Re: Apache PDFBox July 2014 board report due

[Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>]

+1 - thx for taking care of this.

Maruan


Am 28.06.2014 um 12:15 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
> month.
> 
> @John, @Tilman
> Please add something about the GSoC status.
> 
> 
> Any further comments, objections or additions?
> 
> 
> <draft>
> 
> The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
> documents.
> 
> 
> General Comments
> ----------------
> 
> There are no issues that require Board attention.
> 
> Community
> ---------
> 
> There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.
> 
> 451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
> 153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
> 
> Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in cologne.
> We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our
> project/community.
> 
> Releases
> --------
> 
> Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
> Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014
> 
> Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
> 
> GSoC
> ----
> 
> TODO John & Tilman
> 
> Development:
> ------------
> 
> The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are:
> 
> - switch to java 1.6
> - modularization
> - replace/enhance the parser
> - code cleanup
> - enhance rendering
> 
> We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next major release.
> 
> </draft>
> 
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler