Space: Apache OpenOffice Community (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS) Page: 2012 Sept (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Sept)
Edited by David Fisher: --------------------------------------------------------------------- *OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org)* OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations support have supported 110 languages worldwide. *Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation* 1. We are discussing the makeup of the future PMC. This will be a slow process. 2. We have begun discussing the Chair. 3. Continued review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy. We expect to graduate in the next quarter. *Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness* No new issues at this time, *Community Development/Outreach Progress* Since our last report we have voted in 7 new Committers with 2 additional votes in process. Since our last report, 1 PPMC member was added, and 1 PPMC member has resigned. [*needs confirmation*] We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (e.g. forum moderation) We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distribution requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accommodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of native language home pages Because our product is client-centric, we have put additional focus on our social networking accounts -- Google \+, Facebook -- in collecting feedback and ideas from our user base. *Project Development Progress* We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 on August 23, 2012. This was primarily a maintenance release and included: Official Source tarballs in English Six different client platform convenience install versions in 19 languages Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 19 languages Fixes for 69 bugs and an important security fix Over 1.4M downloads the first week. A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline] The build artifacts in this last source release do not strictly follow guidelines as some secondary / fallback downloads access svn.a.o. This has been fixed in trunk. Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify updates and, optionally, install an update if available. Older versions of OpenOffice (3.1 and less) are problematic when turned on created a DDOS attack on www.apache.org which we regret. The IBM Symphony code (mentioned in the June report) was brought into svn in mid-May. There was discussion on the ooo-dev list about how best to use/integrate this contribution. After some discussion, the community was most in favor of integrating Symphony aspects into the current AOO base over a period of time, rather than the reverse. Community support forums remain popular with users but registration seems to have stabilized. The ooo-users list also is quite active. As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, now has more than 440 subscribers and remains very active. Change your notification preferences: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/users/viewnotifications.action
