Hi Helder. > > I?d just like to congratulate Helder Magalhães on being voted in as a > > committer for the Apache Batik project!
Here, here! Helder Magalhães <[email protected]> wrote on 12/31/2009 02:06:29 PM: > 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.) Please make sure that for any contribution of size the contributor has a CLA on file. Also make sure to run regard before and after the patch is applied to ensure no regressions. Finally, especially for SVG content/script bug fixes please try to make sure that a test exists in regard that fails before and not after the fix. > 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.) Very good, if you have any questions let us know. > 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.) Sounds good. > 4. Cleanup Sun proprietary stuff and/or improve GNU ClassPath compatibility > (See bugs 38183 [4] and 46513 [5].) This is fine, I never finished the switch over to Java Image IO as I didn't have the time to ensure forward compatibility in all the corner cases. Perhaps it doesn't matter anymore and we should make Java Image I/O the default and let people use the original encoders/decoders by switching the SPI file. > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
