This blog post was just brought to my attention, <https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/08/17/an-open-letter-to-apache-foundation-and-apache-openoffice-team/>. From my perspective, the Apache OpenOffice team is found in this dev@ community, where the committers and the PMC are successive subsets that are able to act in various ways based on exclusively-volunteer efforts. Please keep that in mind.
It is important to read the comments there. If one has further questions or comments of Christian Schaller or the other commenters, please make them there, not here. I have heard the proposal expressed by Christian Schaller from others as well. I also notice that the facts of the matter are distorted in the retellings. The comments on that blog by Apache Software Foundation Director and AOO PMC member Jim [Jagielski] provide important counterbalance. The history of the splits from OpenOffice.org and the establishment of Apache OpenOffice is long past (in Internet terms). There are no do-overs and today's situation is what it is. The question for the project is, as always, ways to move forward. It is a question that we are continuously asking ourselves on the Project Management Committee and it needs to be considered in the broad community as well. Constructive suggestions and requests for any factual details are welcome here. - Dennis FURTHER OBSERVATIONS I find the proposal by Schaller and some commenters to be simplistic. I find them unworkable (or silly, such as coming up with an external petition) in terms of addressing the needs of stakeholders in what Apache OpenOffice supplies. There must be serious consideration of support to downstream developers (not so prevalent) and the extensive dependence of users (very significant with 80% of them using Windows). The dependence on resources and volunteer services provided by the Apache OpenOffice project must not be treated lightly. At the same time it is important for us, here, to look at what the sustaining capacity of the project is, and how to employ it the most effectively. PLEASE: External perceptions can be important and the place to discuss them is where they are presented. For here, it is more valuable to discuss the actual state of AOO *as*such*, and only that, since it is all that we have anything to say about here. Constructive proposals with offers to work on them, based on our capabilities are what matter. Questions on what our capacities are and where the day-to-day attention is are also welcome. For facts, this is the place. For pontification and "why can't just ... " not so much. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
