I am not a committer here, but IMHO POI should have the XML serialization here together with everything else. If there is a concern about code bloat or something like that, perhaps POI could do a poi-base.jar and a poi-xml.jar distro.
Scott Sanders > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [VOTE] Should we put the xml serialization classes > in the POI CVS? (was (Re: POI Serialization code committed)) > > > This thing has been going on for a bit too long IMHO, and > it's a pity that good code can't find a home. Anyway, it's > time the community decides. > > In the latest mail from Sylvain, he has made clear the > direction he, and some other Cocoon committers, would like to > see the POI serialization classes to take. > > Andrew C. Oliver has also expressed his opinions clearly, > saying why he and some POI committers would prefer this not to happen. > > Here is a brief summary of the whole story: > > 1. Andrew C. Oliver and Marc Johnson decided to kill time by > making classes in pure Java that could read-write common > office file formats. > > 2. Nicola Ken came in, and among other things, proposed to > make the POI project scope encompass also classes that had > been made especially for Cocoon. The proposal was rejected. > > 3. The Sourceforge POI community decided, with a vote, to > donate the POI serialization (to XML) classes to Cocoon. This > was before being accepted in Jakarta. > > 4. The Cocoon committers voted positively for accepting the > donation, but had some reserves on the load this could bring > to an already crowded project like Cocoon. > > 5. The POI project was accepted in Jakarta, with a proposal > that contained the donation of all xml related classes to > Cocoon. These classes have been in the Sourceforge repository > all the time, and could have been seen by all during the time > that separated the POI arrival in Jakarta and the commit of > those classes in Cocoon. > > 6. Nicola Ken has committed the donation in the Cocoon CVS > with samples. > > 7. Some Cocoon committers have since been uneasy of this code > for many reasons outlined in different mails on the Cocoon > dev mailing list. They propose the POI community to get that > code back because it's better for them, in their opinion. > > > Basically: > > - Some Cocoon committers are not sure it's good to keep the > donation, because they argue that it doesn't fit with what > they thought was coming, despite it has been on Sourceforge > for the world to see all this time. > > - The POI community has already expressed itself negatively > on becoming a general conversion project for office file > formats, and POI doesn't currently have this functionality in > the project scope. > > - Users want Cocoon to output with POI and POI to be able to > output XML without Cocoon. > > > For this I ask the POI developers community to vote on this question: > > Do you want to put the xml serialization classes in the POI CVS? > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > ----------- > > This vote needs a 3 vote majority to pass, and no -1 > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html > > Being this > vote a major change in the POI scope, it will not pass with > lazy approval only. > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
