+1 Maruan

> Am 09.01.2018 um 22:14 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this
> month. It's based upon the report template which can be found at [1]
> 
> 
> Any further comments, objections or additions?
> 
> <draft>
> 
> ## Description:
> - the Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF 
> documents.
> 
> ## Issues:
> - there are no issue requiring board attention at this time.
> 
> ## Activity:
> - the integration of the JBig2 ImageIO plugin is complete
> - we are planning to release the first Apache based version of the JBig2 
> ImageIO plugin this month
> - we are working on fixing bugs in 2.0.x
> - we have resolve quite a number of 2.0.x releated tickets so that most 
> likely the next bugfix version 2.0.9 will be released this month as well
> 
> ## Board feedback (comment from the last october board meeting)
> 
>  mt: Reading the "2.0.7 release" thread on private@ it appears that
>      the project is dependent on a single committer for at least a
>      sub-set of regression tests. Could you explain this in more
>      detail please. If there are tests the community depends on, I'd
>      expect to see those tests in an ASF repository where any
>      committer can run them.
> 
> 
> These tests are not classic regression tests but tests on a large amount (> 
> 500000) of files. The results are compared to the results of a previous 
> version and then committers investigate files with some extreme negative 
> differences or with new exceptions. The same is done (on an even larger 
> scale) for Tika, see [1] and [2].
> The Tika tests need 4TB, and the files can't be hosted on a public ASF repo 
> or released under the Apache License because the files largely derive from 
> Common Crawl or the internet generally, and copyright/licensing would pose a 
> problem. There is a special vm to host the described test and it is possible 
> to grant access to all interested Tika/PDFBox committers. Tilman already got 
> his access bits in december, so that at least one other committer is able to 
> run those tests if needed. Maybe others will follow.
> 
> [1] 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/ApacheConMiami2017_tallison_v2.pdf
> [2] 
> http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/10/04/apache-tikas-regression-corpus-tika-1302/
>  
> 
> 
> ## Health report:
> - there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on the 
> mailing lists
> 
> ## PMC changes:
> 
> - Currently 21 PMC members.
> - New PMC members:
>    - Joerg O. Henne was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017
>    - Sebastian Holder was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 11 2017
>    - Carolin Köhler was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 11 2017
>    - Matthäus Mayer was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 16 2017
> 
> ## Committer base changes:
> 
> - Currently 21 committers.
>    - Joerg O. Henne was added as a committer on Mon Oct 09 2017
>    - Sebastian Holder was added as a committer on Wed Oct 11 2017
>    - Carolin Köhler was added as a committer on Wed Oct 11 2017
>    - Matthäus Mayer was added as a committer on Mon Oct 16 2017
> 
> ## Releases:
> 
> - 2.0.8 was released on Thu Nov 02 2017
> 
> ## JIRA activity:
> 
> - 101 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
> - 75 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
> 
> 
> </draft>
> 
> Andreas
> 
> [1] https://reporter.apache.org/?pdfbox
> 
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