Well in the begining it wasn't. It was a stupid policy and they backpedal.
The theory is that OOoMath and other OOo sites were zombie sites (and I
think they still are some. So they want to consolidate OOo services and
ignore the rest. OOoAuthors was in a gray area for a long time. Most
people were saying why they dont have it in documentation but the lead of
the documentation project wasn't very active and in the end it was merge
as a subproject of the Documentation project once the new lead came
forward.
That was 2003-2004 I think.
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:27:51 -0600, Andreas Mantke <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jean,
Am Thursday 08 January 2009 06:20:45 schrieb Jean Hollis Weber:
Quote from "OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian Knot"
by
Bruce Byfield
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3794611_1
"Perhaps the greatest community success has been OOoAuthors -- and it
had
to organize independently before it was recognized as a useful
contribution
to the main project."
(Read the article for the context.)
if I remember correctly the main reason to create OOoAuthors was the
framework
of Collabnet. I don't know if there are currently any contributors to
OOoAuthors which are not members of the community. I don't remember
authors
of the german section of OOoAuthors which are not members of the
de-project
of OOo. We put every translated or new howto (etc.) of the german
section of
OOoAuthors into the OOo cvs (de sector).
I think OOoAuthors is and should be a part of the OOo project.
Regards,
Andreas
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
