-1 to moving the word stuff out of scratchpad. I am not against it in principle just practicality.
It needs a new steward who is a committer to this project with signed CLA. It needs at least some basic documentation and reasonable unit tests. If those guidelines aren't kept it will never happen. Once those are satisfied, I remove my objection. -Andy -- 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: Glen Stampoultzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:09:24 +1000 > To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Response to Rainer WAS: Re: [VOTE] POI 2.5.1 release > > At 11:30 AM 5/08/2004, you wrote: > >> Glen >> >> Ok done. >> >> I think that there is some agreement to move the 2.5 branch of HSSF over >> to the HEAD, maybe then another release (2.6?) with the HPSF could be >> done. Hopefully this could all be done fairly quickly. > > Yes. I think we can say that we have consensus on that. Failing any > volunteers I guess I'll sign up for that. Is there anything I should be > extra careful about overwriting? > > My plan is: > > 1. Tag the existing performance code so that we can refer back to it in the > future. > 2. Replace the packages org.apache.poi.hssf.*, org.apache.poi.ddf.*, > org.apache.poi.poifs.* in HEAD with the code in REL2_BRANCH. > 3. Compare org.apache.poi.util.* manually for any changes that need to be > merged. (Replacing this package wholesale might screw up Rainers good work > so a manual compare would be best). > 4. Run the tests to try and make sure I haven't broken anything. > > I think we should move the word stuff out of scratchpad also. It has lived > there long enough and with Piers patch it should be stable enough for some > more serious bashing. > > Regards, > > Glen > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
