Hi Guys,
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Florian Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26.12.2013 21:11, Rob Weir wrote: > > Happy almost New Year for everyone! > > Same here! > > best wishes to one and all. > > > Can we check in, to see who is still here? It would be good to decide > > what we want to report this time, whether we can outline any steps > > towards graduation, or whether we want to propose some other end-state > > for the podling. I think we have some really good, important code > > here. We certainly get questions from a good number of users. That > > validates that it is useful. But if we want to graduate then we > > really need to amp up the community, show some growth in contributors > > and committers and get out another release or two. > > > > I agree that the situation is rather difficult. The project is used and > useful and the only of its kind I am aware of. There is definitively enough > interest to keep it alive. > > For me personally it is difficult to spend a lot of time on the project as > I don't use it in any of my paid work. I like to help with small fixes but > I definitively cannot be the driving person. > > We were planning to do a release shortly after our last release which > unfortunately didn't happen (which I blame on me as I wanted to fix this > bug first to get it in the release: https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-362) > > Last year I started with the POI adapter but this is still in a very early > stage as I couldn't commit as much time as I would have liked. I will see > that I commit it to trunk as soon as possible. > > Speaking of POI I still think becoming a subproject of POI would be the > best solution. Odftoolkit is very close to its goals and parts of the user > bases are the same I guess. But I have no idea how a transition could work > and what we need to do for it. Maybe our POI mentors could clarify if this > would be possible and what we would need to do? > > What I propose to do in the short term: > * Move the part of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-362that > is still unresolved to a new issue (it is rather unrelated to the > original issue anyway) > * Commit the code for the POI adapter to trunk > * Have a release 0.6.1 in January > > Regards > Florian > > -- > Florian Hopf > Freelance Software Developer > > http://blog.florian-hopf.de > I don't really have any strong feelings about where it ends up or if it stays as its own project. But it is most certainly a useful project. Like others I would like to spend more time on it... As an aside I did add a couple of minor fixes and tests to a couple of bug reports but they're still sitting there since things have been pretty quiet around here. No big deal. -- Cheers, Ian C
