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  • 1.  Draft Agenda for ODF TC Teleconference on 20 April 2026

    Posted 04-19-2026 16:43
    Greetings!

    The agenda for our TC call on Monday, 2026-04-20

    Time of meeting:

    https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2026&month=4&day=20&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=25&p2=37

    The call counts towards voter eligibility.

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    Chat room for meeting is at webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/odf

    ODF TC Holidays remaining:

    May 4th - Early May Bank Holiday

    May 25th - Memorial Day / Whit Monday / Spring Bank Holiday

    August 31st - Summer Bank Holiday

    September 7th - Labor Day

    October 12th - Columbus Day

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    1. Dial-In, Roll Call, Determination of Quorum and Voting Rights

    2. Motion (simple majority):

    Approve ODF TC Minutes for April 13, 2026

    https://groups.oasis-open.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?document_id=73281&wg_id=4bf06d41-79ad-4c58-9e8e-018dc7d05da8

    3. Action Items (from prior meetings)

    A. Patrick to email Rich Proposal_2026-03-25.pdf (On Sunday so no time
    for Excel team to respond)

    B. Patrick (spreadsheet on INT conversion) - ongoing (question)

    C. Patrick (spreadsheet - semantics of FIELD) - ongoing

    4. Motion (simple majority): Approve the Agenda

    5. https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4201 (continued)

    Regina has marked several issues as editorial and suggest the TC
    can proceed without further comments from her

    Let's continue with the "editorial" comments.

    6. Regina sent the following notes/suggestions on the INFO function:

    *****

    Arne's comments contain several remarks about the INFO function. I
    think, we need to alter the INFO function. The INFO function has several
    keywords for its parameter Category. They are marked as "Evaluators
    shall support at least the following categories:".
    The keywords are: directory, memavail, memused, numfile, osversion,
    origin, recalc, release, system, totmem.
    OOXML has the same keywords (18.17.7.168, ISO/IEC 29500-1:2016), but
    even Excel do not support all of them, see [MS-OI29500].

    I suggest to change "shall" to "should". And I suggest to recommend,
    that application should document what they result, to recieve better
    compatibility. My suggestion for the TC is, to look at existing
    applications, which keywords they actually support and what the
    applications actually return. Here a start:

    * PlanMaker does not support the INFO function at all.

    * Apache OpenOffice
    ** osversion: returns always "Windows (32-bit) NT 5.01" for
    compatibility reasons
    ** numfile: returns always 1 for compatibility reasons
    ** recalc: returns localized term of either "Manual" or "Automatic"
    according current formula recalutation mode.
    ** release: returns a product identifier like "300m25(Build:9876)" or
    "4116m3(Build:9816)"
    ** system: returns "WNT", "LINUX" or "SOLARIS" according its help. I
    cannot test other operating systems than Window 11.
    ** other keywords are not supported and result in an error message
    Err:502, which meams "invalid argument"

    * LibreOffice 26.2.2.2 (X86_64)
    ** osversion: returns always "Windows (32-bit) NT 5.01" for
    compatibility reasons
    ** recalc: returns localized term (depending on UI language) of either
    "Manual" or "Automatic" according current formula recalutation mode
    ** release: returns the BuildID, e.g.
    1f77d10d6938fd34972958f64b2bcfa54f8b1ba5
    ** system: returns ANDROID, DRAGONFLY, EMSCRIPTEN, FREEBSD, OPENBSD,
    NETBSD, HAIKU, iOS, LINUX, MACOSX, SOLARIS, WNT according its help
    ** other keywords are not supported and result in #N/A

    ODF 1.4 says, "Evaluators may support other categories."
    Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice do not support other categories. Excel
    might support other categories. I do not see those in its help, but
    [MS-OI29500] mentions some.

    To help us make our decision, it might be useful to learn more about
    other applications, such as those listed on Wikipedia. Perhaps some
    members of the TC would be willing to review some of these applications?
    I have attached a file using the categories of the standard.

    We might need a JIRA-issue for the INFO function.

    *****

    7. Adjournment

    Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!

    Patrick


  • 2.  RE: Draft Agenda for ODF TC Teleconference on 20 April 2026

    Posted 04-20-2026 08:52
    Hi Patrick

    Exceptionally, because of an unexpected agenda, I'll have to skip this
    Monday 20th meeting.

