Hi PJ, I still monitor the project, and would, as over a decade ago be a third +1, if needed.
Thank you for your leadership. More inline. > On Mar 3, 2023, at 6:26 AM, PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Apologies if anyone thinks I'm going in the wrong direction here. The TLDR > is: I am asking if PMC members could respond with whether they are still > interested in working on POI or if they are no longer in a position to help. > > There appears to only be a couple of POI PMC members that are active at this > stage (on mailing lists, dealing with bugzilla, Github commits, etc.). As I said, I am on standby as I have been for years. Given the following choices which would be most important. 1. We gave fully moved to Git from SVN? If so I can help with the messaging. 2. We will always need to keep bugzilla, but it could help to switch to GitHub issues for new bugs. 3. What is the status of CI. Is it on ASF Jenkins? 4. What is the status of gradle and the build on GitHub? > > I'm not seeking anything drastic like considering retiring POI (aka moving to > the Attic). It is suggested in ASF guidelines that mature projects > occasionally do a Roll Call [1]. There doesn't appear to be many people that > we could look to invite to become committers or PMC members. > > I'm interested in continuing but would like to cut back my involvement. I am > involved in a few other ASF projects and want to concentrate on those. > > Even if we do have a few active PMC members, we might want to consider guide > lines on what sort of code changes to make and how often we intend to do > releases. > > The code base is very large and I have to admit some of patches that I merge > that are submitted by outside contributors - that I don't know that part of > the code base well and am reliant on the test coverage to pick up issues. And > we have a lot of code that does not have great test coverage. Most of the > patches come with minimal new tests - there are definitely exceptions - some > of the patches are of very high quality. Developers who provide quality patches are candidates to be committers. > > It's also hard to keep up with new features in Microsoft file formats (ie new > XSDs) and the Java Runtime is being overhauled in ways that may eventually > break some POI code. We should discuss these concerns slowly on this mailing list. Like POI was heavily dependent on XMLBeans there are other projects that are dependent on POI like Tika. This dependence is what led to Yegor’s creation of OOXML lite almost 15 years ago. Best, Dave > > Regards, > PJ > > > [1] https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#move-to-attic > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
