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Posted to dev@poi.apache.org by matthewxb <ma...@gmail.com> on 2009/05/06 05:43:56 UTC

Re: Any idea when POI 3.5 will be out of beta?

How to sponsor? What is the usual sponsor amount?

Matthew


Nick Burch wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Karen Eppinger wrote:
>> My company would like to upgrade from 2.5 because we need the Excel 7 
>> support specifically.  However, they want to wait until 3.5 is out of 
>> beta.
> 
> The issue is that currently no company is sponsoring the push towards 3.5 
> going FINAL, so the work towards it is being done much more on a volunteer 
> basis. This is why the pace towards getting 3.5 to a FINAL state has 
> slowed of late, since the last sponsorship ran out.
> 
> If you look in bugzilla, you can see most of the things that'll need to be 
> sorted before we can call it FINAL. If you'd like to help get it done 
> sooner, please do dive in and see if you can fix some bugs, or even see if 
> you can get your boss to sponsor some work :)
> 
> Nick
> (Who uses the most recent beta in production)
> 
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