James board report 2007 November

[Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>]

Note that this was supposed to be the 2007 October report, but I missed 
the deadline.

Highlights

* jSPF 0.9.5 released after the dependency issue was resolved.
* Jochen Wiedmann is a new committer
* No new PMC members
* MarkMail Powered by Apache James!
* I'm resigning as PMC chair

Details

The project is moving slowly, but fast in a relative sense. :)  Progress 
is being made on IMAP (led by Robert Burrell Donkin) and refactorings 
that allow James to optionally start using the Spring framework (led by 
Bernd Fondermann).  With progress comes an opportunity to rebuild trust, 
and so far so good.

A jSPF release had been held up by a needed change in a dependent 
library whose code we couldn't fork.  Stefano Bagnara helped to convince 
them to apply this contentious patch, and with that in place, then we 
could release jSPF.

You heard the news about what MarkMail is, and Jason Hunter dropped the 
project an email to let us know and thank us for Apache James as it is 
core to their email processing system.

I announced my intent to resign as PMC chair several weeks back, and 
there's been a healthy discussion of who will take over these duties and 
what qualities we'd want in that person and that role.  I had hoped we'd 
have a resolution ready for this board meeting, but not quite ready yet. 
  Should be ready for the December board meeting.

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Serge Knystautas
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