Yegor Kozlov <yegor.koz...@dinom.ru> wrote on 06/02/2011 01:36:52 PM:
> > > I can't speak for the whole project, but personally I'd be interested in > > discussing how the POI mission statement could be expanded, and if that'd > > work well for everyone. > > > > On the web site we say that the Apache POI Project's mission is to > create and maintain Java APIs for Microsoft Documents, but in the code > we avoid any MS-specific terms such as 'Excel' and 'Word' and use more > generic terms like 'Spreadsheet' and 'Document'. We (I mean POI team) > really aim to be a general-purpose API for Office documents, not > necessarily MS Office. I don't see why we shouldn't put the ODF > Toolkit under POI umbrella. > > > > > Hopefully discussions on the POI dev list can shake out a few mentors (I'm > > happy to mentor an ODF Toolkit podling, but it'd take more than just me!), > > then we could put together a proposal to bring in the ODF Toolkit. As Bill > > has pointed out, it could be a 2nd proposal alongside the OOo one, and > > potentially a quicker one to get in as the situation is simpler. > > > > I'll be happy to mentor the ODF Toollkit too. > This is great news. But since I'm a principal on the ODF Toolkit Union, as Steering Committee member, as well as one of the proposers on the OpenOffice proposal, I think I'll need to serialize these proposals. I don't have bandwidth to work a second proposal until the OpenOffice podling gets kicked off. But I promise you, I am interested, and I can get the right parties from the ODF Toolkit Union into this list once things get back to normal. (Normal does happen, right?) -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
