On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for handling the source import and related tasks, Jukka! > I'll look after the website later this week. > > On 05.08.2008 14:19:30 Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With all the source code in svn, we can start thinking about making a >> new release. There are already a number of post-0.7.3 fixes and >> improvements in the codebase, so I would target for a release as soon >> as we've reviewed the release contents in relation to Apache policies. > > Makes sense. How far did the ICLA collection effort go already? Just the > main committers or also the authors of any non-trivial contribution in > the past? I think that's a prerequisite to a first release, isn't it? > >> I've tentatively added a 0.8.0-incubator release tag in the issue >> tracker. I think it makes sense to upgrade the minor version number to >> reflect the move to Apache. > > +1 > >> I'm not sure if we should yet rename the packages from org.pdfbox to >> org.apache.pdfbox. We could for example do the 0.8.0 release with the >> current package names, and perhaps do the rename in a 1.0.0 release. > > I would do the package rename as soon as possible. Since the project > goes through a major change right now, the package change together with > the switch to 0.8.x makes sense to me. It also emphasizes the move to > the ASF. But that's just me.
The only reason I can think of for leaving the package rename till later would be to avoid the possibility of inflicting pain twice on users in the scenario that pdfbox failed to graduate. So I guess its whether we want to take an optimistic vs cautious view to graduation. Niall > Jeremias Maerki
