Re: [Podofo-users] Proposal for release announcement

2022-04-13 Thread zyx
On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 09:10 +0200, Dominik Seichter via Podofo-users
wrote:
> I would like to share a draft of the release announcement for PoDoFo
> 0.9.8.

Hi,
the text looks good to me.

> I would like to package and publish this release as soon as mabri
> gives me a "go" once he is done with the patches on his list.

I suggest to set a deadline for this. My past experience shows it's a
good thing to have deadlines, because it helps to be focused, rather
than postpone. What about the end of May? It may sound too far away,
but, believe me, it's not. Anyway, just an idea.

Bye,
zyx


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[Podofo-users] Proposal for release announcement

2022-04-13 Thread Dominik Seichter via Podofo-users
Hi folks!

I would like to share a draft of the release announcement for PoDoFo 0.9.8.
I would like to package and publish this release as soon as mabri gives me
a "go" once he is done with the patches on his list.

Feel free to share your feedback.

*Announcing PoDoFo release 0.9.8*

The PoDoFo developers are happy to announce the release of PoDoFo 0.9.8.
This release contains over 25 patches submitted by various contributors
(see SVN Log for details:
https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/code/commit_browser). We encourage all
users to upgrade to this release.

Also, this will be the final release of PoDoFo based on the current
codebase. After the release we plan to introduce two major changes to
PoDoFo development.

First of all, we will lock/close the current SVN trunk and switch PoDoFo
development to a more modern development platform (e.g. GitHub), where we
can leverage state of the art development features such as Continuous
Integration or Pull Requests. The mailing list and webpage will stay on
SourceForge as well as the issue tracker. Still, we will open a new issue
tracker for the new development environment and gradually migrate open
issues. We will share more news on this, once the new development
environment was set up.

Secondly and most importantly, we will replace the current codebase of
PoDoFo with the amazing work Francesco Pretto has done with pdfmm (
https://github.com/pdfmm/pdfmm). pdfmm is based on PoDoFo but with an
improved and reworked API based on C++17 which we consider more suitable
for future development of PoDoFo. After rebasing PoDoFo on pdfmm, we plan
to release PoDoFo 1.0.0.

Please note, PoDoFo 1.0.0 will be API incompatible (binary and in source
code) with PoDoFo 0.9.8. We expect migration steps to be necessary. PoDoFo
Tools are currently being ported to pdfmm as a showcase for the migration.

Best regard,
 Dominik
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