[Open Office] OOo Status digest issue #5 - June 4th 2007

[Hubert Figuiere]

This is the weekly status digest of what the Novell
OpenOffice team is up to. It will relate changes made to OpenOffice
(ooo-build or upstream) and list important work in progress.

Week May-28 to June-3 2007:

- Jody Goldberg left the team Friday. He shall be missed.

- Petr updated ooo-build trunk to use the latest version 5.5.0.10 of
lp_solve. You have to put the new tarball in ooo-build/src. It should be
enough to run ooo-build/download. You can also get it at
        http://go-oo.org/packages/SRC680/lp_solve_5.5.0.10_source.tar.gz

- Started migrating go-oo.org to a new ISP. Should be better in the
future.

- created --enable-separate-helpcontent configure switch that suppresses
helpcontent2 build & creates help.ins installation file so that we can
build & install helpcontent2 later as noarch for oo-build

- more XRange work http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Range_Object
Should be complete now.

- Michael Meeks interview on TuxDeluxe: http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/184



Still In progress:

- evaluating the use of git as a version control system for OpenOffice.
Main obstacle: windows.
- OpenXML import / export (Excel and PowerPoint) in the xmlfilter02 CWS:
the PPTX importer now import text with basic styling. On the Excel side,
AutoFilter import is going forward.
- OpenXML (Word) in the writerfilter2 CWS: styles and header/footer are
the current task.
- More VBA support (npower7 and npower8 CWS)
- SoC mentored by Michael for the new GUI layout code.
- SoC mentored by Jan (kendy) for the SVG import.