On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
OK. I made another pass at editing the blog post, cleaning up the flow and consistency. One thing I was uncertain of. Do you really want users to report bugs directly to you and Naho? Wouldn't it make more sense to send them to BZ or to a mailing list? From a community development perspective? -Rob > Pedro.
