Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 29.

IN FOCUS

OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US

“ On Friday July 13th, INCITS V1 met via teleconference for 3 hours but failed to reach a 2/3 consensus necessary to recommend an "Approval, with comments" position on Microsoft "Office Open XML" (OOXML) document specification. “

source: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

• CALC
  http://sc.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OOXML import filter

    • ODF formula specification

    • ODF formula implementation

    • Integrate locale data from OOo community

    • Moving of columns and rows

  • Finished:

    • -

• CHART
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo 2.3 bugfixing

  • Finished:

    • CWS chart07

• DATABASE
  http://dba.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Report Designer: ongoing bug fixing towards 2.3

  • Finished:

    • Make HSQLDB views sub/selecting from asterisks more standard conform, fixing issue 78296 this way

• IMPRESS, DRAW & GRAPHIC SYSTEM LAYER
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/
  http://gsl.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Mac PICT Filter enhancements for better Mac clipboard support

    • Professional Presenter Package => PresenterView implementation

    • OOXML import

    • Table suppport in Impress

    • Drawing layer primitives

    • Working on Aqua Port

    • ODF 1.2 Acessibility Features

    • Creating sophisticated UI for 'object move along path' effects

  • Finished:

    • -

• WRITER, MATH & FRAMEWORK
  http://sw.openoffice.org/
  http://framework.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Writer/Math/Framework: Evaluation of requirements in Issuetracker

    • Writer: OOXML Import: Tokenizing of shapes

    • Writer: OOXML Import: Mapping of table properties

    • Google Summer Of Code 2007: Defining requirements for an improved "notes" functionality

    • Writer: Make code warning free

    • Writer: improved language selection; language selection by switching keyboard language (Windows only)

    • Framework: Vista Readiness - new file dialog

  • Finished:

    • Framework: Implementation of Custom Handler for OLE embedding in COM clients

• PROGRAMMABILITY
  http://api.openoffice.org/
  http://extensions.openoffice.org/
  http://installation.openoffice.org/
  http://ucb.openoffice.org/
  http://udk.openoffice.org/
  http://util.openoffice.org/

  • Started Tasks:

    • Netbeans OOo API Plugin: feature implementation for version 1.1 ( details)

    • Extending UCB with HTTPS support

  • Ongoing Tasks:

    • Extensions infrastructure: Extendable OO.o Help System: Concept

    • Netbeans OOo API Plugin: bug fixes

    • SDK Tests: Transform manual tests to fully automatic tests

    • UNO API Tests: Make tests usable for every developer: Step 1: Put all currently failing testcases in the exception list of the respective CVS module

  • Finished:

    • Netbeans OOo API Plugin: Add support for “new” description.xml features (version, identifier, license, ...)

• ODF / XML
  http://xml.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • CWS XSLTFILTER08 for XML based filter

    • OASIS ODF Metadata SC proposal – Examples

    • ODF Specification enhancements: Metadata model

    • OASIS ODF 1.2 Specification Document

    • ODF 1.2 Specification enhancements: Formular

  • Finished:

    • -

• ODF TOOLKIT
  http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Graphical document model explorer (simple tree view)

  • Ongoing:

    • ODF4J: text documents: style handling (styles.xml and automatic styles)

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: Separation URE / Office (Windows / Mac OS)

    • UNO-API for ODF Toolkit: Study Use Cases

    • Package Restructuring, Extension Infrastructure: Use Delay-Loaded DLLs for Windows OOo DLLs

    • Google Summer of Code: Bug fixing and testing for AODL

    • AODL: Coordination of Chart implementation by CH2000 employees

  • Finished:

    • -

• VISUAL DESIGN
  http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Icon redesign – Galaxy project

    • New design for OOo extensions website

  • Finished:

    • Player buttons for Impress

• ALL TEAMS

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo bug fixing

    • Patch evaluation and integration

  • Finished:

    • -