Thanks to Jeremias

Hi,

I want to take this occasion to look back at the large role Jeremias
played in XML graphics and FOP over the last few years.

When Jeremias started to work full-time on FOP (Jan. 2005), the
project had not seen a release for a couple of years. The old release,
0.20.5, was still the stable release used by thousands of users. We
had received the Knuth algorithm for FOP from Luca Furini, but a
number of important features were still lacking. Jeremias' first task
was the implementation of tables. Next he implemented a few other
important features that were still lacking, and made the new FOP code
ready for its first release. This release was numbered version
0.90alpha1 (23 November 2005), and was followed by more or less
regular releases up to the current version 0.95.

Jeremias contributed many other features. First of all a test
framework based on the intermediate area tree (XML renderer). Together
with Luca he implemented the Knuth algorithm for page breaking. He
added PDF/A-1b support, complete with XMP handling (in XML Graphics
Commons). He developed the FOP factory, which improves reuse of
configuration data on subsequent FOP runs in the same application. He
added an event notification mechanism, which decouples event
notifications for users from logging for developers. He added another
intermediate area tree mechanism (MIME_FOP_IF), which adds speed gains
and a new interface for rendering. He added many improvements in image
handling, a.o. a new image loading framework.

Much of this work could be done because Jeremias tirelessly worked to
interest a number of corporate users of FOP in contributing to the
project.

Jeremias also initiated and advocated the creation of the XML Graphics
project as a top level project in the ASF, comprising FOP and Batik
(Oct. 2004). Since the creation he has been its champion and the chair
of its PMC. He was elected a Member of the ASF in December 2004.

Jeremias is a creative and passionate developer, with a great
knowledge and understanding of page description languages like PDF and
PostScript, of printing, computer graphics and image formats. Passions
have their ups and downs. In a serious downturn Jeremias decided to
step down as PMC chairman, and more importantly, take a time-out from
FOP development. This is a great loss for the project, and I hope he
soon regains his pleasure in XML graphics and FOP development. I thank
Jeremias deeply for all his contributions.

Simon Pepping
home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu

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[Jeremias Maerki-2]

Woah, I'm totally blushing here. Thanks a lot! That was very unexpected.

Let me then just take the occasion and thank Simon again for stepping up.
I know the various places and things the PMC chair has to know can
probably be overwhelming at first but it's really just half as bad. I'll
be there to help out should you need it.

On 25.05.2009 22:26:38 Simon Pepping wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to take this occasion to look back at the large role Jeremias
> played in XML graphics and FOP over the last few years.
>
> When Jeremias started to work full-time on FOP (Jan. 2005), the
> project had not seen a release for a couple of years. The old release,
> 0.20.5, was still the stable release used by thousands of users. We
> had received the Knuth algorithm for FOP from Luca Furini, but a
> number of important features were still lacking. Jeremias' first task
> was the implementation of tables. Next he implemented a few other
> important features that were still lacking, and made the new FOP code
> ready for its first release. This release was numbered version
> 0.90alpha1 (23 November 2005), and was followed by more or less
> regular releases up to the current version 0.95.
>
> Jeremias contributed many other features. First of all a test
> framework based on the intermediate area tree (XML renderer). Together
> with Luca he implemented the Knuth algorithm for page breaking. He
> added PDF/A-1b support, complete with XMP handling (in XML Graphics
> Commons). He developed the FOP factory, which improves reuse of
> configuration data on subsequent FOP runs in the same application. He
> added an event notification mechanism, which decouples event
> notifications for users from logging for developers. He added another
> intermediate area tree mechanism (MIME_FOP_IF), which adds speed gains
> and a new interface for rendering. He added many improvements in image
> handling, a.o. a new image loading framework.
>
> Much of this work could be done because Jeremias tirelessly worked to
> interest a number of corporate users of FOP in contributing to the
> project.
>
> Jeremias also initiated and advocated the creation of the XML Graphics
> project as a top level project in the ASF, comprising FOP and Batik
> (Oct. 2004). Since the creation he has been its champion and the chair
> of its PMC. He was elected a Member of the ASF in December 2004.
>
> Jeremias is a creative and passionate developer, with a great
> knowledge and understanding of page description languages like PDF and
> PostScript, of printing, computer graphics and image formats. Passions
> have their ups and downs. In a serious downturn Jeremias decided to
> step down as PMC chairman, and more importantly, take a time-out from
> FOP development. This is a great loss for the project, and I hope he
> soon regains his pleasure in XML graphics and FOP development. I thank
> Jeremias deeply for all his contributions.
>
> Simon Pepping
> home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
>

Thanks,
Jeremias Maerki


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[cbowditch]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Woah, I'm totally blushing here. Thanks a lot! That was very unexpected.

I concur with Simon that a deep hearted thanks is owed to Jeremias by
all those who benefit from FOP (myself included). Thanks for all those
magnificant features you have implemented over the years.

Thanks,

Chris

>
> Let me then just take the occasion and thank Simon again for stepping up.
> I know the various places and things the PMC chair has to know can
> probably be overwhelming at first but it's really just half as bad. I'll
> be there to help out should you need it.
>
> On 25.05.2009 22:26:38 Simon Pepping wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to take this occasion to look back at the large role Jeremias
>>played in XML graphics and FOP over the last few years.
>>
>>When Jeremias started to work full-time on FOP (Jan. 2005), the
>>project had not seen a release for a couple of years. The old release,
>>0.20.5, was still the stable release used by thousands of users. We
>>had received the Knuth algorithm for FOP from Luca Furini, but a
>>number of important features were still lacking. Jeremias' first task
>>was the implementation of tables. Next he implemented a few other
>>important features that were still lacking, and made the new FOP code
>>ready for its first release. This release was numbered version
>>0.90alpha1 (23 November 2005), and was followed by more or less
>>regular releases up to the current version 0.95.
>>
>>Jeremias contributed many other features. First of all a test
>>framework based on the intermediate area tree (XML renderer). Together
>>with Luca he implemented the Knuth algorithm for page breaking. He
>>added PDF/A-1b support, complete with XMP handling (in XML Graphics
>>Commons). He developed the FOP factory, which improves reuse of
>>configuration data on subsequent FOP runs in the same application. He
>>added an event notification mechanism, which decouples event
>>notifications for users from logging for developers. He added another
>>intermediate area tree mechanism (MIME_FOP_IF), which adds speed gains
>>and a new interface for rendering. He added many improvements in image
>>handling, a.o. a new image loading framework.
>>
>>Much of this work could be done because Jeremias tirelessly worked to
>>interest a number of corporate users of FOP in contributing to the
>>project.
>>
>>Jeremias also initiated and advocated the creation of the XML Graphics
>>project as a top level project in the ASF, comprising FOP and Batik
>>(Oct. 2004). Since the creation he has been its champion and the chair
>>of its PMC. He was elected a Member of the ASF in December 2004.
>>
>>Jeremias is a creative and passionate developer, with a great
>>knowledge and understanding of page description languages like PDF and
>>PostScript, of printing, computer graphics and image formats. Passions
>>have their ups and downs. In a serious downturn Jeremias decided to
>>step down as PMC chairman, and more importantly, take a time-out from
>>FOP development. This is a great loss for the project, and I hope he
>>soon regains his pleasure in XML graphics and FOP development. I thank
>>Jeremias deeply for all his contributions.
>>
>>Simon Pepping
>>home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
>>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremias Maerki
>
>
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