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From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 00:33
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] White-Box Releases Only
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AOO will most likely have to change something in the sources, Corinthia can
benefit from that knowledge by not building it (not sure what "it" is
specifically) into the source.
I hope long term corinthia also get a product, but The product discussion
is a bit early.......as we say in denmark, lets crawl before we walk and
think about running.
<orcnote>
Generally, I think one has to think forward enough to do enough to
avoid future technical debt, but no more than that early on.
I have an example of one "it" with regard to GUI-present materials.
In many of the internationally-adaptable resources for dialog text
the titles of dialog/message boxes, the AOO default English strings
have a %PRODUCT parameter. Unfortunately, these default to having
"product"-specific settings in the source release. I would think
that the default should be product-indifferent, just as for the first-
run page with title "Welcome to OpenOffice 4.1.1" and its repetition
in the message. Likewise the Database Wizard dialog says "Welcome
to the OpenOffice Database Wizard" and so on.
Or don't identify the running code by a %PRODUCT in the default forms
of message titles and body text at all?
That still leaves other obvious cases are the "About" box and the
procedure that checks for updates, in their GUI and command-line
flavors.
Setting %PRODUCT to PRODUCT or DEFAULT or some other obvious example
would be an improvement for an unbranded build. Maybe WHITE-LABEL,
GENERIC or UNBRANDED? I fancy MUMBLE, though it might be a good
product name [;<).
For console applications there are similar places where identifiers
arise (--help responses, man pages, etc. There I think the
authenticity/integrity considerations apply more than brand identify-
cation concerns. I don't think the importance of code provenance is
going to be decreasing any time soon.
</orcnote>
rgds
jan i
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
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