On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:44 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 01:36 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: > > > Apologies if this ought to be clear to me, but are you proposing: > > No apologies needed - I'm touchy on the subject...so just slap the back > of my head now and then when I need it :) >
No worries :-) > > > > > 1. AOOo sets up support forums (or lists) exclusively related to its own > activities > > Yes - as long as it is two projects and right now that is true. With the > current circumstances I do not see the projects merging again, unless > one just capitulates to the other. (see M.M. closing slide from his > latest talk) > > The applications are already starting to diverge and if the plans I'm > hearing about come true this will accelerate. > Given the level of many of the questions I've seen over the years, I believe there will still be enough in common to permit a top-level support forum somewhere like "support.openoffice.org" for "family" projects that then links to project-specific venues for detailed issues. > > > 2. AOOo collaborates with other OpenOffice community projects such as > LibreOffice over this > > Right now that is possible, as long as it is possible than I am for it, > but for how long that will continue I can't say. > I think we still need to have a serious discussion about the scope of the ambitions of AOOo - it's been raised before but deferred pending actually having a repo to work on. If the project chooses to maintain core code rather than attempt a full-scale clone of the former OOo project, it's entirely possible that commonality will remain. > > 3. We do neither of these and allow spontaneous self-support to develop > elsewhere? > > Well, that is what happened in the past. I would rather it be a bit more > coordinated this time. > +1 S.
