Thanks andrea. I got a very explaining mail from roy as well.
Just for your information the link to the page is http://www.openoffice.org/l10n/ and l10n.office.org is also working. It is not a Wiki so I cannot do anything about it. Please understand, I just want to make sure that my time and effort it contributing and not offending the AOO community. rgds Jan I. On 14 October 2012 18:54, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
