PDFBOX-1915: The first half of the project (which is also the core
component) has been completed successfully and the student has passed
her midterm evaluation. It is planned to commit the code within a few days.
Tilman
Am 28.06.2014 12:15, schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:
Hi,
find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to
submit this
month.
@John, @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.
451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in
cologne.
We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some
interest in our
project/community.
Releases
--------
Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014
Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
GSoC
----
TODO John & Tilman
Development:
------------
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
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering
We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next
major release.
</draft>
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
