Development at a Glance - Weekly Update CW11

Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 11.

IN FOCUS

Google Summer of Code 2008

We are going to prepare our participation in Google Summer of Code 2008. Please find the proposals here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2008/proposals

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

CALC
http://sc.openoffice.org/
- Started:
  - Clipboard/AutoFill with filtered rows
- Ongoing:
- Finished:
  - OpenDocument formula implementation: Function Wizard
CHART
http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html
- Started:
  - -
- Ongoing:
  - Multiple color lists
- Finished:
  - Errorbars from cell ranges
DATABASE
http://dba.openoffice.org/
- Started:
  - Sun Report Builder: Charts: output in spreadsheet report
  - Sun Report Builder: Charts: in-place editing
  - Introduce logging mechanisms in the report wizard
  - Fix multiple issues with controls in a Multi-Layout Writer
- Ongoing:
- Finished:
  - Sun Report Builder: Charts: filling with data
IMPRESS, DRAW & GRAPHIC SYSTEM LAYER
http://graphics.openoffice.org/
http://gsl.openoffice.org/
WRITER, MATH & FRAMEWORK
http://sw.openoffice.org/
http://framework.openoffice.org/
- Started:
  - Changes for lists in ODF 1.2
- Ongoing:
  - XML: Support for RDFa and RDF XML meta data in ODF 1.2 documents
  - Writer: MS OOXML Import: Import of VML objects and OLE objects
  - Writer: Refactoring – separate core from layout
  - Framework: supporting CH2000 developers to integrate UOF-Filters
  - Framework: UI for adding, editing and deleting custom properties
  - Framework: Concurrent file access
- Finished:
  - Framework: Improvements of registration dialog
  - Framework: UI for selection of ODF version
  - Writer: Integration of t602 filter
  - Writer: Multiple page layout
  - Linguistic: Rework linguistic configuration to support multi-pathes and extensions for dictionaries
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:
  - -
- Ongoing Tasks:
  - OOo 3.0 SDK: Mac Port
  - OOo 64 bit Solaris SPARC Port: C++-Binary-UNO bridge: Implementation
  - Digital Signatures: Investigate mscrypto/NSS functionality/problems wrt handling of intermediate certificates
  - Extensions infrastructure: Extensible Help Step 2 : Support for tree files
  - OOo Vista Readiness: OOo 3.0 Tasks
  - Mac OS X Aqua port: Accessibility: Implementation
  - UNO API Tests as CWS “Ready for QA” criteria : Implementation
- Finished:
  - Extensions infrastructure: New Graphical User Interface for Extension Manager: Implementation
ODF / XML
http://xml.openoffice.org/
- Started:
  - -
- Ongoing:
  - ODF TC: Default Properties Values
  - OASIS ODF 1.2 Specification Document
- Finished:
  - -
ODF TOOLKIT
http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/
- Started:
  - -
- Ongoing:
  - Restructuring of OOo packages: Separation Core / Branding: three-layer Installation Sets for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org/other OOo based products
  - Restructuring of OOo packages: new package structure
  - ODF Toolkit, ODF DOM Implementation
- Finished:
  - -
VISUAL DESIGN
http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/
- Started:
  - -
- Ongoing:
  - OOo "development" flyer artwork
  - OOo "education" flyer artwork
  - New MimeType icon: OOo 3.0 Application
- Finished:
  - Design StartUp Dialog
  - Splash & About for OpenOffice.org 3.0
  - Specification of progress bar for OpenOffice.org 3.0
ALL TEAMS
- Started:
  - -
- Ongoing:
  - Patch evaluation and integration
  - Evaluation of requirements in Issuetracker
- Finished:
  - -

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Comments

Cristián Rojas said:

Where can I see the designs for the splash and about for OOo 3.0?

Posted by Cristián Rojas on March 13, 2008 at 01:06 AM CET #

Mathias Bauer said:

The schedule for the Writer/Framework team was the one from last week. I have corrected that.

Posted by Mathias Bauer on March 13, 2008 at 11:20 AM CET #

Contentfree said: [Trackback] Mitte letzten Jahres hat das OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee die Unterstützung von RDF für Metadaten in ODF 1.2 Dokumenten beschlossen (siehe PDF). Und diese Woche wurde damit begonnen dies in OpenOffice umzusetzen. Irgendwann kann ich also m...

Posted by Contentfree on March 14, 2008 at 09:13 AM CET #

Andrew Z said:

Cristián Rojas:
The new 3.0 splash screen is here:
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/change-remove-splash-screen.html

I'll see about posting the about dialog on a new post this week.

Posted by Andrew Z on March 18, 2008 at 02:24 PM CET #

Andrew Ziem said:

Cristián Rojas:
Here is the new 3.0 about dialog, splash screen, and several other new features:
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html

Posted by Andrew Ziem on March 19, 2008 at 07:19 PM CET #

Dieter Loeschky said:

please find the new splash screen and more details here:
http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_splash.html

Posted by Dieter Loeschky on March 26, 2008 at 08:25 AM CET #