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Posted to dev@pdfbox.apache.org by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> on 2009/08/08 13:07:50 UTC
PDFBox report due
Hi,
The next PDFBox report is due on Wednesday [1]. Any volunteers to
write the report?
About recent progress, thanks Andreas for pushing the release forward!
I'm trying to prod ASF legal to finally resolve LEGAL-36 (before it's
first anniversary!). I also filed LEGAL-55 for the glyph list license,
but that's pretty much equivalent to LEGAL-36 so I don't expect (too
much) additional delay because of that.
We should mention the recent PFDBOX-499/500 controversy in the board
report. Something like this should be fine: "A problem was detected
with the naming of the previously released FontBox and JempBox Maven
artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked around this issue by
copying the existing release artifacts to match the Maven metadata
(0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was noted that even
though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for such an
action, it should have been done only based on community consensus."
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2009
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>.
Hi,
Jukka Zitting schrieb:
> 2009/8/9 Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>:
>> here is my first attempt for the needed report. Please have a look at
>> it.
>
> Looks good, thanks! I think we probably should pay a bit more
> attention to community activity and growth before graduation, so I'd
> add a "Increase community activity" point to the list of things to do.
> I think we're already reasonably good on that and getting the 0.8.0
> release out will certainly bump up interest, so I don't foresee any
> big problems.
I've added the line.
>> What do I have to do with it, if it is o.k.? Put it the incubator
>> wiki or mail it to some list?
>
> You can add it directly to the August report page on the Incubator wiki.
Done.
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Daniel Wilson <wi...@gmail.com>.
Somebody in the dev group has customers on Java 4 and has worked hard to
keep us supporting 4. I forget who ...
For myself, I'd like to see us go to 5 as then I think I could get
checkstyle to work!
Daniel
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Yonas Jongkind<yo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We are using a version of PDFBox with some patches. And we have some
> patches
> > that we have not yet figured out how to make.
> >
> > Would you guys like the patches we have made?
>
> Sure!
>
> > Is this the list to ask for help with regards to other bugs we are
> > experiencing?
>
> Yes, especially if you're willing to help fix those bugs.
>
> > We have adapted parts of the library to use Java5 Generics (It make
> things
> > more clear in a few cases). Is that on the roadmap?
>
> We haven't talked much about that, but I guess upgrading to Java 5
> would be a good idea at some point. Something to consider for PDFBox
> 1.0?
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Yonas Jongkind<yo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are using a version of PDFBox with some patches. And we have some patches
> that we have not yet figured out how to make.
>
> Would you guys like the patches we have made?
Sure!
> Is this the list to ask for help with regards to other bugs we are
> experiencing?
Yes, especially if you're willing to help fix those bugs.
> We have adapted parts of the library to use Java5 Generics (It make things
> more clear in a few cases). Is that on the roadmap?
We haven't talked much about that, but I guess upgrading to Java 5
would be a good idea at some point. Something to consider for PDFBox
1.0?
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Yonas Jongkind <yo...@gmail.com>.
On the community growth...
We are using a version of PDFBox with some patches. And we have some patches
that we have not yet figured out how to make.
Would you guys like the patches we have made?
Is this the list to ask for help with regards to other bugs we are
experiencing?
We have adapted parts of the library to use Java5 Generics (It make things
more clear in a few cases). Is that on the roadmap?
Y.
Life is good!
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/8/9 Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>:
> > here is my first attempt for the needed report. Please have a look at
> > it.
>
> Looks good, thanks! I think we probably should pay a bit more
> attention to community activity and growth before graduation, so I'd
> add a "Increase community activity" point to the list of things to do.
> I think we're already reasonably good on that and getting the 0.8.0
> release out will certainly bump up interest, so I don't foresee any
> big problems.
>
> > What do I have to do with it, if it is o.k.? Put it the incubator
> > wiki or mail it to some list?
>
> You can add it directly to the August report page on the Incubator wiki.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
2009/8/9 Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>:
> here is my first attempt for the needed report. Please have a look at
> it.
Looks good, thanks! I think we probably should pay a bit more
attention to community activity and growth before graduation, so I'd
add a "Increase community activity" point to the list of things to do.
I think we're already reasonably good on that and getting the 0.8.0
release out will certainly bump up interest, so I don't foresee any
big problems.
> What do I have to do with it, if it is o.k.? Put it the incubator
> wiki or mail it to some list?
You can add it directly to the August report page on the Incubator wiki.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>.
Hi all,
here is my first attempt for the needed report. Please have a look at
it. What do I have to do with it, if it is o.k.? Put it the incubator
wiki or mail it to some list?
<draft>
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF
documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008.
The PDFBox project continues doing well. Perhaps due to to the summer
break, the development activities stuck a little bit, but the community
itself is growing.
A problem was detected with the naming of the previously released
FontBox and JempBox Maven artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked
around this issue by copying the existing release artifacts to match the
Maven metadata (0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was
noted that even though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for
such an action, it should have been done only based on community
consensus.
After solving most of the remaining blockers found during the license
review we will likely soon make a release of the main PDFBox library.
PDFBox will soon be ready to graduate from the Incubator.
Issues before graduation:
* Closing the last recently resolved legal issues found during the
license review
* Release PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating
</draft>
Andreas Lehmkühler
Andreas Lehmkühler schrieb:
> If no one else wants/has the time to do it I will do it tomorrow or on
> monday.
>
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler
>
>
> Jukka Zitting schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The next PDFBox report is due on Wednesday [1]. Any volunteers to
>> write the report?
>>
>> About recent progress, thanks Andreas for pushing the release forward!
>>
>> I'm trying to prod ASF legal to finally resolve LEGAL-36 (before it's
>> first anniversary!). I also filed LEGAL-55 for the glyph list license,
>> but that's pretty much equivalent to LEGAL-36 so I don't expect (too
>> much) additional delay because of that.
>>
>> We should mention the recent PFDBOX-499/500 controversy in the board
>> report. Something like this should be fine: "A problem was detected
>> with the naming of the previously released FontBox and JempBox Maven
>> artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked around this issue by
>> copying the existing release artifacts to match the Maven metadata
>> (0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was noted that even
>> though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for such an
>> action, it should have been done only based on community consensus."
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2009
>>
>> BR,
>>
>> Jukka Zitting
Re: PDFBox report due
Posted by Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>.
If no one else wants/has the time to do it I will do it tomorrow or on
monday.
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
Jukka Zitting schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> The next PDFBox report is due on Wednesday [1]. Any volunteers to
> write the report?
>
> About recent progress, thanks Andreas for pushing the release forward!
>
> I'm trying to prod ASF legal to finally resolve LEGAL-36 (before it's
> first anniversary!). I also filed LEGAL-55 for the glyph list license,
> but that's pretty much equivalent to LEGAL-36 so I don't expect (too
> much) additional delay because of that.
>
> We should mention the recent PFDBOX-499/500 controversy in the board
> report. Something like this should be fine: "A problem was detected
> with the naming of the previously released FontBox and JempBox Maven
> artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked around this issue by
> copying the existing release artifacts to match the Maven metadata
> (0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was noted that even
> though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for such an
> action, it should have been done only based on community consensus."
>
> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2009
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting