[Announce] Apache POI 3.0.1
The Apache POI Team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache POI 3.0.1 (formerly Apache Jakarta POI). This is our first release since our TLP graduation from Apache Jakarta, and we would like to thank all those who helped it happen. Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. Besides a number of bug fixes, this release offers a range of new features including: * Improvements to date cell detection, via isADateFormat * missing record aware HSSF event model * Lots of HSLF (PowerPoint) updates * HDGF - basic, read only support for Visio Files A full changelog is available at: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html Apache POI 3.0.1 is downloadable from the apache website http://poi.apache.org/ For the Apache POI Team Nick Burch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Henri Yandell wrote: Don't your jars contain the version number too? Yeah, everything seems to :/ The most recent release types I've done are the type where you create the exact release and put it in your ~login where it's voted on. I like this because it makes the actual release extremely easy. The biggest downsides are a) someone might be idiotic and use a random jar from a ~login and b) if you have the release date in there somewhere you have to use the day the vote ends. That makes sense as a plan. While the rc has -final- in the artificat names, you can put it in a directory called -rc, and add a readme. Since you're probably just going to include the url to the files in the vote email to -dev (who ought to know what it means), it strikes me it ought to be fine. I've updated the poi release guide to follow your method, so we'll have to see how it works for 3.0.1! Thanks Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final
Hi All For the 3.0 release of POI, we followed the advice on voting on artificats, the not the state of the tree. So, we used our ant script to produce RC artificats, signed them, and placed them on people.apache.org for review. After the vote, we renamed the files from -RC4- to -FINAL-, tweaked the filenames inside the .md5 files, and copied into /dist/. Two snags though: * we had to re-generate the maven pom, and re-sign it, as that holds the release version in it, which changed * we forgot that the .tar.gz and .zip files all have poi-3.0-rc4 as their base directory name, since the directory name is generated dynamically in build.xml What do other people do about this for their releases, when voting on artificats? Do you do each build as if it was -FINAL (so that gets embeded into all the directory names etc), then rename the artificats for voting, or something else? Thanks Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Announce] Apache Jakarta POI 3.0
The Apache Jakarta POI Team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache Jakarta POI 3.0. This long-awaited release has been a long time coming, and we are thankful to all those who have helped us. Apache Jakarta POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Besides a number of bug fixes, this release offers a range of new features including: * Partial support for PowerPoint through hslf, which offers support for reading and editing many of the core fields * Support for evaluating Excel formulas in hssf * Support for editing document properties through hpsf * Improved support for editing images through hssf A changelog is available at: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/changes.html Apache Jakarta POI 3.0 is downloadable from the jakarta website http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ For the Apache Jakarta POI Team Nick Burch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[RESULT] [VOTE] Move POI to TLP
Hi All The voting has now closed, and the votes are in. We had 23 +1 votes, of which 15 were from pmc members. Martin will now present the proposal to the board for their approval. Nick Burch (pmc) Andrew Oliver (pmc) David Fisher Henri Yandel (pmc) Avik Sengupta (pmc) Rainer Klute N. Hira Joern Muehlencord Davanum Srinivas (pmc) Henning Schmiedehausen (pmc) Petar Tahchiev Sebb Thomas Vandahl Roland Weber (pmc) Rahul Akolkar (pmc) Mark Thomas (pmc) Dennis Lundberg (pmc?) Martin van den Bemt (pmc) Scott Eade (pmc) Stefan Bodewig (pmc) Robert Burrell Donkin (pmc) Shawn Laubach Niall Pemberton (pmc) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [RESULT] [VOTE] Move POI to TLP
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Jörg Schaible wrote: there were more votes: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.general/9842 Hmm, that's odd. Yours doesn't seem to be showing on mail-archives.apache.org, which is what I was using. Sorry I missed you off! http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-poi-dev/200705.mbox/browser http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-general/200705.mbox/browser Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TLP proposal Turbine POI for this board meeting and todo items.
