Re: status on File Formats::OpenDocument

Hello Greg and Gregory. I'm afraid that the tarball you have found is the latest available code for opendoc package. The project is not orphaned, although there is low activity in it. Unfortunately, I'm being so busy with finishing my senior year at college and doing my diploma work, and I have so little time I can devote to my opendoc project. I will be very happy if someone joins the project and I hopefully will be able to get back to package as soon as possible. Greg (Rundlett), I will be very pleased if you join as a lead developer, just as Gregory (Beaver) pointed in his email, and I will be open to discussion and can provide you any information you need to start development. Regarding the http://opendocumentphp.org - I guess it's a new project, that was started later than I had begun my work on opendoc. I will take a look at it, it seems to be an interesting initiative. On 3/6/07, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:

Greg Rundlett wrote: Hi Alexander, and PEAR dev I am the Manager of Technology Services at OASIS, and also a PHP developer. So, I've got some background and interest in your File Formats::OpenDocument package. In fact, I'm making a presentation [2] to the BostonPHP [1] group next month about using PHP to read/write ODF files. I'm not able to read your website and I'm looking to find out more about the status of the project. Is the package under active development? It appears from the list archive that there hasn't been activity since the vote in August http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.php.pear.devel&query=opendocument Is it installable via PEAR? What is the best way to get the code? From the PEPR proposal (http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=439) I found a link where I could download the 0.1.0 tarball. Is this the most recent tested/stable source? I also checked out the CVS source. It seems that the CVS code is slightly newer (as expected). pear install OpenDocument errors out. Are you accepting volunteers to assist with the development? Hi Greg, Alexander, If I might step in, we strongly encourage all packages to have 2 or more lead developers, and OpenDocument has only 1. I notice that there has been zero activity for 6 months. I think it might be a good time to ask whether this package is orphaned? Either way, it would be very good to have another foot in the door. Greg: to get started, if there are missing features or bugs that you have found, please open bugs at the bug tracker http://pear.php.net/bugs/report.php?package=OpenDocument and as of today, you can also attach patches to the bug report. As PEAR functions on a system similar to meritocracy, once your work adds up to a critical mass, direct CVS commit access is granted. In terms of liaising with the other project at sf, if you have the time and energy to coordinate with them and pool efforts here, that would be extremely useful as well. Warm bodies are always appreciated. :) As always, ask here if you have further questions on getting started. Thanks, Greg

-- best regards, Alexander Pak