i am not a PMC member, BUT as one of the multitude of contributors interested in the liveliness of POI, i am curious what is involved with keeping this project alive and moving (even if it is at a modest rate)?
Stanton Fisque principal technologist latticeware.com portland, oregon > On Mar 3, 2023, at 08:14 AM, Hamza Gobir <hgo...@googlemail.com.INVALID> > wrote: > > I'm interested on working on tickets but I'm having issues setting up my > Dev environment. > > Are there any resources you can point me to? > > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2023, 14:26 PJ Fanning, <fannin...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
