Please note, Rob is PMC member of the Apache OpenOffice project and knows a lot on the project and how it operates.
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm not subscribed to this list, but Christian Grobmeier pointed me to > John's post about how OT and Wave could be relevant to OpenOffice. > > I wanted to mention that the idea is being discussed, but at the > standards level. The default document format for OpenOffice is Open > Document Format (ODF), which is standardized at OASIS and ISO. (I > chair the committee at OASIS). We're currently working on ODF 1.3 and > as part of that we're adding a new change tracking mechanism based on > OT. This is the traditional asynchronous change tracking that office > suites have had for years, but modeled on OT terms. > > And, although not specified at this point, we're also aware that OT > enables more interesting modes of collaboration, including > synchronous/real-time, co-editing, etc. That's the main reason the OT > approach is attractive, is that we can have a single model that will > work for change tracking as well as co-editing. > > Once we get the standard side of this elaborated in more details, then > the next step will be to get it implemented in Apache OpenOffice as > well as the Apache ODF Toolit (incubating). But the pace of > standardization is slow, and I wouldn't expect this before 2014. > > Regards, > > -Rob -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
