On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:12 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > 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.
+1 to Yegor's time on this! >> > > > 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?) I just joined the list because NIck brought our attention to it. According to the archives June has already exceeded a month of messages here. FWIW - We now have three POI PMC members (Nick, Yegor and me) replying to the thread. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
