Alexandro Colorado wrote: > I think that XForms really need a community makeover. This feature is > highly ignored in the OOo component space.
This is not an answer for Svante's question. ;-) It is unquestionable that XForms is more or less ignored currently. But the same is true for the several thousands of feature and enhancement requests and reported defects in our bug tracker and the many other interesting idea that developers, users and other people interested in OOo have. What we need is valid, understandable and perhaps verifiable data that can make us believe that assigning resources to XForms work and ignoring all the other things would be good for OOo. So far neither I nor (as I assume) Svante think that we have any evidence that this might be true. We have a lot of data that shows us that assigning resources to - fixing bugs - improving usability - improving Word/Excel/Powerpoint interoperability - implementing features with high visibility or vote count - working on meta data support - improving ODF compatibility - improving performance and modularization are important. Even all this would be enough to eat up all the resources we have. So if we assigned more resources to XForms, we would need to quit working on some of the other things I briefly summed up here. Where's the proof or at least the clear hint that this would be worth it? Of course if there were interested developers in the community that would work on this "community makeover" (including writing the code and integrating it), this could be a very interesting project that we surely would support. But don't expect many coding work from the project developers (mainly it would be XML and Writer) - I don't see a lot of available resources for that ATM in these teams. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
