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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Separating OpenFormula from (the rest of) ODF 1.2
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, > > -- > Jesper Lund Stocholm > www.idippedut.dk > SC34/WG4 http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/wg4/ > > -- > This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the > OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC. > > In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and > to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required > before posting. > > Subscribe: office-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > Unsubscribe: office-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > List help: office-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org > List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/ > Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office >
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