On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 08:27 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > > WHat is this? I gather from your comments that the guide is proprietary. > > If this is the case then perhaps it is time for the OOo folk to think > > about having one of their own. Certainly an incentive for a project. > > Thanks. > > It seems that you don't know all the facts, so let me explain them to you. > > Jürgen is already working on this matter for quite some time. It takes > this time, for whatever reasons. Especially Jürgen is one of the > greatest advocates of open sourcing the DevGuide, but giving something > into open source is not just throwing it out and shouting "come and get > it".
Did I say anything about "come and get it¨? No. What I proposed was that this document could be handled in the doc project. > > I can understand that Jürgen is a little bit upset about Laurents > question because it was already answered several times, and the answer > always was: we (the authors) would like to open source it but it's not > that easy, please be patient. Actually I think he reacted so strongly to my comment on the component perhaps being incorrect. The doc project does not have the source for the document but the issue shows up in our queue. I thought that we might help. > > OTOH if anybody else wants to create a new DevGuide nobody will complain > against this (provided that its quality would be sufficient). We have no > commercial interest in the DevGuide. > You know this might not be a bad idea. I will ask to see if any are interested. What with the contest, I do not expect a swift response but who knows. > So please let's not discuss about something that probably won't happen > ever. Thanks. > Okay. Forget it was mentioned. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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