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Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improve feature set to attract companies and refill the gap Sun/Oracle
and IBM left behind
2. New collaboration feature for companies needs further documentation,
performance testing (and be merged) to attract companies.
https://github.com/svanteschubert/odftoolkit/blob/odf-changes/README.md
3. Fulfil the 1.0 version
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Traction of new developers (esp. from companies) goes slow.
There had been repeated government sponsorship directly last winter:
https://prototypefund.de/project/documents-for-democracy/
and just started for this Winter on new feature sets:
https://prototypefund.de/project/papierloser-alltag/
How has the community developed since the last report?
New bug reports yet no new committers.
Presentation for HTML based real-time editors has been created and held
at LibreOffice Conference 2018 Tirana last week.
https://github.com/svanteschubert/odftoolkit/blob/odf-changes/LibOCon2018%20
%20-%20Interoperable%20Office%20Collaboration.pdf
Providing information on how to become an ODF application with the new
odf-change feature.
How has the project developed since the last report?
CKSource (developer of CKEdit5) have been visited, but yet without
commitment yet.
The documentation and performance (tests) of the ODF change
interoperability feature has been improved, but still ongoing.
His previous collaboration feature runs finally full-featured with
green regression tests on his GitHub fork and was not yet merged into the
main branch.
Merge needs to be done before October, so the new sponsorship can focus
on source code generation from the ODF XML grammar loaded into Graph
Database (Apache Tinkerpop).
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of the last release:
2017-04-10
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2017-08-02
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments: I agree with Dave's analysis although I did also pitch the
Labs as an idea, but that got no traction. Sad to see it go, but there
is no growth being shown.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher - Svante Schubert is the only active developer. I have been
having conversations with him on the future with a push towards
retirement.
It is possible the project could move to the TDF.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improve code generation from ODF XML grammar to reduce complexity
(sponsorship by German Government next Winter)
2. Attract more developers - (collaboration scheduled for the end of
October)
3. Fulfil the 1.0 version
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several bug reports yet no new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Svante Schubert won for a second time sponsorship by German government's
prototypefund.org for next Winter.
His previous collaboration feature runs finally full-featured with green
regression tests on his GitHub fork, and was not yet merged into the main
branch.
Merge needs to be done before October, so the new sponsorship can
focus on source code generation from the ODF XML grammar loaded into Graph
Database (Apache Tinkerpop).
Date of the last release:
2017-04-10
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2017-08-02 - Michael Stahl
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments:
The podling continues good development under Svante's guidance, but
is certainly lacking other committers. That said, there is an active
community with people responding to questions and comments on the mailing
list. I hope the move to Gitbox helps.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
ODF Toolkit has moved source code development to GitBox/GitHub. The website
remains in SVN as it is tied together with Apache CMS.
Given that this pooling has been in Incubation for seven years it is worth
considering retirement. Just yesterday there was a question about how ready
it is for production given that it has "-incubating" in the package names.
Dave Fisher
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Fulfil the 1.0 version - (collaboration scheduled for the end of March)
2. Attract more developers
3. Have frequent releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several bug reports but no new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Svante Schubert sponsorship by German government's prototypefund.org is
about to end, the new collaboration feature for the ODF Toolkit not yet on
GitHub.
Date of the last release:
2017-04-10
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2017-08-02
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments:
Slow going as ever, but I can't fault the effort put in by Svante. I
also have some interns hopefully looking at the website migration from
CMS in the near future.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd): Little overall project activity, but questions are
being answered on the user list. One mentor active on the mailing lists
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Fulfil the 1.0 version - (collaboration scheduled for end of March) 2.
Attract more developers 3. Have frequent releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report? No community
enhancements. Ongoing SVN to GIT transition, with read-only repository.
How has the project developed since the last report? Ongoing SVN to GIT
transition to improve visibility on GitHub and archive better mergeability for
feature branches. Svante Schubert continued sponsorship by German government's
prototypefund.org developing a new collaboration feature for the ODF Toolkit
till end of March.
