On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi > > On 2012-05-15, at 17:37 , Kay Schenk wrote: > > > Hi all-- > > > > I was just taking a look at the porting project site: > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ > > > > could someone who is familiar with this project, and hopefully currently > > involved with it, fill us in on what the affiliation of the porters > listed > > -- > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_overview.html > > > > were to the OpenOffice.org project? Were they committers, etc? > > > > And, if you could provide some idea of the usage numbers for each, if > they > > were kept somewhere, that would be great. > > Thanks. > > I think I can probably answer most of the questions, as we did track those > data, but not sure: much of what was there is a) gone, b) old, really old. > > That said, regarding the committers: See, > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DomainDeveloper > > "Domain Developer," as you know, meant that one had access as a committer > globally. > > As to general ports, from memory: > > 1. Windows. > 95% > And then Mac OS X > And then, in the single digits, the rest. > (Linux distros., of course, included OOo and its variants.) > > The old spreadsheets from the first few years are probably not quite > accurate--they never were--but suggestive of the breakdown then of > "everything else". However, now, things are quite a lot different, and past > data ought not to prescribe present, let alone future behaviour. > > Louis > Hi Louis-- OK, I'm already confused. The porting page above has no Windows info on it at all...what I see are mostly *nix derivatives, along with a few others -- VMS, OS/2, etc. My question, more specifically, is why weren't these included with the other releases -- i.e. Windows, Solaris, MacIntel -- and shuttled to the mirrors instead of a separate area like this? They seem to be considered "official" from OpenOffice.org and yet, not quite. Can you tell me why? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MzK > > > > "Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you > > And life has a funny way of helping you out > > Helping you out." > > -- "Ironic", Alanis Morissette > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you And life has a funny way of helping you out Helping you out." -- "Ironic", Alanis Morissette
