+1 - great news! On 19 September 2012 16:23, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Shenfeng Liu <liush...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What a great news! >> Congratulations! >> > > I'm especially proud of the recognition the community received for the > OpenOffice Templates website. This almost did not happen. It > required a lot of effort, especially by SourceForge and Apache Infra, > to make this a reality. > > Remember back when OpenOffice first came to Apache. We had the OOo > code, and a bunch of legacy services hosted on Oracle (and other 3rd > party) servers: website, wiki, forums, templates, extensions, > bugzilla, etc. We could have just abandoned the services and focused > 100% on the code. We could have just kissed the legacy web services > good bye and let them die. That would have been an easier choice. > This option was mentioned at the time. It would have been less > effort. It would have allowed us to make more progress on the code, > and faster. Certainly that was the choice that could have been made, > and which was made by another related project. IMHO, it is akin to an > army leaving its wounded behind in order to make a faster advance. > > Personally, I'm glad we did not abandon these services. Instead we > invested in them. Yes, it took time. Yes, it took energy. Yes, it > diverted resources that could have been used to work on product > features. If you recall there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth > in some circles, saying that we had delayed our OpenOffice release so > long that it would no longer be relevant, that we would never catch > up, that we would inevitably fail. > > Well, guess what happened? We released 3.4.0 and had phenomenal > download numbers. And then we released 3.4.1 and the download numbers > are even better. And now we receive awards both for the product, > but also for one of the legacy web services. Hopefully this puts the > doubts to rest. The answer to an "either/or" question is sometimes > "both". > > -Rob > > >> - Simon >> >> >> 2012/9/19 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >> >>> InfoWorld is out with their 2012 "Bossie" awards (Best of Open Source). >>> >>> As far as I can see we are the only open source project that won two >>> awards! >>> >>> In the "desktop applications" category we received an award for the >>> OpenOffice application: >>> >>> >>> http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/64914/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-desktop-applications-202288#slide4 >>> >>> And in the same category we received another award for our Template >>> Repository: >>> >>> >>> http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/64914/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-desktop-applications-202288#slide5 >>> >>> The full article is here: >>> >>> >>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/bossies-2012-the-best-of-open-source-software-awards-202465 >>> >>> So congratulations to all for the hard work that led to these honors. >>> This was a broad effort, extending out from the core project to >>> partners like SourceForge and all those power users whose creative >>> contributions bring value to the template repository. These are truly >>> awards for the whole community! >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -Rob >>>
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