On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 21:21 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> On 29/12/2011 drew wrote: > >> > During this migration period community developers also made great > >> > progress with the application code. Ariel Constenla-Haile, one of the > >> > community developers, generated binary packages, suitable for early > >> > testing purposes, from the current Apache OpenOffice code repository. > >> > Available for download at http://people.apache.org/~arielch/packages > >> > >> I wouldn't send out public announcements about Ariel's builds. The > >> interest is huge, and people might download them just out of curiosity > >> and damage their existing OpenOffice.org installation and extensions. > > > > Well, good point. I think it is important to be clear that the code (the > > application and therefore the 'thing' of real importance to users) is > > moving forward also however..not sure how to do that without something > > concrete to point to - as you say though it is something that can > > backfire badly, if people just install those files.. > > > >> It's probably better to announce, at due time, development builds that > >> won't interfere with the installed version (and ideally, not even with > >> the user profile if the BerkeleyDB removal has implications on that). > > > > Then maybe the announcement should just chronicle the items of interest: > > > > - Developer snapshot's are becoming available - that's Ariel's page as > > one > > - Daily builds are happening and there is a real location for those > > - others? > > > > and then point them to a page (website or wiki?) for those interested in > > getting in on the bleeding edge of testing, maybe? > > > > it is a good little snippet of info. But there is so much more to > say, especially for an audience that we've haven't been > (re-)introduced to yet. Where to start? > > I wonder whether it would be worth reviving the OpenOffice Newsletter? > This was sent out to the old announce list. It was erratic toward > the end, but at one point I think it was coming out every month. > > Some examples: > > March 2011: > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2011-03/message/0 > > December 2010: > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2010-12/message/0 > > September 2010: > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2010-09/message/0 > > A format like that allows us to bundle a few small posts, news > clippings, announcements, etc., into a fuller package, maybe with > greater impact. > > For example, we could a series of these over the next few months: > > Newsletter #1: Intro to OpenOffice @ Apache. Announcements on > migration, copyleft-free build, start of test effort, links to blog, > mailing lists, migration status, announcement of pending retirement of > openoffice.org email addresses and lists, etc. > > Newsletter #2 (a month later): availability of test builds for 3.4 > (hopefully on Windows by then), how to help with test effort, reminder > on mailing list migration and mail forwarding shutdown. Gathering > proposals for AOO 4.0. > > Newsletter #3 -- coverage of 3.4 release, press clippings, etc. > > A newsletter could be put together on the wiki and then the > announcement can be a link to the online newsletter. > I think this has merit. Can we find a voluneteer? [?] ps. My earlier attempt at trying to directly post to [email protected] apparently SPAM and therefor rejected. I hope Andrew had some luck. I'll track this down in a bit. > > > > //drew > > > > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Mohandas Gandhi
