agreed -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? > From: "Piers Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:52:53 +0100 > To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Leaving POI > >> Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. > > Good idea - I've been reviewing the position while > preparing PATCH http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30235 > and believe we need to come up with a core fetures list > with code examples. Then I would hope that HWPF could emerge > from scratchpad and get more users and hopefully developers. > > I am keen to see Ryan's article that he refers to in his > post http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08390.html > >> ... An article that Avik and I wrote will be appearing in the August >> issue of Java Developer's Journal and it covers the capabilities >> of the existing codebase of HWPF in CVS. ... > > From this I think we should gather some opinion as to the > "must have's" and then work from there. > > Comments welcome! > > Best regards all, > Piers > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 July 2004 17:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Leaving POI > > > Excellent. Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Where to best > focus the development effort. > -- > Andrew C. Oliver > http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp > Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI > > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi > For Java and Excel, Got POI? > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost > definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its > general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with > everything espoused in the above email. > >> From: "Koundinya \(Sudhakar Chavali\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT) >> To: POI Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: RE: Leaving POI >> >> Congratulations Ryan, >> >> You have done a great work for this open source API, >> >> Regards >> Sudhakar >> >> Oliver, >> >> Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I > would >> like to join your >> team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I > am >> in working with >> different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of > existing >> POI in short period. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> sudhakar >> >> >> >> >> --- Piers Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable >>> in the development of the Office integration work I did for >>> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job! >>> >>> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently >>> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch). >>> >>>> unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)... >>> >>> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently >>> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Piers >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07 >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: Re: Leaving POI >>> >>> >>> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way > to >>> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD > license >>> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you > is >>> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been > LGPL >>> or even GPL. >>> >>> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not >>> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain >>> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to. >>> >>> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you. >>> >>> -Andy >>> >>> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone > steps >>> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up > to >>> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking. >>> -- >>> Andrew C. 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