Report for December 2013 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.
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.