On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/30/12 2:18 PM, Davide Dozza wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> recently I've been involved in developing some Xforms with AOO for an >> italian PA. >> >> It seems the Xforms development is stop since 2006 and I'd like to know >> if there is any plan about this promising technology. >> >> In particular I've noted: >> - some regressions into UI since OOo 3.3.1 and some bug >> - Xpath support is stop to version 1.0 >> - the UI would require some usability improvements. >> >> I'm trying to involve such PA in supporting Xforms improvements but, >> before to spend words, I'd like to provide them information about >> development status. >> >> Could someone provide me some information about? >> > > Hi Davide, > > I would say there is currently no active development work in this area > and I am not aware of any concrete plans here. >
As far as I can tell this area was under-developed even in OpenOffice.org, before Apache. It never really reached its full potential. > If the PA is interested to start investigating in this area I am sure > the developers on the list will do their best to support where they can. > > Somebody has to start working on it and convince others to join. We have > many areas where currently is no work on going because the developers > worked on it are most often not longer working on the project and are > not available anymore. The reason is simply that the code base is so > huge and we can't address everything. > One easy way to start might be to define some test cases to test the existing XForms support. Unless this area is tested there is risk that it breaks and we don't notice. -Rob > Juergen >
