On 14/10/2012 jan iversen wrote:
I thought openOffice was openOffice, but now I have learned there is something called LO and something (which I think is the real thing) called AOO, is that the "old" before apache version, and AOO is the apache world ?
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice (at the time called OpenOffice.org) started at the end of 2010. On an unrelated story, OpenOffice was donated by Oracle, that was steering the development at that time, to the Apache Foundation in June 2011 (and this meant that, while the common name is still OpenOffice, the official name was changed from "OpenOffice.org" to "Apache OpenOffice" to reflect the new situation). The two projects are independent.
There is also a l10n.openoffice,org homepage which suggest that there is a project team thinking along the same lines as I do, but it has not been updated since august 2008...have I missed something or am I doing parallel work ?
Sure, write here where that page is and what must be done to fix it (those volunteers are not active any longer); if it is on the wiki, you can fix it yourself; if it is on the openoffice.org website, you can use the "Apache CMS bookmarklet" to propose changes to it (in that case, there's a video by Rob Weir on YouTube explaining how to use the CMS bookmarket; you should be able to find it).
What is the board doing, when I started working with open source long time ago, it was all done in our spare time. Even when I worked with apache/AXIS it seemed quite simple, but all this voting etc....
We are in a crucial moment for the OpenOffice project. When OpenOffice came to Apache, in June 2011, it was put, like all new projects, in the "Apache Incubator" and it's hopefully "graduating" in a few days. When this is done, we will have less paperwork and more development activity.
Ps. I am still working hard on the Localization document, and if the compiler wasn´t playing with me I would be one step further.
It's OK to ask about build issues on ooo-dev; that place is the primary development list, besides all the voting and other discussions that are currently ongoing.
Regards, Andrea.
