Hi everyone,

> I’d just like to congratulate Helder Magalhães on being voted in as a
> committer for the Apache Batik project!

Thanks for the cheers up, everyone: I really appreciate it. ;-)  I
also take this opportunity to thank who have expressed trust [1] for
my contributions; I hope to convince the remaining in the long run.
:-)


> Helder, perhaps you’d like to add yourself to
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/contributors.html and also the
> Squiggle splash screen? :)
>
> Thanks too to Clay Leeds for organizing the vote.

Clay has already gave a hand and add me to the contributors listing
(thanks!). I should also mention (and thank) Simon Pepping for helping
with other parts of the setup. :-)

By coincidence, I had already thought about the splash screen (and
added to my TODO list), but thanks for bringing it up. :-)


Tightly related, I'm leaving my wish list, containing a set of
short/medium-term aims (I'd like to do/help out):

1. Reduce the patch queue, looking into committing (at least) the set
of trivial patches currently available;
   (I really feel something like a 1.7.1 or 1.8 release should be made
available soon.)
2. Improve the documentation, fixing it and updating it to the reflect
the current trunk status [2];
   (I have a ton of typos and such waiting to be committed; also,
there are a couple of candidate items to be added to the FAQ.)
3. Try to improve the regression tool, regard.
   (There was already some debate [3] on this, so I'll probably create
a bug to track progress on this as Cameron suggested.)
4. Cleanup Sun proprietary stuff and/or improve GNU ClassPath compatibility
   (See bugs 38183 [4] and 46513 [5].)
5. Improve the JSVGCanvas applet demo in order to provide a
cross-browser, high quality environment for SVG development/deployment
   (Maybe through resurrecting what seemed to be an official applet,
dropped back in 2001 [6]... Can anybody recall why?)

As usual, feedback to this list would be appreciated; similarly,
proposing other actions which would be interesting to look at: I'm not
saying that I'll pick them up, but there may be things slipping
through my radar; also, others might find it valuable and jump in...
;-)


Happy new year,
  Helder


[1] 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-general/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
[2] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46202#c4
[3] http://old.nabble.com/Regard%3A-setup-and-results-td22853261.html
[4] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38183
[5] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46513
[6] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=199545

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