RESOLUTION OF THE PROPOSAL The proposed change was made under CTR (Commit then Review). There has been a subsequent review and, as Don points out, the discussion has been lengthy and vocal.
The objective is to achieve consensus. I believe it is clear that there is no consensus on the proposed change and the proposal fails. I can't speak for the AOO PMC. It would be useful if Andreas helped wrap this up. If the lack of consensus is affirmed, Pedro can revert the change and adjust the Bugzilla issue. THE ESSENCE OF THE PROPOSAL The proposal is to enact the breaking change as described on the Community Wiki at <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes> . It is under Changes that Impact Backward Compatibility, Calc and OpenFormula Support. "Exponentiation "The current version of Calc produces 1 for POWER(0,0). This is one of the implementation-defined results that is permitted by ODF 1.2 OpenFormula. "It is proposed to change POWER(0,0) to result in #VALUE!. This is also permitted as the implementation-defined result. This is also compatible with Excel and the Excel 2013 support for ODF 1.2 OpenFormula in .ods Spreadsheets. ..." OUTCOME The proposed change is tracked in Bugzilla Issue #114430, < https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=114430>. A patch to implement this proposal is already included in the SVN. If the proposal is not accepted as the result of CTR review, the Issue will be closed and the patch reverted. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Donald Whytock [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 09:20 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Calc behavior: result of 0 ^ 0 ...So I got curious, and I paged back in my email archive, and it seems this is the biggest AOO dev thread since the graduation vote back in early September. At this point, does anyone care enough about changing the status quo as to put up a coherent proposal to be voted on? Don
