From koffice-devel Thu Mar 26 18:52:49 2009 From: Per Hermansson Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:52:49 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: GSoC: support for versioned OpenDocument files. Message-Id: <49CBCF01.8090001 () bredband ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=123809374617720 Hi all KOffice users and developers! My name is Per Hermansson and I'm a student from the Royal institute of technology in Sweden. I've recently switched to KDE and started to use KOffice my thought is that participating in the community seems like the next step to take. One of the KOffice ideas that interested me the most is about adding support for versioned OpenDocument files (see http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas#KOffice). After some investigation I've come up with the following initial questions about the idea: Since KSpread has full support for versioned files I guess that KWord and KPrsenter are next in mind, is their any other applications that would benefit from versioned file support? The pre-requisite mentions excellent English reading skills but also that this feature is not documented in the OpenDocument specification so I'm just curious about the intention behind the requisites. From what I understand, the ability to understand (or reverse engineer the OpenOffice the implementation) is more important aspect? When implementing this feature would it be better to make it into an add-on instead of the integrating it in the main distribution? Final question is that the idea doesn't have a mentor, is it possible to find one here on the list, or what is the best strategy to find one here? /Per _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel