Like Geir, it's not clear to me why this is a better fit for jakarta.apache.org rather than xml.apache.org.
I believe XML has the same basic criterion for a sub-project proposal as Jakart does. Our requirements for a proposal are here: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html http://jakarta.apache.org/site/management.html Personally, I would not cast a positive vote for a sub-project unless a minimum of three developers (or committers) for a product are part of the proposal. If there are only three committers, I would expect that at least one of these to already an active member of an ASF project. -Ted. "Andrew C. Oliver" wrote: > > Sorry for the repost, I realized that I'd incorrectly labeled the > post a reply (re:) and thought some folks may have not seen it because > of that. A quick update, POI is the #10 project on sourceforge this > morning. > > Hi, > > I'm writing, at the recommendation of Stefano Mazzocchi, in hopes of > drawing discussion and perhaps later a vote on the creation of a new > Jakarta subproject based on the POI project (http://poi.sourceforge.net > & http://sourcefoge.net/projects/poi). > > The POI project consists of an API for reading and writing Microsoft's > OLE2 Compound Document Format, the format used in Microsoft Office for > Word and Excel documents, as well as ports of file formats based on > it. > > Currently the project is composed into the following parts: > > POIFS - the pure java port of OLE 2 Compound Document format and the > APIs for manipulating it. > > HSSF - the pure java port of Microsoft's Excel 97 File format (BIFF8) > which is shared by all newer version of Excel as well. > > HSSFSerializer - Cocoon2 Serializer for HSSF. It uses the same XML tag > language as Gnumeric. [this will be donated and hosted in Cocoon] > > HSSFGenerator - commencing. [this will be part of Cocoon as well] > > HDF - commencing. A pure java port of Microsoft's Word 97 File Format > which is shared by newer versions of Word as well. > > The POI project has been in development for just over 6 months. The POI > project has gained a reasonably large user base and currently has four > listed developers and a few occasional contributers. On any given day > it makes the front page on Sourceforge's most active projects. The POI > project will attract a larger development community once the Word port > begins. However, the project admins (myself and Marc) will continue to > develop it until pried from our cold dead fingertips regardless of > anything. We released a beta over the holidays and our 1.0 release > yesterday. > > We started the project in order to provide the ability for Cocoon to > present information directly in Office formats and wanted to donate it > to Cocoon directly, but the potential benefits of POI encompass those of > Cocoon or xml.apache.org and we believe that many Jakarta subprojects > could potentially benefit from POI and it makes good "business sense" > for Apache as a whole. > > Possible collaboration scenarios are Lucene indexing large quantities > of data in .doc and .xls files, Slide doing content management in a > corporate environment that necessitates DOC and XLS support, Turbine > doing content delivery in DOC XLS and content editing in DOC, XLS). > > >From a personal standpoint, its the most fun thing I've worked on in a > great while. Microsoft creates great brain teasers! While I don't > think the project will ever be "finished" (there will always be a minor > enhancement or detail to be worked out), it is already very useful. > > Thoughts? > > Happy New Year, > > -Andy > -- > www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java > > The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to > vote. > -Ambassador Kosh > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Building Java web applications with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
