hi jeremias, thanks for preparing the report. it looks good (the report). > On a personal note: I fear that the PDFBox incubation experiment is in > danger to fail if noone (committer or not) dives into actual development > work. i agree that this is currently a problem. i was too absorbed in the last month with other work - hope that the workload will drop in the next month...
i was/am surprised that there is not much traffic anyways on the dev list since pdfbox (from my knowledge) is widely used. why is that? because the core functionality is enough for most users? or are there improved libraries around (i don't know about) which users switch to? i am still convinced that pdfbox is a very good library which needs to be kept alive. personally, i would like to improve the pdf2image functionality which is a very cool feature - so, i hope to contribute soon. regards, philipp On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've attempted to write a report for PDFBox: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF > documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. > > The website has been set up. The license review is underway and has > already progressed quite far. The export control notification has been > set up. These tasks and most other tasks were all performed by PDFBox > mentors (mostly by Jukka Zitting). Sadly, there has been almost no > participation by the initial committers, yet, except for handling the > license grants and CLAs. > > On the user side, some questions don't seem to get answered. Not many > patches have reached us, either. > > Issues before graduation: > > * Increase community size and activity > * Finish license review > * First Apache release > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please improve as you see fit. The report needs to be submitted by 12 > November 2008!!! To be included here in the end: > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/November2008 > > On a personal note: I fear that the PDFBox incubation experiment is in > danger to fail if noone (committer or not) dives into actual development > work. > > Jeremias Maerki > >
