I thought about this sometime in the past. I think the ODF toolkit is a
great differential with other ODF related projects. Unfortunately I havent
seen that much popularity of the framework.

ODF itself has somewhat being slow on the OASIS groups so I think that
might also impact negatively on ODF efforts.

I guess I agree with the following.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Svante Schubert <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I still have not given up the hope to convince Open-Xchange to merge
> their changes on ODFDOM [1] back to the Apache main trunk.
> The editing via operations is implemented, although not yet the ODF
> changes as we are specifying at OASIS ODF Advanced Document
> Collaboration SC, but they are mappable.
>
> The main problem to convince them is to monetize the feature of an ODF
> ecosystem.
> How much additional money will a company earn, when many Internet
> applications (e.g. CMS) use ODF? How much is it worth to invest now in ODF?
>
> As you know we are currently working in the OASIS ODF SC on an
> interoperability that is not longer only on ODF document level (exchange
> by floppy disc), but allowing to dispatch/synch on fine granular change
> level (diffs via Internet).
>
> I will start another marketing campaign for ODF over the next weeks.
>
> Regards,
> Svante
>
> [1] The changes can be found at
>
> https://code.open-xchange.com/#repositoryPanel;a2e57e47-3285-4db4-8399-36757716d4ff
> In the office repository the ODFDOM project can be found in a
> subdirectory at
> /office/com.openexchange.office.odf/odfdom
>
> Am 07/10/14 um 16:59 schrieb Rob Weir:
> > I think it is time to have a candid discussion about this project and
> > what we want to do with it.
> >
> > On the positive side, we did have a release back in July.  Also, we do
> > seem to have users, as evident from the questions on the users list.
> >
> > But as a Mentor, I'm noting that we're in the habit of being late for
> > IPMC reports, and appear to have not had any list discussions or code
> > commits in a few months.   We don't seem to be making progress towards
> > graduation or growing the community.
> >
> > You can read more about the Attic here:
> >
> > http://attic.apache.org/
> >
> > Anyone have thoughts on this?
> >
> > Note:  moving to the Attic does not prevent us from then putting the
> > codebase onto Github and maintaining it that way.   This might make
> > more sense for a project that has only 2 or 3 developers sporadically
> > working on it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -Rob
>
>


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