Hi all Time again to tell IPMC and the apache Board how we are doing.
Below you will find my proposal, I have been quite direct in respect to our problems. The report is a combined work of the whole PPMC, so I look forward to your comments (also a simple "I agree" in case that is the fact). In case anything happens before September 2th I will update the report (in mail), and September 2th, I will add it to the wiki. Remark, there will shortly be a mail on private@ with the content of the private section. For all PPMC please remember to see private@ rgds jan i. ================================ Corinthia Corinthia is a toolkit/application for converting between and editing common office file formats, with an initial focus on word processing. It is designed to cater for multiple classes of platforms - desktop, web, and mobile - and relies heavily on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for representing and manipulating documents. The toolkit is small, portable, and flexible, with minimal dependencies. The target audience is developers wishing to include office viewing, conversion, and editing functionality into their applications. Corinthia has been incubating since 2014-12-08. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Solve the community crisis and avoid a break 2. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap 3. Get the new developers more integrated in the community Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? The community needs immediate help from the IPMC. One person is causing a major break in the community by pushing his own interpretation of apache rules to effectively causing roadblocks in development, delays in inviting new committers and releases, without constructive problems on how to fix problems raised. Several core developers have publicly stated that they want to develop code for the public good and build a strong community, but also that they are frustrated with being repeatedly told why things they want to do (which are within ASF rules) are impossible. These developers have a strong preference to continue within the ASF, but made it clear they will move outside if the problems can’t be resolved. The core developers have agreed to put their trust in the IPMC. <private>Content is sent to private@i.a.o to be included</private> How has the community developed since the last report? We are proud that we have managed to make our first release. We have a PPMC/committer invitation outstanding. As noted on "issues" we have a severe community problem, which if not solved probably will cause the community to break and further development to stop. How has the project developed sincs noe the last report? Added support for 32/64bit windows. Made the setup of a build environment a lot easier, a PPMC provide all third party libraries prebuilt. A long discussion about licenses lead to major difficulties in deciding whether and how to proceed with one of the project’s two main components, an end-user editing app. As a result this development is being redirected. Our buildbot setup is slowly taking shape, this is important since it will allow a nightly build as well as a nightly test. Date of last release: 2015-08-28 Release 0.1 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2015-04-02 Franz de Copenhague 2015-06-12 Ian Cunningham Signed-off-by: [ ](corinthia) Daniel Gruno [x](corinthia) Jan Iversen [ ](corinthia) Dave Fischer Shepherd/Mentor notes:
