Svante, et al, hi, Thanks for this update. And allow me to express my delight good wishes that the ODF effort has been merged with the TDF's. Cheers, and happy new year, Louis
> On 2018/12/27, at 18:44, Svante Schubert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear developers, > > while we have not finished the transition from "Apache Foundation" to "The > Document Foundation", I still want to give you an update during the holiday > season. > > Thorsten was so kind to initiate our new repository at > https://github.com/tdf/odftoolkit > I have just pushed the first set of preliminary configuration changes. > > Our current plan is to release soon a 0.9.0 which is pretty much the source > being given from Apache. > With our I mean: Thorsten Behrens, Michael Stahl, Oliver Rau and myself. > Please evaluate the current branch and point out any problems with your > dependent tooling. > We will likely update dependencies, like Jena to 3.9.0 and Xerces to 2.12 > for the upcoming release. > > When we changed the group ID to "org.odftoolkit", we took the opportunity > to synchronize the version number of all modules to 0.9.0 > (Note: earlier every module had its own version but this caused confusion > and no module was ever released alone). > > Right after the release, we plan to make a huge jump on the collaboration > feature branch that will become the starting base for our 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: > You will find some brief documentation on > https://github.com/svanteschubert/odftoolkit/tree/odf-changes > In the past weeks, I have merged the above branch with our current and did > some refactorings, but was not able to finish my work before the holiday > season to create a solid 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT. > Oliver Rau already joined Michael and me on the TDF developer branch and is > attracted by this new collaboration features. In addition, he is tempted to > switch the build system from Maven to Gradle as he found the system more > flexible from his experience in the past years. > > I will keep you updated as soon we have more to tell or otherwise contact > me if you are interested to join and/or take a glimpse at the current > state-of-work. > > I wish you all a nice end of the year! > Svante > > > ᐧ
