Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi Simon,
Hi Simon, Vincent,
The report looks good. Just a thing about the ChangingIPD hack: actually
it is still undecided whether it should be merged back to Trunk or not.
My main concern about that is that it will get in the way when
implementing the new approach. I will basically have to start with
reverting all the changes made for the hack.
My idea was to actively maintain the branch in sync with the Trunk.
Releases could then be made from the branch. But this may actually turn
out to be more work than reverting all the changes in one go. Plus it
has been mentioned to me that this may create difficulties for users who
regularly take snapshots of the Trunk (the branch will always lag
a little bit behind).
Any opinion about this is welcome. Meanwhile, I’ll modify the status
report.
Thanks for bringing this up Vincent. I am a little reluctant to be
working off a branch as we regularly take build snapshots from trunk.
This creates a lot of extra work keeping the branch in sync.
I think we all acknowledge that the changing IPD hack is just that and
therefore code quality may be sub optimal. However, since Vincent is
working on a totally new layout engine then we expect this code to be
replaced a year or so down the line anyway. Therefore if the only reason
for not putting this change into trunk is to save effort at the point
when the new layout algorithm is introduced then I think this hack
should be merged with trunk. This is because it will be more time
consuming to do a 100 or so merges over a 1-2 year period than to remove
changes from trunk in a one time exercise.
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks,
Vincent
Simon Pepping wrote:
The August report needs to be submitted by 16 August. I've
written an initial draft. Please add/fix/update/improve until Friday
15 August night (CET).
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics/StatusReports/StatusReportForMay2009
I tried to get some numbers on activity. I have come up with the
activity on the mailing lists during May, June and July, as can be
derived from the Apache archives:
fop commits: 88
batik commits: 5
xmlgraphics commits: 15 (minus deployment of the web site)
fop-dev: 311
fop-users: 610
batik-dev: 112
batik-users: 243
general: 48
Nice graphs can be seen at markmail: http://fop.markmail.org/,
http://fop-dev.markmail.org/, http://fop-user.markmail.org/,
http://batik.markmail.org/, http://batik-dev.markmail.org/,
http://batik-user.markmail.org/,
http://xmlgraphics.markmail.org/search/?q=#query:list%3Aorg.apache.xmlgraphics.general+page:1+state:facets
Regards, Simon
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