On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 16:25 +0000, Simon Phipps wrote: > Hi all, > > Probably because of all the progress being made towards a v3.4 release, I > have been getting an increasing number of enquiries about the status of > Apache OpenOffice from a variety of sources. I'm attempting, in good faith, > to maintain an objective status summary the Apache OpenOffice incubator > project to report to these enquiries. > > I've had a commentator assert that the statements below are uninformed and > made-up. I believe based on my observations all of the following statements > to be true about the Apache project; can you let me know if they are not, > please, so I can present a factual status of the project when asked? > The Apache OpenOffice project will be releasing a new binary under the new > name "Apache OpenOffice" at some point soon, which will probably be numbered > v3.4. > The release is being developed by a subset of the original developers > augmented by others. > There have been no updates to OpenOffice.org binaries released for users > since Oracle stopped development. > There will be no new versions of a binary program called OpenOffice.org > released. > No downloads of OpenOffice.org containing bug fixes or security updates have > been made available for end users since Oracle stopped development. > The Apache OpenOffice project now controls the original OpenOffice.org domain > (via the ASF) and plans to use it for future promotion of the Apache > OpenOffice project. > The Apache OpenOffice project is still in incubation and has not yet > requested graduation to a TLP. > Thanks for your help with this. > > S. >
hi Maybe it would be best to direct those with questions to the project and not to try and answer for questions about it at all. //drew
