Bonjour,
Ci-dessous, le mail initial de Rob Weir (IBM). L'entreprise IBM, qui
n'a pas toujours été un bon citoyen d'OpenOffice.org, semble vouloir
elle aussi améliorer son image auprès de la communauté
OpenOffice.org.
Depuis, et pour compléter cette information importante, dans un
échange entre Malte Timmermann et Yong Lin ma (IBM aussi), celui-ci
a confirmé que ce serait TOUT Symphony qui serait contribué en
retour à apache OpenOffice.org, sous licence Apache (!!).
Je cite l'échange (partiel) entre Malte et Yong Lin Ma :
"... On 14.07.2011 05:09, Yong Lin Ma wrote:
...
We are willing to contribute the whole Symphony to community. The code
would be available to the community. (The C++ part of Symphony, also
the counterpart of OO.o in Symphony).
..."
Même s'il faudra quelques mois pour se relever, et produire à
nouveau, OpenOffice.org a encore de beau jours :-)
Cordialement,
Eric Bachard
Début du message réexpédié :
De : Rob Weir <apa...@robweir.com>
Date : 14 juillet 2011 00:00:57 HAEC
À : ooo-...@incubator.apache.org
Objet : Symphony contribution
I'm sending this with my IBM "hat".
I'm going to be speaking at the ODF Plugfest in Berlin Friday
afternoon, and will be making some announcements. I wanted you to
hear this first, before anyone else knows.
You know about IBM Lotus Symphony, our free (as in beer) product
which is based on OOo. We're doing well with it, I think. Along
with various numerous interop, performance enhancements and
functional/bug fixes, we've done some significant work in the
accessibility and user interface in general. If you saw recently,
PC Magazine gave Symphony
3.0 its "Editors' Choice Award" [1]. In the review they praised
the "interface that's been tweaked by IBM to make it by far the
user-friendliest no-cost productivity suite, and one's that's
friendly enough to rival the spacious and informative interface
that Microsoft created for Office 2010 and that Apple created for
iWork '09." So the UI enhancements are getting some notice.
However, we at IBM have not been exemplary community members when
it came to OpenOffice.org. This wasn't necessarily by design, but
for various reasons, that was the effect. Yes, we participated in
various community councils, and sponsored conferences and worked
together on standards. But when it came down to the code, we
maintained Symphony essentially as a fork, and although we
occasionally contributed code back, we did not do this well, or often.
We'd like to make some changes in how we do things, and the fresh
start at Apache is a good opportunity for this.
We will be doing the following:
First, we're going to contribute the standalone version of Lotus
Symphony to the Apache OpenOffice.org project, under the Apache 2.0
license. We'll also work with project members to prioritize which
pieces make sense to integrate into OpenOffice. For example,
we'vecalready done a lot of work with replacing GPL/LPGL
dependencies. Using the Symphony code could help accelerate that
work and get us to an AOOo release faster. We've already converted
the help files to DITA, which could help accelerate that work, if
we chose to go in that direction.
Aside from the work that would help accelerate getting AOOo to our
first release, we've also added other features that I think we
should consider merging in. For example, the IAccessible2 work
which helps Symphony work better with assistive technology. I
know an older version of this work sits in an OOo CWS someplace,
but it will be
easier to integrate that work if we start with our latest code.
We've also added VBA macro support, which is great for MS Office
interop.
Also, as the PC Magazine review notes, we've done some really good
UI work. I invite you to download Symphony [2] and take a closer
look at
this. Yes, it is different from what OOo has today. And a move of
that magnitude has an impact on documentation and translations as
well. But the feedback we've received from customers and
reviewers is very positive. Do we integrate parts of the Symphony
UI? That is something for the project to discuss and decide on.
Finally, we will be proposing [3] a new incubation project at
Apache, for the ODF Toolkit. These Java libraries enable new kinds
of lightweight document processing applications. We think this
would work well as an Apache project, and we look forward to moving
that into incubation and developing that complementary project
forward.
So that's essentially what I'll be announcing on Friday. The above
contributions will occur over the next couple of months, starting
with the ODF Toolkit. I hope you see the exciting possibilities as
much as I do.
Regards,
-Rob
[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387439,00.asp
[2] http://symphony.lotus.com/
[3] http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/pages/ApacheProposal
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