On 23/10/14 07:02, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > >> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:13 PM >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Improved OOXML support? >> >> With regard to the quotation from me, yes, it is possible to >> find funding for improvements. There have been requests for >> bids from organization such as the OSB Alliance. It is >> difficult to know whether they have found someone to bid on >> the work they want though, at an affordable price. >> >> The improved OOXML support was funded by an organization. >> You've seen Jürgen Schmidt's response on the difficulty there >> has been integrating that code into Apache OpenOffice. I >> don't doubt his appraisal. > > Furthermore Jürgen spoke of it also: > > "We decided for us (some developer) that we don't spend further time on > this." > > and this does not relate to technical problems, but it describes the > developers do not have time.
no it means the benefit of the patches is so minimal that a rewrite is probably cheaper and easier. For the example for 1 use case we have integrated we spend a lot of time to understand the patch and realize that the implementation address only one facet and is incomplete form our pov. We or better Oliver spend even more time on it to make it complete. The other use case were addressed wrong from our pov and we took the feature idea and implement it new and in a way to make it more general and ready for the future. Both solution found their way in LO which is fine but it shows ones more that it is wasted time and resources. Better would be to collaborate and work together on such things. I believe that neither AOO nor LO has so many resources that it is clever to do the work twice in the long term. Juergen > > > > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
