It's an odd situation. In many ways an [email protected] list would appear to remain useful but I think it creates a decision crisis for users to have too many of these.
What I notice about [libreoffice-users] and also [libreoffice] (the dev list) is that many user-level reports have to do with (1) interoperability between a version of ODF-based software and another format (Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel being prominent). The other kind of interoperability is among versions of ODF-based software where an older version works differently (often better) than a newer one. These are also often related to interoperability with software having different native formats. Sometimes, the inter-version comparisons are between an OO.o release and a subsequent LibreOffice release. There are also general questions and tips that work for any recent OpenOffice 3.x and LibreOffice 3.x releases and their documentation. However, I don't think we can expect users to sort out which is the right list for these: LibreOffice-specific, OpenOffice-legacy-specific, Apache OpenOffice (nothing to talk about yet), or some common OpenOffice shared space. So, realistically, I think it will be super-users and their cousins, including developers and documentation authors, who will notice cross-over cases and perhaps guide users to an appropriate place while also providing useful answers. For bug reports, I think it is always going to be with respect to a release that an user is operating with, and sharing what is a common-mode problem across forks/derivatives and their releases is going to depend on developers noticing and talking to each other. We might not be able to share patches but we can definitely attempt to share issues that we may have in common. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Giffuni [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 18:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] Well .. An important difference, I think, is that the forum will serve for all openoffice variants (including LibreOffice). The mailinlist can only attend issues related to Apache OpenOffice since it"s the codebase we maintain and support. Pedro. On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:01 +0200, "Marcus (OOo)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it seems a bit difficult to decide what is the best for all or > at least the majority of our users. > > Maybe someone has some more agruements about MLs vs. forums. > > Marcus > > >
