On 26 June 2013 14:44, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > today I have received a zip file with patches related to the OSBA > sponsored OOXML improvement project [1]. > > Regina came up some time ago and after some private email exchange with > a list of git commit id's from one of the contractors. But I assume > nobody was able to take a closer look on this or was able to extract the > related patches and necessary information at this time. > > The patches are for the use-cases 1-4 and use-case 5 will follow. I have > also asked for a detailed use-case description and test documents. As > soon as I can provide more info I will share it here on the list. > > The OSBA contracted two companies to work on the defined use-cases and > paid for the implementation. The project scope was from the beginning to > make these improvements available in LibreOffice and in OpenOffice. > > Unfortunately for us the work was done on the LO code base and it means > that we have to merge the changes in our code base if possible at all. > > Currently we are in the AOO 4.0 release phase and I believe we all have > other things to do. But in the scope of AOO 4.1 it would make sense to > take a closer look on this improvements. Maybe together with a general > goal to improve the OOXML support in AOO and to provide an export as > well. I am at this point of course not interested in a political > discussion about document standards ;-) Our goal should be to satisfy > our users and to provide the best free office suite to fulfill their > requirements. and OOXML is (if we like it or not) an ISO standard as well. > > Anyway I would like to make the patches (that are all under ALv2) > available for all who are interested to help with the review and > integration. The patches will be soon available on the OSBA webpage as > well. > > Any suggestion where I should store the patches in the meantime to make > them available? > I would suggest to make a OSBA branch, with an "patches" directory, then anyone with spare cycles can look at, without risking trunk. rgds jan i. > > > [1] http://www.osb-alliance.de/working-groups/wg-office-interoperability/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
