recently joined the project and we have other candidates in our watchlist; as usual the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in our issue tracker ## PMC changes: - Currently 20 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Paul Foxworthy on Mon Mar 19 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Deepak Nigam was added as a committer on Tue Jun 11 2019 - Pawan Verma was added as a committer on Tue Jun 11 2019 - Currently 49 committers. ## Releases: - Last release was 16.11.05 on Tue Oct 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: There is nothing significant to report in the mailing list activity and statistics. ## JIRA activity: - 240 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 183 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/trademarks/trademarks.txt [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/security/vulnerabilities.txt [3] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [4] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [5] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Highlights: - Trademarks: we do not have trademark related concerns at the moment and our backlog of non-compliant parties is mostly empty [1] - Releases: no new releases have been published in the last quarter but we will probably release 16.11.06 in the next few weeks; the stabilization of the new release branches is ongoing but we do not have a publication date, yet; however the 17.12 branch is quite stable and the community may release 17.12.01 sometime soon; we have also created, at the end of December, the new stabilization branch, named 18.12 - source code repository: recently, in the dev list, it was proposed [3] to switch the project's repository from SVN to Git; the proposal has triggered a lot of community feedback, mostly everyone in favor of moving to Git; we expect this switch is something the community will work upon the next months - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk: a summary of the main changes is available as usual in the project's blog [4] - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [4], on Twitter [5] and other social media [6]. ## Health report: a new committer has joined the project in the last quarter and we have other candidates in our watchlist; as usual the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in our issue tracker ## PMC changes: - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Paul Foxworthy on Mon Mar 19 2018 - Currently 20 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: - Mathieu Lirzin was added as a committer on Fri Feb 22 2019 - Currently 47 committers. ## Releases: - No new releases published in the last 3 months - Last release was 16.11.05 on Tue Oct 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: There is nothing significant to report in the mailing list activity and statistics. ## JIRA activity: - 161 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 179 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/trademarks/trademarks.txt [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/security/vulnerabilities.txt [3] https://s.apache.org/kgja [4] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [5] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [6] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Highlights: - Trademarks: since our last report we cleared the backlog of domains needing our attention and provided an update to the Trademark team; note that for one of the domains (ofbiz.de) the PMC's recommendation to the ASF was to ask the current owner to transfer the domain to the foundation (since the owner was willing to do so) and we filed a request for this [1]; after our request was rejected by the ASF one of our PMC members, Michael Brohl, kindly offered to get the ownership of the domain and redirect it to the project's official web site - Vulnerability reports: we are experiencing a remarkable increase in the number of security vulnerability reports we receive; although this is great because it means that there is interest in the OFBiz product and because they are helping us to make OFBiz more solid, processing all these new reports is also challenging for our security team; thus, in order to manage them efficiently, we are trying to grow the security team and we are discussing better ways to organize our work (e.g., using an issue tracker to keep better track of the status of each reports, creating templates to help us to promptly reply to various emails, etc...) - Releases: we have published a new release for the 16.11 series; it is a bug fix release that also addresses two security vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-8033 and CVE-2011-3600); since it is the 5th release of the series it is named 16.11.05; the stabilization of the new release branch, 17.12, is proceeding well but we have not scheduled a publication date, yet; - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk: a summary of the main changes is available as usual in the project's blog [2] - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [2], on Twitter [3] and other social media [4]. ## Health report: the committer and PMC base didn't change in the last quarter but we have some candidates in our watchlist; the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in Jira ## PMC changes: - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Paul Foxworthy on Mon Mar 19 2018 - Currently 20 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Aditya Sharma at Tue Jun 26 2018 - Currently 46 committers. ## Releases: - 16.11.05 was released on Tue Oct 02 2018; it is a bug fix release that also contains fixes for two security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8033 and CVE-2011-3600 ## Mailing list activity: There is nothing significant to report in the mailing list activity and statistics. ## JIRA activity: - 145 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 160 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17163 [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Vulnerability reports: the security team has received a few reports and it is communicating with the reporters to confirm and properly address them - The stabilization of the new release branch, 17.12, is proceeding well but we still don't have scheduled a date for the first release; we will publish soon a new bug fix release for the 16.11 branch - The documentation initiative: We are trying to re-start the documentation effort and although progress has been slow during the annual holiday period we hope to see a lot more focus on this in the coming months - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk: a summary of the main changes is available as usual in the project's blog [1] - More details about the community activities are published in the official blog [1], on Twitter [2] and other social media [3]; our public HipChat room [4] has seen low activity as in the previous quarter - Trademarks: there are a few domains in our backlog for which we have to take some corrective actions [5]; they do not represent very concerning violations but the PMC needs to take some action soon since they are in the backlog since a long time; one month ago the Trademark team asked for an update about one of them and we still have to provide a response; we will follow up with them as soon as we have an update - We did some housekeeping (renaming of hash files and removal of deprecated hashes) in the project's release archive to make it fully compliant with the latest ASF release policies [6] ## Health report: We have invited three new committers; as usual the PMC is monitoring and discussing new candidates for the PMC and the committers' groups; the community is actively involved in improving the trunk, stabilizing the release branches and in various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and in Jira. ## PMC changes: - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Paul Foxworthy on Mon Mar 19 2018 - Currently 20 PMC members. ## Committer base changes: - New committers: - Aditya Sharma was added as a committer on Tue Jun 26 2018 - Suraj Khurana was added as a committer on Tue Jun 26 2018 - Swapnil Mane was added as a committer on Tue Jun 26 2018 - Currently 46 committers. ## Releases: - Last release was 16.11.04 on Tue Jan 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: There is nothing significant to report in the mailing list activity and statistics. ## JIRA activity: - 125 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 115 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ [4] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115 [5] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/trademarks/trademarks.txt [6] https://checker.apache.org/projs/ofbiz.html
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - The stabilization of the new release branch, 17.12, is proceeding well but we still don't have scheduled a date for the releases - Vulnerability reports: a new report was received on the 1st of June 2018; at the moment the security team is working on it; the other vulnerability report that the team was reviewing at the time of our previous report to the ASF Board has been discarded as invalid and no further action will be taken for it - The documentation initiative: documentation discussions have been moved to the dev mailing list and an umbrella JiRA task has been created to help consolidate and track all documentation related work; a documentation style guide has been created based on asciidoc best practices; over the last month work has slowed a little and we plan to focus on reviving community involvement - We continue to monitor for any brand or trademark violations: we do not have anything new on this - Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk - As usual, more details about the community activities are published in the official blog [1], on Twitter [2] and other social media [3]; our public HipChat room [4] has seen low activity as in the previous quarter ## Health report: As anticipated in our previous report to the ASF Board, we have invited a new PMC member; as usual, the PMC is monitoring and discussing new candidates for the PMC and the committers' groups; the community is actively involved in various discussions and support requests, posted mostly in the mailing list and in Jira. ## PMC changes: - Currently 20 PMC members. - Paul Foxworthy was added to the PMC on Mon Mar 19 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 43 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Akash Jain at Wed Aug 09 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 16.11.04 on Tue Jan 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: The number of subscriptions to the user and dev list is slightly decreasing but the number of emails exchanged is rather high in all lists. - dev@ofbiz.apache.org: - 574 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months): - 565 emails sent to list (663 in previous quarter) - notifications@ofbiz.apache.org: - 78 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1582 emails sent to list (2333 in previous quarter) - user@ofbiz.apache.org: - 926 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months): - 572 emails sent to list (508 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 154 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 99 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ [4] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - the new release branch, named 17.12, was created in December 2017: once stabilized by back-porting bug fixes it will be the basis of the new releases - vulnerability reports: a new report was received on 27/02/2018 but it was based on the output of a static code analysis tool and we suspect it may contain only false positives; we replied to the reporter to ask for additional details but so far we haven't received any response; apparently several other projects received similar reports from the same author and they have been advised by the Security Team to discard them; we will do the same if we do not get any further information from the reporter; apart from this, there are no other open tickets concerning security vulnerability reports - the community started a documentation initiative; the goal is to move technical and user documentation into the repository where it will be maintained along with the codebase; after several discussions an initial proof of concept was done; it is based on the Asciidoctor Gradle plugin and generates PDF and html output formats; in parallel we asked for volunteers from the community [5] to become part of an OFBiz documentation team that would help review existing documentation and create content for the new documentation framework; the 20 people currently in the documentation team are made up of a mix of experienced and new contributors; a Skype call was organised to kickstart the effort and notes from the call were posted to the mailing list [6] - we continue to monitor for any brand or trademark violations - various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to the trunk - as usual, more details about the community activities are published in the official blog [1], on Twitter [2] and other social media [3]; our public HipChat room [4] has seen low activity ## Health report: while the committer and PMC base didn't change in the last quarter, the PMC is in the process of inviting a new PMC member that will be announced in the next report; as usual, the PMC is monitoring and discussing new candidates for the PMC and the committers' groups; the community is active: a new release has been published and the stabilization of the new release branch is in progress; the documentation effort has generated a lot of activity and also helped identify and engage new contributors. ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Deepak Dixit on Fri Feb 24 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 43 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Akash Jain at Wed Aug 09 2017 ## Releases: - 16.11.04 was released on Tue Jan 02 2018 ## Mailing list activity: there is nothing special to report on the mailing list traffic of the last quarter: the number of subscriptions to the user list slightly decreased but the number of emails exchanged is steady in all lists (slightly increased since the last quarter). - user@ofbiz.apache.org: - 936 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months) - 544 emails sent to list (490 in previous quarter) - dev@ofbiz.apache.org: - 577 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 674 emails sent to list (687 in previous quarter) - notifications@ofbiz.apache.org: - 78 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 2385 emails sent to list (2396 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 223 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 275 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ [4] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115 [5] https://s.apache.org/edM8 [6] https://s.apache.org/QV3m
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - several bug fixes, enhancements, features, refactorings, cleanups have been contributed and committed - the activity in the official blog [1] is steady with monthly blog posts that highlight the main activities in the project; there is also activity on Twitter [2], other social media [3] and in our public HipChat room [4] - an initiative is underway to improve the code and detect bugs using code analysis tools available through the build system - vulnerability reports: the OFBiz security team has received a report that was verified and resolved as a non vulnerability, completing the security vulnerability workflow; the security team still needs to provide an official answer to three old vulnerability reports that have been verified as non vulnerabilities as well (the OFBiz security team should improve its operations to become more efficient in implementing the security workflow). ## Health report: while the committer and PMC base didn't change in the last quarter and no releases were issued, the PMC is monitoring new candidates, the community is active and there is a thread in the dev list to create the new release branch before the end of the year: the project is in an healthy phase ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Deepak Dixit on Fri Feb 24 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 44 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Akash Jain at Wed Aug 09 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 16.11.03 on Thu Jun 29 2017 ## Mailing list activity: the number of subscribers didn't change; the email traffic in the user and dev list has been lower than the traffic of the previous quarter, but still rather high; the traffic in the (Jira) notification list is essentially the same of the previous quarter (high traffic) - user@ofbiz.apache.org: - 949 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months) - 498 emails sent to list (891 in previous quarter) - dev@ofbiz.apache.org: - 574 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months) - 711 emails sent to list (1073 in previous quarter) - notifications@ofbiz.apache.org: - 79 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months) - 2538 emails sent to list (2505 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 346 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 257 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [3] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ [4] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - OFBiz fully redesigned and released its website. The new website is designed with bootstrap and other libraries making it modern and responsive thus working on all devices. In addition to the facelift, the website is also redesigned in terms of navigation and menu structure to make it easy to locate resources. The new design is also more SEO friendly - Refactoring work continues on all areas of the project with more focus on the core components - A redesign of the user interface is underway in which all web artifacts are removed from the framework into a separate directory called the "common" theme. The purpose of this initiative is to decouple any web-artifacts from the framework for better and cleaner implementations. We expect this change to improve the ability to update the user interface by reducing the amount of artifacts altered with each change - A decision was made by the community to centralize the data loading process in one component to ease development and data review [1] - The project discontinued support for the unreleased branches 14.12 and 15.12 - An initiative is underway to improve the code and detect bugs using code analysis tools available through the build system. - the activity in the official blog [2] is steady with monthly blog posts that highlight the main activities in the project; we have been also active on Twitter [3] and other social media [4]; we have had a medium activity in our public HipChat room [5] - vulnerability reports: two reports have been received by the OFBiz security list but after investigating we realized they do not apply to any active release branches and do not qualify as vulnerabilities; the security team still needs to provide an official answer to the reporters ## Health report: This has been another active quarter for the project, despite Jun-Jul-Aug being a traditionally slow period: one new release issued, two new committers, increased number of subscribers and email messages, a steady number of tickets filed and resolved; the community is slowly growing. ## PMC changes: - Currently 19 PMC members - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Deepak Dixit on Fri Feb 24 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 44 committers. - New commmitters: - Akash Jain was added as a committer on Wed Aug 09 2017 - Rishi Solanki was added as a committer on Wed Aug 09 2017 ## Releases: - 16.11.03 was released on Thu Jun 29 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ofbiz.apache.org: - 573 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 1050 emails sent to list (922 in previous quarter) - notifications@ofbiz.apache.org: - 79 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 2493 emails sent to list (1459 in previous quarter) - user@ofbiz.apache.org: - 947 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months): - 871 emails sent to list (523 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 287 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 205 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ## References [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9501 [2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/ [3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz [4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/ [5] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- OFBiz has endorsed the "Support Apache" initiative by publishing
a news item in the landing page of the website
- refactoring and stabilization of source code is slowly progressing
- new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed and
integrated into the official code base: 147 tickets created and 121 tickets
resolved in the last quarter
- there are new and ongoing initiatives to improve the documentation for developers
and users
- mailing list activity have been on average for number of messages exchanged
and for the number of subscriptions
- the activity in the official blog [1] and Twitter account [2]
is steady with monthly blog posts and tweets; we have a rather low activity
in our public HipChat room [3]
- the project has now an official Facebook page [4] and Vimeo account [5]
- we are still actively tracking and following up on trademark violations
## Health report:
- the last quarter have been a normal one in the life of the project; the
community is supportive and active; no new committer or PMC members have been
invited in this quarter; we have published a new release
## Answers to comments made by Board members to our last report
Mark Thomas: "I'd be interested in hearing in your next report what impact the
architectural changes have had on the community - particularly
levels of involvement and activity."
- The main architectural changes have been the switch from Ant to Gradle as the
project's build system and the split of the codebase into two repositories: one
for the core framework and one for the extensions/plugins. However the latter
is still a work in progress with active discussions [7] as infrastructure and
code are still being developed to serve plugins to users [8]. Impact can be
measured after publishing plugins which is expected with the next major release
of OFBiz. On the other hand the switch to Gradle, introduced in the 16.11 series,
has been already published since we have 2 releases in the series: 16.11.01 and
the new 16.11.02. So far the impact has not been huge: we are getting a few
questions in the mailing list and in Stackoverflow about how to perform
traditional Ant tasks in the new way; the questions are promptly answered and
documentation has been produced to assist the users [6].
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Deepak Dixit on Fri Feb 24 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 42 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was James Yong at Fri Mar 03 2017
## Releases:
- 16.11.02 was released on Mon May 22 2017
## References
[1] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/
[2] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz
[3] https://apache.hipchat.com/chat/room/2814115
[4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/
[5] https://vimeo.com/ofbiz
[6] https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/blob/trunk/README.md
[7] https://s.apache.org/DVj8
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13924
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- the project made a major design change by splitting OFBiz into two
products: OFBiz framework and plugins. The two products are placed in two
repositories with the intention of having different releases and support
cycles for each. The purpose of this change is to reduce the complexity of
the core product by providing a uniform extension mechanism through
plugins. This allows for more functionality without the need for a
monolithic code-base. More details can be found in this thread [1]
- new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed and
integrated into the official code base
- refactoring and stabilization of source code repository is ongoing
- the activity in the mailing list, official blog [2] and Twitter account [3]
is steady with a monthly blog post and frequent tweets
- the PMC has defined and published a policy to govern and limit marketing
messages operated by third parties on the OFBiz lists [4]
- the PMC is addressing specific trademark violations with good results;
## Health report:
the project is stable and active: users questions are answered in the
users list and proposals and design are discussed in the dev list; the PMC
is monitoring the community to identify potential committers and PMC members
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- Deepak Dixit was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 24 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 42 committers.
