Re: [VOTE] Please approve Tuscany SCA Java 1.0.1-incubating release

2007-11-15 Thread Raymond Feng
Hi, Kevan. Thank you for the review. We have fixed the issue and republished a RC5a at: SVN Tag: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tuscany/tags/java/sca/1.0.1-RC5a/ Stage maven repo: http://people.apache.org/~rfeng/tuscany/maven/1.0.1-RC5a RAT report: http://people.apache.org/~rfeng/tu

Re: [VOTE] Please approve Tuscany SCA Java 1.0.1-incubating release

2007-11-15 Thread Kevan Miller
Hi Raymond, There are several tuscany jar files which are missing LICENSE, NOTICE, and DISCLAIMER files. For example tuscany-implementation-xquery-1.0.1- incubating.jar As they will be released to a maven repo, they must be updated to contain these files. Everything else looked good to me.

Re: [Fwd: ASF Board Meeting Summary - November 14, 2007]

2007-11-15 Thread Martin Sebor
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Congratulations from your mentors, Justin and I, well done guys! Great! Thanks for all your help along the way! We look forward to continuing to work with both of you on the stdcxx TLP in the future. Martin Original Message Subject: ASF Board Me

[Fwd: ASF Board Meeting Summary - November 14, 2007]

2007-11-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Congratulations from your mentors, Justin and I, well done guys! Original Message Subject: ASF Board Meeting Summary - November 14, 2007 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:34:54 -0500 From: Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ASF board had their monthly meeting y

Re: Projects in trouble or otherwise needing help

2007-11-15 Thread Luciano Resende
My 0.02$ as well... Gilles's suggestion is a good one to try. In addition to that, I took a quick look at the XAP mailing list, and I guess that, Instead of creating tons of JIRAS, the committers could start sending a short e-mail describing the problem, or describing a new feature ? As a user, a

Re: [DISCUSS] PDFBox proposal

2007-11-15 Thread Janne Jalkanen
...'cos everybody I've ever talked to always tells me to use PDFBox? [No, I cannot tell why exactly they prefer PDFBox, but hey, I don't really care... Just passing the message.] /Janne On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:01 , Jeremias Maerki wrote: Ok, so why not generate XSL-FO and use Apache FOP? Y

Re: Projects in trouble or otherwise needing help

2007-11-15 Thread Gilles Scokart
2007/11/15, James Margaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It would help me if someone could help me understand how to make XAP more > appealing and interesting to the Apache community. Is the problem that there > are no good samples and demos? The website isn't good? Nobody understands > what the point i

Re: [DISCUSS] PDFBox proposal

2007-11-15 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi folks, for creating PDF you have many options and I'm not sure if creating PDF using a programmatic API is the best appraoch. But where PDFBox really shines is the fact that you can extract the textual content of a PDF document thereby making it accessible for fulltext search within the WI

Re: [DISCUSS] PDFBox proposal

2007-11-15 Thread Janne Jalkanen
> How? Just curious. We don't have built-in PDF generation from pages, which is one of the more requested features. Apparently many companies like the ability to create documentation on a wiki, and then dumping it to a PDF for shipping. /Janne ---

Re: [DISCUSS] PDFBox proposal

2007-11-15 Thread Jeremias Maerki
How? Just curious. Jeremias Maerki On 15.11.2007 06:51:03 Janne Jalkanen wrote: > > JSPWiki could certainly use it! +1 from me... > > /Janne > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 03:08 , Jukka Zitting wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Ben Litchfield, the author of the PDFBox library, has been working > > with us

Re: [DISCUSS] PDFBox proposal

2007-11-15 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Ok, so why not generate XSL-FO and use Apache FOP? You get multiple output formats that way. Only drawback at the moment: No support for automatically sized column-widths in tables. If you interface directly with a PDF library you have to do all the difficult page-breaking yourself. FOP does all th