Michiel Leenaars:
Would it be an idea to have a liaison between the Document Foundation and other projects such as Calligra, AbiWord/Gnumeric, with a named standards compliance person (and a fallback) within each project, which take care of monitoring and pushing fixes - given that breaking the standard is a severe thing that noone wants, and fixing such things is best done from the inside.
Hi Michiel, hm - I wonder why we'd need this extra ceremony. From what I can tell, the problem is not acknowledging the problem, but actually fixing it. I've personally addressed a bunch of interop things myself, if and when my time permitted it (and usually made fixing those a priority over other equally important tasks). If beyond that there are urgent issues in LibO that you, or the other ODF-processing FLOSS projects deem important, I think the most promising avenue to success is to motivate hackers to come & fix those. Or is there a recent example where not having such a role was causing much trouble? Of course, talking with you, Jos, Ben & others from those projects on how to improve ODF interop should happen nevertheless - but does take place, works nice & well, often & informally. :) Cheers, -- Thorsten
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