This is an issue that has stirred much emotion, and is one that has not
reached consensus.
Due to the requirement of having our official name be 'Apache
[something]', I believe the current consensus points towards one of the
following two options:
* Apache OpenOffice.org
* Apache OpenOffice
Both of these seem to satisfy both the 'Apache in name' requirement and
the 'Trademark available' requirement. (Apache and OpenOffice together
seem to get around issues with using OpenOffice without the .org on its
own) Also, before the discussion of the branding and historical nature
of the importance of the '.org', I would suggest people look at mailing
list and forum posts from our users - on the whole, they rarely identify
the current product as OpenOffice.org.
Let's not try to make this decision in other threads. Let's make this
decision in a thread about naming the project (and product).
Andrew
On 10/24/2011 8:39 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
BTW,
Its clear to me the final product name is
Apache OpenOffice.org
and I already used it in Rev. 1184898.
Pedro.
--- On Mon, 10/24/11, Dennis E. Hamilton<[email protected]> wrote:
BTW:
When we do the rebranding stuff again
(sick!) we should have a final
product name at hand at that time.
I suspect that the restraints on identification of
incubator releases will apply to however it is branded.
It looks like the first one, at least, is definitely a
"Technology Preview" release. It and the second will
certainly be ways to bring the QA, localization, and related
activities back into action as well.
Exciting times ahead!
- Dennis E. Hamilton
tools for document
interoperability,<http://nfoWorks.org/>
[email protected]
gsm: +1-206-779-9430 @orcmid
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 07:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [proposal] development for the first AOO
release
Am 10/24/2011 03:18 PM, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann:
Hi,
I would like to propose the following development
milestones on our way
to the first AOO release:
- "IP cleared" milestone
[ ... ]
- "features back" milestone
For this milestone we should work on bringing back the
features which
are lost in the previous milestone. I do not think
that we have to bring
back every feature for a first release. Thus, we would
have got the
possibility to work on the features which are of most
interest. At some
point we could create a "release candidate" and start
working on
stabilizing it for a first release, if we think that
the "must have"
features are back.
[ ... ]
Any remarks/comments/improvements/adjustments?
Any objections to follow such plan for our first
release?
It's fine to see a kind of roadmap starting.
Also to have a first public intermediate step with a clean
IP is great,
towards our first "real" Apache release. Then everybody can
see that
it's really going forward with OOo (as often the feeling is
the opposite
in the public when you read news and blogs).
And of course we have to make clear that this milestone is
really just
an intermediate step and not what the most would expect.
BTW:
When we do the rebranding stuff again (sick!) we should
have a final
product name at hand at that time.
Marcus
[ ... ]
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