BIRT PMC Minutes - Monday, April 27, 2009

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Meeting

Monday, April 27, 2009 @ 10am Pacific.

Attendees

• Wenfeng Li - BIRT PMC Lead - Actuate Corporation
• Paul Clenahan - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation
• Mike Fox - BIRT PMC - IBM Corporation
• Jason Weathersby - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation

Unable to Attend

• Scott Rosenbaum - BIRT PMC - Innovent Solutions

BIRT 2.3.2.1 Development

The BIRT 2.3.2.1 release was made available last Wednesday, April 15. As discussed at the last PMC meeting, this release addresses a specific bug reported by the community.

BIRT 2.5 Development

Development continues for BIRT 2.5 Milestone 7, which is targeted for May 11 General Availability. No issues to report in the development process for this release.

General Information for BIRT 2.5

BIRT 2.5 is the next major release of the BIRT project. It is part of the Galileo Simultaneous Release.

For details on the release, see the Eclipse BIRT Project Development Plan for 2.5. The Milestone schedule for the release is available in the timeline section of the Galileo Simultaneous Release page. BIRT is a +2 project in the Galileo release.

For a list of bugs assigned to this release, refer to: BIRT 2.5 Bugs assigned in Bugzilla

JAX Conference, Germany

A number of us attended and presented at the JAX Conference in Mainz, Germany last week. This was a great event that included a whole day of presentations on BIRT last Wednesday. The sessions were very well attended with very positive feedback on the BIRT project.

Events

Webinar Series on BIRT Exchange:

BIRT Exchange has hosted a series of technical webinars on BIRT. For archived and other upcoming webinars see the Webinar Page on BIRT Exchange.

Other Upcoming Events:

• OSCON 2009 on July 20 - 24, 2009 - San Jose, California - Introduction to BIRT

Articles

BIRT articles are available on [1]. Check BIRT Exchange regularly for new articles.

Other tips and techniques, demos and other resources can also be found on the BIRT Exchange community site.