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
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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.
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
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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
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TODO
Development:
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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
