Hi, we shouldn't put to much information/details into our report as the board members have to approve a lot of reports in preparation of a monthly meeting (this month
there are about 80 reports), but I'm going to add some brief information on the mentioned topics. > Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> hat am 11. Januar 2015 um 18:02 > geschrieben: > > > Tilman, Andreas, > > good idea. In addition we should include some of the metrics from the Sonar > Reports > > a) because we made some progress there (mostly because of your efforts) and > b) we provide feedback that such tools, provided by the ASF to us, are very > valuable and used by the projects > > I'd also include the much better test coverage with the corpora testbed both > for PDFBox 'core' as well as Preflight. > > Above topics could be under a 'Software Quality' header > > Maybe it's also worth noting the joint efforts with TIKA to show cross project > efforts. These have been very useful I think. "Software Quality ---------------- There is an ongoing effort to improve PDFBox based on the analysis of different tools such as SonarQube, FindBugs and others. Only last month we reduced the number of issues as reported SonarQube by 20%. We joined our forces with the Tika project. Tim Allison ran some tests on their huge pool of test files pdfs (> 50.000 pdfs) to - avoid regressions when preparing the 1.8.8 bugfix release - get clearance for updating Tika to use PDFBox 1.8.8 - find differences/improvements comparing the new major release 2.0 to the current released version 1.8.x - avoid regressions when switching the parser - find cases for improvements/unsupported features and corner case pdfs not exactly following the pdf specs " > > > BR > > Maruan BR Andreas Lehmkühler > > Am 10.01.2015 um 16:07 schrieb Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>: > > > I wonder if it would make sense to include some statistic about issues > > opened vs. issues resolved/closed. For example, a statistic like this > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel > > > > looks very nice, it means we're getting forward, while another such as this > > one > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMAGING/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel > > > > means they're falling behind (but still making a good effort). > > > > Tilman > > > > Am 10.01.2015 um 13:50 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler: > >> Hi, > >> > >> find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit > >> this > >> month. > >> > >> @John > >> Any news about "your" GSoC project? > >> > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> 493 (481 last report) subscribers on the user@ list > >> 149 (155 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list > >> > >> Releases > >> -------- > >> > >> Version 1.8.8 was released on 13nd of December 2014. It is an incremental > >> bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. > >> > >> > >> Development: > >> ------------ > >> > >> The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics > >> are: > >> > >> - switch to java 1.6 > >> - enhance the parser > >> - code cleanup > >> - enhance rendering > >> - enhance font handling > >> - add unicode support > >> - reduce memory footprint > >> > >> The long-awaited new major release is still under construction and there is > >> still a lot to do. Most of the bigger parts are done so that we see the > >> light at the end of the tunnel. > >> > >> </draft> > >> > >> BR > >> Andreas Lehmkühler > > >
