Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-10 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Peter Kovacs wrote: >> I would like to see the old communication. Was the dev mailinglist >> involved? > > Oh, sure! You can search for digital signatures on the dev list >

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 09.10.2016 20:54, Jan Høydahl wrote: Peter, don’t get yourself lost in historic discussions and perhaps unwillingness to tackle this. Some developers have been satisfied with the status quo since we have a workaround (an awful one). No not want to get lost. But it is good to know what was

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: I would like to see the old communication. Was the dev mailinglist involved? Oh, sure! You can search for digital signatures on the dev list https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@openoffice.apache.org (I recall I sent a message on 1st January 2015, and nothing

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-09 Thread Jan Høydahl
+1 to proceed with NEXT STEP™ towards getting AOO signed for Gatekeeper. Peter, don’t get yourself lost in historic discussions and perhaps unwillingness to tackle this. Some developers have been satisfied with the status quo since we have a workaround (an awful one). So please, if you can

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
Thanks for the insight. On 09.10.2016 17:54, Andrea Pescetti wrote: So this is not impossible, but probably a prerequisite will be to sign MacOS X packages with a signature that Apple (to be precise, Gatekeeper) recognizes as valid. I have no idea on what this entails. The ASF has a signing

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: Yes I agree signing the package for our users would be a good step, while the app store is the next step in this topic. For some literature on the ASF and the App Store you can read this long discussion from a few months ago:

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
Yes I agree signing the package for our users would be a good step, while the app store is the next step in this topic. Matthias Seidel schrieb am So., 9. Okt. 2016, 00:41: > +1 > > Maybe this would be something for long-term? > > But what about getting a Developer

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-08 Thread Matthias Seidel
+1 Maybe this would be something for long-term? But what about getting a Developer ID from Apple to get rid of the gatekeeper-messages? A lot of traffic on the user-mailinglist is from people who think they can not install AOO on MacOS because of that... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

Re: [Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-08 Thread Jan Høydahl
Hi, I’m afraid we need a lot of changes to the software to comply with the sandboxing policy of the Appstore, see

[Proposal] Publish Apache Open Office on the apple store.

2016-10-03 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hello all, I would like to propose to publish _Open Office_ as _Apache Foundation_ on the Apple store. I am always dissapointed when I see some unknown developer publishes Open Source, and the Project itself is not present. Afaik this costs money (99$/year). Here is a blog post that