Hi Igor, On 15.07.2011 02:38, Igor Belogorodsky wrote:
> There are some question I'd like to ask > > 1. It's been announced that OpenOffice project was donated to Apache > Software Foundation as incubator project. > what does it exactly mean? will there be a new website and they said > that they'll be moving the source code somewhere on the Apache side. > does this mean there will be a new way of accessing the openoffice.org? Two questions, two answers: Yes. Yes. > 2. I'm a seasonal programmer and I'd like to contribute. The > documentation for getting the source and start programming is too much > confusing. > There are multiple applications with little documentation or too much > written and nothing to the point. > First of all, I have Windows system and don't have any other choice. > Second, the documentation is written in genetic format, of variety of > platforms at the same time and is very confusing. Are you referring to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide I don't think that this documentation is too much or "not to the point". But I would be interested to see where it is can be improved. > What I would like to see is something straight to the point: a. this is > Windows, this is how you do it. b. this is Linix, this is how you do it > etc. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide IMHO is exactly this. > 3. I've installed the free software necessary to access the code and > compile, debug etc. I is very difficult to configure. A lot of > different pices working together. > I downloaded MinGW, Mercurial, some other things. I don't know what to > do with it. I spend hours just to figure something out. I don't think > it's efficient enough. You don't need mingw, you should use Visual Studio. There is a free version (free as in "free beer"). The mingw build indeed is very slow and complicated. > 4. anyway, what's happening to the project (question 1 again) > I'd like to see better wiki and clearer documentation and better > organized. Somebody has to do it. If you want to get better documentation, you are welcome to help. Please send suggestions for improvement. IMHO using the mailing list ooo-...@incubator.apache.org for this would be better, but we can do it here also if you prefer that. Best regards, Mathias -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help