Date of last release:
2017-04-10
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2017-08-02
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[x](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments:
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Attract more developers
2. Have frequent releases
3. Fulfil the 1.0 version
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Michael Stahl was voted as new committer/PMC member. Being OASIS ODF TC member and LibreOffice developer.
Patches had been provided by other new developers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Svante Schubert received sponsorship by German government prototype fund to develop a new collaboration feature for the ODF Toolkit within upcoming 6 months.
Developer vote has passed to move from SVN to GIT to improve visibility on GitHub and archive better mergeability for feature branches.
Date of last release:
2017-04-10
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2017-08-02
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments: Some positive steps this month, activity has certainly picked up and the SVN to Git swap will certainly help things. There were plenty of +1's on the mailing list to show people are watching, but gaining active members is clearly a struggle for the project. New PMC member will help that also.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Attract more developers
2. Have frequent releases
3. Fulfil the 1.0 version
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Patches had been provided by new developers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
After years, we finally made a new release our last supporting JDK6,
continuing on JDK 8 including new RDF feature.
We already received patches from developers we haven't known before, but
not yet sufficient patches to elect new committers.
We discussed ways to clean the code base for a 1.0 version of this project.
Finally, Svante Schubert is continuing to work on his branch for a major
collaboration feature, certainly to attract more developers.
Date of last release:
2017-04-10
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[x](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments: Slow but steady progress as usual. That said I know Svante has
some stuff up his sleeve for later this year to drive development further
which would hopefully attract new committers.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get companies backing up the project as part of a commercial story, to
get a long-term momentum
2. Do recurrent releases - some semi-automation would be helpful - for the
3rd party users
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How do we get people to test our release on the incubation list?
A general issue of the project is that it 'just' a toolkit of an office
file format, which in addition is far from leading the business market,
so likely never being used by the mass market - a very niche product.
Still, the toolkit seems to be working well for most common use cases, but
is repeatedly updated by developers on changes of the ODF, like Red Hat
developers enhancing the ODF validator as part of LibreOffice regression
tests (e.g. out-of-the-box running on http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/)
most often quite ahead of one of the international ODF Plugfests -
http://odfplugfest.org/2016-paris/programme/.
There are some game-changing features in the pipeline (e.g.
collaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and develop
the community.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We received with Tom Barber a new active Mentor
How has the project developed since the last report?
Update of documentation and bug fixing.
Our release candidate is currently on a vote on the general incubator list.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2015-10-05 - Damjan Jovanovic for Committer/PPMC
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments:
Svante is still pretty much the sole developer but there are people
testing and voting on releases. We'll ship this release and figure out
how best to market it once the IPMC signs off on the release.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get companies backing up the project as part of a commercial story, to
get a long-term momentum
2. Do recurrent releases - some semi-automation would be helpful - for the
3rd party users
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We have a lack of active mentors. Sam Ruby resigned due to switch of
personal focus. Mentors have not signed the past two reports, not answering
on direct mail. Overworked?
A general issue of the project is that it 'just' a toolkit of an office
file format, which in addition is far from leading on the business market,
so likely never being used by the mass market - a very niche product.
Still the toolkit seems to be working well for most common use cases, but
is repeatedly updated by developers on changes of the ODF, like Red Hat
developers enhancing the ODF validator as part of LibreOffice regression
tests (e.g. out-of-the-box running on http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/)
most often quite ahead of one of the international ODF Plugfests -
http://odfplugfest.org/2016-paris/programme/.
Since there are still some game changing features in the pipeline (e.g.
collaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and develop
the community but on the other hand the mentorship / infrastructure of the
project could be better, a decision needs to be made on the future.
How has the community developed since the last report?
A company stated their commitment to the ODF toolkit and works on
contribution to the project.
We are working on the next release including the fixes and planning a
follow-up release adding new features.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Problem with Windows build bots were solved.
Build tested with JDK 6 to 8 under Windows and Linux with JDK 8.
Preparing a release after a long time to allow newcomers to rely on
state-of-the-art features.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2013-06-22, just started one
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2015-10-05 - Damjan Jovanovic for Commiter/PPMC
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
Comments:
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Comments:
[X](odftoolkit) Tom Barber
Comments:
Clearly the project has some operational issues, both in active PMC
members and mentors. I'll work with Svante on trying to setup regular
releases and some marketing to try and attract new members and we'll
see where we go from there.
