Hi all, here is my first attempt for the needed report. Please have a look at it. What do I have to do with it, if it is o.k.? Put it the incubator wiki or mail it to some list?
<draft> Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. The PDFBox project continues doing well. Perhaps due to to the summer break, the development activities stuck a little bit, but the community itself is growing. A problem was detected with the naming of the previously released FontBox and JempBox Maven artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked around this issue by copying the existing release artifacts to match the Maven metadata (0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was noted that even though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for such an action, it should have been done only based on community consensus. After solving most of the remaining blockers found during the license review we will likely soon make a release of the main PDFBox library. PDFBox will soon be ready to graduate from the Incubator. Issues before graduation: * Closing the last recently resolved legal issues found during the license review * Release PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating </draft> Andreas Lehmkühler Andreas Lehmkühler schrieb: > If no one else wants/has the time to do it I will do it tomorrow or on > monday. > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > > Jukka Zitting schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> The next PDFBox report is due on Wednesday [1]. Any volunteers to >> write the report? >> >> About recent progress, thanks Andreas for pushing the release forward! >> >> I'm trying to prod ASF legal to finally resolve LEGAL-36 (before it's >> first anniversary!). I also filed LEGAL-55 for the glyph list license, >> but that's pretty much equivalent to LEGAL-36 so I don't expect (too >> much) additional delay because of that. >> >> We should mention the recent PFDBOX-499/500 controversy in the board >> report. Something like this should be fine: "A problem was detected >> with the naming of the previously released FontBox and JempBox Maven >> artifacts. Project mentor Jukka Zitting worked around this issue by >> copying the existing release artifacts to match the Maven metadata >> (0.8.0-incubator instead of 0.8.0-incubating). It was noted that even >> though a new release vote wasn't strictly necessary for such an >> action, it should have been done only based on community consensus." >> >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2009 >> >> BR, >> >> Jukka Zitting
