On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, jan iversen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I wonder if it makes sense to redirect that outdated page to this one: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/translate.html -Rob > 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. >>
