[Open Office] OOo Status digest issue #4 - May 28 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-21 to May-27 2007:

- TextGrid in a CWS to be reviewed by Sun....
- Work on EMF+ import has started
- Misc fix to allow building without STLPort
- libwpg now build on Windows


Major upstream changes (Sun):
- chart2 has been integrated for m213
- Sun is starting to collect a feature list for 2.4 and 3.0:
  http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features


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