On 02/27/12 18:15, Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Pedro Giffuni<[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/27/12 13:30, Rob Weir wrote:
This is based on a draft from Maho, with some additional edits from
me. Please take a look and suggest improvements:
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_has_been_ported
If Maho approves, I have some suggestions:
To the end of the first paragraph add " Maintaining this new port
in Apache source tree helps improve the overall portability of
the system and provides another valuable testing environment."
The second paragraph, may sound better "FreeBSD is a free operating system
based on Berkeley's 4.4 BSD source release." Add a last sentence in that
paragraph: "Since the origins of the Internet it has been known to break ftp
performance records and power important sites like Yahoo, Hotmail and the
ASF infrastructure."
change (old) OpenOffice.org --> legacy OpenOffice.org
Instead of MN and PG --> maho@ and pfg@
The FreeBSD team did not create fork. --> The FreeBSD team did not fork.
Perhaps add "In FreeBSD, OpenOffice and LibreOffice porters share their
efforts
in a common mailing list: [email protected].
The "Notably, Jung-uk Kim ..." line should be moved to the end of the
"Historically," paragraph.
"Technically, porting is not difficult." --> "Technically, porting has not
been very difficult.".
After " ... linux and FreeBSD are very similar", I would add "MacOSX and
FreeBSD also
share many similarities which have helped improve both ports."
I would put that paragraph before the "Since the OpenOffice project
migrated".
OK. I made those changes on the draft.
It still needs some cross reading to polish the form.
From my modest South American English I think: it all has to
be in third person or in first person. but since Maho is signing
it should probably be in first person.
It's also important to keep past or present tense consistently
Please note that when speaking of Hotmail (and Yahoo) I had
suggested a form making reference to the past: Hotmail was
bought by MS and they went through the expensive process
of replacing FreeBSD with Windows. (Apparently they liked it
so much that they even promised at a point to support .Net
in FreeBSD.)
One thing that is not clear to me is the reference to the "dynamic
liner issue". Would it be worth linking to a bug report or something
to explain what this was?
I don't get that either (perhaps it's dynamic linker?) maybe
it's just too complex to explain in the blog anyways.
Pedro.
