On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, David B Teague sr wrote:
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:02:15 -0400
From: David B Teague sr <davidbtea...@comporium.net>
Reply-To: discuss@openoffice.org
To: discuss@openoffice.org
Subject: [discuss] Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to
ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org
On 9/5/2011 12:50 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Rob Weir wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:38:03 -0400
From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>
<SNIP>
Please note that, as part of the overall migration of OpenOffice.org
to Apache, this "discuss" list will be retired. New lists, hosted by
Apache, will be taking its place.
Why?
Hi Bret
You know that Oracle inherited OO.o by way of their purchase of SUN. Oracle
isn't going to provide support for OO.o as Sun did. They donated
OpenOffice.org source and trademarks to the Apache foundation and will end
their support for OO.o mailing lists and archives. There is far too much
valuable information that was and is being passed in these mailing lists to
let them and the archives just vanish. Apache will host new lists.
Warmest Regards
--David Teague--
-- nil significat nisi oscillat
do wop, do wop, do wop
Hello.
Thank you for that succinct explanation.
From that, it appears then, that Open Office will now be an Apache thing
(from Star Division to Sun to Oracle to Apache)?
I am not sure, but, from memory, it was the local Sun office, that gave
me the copy(/ies) of the discs for Star Office 5.2 or 5.3, which started
me on the journey (although, I still prefer Star Office 5.3, with all
the functionality it had :) ).
I would have thought, however, in the circumstances, that, for the sake
of transparency and convenience, Oracle would have similarly donated the
domain name registration, to Apache, which would then have been able to
host the Open Office mailing lists on its own servers, and, just changed
the domain name registration, including the nameservers, and thus have
had a fairly "seamless" transfer, with no need to change the mailing
lists, so, one day, the lists are hosted on one set of servers (Oracle?)
and the next day, the mailing lists are hosted on a different set of
servers (Apache foundation), thus, apart from possibly, a few hours at
the time of transference, no "visible" change need be apparent to lists
subscribers.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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