Word Maintainer

[Squee <sq...@gmail.com>]

I'm curious if there is anyone reviewing bugs & patches for the Word
support at the moment. I recently submitted a patch (and test cases)
for extracting Escher pictures in Word documents. I was planning on
writing a patch for field special characters being included in text
extraction next, but didn't know the status of a Word maintainer.

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Re: Word Maintainer

[Nick Burch <ni...@torchbox.com>]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Squee wrote:
> I'm curious if there is anyone reviewing bugs & patches for the Word 
> support at the moment.

There's no-one dedicated to overseeing HWPF, so patches and bugs just get 
looked at whenever anyone else has the time to review them. I believe your 
patch has now gone in though

> I was planning on writing a patch for field special characters being 
> included in text extraction next, but didn't know the status of a Word 
> maintainer.

That would be wonderful if you could do. Please do upload it to bugzilla, 
and hopefully it'll get it soon.


In general though, the policy on new committers is:
* someone submits a series of good patches, including unit tests
* most of these patches can be applied with little / no changes
* the person stay around for several months (doesn't just submit a bunch
    of patches then vanish)
* at the end of that time, they're still about, still producing patches,
    answering questions on the list etc
* one of the existing committers notices the above
* then we vote to offer them committership

So, if you're interested in helping out with HWPF (which we'd really 
like!), that's the process for becoming the official HWPF maintainer :)

Nick

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