Dave, Thanks for your comments! For the ship stopper defect and the release plan, I saw Ke Jia already posted more details. For the long term development of the community, it is a very good topic, and thanks for your raising out this discussion! As I mentioned below, I think the key is to do better market promotion, make bigger voice. Hopefully it can make our community more active. Maybe we should make a plan for it.
- Shenfeng (Simon) 2013/2/4 Dave Fisher <[email protected]> > 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 > >> >