- New committers:
- Swapnil Shah was added as a committer on Mon Feb 13 2017
- James Yong was added as a committer on Fri Mar 03 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 16.11.01 on Sun Nov 27 2016
## Mailing list activity:
mailing list traffic is relevant as usual
- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 933 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 401 emails sent to list (188 in previous quarter)
- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 566 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 775 emails sent to list (1048 in previous quarter)
- notifications@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 1562 emails sent to list (5718 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 109 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 97 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1] https://s.apache.org/vp5e
[2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/
[3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz
[4] http://ofbiz.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#3rd-party-marketing
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The latest release 16.11.01, published on November, is an important
milestone for the project: apart from a large number of features,
enhancements and fixes, the release changes the build system (from Ant to
Gradle), improves the dependency management configuration, provides some
tools to manage integration and extensions; the community has dedicated
this important release to the memory of OFBiz Committer and ex PMC member
Adrian Crum, who passed away on 1st January 2016 and his loss is strongly
felt.
- The release has also resolved two security vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-6800
and CVE-2016-4462, that have been announced after the release, completing
the security handling workflow; there are no outstanding security
vulnerability reports at the moment.
- Several new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed and
integrated into the official code base.
- Interesting discussions about possible framework and user interface
refactoring are ongoing in the dev list.
- ApacheCon EU 2016 @ Seville: the event was a success for the OFBiz project
with 5 OFBiz presentations and a series of informal meetups.
- The activity in the official blog and Twitter accounts is steady with a
monthly blog post and frequent tweets.
- The PMC is working at improving the workflow to manage and implement
trademark protection (a special thanks to Shane who is providing great
advices); in parallel, the PMC is addressing specific trademark
violations with good results: please refer to [*] for details.
- The PMC is defining a policy to govern and limit marketing messages
operated by third parties on the OFBiz lists.
## Health report:
This month the OFBiz project is celebrating 10 years at ASF! And after
10 years the project is still in an healthy and active phase characterized
by steady traffic in the mailing lists, good and friendly communication
and collaboration, several contributions for bug fixes and enhancements
committed by different committers and big ideas for the future.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michael Brohl on Fri Sep 02 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 40 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Gregory Draperi at Mon Mar 07 2016
## Releases:
- 16.11.01 was released on Sun Nov 27 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 571 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months):
- 1001 emails sent to list (7017 in previous quarter)
- notifications@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 82 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
- 5210 emails sent to list (1602 in previous quarter)
- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 940 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
- 205 emails sent to list (463 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 911 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1002 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[*] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/ofbiz/trademarks.txt
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- created a new mailing list ("notifications") for Jira change notifications
that were previously going to the dev list, making it less readable
- created a new mailing list ("security") to discuss security related topics
that were previously discussed in the "private" list: in this way it will
be easier to keep any design discussion out of the private list
- created a new HipChat room, open to everyone, for casual conversations, for
collaboration, mentoring or just to generally hang out
- completed the switch of the build system of OFBiz from Ant to Gradle; a key
driver of the change was to remove external jar files from the source
repository; in upcoming releases Gradle will automatically resolve
dependencies and download the required jars
- several new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed and
integrated into the official code base
- the activity in the official blog and Twitter accounts is steady with a
monthly blog post and frequent tweets
- the community has voted for a new project logo (that reflects now that
OFBiz is a registered trademark)
- the OFBiz project has requested to use the new Snoot analytics tool;
interestingly, a recent Snoot factoid [*] shows that OFBiz mimics the
average focus of all the ASF projects in terms of bugs/issues, code
commits, dev discussions and interactions with users
- a series of presentation proposals for ApacheCon EU 2016 have been
submitted; several OFBiz community members are planning to attend the
upcoming ApacheCon in Seville and to meet each other
[*] https://twitter.com/snoot_io/status/767063202123354112
## Health report:
the project is in an healthy phase characterized by steady traffic in the
mailing lists, good and friendly communication and collaboration, several
contributions for bug fixes and enhancements committed by different
committers; the PMC group is slowly but steadily growing and new potential
committers are in the PMC members' watchlists
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Michael Brohl was added to the PMC on Fri Sep 02 2016
- Christian Geisert was added to the PMC on Mon Jun 20 2016
- Taher Alkhateeb was added to the PMC on Fri Jun 10 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 40 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Gregory Draperi at Mon Mar 07 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 12.04.06 on Mon Apr 04 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- the number of subscribes is slowly growing and 60 people
subscribed to the new "notifications" mailing list
- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 917 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 463 emails sent to list (461 in previous quarter)
- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 548 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 7046 emails sent to list (4026 in previous quarter)
- notifications@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 60 subscribers (up 60 in the last 3 months):
- 1763 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 907 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 653 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - a Community Day (days in which contributors virtually meet and work together at resolving as many tickets as possible) was held on Saturday 19th March 2016: 15 Jira issues were worked on and 6 were closed - the next Community Day is planned for Saturday 18th June 2016 - new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed and integrated into the official code base - we are working at a new version of our logo and at our website where we are planning to refactor most of the content and the layout - a committers survey was held; the results are published in (*) - some good progress has been made in the refactoring of the framework following an evolutionary step-by-step approach (**) - the activity in the official blog and Twitter accounts is steady - ApacheCon NA 2016: the OFBiz project has been represented by Sharan Foga, PMC member, that presented two talks, one about community consensus and one about OFBiz configuration - we have resolved all the CVEs that have been created in the last months and we have issued bug fix releases to address the vulnerabilities ## Health report: The project is in an healthy phase: the community is active and friendly, communication is happening in the mailing lists, in Jira, Confluence and on ad-hoc Skype groups. The committers group is growing; we are working at growing the PMC group as well ## 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 40 committers. - Gregory Draperi was added as a committer on Mon Mar 07 2016 ## Releases: - 12.04.06 was released on Mon Apr 04 2016 - 13.07.03 was released on Mon Apr 04 2016 ## Mailing list activity: mailing list activity has been steady (in terms of number of subscribers and number of emails) and similar to the ones in previous quarters ## JIRA activity: Jira activity is steady (with spikes during our community days) ## References: (*) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/May+2016+-+Committers+Survey (**) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Re-Factor+To-Do+List
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project ## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed and integrated into the official code base - the community is active and friendly: there are discussions in the mailing lists, community days (days in which contributors virtually meet and work together at resolving as many tickets as possible) and activity in Jira and Confluence - the community is trying to define a roadmap for the refactoring of the framework following an evolutionary step-by-step approach; the framework represents a large portion of the OFBiz codebase and some parts of it are rather old and may benefit from a renewal/upgrade; since the framework is used by several applications, the community is trying to find a way to minimize the impact on them - the activity in the official blog and Twitter accounts is steady and we have started to publish some videos on our official youtube channel - also this year the OFBiz project will be represented at ApacheCon: in fact some OFBiz related presentations have been accepted - we have some pending CVEs that we have partially addressed and we are trying to finalize as soon as possible; for this reason we have delayed our release dates but we are trying to complete this work in the next few weeks - finally, the sad news that shook our community: on 1st January 2016, OFBiz Committer, former PMC member and friend Adrian Crum passed away. Adrian joined the OFBiz project during the incubation phase and in 2007 was invited to become a committer. Later that year Adrian joined the OFBiz PMC and participated until June 2014. Over the years Adrian contributed around 5,000 postings to the mailing lists, over 2,300 issues and comments to issues and over 2,000 commits. The project has setup a memorial page for the community to share their stories, and experiences of Adrian and the community has also decided to dedicate our next OFBiz release to him. ## Health report: the project seems to be in an healthy phase: medium traffic in the mailing lists, good and friendly communication and collaboration; the committers group is slowly growing; we are behind of our schedule on releases because we are slowly progressing at making our system more secure in its default configuration (once completed, this work will address the CVEs reported) ## 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 40 committers. - Gregory Draperi was added as a committer on Mon Mar 07 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was 13.07.02 on Sat May 23 2015 - late schedule, upcoming releases ## Mailing list activity: mailing list activity has been steady (in terms of number of subscribers and number of emails) and similar to the ones in previous quarters ## JIRA activity: - 165 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 142 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## 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
## Description:
Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) is an open source
enterprise automation software project
## Activity:
- the second OFBiz Community Day has been successful with 24 Jira tickets
resolved (in this day the community members work together remotely to fix
as many bugs as possible)
- the community is designing a new version of the project website, with
improved, better organized and expanded content
- the design of a better online help has been discussed
- the activity in the official blog is steady, with monthly news summaries
- the activity in the official Twitter account is steady and the number of
subscribers is increasing
- several new features, improvements and bug fixes have been contributed
- the OFBiz project will have a full day of OFBiz sessions at ApacheCon Core
EU, Budapest, featuring:
-- State of Apache OFBiz - Jacopo Cappellato
-- GrowERP-PAAS An Open Source Software Development Platform
Including ERP Based on Apache OFBiz - Hans Bakker
-- Enhance OFBiz CRM with Asterisk Call Center Integration - Youssef Khaye
-- Build a Web Application in 40 minutes with Apache OFBiz - Gil Portsenseigne
-- DevOps Environment for an OFBiz Agile Project - Nathan Boudou
-- UX Design in OFBiz: How to Make it a Reality! - Julien Nicolas
## Health report:
- After the big spike of invitations in the committer and PMC groups of the
last quarter (+1 PMC member and +8 committers), in this quarter we have
consolidated the group, helping the new members to get up to speed and
comfortable with their new roles; the process is going smoothly so far
- the community is friendly and active, contributing new code, documentation
and ideas for the growth of the project
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 37 committers and 15 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Nicolas Malin at Tue Mar 24 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Julien Nicolas at Tue May 19 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 13.07.02 on Sat May 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 542 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1484 emails sent to list (3907 in previous quarter)
- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 915 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 441 emails sent to list (487 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 126 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 88 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise processes that includes framework components and business
applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM),
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP).
