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Jakarta status report for August to October 2009.

==== PMC membership updates ====

Over the last three months, the Jakarta PMC has gone from being the largest=
PMC in the foundation records to the second largest, from having 120 membe=
rs on the PMC to currently 87. A number of PMC members who no longer have a=
lot of interest or time to devote towards Jakarta anymore have stepped dow=
n. At the same time, we also checked with 28 PMC members who were no longer=
subscribed to the private list, 2 of whom decided to stay on and subscribe.

===3D Releases ===3D

* BSF 3.0 (Oct 9th)

===3D Subproject news ===3D

==== BCEL ====

Occasional post to the user list - otherwise quiet, in maintenance mode.

==== BSF ====

There have been discussions about a 3.0 release. There has also been intere=
st from Rony Flatscher in continuing the 2.x line of development for a 2.5 =
bugfix release.

There have been a number of improvements, an SVN reorganization and work wa=
s completed towards a 3.0 release, mostly by sebb.

BSF 3.0 was released on October 9th.

==== Cactus ====

A couple of user list posts, no development activity since last report.

==== ECS ====

No activity - maintenance mode.

==== JCS ====

The user list has been active, and a couple of bug fixes have recently gone=
in. Aaron Smuts has been responding to user queries and making the code fi=
xes.

==== JMeter ====

JMeter has been the busiest part of Jakarta in the last three months.

Sebb continues to make many improvements. The code in trunk is being upgrad=
ed to JDK 1.5 which has offered the opportunity for related improvements. T=
here have been a number of new Bugzilla reports, including a few patches be=
ing proposed.

==== ORO ====

Some activity in bugzilla in September - maintenance mode.

==== Regexp ====

No activity - maintenance mode.

==== Taglibs ====

This is the last board report that will list Taglibs updates.

As reported in July, the Tomcat project will host three of the taglibs (RDC=
, Standard, Extended) going forward and the rest of the taglibs have been r=
etired. Henri Yandell did most of the work to make this happen.

The SVN move for the three taglibs is complete. The websites have been migr=
ated to the tomcat.apache.org site. Bugzilla and Gump have been redirected.=
The taglibs-user list has been maintained and moved over to the tomcat.apa=
che.org domain name, while the main Tomcat development list will now be use=
d for contributor discussions. The taglibs-dev Jakarta list has been closed.

Taglibs updates will henceforth be part of the Tomcat board reports.

==== Retired Projects ====

* Slide
* Taglibs (partial)