Hi everyone, Apologies if anyone thinks I'm going in the wrong direction here. The TLDR is: I am asking if PMC members could respond with whether they are still interested in working on POI or if they are no longer in a position to help.
There appears to only be a couple of POI PMC members that are active at this stage (on mailing lists, dealing with bugzilla, Github commits, etc.). I'm not seeking anything drastic like considering retiring POI (aka moving to the Attic). It is suggested in ASF guidelines that mature projects occasionally do a Roll Call [1]. There doesn't appear to be many people that we could look to invite to become committers or PMC members. I'm interested in continuing but would like to cut back my involvement. I am involved in a few other ASF projects and want to concentrate on those. Even if we do have a few active PMC members, we might want to consider guide lines on what sort of code changes to make and how often we intend to do releases. The code base is very large and I have to admit some of patches that I merge that are submitted by outside contributors - that I don't know that part of the code base well and am reliant on the test coverage to pick up issues. And we have a lot of code that does not have great test coverage. Most of the patches come with minimal new tests - there are definitely exceptions - some of the patches are of very high quality. It's also hard to keep up with new features in Microsoft file formats (ie new XSDs) and the Java Runtime is being overhauled in ways that may eventually break some POI code. Regards, PJ [1] https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#move-to-attic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
