Development status of BIRT reporting Framework?
Very little has changed in a while for BIRT. Since the project seems still heavily used, it would be interesting to know if there are future plans and if so, what is entailed in those plans. Subsequently, based on the development status: Is BIRT still a safe platform to base development on or is it expected to just be conserved in the current state such that occuring bugs probably won't get fixed?
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Very little has changed in a while for BIRT. Since the project seems still heavily used, it would be interesting to know if there are future plans and if so, what is entailed in those plans. Subsequently, based on the development status: Is BIRT still a safe platform to base development on or is it expected to just be conserved in the current state such that occuring bugs probably won't get fixed?
eclipse birt status
asked Nov 18 '18 at 15:22
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Very little has changed in a while for BIRT. Since the project seems still heavily used, it would be interesting to know if there are future plans and if so, what is entailed in those plans. Subsequently, based on the development status: Is BIRT still a safe platform to base development on or is it expected to just be conserved in the current state such that occuring bugs probably won't get fixed?
eclipse birt status
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Very little has changed in a while for BIRT. Since the project seems still heavily used, it would be interesting to know if there are future plans and if so, what is entailed in those plans. Subsequently, based on the development status: Is BIRT still a safe platform to base development on or is it expected to just be conserved in the current state such that occuring bugs probably won't get fixed?
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We decided to use BIRT instead of Jasper 8 years ago.
We are still using 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production runtime.
I reported several bugs since then and only very few of them got fixed.
Furthermore, I developed some patches to enhance the word emitter output - with no reaction from any one at all.
I also developed a patch to allow kind of a vertical tab (to place something at a fix y position on the page (but not in the page footer). With my previous experience of the community, I did not publish that one.
I can say that while the source code is quite easy to read, it is nevertheless almost impossible to understand what is actually going on, because the functions are extremely deeply nested.
My conclusion with 8 years experience of using BIRT for production:
PROS:
- BIRT is very powerful and flexible, you can achieve some very cool results.
- The quality of the resulting PDFs.
- There are only very few things I miss and cannot work around.
- The runtime engine is very stable and fast enough, very few problems.
- The community is helpful.
CONS:
From an open-source perspective, it is one of the weakest projects I know of.
- New versions tend to introduce more bugs than they fix.
- Bugs, ideas and patches from the community seem to be ignored most of the time.
- Lack of internal code quality and documentation.
answered Nov 23 '18 at 9:34
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Metadata and information about the health of an Eclipse project can be found on projects.eclipse.org:
The Birt project is still alive, but not as active as before:
there has been only one release per year since 2016 and
in the last three months there have been more than 20 commits from 11 contributors.
Like all open source projects, the success of the project depends on participation. Therefore, I encourage everybody to report bugs and propose changes to Birt and other open source projects.
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
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I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
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We decided to use BIRT instead of Jasper 8 years ago.
We are still using 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production runtime.
I reported several bugs since then and only very few of them got fixed.
Furthermore, I developed some patches to enhance the word emitter output - with no reaction from any one at all.
I also developed a patch to allow kind of a vertical tab (to place something at a fix y position on the page (but not in the page footer). With my previous experience of the community, I did not publish that one.
I can say that while the source code is quite easy to read, it is nevertheless almost impossible to understand what is actually going on, because the functions are extremely deeply nested.
My conclusion with 8 years experience of using BIRT for production:
PROS:
- BIRT is very powerful and flexible, you can achieve some very cool results.
- The quality of the resulting PDFs.
- There are only very few things I miss and cannot work around.
- The runtime engine is very stable and fast enough, very few problems.
- The community is helpful.
CONS:
From an open-source perspective, it is one of the weakest projects I know of.
- New versions tend to introduce more bugs than they fix.
- Bugs, ideas and patches from the community seem to be ignored most of the time.
- Lack of internal code quality and documentation.
answered Nov 23 '18 at 9:34
hvb
1,6511610
add a comment |
We decided to use BIRT instead of Jasper 8 years ago.
We are still using 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production runtime.
I reported several bugs since then and only very few of them got fixed.
Furthermore, I developed some patches to enhance the word emitter output - with no reaction from any one at all.
I also developed a patch to allow kind of a vertical tab (to place something at a fix y position on the page (but not in the page footer). With my previous experience of the community, I did not publish that one.
I can say that while the source code is quite easy to read, it is nevertheless almost impossible to understand what is actually going on, because the functions are extremely deeply nested.
My conclusion with 8 years experience of using BIRT for production:
PROS:
- BIRT is very powerful and flexible, you can achieve some very cool results.
- The quality of the resulting PDFs.
