+1 - thx for taking care of this. Maruan
Am 28.06.2014 um 12:15 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de>: > 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
