Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-19 Thread James Hogarth
Regards, Andrea. snip Thanks kindly for the update! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-19 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 02/19/2013 07:50 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It will be clarified. The concern there started with the assumption that yum install OpenOffice.org would install something else. It doesn't, of course. So the following discussion is largely irrelevant, but again we will be following the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-18 Thread James Hogarth
Will Andrea be maintainer of the package or someone else in the AOO group? There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm there in packaging themselves... http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3c5112b95e.3010...@apache.org%3E That was the last message there and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:55 AM, James Hogarth wrote: This made me think of the reminder that had to be given to Oracle about the Fedora principles and how friendship is a key one... Apache Openoffice has no connection to Oracle Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-18 Thread James Hogarth
Apache Openoffice has no connection to Oracle No it has more of a link with IBM - but I'm not talking about who the corporate sponsor is but rather the principles involved... In the MySQL thread Oracle had to be given a reminder about friendship being an important principle... and here we

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:25 PM, James Hogarth wrote: But this is the silliest nitpick from my question which is surrounding the next steps for AOO, how the conflicts will be resolved and how the package is being treated (pick up an orphaned package or a new package) plus who the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-18 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:55:55PM +, James Hogarth wrote: Since this has been approved I'm curious as to the method by which the non-conflict with LO is to be achieved... I don't know the answer to this. Hopefully Andrea is pondering it and working with the libreoffice maintainers if

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:55:55PM +, James Hogarth wrote: Since this has been approved I'm curious as to the method by which the non-conflict with LO is to be achieved... We've looked at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:EnvironmentModules under FESCo's

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Hogarth wrote: Right now there's no roadmap for 4.0 - no milestone dates, alpha dates or beta dates... The best that exists for this is a nightly snapshot from trunk covered in caveats about how unstable it's likely to be. The openoffice.org wiki doesn't even mention 3.4 much less

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jef Spaleta wrote: yum info dpkg That dpkg package is there only for tools like debootstrap or alien to work, not as an alternative to RPM. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between users, not freedom of choice. The confusion is already there in Windows world, linux user should be more capable of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: If you consider that free software is meant for everybody, irrespective of their technical abilities, then, yes, it creates too much confusion. There are multiple alternative office suites already in Linux. Adding one more isn't really

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
Unlike pulseaudio (in the above linked thread), AOO is end-user GUI application, not a library/daemon/sound-server/whatever used to get the wanted sound to your headphones (that by design interferes with anything else trying to do the same) ;-) By adding AOO we're not breaking some third app,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
There are multiple alternative office suites already in Linux. Adding one more isn't really going to aggravate the problem too much for users We suck. So lets suck a little bit more. Is that what you are saying? :-) especially since there is a default installed already. The first time I ran

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: It is irrelevant whether it is a daemon or a GUI application. The main point is that you are confusing users and also developers. Why the hell should a random user have to choose from half a dozen seemingly similar programs

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: There are multiple alternative office suites already in Linux. Adding one more isn't really going to aggravate the problem too much for users We suck. So lets suck a little bit more. Is that what you are saying? :-) If you want to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
There are multiple alternative office suites already in Linux. Adding one more isn't really going to aggravate the problem too much for users We suck. So lets suck a little bit more. Is that what you are saying? :-) If you want to build a distribution with a single default for everything

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: Ok. sarcasm So what is the next step? Offering another kernel? Or allowing us to choose a different package manager or packing format? Oh, wait, using multiple different depsolvers has already been frowned upon.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: sarcasm So what is the next step? Offering another kernel? Or allowing us to choose a different package manager or packing format? Oh, wait, using multiple different depsolvers has already been frowned upon. deadpan On an

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
sarcasm So what is the next step? Offering another kernel? Or allowing us to choose a different package manager or packing format? Oh, wait, using multiple different depsolvers has already been frowned upon. Now why did *that* happen? It is Fedora, isn't it? /sarcasm Sarcasm isn't

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: Users don't care where LO comes from at all. Then how will you empower them to make a choice between LO and AOO? We don't. We don't need to, and we don't care to. We empower interested programmers to work on AOO within

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
sarcasm So what is the next step? Offering another kernel? Or allowing us to choose a different package manager or packing format? Oh, wait, using multiple different depsolvers has already been frowned upon. deadpan On an F18 system yum info smart yum info dpkg /deadpan You do know the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
We empower interested programmers to work on AOO within the Fedora ecosystem. That's all. How is packaging AOO a requirement for that? They can compile AOO and work on it just fine. Cheers, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: Sarcasm isn't going to resolve the problems. But it might highlight the problem with this lets have some more choices madness. There are better ways to highlight that not to mention the examples you used already exist in Fedora.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: For starters: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/669 Uhm that ticket is specifically about a feature proposal to include something as a default installed tech. We are not talking about AOO as a default installed

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
There are better ways to highlight that not to mention the examples you used already exist in Fedora. So do we have multiple kernels in Fedora? We offer .deb variants of Fedora? That doesn't solve the existing problem at all. There is no reason why we should have say Epiphany but exclude

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 08 février 2013 à 20:56 +, Debarshi Ray a écrit : especially since there is a default installed already. The first time I ran an installer 10 years ago, I remember staring at a screen which gave me 2 options: GNOME and KDE, and the description for both of them were exactly

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: So do we have multiple kernels in Fedora? We offer .deb variants of Fedora? Reductio ad absurdum. We will discuss serious considerations based on actual proposals on a case by case basis. Alternative office suites already exist in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
This thread is over. I'd like to ask everyone to take a few minutes to re-read: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct and get some away time from the discussion and think about things and how to approach discussions more constructively. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen J Smoogen. Don't derail a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Sourada
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 22:07:02 + Debarshi Ray wrote: So do we have multiple kernels in Fedora? We offer .deb variants of Fedora? Let me say one thing: if you're going by examples, go with proper ones. There is vast difference of work needed to support two kernels and work needed to support

