+1, but the license files are still missing from the JAR. Fixed in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=767424

On 20.04.2009 20:19:59 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote:
> 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.




Jeremias Maerki

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