+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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
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