Sanmoy,

Let me add to what Nick wrote.

On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Nick Burch wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Sanmoy Ray wrote:
>> Do not get me wrong in this, but poi development is very slow in compare to 
>> other popular apache projects
> 
> We're all volunteers here
> 
>> Development in XSLF started long back and still it lacks in many necessary
>> APIs.
> 
> Please feel free to submit patches!

Recently, we've had contributions to HWPF and XWPF!

> 
> Personally, I only get work time to code on XSLF for things relating to text 
> extraction, so I don't get a chance to do much on it beyond that. I believe 
> many of the other committers are in a similar position

Yegor recently did additional work with XSLF which made it into 3.8beta4.

>> I have found a defect in HSLF and reported, but no one replied even after 10 
>> days :-(
> 
> Did you include all the information needed? Were you able to include a 
> failing unit test and a problem file?
> 
> With projects staffed by volunteers, the better your bug report the better 
> chance there is that someone will be able to help you. Also, if you're able 
> to take some time to help others out with there problems, then there's a 
> greater chance that a volunteer will take some time one weekend of evening to 
> help you with yours!

Sometimes volunteers go on vacation and might not be back for awhile. You'll 
either need to dig into the source yourself or be patient until someone has 
time.

Regards,
Dave

> 
> Nick
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