| Martin Jansen 2007-01-17, 6:59 pm |
| On Mon Jan 15, 2007 at 01:3528PM +0100, Christian Schmidt wrote:
> It appears that the OLE package has been orphaned. The package only has=
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> a single open bug, but the bug has been open for almost a year without=20
> any activity, even though it is simple to fix, and a patch has been=20
> available since 28 December.
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> In July 2006 I wrote to the maintainer, Xavier Noguer, who is also the=20
> maintainer Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer, about a bug in that package, but I=
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> never got a reply. I then emailed the other maintainer of=20
> Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer, Mika Tuupola, and he helped me check in a=20
> patch (even though he mentioned that he is only a helper on the=20
> package). Since the OLE package and the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer=20
> packages are related, I asked Mika when he would help me committing a=20
> fix for the bug in OLE on December 29, but so far I haven't heard from hi=
m.
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> I also emailed Helgi =DEormar, because he had committed some minor change=
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> to the OLE package, but he also declined to help.
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> So I think that the OLE package needs a new maintainer. If you don't=20
> have other candidates, I am willing to step up. The OLE format appears=20
> to reasonably documented, so it should be possible to fix bugs by=20
> reading the specs (I have read the spec in order to add some=20
> functionality needed when reading spreadsheets).
Christian,
I'm copying this mail to pear-qa@lists.php.net, which is the place to
handle such issues.
> In the future, I may be interested in helping with=20
> Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
That would be great. The package definitely needs some love.
- Martin
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