Hi Simon,
On 3/13/12 5:25 PM, 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.
I personally would very much appreciate if you simply guide this people
to the ooo-dev mailing list directly to get first hand information.
To be honest I think they can get much better information if they seek
the dialog with the project directly and we know which information they
will receive.
You still say it in a way that I can't support and I think you simply
don't want to accept the reality. Apache OpenOffice is OpenOffice. If
you don't accept this fact I am really asking what your intention is?
Regards
Juergen
PS: offline for the rest of the day and I am looking forward to a
probably another annoying thread where I have already said enough now.
