Ilya,
NOTE: This message does not reflect a decision of the FOP Development
Team. Rather it is my own thoughts on the subject. If there are any
mistakes or inaccuracies in my thinking or reasoning, I hope the FOP
Team will let us know. My goal is to give Ilya and other an answer on
this important subject.
The FOP Development Team is actively diligently working to achieve a
1.0 release of Apache FOP. As with many open source projects with
limited resources (i.e., a small number of active volunteer
developers[1]), release schedules suffer. It has been 18+ months since
the most recent release of 'maintenance' branch of FOP (fop-0.20.5). As
you are probably aware, there were problems with meeting the
requirements of the XSL-FO 1.0 Spec via the 'maintenance' branch, so it
was frozen. The hope was that a re-design could be released relatively
quickly, which would enable the FOP Team to meet the needs of the
XSL-FO Spec. This hasn't happened yet, but we haven't stopped working
towards that goal.
Although there are Status[2], Change[3], ToDo[4], News[5] and other
pages, a TIMELINE unfortunately is not presently on the site. Possible
release dates and timelines for FOP 1.0 have been unofficially bandied
about on the mailing lists. The most 'relevant' date I've seen is
summer of 2005. This is not any sort of a 'promise' of a release
date. It's just what I've seen in the mailing lists. In the
not-too-distant future, I suspect the FOP Development Team will discuss
a timeline schedule for release. Perhaps we may even add info on the
FOP 'home' page or add a new page to the site, to communicate better
with the FOP community.
I apologize I/we cannot provide more specific information.
Web Maestro Clay
[1] Who we are
http://xml.apache.org/fop/team.html
[2] Status
http://xml.apache.org/fop/status.html
[3] Changes
http://xml.apache.org/fop/changes.html
[4] Todo
http://xml.apache.org/fop/todo.html
[5] News
http://xml.apache.org/fop/news.html
On Jan 27, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Ilya Khandamirov wrote:
Dear FOP Developers,
I'm re-posting this mail from the user list, because there was no clear
answer there.
The main questions are:
- what are the plans concerning the future FOP releases? Is there a
defined
timeline?
- what are the plans concerning the spec conformance?
Your answers are greately appreciated. It would help me to decide, if i
should go FOP.
Regards,
Ilya
Web Maestro Clay
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