Hi, I have posted my second candidate for the first Apache release of the FontBox library developed within the PDFBox podling. I've fixed the minor issues of my first candidate and all required files concerning the ASF policy are now included.
The candidate can be found at http://people.apache.org/~lehmi/pdfbox/fontbox-0.8.0-incubating/ See the RELEASE-NOTES.txt file (also included at the end of this message) for details on release contents. The release candidate is a jar archive of the sources in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/pdfbox/fontbox/tags/0.8.0-incubating The MD5 checksum of the fontbox-0.8.0-incubating-src.jar release package is 4ba795a7e4298d95d24822f329e29475. Please vote on releasing this package as Apache FontBox 0.8.0-incubating. The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at least three +1 PDFBox PPMC votes is reached. Assuming the vote passes, I will ask the Incubator PMC to approve the release. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache FontBox 0.8.0-incubating [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... With the source release I have also included a pre-compiled jar file. The Maven POM file from the source release is also included so that we can deploy the released jar to the central Maven repository if the release vote passes. Here's my +1. Andreas Lehmkühler Release Notes -- Apache FontBox -- Version 0.8.0-incubating Introduction ------------ Apache FontBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF fonts. This 0.8.0-incubating release is the first FontBox release made at the Apache Software Foundation. The most notable change since the previous release (0.2.0) is the renaming of all Java packages from org.fontbox to org.apache.fontbox. If you've used FontBox before, you need to update all your client code to use the renamed FontBox packages. The version number of FontBox was upgraded from 0.2.0 to 0.8.0 to better match the version numbering of Apache PDFBox. The -incubating label included in the version number reflects the incubation status of the project. See the disclaimer below for more about incubation. See the Apache PDFBox website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/ for more information. Release Contents ---------------- This release consists of a source archive (fontbox-0.8.0-incubating-src.jar). You can build the release with Apache Ant like this: jar xf fontbox-0.8.0-incubating-src.jar cd fontbox-0.8.0 ant The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download. The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/pdfbox/KEYS. Disclaimer ---------- Apache PDFBox is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. See http://incubator.apache.org/projects/pdfbox.html for the current incubation status of the Apache PDFBox project.
