Re: How to add color scales to ODF?

On 15/05/12 16:59, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > So, what we could do is prepare two proposals, the clean incompatible
> > one and the ugly more compatible one ;-)  It's then up to the TC to
> > decide.
>
> I think this is a sensible approach.  However, given how slow the TC
> can be, I'm not sure if we can rely on them reaching a conclusion in
> time for 3.6 (my guess would be "no").  I would rather we pick one
> now, document it and use it. Then later when the TC decides what to do
> in the standard, we'll adopt to that.

seems unrealistic for 3.6, yes.

> I just don't want to set a dangerous precedent where an implementer
> has to wait for the (quite time-consuming and slow-going)
> standardization process in order to get a feature implemented.  I can
> see similar situations popping up in the future, and I don't want the
> standardization process to be the bottleneck.  Note that this is not
> to bash the standard committee being slow.  That process is slow for a
> reason, and it's probably better that way.  I'm just trying to avoid
> setting undesirable precedents for similar situations that we will
> undoubtedly encounter again.

the problem with doing that of course is that there is a high risk that
the ODF import will forever have to carry around ugly code to import
stuff that never made it into ODF.