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Release planning

Hi devs.

I think we’re just about ready for making the 1.7 release.  A couple of
weeks ago I went though and cleared up a bunch of bugs.  All that needs
to be done I think is fixing the Java 1.4 dependency in the DOM Viewer,
updating to the latest pdf-transcoder, and to run regard.

Hervé, were there any more WMF patches that you wanted committed before
the release?

FOP guys, what’s needed to get a pdf-transcoder that runs under Java
1.3 yet has that new PDF text support?

Anything else that anyone thinks is important?

Thanks,

Cameron

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
From my point of view, yes, absolutely. One could be a nitpicker and say
that the binary didn't include the transcoder and it's not part of the
release but I wouldn't go that far. The important thing is that the
whole thing is done off properly released sources which don't have any
legal issues and such. And that's, I think, the intention of the rule
that we must only ship released third-parties.

Jeremias Maerki



On 14.11.2007 00:43:16 Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki:
> > Hmm, probably:
> > - Make a branch
> > - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> > - Tag the branch
> > - Release vote
> 
> Oh, and procedurally is it OK for me to download the FOP 0.94 sources,
> build the pdf-transcoder.jar and commit that to Batik’s repository, or
> does there need to be a proper release of the pdf-transcoder.jar from
> FOP’s side?
> 
> -- 
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Re: Release planning

Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
From my point of view, yes, absolutely. One could be a nitpicker and say
that the binary didn't include the transcoder and it's not part of the
release but I wouldn't go that far. The important thing is that the
whole thing is done off properly released sources which don't have any
legal issues and such. And that's, I think, the intention of the rule
that we must only ship released third-parties.

Jeremias Maerki



On 14.11.2007 00:43:16 Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki:
> > Hmm, probably:
> > - Make a branch
> > - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> > - Tag the branch
> > - Release vote
> 
> Oh, and procedurally is it OK for me to download the FOP 0.94 sources,
> build the pdf-transcoder.jar and commit that to Batik’s repository, or
> does there need to be a proper release of the pdf-transcoder.jar from
> FOP’s side?
> 
> -- 
> Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/
> 	xmpp:heycam@jabber.org  ▪  ICQ 26955922  ▪  MSN cam@mcc.id.au


Re: Release planning

Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Jeremias Maerki:
> Hmm, probably:
> - Make a branch
> - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> - Tag the branch
> - Release vote

Oh, and procedurally is it OK for me to download the FOP 0.94 sources,
build the pdf-transcoder.jar and commit that to Batik’s repository, or
does there need to be a proper release of the pdf-transcoder.jar from
FOP’s side?

-- 
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	xmpp:heycam@jabber.org  ▪  ICQ 26955922  ▪  MSN cam@mcc.id.au

Re: Release planning

Posted by Vincent Hennebert <vi...@anyware-tech.com>.
Hi,

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Hmm, probably:
> - Make a branch
> - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> - Tag the branch
> - Release vote
> 
> Frankly, I'm not very keen on the second step. I have more pressing
> matters than to be able to help here at the moment. Sorry. Do you really
> need Java 1.3 compatibility for the PDF transcoder? I mean you could
> release without it and we publish the PDF transcoder as a separate
> artifact on the next FOP release. The problem with current FOP Trunk is
> that I don't believe it's stable enough to be released right now. But
> maybe I'm just too careful...

No, I second that. I would also wait a bit before making a new 
release...
And would it be possible to release just the PDF transcoder?

Vincent

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Vincent Hennebert <vi...@anyware-tech.com>.
Hi,

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Hmm, probably:
> - Make a branch
> - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> - Tag the branch
> - Release vote
> 
> Frankly, I'm not very keen on the second step. I have more pressing
> matters than to be able to help here at the moment. Sorry. Do you really
> need Java 1.3 compatibility for the PDF transcoder? I mean you could
> release without it and we publish the PDF transcoder as a separate
> artifact on the next FOP release. The problem with current FOP Trunk is
> that I don't believe it's stable enough to be released right now. But
> maybe I'm just too careful...

No, I second that. I would also wait a bit before making a new 
release...
And would it be possible to release just the PDF transcoder?

Vincent

Re: Release planning

Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Jeremias Maerki:
> Hmm, probably:
> - Make a branch
> - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> - Tag the branch
> - Release vote

Oh, and procedurally is it OK for me to download the FOP 0.94 sources,
build the pdf-transcoder.jar and commit that to Batik’s repository, or
does there need to be a proper release of the pdf-transcoder.jar from
FOP’s side?

-- 
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Re: Release planning

Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Jeremias Maerki:
> Hmm, probably:
> - Make a branch
> - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> - Tag the branch
> - Release vote
> 
> Frankly, I'm not very keen on the second step. I have more pressing
> matters than to be able to help here at the moment. Sorry. Do you really
> need Java 1.3 compatibility for the PDF transcoder? I mean you could
> release without it and we publish the PDF transcoder as a separate
> artifact on the next FOP release. The problem with current FOP Trunk is
> that I don't believe it's stable enough to be released right now. But
> maybe I'm just too careful...

