On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Donald Harbison <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Just noticed that we hit the 30 million download mark for AOO 3.4 on >> December 22nd. >> >> That is a nice, round number. Maybe we should do a year end blog >> post, summarizing our achievements in 2012? >> >> Any ideas for content? >> > > A nice timeline of achievements is always good, plus a simple line chart > showing community growth and vitality. > > And, most important, forward looking content describing our goals for 2013.
Along this line, here what we plan to deliver for Extensions and Templates sites by the end of February: 1) Platform and Content Migration to Drupal 7. The two sites, now on Drupal 5 (unsupported) and Drupal 6, will be brought to the same platform. Common code will work on both sites without need to be adapted. This will bring improvements in performance, user experience and multilingual support. All users, passwords (if applicable) and content will be preserved during conversion. 2) Technical improvements. Automatic management of updates will be available on Extensions, to enable update notifications in OpenOffice. The site will export RSS feeds with new content. During the process we'll keep providing users support, including possible support to users who need to understand configuration changes. Also by the end of April we plan to work on the following items. 3) Search improvements. Search will be switched to an Apache Solr backend; this allows much faster search, autocomplete of search terms, "Did you mean" suggestions and "Saved searches" for each registered user. 4) Web 2.0 services. The sites will support RSS feeds to export specific searches (latest dictionaries, templates matching "curriculum") to other sites. New content will automatically be posted on dedicated Twitter channels. It will be possible to share on Facebook/Twitter each extension/template and to rate the content with the familiar 5-star widget. 5) Branding possibilities, replicated repositories. The sites can display different content and branding if called with different domain names (e.g., show only open source extensions when called as open.extensions.openoffice.org). The sites can also be easily replicated and reinstalled with full functionality (e.g., for a company-wide internal repository of extensions or templates). Let me know if you need more information. Roberto > I can help with this if you like. Will be back online later this afternoon. > > >> 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 releases, graduation, ApacheCon EU. >> >> Anything else we could highlight? >> >> -Rob >> -- ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
