I would also support a bugfix release. As for a JDK upgrade, I'm fine with holding off on that until we have a survey and better rationale for an upgrade.
I am more interested in effecting a transition to maven in the shorter term, which I have been working on in branches to be eventually merged to trunk. On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Chris Bowditch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > As previously discussed I'm -1 on upgrading the JDK at this time. I will > change my vote if evidence gathered via a survey shows no one is using the > older JDKs. Since FOP is a server side process, my experience is that it is > run on a lot of older systems, like AIX, HP-UX, etc. It is very difficult > to patch these system up to such later JDKs, and so we may prevent a lot of > users from using/upgrading FOP. And for what benefit? What does the later > JDK give us, that JDK 6 doesn't already have? The benefit seems very > minimal versus the potential cost > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > On 04/01/2016 14:12, Clay Leeds wrote: > >> +1 for a pre-release party (FOP and/or Batik release before JDK upgrade) >> >> +1 for JDK upgrade, assuming there're community-wide VOTEs (2-weeks? >> 1-month? Lazy consensus?) >> >> Cheers! >> >> Happy New Year folks! >> >> Sent from my iPhone 6s >> >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 5:55 AM, Simon Steiner <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Would it make sense to make a bugfix release before requiring a newer >>> JDK. >>> >>> We have done so far: >>> FOP-2157: Deadlock in CompareUtil class; fixed typo spotted by Jens >>> Schreiber >>> FOP-2356: default JAVA_HOME is not compatible with Oracle's JDK on Mac >>> OS X >>> FOP-2436: Merging of Tagged (Accessible) PDF >>> FOP-2455 - Fix unnecessary duplication of AFP resource objects as >>> suggested by [email protected]. >>> FOP-2465: Fix links to/from 'last' page >>> FOP-2473: SVG text using filters not shown >>> FOP-2485: Update xercesImpl to 2.9.1 >>> FOP-2486: Soft font support for TrueType fonts in PCL >>> FOP-2487: replace cached pages if span condition doesn't match >>> FOP-2488: Support PDF/UA >>> FOP-2489: An SVG file using markers is not rendered by FOP 2.0 >>> FOP-2490: Embedded SVG 1.2 not supported by FOP 2.0; fix submitted by >>> Hussein Shafie. >>> FOP-2491: Adobe Reader error with OTF subset PDF >>> FOP-2494 - Unable to use Ubuntu Mono Font >>> FOP-2498: Fix "last" page master usage with >>> force-page-count=end-on-even/-odd >>> FOP-2499: PDF/UA warnings for nested elements >>> FOP-2504: Truetype support for AFP >>> FOP-2507: PDFVT and Page Piece exception using IF >>> FOP-2508: TTF bullet missing when OTF used >>> FOP-2509: Add support for PDF/A-3 >>> FOP-2510: Flow name infinite Loop >>> FOP-2512: fix issue with transparent PNGs with indexed color model >>> FOP-2530: fix performance regression in MultiByteFont.findGlyphIndex as >>> suggested by [email protected] >>> FOP-2537: Support CMYK JPEG in AFP >>> FOP-2538: PDF to PDF OOM >>> FOP-2543: Update avalon-framework to 4.3.1 >>> FOP-2546: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException merging fonts >>> FOP-2547: Update Xalan to 2.7.2 for CVE-2014-0107 >>> FOP-2548: Support Barcode4J page number >>> FOP-2552: TrueType in AFP adding extra slash to end of font uri >>> FOP-2553: Support PDF shading to PS >>> XGC-93: fix performancy penalty caused by excessive >>> DeflaterOutputStream.write(byte) calls, thanks to Andre Klemann >>> XGC-97: Add PreloaderRawPNG to handle images ImageIO cant >>> XGC-103: Include ps-setpagedevice when dsc-compliant is false >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Glenn Adams [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: 21 December 2015 23:55 >>> To: XML Graphics Project <[email protected]> >>> Subject: My Goals for XML Graphics Project >>> >>> Fellow Team, >>> >>> I'd like to share some of my ideas for improving the XML Graphics >>> projects as we move forward: >>> >>> - transition writeable source repository from SVN to GIT, making SVN a >>> slave to the latter >>> - transition build, test, and deployment system from Ant to Maven >>> - update minimum JDK to 7 or perhaps even 8 >>> - enable findbugs (from Maven site goals) by default >>> - convert non-Junit tests (batik) to Junit >>> - improve test coverage >>> - triage bug list >>> - revisit documentation, in its format, deployment, and content >>> >>> Overall, I want to bring XML Graphics more up to date with other "modern" >>> Apache Project practices and tool sets. >>> >>> Please feel free comment on these matters. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Glenn >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