Fair enough, I can live without the bleeding edge pdf-transcoder in the
1.7 release.  (I may make my nightly build scripts pull SVN FOP too, so
that the latest pdf-transcoder can be included.)

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Jeremias Maerki:
> Hmm, probably:
> - Make a branch
> - Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
> - Tag the branch
> - Release vote
> 
> Frankly, I'm not very keen on the second step. I have more pressing
> matters than to be able to help here at the moment. Sorry. Do you really
> need Java 1.3 compatibility for the PDF transcoder? I mean you could
> release without it and we publish the PDF transcoder as a separate
> artifact on the next FOP release. The problem with current FOP Trunk is
> that I don't believe it's stable enough to be released right now. But
> maybe I'm just too careful...

Fair enough, I can live without the bleeding edge pdf-transcoder in the
1.7 release.  (I may make my nightly build scripts pull SVN FOP too, so
that the latest pdf-transcoder can be included.)

-- 
Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/
	xmpp:heycam@jabber.org  ▪  ICQ 26955922  ▪  MSN cam@mcc.id.au

Re: Release planning

Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Hmm, probably:
- Make a branch
- Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
- Tag the branch
- Release vote

Frankly, I'm not very keen on the second step. I have more pressing
matters than to be able to help here at the moment. Sorry. Do you really
need Java 1.3 compatibility for the PDF transcoder? I mean you could
release without it and we publish the PDF transcoder as a separate
artifact on the next FOP release. The problem with current FOP Trunk is
that I don't believe it's stable enough to be released right now. But
maybe I'm just too careful...

On 13.11.2007 11:48:01 Cameron McCormack wrote:
<snip/>
> FOP guys, what’s needed to get a pdf-transcoder that runs under Java
> 1.3 yet has that new PDF text support?
<snip/>

Jeremias Maerki

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Hervé Girod:
> I had a crash on my laptop hardrive, but I was able to restore it (it 
> seemed to be some Windows stuff after all, and not a really hard crash, 
> but still I had to reformat and make a full reinstall of Windows, Java, 
> Netbeans, etc..)... Can you give me until the end of the Week-end before 
> making the release ? I just need to look at bug #43595 (maybe incomplete 
> fix for bug 42961), and check a last time that all is with some 
> "standard" WMF files to be sure that nothing is broken in that area 
> before 1.7.

Sure thing.

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Hervé Girod:
> I had a crash on my laptop hardrive, but I was able to restore it (it 
> seemed to be some Windows stuff after all, and not a really hard crash, 
> but still I had to reformat and make a full reinstall of Windows, Java, 
> Netbeans, etc..)... Can you give me until the end of the Week-end before 
> making the release ? I just need to look at bug #43595 (maybe incomplete 
> fix for bug 42961), and check a last time that all is with some 
> "standard" WMF files to be sure that nothing is broken in that area 
> before 1.7.

Sure thing.

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Hervé Girod <he...@club-internet.fr>.
Hi Cameron,

I had a crash on my laptop hardrive, but I was able to restore it (it 
seemed to be some Windows stuff after all, and not a really hard crash, 
but still I had to reformat and make a full reinstall of Windows, Java, 
Netbeans, etc..)... Can you give me until the end of the Week-end before 
making the release ? I just need to look at bug #43595 (maybe incomplete 
fix for bug 42961), and check a last time that all is with some 
"standard" WMF files to be sure that nothing is broken in that area 
before 1.7.

Herve

Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Hi devs.
>
> I think we’re just about ready for making the 1.7 release.  A couple of
> weeks ago I went though and cleared up a bunch of bugs.  All that needs
> to be done I think is fixing the Java 1.4 dependency in the DOM Viewer,
> updating to the latest pdf-transcoder, and to run regard.
>
> Hervé, were there any more WMF patches that you wanted committed before
> the release?
>
> FOP guys, what’s needed to get a pdf-transcoder that runs under Java
> 1.3 yet has that new PDF text support?
>
> Anything else that anyone thinks is important?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cameron
>
>   

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Re: Release planning

Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Hmm, probably:
- Make a branch
- Restore Java 1.3 compatibility
- Tag the branch
- Release vote

Frankly, I'm not very keen on the second step. I have more pressing
matters than to be able to help here at the moment. Sorry. Do you really
need Java 1.3 compatibility for the PDF transcoder? I mean you could
release without it and we publish the PDF transcoder as a separate
artifact on the next FOP release. The problem with current FOP Trunk is
that I don't believe it's stable enough to be released right now. But
maybe I'm just too careful...

On 13.11.2007 11:48:01 Cameron McCormack wrote:
<snip/>
> FOP guys, what’s needed to get a pdf-transcoder that runs under Java
> 1.3 yet has that new PDF text support?
<snip/>

Jeremias Maerki