Simon, If you discuss problems here on the dev list maybe people can help.
Just saying! Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone On Feb 3, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Shenfeng Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/2/4 Ian C <[email protected]> > >> Hi Dave, >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello ODFTollkit community, >>> >>> Is there anything happening with development here is the community? I >> see little to no activity recently. There were discussions and a "code >> freeze" then trouble then silence. >>> >>> So, I am curious about what people plan to do as individuals and where >> the ODF Toolkit really wants to go as a community. >>> >>> If there is not enough community to support development as a full >> project, then perhaps the alternatives need to be explored. >>> >>> (1) Be excepted as a subproject of an existing PMC. Here there are two >> possible choices: >>> >>> - Apache POI - which is about reading and writing Microsoft Office >> documents in Java. I am on that PMC as our your mentors Nick and Yegor. If >> there is interest I am sure that we would consider it in some form. >>> >>> - Apache OpenOffice - this may be more natural, but it is a vibrant >> community and this could be considered an important part. >>> >>> (2) Make a clean release and then move the code to the Apache Attic. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> yeah, it's quite. A lot more so than AOO. >> >> But I think it is an important project and one that should not be >> moved to the attic. >> >> As for moving it to another project, I will leave that to those wiser >> than me :-) >> >> I am using the Toolkit as part of a research project and intend to >> submit the results to ODFT Apache when I get there. Of course if they >> are wanted. >> I have extended it in some ways to provide way of looking into ODF >> documents to see what is there, in its own right, compared to other >> documents, and compared to what is defined the schema. >> >> I still have a lot of work to do, but getting there. > > +1 for it being an important project. > > For the next release, there is a ship stopper defect reported from > customer, and Da Li & Ke Jia are working on it. > > For long term of this product and this community, I think what we need to > focus should not only be development, but also marketing promotion and > building on the ecosystem. As a toolkit, it will only success when more and > more people build there applications based on it. We should think about how > to do it. e.g. encourage the sharing of best practice, especially the cloud > and mobile solution. > > - Shenfeng (Simon) > > > >> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Dave >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ian C >>
