Re: future of POI?

2007-05-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Don't get bureaucratic we are perfectly able to accept code donations provided the proper paperwork is done and there is an internal sponsor. Sure, if someone wants to help us write the code, then that's certainly the case. If anyone does want to

Re[2]: future of POI?

2007-05-18 Thread Yegor Kozlov
We are on the way to accomplish that. Yegor I support continuing to enforce the follow guidelines for out of scratchpad: 1. round trip (Read/write test) 2. large number of unit tests 3. No duplication of org.poi.util.* 4. Documentation for a reasonable person to get started/etc. These

Re: future of POI?

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I support continuing to enforce the follow guidelines for out of scratchpad: 1. round trip (Read/write test) 2. large number of unit tests 3. No duplication of org.poi.util.* 4. Documentation for a reasonable person to get started/etc. These continue to be required for my non -1. This is just a

Re: future of POI?

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Assuming the apache board approves our TLP proposal, in a few months time, we might be in a position to sponsor an existing open source ODF library through the apache incubator, and then have them join POI. That's something we could consider if a suitable project was found, but there's

Re: future of POI?

2007-05-17 Thread Rainer Klute (Rainer Klute IT-Consulting)
Andrew C. Oliver schrieb: I support continuing to enforce the follow guidelines for out of scratchpad: 1. round trip (Read/write test) 2. large number of unit tests 3. No duplication of org.poi.util.* 4. Documentation for a reasonable person to get started/etc. I second that. Best

future of POI?

2007-05-16 Thread Günter Kickinger
it by some functions... We don't know if we can also rely on POI for future projects because we don't know what POI plans for the future. Maybe you could answer a few questions: - Will there be ongoing work after POI 3.0? - Are you planning to support the Open Document Format which is used

Re: future of POI?

2007-05-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Günter Kickinger wrote: - Will there be ongoing work after POI 3.0? Yes. The plan is to do a release at least every year. There are at least a few bits of work already planned, that are waiting for 3.0 to go FINAL before they get committed. - Are you planning to support

Re: future of POI?

2007-05-16 Thread Yegor Kozlov
- Will there be ongoing work after POI 3.0? Of course, there will be. I have a long personal TODO list - both fixing bugs and adding new features. POI is not only HSSF. I guess in the next dev cycle my major efforts will be focused on HSLF. The plan is to move it out of scratchpad by