For those on jdo-dev or torque-dev who may not know me, I am Bryan Pendleton, Derby committer and PMC member, VP Apache DB, and DB PMC chair.
While that's a mouthful, for the purpose of this email all that matters is that one of my responsibilities is to submit the quarterly report for the Apache DB project to the Apache Board. Note that although Derby, JDO, and Torque tend to conduct their development activities independently, we make a single quarterly report to the Apache Board. For more information on the Apache quarterly reporting system: https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting For a long time, each quarter, I would gather information for the report by polling the PMC members from the Derby, JDO, and Torque communities using a private mailing list. Recently, though, I received the suggestion that it would be more inclusive, and lead to a better report, to widen my quarterly polling for updates to include the development mailing lists from the Derby, JDO, and Torque communities. So, please let me know of any updates in your development community which have occurred over the past 3 months, so that I can include them in our report. thanks, bryan