Yes, we can do this. It must be marked in anyway. But the situation is more complex. AOO now suffer because users can not get functionality as they had before. If this extension is important for users work, why should someone think that user will stay on AOO? Next, there is also a bad marketnig for AOO, see http://www.dmaths.org/documentation/doku.php?id=presentation:enThe message is clear: live AOO because nothing works there. To be honest, we create this situation, not users. At list, we must try to somehow fix this by pushing authors of extensions to make necessery changes, or, if it is possible, that we made some improvement in our code and fix this problem.
Regards, Wlada 2013/10/25 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > On 10/25/13 11:30 AM, janI wrote: > > On 25 October 2013 11:15, Vladislav Stevanovic < > > stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 2013/10/25 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > >> > >>> > >>> we can simply define a rule that unmaintained extension will be removed > >>> when the owner doesn't reply on mail requests. > >>> > >>> That means we can send a mail to the owner and if he doesn't reply at > >>> all or is not willing to add these information, we remove the > extensions > >>> completely. > >>> > >> > >> That is my opinion too, but you have people who still using previous > >> version of AOO or Ooo. We must have solution and for those people. > Maybe we > >> can do this in a few stages: > >> 1) We can marked all old extensions as incompatible for AOO4.0. In the > same > >> time, we will sent meil to the authors of this extensions with request > to > >> make changes for compatibility for AOO 4.0. in next 6 months. After that > >> period, if job is not done, we will remove this extensions. > >> > > +1 > > why should we make more noise than necessary, we should mark only > extensions where we know that they don't work > > Juergen > > > > >> 2) Inside this period of 6 months, we will improved filter option for > >> searching by version of Oo. On every page on this site there will be > notice > >> that old extension will be completely removed in the end of 6 month. > >> (second option will be: removed in other place, something like > backstage; > >> it will not be visible in the regular pages like it is now). > >> > > > > Can we not do something so that user will normally only "see" 4.0 > > compatible packages ? > > > > maybe put non-compatible extensions in a archive section, just an idea. > > > > If we just filter people searching might not see an extension if the name > > changed (like pdf). > > > > > >> 3) After 6 months, we will sent mail to the authors of extension again > that > >> we can offer another 7 days to do this changes, if not, we will remove > (or > >> move in some other place) this extension. In the mail, we can also say > that > >> we will be happy to see this changes, to keep this known extension in > live. > >> But, if that not happens, we will calling our community to make new > version > >> for AOO4.0. because it is our obligations to ensure the availability of > all > >> existing features. > >> > > I would do the move (not remove) without any further delay. > > > > rgds > > jan I. > > > > > >> > >> Comment, please? > >> Regards, > >> Wlada > >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
