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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:37:32 +0200
From: Jeremias Maerki <dev@jeremias-maerki.ch>
To: general@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] XGC 1.5 and FOP 1.1 Releases
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Hi Glenn,

I don't think these changes constitute substantive changes. They do not
add new functionality or otherwise create a significant risk for
instability. They are merely bugfixes. The major motivation for fixing
these IMO is in making everyone's life easier: Users will download FOP
1.1 and run into font auto-detection problems and others will have to
help them.


Jeremias Maerki


On 05.10.2012 18:31:37 Glenn Adams wrote:
> I personally have no issue with fixing these before we go final with 1.1;
> however, it has been expressed to me that it would be preferred to not make
> any further substantive changes between 1.1rc1 and 1.1.
> 
> It seems like we could either try to get these fixes into 1.1, incurring
> some delay to perform an RC2 phase, or we could go final with 1.1 and then
> attempt to move quickly to a 1.2rc1 that not only fixes these issues, but
> catches up with recent trunk changes as well. My preference is to do the
> latter. But if folks prefer the former, I don't mind doing that either. I
> just think we may get more rapid progress by doing the latter than the
> former.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Jeremias Maerki <dev@jeremias-maerki.ch>wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for taking the time to do releases!
> >
> > Sadly, no vote from me but just a couple of comments:
> > - The regression fixed in
> > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1356456
> > doesn't seems to have made it into the FOP 1.1 branch. That will hurt
> > everyone who's working with font auto-detection.
> > - The removal of Glyphs.MAC_GLYPH_NAMES in XGC presents a
> > backwards-incompatible change with FOP 1.0. Incidentally, I've just run
> > into that one a few minutes ago trying to keep up-to-date on XGC but
> > staying on my pre-API-break branch of FOP. Better would have been to
> > deprecate it before removing it.
> >
> > BTW, here's a good read: http://semver.org/
> > This is going to very applicable after FOP 1.1.
> >
> > Jeremias Maerki
> >
> >
> > On 05.10.2012 15:07:44 Glenn Adams wrote:
> > > I have posted images for final releases of XGC 1.5 and FOP 1.1 at [1]
> > > and [2], respectively. I would like to initiate a 3-day vote on
> > > publishing these releases.
> > >
> > > If I see no negative vote and no comment remains unresolved by OCT11
> > > 0800Z, then I will publish to the appropriate sites on OCT15.
> > >
> > > [1] http://people.apache.org/~gadams/candidates/xmlgraphics-commons-1_5/
> > > [2] http://people.apache.org/~gadams/candidates/fop-1_1/
> > >
> > > The only changes made to these images from the respective RC1 images are:
> > >
> > >
> > >    - update documentation to reflect final version numbers
> > >    - update fop/README to simplify and extend summary of feature
> > > changes (per Vincent's suggestion at [3])
> > >    - update fop/xmlgraphics-fop-pom-template.xml to sync avalon
> > > version with the version in fop/lib (i.e., 4.2.0, not 4.3.1)
> > >    - update fop/build.xml to add release-dist and related targets,
> > > update maven-artifacts target to match xgc build usage
> > >
> > > [3]
> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-general/201206.mbox/%3c4FEDFF2D.2010208@gmail.com%3e
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Glenn
> >
> >
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