[Open Office] OOo Status digest issue #3 - May 21 2007

[Hubert Figuiere]

[Sorry for the delay, Monday was holiday here in Canada, and I was out
of town.]

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-14 to May-20 2007:

- Florian submitted patch for CMYK JPEG support. This is a corner case
but it cause problems to some users: 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=272574
This is the kind of little things that makes big wins :-)
- Some progress in the unit test department:
The  following modules at least finish running the unit tests (not all
of them actually pass)
* salhelper
* registry
* idlc
* stoc
* cppu
* sal
The rest of the modules are failing to finish running all the tests.
Currently `dmake unittest` is being launched in the "test" dir of each
module.  All modules can be launched with a `dmake unittest` in the
oof680-m14 dir.  The unittest rule in this makefile simply has a bunch
of recipes that do this..
        `cd <module>/test && dmake unittest`


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.


Hub