Hi Rob,
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 21:13 -0400, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Hi Kohei,
>
> Thanks for sending this proposal along. As you said, "lots of things have
> changed" on the TC. Let me quickly bring you up to speed on where we are
> with ODF 1.2.
>
> Last November we asked had a "last call" for ODF 1.2 feature proposals,
> and asked TC members to make any remaining proposals. We then went
> through those proposals in December and January, refining some of them
> while deferring others to the next release, "ODF-Next". Patrick then
> integrated all of the new proposals into the draft, which we approved as a
> Committee Draft earlier in the spring. Since then we have been working on
> resolving defects reported via the public comment list and doing the final
> editorial touches. We're very close to having ODF 1.2 ready for public
> review.
>
> So, although I won't say that we absolutely, positively cannot accept any
> new proposals at this point, I do think that there would need to be a very
> good argument for adding a new feature now, and a very high degree of
> consensus on the TC that we should introduce such a new feature. And I'd
> certainly be afraid that if we open it up for new features, we'll find
> that almost every TC member has something they want to add in as well. And
> then we'll never end.
Ok, fair argument. I was actually not looking for getting my proposal
integrated for 1.2, as I was fully aware that we had already closed
doors on new features for 1.2 back in November. What I was looking for
was to have it go through a review process and get TC's blessing, so
that it could make it into the next ODF revision after 1.2.
> So would it be possible to add your proposal to the list of features for
> ODF-Next? The hope is that after the redfrafting of ODF 1.2 is done,
> which has had a rather long development cycle, we can produce future
> reversions more easily and at more frequent intervals.
Yes, this would be possible. Thanks for getting me up to speed on this.
> If you can do this, you would add the proposal to JIRA and set the "fix
> version" field to ODF-Next.
Ok. I'll see if I can get necessary permission to become a JIRA editor,
then I'll add my proposal there with ODF-Next as the target.
Thanks again!
Kohei
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Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc.