On 05.04.2005 21:59:48 Renaud Richardet wrote: > > > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > > Today alone, I've had to reply to two mails sent to me directly. > > What did the people wanted to know? With FOP's State, do you mean the > date of the next release?
- Is the project dead? - Give me release dates or a link to a project/release plan so people can plan their own projects. - What's JFOR's status? Is the integration into FOP complete? Stuff like that... > > > > Does > > > > anyone have an idea how we can improve communication on FOP's state and > > > > direction? > > > > > > Start a blog about FOP hacking and put a prominent link to it on the > > > FOP home page. Somethinkg like "The burning edge" for FireFox. > > What I like about the Blog, is that it's easy to update. But we could > do the same in a wiki page. Please have a look at my proposition [1]. > I think it's very lightweight to maintain, and it gives the impression > to visitors (and to developpers) that FOP is under active > developpment. > The Cocoon wiki even lists these kind of news on their FrontPage [2]. > I like the idea. I like it, too! > I also updated the documentation a tiny bit [3]: > * updated FAQ with 2 new questions > * updated dev/index > * could we put something on relnotes.html? When you read it, it gives > you the feeling that the project is dead (which doesn't reflect the > reality). Thanks a lot, Renaud. That's fantastic. I'll have a look at it right now. BTW, how's your Java2D stuff? > > Regards, > Renaud > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FOPNews > [2] http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/FrontPage > [3] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34316 Jeremias Maerki
