On 10 Jan 2015, at 04:50, Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this > month. > > @John > Any news about "your" GSoC project?
Yes, my student is still around and is working on getting the Windows build working. Bundling native binaries with PDFBox is going to be tricky but we should be able to reduce it to a single plugin jar. In theory we could use Apache’s builedbot instances to do cross-platform C++ builds to generate a multi-binary jar. I’ve set this as a 2.1 issue, because the release process surrounding this is quite tricky for us - the the OCR plugin does currently work. > > 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
