[poppler] PDF 2.0 Spec (answer from FSFE)

[Tobias Deiminger]

Am 10.03.2019 13:15 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El diumenge, 10 de març de 2019, a les 12:59:15 CET, Germán
> Poo-Caamaño va escriure:
>> On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 12:15 +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> I think the right question is: How many (and who are) developers who
>> might need access to the draft that

Imo every contributor, be it maintainer, bug fixer, GSoC student, 
whoever,
should be able to access the standard. I'd consider individuals funding
only a last resort. It might not even make sense to limit access to
"at least one commit" people, because the first commit may depend
on having the standard available. Arguably, one could resort to PDF 1.7
in that case.

>> 
>> AFAIK, you are (or were) a KDE e.V. member. So, it is not an issue for
>> you. For who that would be an issue?
> 
> Yes I am a member of KDE e.V.
> 
> I think what Tobias meant was that only one organization would pay

Yes, that's what FSFE suggested, and what I personally find suitable.

In the case of PDF association, would we join as individuals, or as
"the poppler devs" (nice,  but probably not permitted :) ), or via an 
org?

> those 750€ and we'd all join that organization.

Just a side node, national standardisation body membership can
seemingly be cheaper than those 750€, see my initial email.

> But as said I'm not sure that'd work, i.e. I don't personally have a
> problem joining the GNOME Foundation, but i am not sure if that'd be
> at all possible without some kind of weird exception on how the GNOME
> Foundation members are usually chosen/approved/accepted (and the same
> way for you and KDE e.V. i think)

You're probably right. Otoh, asking is free and nobody will get hurt,
do you think we should try?

How about The Document Foundation? They seem interesting to me, because
- they must have ISO experience in some way (ODF is ISO/IEC 
26300-1:2015)
- they're neutral in the sense that most poppler devs (I believe) have 
either GNOME
   or KDE background, but not TDF (excuse me if that's wrong)
- their software includes poppler, just like GNOME and KDE software

Cheers
Tobias