OLE Embedding looks like a hot patch to check out. It is certainly very useful.
Regards, Dave On Sep 22, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Dominik Stadler wrote: >> what are the next steps on POI? Do we stabilize a bit more and release 3.10 >> before doing more risky stuff? Or do some more bugfixes before starting the >> 3.10 release process again? > > Given we've had 2 betas so far, it would probably confuse users if we started > doing major and/or breaking changes before 3.10 final is out. Afterwards > we're fine to, compatibility rules withstanding! Hopefully that won't be that > long, if you want to make some big changes it's not too long to hold off... > > What we do have is quite a lot of user contributed patches/fixes that haven't > been applied. If we're not very good at reviewing/applying them, then it has > two bad effects. Firstly, we're less likely to get more contributions in > future if we're not seen to appreciate them. Secondly, people who have their > patches ignored tend not to stick about, so we loose out on potential new > committers going forward. Neither good! > > Everyone here is a volunteer, so no-one can demand anyone else do anything! > But, if I did have more spare time than I currently seem to, I'd personally > be focusing on trying to review + apply as many recent user contributed > fixes/enhancements as possible. > > Either way, we probably want to set a rough deadline on the next release. A > few days before, we can do a straw poll on beta 3 vs final. If Tim decides > it's leaning towards another beta, then he can pretty much roll it then. If > final is the consensus, then probably best allow a week or so extra for last > minute fixes / tweaks, then roll 3.10 final! > > In the mean time, if anyone wants to play with some major changes, best bet > is to take a branch in SVN to work on, then merge it back to trunk once 3.10 > is out. > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
