On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton < dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:30 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO > > > > On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > I think that is the case because downstream producers, who get the support > business, contribute to their upstream framework or source-code distributor. > > What indication is there that any of that is working for Apache > OpenOffice? Maybe if we stopped shipping binaries? How would that work > for the individuals who seem to dominate our download consumption? Since the "downstream" producers seem better equipped to deliver signed and vulnerability-corrected binaries to non-specialist consumers on a timely schedule, maybe delegating downloads to them would be a good option for the project? S.
