On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 08:48 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 08/18/2012 06:38 AM, schrieb Keith N. McKenna: > > > >> Marcus (OOo) wrote: > >>> > >>> Am 08/02/2012 02:12 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM, drew<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:28 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, drew > >>>>>> jensen<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:09 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Hi Kay; > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I did some basic update to the FreeBSD porting site sometime ago: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/freebsd/ > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> The site doesn't seem linked from the top-level porting site though. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I would prefer to spend my time on the code rather than on the > >>>>>>>> release > >>>>>>>> announcement, however feel free to mention explicitly the FreeBSD > >>>>>>>> port. > >>>>>>>> Just to make it clear: we still have some cleanup to do but the > >>>>>>>> port is > >>>>>>>> fully operational and FreeBSD users are fully aware that it's > >>>>>>>> available > >>>>>>>> on FreeBSD releases. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Pedro. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Hi Pedro, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Then for BSD it should be enough to just point to the page you > >>>>>>> updated, > >>>>>>> yes? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> IMHO, we should consolidate all the porting links onto that one page. > >>>>>> That way it gives one clear place to link to in the announcement, but > >>>>>> also a single place we can link to from other places in the future. > >>>>>> For example, we should probably eventually have a link to the porting > >>>>>> page from the download page. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -Rob > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> hmmm - well, I'm just getting around to looking at things for this > >>>>> evening. > >>>>> > >>>>> Looking at the page(s) now... *chuckling*.. > >>>>> > >>>>> This might not be the right place for what I thought was the task - a > >>>>> list of existing known ports which are not part of the official AOO > >>>>> release regiment. > >>>>> > >>>>> The porting page and it's associated pages seem more about the act of > >>>>> creating a port, with > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_overview.html > >>>>> > >>>>> and > >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_implement.html > >>>>> > >>>>> which starts off by pointing to this page: > >>>>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_Efforts > >>>>> > >>>>> and that offers links to places such as > >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/udk/cpp/man/cpp_bridges.html > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> So do we really want a page for listing existing non-official ports > >>>>> that > >>>>> are known, a simple information service for our users without and > >>>>> explicitly stating such, endorsing the work - or do we want a resource > >>>>> for those wanting to perform a port to a new platform - for the > >>>>> announcement(s) that is. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Yes. ;-) > >>>> > >>>> Maybe the existing porting page remains as a developer-focused page? > >>>> It needs to be updated, of course, but maybe not as urgent. > >>>> > >>>> Then we also need a user-facing page about existing ports. Maybe that > >>>> could be a new page in the /download directory? > >>> > >>> > >>> There is already a page which points to 3rd party software / packages: > >>> > >>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/non_ASF.html > >>> > >>> Kay has created this to compensate the old distribution webpage which > >>> was totally outdated. > >>> > >>> So, what about to extend this new page with a "Ports" section from > >>> FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 and others? > >>> > >>>> For the announcement the user-facing one would be the most > >>>> appropriate, yes? > >>> > >>> > >>> I think so. > >>> > >>> Marcus > >>> > >>> > >> Morning All; > >> > >> Just checking in on this thread to see if there has been any consensus > >> on how we should do this or if we should. As we are fast approaching > >> release of 3.4.1 I would like to get this into the Release Notes. > >> > >> As a stated bore I believe that it is important to get the information > >> out that these operating systems are not forgotten and that Apache > >> OpenOffice is available. > > > > > > As I haven't seen any different let's add these OSs with a statement to the > > "non_ASF.html" webpage. > > > > The announcement current links to: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ > > Is that the wrong place? That URL is the top listing if someone > searches Google for "openoffice ports. > > I'm happy to change the announcement to point to: > http://www.openoffice.org/download/non_ASF.html > > But we would need to get some content there. It is in the CMS, so > anyone can edit it. > > -Rob > > > > > > Marcus >
Ah, I was supposed to make up something for that - well it's Saturday morning and I can do that now.. to be sure - it is this page that gets updated: http://www.openoffice.org/download/non_ASF.html yes? //drew
