Re: Apache PDFBox July 2014 board report due

2014-07-01 Thread Andreas Lehmkuehler

Hi,

thanks for your input.

BR
Andreas Lehmkühler

Am 28.06.2014 12:15, schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:

Hi,

find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
month.

@John, @Tilman
Please add something about the GSoC status.


Any further comments, objections or additions?




The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.


General Comments


There are no issues that require Board attention.

Community
-

There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.

451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list

Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in cologne.
We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our
project/community.

Releases


Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014

Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.

GSoC


TODO John & Tilman

Development:


The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are:

- switch to java 1.6
- modularization
- replace/enhance the parser
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering

We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next major
release.



BR
Andreas Lehmkühler




Re: Apache PDFBox July 2014 board report due

2014-06-30 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
+1 - thx for taking care of this.

Maruan


Am 28.06.2014 um 12:15 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler :

> Hi,
> 
> find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
> month.
> 
> @John, @Tilman
> Please add something about the GSoC status.
> 
> 
> Any further comments, objections or additions?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
> documents.
> 
> 
> General Comments
> 
> 
> There are no issues that require Board attention.
> 
> Community
> -
> 
> There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.
> 
> 451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
> 153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
> 
> Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in 
> cologne.
> We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our
> project/community.
> 
> Releases
> 
> 
> Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
> Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014
> 
> Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
> 
> GSoC
> 
> 
> TODO John & Tilman
> 
> Development:
> 
> 
> The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are:
> 
> - switch to java 1.6
> - modularization
> - replace/enhance the parser
> - code cleanup
> - enhance rendering
> 
> We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next major 
> release.
> 
> 
> 
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler



Re: Apache PDFBox July 2014 board report due

2014-06-30 Thread John Hewson
GSoC 2014: The major components of the OCR support have been completed and the 
code is currently on the student’s GitHub page awaiting further integration. 
Student has passed their midterm and plans to work on extended features before 
making a commit towards the end of the project.

-- John

On 28 Jun 2014, at 03:15, Andreas Lehmkuehler  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
> month.
> 
> @John, @Tilman
> Please add something about the GSoC status.
> 
> 
> Any further comments, objections or additions?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
> documents.
> 
> 
> General Comments
> 
> 
> There are no issues that require Board attention.
> 
> Community
> -
> 
> There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.
> 
> 451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
> 153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
> 
> Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in 
> cologne.
> We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our
> project/community.
> 
> Releases
> 
> 
> Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
> Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014
> 
> Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
> 
> GSoC
> 
> 
> TODO John & Tilman
> 
> Development:
> 
> 
> The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are:
> 
> - switch to java 1.6
> - modularization
> - replace/enhance the parser
> - code cleanup
> - enhance rendering
> 
> We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next major 
> release.
> 
> 
> 
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler



Re: Apache PDFBox July 2014 board report due

2014-06-28 Thread Tilman Hausherr


PDFBOX-1915: The first half of the project (which is also the core 
component) has been completed successfully and the student has passed 
her midterm evaluation. It is planned to commit the code within a few days.



Tilman

Am 28.06.2014 12:15, schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:

Hi,

find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to 
submit this

month.

@John, @Tilman
Please add something about the GSoC status.


Any further comments, objections or additions?




The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with 
PDF

documents.


General Comments


There are no issues that require Board attention.

Community
-

There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the 
community.


451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list

Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in 
cologne.
We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some 
interest in our

project/community.

Releases


Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014

Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.

GSoC


TODO John & Tilman

Development:


The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main 
topics are:


- switch to java 1.6
- modularization
- replace/enhance the parser
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering

We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next 
major release.




BR
Andreas Lehmkühler




Apache PDFBox July 2014 board report due

2014-06-28 Thread Andreas Lehmkuehler

Hi,

find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
month.

@John, @Tilman
Please add something about the GSoC status.


Any further comments, objections or additions?




The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.


General Comments


There are no issues that require Board attention.

Community
-

There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.

451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list

Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in cologne.
We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our
project/community.

Releases


Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014

Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.

GSoC


TODO John & Tilman

Development:


The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are:

- switch to java 1.6
- modularization
- replace/enhance the parser
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering

We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next major 
release.



BR
Andreas Lehmkühler