Apache PDFBox January 2011

[Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>]

Hi,

find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this 
month. Any comments, objections or additions?


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Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents.

General Comments
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There are no issues that require Board attention.

Community
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There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the
community. No new committers or PMC Members were added.

Releases
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- PDFBox 1.3.1 was released on October 26, 2010
- PDFBox 1.4.0 was released on December 20, 2010


Development:
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The development on the next release just started. We are currently
working on

- a signing interface (thanks to Thomas Chojecki for
the contribution and to Adam Nichols for the effort to integrate the
code)
- a better font handling to improve text extraction and rendering

Project Branding Requirements
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Done
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- Project Website Basics
- Project Metadata
- Other Trademark Guidelines

In progress
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- Project Naming And Descriptions
- Trademark Attributions
- Website Navigation Links
- Logos And Graphics
- Powered By... Logos

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BR
Andreas Lehmkühler