Re: [odf-adoption] ODF Adoption TC Call - 17 July 2007 - Agenda

[Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>]

On Sunday 15 July 2007 15:14:36 Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> I should point out that the test suite is by no means a complete tool
> and that development efforts have stopped a while ago on this project.

Naturally, nobody was saying otherwise :)
I have to ask, Is that a reason to not use the results already obtained in 
the test suite?  The spec is still the same as when the tests were 
written.

> Let's pay attention to the documents and the results we are going to
> get with this...

There are quite a lot of places where the testsuite points out problems in 
loading of a example document; I found a really funny one where 
openoffice reads the following line;
 <style:paragraph-properties fo:line-height="2000"/>
as being 0.79 inch.

I have no idea how it reasons that 2000 equals that value; other 
implementations say that 2000 is in postscript points and a huge value 
(some 705 mm).  Using different units has different effects.
When I create a document that loads so majorly different in two 
applications, I think that is a good interoperability bug for this 
conference. Anyone agree?

These little problems are thus really easy to find and solve by going 
through the testsuite and finding the problems and fixing them in the 
office applications.

Can you guys give me a good reason why for this conference we should 
invent new test-documents instead of reusing the ones already created?

Bottom line is; I naturally don't object to creating new test documents at 
all. I just want to see OOo actually fix bugs. After all; the testsuite 
has been there for over a year and we found only 1 bug that has been 
fixed in OOo's ODF-loading code in that time.
If this is due to problems with the testsuite; lets tackle *that* problem 
instead of duplicating the effort.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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