On 26.12.2013 21:11, Rob Weir wrote:
Happy almost New Year for everyone!
Same here!
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 rather 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-362
that 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
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Florian Hopf
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