On 3/7/12 12:05 AM, Donald Whytock wrote:
Grammar-weenie-ing:
"We did a lot of IP clearance work to become Apache conform"
That sentence structure suggests "compliant" instead of "conform", as
in "to become Apache-compliant". Alternately, you can say "IP
clearance work to conform to Apache standards" or "to conform to the
Apache Way".
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"We are preparing developer snapshots since several weeks"
I'd suggest "We have prepared developer snapshots over the past several weeks".
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"because of the complexity of the project we would be very much appreciate"
Remove "be".
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"We know that we have no RC candidate right now"
RC = release candidate? If so, replace "RC" with "release" here. The
second "RC" is probably okay.
Otherwise, good content and tone.
thanks for the valuable feedback
Juergen
Don
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Hans Zybura<[email protected]> wrote:
I don't know much about the incubator folks and the whole process. So I
can't really judge the timing of this. But I for my part wouldn't want to be
left without dictionaries, but with a spellchecker gone wild instead, just
because I did not really understand what the note of warning meant in plain
English. The amount of work already done will be more impressive, if the
known issues are better explained, especially the most obvious ones.
Alternative wording suggestion:
NOTE: Be careful with the binary packages and save your office user
profiles before testing. Existing OOo 3.x installations will be overwritten.
We provide full install sets to test system integration and upgrades.
Known issues: Currently we are not able to migrate installed
extensions. There will be no dictionaries, therefore the spellchecker will
go wild. (We are
working on this, of course.) Please rename your user profile before testing
our
snapshot build, and re-rename your user profile after reinstalling a stable
OOo version.
We recommend using a virtual machine for testing, not your production
environment.
BTW: This would be a better wording for the note of warning on the download
site for dev snapshots as well, I think.
Hans
-----Original Message-----
From: Kay Schenk [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DRAFT]: Request for an early review of an potential Apache
OpenOffice release
Jürgen --
I don't know what the requirements are or will be, but I think this is a
good
invitation to the "incubator" folks. Nice!
2012/3/6 Jürgen Schmidt<[email protected]>
Hi,
I would like to send out the following email to the general incubator
mailing list to ask for early feedback related the general Apache
requirements. The main intention is to address potential issues asap
and to save time later on.
Any opinions or improvements?
Juergen
###
Hi,
the Apache OpenOffice podling project is moving forward to a first
release that is long expected by the OpenOffice.org community and users.
You know that Apache OpenOffice is the continuation of OpenOffice.org
and that the project is very huge, has a very long history and a very
huge user base all over the world.
We did a lot of IP clearance work to become Apache conform and we
would like to get some early feedback if we are in shape with the
Apache guidelines for a potential release.
We are preparing developer snapshots since several weeks for our
project members to test and review. This developer snapshots can be
found under
Source package
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/**developer-snapshots/src_**
releases/srcrelease.html<http://people.apache.org/%7Ejsc/developer-sna
pshots/src_releases/srcrelease.html>
Binary package
https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/**
AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+**Snapshots<https://cwiki.apache.org/con
f
AOO+luence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshot
s>
The mac version is also signed and the check files can be found in the
download directory directly http://people.apache.org/~jsc/**
developer-
snapshots/macos/**r1296433/<http://people.apache.org/%7Ejsc/
developer-snapshots/macos/r1296433/>
NOTE: be careful with the binary packages and save your office user
profiles. We provide full install sets to test system integration and
upgrades. And we are currently not able to migrate installed
extensions because of the removal of the Berkeley DB. But we are
working on this. You can easy rename your user profile can test our
snapshot build and can rename your user directory afterwards.
Right now we are focusing on show stopper issues but nevertheless we
would like to invite you to review the source packages and also the
binary packages if they fulfill the Apache requirements (e.g license,
NOTICE, ...)
We know that we have no RC candidate right now and that it would
require some work by you. But because of the complexity of the project
we would be very much appreciate any kind of early feedback at this
time. And the main goal is to fix potential issues early and to save
time later on when we have a first RC in place.
On behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PPMC
Juergen
###
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