On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Chris Bowditch <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Sounds good to me Glenn. I'm definitely supportive of moving to Maven. >> The question is should we do a bug fix release now or wait until you've >> finished porting the projects to Maven? >> > > Let's go ahead with a bugfix release first. Do we have any volunteers? > Simon, have you done a release yet? Perhaps you could work with Luis on > this? First, you will need to do a vote. > Or perhaps Andreas might help, since he has been active of late. > > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chris >> >> >> On 04/01/2016 17:58, Glenn Adams wrote: >> >>> 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] >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >
