Hi Andreas, thanks a lot for your feedback!
Andreas Lehmkühler <[email protected]> wrote: > This is good news and higly appreciated! >> We are currently in the very early stages of evaluating such a transition. A >> few random thoughts: >> - All of those thoughts are subject to the PDFBox community? being willing >> to do this and accepting the contribution, obviously. > I can think about 2 possible new homes within the ASF, Apache PDFBox and > Apache Commons. The first option might be the easier way if it comes to the > "paperwork". PDFBox seems the more natural choice to me as, for example, levigo is very active in the PDF world, we've been a member of the PDF Association for a long time and feel "at home" in that context. >> - We need to do proper IP vetting: while the vast majority has been done by >> levigo there is one other GitHub committer who has provided bug fixes and >> whom we need to talk to. > Good catch, these are the important bits which have to be resolved first. > After that you have to provide a Software Grant Agreement, see [1] for > details, so that we can start the IP clearance process, see [2] and [3] I've already started the process of getting approval from the relevant contributors. >> - After a transition colleagues of mine would continue to contribute to the >> maintenance of the component. The necessary committer rights would need to >> be bestowed upon them. I myself have been an Apache committed for many >> years, albeit almost completely inactive. > As an apache committer you might know that nobody can request committer > rights but has to be voted in. But that is maybe just a formality. About how > many devs are we talking here? Currently, there are two colleagues of mine who are familiar with the component. Additionally, there is one other developer who has left us, but who continues to contribute to the maintenance. >> So that's it for now, I guess. Please let me know what you think. > I support your plan to integrate the plugin with pdfbox. We, the PDFbox PMC, > have to discuss that topic first and have to perform a vote, but I guess this > is just a formality. Fine, in the mean time, we'll continue to do our homework. I'll keep you posted about the progress. Thanks Jörg Henne -- levigo solutions gmbh Business IT. Jörg Henne Bebelsbergstr. 31 71088 Holzgerlingen Germany Telefon (Zentrale): Telefax (Zentrale): E-Mail: +49 7031 4161-20 +49 7031 4161-21 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Mästling, Jörg Henne Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 245 178 USt-ID: DE216 017 084 <https://www.facebook.com/levigosystems> [cid:[email protected]] <https://www.facebook.com/levigosolutions> [cid:[email protected]] <https://plus.google.com/+levigosolutionsgmbhHolzgerlingen> <https://plus.google.com/+levigosystemsgmbhHolzgerlingen> [cid:[email protected]] <https://www.xing.com/companies/levigosolutionsgmbh> <https://www.xing.com/companies/levigosystemsgmbh> [cid:[email protected]] <http://www.levigo.de/> Die Unternehmen und Marken der levigo gruppe: levigo<http://tra.fo/levigo> | jadice<http://tra.fo/jadice> | openthinclient<http://tra.fo/otc> | h-pcn<http://tra.fo/hpcn>
