On Sep 2, 2016 3:29 PM, "Jim Jagielski" <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > Yes, I would assume that many existing people would leave. > > But, as I mentioned, I would assume (hope) that many people > would join, and many of those would be from others in the > entire OO eco-system. > > Your reply seems to suggest that with the current status of AOO, > maintaining an end-user focus is possible. Current evidence, > unfortunately, makes that somewhat questionable.
Jim if you're paying attention, and I say if just because I know you have been out of touch recently, you can't have missed that a number of positive things HAPPENED here. So if you see people having confidence maybe it would be good to think twice and wonder if we might have reasons to think otherwise. > The current status-quo is untenable and unacceptable. Change > needs to happen. I suggested one route, nothing more, nothing > less. We are on the same page here, and if security issues (real ones) would be left uncovered it would be fine if you and/or the board will step in. In the meanwhile PLEASE let us work, and let's see if we can keep changing in the right direction. Thanks, Roberto > > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 8:52 AM, RA Stehmann <anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de> wrote: > > > > Am 02.09.2016 um 14:14 schrieb Jim Jagielski: > > > >> > >> What is obvious is that the AOO project cannot support, at the present > >> time, being an end-user focused effort. I would suggest we focus on not > >> being one, but instead being a framework or library that can be consumed > >> by actual end-user implementations. > >> > > > > If AOO is not an end-user focused project a lot of people will leave > > this community because they will be useless. People who are doing > > end-user support, who are doing end-user documentation and are doing > > what we call "marketing" etc. > > > > Also people, who build binaries are obsolet. Only coders will be needed > > and I don't know, whether all remained will stay under that conditions. > > > > I don't see a great difference between that way and a retirement. > > > > The first way might be the "Apache way", but it is definitely not the > > way for and of the OpenOffice community. > > > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > Kind regards > > Michael > > > > > > > > >
