| Title: July2009 |
| OpenEJB 3.1.1 was released in June. The release contained a mix of |
| improvements and fixes. Overall it was very well received and very |
| anticipated as the last trunk release was in October 2008. More frequent |
| dot releases are planned and a 3.1.2 will hopefully be not too far behind. |
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| Project participation in blogs.apache.org started up in April and has been |
| fairly successful with about seven posts so far. Some effort has gone into |
| creating a convenient way that blog posts can be staged for community |
| review before being posted. The result has proven to be very easy and not |
| cumbersome which directly contributes to the number of posts in the last |
| two months or so. Two screencasts, the first of many hopefully, were also |
| added and published through the blog. |
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| Jean-Louis Monteiro was voted in as a committer in June. The project is |
| extremely happy to have him as a committer and very much enjoys his work |
| and overall contributions in the community. Congratulations, Jean-Louis! |
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| Preparation has been underway to do a first release of the OpenEJB Eclipse |
| Plugin. As part of the work in preparing the release files, discussion |
| started at the beginning of the month on adding the release manager and |
| majority contributor to the plugin, Jonathan Gallimore, to the project PMC |
| for better oversight. The discussion was started on the dev list carefully |
| and deliberately with so far very healthy and positive results. A vote for |
| his addition to the PMC is now underway on the dev list, the first of |
| hopefully many open PMC votes. A big compliment to the community to whose |
| amazing openness, mutual respect, and overall friendliness makes this kind |
| of thing possible. |
