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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:44:59 -0000
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    1. Get companies backing up the project as part of a commercial story, =
to get a long-term momentum
    2. Do recurrent releases - some semi-automation would be helpful - for =
the 3rd party users
  =

- Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
- aware of?
  =

+ Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
+ aware of?
+ =

- There had been started the discussion on abortion of the project due to l=
ack of developers on the private odf and incubator list. =

+ A discussion has been started about the cancellation of the project due t=
o lack of developers on the private odf and incubator list. =

  A general issue of the project is that it 'just' a toolkit of an office f=
ile format, which in addition is far from leading on the business market, s=
o likely never being used by the mass market - a very niche product.
  Still the toolkit seems to be working well for most common use cases, but=
 is repeatedly updated by developers on changes of the ODF, like Red Hat de=
velopers enhancing the ODF validator as part of LibreOffice regression test=
s (e.g. out-of-the-box running on http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/) most o=
ften quite ahead of one of the international ODF Plugfests - http://odfplug=
fest.org/2016-paris/programme/. =

- As there is still heart beat and hope to change acceptance by the additio=
n of collaboration, why killing it now? =

- As there is little payload on mentorship and infrastructure for this proj=
ect.
+ Since there are still some game changing features in the pipeline (e.g. c=
ollaboration) which are expected to strengthen the acceptance and develop t=
he community but on the other hand the mentorship / infrastructure of the p=
roject could be better, a decision needs to be made on the future.
+ =

  =

  How has the community developed since the last report?
   =

  We clarified on the ApacheCon Europe that a merge with the Open-XChange f=
ork is
  possible, which extended the original sources still using AL2 and having =
done several releases with the new AL2 sources.
  So we are working on the next release including the fixes and planning a =
follow-up release adding new features.
- Those features should be able to attrack companies to back the project.
+ Those features should be able to attrackt companies to back the project.
  In addition, those will be used as reference implementation for the "OASI=
S Advanced Document Collaboration" subcommittee.
  =

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