IPMC/Shepherd notes
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Attract more developers 2. Have frequent releases 3. Decide on possible ways to graduate Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? Patches had been provided from LibreOffice developers for the ODF validator. How has the project developed since the last report? Svante Schubert is working on the major collaboration feature, likely to attract more developers. He aims to get the basic updates in before the next release based on JDK6. The release is aimed to be before the ApacheCon EU and one release afterwards on JDK 8 including the feature. He will attent the ApacheCon EU to get in contact with people from the POI project in order to evaluate possible ways to graduate. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes: Nick Burch (nick) - hopefully the discussions at ApacheCon will let us formulate a plan for where the project should go, to bring back to the list, and hopefully get ODF Toolkit out of the incubator!
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Attract more developers 2. Have frequent releases 3. Decide on possible ways to graduate Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Not enough developer time for a new release in the summer. How has the community developed since the last report? Patches were being provided. How has the project developed since the last report? Several patches had been reviewed and applied, a new release is ongoing to update the JDK version and embrace new libraries. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes: Nick Burch: Project is in a bit of a limbo state at the moment. Really needs another release soon, then depending on interest that gets, either find the project a home (eg POI or Commons), or give up...
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Attract more developers 2. Have frequent releases 3. Decide on possible ways to graduate Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Not many developers are active currently. How has the community developed since the last report? Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues have been reported. How has the project developed since the last report? Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes: Nick Burch (nick): Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd suggest we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before deciding on what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for ever isn't an option!)
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community. 2. Develop a new release. 3. Plan for future iterations. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Still pretty quiet, but users are raising issues and new developers are submitting patches. How has the community developed since the last report? There are a growing number of interested users and developers. We need to maintain their interest and plan for future enhancements. How has the project developed since the last report? A number of tickets have been resolved and a new release is being prepared, aiming for mid year or earlier. There are Java version issues to be addressed first. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes: Nick Burch (nick): It's a shame that the large amount of private work done can't be contributed back to the project, as that could've been a big help. We are seeing activity again, and the work towards a release which could help grow interest. More committers are needed, but no strong candidates are currently visible, so outreach work is needed. Despite these issues, the project certainly deserves another 3 months to see if they can turn the corner.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents Shepherd/Mentor notes: Rob Weir (robweir): No report submitted, though I did remind the PPMC. I sense some "report fatigue" since they missed the July report deadline, submitted then in time for August, but lacked a mentor sign off, and then submitted again in September and did get sign off. Drew Farris (drew): Kudos to robweir activity as a mentor, however this project could use another mentor. Generally little traffic or activity. Nick Burch (nick): Project has recently added a committer, which is good, but otherwise the level of activity remains too low. I've heard rumours of development happening in private elsewhere, but unless that effort returns to the project and activity improves, I think we're going to have to look at admitting defeat and retiring the podling soon.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community 2. Generate additional releases 3. Encourage community engagement beyond Jira Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Lack of mentor sign-off on August 2015 report. How has the community developed since the last report? Received+applied patches from new contributor. How has the project developed since the last report? Most activity via Jira (12 active issues since May 2015) Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir Shepherd/Mentor notes: John D. Ament (johndament): The podling is not very active but is thriving. There appears to be a tight community behind it. It may help the podling to bring in some new mentors to keep things moving. Potential new contributors have begun discussing on the mailing lists, so we'll see how they grow.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community 2. Generate additional releases 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? Very quiet. How has the community developed since the last report? No new committers. New tickets have been raised by interested users. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes:
This report is a catch up from last month which we missed.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project, or move to the attic.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing new, very quiet. But we are not dead yet :-)
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers, some minor activity re tickets in Jira
How has the project developed since the last report?
The latest release has been added as a Maven artifact in response to a
user request.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[X](ipmc) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd Notes:
Chris Mattmann:
- perhaps think about joining Apache POI and/or Tika?
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents Shepherd/Mentor notes: Justin Mclean (jmclean): Did not report. Low activity on the mailing list but code still being worked on, some discussion about graduation but community seems to be lacking motivation to do so. May need some help. Chris Mattmann: * report missing?
