2009-January Sanselan Incubator status report

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.

The community hasn't grown much in the past three months. There continues to be only one active committer. Participation level is low.

The first official Apache release occurred on July 30th, 2008. A new release has just been prepared and is current being voted upon.

The new release includes significant bug fixes, better documentation, better IPTC and XMP support (metadata) and improvements to the release structure.

Barriers to graduation continue to be diversity, size of the community, and overall activity.

2008-October Sanselan Incubator status report

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.

The community hasn't grown much in the past three months. There continues to be only one active committer.

The first official Apache release occurred on July 30th, 2008.

A second release is being prepared. It will include significant bug fixes, better documentation, better IPTC and XMP support and improvements to the release structure.

Barriers to graduation continue to be diversity, size of the community, and overall activity.

2008-July Sanselan Incubator status report

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.

The community hasn't grown much in the past three months. There continues to be only one active committer.

There was work on EXIF metadata read/write support and a bug in the implementation was discussed on the dev aliaas.

Builds outside Apache have been made but no official Apache release has been created yet.

Barriers to graduation continue to be diversity, size of the community, and overall activity.

2008-April Sanselan Incubator status report

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.

The community hasn't grown in the past three months. There have been commits from only two people. No patches from contributors, yet.

There was work on EXIF metadata read/write support and some changes were made to prepare for a first release.

2008-January Sanselan Incubator status report

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.

The community is still small, with a few more members now compared to the beginning.

The code base has been imported and the package names have been changed to org.apache.sanselan. Work continues on scrubbing the code and organizing it into maven.

A release is being prepared.

2007-December Sanselan Incubator status report

Sanselan has been in incubation since September 2007.

Sanselan is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats.

The community is still small, with a few more members now compared to the beginning.

The code base has been imported and the package names have been changed to org.apache.sanselan.

A release is being prepared.

2007-November Sanselan Incubator status report

The autoexport from confluence to our site has been set up (see http://incubator.apache.org/sanselan/) so documenation can be added soon.

We are looking for images (with no copyright restrictions) that can be used for unit testing. Existing (private) unit tests rely on copyrighted images that cannot be used.

2007-October Sanselan Incubator status report

The project has kicked off with some basic infrastructure now in place.

Mailing lists have been set up. The structure of the project has been discussed; plans are to use maven using Jackrabbit as a model.

A site was created using Confluence.

The svn repository has had the first code drop. Most of the code from the original base has been committed.

The JIRA project is set up and the initial code drop was posted for review.

The initial committers have been given access to the repository.