Re: Request to be maintainer of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Progi1984 <progi1984@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package seems to be orphaned. > The last release is well over 3 years old.And there didn't seem to be > any SVN activity since 2 years. And the actual maintainer is inactive. > > As web developer in a French company, I use pear every day for the > development of Intranet. I would like to contribute to pear, and more > particularly Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer. Actually, i began fixing bug > one after another. > It's actually a quite complicated package which is several versions out of date from the original perl version, with poor documentation (ie; the specs from microsoft are incomplete); so I would discourage you from looking after it all by yourself! If you are really interested, it might be worth looking at alternatives - ie, http://pear.php.net/package/opendocument is our current best hope. That being said, do you have a few samples of code you are particularly proud of? Or are there any packages you use at work you'd be interested in participating in?