Re: [office] ODF interoperability

[Jos van den Oever <jos.vanden.oever@logius.nl>]

I've put together of a list of some example pages on the server in 
development.

Comparing rendering of a document:
 https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/rendercompare/upload/47/86/75/1
 (more via https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/upload)

https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/test/7

The site includes a multilingual wiki. I hope this will make it possible 
to scale across language boundaries.

The source code is here:
   https://gitlab.com/odfplugfest/odfserver

The site include document validation and allows easy views inside the 
documents.
   https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/upload/10

Future plans are to have office-suite specific content, e.g. at
  https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/software/family/17
  https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/software/29

Cheers,
Jos


On 27-08-16 14:31, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The OASIS Open Document Format Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) TC
> [0] was active from September 2008 until October 2013.
>
> The OIC has stopped being active but the need to keep tabs on
> interoperablity persists. There are still interoperability events going
> on. For example, last year there was an ODF Plugfest that found a large
> set of interoperability issues and at the next LibreOffice meeting there
> is a special track on interoperability.
>
> The last report published by the OIC gives a good analysis of the
> different aspects of ODF interoperability and discusses a number of
> concrete issues, albeit without explicitly mentioning implementations [1].
>
> The OIC has published generally worded advisories for improvements in
> implementations and in the specification.
>
> I think that what is needed for ODF is concrete assesments of the
> conformance of specific implementations. Such assesment would lead to
> advisories to the implementations and/or the ODF TC. The assements would
> be supported by automatic and manual testing that is stored such that up
> to date progress reports are always available.
>
> The last ODF Plugfest in The Hague resulted in a long report [2] with
> many defects in implementations. Such reports are helpful to
> implementations in becoming more compliant. It also helps potential
> users of implementations to choose between implementations.
>
> Getting good coverage of the specification is a lot of work. This is why
> at Logius we have started the development of an online tool in
> collaboration with OpenDoc Society that takes the plugfest workflow
> online. It already features some interesting new tooling, such as a
> browser based editor for test documents that validates against our
> RelaxNG schema's. I would very much like to see this approach being
> coopted by a revived OIC. We believe the tool can make a valuable
> contribution to the work of the ODF TC, and a revived OIC would be very
> useful to help steer the direction of its development. The OIC would
> work on bringing the aspects of interoperability found in [1] to the
> website. My personal expertise is in writing the software to support the
> process.
>
> The software for this website is available under a FOSS license [3].
> We'd be happy to contribute the code to OASIS or host it for OASIS.
>
> Best regards,
> Jos van den Oever
>
> [0] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/oic
> [1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/oic/StateOfInterop/v2.0/
> [2] http://odfplugfest.org/2015-thehague/report.html
> [3] https://gitlab.com/odfplugfest/odfserver
>       live development version: https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/


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