    See you next week

    Olivier

    On 4/19/26 17:42, Patrick Durusau via OASIS wrote:
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    > Greetings!
    >
    > The agenda for our TC call on Monday, 2026-04-20
    >
    > Time of meeting:
    >
    > www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/... <https: www.timeanddate.com></https:>
    > worldclock/meetingdetails.html?
    > year=2026&month=4&day=20&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=25&p2=37>
    >
    > The call counts towards voter eligibility.
    >
    > In a web browser, at meeting time, load the following URL:
    >
    > meet.jit.si/moderated/... <https: meet.jit.si></https:>
    > moderated/4cae32628ad7bc11cebf38b633d7a7a66c7981240894785fb969a8d5d5fed9fa>
    >
    > Chat room for meeting is at webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/odf
    >
    > ODF TC Holidays remaining:
    >
    > May 4th - Early May Bank Holiday
    >
    > May 25th - Memorial Day / Whit Monday / Spring Bank Holiday
    >
    > August 31st - Summer Bank Holiday
    >
    > September 7th - Labor Day
    >
    > October 12th - Columbus Day
    >
    > December 28 - Monday after Christmas
    >
    > Please send comments to the mailing list.
    >
    > 1. Dial-In, Roll Call, Determination of Quorum and Voting Rights
    >
    > 2. Motion (simple majority):
    >
    > Approve ODF TC Minutes for April 13, 2026
    >
    > groups.oasis-open.org/higherlogic/ws/public/... <https: groups.oasis-></https:>
    > open.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?
    > document_id=73281&wg_id=4bf06d41-79ad-4c58-9e8e-018dc7d05da8>
    >
    > 3. Action Items (from prior meetings)
    >
    > A. Patrick to email Rich Proposal_2026-03-25.pdf (On Sunday so no time
    > for Excel team to respond)
    >
    > B. Patrick (spreadsheet on INT conversion) - ongoing (question)
    >
    > C. Patrick (spreadsheet - semantics of FIELD) - ongoing
    >
    > 4. Motion (simple majority): Approve the Agenda
    >
    > 5. issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4201 <https: issues.oasis-></https:>
    > open.org/browse/OFFICE-4201> (continued)
    >
    > Regina has marked several issues as editorial and suggest the TC
    > can proceed without further comments from her
    >
    > Let's continue with the "editorial" comments.
    >
    > 6. Regina sent the following notes/suggestions on the INFO function:
    >
    > *****
    >
    > Arne's comments contain several remarks about the INFO function. I
    > think, we need to alter the INFO function. The INFO function has several
    > keywords for its parameter Category. They are marked as "Evaluators
    > shall support at least the following categories:".
    > The keywords are: directory, memavail, memused, numfile, osversion,
    > origin, recalc, release, system, totmem.
    > OOXML has the same keywords (18.17.7.168, ISO/IEC 29500-1:2016), but
    > even Excel do not support all of them, see [MS-OI29500].
    >
    > I suggest to change "shall" to "should". And I suggest to recommend,
    > that application should document what they result, to recieve better
    > compatibility. My suggestion for the TC is, to look at existing
    > applications, which keywords they actually support and what the
    > applications actually return. Here a start:
    >
    > * PlanMaker does not support the INFO function at all.
    >
    > * Apache OpenOffice
    > ** osversion: returns always "Windows (32-bit) NT 5.01" for
    > compatibility reasons
    > ** numfile: returns always 1 for compatibility reasons
    > ** recalc: returns localized term of either "Manual" or "Automatic"
    > according current formula recalutation mode.
    > ** release: returns a product identifier like "300m25(Build:9876)" or
    > "4116m3(Build:9816)"
    > ** system: returns "WNT", "LINUX" or "SOLARIS" according its help. I
    > cannot test other operating systems than Window 11.
    > ** other keywords are not supported and result in an error message
    > Err:502, which meams "invalid argument"
    >
    > * LibreOffice 26.2.2.2 (X86_64)
    > ** osversion: returns always "Windows (32-bit) NT 5.01" for
    > compatibility reasons
    > ** recalc: returns localized term (depending on UI language) of either
    > "Manual" or "Automatic" according current formula recalutation mode
    > ** release: returns the BuildID, e.g.
    > 1f77d10d6938fd34972958f64b2bcfa54f8b1ba5
    > ** system: returns ANDROID, DRAGONFLY, EMSCRIPTEN, FREEBSD, OPENBSD,
    > NETBSD, HAIKU, iOS, LINUX, MACOSX, SOLARIS, WNT according its help
    > ** other keywords are not supported and result in #N/A
    >
    > ODF 1.4 says, "Evaluators may support other categories."
    > Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice do not support other categories. Excel
    > might support other categories. I do not see those in its help, but
    > [MS-OI29500] mentions some.
    >
    > To help us make our decision, it might be useful to learn more about
    > other applications, such as those listed on Wikipedia. Perhaps some
    > members of the TC would be willing to review some of these applications?
    > I have attached a file using the categories of the standard.
    >
    > We might need a JIRA-issue for the INFO function.
    >
    > *****
    >
    > 7. Adjournment
    >
    > Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!
    >
    > Patrick
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  • 3.  RE: Draft Agenda for ODF TC Teleconference on 20 April 2026

    Posted 04-20-2026 11:56
    Thanks! You will be missed! Like the picture!

    Hope you have a great week!

    Patrick

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    > Exceptionally, because of an unexpected agenda, I'll have to skip this
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    > Monday 20th meeting.
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    > See you next week
    >
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    >
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  • 4.  RE: Draft Agenda for ODF TC Teleconference on 20 April 2026

    Posted 04-20-2026 11:59
    Hi Patrick and All, unfortunately I have an unexpected conflict this morning and will also miss today. 
    Thanks,
    Rich