Re: [office-comment] Separating OpenFormula from (the rest of) ODF 1.2

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Jesper Lund Stocholm <4a4553504552@gmail.com> wrote on 05/11/2009 03:40:38 
PM:

> Dear ODF TC,
> 
> While reading Doug Mahugh's blog post about ODF Spreadsheet interop, I
> noticed this sentence:
> 
> "According to recent discussions in the ODF TC, we may send the other
> parts of ODF 1.2 out for public review first, to allow more time to
> finish up Open Formula"
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/05/odf-spreadsheet-
> interoperability.aspx
> 
> I have been digging through the meeting minutes from your TC
> Coordination call minutes, but I haven't been able to find further
> information in those to verify this nor provide addtional information
> to the reasoning behind this decision.
> 
> Can you confirm that you are actively considering this approach?
> 

Yes, this is true.

> If this is so, I'd strongly encourage you to reconsider this. ODF 1.2
> needs OpenFormula and I'd much rather wait for a "complete package"
> than ODF 1.2 with delayed formula specification - especially because
> that leaves a door open for OpenFormula never making it into ODF 1.2
> before it is approved within OASIS.
> 

The idea is still to release ODF 1.2 as a single time, with all parts 
together.  But we may decide to send the individual parts to public review 
as soon as they are ready.  That would allow us to hold a 60-day public 
review on one part while still editing another part. 
 
-Rob


> I hope you will take this into consideration,
> 
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