https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69887
--- Comment #1 from PJ Fanning <[email protected]> --- POI is a 20 year old project, well past its peak in terms of contributor involvement. I would be wary about taking any major new APIs on. We have had problems with contributions from external contributors where the contributor maintains little interest once the code is merged to POI. I don't think it is fair to the part-time volunteers to have them take over even more APIs. We only do a few releases a year so anything that is added could take months to be released. In the end of the day, anything like this can be done as an external project with its own jars that offer extensions to POI. We can even make changes in POI to open up some APIs that are improve POI's extensibility. If an extension lib proves to be stable and well tested, we could then add that code to POI. So thee TLDR is that I think new APIs should be POCed outside POI and we can consider them when they are stable. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
