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Posted to dev@pdfbox.apache.org by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> on 2008/08/13 12:24:53 UTC
PDFBox report, August 2008
Hi,
It's again time for our quarterly report. Here's what I was planning
to submit later today:
<report>
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF
documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008.
We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the
project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up
a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and
developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira,
and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release.
We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox
codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide
to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most
notably XML Graphics.
Issues before graduation:
* Increase community size and activity
* License review
* Export control notifications
* First Apache release
</report>
As usual, comments and improvements are welcome.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Re: PDFBox report, August 2008
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Sounds good to me. Thanks for writing it.
On 13.08.2008 12:24:53 Jukka Zitting wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's again time for our quarterly report. Here's what I was planning
> to submit later today:
>
> <report>
> Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF
> documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008.
>
> We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the
> project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up
> a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and
> developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira,
> and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release.
>
> We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox
> codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide
> to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most
> notably XML Graphics.
>
> Issues before graduation:
>
> * Increase community size and activity
> * License review
> * Export control notifications
> * First Apache release
> </report>
>
> As usual, comments and improvements are welcome.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
Jeremias Maerki
Re: PDFBox report, August 2008
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>.
Looks good, thanks
Niall
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Niall Pemberton
> <ni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think we should say something specific about Software grants - its
>> probably implied by the fact that sources have been imported - but IMO
>> we should spell it out since thats an important achievement in the
>> due-diligence of bringing in the code base.
>
> Good point. I added the suggested paragraph with a note that the small
> contributions in question were made under the BSD license.
>
> Also, I realized that I never followed up on Philipp's software grant
> before uploading the sources. :-( I chatted with him just now and it
> since he hasn't contributed more than a few patches, it seems fine to
> include him in the category of "small contributions".
>
> The full report is below.
>
> <report>
> Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF
> documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008.
>
> We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the
> project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up
> a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and
> developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira,
> and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release.
>
> Software Grants have been received from Ben Litchfield and Daniel
> Wilson who are the primary authors of the PDFBox, FontBox and JempBox
> software. There have been a lot of small contributions (under the BSD
> license) by a number of other people to the project and it was asked
> (see http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4) on the
> legal-discuss list whether the primary authors have "sufficient
> rights" to grant a license for all of the code, or if we have to
> contact all the other contributors for separate grants. Having
> received no response to the question on legal-discuss we assumed that
> software grants from the primary authors was sufficient.
>
> We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox
> codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide
> to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most
> notably XML Graphics.
>
> Issues before graduation:
>
> * Increase community size and activity
> * License review
> * Export control notifications
> * First Apache release
> </report>
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
Re: PDFBox report, August 2008
Posted by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Niall Pemberton
<ni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we should say something specific about Software grants - its
> probably implied by the fact that sources have been imported - but IMO
> we should spell it out since thats an important achievement in the
> due-diligence of bringing in the code base.
Good point. I added the suggested paragraph with a note that the small
contributions in question were made under the BSD license.
Also, I realized that I never followed up on Philipp's software grant
before uploading the sources. :-( I chatted with him just now and it
since he hasn't contributed more than a few patches, it seems fine to
include him in the category of "small contributions".
The full report is below.
<report>
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF
documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008.
We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the
project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up
a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and
developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira,
and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release.
Software Grants have been received from Ben Litchfield and Daniel
Wilson who are the primary authors of the PDFBox, FontBox and JempBox
software. There have been a lot of small contributions (under the BSD
license) by a number of other people to the project and it was asked
(see http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4) on the
legal-discuss list whether the primary authors have "sufficient
rights" to grant a license for all of the code, or if we have to
contact all the other contributors for separate grants. Having
received no response to the question on legal-discuss we assumed that
software grants from the primary authors was sufficient.
We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox
codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide
to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most
notably XML Graphics.
Issues before graduation:
* Increase community size and activity
* License review
* Export control notifications
* First Apache release
</report>
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Re: PDFBox report, August 2008
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>.
I think we should say something specific about Software grants - its
probably implied by the fact that sources have been imported - but IMO
we should spell it out since thats an important achievement in the
due-diligence of bringing in the code base. How about adding the
following paragraph:
Software Grants have been received from Ben Litchfield, Daniel Wilson
and Philipp Koch who are the primary authors of the PDFBox, FontBox
and JempBox software. There have been a lot of small contributions by
a number of other people to the project and it was asked[1] on the
legal-discuss list whether the primary authors have "sufficient
rights" to grant a license for all of the code, or if we have to
contact all the other contributors for separate grants. Having
received no response to the question on legal-discuss we assumed that
software grants from the primary authors was sufficient.
[1] http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4
Niall
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's again time for our quarterly report. Here's what I was planning
> to submit later today:
>
> <report>
> Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF
> documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008.
>
> We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the
> project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up
> a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and
> developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira,
> and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release.
>
> We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox
> codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide
> to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most
> notably XML Graphics.
>
> Issues before graduation:
>
> * Increase community size and activity
> * License review
> * Export control notifications
> * First Apache release
> </report>
>
> As usual, comments and improvements are welcome.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>