On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:57 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello Jomar, > > > With the exception of the quite good points highlighted by Drew (some > extensions might break or might not work in AOOo) , I think AOOo is free to > point to our own extensions and templates website. Do know, however, that > although we accept FOSS licences only (including Apache!) we do already have > a specific branding of the site and that the extensions are tested and > supposed to work for LibreOffice first. I would not expect too much > compatibility problems for most of the extensions, but the issues will rise > as the time will pass. > > so a non-binding +1 to welcome AOOo using our extensions and templates > website.
Just to clarify my view here: TDF certainly made use of the OO.o extension service to date - which is to say our users have. I am in favor of our communities working together, as equals. Right now populating the new LibO extension site with those current extensions from the OO.o site that comply with our license model helps everyone it would seem - mostly users as they get a stable service in likely the shortest possible time. So - as an interim solution I would say +1. Thanks, //drew > > best, > Charles. > > 2011/7/12 drew <[email protected]> > > > 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
