Hi Craig, Thanks for the guidance; I'll try to put together a proposed first build soon.
I'll also modify the non-apache site so that it guides users to the apache list. Charles. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Jul 8, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Charles Matthew Chen wrote: > >> That report looks good to me. >> >> Most people continue to email me personally rather than the apache >> mailling list, I think because of the lack of an apache release. Is >> there anyone familiar with the Apache organization who can guide this >> project to its first release? > > Sure. I can help. > > This project could have a single source distribution (.zip) and a single > binary distribution (.jar). > > The source distro could be simply a zip of the source tree (rooted at > trunk). > > The binary distro could be the result of building the .jar file and making > sure that the appropriate LICENSE and NOTICE files are included when > building it. > > Both source and binary artifacts need to be signed (detached gpg signature) > and checksummed (.md5). > > The biggest issue is making sure that there is a repeatable build process. > Something like a "BUILDING.txt" file at the same level as trunk would be > appropriate. >> >> Most of the contact I've had is about having more control over read >> images (esp. their color models, color correction, etc.) and about the >> JPEG metadata reading and writing features. Specifically, I intend to >> work on making EXIF write easier, documenting the EXIF features and >> providing more example code that uses them. I've had a request to add >> a structured way to to write IPTC metadata as well, although that may >> be a significant undertaking. > > When you get messages, it would be good to forward them to the dev alias so > everyone knows what features are being requested. You could also suggest > that the sender subscribe to sanselan-dev to build the community. > > Craig >> >> >> Charles. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:38 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Author: clr >>> Date: Mon Jul 7 12:38:24 2008 >>> New Revision: 674608 >>> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=674608&view=rev >>> Log: >>> Draft incubator report for July 2008 >>> >>> Added: >>> incubator/sanselan/board/2008-07.txt (with props) >>> >>> Added: incubator/sanselan/board/2008-07.txt >>> URL: >>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/sanselan/board/2008-07.txt?rev=674608&view=auto >>> >>> ============================================================================== >>> --- incubator/sanselan/board/2008-07.txt (added) >>> +++ incubator/sanselan/board/2008-07.txt Mon Jul 7 12:38:24 2008 >>> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ >>> +2008-July Sanselan Incubator status report >>> + >>> +Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007. >>> + >>> +Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing >>> +a variety of image formats. >>> + >>> +The community hasn't grown much in the past three months. There >>> +continues to be only one active committer. >>> + >>> +There was work on EXIF metadata read/write support and a bug >>> +in the implementation was discussed on the dev aliaas. >>> + >>> +Builds outside Apache have been made but no official Apache release >>> +has been created yet. >>> + >>> +Barriers to graduation continue to be diversity, size of the community, >>> +overall activity, and lack of a release from Apache. >>> + >>> >>> Propchange: incubator/sanselan/board/2008-07.txt >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> svn:eol-style = LF >>> >>> >>> > > Craig L Russell > Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo > 408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! > >
