Re: ODF Toolkit Incubation Pre-Proposal

[Rob Weir <ap...@robweir.com>]

We continue to discuss moving this work to Apache.  Feedback so far
has been to try for an eventual TLP.  We're starting to draft the
Incubation proposal.  We talked to the maintainer of the C#/AODL
component and he confirmed that it is not really active anymore.  He
might move it to bitbucket.  So our plan will be to propose moving
only the Java components over to Apache,

Also, we just announced a new release (more info below) and are
starting work on our next release, which is targeted to add support
for document encryption and digital signatures.

Regards,

-Rob

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We are pleased to announce the release of the Simple Java API for ODF
version 0.6.5 today. The improvements in this version focus on text
documents.

They are:

-Hard page breaks, including appending page break at the end of a text
document and appending a page break after a referenced paragraph.

-Headings, including appending heading to documents, and changing
plain text as heading;

-Comments, including attaching a comment to a text selection and to a
paragraph;

-Paragraph font, including getting/setting paragraph's font size,
style, color and so on;

-Paragraph alignment, including getting/setting text alignment of a paragraph;

-Hyperlinks, including applying hyperlink to a selection, a paragraph,
an image and a span.

An introduction to the new functions has been added to the Cookbook:

http://simple.odftoolkit.org/cookbook/Text Document.html

An interesting code sample to show how to use these new functions to
format a text document is available in the website:

http://simple.odftoolkit.org/demo/demo10.html

The full release notes, including a list of patches can be found in the wiki:

http://odftoolkit.org/projects/simple/pages/ReleaseNotes

The binary file can be downloaded from:

http://odftoolkit.org/projects/simple/downloads/directory/0.6.5

The Java doc, sample codes and cookbook in the website have been updated:

http://simple.odftoolkit.org/documents.html

Re: ODF Toolkit Incubation Pre-Proposal

[Lee Fisher <bl...@gmail.com>]

On 7/1/11 7:33 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> [...] We talked to the maintainer of the C#/AODL
> component and he confirmed that it is not really active anymore.  He
> might move it to bitbucket.  So our plan will be to propose moving
> only the Java components over to Apache, [...]

Also, the AODL project's home page says that the library is 
Apache2-licensed; however the AODL library relies on the SharpZipLib 
library, which is GPL2 with some Classpath-like exception explained here:
http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/
http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/GPL.asp

It looks like someone removed this GPL SharpZipLib dependency when 
someone did a Silverlight port, but I don't see that this patch is in 
the main code, but rather in a fork:
http://odftoolkit.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109
https://bitbucket.org/chrisc/aodl/

Re: ODF Toolkit Incubation Pre-Proposal

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Rob Weir wrote:
> We continue to discuss moving this work to Apache.  Feedback so far has 
> been to try for an eventual TLP.  We're starting to draft the Incubation 
> proposal.  We talked to the maintainer of the C#/AODL component and he 
> confirmed that it is not really active anymore.  He might move it to 
> bitbucket.  So our plan will be to propose moving only the Java 
> components over to Apache,

I'm happy to help with mentoring this proposal. Let me know if you need a 
hand with drafting the proposal.

In terms of an eventual TLP goal, and POI interaction/integration, that's 
something we can all discuss and decide during the incubation process

> Also, we just announced a new release (more info below) and are
> starting work on our next release, which is targeted to add support
> for document encryption and digital signatures.

One thing to be aware of is that your first release at Apache is always 
much much harder than every subsequent one! There's a lot to be said for 
doing a small, incremental release ASAP to get the process sorted, rather 
than trying to tackle the release when there's lots of exciting features 
blocked by (say) a missing license and a broken signature!

Nick

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Re: ODF Toolkit Incubation Pre-Proposal

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Rob Weir wrote:
> We continue to discuss moving this work to Apache.  Feedback so far has 
> been to try for an eventual TLP.  We're starting to draft the Incubation 
> proposal.  We talked to the maintainer of the C#/AODL component and he 
> confirmed that it is not really active anymore.  He might move it to 
> bitbucket.  So our plan will be to propose moving only the Java 
> components over to Apache,

I'm happy to help with mentoring this proposal. Let me know if you need a 
hand with drafting the proposal.

In terms of an eventual TLP goal, and POI interaction/integration, that's 
something we can all discuss and decide during the incubation process

> Also, we just announced a new release (more info below) and are
> starting work on our next release, which is targeted to add support
> for document encryption and digital signatures.

One thing to be aware of is that your first release at Apache is always 
much much harder than every subsequent one! There's a lot to be said for 
doing a small, incremental release ASAP to get the process sorted, rather 
than trying to tackle the release when there's lots of exciting features 
blocked by (say) a missing license and a broken signature!

Nick

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Re: ODF Toolkit Incubation Pre-Proposal

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Rob Weir wrote:
> We continue to discuss moving this work to Apache.  Feedback so far has 
> been to try for an eventual TLP.  We're starting to draft the Incubation 
> proposal.  We talked to the maintainer of the C#/AODL component and he 
> confirmed that it is not really active anymore.  He might move it to 
> bitbucket.  So our plan will be to propose moving only the Java 
> components over to Apache,

I'm happy to help with mentoring this proposal. Let me know if you need a 
hand with drafting the proposal.

In terms of an eventual TLP goal, and POI interaction/integration, that's 
something we can all discuss and decide during the incubation process

> Also, we just announced a new release (more info below) and are
> starting work on our next release, which is targeted to add support
> for document encryption and digital signatures.

One thing to be aware of is that your first release at Apache is always 
much much harder than every subsequent one! There's a lot to be said for 
doing a small, incremental release ASAP to get the process sorted, rather 
than trying to tackle the release when there's lots of exciting features 
blocked by (say) a missing license and a broken signature!

Nick