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Commons Compress released in version 1.1

Christian Grobmeier — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:04:50 +0000

I just announced the availability of Apache Commons Compress version 1.1. This release is very impressive with much modifications and bugfixes. I had not to much time to work on it myself, but this only shows how good the community around Compress meanwhile is. Below is the announcement. And here are the release notes.

The Commons Compress team is pleased to announce the commons-compress-1.1 release!

Commons Compress defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip.

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site:

http://commons.apache.org/compress/download_compress.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

For more information on Apache Commons Compress, visit the Commons Compress home page:

http://commons.apache.org/compress/

Apache Membership

Christian Grobmeier — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:38:11 +0000

When I was on vacation, something really wonderful happened to me. I have been invited to join the Apache Software Foundation as a member. This a huge honour for me – I would like to thank everybody who elected me. Of course I accepted this new role in no time. Now – my vacation is nearly over – I have to read some documents about this new role. As a “shareholder”, as it is called, there are some more duties and of course benefits. Basically one has the chance to influence the organisation itself and help making it better. Let’s see how I can contribute in near future – it’s exciting, no question!

Besides that, there is much on my to do list for the next 12 months. The most urgent one currently is the Commons Compress 1.1 release, which should be started soon together with Stefan Bodewig. Of course log4php could benefit from a new release after so much contributions have been sent from users. And finally the log4j 2.0 discussions could be raised again, when all people are back from their holidays. Oh, and not to forget the promising Zeta Components – there is not to much to do for me at the moment, people there are really good and self organizing. But Zeta gives some good chances for Piwi, which has been planned to go to the ASF too. A framework based on Zeta and log4php might have good chances to succeed. You’ll see, my year will not get boring!

JavaMagazin publishes Compress article online

Christian Grobmeier — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:05:18 +0000

The JavaMagazin decided to put the little Commons Compress article online. Originally it has been published in the JavaMagazin 08/2009. Enjoy!

Tika uses Commons Compress

Christian Grobmeier — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:42:13 +0000

It just came in with a newsletter: Tika 0.4 is using Commons Compress from now on. Thats really great! It’s the first big app I know which is using Commons Compress. Hopefully that motivates me to get back bugfixing Compress in near future

More TIKA changes: http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/tika/CHANGES-0.4.txt

Apache Commons Compress 1.0 released!

Christian Grobmeier — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:27:30 +0000

The Commons Compress team is pleased to announce the commons-compress-1.0 release!

Commons Compress is a component that contains Ar, Cpio, Jar, Tar, Zip and BZip2 packages

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site:

http://commons.apache.org/compress/download_compress.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

For more information on Apache Commons Compress, visit the Commons Compress home page:

http://commons.apache.org/compress/

Changes in this version include:

New features:
o Initial release

Have fun!
-Commons Compress team

Invitation as a Apache Commons Comitter

Christian Grobmeier — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:44:39 +0000

I was working for the Apache Commons project for a long time, esspecially on for the Compress component. It was a sandbox component, but meanwhile became community. Several other guys started to commit and develope here and I was very proud that I got this ball rolling. Meanwhile the component becomes better and better and people speak about the first release.

And finally it happened that the Apache guys invited me to become an Apache Commons comitter. YES of course, thanks, I will take the honour! It should happen in a few days that my user account is created. Then I am able to commit my own changes, and this is cool.

I have learned lots of the other Apache guys and strongly believe that this chance will bring me to the next level of my personal development. And, last but not least, it will bring me lots of fun!