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Martin van den Bemt wrote: The 16th of May is the next board meeting, so I was wondering if you were all ready to go TLP at this stage or if you prefer to wait for next months board meeting ? I think we are. The only thing is that our vote doesn't finish until Friday, so will that be cutting it a bit fine? - Have all people added their name to the TLP proposal ? I believe we have everyone on our list - Is the proposal setup according to subproject-tlp-resolution.txt It almost was... I've attached an updated version, which has the required few tweaks made to it. NickEstablish the Apache POI project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project, to be known as Apache POI Project, relating to the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the continued implementation of the library for manipulating files in various business formats currently known as Apache Jakarta POI, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC) is hereby established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache POI PMC be and hereby is charged with the creation and maintenance of Apache POI; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of Vice President, Apache POI be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache POI PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache POI PMC; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache POI PMC: * Nick Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Amol S. Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jason Height [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Marc Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rainer Klute [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Yegor Kozlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Danny Muid [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Avik Sengupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Glen Stampoultzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Sean Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nick Burch be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache POI, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache POI Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Jakarta Project's POI; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache POI sub-project and encumbered upon the Apache Jakarta PMC are hereafter discharged. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[VOTE] Move POI to TLP
Hi All After lots of discussion within POI, and Jakarta in general, we think POI is ready to graduate to its own TLP. Thanks to the magic of ApacheCon, lots of people have been on-hand to help finalise the proposal for this, which is attached below. So, now is the time to vote on the proposal: [ ] +1 I support the proposal [ ] +0 I don't care [ ] -1 I'm opposed to the proposal because... Voting will close in one week. Cheers Nick WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the continued implementation of the library for manipulating files in various business formats currently known as Apache POI for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the Apache POI Project, be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache POI Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to creation and maintenance of open-source software and documentation related to the POI library based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of Vice President, POI be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache POI Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache POI Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the POI PMC: * Nick Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Amol S. Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jason Height [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Marc Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rainer Klute [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Yegor Kozlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Danny Muid [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Avik Sengupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Glen Stampoultzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Sean Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nick Burch be appointed to the office of Vice President, POI, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache POI sub-project and encumbered upon the Apache Jakarta PMC are hereafter discharged. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [VOTE] Move POI to TLP
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Nick Burch wrote: So, now is the time to vote on the proposal: And for the record, my vote is +1 Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: POI TLP -- constructively
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Martin van den Bemt wrote: If poi committers agree with this proposal, I like to hear them :) We had a discussion on something like this on the poi-dev list back in the summer. To save everyone having to trawl back, here's basically what I had to say. I it is felt that POI should migrate to a TLP, I'd be happy with that. I've had a chat with Henri, and I have an idea of what that'd entail. I'm happy to do some of the work on gaining TLP status, such as helping with the various documents and charters. If POI doesn't go for TLP, then I think it does need to integrate better with Jakarta. I think it would be good if more of our committers also submitted the odd patch to other Jakarta sub-projects, and if the odd jakarta committer contributed some code or advice to us. I think the easiest way to facilitate this is: 1) get all poi committers subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) get more poi committers to attend apachecons, party@ events etc, and meet more jakarta committers. (I found it very helpful to meet other jakarta people in person) What I'm not a fan of are the one user and one dev list for jakarta type proposals. If the option was that, or TLP, I'd start writing the TLP supporting docs right now. Oh, but that's not an invition to suggest it, just to get us out ;-) On a related note, I feel I ought to stand up a bit for the POI support for the recent release. I was given some advice, made use of the same build tasks as last time etc. The problem wasn't so much that I wasn't fully supported, it was more that the advice and build process was out of date. In future, we'll do POI releases according to the latest advice, as two votes (one for the idea of a release, and one to approve the files for the release). So, we'll be able to get advice from the rest of Jakarta if we ever fall behind on release best pratices :) Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Martin van den Bemt wrote: The reasoning behind this is that POI is still trying to stick to what it Jakarta once was and it is time they join the club completely. I think it was actually a reccomendation from the legal team. We have always asked that anyone contributing code to POI make a statement that they haven't ever seen any Microsoft file format docs under an NDA or similar. So, I'm voing (non binding) [-1], unless legal say it's now OK to let people commit without having made such a public statement. Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Martin van den Bemt wrote: Apache legal doesn't know anything about this.. Back when I joined POI, I was told the apache legal team had suggested the requirement. Perhaps one of the older POI committers can supply the original details? Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Henri Yandell wrote: Back when I joined POI, I was told the apache legal team had suggested the requirement. Perhaps one of the older POI committers can supply the original details? My understanding is that the advice is from Andy's personal lawyer many moons ago, maybe before POI joined the ASF. OK, I'm happy to be corrected :) Assuming the Apache legal team are happy with us dropping the requirement (which I take from Martin's email that they are?), then I don't see why we couldn't drop the restriction. I'm all for getting more Jakarta participation in POI, and more POI participation in the rest of Jakarta. That said, I think I'll wait for Andy's response before I formally switch to a +1 Nick (I am from POI) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [VOTE] Remove SVN restrictions
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Henri Yandell wrote: [ ] +1 [X] -1 If your -1 is only for a particular subproject (ie: you don't care what the rest of Jakarta does, feel free to say so). Just -1 for POI, owing to the need for a I haven't seen any Microsoft specs disclaimer Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
