Hi Andreas, +1 with the additions from John and Tilman
BR Maruan Am 30.03.2014 um 16:29 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de>: > 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 > ---------------- > > There are no issues that require Board attention. > > > Community > --------- > > 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 > -------- > > 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 > ---- > > TODO > > Development: > ------------ > > 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