agreed
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
> From: "Piers Taylor" <apachedev@2vu.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:52:53 +0100
> To: "POI Developers List" <poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Leaving POI
>
>> Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF.
>
> Good idea - I've been reviewing the position while
> preparing PATCH http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30235
> and believe we need to come up with a core fetures list
> with code examples. Then I would hope that HWPF could emerge
> from scratchpad and get more users and hopefully developers.
>
> I am keen to see Ryan's article that he refers to in his
> post http://www.mail-archive.com/poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg08390.html
>
>> ... An article that Avik and I wrote will be appearing in the August
>> issue of Java Developer's Journal and it covers the capabilities
>> of the existing codebase of HWPF in CVS. ...
>
> From this I think we should gather some opinion as to the
> "must have's" and then work from there.
>
> Comments welcome!
>
> Best regards all,
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
> Sent: 20 July 2004 17:49
> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>
>
> Excellent. Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Where to best
> focus the development effort.
> --
> Andrew C. Oliver
> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>
> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
> definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
> general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
> everything espoused in the above email.
>
>> From: "Koundinya \(Sudhakar Chavali\)" <sudhakar_koundinya@yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
>> To: POI Developers List <poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Subject: RE: Leaving POI
>>
>> Congratulations Ryan,
>>
>> You have done a great work for this open source API,
>>
>> Regards
>> Sudhakar
>>
>> Oliver,
>>
>> Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I
> would
>> like to join your
>> team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I
> am
>> in working with
>> different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of
> existing
>> POI in short period.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> sudhakar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Piers Taylor <apachedev@2vu.com> wrote:
>>> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable
>>> in the development of the Office integration work I did for
>>> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job!
>>>
>>> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently
>>> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch).
>>>
>>>> unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)...
>>>
>>> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently
>>> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Piers
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: acoliver@apache.org [mailto:acoliver@apache.org]
>>> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07
>>> To: poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org; poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: Leaving POI
>>>
>>>
>>> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way
> to
>>> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD
> license
>>> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you
> is
>>> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been
> LGPL
>>> or even GPL.
>>>
>>> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not
>>> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain
>>> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to.
>>>
>>> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you.
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>>> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone
> steps
>>> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up
> to
>>> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking.
>>> --
>>> Andrew C. Oliver
>>> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
>>> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
>>>
>>> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
>>> For Java and Excel, Got POI?
>>>
>>>
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>>
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> Bernard
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