I can't devote much time at the moment, but I do plan to come back, although not sure how soon it will be.
I'm also monitoring the mailing list and use the latest releases at my day job. Regards, Yegor пт, 3 мар. 2023 г., 18:26 PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.invalid>: > 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.). > > 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. > > 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. > > 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 > >