## Activity:
The first quarter of 2015 has been quite productive
for the OFBiz community; here are the highlights:
* we had a full day of OFBiz sessions at ApacheCon NA, Austin
* a new release was published
* 8 new committers and a PMC member were nominated
* several posts were published with the official Twitter account
(@ApacheOfbiz) and in the official blog (blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/)
* the request to register the Apache OFBiz trademark was submitted
* interesting topics were discussed in the mailing lists including
framework refactoring, adopting new build tools, moving to git,
improving documentation
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 37 committers and 15 PMC members in the project.
- Nicolas Malin was added to the PMC on Tue Mar 24 2015
- New commmitters:
- Deepak Dixit was added as a committer on Wed Mar 11 2015
- Shi Jinghai was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Michael Brohl was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Arun Patidar was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Christian Carlow was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Divesh Dutta was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Taher A. Alkhateeb was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Julien Nicolas was added as a committer on Tue May 19 2015
## Releases:
- 13.07.02 was released on Sat May 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 539 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 3861 emails sent to list (3924 in previous quarter)
- user@ofbiz.apache.org:
- 902 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 486 emails sent to list (695 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 330 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 197 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP). ## Activity: The community is healthy and active: users are supported in the mailing lists; bug are reported and fixed; commits are steady and documentation is being improved. A full OFBiz track has been included in the schedule of the upcoming ApacheCon North America 2015 in Austin: the six presentations will cover a range of community, business and technical topics: - State of Apache OFBiz - Jacopo Cappellato - Why Large Companies Use Apache OFBiz Open Source ERP - Hans Bakker - Can OFBiz Stand the Stringent Regulatory Requirements of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - Sakthivel Vellingiri - Building Mobile Business Applications with Apache OFBiz - Ean Schuessler - Using Docker for Development of Production Systems Based on OfBiz - Adam Heath - How To Avoid Common Mistakes In OFBiz Development - Adrian Crum ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 29 committers and 14 PMC members in the project. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Sharan Foga at Mon Sep 22 2014 - 4 New commmitters: - Mridul Pathak was added as a committer on Fri Jan 02 2015 - Chatree Srichart was added as a committer on Thu Jan 15 2015 - Gavin Mabie was added as a committer on Fri Jan 02 2015 - Pranay Pandey was added as a committer on Fri Dec 19 2014 ## Releases: - No new released have been issued since our last report - Last release was 13.07.01 on Tue Oct 07 2014 - A new release branch (14.12) has been created and the community is working at stabilizing it for future releases ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ofbiz.apache.org: - 537 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months): - 3884 emails sent to list (2914 in previous quarter) - user@ofbiz.apache.org: - 900 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 681 emails sent to list (912 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 238 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 271 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP). We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. *Releases* * Apache OFBiz 11.04.06 has been released in September 2014; this is the last release of the 11.04 series * Apache OFBiz 12.04.05 has been released in September 2014 * Apache OFBiz 13.07.01 has been released in October 2014 *Community and Project* * new committers: Nicolas Malin (nmalin) is a new committer since September 2014 * new PMC members: Sharan Foga (sharan), has been elected in the PMC in September 2014 * mailing list traffic and commit rates are steady with significant activity in the enhancement of documentation * ApacheCon EU Budapest has been a successful event for the OFBiz project; six sessions have been presented covering a range of business and technical topics: ** "What Business Users See and Want" by Sharan Foga, PMC (Czech Republic) ** "Brewing with Apache OFBiz - A Case Study" by Pierre Smits, contributor (The Netherlands) ** "Introduction To A Groovy Based DSL For Apache OFBiz" by Jacopo Cappellato, PMC (Italy) ** "Gui Unit Test For Apache OFBiz" by Olivier Heintz, contributor (France) ** "Apache OFBiz Infra Task Automation For Deployment And Hosting" by Nicolas Malin, committer and Gil Portenseigne, contributor (France) ** "Introduction To A Recommender System For Apache OFBiz" by Anahita Goljahani, contributor (Italy) *Infra/Legal* We have no issues that require Board assistance.
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP). We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. *Releases* * Apache OFBiz 12.04.03 has been released in June 2014 * Apache OFBiz 11.04.05 has been released in August 2014 * Apache OFBiz 12.04.04 has been released in August 2014 * note that 11.04.05 and 12.04.04 have been released in order to fix a security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0232) that has been reported to the Apache Security Team; we have handled this security fix according to the security workflow; the process is now complete * the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is mostly complete; the release date has been postponed but we should get a new release before the end of 2014 *Community and Project* * committers: Sharan Foga is a new committer since July 2014 * PMC members: no new PMC members; the last PMC member is Erwan de Ferrieres (erwan) invited in December 2009; Adrian Crum resigned from the PMC in June 2014 * 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; the PMC is now considering for invitation individuals that, even if they are not developers, are committed to the project, show a positive attitude and ability to work with the community; the new committer, Sharan Foga, is a good example of this new course because she is a consultant, project manager, technical writer and she is currently helping to improve the OFBiz documentation * ApacheCon: a full OFBiz track has been included in the schedule at ApacheCon Europe 2014 in Budapest: the six presentations will cover a range of business and technical topics; the 6 speakers are from all over Europe (Czech Republic, France, Italy and The Netherlands). * mailing list traffic and commit rates are steady *Infra/Legal* We have no issues that require Board assistance.
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.
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*
* "Apache OFBiz 11.04.04" has been released in February 18, 2014: this is
a bug fix release of the 11.04 branch
* the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is mostly complete
and we are preparing to issue the first release out of it (13.07.01)
* we are also backporting bug fixes to the other active release
branch 12.04: soon we will probably issue one release for it
*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
* mailing list traffic and commits are lower than in the past years but they
are still relevant
* ApacheCon 2014: OFBiz will be represented by a presentation by me
("Development of a Groovy based DSL for Apache OFBiz") and by a tutorial by
another member of the PMC, Anil Patel ("Introduction to Developing
Application for Apache OFBiz Framework")
* there is an ongoing discussion, within the PMC/committers group and in the
community, about the current status of the OFBiz project; over-simplifying
the two positions are the following:
1) the ones that are worried by the fact that the project's progress is slower
than in the past (several historical committers are indeed less active) and
push to get more committers and PMC members onboard
2) the ones that believe that slowing down is natural in a project that is
reaching a stability phase and, considering the great complexity of the
OFBiz codebase, it is important to only invite contributors that
clearly demonstrate a deep knowledge of the framework in order to maintain
and improve its quality and stability over time
** it is my personal belief that addressing the concerns of both groups is
important and I will try to encourage and facilitate a constructive
discussion about these topics; hopefully, the project will establish
the right rules and mechanisms to enlarge the committers base and
maintain a high quality code
*Infra/Legal*
We have no issues.
