I won't have time to make any progress (or even to respond to you...sorry!) on 
60044 until the end of the week... :(

-----Original Message-----
From: Javen O'Neal [mailto:one...@apache.org] 
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 12:32 PM
To: POI Developers List <dev@poi.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 3.15 (RC1)

In the interest of getting this release out not too far after Aug 2016 and 
unfreezing the trunk, are we waiting for the closure of any particular bugs, 
such as bug 60044 [1], before building RC2?

[1] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60044

On Aug 22, 2016 12:33, "Javen O'Neal" <one...@apache.org> wrote:

> While we're discussing enums backwards compatibility, are there any 
> other changes as part of 
> https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59836
> that we absolutely cannot break backwards compatibility and blocks 3.16?
>
> 58190 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58190>: 
> PictureType (XSLF, scratchpad?)
>
> 58636 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58636>: 
> AnchorType (for drawings and comments, SS Common)
>
> 58671 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58671>:
> MissingCellPolicy (class->enum, SS Common)
>
> 59264 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59264>: 
> BorderStyle (SS Common)
>
> 59790 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59790>: 
> FormulaType (internal, SS Common)
>
> ** 59791 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59791>: 
> CellType (SS Common)
>
> 59833 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59833>:
> FillPatternType (for cell background texture, SS Common)
>
> 59837 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59837>:
> HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment (cell style alignment for SS
> Common)
>
> 59873 <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59873>:
> HyperlinkType (Common SS, SL)
>
> On Aug 22, 2016 11:27, "Javen O'Neal" <one...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Nick, could you republish the Javadocs, please?
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Javen O'Neal <one...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >>                        switch (cell.getCellType()) {
>> >>                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
>> >
>> > I have fixed the backwards compatibility problem in r1757235. See 
>> > [1] for more info.
>> >
>> > My vote is -1. We should rebuild the RC with r1757235.
>> >
>> > I have added this test [2] to prove that the old way of working 
>> > with cell types works without modification alongside the new way.
>> >
>> > [1] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59791#c10
>> > [2] https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/src/testcases/org/ap
>> ache/poi/ss/usermodel/BaseTestCell.java?r1=1757235&r2=175723
>> 4&pathrev=1757235
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Dominik Stadler <
>> dominik.stad...@gmx.at> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Oh, sorry for the false alarm, this seems to be a problem with my 
>> >> compare-tool (Beyond Compare), it displays two test-documents as 
>> >> being contained on top-level of the src-tar.gz. When extracting 
>> >> via other
>> tools I
>> >> don't see those.
>> >>
>> >> So I am +1 here!
>> >>
>> >> However I saw that we do actually break some stuff with all the 
>> >> Enum-rework, e.g. the following will not work any more out of the box:
>> >>
>> >>                         switch (cell.getCellType()) {
>> >>                         case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately a switch on teh CellType is quite common, so we need 
>> >> to explain this in the release notes and I think we should be a 
>> >> bit more conservative with all those refactorings/deprecations in 
>> >> the future to
>> not
>> >> cause too much change in those places!
>> >>
>> >> Dominik.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:10 AM, David North <dno...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Your image didn't come through. I see the following inside the
>> poi-3.15
>> >>> directory of poi-src-3.15-20160828.zip:
>> >>>
>> >>> legal
>> >>> osgi
>> >>> sonar
>> >>> src
>> >>> test-data
>> >>> build.xml
>> >>> forrest.properties
>> >>> KEYS
>> >>> LICENSE
>> >>> NOTICE
>> >>> patch.xml
>> >>>
>> >>> Which are unwanted? This seems to match the src packages in the 
>> >>> last
>> beta.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> David
>> >>>
>> >>> On 22/08/16 07:47, Dominik Stadler wrote:
>> >>> > Sorry, me again,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Unfortunately there are still some unwanted artifacts in the 
>> >>> > src-package, can you remove those as well?
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Inline image 1
>> >>> >
>> >>> > While not blocking the release, but the Java version used for 
>> >>> > the
>> build
>> >>> > seems to be "1.6.0_34", which is a bit outdated, latest (and 
>> >>> > last) version of Java 6 is patchlevel 45, would look better to 
>> >>> > use this
>> one to
>> >>> > build releases.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Dominik.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:49 AM, David North 
>> >>> > <dno...@apache.org <mailto:dno...@apache.org>> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     Vote begins now and ends at 11:55 BST 2016-08-23
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     Artifacts are here:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/poi/3.15-RC1/
>> >>> >     <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/poi/3.15-RC1/>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     Usual checks required (does it work? does the distribution 
>> >>> > look
>> >>> right?),
>> >>> >     only more so as this is an RC for a non-beta release.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     +1 from me.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     As those of you watching the commits may have seen, I can't 
>> >>> > get
>> the
>> >>> svn
>> >>> >     commits from ant to work on either of my machines (Debian
>> stable or
>> >>> >     Fedora 22) - I thought I'd fixed it by upgrading to svn 1.9, but
>> >>> >     seemingly not. I've therefore replaced them with "exec" 
>> >>> > tasks
>> calling
>> >>> >     the SVN command line client. This needs further investigation.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     I also had to manually strip out the spurious "trunk" 
>> >>> > directory
>> from
>> >>> the
>> >>> >     src zip/tar, so that's another fix needed somewhere in the build
>> >>> >     scripts.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     Thanks,
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     --
>> >>> >     David North | www.dnorth.net <http://www.dnorth.net>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> David North - Committer and PMC Member, Apache POI 
>> >>> https://home.apache.org/~dnorth/
>> >>>
>> >>>
>>
>

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