----- Original Message ----- From: "Gianugo Rabellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [vote] POI commiters (was: RE: [vote] Accepting donated POI serializers/generators)
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
> >
> > POI development cycle is *very* fast.
> > I've been working with them for some time, and IMO they should be able
to
> > commit on their own.
> > If they cannot, you will have to deal with loads of daily patches ;-)
>
>
> This kinda worries me. As far as Cocoon is concerned this donation turns
> out to be a serializer, which most probably (but I haven't seen it yet)
> should be a little more than a wrapper to some POI driver.
There is also a new framework that is used to serialize easily file formats
for POI.
> If the API is
> not stable this might be an issue given that Cocoon is advertised as
> production-ready and robust (true, we use other unstable and sometimes
> experimental stuff, Avalon being the most notable example, but this is
> in a controlled environment).
To be clear, the *only* contract there is with Cocoon is the configuration
and the XML input-output.
The XML format is Gnumeric 1.0, Andy is doing the necessary validation of it
in unit tests with the schema he wrote.
Apart from this, Cocoon doesn't care if internal APIs change.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy about POI being part of the game,
> but I'd like to have a good reason for having tons of daily patches
> coming in, or as far as I'm concerned they will be confined to
> scratchpad for a long time. :-)
IMHO think it's unfair, given the importance of the project.
POI is in 1.0 version, I don't think you will want it in scratchpad for
long, as many users will be asking continuously how to install it.
My 2cents, of course ;-)
> In short: I'm absolutely in favor of giving the POI team commit access,
> but I'd love to see them updating (not too often :)) the poi jars and
> work on the Cocoon wrappers mostly if not only for bugfixing once they
> make into production (out from the scratchpad). They should be aware of
> back compatible issues in case they have to change the API (this is
> nothing different from the actual situation, I just wanted to make
> myself clear).
+1 There are complete unit tests integrated in the ant build, and Gump will
help guarantee that the contracts are kept.
The fact is that bugfixes are very very frequent, 'cause we're dealing with
an undocumented (badly anyway) file format and many M$ product versions.
Ken
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