On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Florian Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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. >
If we're doing it right we should not need a single person driving everything. But for a release we need someone to take the lead as Release Manager. But that doesn't need to be a permanent position. We could take turns. > 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) > So what is the status of this? Do we want to have another release now? We had a few users who were looking for a version with fewer pre-req JARs. I think we fixed that issues, yes? > 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? > No project is going to do the work for us. So even if we went to POI we would still need another developers working on it. > 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) +1 > * Commit the code for the POI adapter to trunk +1 > * Have a release 0.6.1 in January > Or even call it 0.7? If we can do this, I can additionally work to attract more developers. I'll start a new thread on this, but the general idea would be to publicize the ODF Toolkit a little more and have a call for volunteers. Regards, -Rob > Regards > Florian > > -- > Florian Hopf > Freelance Software Developer > > http://blog.florian-hopf.de
