[Open Office] OOo Status digest issue #6 - June 11th 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 June-4 to June-10 2007:

- CJK features (see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group)

- more EMF+ import

- created a cws-namespacefixes.diff (contains FastParser) extract for SoC

- qatesttool work

- released ooo-build-2.2.0.2 and ooo-build-2.1.16 (SuSE packages)

- wpg import: added support for importing of bitmap data inside WPG files

- lxr migration suspended for now.


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. 
- OpenXML (Word) in the writerfilter2 CWS.
- 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.