yes, fully aware of many of these points. i'll continue to contribute when/where able.
TIA Stanton Fisque principal technologist latticeware.com portland, oregon > On Mar 3, 2023, at 10:53 AM, PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Thanks Hamza and Stanton for expressing an interest in contributing to POI. > > For newbies, the best place to start is > https://poi.apache.org/devel/index.html > > The documentation is basic but the tools we use are well documented on the > web. Subversion, Git, Gradle. > > If you any specific questions, the POI 'user' mailing list might be the best > place to ask as the 'dev' list has a lot of automated emails on it that can > obscure emails from real people with questions. > > There is a big backlog of issues in Bugzilla [1]. We get some issues raised > that have good descriptions but we get lots that are not very well described > or that are raised due to misunderstandings as to what the POI lib does. > > We don't have a road map. If you have any ideas about features that are > missing, raise Bugzilla issues where they can be discussed. > > I'm afraid that I don't think POI is the sort of code base that you want to > dive into unless you have a vested interest in getting a particular problem > solved. > > > > [1] > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=203815&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&product=POI&query_format=specific > > > > On Friday 3 March 2023 at 17:18:48 GMT+1, stanton fisque <sfis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > i am not a PMC member, BUT as one of the multitude of contributors interested > in the liveliness of POI, i am curious what is involved with keeping this > project alive and moving (even if it is at a modest rate)? > > > Stanton Fisque > principal technologist > latticeware.com > portland, oregon > >> On Mar 3, 2023, at 08:14 AM, Hamza Gobir <hgo...@googlemail.com.INVALID> >> wrote: >> >> I'm interested on working on tickets but I'm having issues setting up my >> Dev environment. >> >> Are there any resources you can point me to? >> >> >> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023, 14:26 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.). >>> >>> 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 > >>> >>> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
