Michael Wheatland wrote: > The structure of the official LibreOffice Drupal development website > for templates has been set up and is functioning.
Congratulations for your efforts. From a pure Drupal perspective, the page is good. OK, I get a "user warning: Unknown column 'lang_is' in 'field list' query" when I upload a template, but this will be easy to fix. While surely your work is nice and appreciated, I must say (I warned against it earlier in this thread too) that this is "just" a textbook Drupal site for uploading templates. It is far from being enough to replace the OpenOffice.org Templates site. Of course a page like this is relatively easy to build, but the complexity I was referring to is not in this part: it is in the fine ODF processing that powers http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ and I won't ask once more that people DO try uploading a template there in order to understand the functionality that must be replicated. Some examples: - You needn't ask for an image, the thumbnail is just generated by ODF processing and this is the right way to do it. - You should have license and author, and derive it via ODF processing and not enter it with a simple CCK field. Moreover, it should be investigated what kind of commitment the Document Foundation took towards Richard Stallman about "nonfree add-ons", see http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters > Any feedback about how the system works, ease of use or any other > suggestions are more than welcome. I like and respect your work, don't get me wrong. But a repository of ODF templates should take advantage of everything ODF can offer, not just rely on textbook Drupal stuff. Then, is it worth to spend effort in replicating this non-textbook custom functionality from the Templates website? I don't have an answer and neither the Document Foundation probably has one, so I wouldn't know who has to decide on this. Best regards, Andrea. -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
