Hi there!
Szalai Kálmán wrote:
OxygenOffice Professional 2.0.4 is ready for Download!
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OxygenOffice Professional is based on OpenOffice.org 2.0.4. This latest
and greatest version has new functions like enhanced PDF management and
direct export to LaTex. The OxygenOffice Professional team of
internatioanl developers changed the name of the project , (which was
formerly known as OpenOffice.org Premium), to simplify things and point
out that this project is independent from the OpenOffice.org project.
Our team loves and supports the OpenOffice.org project, and did not want
to cause any potential confusion.
Well I must admit I do not much about the history of OxygenOffice
Professional and it´s team and do not know what the current plans for
the future of OxygenOffice are.
But what I am asking myself is if it´s really necessary to maintain a
fork for the features offered in OxygenOffice Professional as it seems
to me it must be quite a lot of work to keep a fork in sync with the
changes emerging in OpenOffice.org in upcoming releases.
OpenOffice.org does now have a new extension mechanism
(http://extensions.openoffice.org/)
and from the description of OxygenOffice Professional I see a lot of
things like template packages, gallery themes, export filters etc. that
would be good topics for OpenOffice.org extensions.
Thus I am asking the OxygenOffice Professional team what they would
think of the following possibilities to enhance their current
development model:
Provide a set of extensions to OpenOffice.org for features currently
offered in OxygenOffice ( especially things like template packs, gallery
themes etc., maybe special localisation features OxygenOffice
Professional might have etc. )
Either drop OxygenOffice professional fork and move to an extension
providing model only and for changes that can not be offered as
extension (like maybe there are some special internationalisation
features in it that required code changes to base libraries etc. ) try
to contribute those back to OpenOffice.org directly or keep those in the
OxygenOffice Professional fork but make whatever else can be converted
to an extension also available as an extension to provide those things
to users of OpenOffice.org and thus a wider range of users also.
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Kind regards,
Bernd Eilers
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