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project, or move to the attic.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No new.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have made a release but there has been little activity since then.
We still need to attract more members and publicizing the project in the
ODF.
Our validator was used on the ODF Plugfest, ahead a patch was provided by
a new contributor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Update of ODF validator before the ODF Plugfest (London).
There have been some user issues reported and responded to.
ODF Toolkit part of presentation on the Apache Con Europe.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Additional mentor comments (from robweir) here:
http://s.apache.org/bUW
(Tim Chen)
It seems like the project is active in release and code (towards the low
activity side). However the mailing list traffic and engagement has decreased
overtime and the dev list even with jira notifications is still very low
traffic.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community in terms of committers 2. Have regular releases 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing project, or move to the attic. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We've been discussing moving the project to the attic. What little discussion there has been on this was generally against the idea. Disussions are ongoing. How has the community developed since the last report? We have made a release but there has been little activity since then. We need to attract more members and publicizing the project in the ODF Plugfest was suggested as a means of doing so. How has the project developed since the last report? There have been some user issues reported and responded to. Some new problems reported, no fixes applied yet. Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [x](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd/Mentor notes: There were talks on the list about retirement, due to lack of participation. It seems to have stirred up some new interest, so we'll need to continue to monitor.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community in terms of committers 2. Have regular releases 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing project Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably conduct a release vote. How has the project developed since the last report? 2014-06-02 - ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating available Date of last release: 2014-06-02 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov [x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community in terms of committers 2. Have regular releases 3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing project Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? We've been struggling to get 3 +1 IPMC votes for our latest release candidate. We're stuck at two +1 votes. How has the community developed since the last report? We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably conduct a release vote. How has the project developed since the last report? We've been trying to get a release out since February 11th. Date of last release: 2013-06-22 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-10-29 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
-
How has the community developed since the last report?
We received patches and issue reports from users, but no new developers.
We're discussing on our dev list an initiative to take advantage of our
next release to publicize the project and attract new developers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Minor issues have been fixed. We are also working on an adapter for the
POI API that is not yet committed but will be soon. We are planning to
have a release this month.
Date of last release:
2013-06-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John Ament (johndament):
ODF Toolkit has been incubating for a long time. Activity on their list
is in frequent, but active enough that it still is running. Considering
what the project is, I think the best resolution for this podling is to
graduate as a sub project under something like OpenOffice or POI.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents.
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers.
2. Address issues of too much code development happening outside of
Apache
3. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
It has recently been pointed out that the project status page on the
Incubator project site is out of date, we hope to update that shortly.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Higher feed-back from the users mailing list, but no new developers.
Discussion has started, but without much conclusion, of whether we should
aim for TLP status, or merge into an existing TLP with similar alignment,
such as POI or OpenOffice.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Clear unnecessary dependency from the Clarizza project.
Date of last release:
2013-06-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not for a long while...
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd notes:
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Report not filed in time for shepherd review.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers. 2. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? An uptick in activity related to our most-recent release, but no new developers. Discussion of whether we should aim for TLP status or merge into an existing TLP with similar alignment, such as POI or OpenOffice. How has the project developed since the last report? Succesful release of version 0.6 Date of last release: 2013-06-22 Signed-off-by: [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov Shepherd notes: adc: The report seems pretty accurate.
