Sorry my past email was a bit premature, I was hoping to saving it to draft, but instead click send. Please ommit my comments as they are not really verified.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
