Hi, today I have received a zip file with patches related to the OSBA sponsored OOXML improvement project [1].
Regina came up some time ago and after some private email exchange with a list of git commit id's from one of the contractors. But I assume nobody was able to take a closer look on this or was able to extract the related patches and necessary information at this time. The patches are for the use-cases 1-4 and use-case 5 will follow. I have also asked for a detailed use-case description and test documents. As soon as I can provide more info I will share it here on the list. The OSBA contracted two companies to work on the defined use-cases and paid for the implementation. The project scope was from the beginning to make these improvements available in LibreOffice and in OpenOffice. Unfortunately for us the work was done on the LO code base and it means that we have to merge the changes in our code base if possible at all. Currently we are in the AOO 4.0 release phase and I believe we all have other things to do. But in the scope of AOO 4.1 it would make sense to take a closer look on this improvements. Maybe together with a general goal to improve the OOXML support in AOO and to provide an export as well. I am at this point of course not interested in a political discussion about document standards ;-) Our goal should be to satisfy our users and to provide the best free office suite to fulfill their requirements. and OOXML is (if we like it or not) an ISO standard as well. Anyway I would like to make the patches (that are all under ALv2) available for all who are interested to help with the review and integration. The patches will be soon available on the OSBA webpage as well. Any suggestion where I should store the patches in the meantime to make them available? [1] http://www.osb-alliance.de/working-groups/wg-office-interoperability/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
