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 > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
