Re: [Xmlgraphics Wiki] Trivial Update of "StatusReports/StatusReportForFebruary2010" by ClayLeeds

2010-02-04 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, [Clay] >>   '''Batik''' >> >> - Helder Magalhães was voted in as a new committer. A new release, >> consolidating bug fixes and small improvements, would be good, but due to >> lack of committer time, no release was

Re: Patch to reduce the size of generated ps

2010-02-21 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi Calixte, > I wrote the attached patch to reduce the size of ps or eps file. I added > basic shortcuts to postscript commands and gave an > access to the property clippingDisabled. With these modifications (and in > using the added method disableClipping) I can divide > by 3 the size of eps f

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-14 Thread Helder Magalhães
on-improving-Batik%27s-usability-td7008728.html [3] http://old.nabble.com/running-batik-efficiently-in-a-web-server-environment-%28linux%29-td15684333.html [4] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/demo.html [5] https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/liveconnect/ [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-05 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, >> If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in >> JIRA, see the above web page. Oops, I missed that sentence; today, while revisiting this thread I noticed that, according to the timeline [1], the proposals will need to be postponed for next year. :-| The

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-06 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, >> Could anyone >> help understanding what is that exactly? I've crawled through the >> available JIRA projects and saw none related with XML Graphics (Batik, >> FOP, XML Graphics Commons)... (Also, if this is a lengthy process I'd >> hint towards maybe triggering the process now so

Re: [g...@vmgump]: Project xmlgraphics-commons-test (in module xmlgraphics-commons) failed

2010-08-28 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > Full details are available at: >     > http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/xmlgraphics-commons/xmlgraphics-commons-test/index.html Yes, the partial information provided in the email message is somehow hiding the actual failure reason, an NPE (taken from the HTML log): [junit

Oracle (previously Sun) JDK/JRE: couple of imageio fixes + critical security update

2010-10-13 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, Today I stumbled across the (Oracle) SE 1.6 update 22 release notes [1]. Initially, it made me curious about a couple of imageio-related issues [2] [3], something which may become useful in the scope of related Batik issue 46513 [4] (possibly/probably there is also related interest i

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2010-10-24 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > If we're making this democratic then we should bear in mind that we > don't want the majority oppressing the minority, we can't let the poll > be the final decision. I subscribe to Mehdi's thoughts. For example, I noticed most active Batik committers pretty silent on this thread,

Re: [VOTE] The Apache XML Graphics project to switch to J2SE 1.5 as minimum environment

2010-10-26 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, [X] +1 Approve J2SE 1.5 as minimum environment > Agreed. I don't think we can/should proceed 'for' Batik. Again, I've "pinged" other Batik developers as well (which seem to be quite overflown): https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46434#c4 Should do it again (proba

Re: [g...@vmgump]: Project xmlgraphics-commons-test (in module xmlgraphics-commons) failed

2010-10-26 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > I think we have to be pragmatic about that. This issue has been > outstanding for more than 2 months and hasn’t been dealt with yet. That > means that among the current team nobody has the knowledge or the time > to handle it. I have neither of those. I've made partial testing (in

Re: Interest of Java 1.6 [was: Re: Switching to Java 1.5]

2010-10-26 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > A big advantage of Java 1.6 over 1.5 is that the @Override annotation > also works on methods that come from an interface. That eases > refactoring a lot. > > Java 1.6 also comes with a slightly improved Collections framework. BTW: I wasn't even aware of these new, cool features..

Re: [VOTE] Merge XGC color branch into Trunk

2010-10-29 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > I would like to call for a vote to merge the XML Graphics Commons color > branch [1] into the Trunk. I've got the code in production since August > and it's working just fine, especially the named colors functionality. > I've now done some cleanup work and I believe the branch is n

Re: Error with X11GraphicsEnvironment

2010-10-30 Thread Helder Magalhães
> Hello, Hi Venkateswara, > To: general@xmlgraphics.apache.org, fop-us...@xmlgraphics.apache.org, > fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org Please don't cross-post at so many mailing list at a time: instead, pick a mailing list [1] wisely (in this case, possibly a users list (fop-users@, the one

Re: FOP on Google Application Engine

2010-11-14 Thread Helder Magalhães
> Hi everyone, Hi Nicanor, >  I am a big fan of many apache products and especially fop. I am using fop > in lots of applications and it really does its job great and I wanted to use > it on google's application engine as well. Besides google's limitations to > lots of classes, I finally made it

Re: [VOTE] Merge XGC color branch into Trunk

2010-12-19 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > If the color branch is now in a state > that everybody is happy with, I'll restart the vote. Guess I've missed that one. Wasn't clear (and still isn't) that a new vote round was triggered but, although I haven't followed the last changes, the concept and new features seem appealing

Re: [VOTE] Requesting committer rights for Apache Batik

2011-01-26 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > After our short discussion inside the PMC, I'd like to formally request > regular committer rights for Apache Batik. +1 from me as well (of course!). :-) Welcome (to Batik as well), Helder - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: Failure building the XML Graphics web site

2011-08-24 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > I've fixed a few things: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1160880&view=rev Is that: + (in "skinconf.xml") required? If so, why? I'd also suggest reworking: +Apache, Apache XML Graphics, the Apache feather logo, and the Apache XML Graphics logos are trademarks of Th

Re: [VOTE] Include Jeremias' PDF plug-in library as a new sub project

2012-03-10 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, >> As you are all aware, Jeremias currently hosts a PDF plug-in for loading >> PDFs as images within FOP. Actually, I wasn't aware of that but I bet it's Apache quality, coming from Jeremias. :-) >> I suggested this to Jeremias and he has agreed to donate the code to Apache. Appl

Re: [VOTE] Switch from Bugzilla to JIRA

2012-04-22 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, >> We need to have a formal vote to decide if the XML Graphics project and >> all sub projects should switch the bug tracking system from Bugzilla to >> JIRA. My experience with JIRA is quite smaller compared to Bugzilla, given the latter it's widely used in the OSS community. Howev

Re: XML Graphics CMS migration progress

2012-08-19 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > I've made some progress on the XML Graphics CMS migration. Does the CMS take the same markup used for FOP? Is there any automated transform mechanism or will this be a one-time migration? I'm asking this because I have a handful of changes in my working copy for which I didn't have

Re: Download

2012-11-12 Thread Helder Magalhães
> Hi, Hi Oliver, > The download link seems to be down. > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi > > Clicking the binary distribution (first download link) takes me to > > http://mirror.catn.com/pub/apache//xmlgraphics/batik/batik-1.7.zip > > which isn't there. I've tried a few differ

Re: [VOTE] Drop Java 6 support

2019-03-30 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, Java 6 is pretty much the same as IE 6: a (reasonably stable) thing everyone relies upon during (too much) time but, when it's time to move on, it's harder to bury than a zombie... 😅 +1 from me too. Have a nice weekend, Helder Simon Steiner escreveu no dia segunda, 25/03/2019 à(

Re: [VOTE] Release XML Graphics Batik 1.12 2nd attempt

2019-11-02 Thread Helder Magalhães
+1, even without having a chance to catch up with latest changes within the voting period. Thanks for the effort! I'm currently reviewing some minor glitches, such as Jan's and a documentation related. If changes are made, it would be nice to include them in the final release. Have a great weeken