The thought of having a release from the TRUNK branch is very exciting.
I agree that releasing as 0.9rc1 (or 0.9b1, since we may not yet be at
release candidate stage or 0.9xx1) makes sense, and tells the world
we've moved past the 0.20.5 stage, which our project and community
desperately needs almost 2 years after the maintenance branch was
frozen.
Before we actually move to make this release, I'd like to understand
the discrepancies between 0.20.5 and the proposed 0.9rc1 release of
TRUNK a bit better. I was under the impression that the first TRUNK
release would be on parity with 0.20.5. I'm not *certain* that is
necessary, although it is certainly preferred. Jeremias mentioned
parity between the PDF, Postscript & Java2D renderers, and that's a
good goal.
The FOPProjectTasks Wiki[1] is a good place to start, but a comparison
chart similar to the FOP Compliance Page might be better. That way our
users can quickly identify how usable the TRUNK release is for them. In
fact, it might make sense to just update the FOP Compliance page with
this information, changing "support" to "0.20.5 support", and creating
an additional "0.9xx1 support" group of columns[3].
[1] FOPProjectTasks Wiki
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FOPProjectTasks
[2] FOP Compliance Page
http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html
[3] XSL-FO Object Support Table (ยง6)
http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-object
Regards,
Web Maestro Clay
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