Fop.next release?

[Peter Coppens]

Fop fans,

It seems the latest ‘official’ fop release ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a year old

I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version.

We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for some features currently only in trunk.

I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does not seem ideal.

Anyone any thoughts on this?

Thanks

Peter

Quoting Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@...>:

> Fop fans,
>
> It seems the latest 'official¹ fop release (
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a year
> old
>
> I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version.
>
> We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for some
> features currently only in trunk.
>
> I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does not
> seem ideal.
>
> Anyone any thoughts on this?

We should make a release. We will make a release if someone has enough  
time to act as the release manager. I would very much like this to be  
the case, but it is difficult.

Regards, Simon



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[Tobias van Treeck]

Hi,

we also plan a new version of our product and would appreciate a new official version
of FOP (0.96 then?)
Until now we set on 0.95 but looking forward to the "new features" ...
Regards,
ToM

2009/9/21 <spepping@...>

Quoting Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@...>:

Fop fans,

It seems the latest 'official¹ fop release (
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a year
old

I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version.

We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for some
features currently only in trunk.

I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does not
seem ideal.

Anyone any thoughts on this?

We should make a release. We will make a release if someone has enough time to act as the release manager. I would very much like this to be the case, but it is difficult.

Regards, Simon

[Peter Coppens]

So what can the "community" do to make this happen?

Thanks

Peter

> From: <spepping@...>
> Reply-To: <fop-users@...>
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:41:18 +0200
> To: <fop-users@...>
> Subject: Re: Fop.next release?
>
> Quoting Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@...>:
>
>> Fop fans,
>>
>> It seems the latest 'official¹ fop release (
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a year
>> old
>>
>> I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version.
>>
>> We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for some
>> features currently only in trunk.
>>
>> I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does not
>> seem ideal.
>>
>> Anyone any thoughts on this?
>
> We should make a release. We will make a release if someone has enough
> time to act as the release manager. I would very much like this to be
> the case, but it is difficult.
>
> Regards, Simon
>
>
>
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[Vincent Hennebert-2]

Hi Peter,

Peter Coppens wrote:
> So what can the "community" do to make this happen?

Not much I’m afraid. This is a task that requires write access to the
repository. It’s just time-consuming (and tedious).

Actually, the most time-consuming part is updating the website and all
the links. See the checklist here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/release.html

If most of the points listed there could be automatized, that would be
/extremely/ helpful. Maybe something can be done with Ant’s variable
substitution mechanism ([1], among others). If anyone wants to give it
a go...

[1] http://www.javalobby.org/articles/ant-preprocessor/

Thanks for asking,
Vincent

> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>
>> From: <spepping@...>
>> Reply-To: <fop-users@...>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:41:18 +0200
>> To: <fop-users@...>
>> Subject: Re: Fop.next release?
>>
>> Quoting Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@...>:
>>
>>> Fop fans,
>>>
>>> It seems the latest 'official¹ fop release (
>>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a year
>>> old
>>>
>>> I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version.
>>>
>>> We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for some
>>> features currently only in trunk.
>>>
>>> I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does not
>>> seem ideal.
>>>
>>> Anyone any thoughts on this?
>> We should make a release. We will make a release if someone has enough
>> time to act as the release manager. I would very much like this to be
>> the case, but it is difficult.
>>
>> Regards, Simon

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[Adrian Cumiskey]

Hi all,

At the moment I am very busy working on something really important for a client, but I plan in the next few weeks to try and automate the release process a bit more.  Thanks for the pointers Vincent.  I can't make any promises though, it all depends on how much time I find.... :)

All the best,

Adrian.

2009/9/23 Vincent Hennebert <vhennebert@...>

Hi Peter,

Peter Coppens wrote:
> So what can the "community" do to make this happen?

Not much I’m afraid. This is a task that requires write access to the
repository. It’s just time-consuming (and tedious).

Actually, the most time-consuming part is updating the website and all
the links. See the checklist here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/release.html

If most of the points listed there could be automatized, that would be
/extremely/ helpful. Maybe something can be done with Ant’s variable
substitution mechanism ([1], among others). If anyone wants to give it
a go...

[1] http://www.javalobby.org/articles/ant-preprocessor/

Thanks for asking,
Vincent

> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>
>> From: <spepping@...>
>> Reply-To: <fop-users@...>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:41:18 +0200
>> To: <fop-users@...>
>> Subject: Re: Fop.next release?
>>
>> Quoting Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@...>:
>>
>>> Fop fans,
>>>
>>> It seems the latest 'official¹ fop release (
>>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a year
>>> old
>>>
>>> I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version.
>>>
>>> We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for some
>>> features currently only in trunk.
>>>
>>> I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does not
>>> seem ideal.
>>>
>>> Anyone any thoughts on this?
>> We should make a release. We will make a release if someone has enough
>> time to act as the release manager. I would very much like this to be
>> the case, but it is difficult.
>>
>> Regards, Simon

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