AI: Doug: discuss bringing in new PMC members
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* * no new releases have been issued since July 2013 (they have been included in the previous report to the ASF Board) * the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is proceeding smoothly; the goal is to issue the first release out of it (13.07.01) in February 2014 * we are also backporting bug fixes to the older but still active release branches 12.04 and 11.04: within the first quarter of 2014 we will probably issue one release for each of them *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 * mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but it is still relevant and there is good community interaction * significant work done in the trunk mainly in the following areas: ** bug fixes, improvements and optimizations (thread safety, high load…) ** maintenance: code upgrade to support most recent versions of external jars (e.g. Tomcat, FOP, Groovy, POI, Lucene…) ** code cleanups and improved modularity ** enhancements and new features (General Ledger, Payments, Minilang, Security, URL generation...) *Infra/Legal* We have no issues.
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* * new release: "Apache OFBiz 12.04.02" has been released in July 2013; it is a bug fix release (including some vulnerability issues reported by the Apache Security Team) of the 12.04 series * new release: "Apache OFBiz 11.04.03" has been released in July 2013; it is a bug fix release (including some vulnerability issues reported by the Apache Security Team) of the 11.04 series * new release: "Apache OFBiz 10.04.06" has been released in July 2013; it is a bug fix release (including some vulnerability issues reported by the Apache Security Team) of the 10.04 series; this is the last release for the 10.04 series; users of the 10.04 series have been encouraged to upgrade to a newer series (11.04 or 12.04) * created the new release branch 13.07 from a trunk revision of July: from now on the branch will be stabilized with bug fixes *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 * mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but it is still relevant and there is good community interaction *Infra/Legal* We have no issues.
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* * new release: "Apache OFBiz 12.04.01" has been released in April 2013; this release is an important milestone for the project because it contains all the features of the trunk up to April 2012 and since then has been stabilized with bug fixes. It is now the OFBiz current stable release: users of the 11.04 series are encouraged to migrate to this release in order to get all the new features implemented from April 2011 thru April 2012 * we are in the process of preparing new bug fixes releases for the 10.04, 11.04 and 12.04 series; the release for the 10.04 series will be the last of this series * we have decided to postpone the creation of the 13.0x series (initially planned for April) of a few weeks because we wanted to include in it a series of important framework refactorings that we are doing in the trunk *Community and Project* * Al Byers resigned from the OFBiz PMC; Al was one of the early (pre ASF) committers of OFBiz but has never been very active since years and was not an active PMC member * no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in November 2012 * mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but it is still relevant and there is good community interaction *Infra/Legal* We have no issues.
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* * new release: "Apache OFBiz 10.04.05" has been released in 2013-01-17; the release contains bug fixes including some fixes for security vulnerabilities reported by the ASF Security team (CVE-2013-0177) * new release: "Apache OFBiz 11.04.02" has been released in 2013-01-17; the release contains bug fixes including some fixes for security vulnerabilities reported by the ASF Security team (CVE-2013-0177) *Community and Project* * mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but there is still good community interaction: users are getting help and helping each other in the user list and in the dev list we are preparing for the upcoming 12.04.01 release, the first release in the 12.04 branch * no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in November 2012 *Infra/Legal* We have no issues.
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 * new release: "Apache OFBiz 10.04.03" has been released in 2012-10-18; the release contains several bug fixes including some fixes for security vulnerabilities reported by the ASF Security team (CVE-2012-3506) * new release: "Apache OFBiz 10.04.04" has been released in 2012-11-13; this release is bundled with an updated release of Tomcat containing some fixes for vulnerabilities recently announced by the Tomcat community) * new release: "Apache OFBiz 11.04.01" has been released in 2012-11-18; this release is an important milestone for the project because it contains all the features of the trunk up to April 2011 and since then has been stabilized with bug fixes. It is now the OFBiz current stable release: users of the 10.04 series are encouraged to migrate to this release in order to get all the new features implemented from April 2010 and April 2011 Community and Project * good community interaction * new committer: Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy) * OFBiz tracks have been presented by OFBiz users at last ApacheCon EU Infra/Legal No issues to report.
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* - we are working at the new bug fix release for the 10.04 series; this will be released as soon as possible as 10.04.03 - next step is to release the first release of the 11.04 series with name 11.04.01 *Community and Project* Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high. Significant new development continues, mostly focused on bug fixes, code cleanup, stabilization, improving localizations, performance and scalability. *Infra/Legal* We are working with infra to resolve some minor issues with buildbot (INFRA-4785).
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* - new release; "Apache OFBiz 10.04.02" has been released in 2012-04-14; - the release contains several bug fixes including some fixes for security vulnerabilities reported by the ASF Security team (CVE-2012-1621, CVE-2012-1622) *Community and Project* - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues *Infrastructure/Legal* - completed migration to svnpubsub for releases and website - we are working with Infra to fix some minor issues with buildbot (INFRA-4785) *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: complete [*] Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: complete Project Metadata: complete [*] The text in the main pages (index, download) of the project's website is now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however the project is aware that there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be rewritten as static html pages within the end of the year.
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* - new releases; "Apache OFBiz 09.04.02" has been released in 2012-02-25; - the community has discussed a plan for a time-based release roadmap: the release branch 09.04 is now closed; the active release branches are now 10.04 and 11.04 (and the upcoming 12.04); from each active release branch we will release about 2 releases every year (approx every 6 months); every year in April we will create a new release branch (that will determine the major release number YY-MM); no more than 3 active release branches will be maintained and then we will close (every year sometimes before April) the oldest one; the OFBiz site download page has been updated with the above information; even if the plan is not set in stone the community will try to implement it and it will be reviewed over time if needed. *Community and Project* - new PMC member: Erwan De Ferrieres - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues *Infrastructure/Legal* - INFRA-4485: migration to svnpubsub in progress - no issues *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: mostly complete [*] Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: complete Project Metadata: complete [*] The text in the main pages (index, download) of the project's website is now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed; we are currently discussing a plan to finalize this effort
Report for December 2011 for Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) as a top level project. 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. Project Branding Checklist Project Website Basics: complete Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: in progress - include TM, use consistent product logo on your site; we have a logo with a small feather (different from the Apache feather) and without TM Project Metadata: complete The main pages (index, download) should be now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed. Releases * no new releases; the next releases to be voted will be two bug fix releases for 09.04 and 10.04 series and the first release for the 11.04 series * two days ago we have received a vulnerability report for release 10.04 from security; this will probably affect the schedule of the bug fix release Community and Project Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features Infrastructure/Legal no issues
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. *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: complete Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: in progress - include TM, use consistent product logo on your site; we have a logo with a small feather (different from the Apache feather) and without TM Project Metadata: complete The main pages (index, download) should be now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed. *Releases* - no new releases but we are currently discussing a short term plan to release two bug fix releases (for 09.04 and 10.04 series) and the first release for the 11.04 series *Community and Project* - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - no issues
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. *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: complete Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: in progress - include TM, use consistent product logo on your site; we have a logo with a small feather (different from the Apache feather) and without TM Project Metadata: complete The main pages (index, download) should be now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed. *Releases* - no new releases *Community and Project* - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - no issues
The report was not received in time to review. AI Jacopo report next month.