- There are only very few things I miss and cannot work around.
- The runtime engine is very stable and fast enough, very few problems.
- The community is helpful.
CONS:
From an open-source perspective, it is one of the weakest projects I know of.
- New versions tend to introduce more bugs than they fix.
- Bugs, ideas and patches from the community seem to be ignored most of the time.
- Lack of internal code quality and documentation.
answered Nov 23 '18 at 9:34
hvb
1,6511610
add a comment |
We decided to use BIRT instead of Jasper 8 years ago.
We are still using 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production runtime.
I reported several bugs since then and only very few of them got fixed.
Furthermore, I developed some patches to enhance the word emitter output - with no reaction from any one at all.
I also developed a patch to allow kind of a vertical tab (to place something at a fix y position on the page (but not in the page footer). With my previous experience of the community, I did not publish that one.
I can say that while the source code is quite easy to read, it is nevertheless almost impossible to understand what is actually going on, because the functions are extremely deeply nested.
My conclusion with 8 years experience of using BIRT for production:
PROS:
- BIRT is very powerful and flexible, you can achieve some very cool results.
- The quality of the resulting PDFs.
- There are only very few things I miss and cannot work around.
- The runtime engine is very stable and fast enough, very few problems.
- The community is helpful.
CONS:
From an open-source perspective, it is one of the weakest projects I know of.
- New versions tend to introduce more bugs than they fix.
- Bugs, ideas and patches from the community seem to be ignored most of the time.
- Lack of internal code quality and documentation.
answered Nov 23 '18 at 9:34
hvb
1,6511610
We decided to use BIRT instead of Jasper 8 years ago.
We are still using 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production runtime.
I reported several bugs since then and only very few of them got fixed.
Furthermore, I developed some patches to enhance the word emitter output - with no reaction from any one at all.
I also developed a patch to allow kind of a vertical tab (to place something at a fix y position on the page (but not in the page footer). With my previous experience of the community, I did not publish that one.
I can say that while the source code is quite easy to read, it is nevertheless almost impossible to understand what is actually going on, because the functions are extremely deeply nested.
My conclusion with 8 years experience of using BIRT for production:
PROS:
- BIRT is very powerful and flexible, you can achieve some very cool results.
- The quality of the resulting PDFs.
- There are only very few things I miss and cannot work around.
- The runtime engine is very stable and fast enough, very few problems.
- The community is helpful.
CONS:
From an open-source perspective, it is one of the weakest projects I know of.
- New versions tend to introduce more bugs than they fix.
- Bugs, ideas and patches from the community seem to be ignored most of the time.
- Lack of internal code quality and documentation.
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hvb
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hvb
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Metadata and information about the health of an Eclipse project can be found on projects.eclipse.org:
The Birt project is still alive, but not as active as before:
there has been only one release per year since 2016 and
in the last three months there have been more than 20 commits from 11 contributors.
Like all open source projects, the success of the project depends on participation. Therefore, I encourage everybody to report bugs and propose changes to Birt and other open source projects.
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
– hvb
Nov 23 '18 at 9:06
add a comment |
Metadata and information about the health of an Eclipse project can be found on projects.eclipse.org:
The Birt project is still alive, but not as active as before:
there has been only one release per year since 2016 and
in the last three months there have been more than 20 commits from 11 contributors.
Like all open source projects, the success of the project depends on participation. Therefore, I encourage everybody to report bugs and propose changes to Birt and other open source projects.
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
– hvb
Nov 23 '18 at 9:06
add a comment |
Metadata and information about the health of an Eclipse project can be found on projects.eclipse.org:
The Birt project is still alive, but not as active as before:
there has been only one release per year since 2016 and
in the last three months there have been more than 20 commits from 11 contributors.
Like all open source projects, the success of the project depends on participation. Therefore, I encourage everybody to report bugs and propose changes to Birt and other open source projects.
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
Metadata and information about the health of an Eclipse project can be found on projects.eclipse.org:
The Birt project is still alive, but not as active as before:
there has been only one release per year since 2016 and
in the last three months there have been more than 20 commits from 11 contributors.
Like all open source projects, the success of the project depends on participation. Therefore, I encourage everybody to report bugs and propose changes to Birt and other open source projects.
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
answered Nov 18 '18 at 16:08
howlger
10.4k51737
10.4k51737
I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
– hvb
Nov 23 '18 at 9:06
add a comment |
I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
– hvb
Nov 23 '18 at 9:06
I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
– hvb
Nov 23 '18 at 9:06
I am still using BIRT 4.2.1 for development and 4.3.0 for production.
– hvb
Nov 23 '18 at 9:06
add a comment |
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