On 12/4/12 3:21 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > 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.
a valid point and I agree 100% Juergen >> >> 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 >>