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. *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: complete Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: in progress - we have a logo with a small feather (different from the Apache feather) and without TM Project Metadata: complete The main pages (index, download) should be now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed. *Releases* - no new release but the new branch for the feature freeze for the next OFBiz 11.04 release family has been created *Community and Project* - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - no issues
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. *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: complete Project Naming And Descriptions: complete Website Navigation Links: complete Trademark Attributions: complete Logos and Graphics: in progress - include TM, use consistent product logo on your site; we have a logo with a small feather (different from the Apache feather) and without TM Project Metadata: complete The main pages (index, download) should be now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed. *Releases* - Apache OFBiz 10.04 has been released on the 19th of January, 2011; it is the first release of the 10.04 series based on the (feature freeze) branch created on April 2010 - Apache OFBiz 09.04.01 has been released on the 25th of January, 2011; it is the first bug fix release of the 09.04 series and supersedes the previous Apache OFBiz 09.04 *Community and Project* - New committer : Sascha Rodekamp - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - no issues
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. *Project Branding Checklist* Project Website Basics: complete - homepage is ofbiz.apache.org; the ownership of the domain "ofbiz.org" (the OFBiz pre-ASF domain) have been successfully transferred to the ASF (INFRA-2625) Project Naming And Descriptions: complete - use of proper Apache forms, etc. Website Navigation Links: complete - navbar links included Trademark Attributions: complete - attribution for all ASF marks in footers, etc. Logos and Graphics: in progress - include TM, use of consistent product logo; we have a logo with a small feather (different from the Apache feather) and without TM Project Metadata: complete - DOAP file checkedin and up to date The main pages (index, download) should be now compliant with the project branding guidelines; however there are several Confluence based pages (linked from the home page) that still need to be reviewed. *Releases* - The process of bug fixing the latest release branch (10.04, created in April 30, 2010) is going on (by backporting bug fixes from the trunk); we still don't have scheduled a date for the creation of the release from this branch (10.04RC1) but it will be voted soon *Community and Project* - No new committers or PMC members - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - we are currently interacting with the Infra in order to fine tune our demo instances (in the effort to minimize the resource consumed while maintaining an acceptable quality of service)
The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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 process of bug fixing the latest release branch (10.04, created in April 30, 2010) is going on (by backporting bug fixes from the trunk); we don't have scheduled a date for the creation of the release from this branch (will be named 10.04RC1) but it should be voted soon *Community and Project* - No new committers or PMC members - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - we are in the process (INFRA-2625) of transferring the ownership of the domain "ofbiz.org" (the OFBiz pre-ASF domain) to the ASF; this should be intended as a first step in the attempt to get a better control of the domains and resources that deal with OFBiz (this has been discussed in the trademark list)
The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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* - Apache OFBiz 09.04 Stable Release was released on April 13, 2010 - Apache OFBiz 4.0 Stable Release was released on April 23, 2010 and then archived as old release (current stable release is 09.04) - The new release branch 10.04 has been created in April 30, 2010; a release from this branch (named 10.04RC1) will be voted soon *Community and Project* - No new committers or PMC members - Community interaction remains strong, user and dev mailing lists traffic is high - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features *Infrastructure/Legal* - no pending issues
The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. 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, that we are taking in serious consideration the concerns and in fact we are 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 - No new committers or PMC members *Infrastructure/Legal* - We have recently completed the migration of all our resources to official ASF servers, managed by ASF Infra. However, because of the migration, we are still having some issues, but we are working with Infra to fix them (see Jira tickets INFRA-2483, INFRA-2482 and its subtasks) - We have also requested a legal advice for a minor license issue (see Jira ticket LEGAL-69)
Jacopo to provide an update next month
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed David E. Jones to the office of Vice President, Apache Open for Business, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of David E. Jones from the office of Vice President, Apache Open for Business, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Open for Business project has chosen by vote to recommend Jacopo Cappellato as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that David E. Jones is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Open for Business, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jacopo Cappellato be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Open for Business, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Open for Business Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - Three new PMC members have been added: Bruno Busco, Adam Heath, Ashish Vijaywargiya - One new committer has been added: Erwan de Ferrieres - Community interaction remains strong: user and dev mailing lists traffic is high, and the commits remain about the same. - The PMC has voted to change SVN authorization so that all committers have full access instead of newer committers only having access to higher-level parts of OFBiz (applications, themes, specialpurpose) Project: - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features Infrastructure: - The OFBiz wiki and other content has been moved from the old docs.ofbiz.org server to cwiki.apache.org - The CI server is now in use to test builds and automated tests in the project - Work is in progress to move nightly builds and other remaining infra that is not on ASF servers to ASF servers by the end of the month (special thanks to Gavin and others on the infra side, and Jacques and Tim and others on the OFBiz side)
The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - No new PMC members have been added and no new committers have been added. - Community interaction remains strong: user and dev mailing lists traffic is high, and the commits remain about the same. Project: - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features Infra: - Efforts are underway to get certain project resources, like the demo server, running on ASF infra instead of third party servers at Contegix, which hosts resources for other projects as well and which has worked well so far but the desire is to get it on servers that are controlled by the ASF infra team. Thanks to everyone involved in this effort.
Report for Jun 2009 for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - No new PMC members have been added and no new committers have been added. Project: - The stable release09.04 branch was created on 17 April 2009, SVN revision 765913. The last release branch was done a bit over 2 years ago. - Worked with the PRC to write and distribute a press release about the new release branch. - The project web site has been redesigned and is deployed on http://ofbiz.apache.org - Significant new development continues, for highlights see: http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features - Community interaction remains strong: user mailing list traffic is about 75% of what is was in the last quarter, dev mailing has nearly double the traffic, and the commits remain about the same. This confirms a trend that seems to be happening where there is more collaboration per commit than has been done previously. - There is an effort underway to make additions to OFBiz to make it suitable to run the project itself (and replace Jira, Confluence, etc); there is no ETA for this but the effort is underway.
Report for Mar 2009 for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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 ONE issue that require Board assistance at this time. Please see the Infrastructure section for details. Community: - No new PMC members have been added. - One new committer has been added: Bruno Busco (2009-01-15). Project: - Planning on a release branch around the end of this month (March 2009). - Significant progress has been made on security issues, especially those particular to webapps (like XSS, XSRF, etc). - Significant new framework functionality is in place to support user configured pages (portal/portlet style), and user editable content (stored in filesystem, can interact with source repository, supports templating and scripting and such just like previous tools) - Refinement and fleshing out of business-oriented project functionality is progressing based on the Universal Business Process Library (http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/fRY) mentioned last month. Jira tasks and contributions based on some of this is starting to get into the project. Infrastructure: - ISSUE: This issue is related to the non-ASF hosting issues for project resources included in the report last time (Dec 2008), and to a new objective that came from discussion at ApacheCon in New Orleans in Nov 2008. We are working on migrating all OFBiz project management tools to actually run on OFBiz (including software enhancements and data conversion tools), including moving from Confluence to OFBiz and from Jira to OFBiz, and also running a dynamic internationalized project web site in OFBiz. The issue with this is how and where to host it. We didn't get a lot of response from infra about this, and it seems like there isn't really much precedence for this as their are not facilities in place to host this sort of thing, especially just for one project. Various other ASF Members (and some Board members) expressed interest at ApacheCon in hosting more ASF stuff on software that is developed within the ASF, and that is very compatible with what we want to do in OFBiz. In other words, whatever is done now will hopefully mature over the next few months to a point where not only OFBiz can use it for project resources, but other ASF projects can as well. Because various people involved with OFBiz either are hosting companies or work with hosting companies it isn't hard to find a place to host this, even a monitored production environment, but unless we somehow made that official ASF infrastructure there are PRC as well as survivability issues with it. Comments and recommendations from the board are needed to help guide this effort. It will be a little while, probably at least until the next board report (3 months from now), before we are ready to try anything on a production scale to replace existing OFBiz project resources.
Zone are available but not as reliable. Jim to follow up.
Report for Dec 2008 for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. 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. - 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 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. There are three resources linked to from the OFBiz home page that are not on ASF infrastructure: 1. doc site @ docs.ofbiz.org 2. nightly builds @ build.hotwaxmedia.com 3. demo site @ demo.hotwaxmedia.com Aside from these, as you've noted, the ofbiz.org domain name is still registered to me personally. I'll comment on each of these, but in short none of these has come up as urgent issues (as I imagine you have guessed) so while they have been discussed from time to time, relatively minor problems run into while working on them have stalled progress. docs.ofbiz.org This site has been around since before the ASF incubation. Around that time cwiki was just coming into use, so we looked at moving stuff over briefly but it was not a priority for incubation and was tabled. We actually started working on this again a few months ago (Jacopo Cappellato and I were working on it) but ran into an issue because even thought the confluence instance on docs.ofbiz.org is quite old (we haven't updated it for a long time), the one on cwiki.apache.org is even older. At that point fearing a large manual effort, and there being other priorities, we decided to table it again (hoping that infra would be updating confluence soon, but no we haven't asked anyone about it; again, it's been considered a lower priority). build.hotwaxmedia.com This is a pretty new thing, and was more community-driven than PMC-driven. In other words, it was setup and then presented to the PMC and we assisted in linking to it and tried to make sure it was clear that it is not an official or ASF hosted resource. If I remember right in this case someone setup a manual build server on a home computer on a DSL line or something, and then Tim Ruppert at Hotwax (one of my partners) saw the dev list messages and volunteered to do something more formal, or more accurately volunteered to have the people at Contegix do it on one of our boxes hosted there (in general with them we describe what we want done and they take care of all installation, scripting, monitoring, etc). So far we don't have any volunteers on the OFBiz PMC do work with infra to get this setup, but we could certainly give it a try. demo.hotwaxmedia.com This has been around a bit longer than build.hotwaxmedia.com, but has a similar history. No official demo site exists for OFBiz, so this community contributed one is the one linked to on the site. There are also some others (or maybe just one other) listed on a confluence page, and if I remember right those were also things like personal desktops running an instance of OFBiz. Again this was volunteer driven by people outside of the PMC and simply linked to as a resource that might be helpful to the community. We also asked them to make it clear who the demo was hosted and sponsored by so that people would not think it was an official ASF resource. It concerns me that you found things that made it appear to be an official ASF resource... could you be more specific about what led you to believe that and how we might clarify (which can probably be done a lot more quickly and easily than setting up a replacement). ofbiz.org domain 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).
