On Jun 21, 2006, at 08:39, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
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Hi guys,
Sorry for being late. Just been reading this thread, and apart from
the other comments already made, I agree with the plan to release,
and I share most of the other committer's feelings wrt the version
number. Whilst 1.0 may be a bit premature, it is becoming more and
more of a necessity to draw more attention to FOP.
As for myself, I have only one serious issue on my list that needs
being looked at, in the area of multithread safety. There's still a
very suspicious static left in FOText.java, which may cause trouble --
or at least, highly erratic/unpredictable behaviour-- when multiple
documents are processed concurrently in the same JVM. As a positive
note: unwanted side-effects should only arise when two or more of
those documents are extensively using text-decoration and/or text-
transform.
I'll make it a priority to finish this ASAP, so this is out of the way.
As far as concerns the other 'showstoppers': I assume there will
still be at least one 1.0RC before actually releasing a definitive
version. Maybe we can use this to our advantage, as in: announce a
release candidate RC1 while explicitly mentioning that there are
still open issues and questions to be answered.
We could announce the first RC sooner rather than later, and release
the actual 1.0 in november (or beginning of 2007) as long as we have
RC2 to RC5 in between?
Important thing will be that the signal is given that we are
confident enough about this product to jump over that barrier, albeit
with a few reservations...
Just my 2 cents.
Later,
Andreas
