David,
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 08:21 +1100, David Wilson wrote: > Bibliographic List members, > > To let you know what has been happening - > > Bruce D'Arcus has been lobbying senior Sun OpenOffice managers to get some > definite statement of support for our project and some idea of the scope of > work that they may be willing to undertake. We have asked that at a minimum > we need - > > Sun to improve the infrastructure for bibliographic metadata and citations. > This involves changes at both the level of OpenDocument, which we started > last year with a citation proposal that was approved by the OD TC, but which > are as yet incomplete, and at the level of OOo infrastructure. (Bruce' > message > today shows that his is progressing) This is good news. > Sun to enhance OOo to make it easier for developers (including Sun!) to > innovate. This is the custom content access idea. ( At the moment, if you add > any custom data into a OOo save file, and open and close the file with an OOo > application your custom data will be removed. There needs to be a mechanism > by which developers and users can add and save custom data.) Yes - but this should not be too difficult? > The OOo bibliographic functions exposed via a plug-in API to make it really > easy for third-parties to plug-in in a consistent way. We have proposed, with > advice from industry experts (two of whom are working with us), that the > easiest and most forward-looking way to do this is to expose the ZOOM API via > UNO. > > Once these are in place it will be much easier for volunteer developers to > build and attach the bibliographic applications that we need. It cannot come fast enough for me. OOo/SO is a fantastic product but it desperately needs this extra stuff. People like me (in the alpha/beta testing category) are waiting eagerly . . > The answer we have received was that they now have to - > > 1) work out a rough technical design for the involved areas, > 2) get the resources from the involved teams to support (not implement) the > effort and > 3) have people with the will and ability to do grass-roots work. > > My impression is that they support, in principle, our approach > and goals. We have to wait and see what resources can be scheduled for this > work and when. This is still great progress - good work! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:(0)411-185-652 Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
