And the official announcement for tender
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/05/04/tender-implement-hsqldb-binary-format-import-libreoffice-201705-03/
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:55 PM, marius adrian popa <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Tender approved in the budget by the TDF board
>
> In order to remove the legacy Java / HSQLDB database completely, and move
>> fully to Firebird in LibreOffice 5.4 it is necessary to be able to import
>> old document data with high fidelity from the HSQLDB binary file format
>> which we have used (for performance) inside so many of our existing ODB
>> files. This task involves reading the existing (reasonably simple) Java
>> serialization code, and writing an (import only) filter to import this data
>> safely into base.
>
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2017#HSQLDB_
> binary_format_import
>
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