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers. 2. Successfully complete another podling release. 3. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? No. How has the community developed since the last report? No new committers added. We stalled in our 0.6 release plans when our Release Manager left due to changing work commitments. A new Release Manager stepped forward and we're currently voting on a new Release Candidate. There has also been some discussion of whether we will ever become large enough to sustain a TLP, and whether it would make more sense to move the code into an existing TLP, e.g., OpenOffice or POI, both of which are related technologies. How has the project developed since the last report? Completed development work for 0.6 release. Along with the usual bug fixes, enhancements in this release include: * Added document encryption support * Added metadata support * Support for OpenDocument-v1.2 * Additional APIs for Simple API Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for ODF Toolkit. Signed-off-by: Sam Ruby: [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch: [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov: [ ](odftoolkit) Shepherd notes:
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. 2. 3. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? How has the community developed since the last report? How has the project developed since the last report? Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for ODF Toolkit. Signed-off-by: Sam Ruby: [ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch: [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov: [ ](odftoolkit) Shepherd notes:
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers. 2. Successfully complete another podling release. 3. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? - No. How has the community developed since the last report? - We have voted in two new committers/PPMC members. - We had a presentation at ApacheConEU on the ODF Toolkit How has the project developed since the last report? - Working on next release. Code freeze was end of December. A mix of new features and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Shepherd notes:
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. Our last release was January 14th, 2012. We voted in our most recent committer on September 27th, 2012. Most important issues to address: Growing the community, especially attracting new developers. Generally we'd be pleased to attract 2 or 3 additional active committers, have another release, and then we think we'd be well-positioned for graduation. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report: We successfully completed two GSoC projects. However neither led to longer term engagement with the project. We've seen an increase in incoming patches from users, and have a new active contributors. One was just voted in as a Committer/PPMC member. How has the project developed since the last report: Working on next release. Signed-off-by: bmargulies
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. Our last release was January 14th, 2012. We voted in our most recent committer on November 16th, 2011. Most important issues to address: Growing the community, especially attracting new developers Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report: - We are mentoring two GSoC students on ODF- Toolkit related projects - One of our leading developers has had a job change and is no longer involved with the project - Considering content-related track at ApacheCon, perhaps with other related projects like OpenOffice and POI How has the project developed since the last report: Working on next release, to feature the new document encryption support Signed off by mentor: Shepherd: Ross Gardler
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. Most important issues to address. - Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of - None at this time. How has the community developed since the last report - We have two GSoC mentors and two proposals and are discussing these with students. - Most recent new committer was voted in November 16th, 2011 How has the project developed since the last report. - We did our first, successful podling release on January 12th - Researched new crypto reporting requirements in preparation for checking in encryption/digital signature support. - Working on next release, to feature the new crypto support, for later this Spring. Signed off by mentor: nick
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. * ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. * Most important issues to address. 1) Successful podling release. 2) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of None at this time. * How has the community developed since the last report We have a new committer: Oliver Rau. * How has the project developed since the last report. 1) With the help of mentor, Jenkins support for the build is ready. 2) We are voting for the candidate (RC7) of the first release.
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. * ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. * Most important issues to address. 1) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers 2) Technical migration from the ODF Toolkit Union to Apache infrastructure, including code repository, website, bugzilla and wiki. 5) Successful podling release. * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of None at this time. * How has the community developed since the last report The mailing lists are ready now for 23 days. We have 37 subscribers. We invited the existing users to this new community and are trying to attract more new people join us. This should be easier once we have code in the repository. * How has the project developed since the last report. Requests are in queue with Apache Infra for loading the code repository and the issue tracker. 70% website and wiki migration work has been done.
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. * ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. * Most important issues to address. 1) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers 2) Technical migration from the ODF Toolkit Union to Apache infrastructure, including code repository, website, bugzilla and wiki. 5) Successful podling release. * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of None at this time. * How has the community developed since the last report The mailing lists are ready now for 23 days. We have 37 subscribers. We invited the existing users to this new community and are trying to attract more new people join us. This should be easier once we have code in the repository. * How has the project developed since the last report. Requests are in queue with Apache Infra for loading the code repostiory and the issue tracker. 70% website and wiki migration work has been done.
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is lightweight and ideal for server use. * ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011. * Most important issues to address. 1) Moving the community from the ODF Toolkit Union to Apache and learning the Apache Way 2) Growing the community, increasing diversity of committers 3) Grants for the transfer of existing code, documentation etc to Apache 4) Migration of existing things to Apache infrastructure, including code repository, website, mailing list, bugzilla and wiki. 5) Successful podling release. * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of None at this time. * How has the community developed since the last report Just getting started. After mailing lists are ready (INFRA-3809), we will start to discuss migration and new release. At the same time, we will invite the existing users to this new community and try to attract more new people join us. * How has the project developed since the last report. None at this time. Just getting started.