Hi Joerg,

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:17 +0200, Joerg Barfurth wrote:
> That reinforces my claim that is wrong to assert that "OpenOffice.org 
> 1.x does this". There is no such feature in OpenOffice.org 1.1.x.
> 
> This is a feature of "Translate.org ZA Office" even if they misleadingly 
> distribute it as simply "OpenOffice.org". IMHO they should at least 
> clearly call the version "ZA-1.1.x" or similar.

Actually they do. Unfortunately not everyone notices or pays attention.

> And even if their focus is working across multiple products, it is good 
> practice to contribute product-specific work back to the upstream 
> projects. AFAICT they even do this for localizations - at least we have 
> several south african ones.

In Translate's defense, they have done a significant amount of work
within the OOo community including helping other translation efforts
getting going.

Having had a number of discussions with Dwayne over the past 2 years,
including plenty trying to get him working more closely with the
project, I understand their approach to doing OOo translation work.

To them, OOo in and of itself is not that important, but rather a means
to an end.

Regards

Craig A.

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