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Author: hughesj
Date: Mon Jul 18 16:25:07 2011
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Board report for July 2011

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 # July 2011 Board report
 Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model.
 
+Users have asked for a release of the Aries JPA bundles and hence the snapshot bundles it depends on (Aries Util) - in particular due to:
 
-Project Branding Board Report Checklist 
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+* the new 'runtime enhancer' that will mean entities can be enhanced as they are used in the runtime, rather than at development time.
+* the support for EclipseLink (in addition to Apache OpenJPA) as a JPA provider
+
+The release process has just started. This will exercise our per bundle release process adhering to the OSGi Alliance Semantic Versioning recommendations.
+
+There have also been enhancements to the Aries JMX (whiteboard pattern) and Aries Subsystem (to use OSGi Core 4.3).
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+Apache Geronimo, which consumes Apache Aries to implement its enterprise OSGi application programming model, has been readying a release. The performance enhancements in the Aries Proxy module which now makes use of the new Weaving Hooks OSGi specification, has had a few teething problems for Geronimo. All known problems are now resolved.
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+##Project Branding Board Report Checklist 
+
+We've been reminded of this work and are reporting this checklist for the first time. We appreciate we're a bit behind the curve here, and are doing our best to catch up.
 
 * Project Website Basics : homepage is aries.apache.org (done)
 * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. (pending)
 * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included (pending - feather link done)
 * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. (pending)
 * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site (pending)
-* Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date (pending - needs updating)
+* Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date (pending - some minor updates needed)
+
+##Community update
 
-Community update
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-Roughly same number of dev@ subscribers at 119, user@ 148 subscribers up 14 since last report. John Ross was voted in as a committer after many significant patches to the 'subsystem' module.
+Roughly same number of dev@ subscribers at 119, user@ 148 subscribers up 14 since last report. John Ross was voted in as a committer after his significant work to the 'subsystem' module.
 
 There are no board level issues.
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