Sounds good. 

As far as killing off the branch is concerned, that's a function of how fast we
can get HEAD to be passing all testcases, I suppose. If that takes too long, we
might be forced to release interim functionality from branch. 

Regards
-
Avik



Quoting Glen Stampoultzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> Here's a draft of the 2.0 announcement.  I want to hold off announcing 2.0 
> until I'm sure I've got the change log right.  It's kind of hard tracking 
> down all the changes we've made since 2.0 and I'm sure I'm missing 
> important stuff.  Please let me know if you want to add anything.
> 
> Also it looks like changes have been entered in two places.  changes.xml 
> and status.xml together with the branch and head that makes 4 places.  I'll 
> have to look at fixing that.
> 
> My hope is that we can kill the branch as soon as possible and get a much 
> faster release cycle going  (even if it means less changes with each
> release).
> 
> 
> ANNOUNCEMENT:
> 
> The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta
> POI 2.0-FINAL release.
> 
> 
> WHAT IS POI?
> 
> The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats
> based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.
> In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java.  Reading
> property information is also supported.  Work continues on reading
> and writing the MS Word format.
> 
> You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
> 
> 
> CHANGE LOG:
> 
> The following major changes have occurred since the 1.5 release:
> 
>   * Numerous bug fixes
>   * Improved support for non-english spreadsheets.
>   * Formula support
>   * Named cells and ranges
>   * Sheet reordering
>   * Zoom support
>   * Freeze and split panes supported
>   * Row and column headers
>   * Custom data formats
>   * Support for cloning objects
>   * Headers and footers
>   * Preservation of VBA macros when rewriting workbooks
>   * Support for hyperlinks by using cell formulas:
>      cell.setCellFormula("HYPERLINK(\"http://google.com\",\"Google\";)");
>   * Custom palettes
> 
> 
> DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):
> 
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> The Jakarta POI Team.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Glen Stampoultzis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~gstamp/glen/
> 
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