Hi All,
In the light of recent concerns raised by Andrew Oliver, I would like to start a discussion on when to plan to release
3.5-FINAL and what issues must be resolved before it. It would be helpful to develop a plan so that all of us can
control the state of things.
Below is what comes to my mind in priority order:
(1) Legal issues. Somehow this discussion goes in detour of poi-dev@ or [EMAIL
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If any of POI committers is discussing it with Microsoft of whoever, please report the status. What particular issues
must be resolved before 3.5-FINAL?
As a release manager, I would like to know an approximate date when this stuff
will be resolved.
(2) GPLv3 in HDGF. I hope it will be fixed soon with a help of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I grepped the project for GPL, it was
the only issue of such kind.
(3) Adoption of OpenXML4j.
The OpenXML4J software grant was approved (See bug #46242) and I'm going to
include this codebase in 3.5-FINAL.
(4) Quality of poi-ooxml code and its readiness for FINAL
There was a criticism by Andrew that poi-ooxml does not have adequate unit
tests. Please be constructive.
The unit test coverage has significantly improved since 3.5-beta3. In my opinion the quality of poi-ooxml code is OK to
be used in production.
(5) Bugzilla cleanup.
The state of bug database is a good indicator of the project health. We have 100+ open bugs and many of them were
reported on POI 2.5 and earlier. I would target getting the number of open bugs below 50.
I would like to resolve most of it by the end of January and release 3.5-FINAL
in February. Does it sound realistic?
Regards,
Yegor
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