Re: Apache PDFBox April 2014 board report due

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

Hi Andreas,

+1 with the additions from John and Tilman

BR
Maruan

Am 30.03.2014 um 16:29 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
> month.
> 
> @Johm, @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.
> 
> John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to our ranks in February 2014.
> 
> Eric Leleu stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in March 2014.
> 
> 452 (429 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
> 157 (164 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
> 
> Releases
> --------
> 
> Version 1.8.4 was released on 31th of January 2014
> 
> 1.8.4 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
> 
> GSoC
> ----
> 
> TODO
> 
> Development:
> ------------
> 
> Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.5 will be released in the second quarter.
> 
> 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
> - refactor the underlying COS model
> - code cleanup
> - enhance rendering
> 
> </draft>
> 
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler