+1 Thanks for your patience and efforts, Andreas! On 25.04.2009 13:21:08 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote: > Hi, > > I have posted my third and hopefully last candidate for the first Apache > release of the FontBox library developed within the PDFBox podling. I've > fixed the last issue concerning the missing license files in the > precompiled jar. > > 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 37 D4 F0 31 B6 CC BD B0 EA BE AF F7 1B 63 41 AE > > > 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. > > Thanks in advance for your patience with me as manager of this release. > > 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
