+1 to both. Maybe you'd like to write up a few of the design mails you've sent to the list as xdocs for POI? That would be helpful.
Quoting "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > This is primarily an HSSF concern > > I'd like to submit that we close the 1.5 branch. The bugs are *well > known* and I don't think anyone here plans to do any 1.5.x based fixes > anytime soon. > > I'll be launching a new project called Enterprise Reporting System (for > lack of a snappy name) soon. While I'm certainly not leaving (and ERS > will depend on POI), I want to get my major effort (probably the most > drastic code I've written on POI in the last 6 months) out of the way > before I get too involved in creating the new community. > > To this effect, I think I've changed my mind about my earlier > refactoring. While in one respect it makes things harder to debug, in > another it makes them easier. I think my difficulty was that I was > strictly working on the stuff that got harder. The rest of the stuff is > actually cleaner and easier and clarifies the original intended > seperation of our object model (usermodel was supposed to be a LIGHT > wrapper around mode). The product I'd like to develop around HSSF never > required me to keep this to myself, I just had to think about whether it > was the right time to do this for HSSF. > > However, I don't want to disrupt things as its a MASSIVE change; which, > is part of why I want to get it in sooner rather than later (more work > to merge later). So what I'd like to do is create a 3.0 branch where I > can apply these changes without disrupting the other work. In the end > if everyone things my approach is goodness then we'll just merge the two > and move on. > > To avoid confusion I'll make the nightly builds go against the 2.0 > branch and probably upoad the data on the other branch elsewhere. > > Certainly anyone else wanting to try something radical could work in the > same branch as I. In particular Avik, you might want to do your formula > refactoring there... > > Any thoughts on this? > > -Andy > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