We note the build and domain name issues and expect the PMC to continue to work with the infrastructure team.
Report for Sep 2008 for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - There have been no new committers or PMC members since the last report. - A lot of activity (and new subscribers) both in the user and dev mailing lists. - We put considerable effort in defining the schedule for the OFBiz Symposium @ ApacheCon US 2008; several contributors from a wide variety of organizations will present 2 days of OFBiz conference and BOF sessions, and there will be 2 training courses on the Mon/Tue before the conference; there has been a refreshing amount of interest in the event and participation in presentations and attendance is looking really good. Project: - New features and enhancements have been added by different committers and contributors, including a new special purpose application (MyPage). - We have established a focus on framework cleanups and business application enabling features in preparation for a release; this is continuing, though with slower progress due to (apparently) a busier than normal season for OFBiz related consulting services, though that is also a good sign for the long term growth and stability of the community; the goal is to prepare for a versioned release of the framework instead of all of OFBiz in order to narrow the scope and make it easier to define and monitor, and once done the hope is that this will help popularize the OFBiz framework and further grow the user and contributor communities around the project.
Report for June 2008 for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - There have been no new committers or PMC members since the last report. - With some new objectives (see the Project section below) we have created more opportunity for people to get involved in the project, and various prospective committers have stepped up and helped with these opening the way to various nominations for new committers. - The pool of committers added a few months ago is doing quite well and a few are even involved in driving new development and helping out with other efforts and general maintenance as well. Project: - In order to have something with a reasonable scope to work toward for a release we have identified the framework as a priority to target for refactoring and cleanup, general and automated testing, and for certain new features to round it out. A framework-only release will be coming along in a few months, possibly before the next report, but planned at the latest for before ApacheCon in November. As with any community effort this means different things to different contributors, but all together things are shaping up to create a good offering and modernize certain parts of the project, like using more AJAX and client-side scripting for example. - The opportunity to have an OFBiz Symposium @ ApacheCon for the USA 2008 event is an exciting motivator for many people and organizations already involved in OFBiz to work together to increase awareness of the project, and promote the many business concerns that make it possible for people to stay involved in the project as well. The plan is for 2 training courses (one 2-day, one 1-day), along with 12 conference sessions and 4 BOF sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. The timeline for planning this is short, but with various volunteers already lined up and many other prospects and groups looking at how they can be involved it is looking like we'll be able to fill up these offerings.
This report, for March 2008, is the fourth quarterly report for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - 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 Project: - 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
The board notes the diversity issue and commends the project for actively working the issue.
This report, for December 2007, is the third quarterly report (following the initial 3 monthly reports) for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - two new PMC members have been voted in and are now listed in the committee-info.txt file: Anil Patel and Adrian Crum; both have been involved with OFBiz for quite a while and have contributed significantly and their experience and continued help is of great value to the project - five new committers have been invited to join in based on their contributions and continued participation: Ashish Vijaywargiya, Bilgin Ibryam, Christian Geisert (an ASF member and committer on other Apache projects used in OFBiz), Marco Risaliti, and Vikas Mayur; all new committers are now setup except for Vikas Mayur as his iCLA just barely made it through - the community and activity in the community are growing well; with new committers on the project and various contributors increasing their activity the project is seeing around twice the commit and mailing list activity as this time last year, and around half again as much from just the last quarter Project: - a number of stability issues have been fixed, and general database and transaction stability has been improved by moving from the old Minerva connection pool to using Apache DBCP - enhancements and improvements, smaller iterative development, is going on throughout the project; this is one area where increased community size and involvement is having an impact - the other areas that are seeing major improvement and new development from new contributors and people who have been contributing (and committing) for years are the accounting and project management component; with this new development OFBiz is able to more completely meet the needs of industries where the project is already strong and help the project apply to new industries that have previously not been well addressed
Approved by General Consent.
This report, for September 2007, is the second quarterly report (following the initial 3 monthly reports) for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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, but there are some concerns from earlier board meetings about OFBiz that this report hopes to clarify on, and solicit a little feedback on too. In response to the concerns expressed by the Apache Board in the last minutes for the meeting happened on 2007-06-20: http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2007/board_minutes_2007_06_20.txt "The board expressed their concern that it appears that this new PMC already appears to have some community issues. J Aaron indicated his willingness to follow the project. It was noted that OFBiz has no ASF members involved nor any other committers who didn't join during incubation." We would like to clarify some points: - we don't think that the Board's perception of the project is correct, we have voted a bunch of new committers after the graduation (Adrian, Anil, Joe, Ray, Scott, Tim) and before that meeting and it is not completely true that we don't have ASF member involved in the project: David Welton and Yoav Shapira are in the PMC, even if they act as supervisor and are not active in the development of OFBiz. - we have recently added two new PMC members (Scott and Jacques), while Si is no more a PMC member (but he is still an active committer, very involved in the project) - a comment by David Welton (Apache Member and Member of the OFBiz PMC) sent to the OFBiz private list, in response to a discussion around those Minutes: "I'm still here, and follow what little goes through the PMC (it's good that most things happen on other lists!), and it all seems ok." - we think everything is going well and the community is very active, lots of activity on the mailing lists, issue tracker, and in SVN - it would be good to see what more specific concerns are coming up with the Board so we can either correct the misinformation (as with the no new committers or PMC members added, not sure how you got that because it's in the board reports), or find places for improvement About the concern with no ASF members being really active in the project, that's a tricky one because we only see two possible solutions (either would be spectacular from our perspective!): 1) get OFBiz people invited to be members (however it happens naturally over time) 2) get ASF members interested in participating in OFBiz (there are a few, like Christian Geisert, that are involved and may move toward becoming committers and PMC members) We welcome feedback on which of this is the best to pursue and how to best do these too. In general the project is continuing very well. We are currently seeing around 400 commits per month, which is consistent with the last few months. The user and dev mailing lists are also seeing good (though down from some crazy months earlier this year) traffic with around 500-600 messages per month. New end users and production instances (the few that we find out about anyway) continue to come along and new faces are showing up on the mailing lists regularly. There is a steady slow growth trend in list subscribers, currently around 380 on the dev list, 515 on the user list, and 100 on the commits list. The 4.0 release branch is in beta, with the branch around for nearly 5 months now. A lot of effort has gone into back-patching bug fixes, but the end-user population in still limited so we haven't pushed for a binary release. Time is moving on though, so in spite of that this should come along soon.
Approved by General Consent.
This report, for June 2007, is the first quarterly report (following the initial 3 monthly reports) for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - two new PMC members have been voted in and are now listed in the committee-info.txt file: Jacquest Le Roux and Scott Gray; I believe we followed all procedure on this, though we never heard anything back from the board (which from what was described in the PMC guide seems fine, ie there were no objections) - one PMC member (Si Chen) has resigned, but he is remaining involved with the project and is still a committer; the reasons for this are not totally clear but it appears to stem from a conflict of interest between his involvement in management of OFBiz and his running a dual licensed (Honest Public License (HPL, GPL-like non-OSI license) and commercial) package called Opentaps that is a derivative work of OFBiz; this appears to have been peacefully resolved and while Si has not been very vocal about his thoughts on it, the situation doesn't seem to be affecting the development or progress of the project or development of the community and polite collaboration - we have discussed aligning the PMC more with those most active in the project, mainly because many votes only had participation of the 3 PMC members; it was discussed a lot but for now we have decided not to ask the less active PMC members to make any changes; so far the only action taken has been to add the two new PMC members mentioned above, both of whom are very active in the project; as other committers show more activity we will make other adjustments and vote in additional PMC members - three new committers (Anil Patel, Joe Eckard, and Adrian Crum) have been voted in and have SVN commit access, Jira access, and so on setup - we may add more new committers in the near future, but the emphasis right now is on helping the new committers get up to speed and become more involved Project: - a vote for a release branch for OFBiz 4.0 passed on April 23rd and the branch was created soon after; the release plan for OFBiz is available here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE; according to this plan it will stabilize for probably another month and then we will create the first binary release for the 4.0 branch
The board expressed their concern that it appears that this new PMC already appears to have some community issues. J Aaron indicated his willingness to follow the project. It was noted that OFBiz has no ASF members involved nor any other committers who didn't join during incubation.
