Re: enthusiam for 1.2 release soon

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Hi Jason,

We are interested to do another release of FOP soon, as its now long 
overdue. However, it won't be v1.2, but v2.0 due to significant changes 
to the FOP API.

Thanks,

Chris

On 30/01/2014 01:53, Jason Harrop wrote:
> I'm very interested to know what the general level of enthusiasm for a
> formal release sometime soon might be?
>
> My specific driver is to see Maven Central serve a version of FOP
> which fixes https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54094
> [break-before="page" causes IllegalArgumentException]
>
> In that bug report, Luis Bernardo indicated it was fixed what is now
> 18 months ago (in trunk in July 2012 but after the RC for 1.1 was put
> forward).
>
> I appreciate I could repackage FOP into a package namespace I control,
> and put that into Maven Central, but obviously that's best avoided if
> possible...
>
> So I'm wondering what are the major areas if any which need to
> stabliise before a release would likely pass a vote?
>
> thanks .. Jason
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Vincent Hennebert <vh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Time to sum up. We have 6 +1, the vote passes.
>>
>> That said, there have been reservations expressed about the dependency
>> on a patched version of Batik. So I’ll defer the merge until the PMC has
>> found a viable solution for Batik’s future.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vincent
>>
>> On 21/08/13 12:08, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
>>> This work allows to directly use FOP-configured fonts for SVG images,
>>> instead of trying to find, via AWT, equivalent fonts installed on the
>>> system, and then mapping them to FOP fonts when generating the output.
>>>
>>> Please note that this introduces a dependency on the trunk version of
>>> Batik, with the patch from BATIK-1041 applied. That means that before
>>> releasing the next version of FOP, a new version of Batik will have to
>>> be released first.
>>>
>>> This vote will run until Monday, 26 August 11:00 UTC.
>>>
>>> +1 from me.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vincent
>>>
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