On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:08 -0300, Jomar Silva wrote: > Hi, > > There is some discussion going on at the Apache OOo mail list > regarding the place to host extensions > (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/). > > It seems that the current hosting of extensions is facing some > problems, and it will be great if we find a new (and common) home for > the extensions, in a way that both Apache OOo and LibreOffice could > use as a shared extensions repository.
Hi Jomar, hmmm - that is assuming that the two separate projects will maintain enough common code base that shared extensions are possible - that is a requirement that I for one would not want to see enforced. The fact that we can share extensions today is, IMO, a remnant of a past history and should not dictate decisions for going forward - so I would not be in favor our hosting Apache OpenOffice.org branded extensions on a TDF/LibreOffice service, nor would I be in favor or seeing TDF/Libreoffice continue to point back to Apache OpenOffice.org for any future end user services. One related item here - Templates I think are a totally different consideration. I can see the ability to share templates between all of the ODF capable applications as a reasonable goal, a very desirable goal. It is extensions that I am concerned with here - to put it simply, I do not consider LibreOffice a downstream product of OpenOffice.org code any longer as with this next release if I understand correctly there will be no merge of OO.o code, nor can I see how Apache OpenOffice can ever be a down stream of LibreOffice. Nor am not saying that the two separate projects must diverge for divergence sake, only that having a shared service would add resistance to diverging and that is something that I would strongly disagree with - our options are open as of today and I would prefer to see them stay that way. I understand that many people still hope that OO.o and LibreOffice will somehow blend back into a single project - I can only say that I am not one of those people. This idea that there is some finite set of resources is one I take exception with. In my best judgment the resources assembled here under TDF/LibreOffice are sufficient to take this project and product forward. I wish the folks forming up under Apache to resurrect the OpenOffice.org project all the best of luck on the project they have decided to undertake, but I truly believe that their actions should bear very little weight with the people working here when it comes to planing/building out our offerings to end users. Sincerely, Drew Jensen > > We could also do the same to host templates. > > Any thoughts about that ? > > Best, > > Jomar > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