Approved by General Consent.
This report, for March 2007, is the third monthly report for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Community: - two new committers (Timothy Ruppert and Ray Barlow) were voted in just before the February report, and now have SVN commit access, Jira access, and so on setup - a Developers Conference (a hackathon of sorts) for OFBiz happened the week of 5-9 Mar 2007 in Ephraim, Utah, USA; attendance varied over the week with a total of 12 people participating on-site, plus involvement of a few people in efforts remotely; we made progress on testing tools, content management, project/workeffort management, visual refinements, and various code modernization and cleanup and refactoring efforts - there is a great deal of community interaction on the mailing lists and issue tracker as the community grows and we are working on getting more people involved on a regular basis with access to the necessary resources to help leverage this increase of involvement Project: - we are now planning a release branch and beta release for late March; the release plan for OFBiz is available here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE
Henri will work with OFBiz to create a "promotional page" regarding the hackathon.
Approved by General Consent.
This report, for February 2007, is the second monthly report for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. The Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) 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. Exiting from Incubator, Infrastructure Tasks: - all infrastructure tasks for the incubator exit have now been completed - the main task remaining since the January report was the mailing list archives, and the web pages about them, which have now been updated Community: - one new committer (Scott Gray, lektran at gmail.com) was voted in just before the January report, and now has SVN commit access, Jira access, and so on setup - two new committers (Tim Ruppert and Ray Barlow) have now been voted in and we are in process getting CLAs and then the various resources setup for them - a Developers Conference (a hackathon of sorts) is now planned for the week of 5-9 Mar 2007; this is not an "official" conference, but an event hosted by a company that uses OFBiz to help get developers together to push forward certain objectives of the project; there will be an estimated 15 people attending, including at least 4 committers (3 of whom are on the PMC) - there is a great deal of community interaction on the mailing lists and issue tracker as the community grows and we are working on getting more people involved on a regular basis with access to the necessary resources to help leverage this increase of involvement Project: - we are now planning a release branch and beta release for late March
Approved by General Consent.
This report, for January 2007, is the first report for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project. Exiting from Incubator, Infrastructure Tasks: - interaction with Infrastructure for the creation of new DNS entry for ofbiz.apache.org (done) - interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the web site (done) - interaction with Infrastructure for project name update in the Jira issue tracker (done) - interaction with Infrastructure for the migration/relocation of the svn repository (done) - updated all the resources of the ASF site to refer to OFBiz as a TLP (done); submitted request to the projects.apache.org to be listed there (done) - interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the mailing lists (done) - a minor task remains for the mailing lists to move the archives over from the old incubator lists Community: - a lot of activity in the user and dev mailing lists - public discussion and plans for a new release happening in early 2007; there are details for the release plan on the project documentation site (at http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE); the general plan right now is to create a release branch from the trunk once per year to hopefully build a community around that release to stabilize it - the task of cleaning up the project website and documentation has been started and will likely continue over coming months - a host has been found for a developers conference, a sort of "hackathon" for OFBiz, this is tentatively planned for early March and is something there is interest in doing regularly to help start or finish project objectives that have had a hard time maturing "naturally" - one new committer (Scott Gray, lektran at gmail.com) has been voted in by the PMC and we are in the process of getting commit access setup for him; because of pre-ASF contributions we already have a CLA on file for Scott External Project Resources - there are some historic resources not hosted on ASF infrastructure that are not planned to be migrated, including the pre-ASF: SVN repository and mailing list archives - there are 2 active resources that we have not yet found a place for in the ASF infrastructure; there is a low priority discussion on the infra mailing list about these, and the possibility of having the ASF work more closely with Contegix who hosts resources for many open source projects, including the resources in the previous item, because they now host these; the two items are some large video files that are a tutorial introduction to the OFBiz Framework, and the Confluence site which we use for documentation and general project information management; so far what will happen with these is not known, and in the interim Contegix is happy to help maintain these resources, and we are working with them to do so
Justin noted in their report their reference to "publicize their 'hackathon'" and was curious if they knew about AC EU Hackathon? Ken was to make sure that the OFBiz project was aware of the AC hackathon and to let them know that their own hackthon was OK.
Greg expressed some concern regarding the external SVN repository Sander said that if it is closed for development and only historical, he saw no real issue, but it would be good to record history at the ASF nevertheless. Sander also noted that, with respect to other infra resources, currently hosted by Contegix, they would be "lumped" in with the proposal from Maven.
Approved by General Consent.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to enterprise automation, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "The Apache Open For Business Project" (also known as "Apache OFBiz"), be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that The Apache Open For Business Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software project related to generic enterprise information automation such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, materials requirements planning, enterprise asset management, enterprise content management and electronic commerce that can be used as a basis for custom solutions, industry specific products, and other higher level systems; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Open For Business" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of The Apache Open For Business Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of The Apache Open For Business Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of The Apache Open For Business Project: * David E. Jones (jonesde@apache.org) * Jacopo Cappellato (jacopoc@apache.org) * Si Chen (sichen@apache.org) * Andy Zeneski (jaz@apache.org) * Hans Bakker (hansbak@apache.org) * Al Byers (byersa@apache.org) * Yoav Shapira (yoavs@apache.org) * David Welton (davidw@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that David E. Jones be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Open For Business, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Open For Business Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Open For Business podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator Open For Business podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. There was some discussion on whether this project was "umbrella-like". It was agreed that the current setup of the project was such that the "overlap" of all aspects of the project was sufficient that it was not a concern. Special Order 6B, Establishment of the Apache Open for Business Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote.
Apache OFBiz ("The Apache Open For Business Project") is an open source
enterprise automation software project.[[BR]]
OFBiz entered incubation in January 2006.
Top items to resolve before graduation:
* the OFBiz community has completed all the incubation's tasks, the
Incubator has positively voted for the graduation of OFBiz podling and the
text of the the board resolution has been sent to the ASF Board.
What has been done for incubation since the last report:
* the Incubator vote has approved the Apache OFBiz 4.0.0 TS5 test snapshot
release
* the Incubator has positively voted for the graduation of OFBiz podling
Plans and expectations for the next period
* we are all hoping to get a positive vote for graduating OFBiz to a TLP
during the next ASF Board meeting (happening on 20, December)
* if OFBiz will graduate, we will work, together with the Infrastructure
guys to the migration of mailing lists, issue tracker, svn server, web site
See the Incubator status page
(http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ofbiz.html) for more details.
The OFBiz community has now completed all the tasks required by the incubation process. Since the last board report, the following items has been completed: source code moved to the Apache Incubator SVN server (since 2006-07-01) web site cleaned up and migrated to the Apache Incubator server (since 2006-07-02) the collection of iCLAs is finally completed: we have now all the 74 iCLAs needed to perform the license switch from MIT to ASL2.0; this task has been a big challenge for the community migration from MIT to ASL2.0 is now complete: the OFBiz project is now distributed under the ASL2.0: all the OFBiz files have been updated to reflect the new license, the NOTICE and LICENSE file are in the SVN repository With the above items the OFBiz community has completed all the mandatory tasks for incubation: see the status page for details http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ofbiz.html
The OFBiz project has commenced incubation in a slow-but-steady way, as can be seen here: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ofbiz.html Most of the infrastructure is set up and waiting to be transitioned, but the concensus seems to be to take things slowly. There are a fair number of people using the infrastructure, and making a mess of it for very long would create problems for users. All of the original committers bar Si Chen (who has sent his CLA in, and is waiting for it to be processed) have got their accounts. Work is ongoing to eliminate any LGPL code, although it appears there are some technical obstacles: http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/dev/2006-March/010036.html (I'm not much of a Java guy, so anyone willing to help out there is welcome to have at it!) In terms of collecting CLA's, there is a lot of work to be done, but the OFBiz guys are chipping away at it: http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=OFBizDevelopers For those interested in technical developments, Si Chen does a weekly roundup of interesting changes here: http://ofbiz-new.blogspot.com/