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
Reductio ad absurdum. To me this is as absurd as the others. Right. When we moved from Openoffice.org to Libreoffice by default, AOO We could have kept the openoffice.org packages instead of replacing them with LO, but we did not. (I guess, at this point, it is quite clear that I am losing

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: Right. When we moved from Openoffice.org to Libreoffice by default, AOO We could have kept the openoffice.org packages instead of replacing them with LO, but we did not. Yes because we had some problems with how openoffice.org was

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
Let me say one thing: if you're going by examples, go with proper ones. There is vast difference of work needed to support two kernels and work needed to support two office suites. You know kernel is the base upon everything runs, right? Please, don't make the most basic component that cannot

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: I don't think that the guiding principle should be: here is some FOSS code, lets package it. Claiming what it shouldn't be is the easy part. Writing up a proposal on what the guiding principles should be and building consensus on it

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Sourada
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:50:11 + Debarshi Ray wrote: It is irrelevant whether it is a daemon or a GUI application. No, it is not. To stay with pulseaudio -- when you're playing a song, it's not exactly easy to tell if it goes to your headphones through alsa, oss, openal, pulseaudio, or a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/06/2013 02:36 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: About the soffice alias, it still breaks parallel installation in F18 (just tried, the desktop integration from OpenOffice conflicts with libreoffice-core). It seems that the upstream LibreOffice packages no longer use the soffice alias (at least,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/02/2013 James Hogarth wrote: Let's take a look at a similar (although of course not identical) situation [...] the MariaDB packaging review request. There are some critical differences here. Especially, if I understood correctly the discussion we had at FOSDEM, the fact that OpenOffice

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread James Hogarth
On 6 February 2013 12:33, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/06/2013 02:36 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: About the soffice alias, it still breaks parallel installation in F18 (just tried, the desktop integration from OpenOffice conflicts with libreoffice-core). It seems that the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread James Hogarth
There are some critical differences here. Especially, if I understood correctly the discussion we had at FOSDEM, the fact that OpenOffice is not going to be on install media or in the default package selection allows for some flexibility with respect to deadlines. Except that the proposals

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/02/2013 David Tardon wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:36:36AM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: As Stephan wrote, soffice is the main problem (and I wonder if unopkg is in the same situation or is not problematic). unopkg is in the same situation, of course. Thanks. I edited the proposal

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 06:19:25PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: This is going towards getting political... Let's say that, at the very least, nobody will ever invoke openoffice.org if he wants to run libreoffice, regardless of which software is the newcomer. So at least this source of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: nobody will ever invoke openoffice.org if he wants to run libreoffice [...] by pure common sense and not even taking trademarks into account. My understanding is that trademarks don't protect functional interfaces, so in the absence of legal advice

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
Actually, the feedback I got at FOSDEM was to focus on packaging trunk for the time being. But indeed, the biggest effort is on packaging in a way that it is satisfactory for everybody, and for this first step it doesn't really make a technical difference whether we use 3.4.1, a recent 4.0

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-05 Thread Peter Boy
Am Montag, den 04.02.2013, 13:34 +0100 schrieb Michael Stahl: how exactly does LibreOffice depend on OpenOffice, and what do you mean by OpenOffice in this context? As I understood the discussion at Linux Day last year the LibreOffice rebase is not only about changing Licence headers but

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-05 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-04, 19:52 GMT, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It's an outdated article and not much relevant to the current discussion (you see, it says the Symphony repository...). [...] The Symphony code is like everything else in this respect: all Symphony code that OpenOffice will choose to use

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-05 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-02-04, 19:52 GMT, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It's an outdated article and not much relevant to the current discussion (you see, it says the Symphony repository...). [...] The Symphony code is like everything else

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-05 Thread David Tardon
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:36:36AM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:31 AM, David Tardon wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: $ rpm -ql libreoffice-core | grep bin/ | xargs ls -ld -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 362 Dec 6

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Pavel Alexeev
04.02.2013 11:38, Kevin Kofler wrote: David Tardon wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com said: My understanding is that /usr/bin/soffice is a symlink in order to keep backwards maintainability.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Pavel Alexeev
04.02.2013 10:47, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora. A big -1 to this feature,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Robert Mayr
2013/2/4 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora. A big -1

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Stahl
On 04/02/13 01:37, Peter Boy wrote: By the way: As I learnt on Linux Day last year, LibreOffice still depends on OpenOffice and is in the process to rebase their code to OpenOffice 3.4 (or something alike). So I'm wondering about different set of features. how exactly does LibreOffice

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Andrea, all, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:31 AM, David Tardon dtar...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com said: My understanding is that /usr/bin/soffice is a symlink in order to keep backwards

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kevin Kofler wrote: * What benefit does this package have over LibreOffice, to justify carrying 2 packages doing essentially the same thing? They are indeed two productivity suites, but they are evolving in different directions. There's a Features link in the proposal

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/03/2013 09:15 PM, Pavel Alexeev wrote: 01.02.2013 00:17, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Williamsonawill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:20 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote: I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be dominant and you can't

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:35:43 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: PPS: Oh, and this: The /usr/bin/soffice alias is still a problem since (in the Fedora packages) it would conflict between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice: it is recommended to fix it in the LibreOffice packages too, at least using

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Stahl
On 04/02/13 13:59, Martin Sourada wrote: Also, going by your reasoning there would be no point in having Calligra either... Furthermore, technically LO is the fork ;-) technically, both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice are forks, since neither of them: a) are under the OpenOffice.org

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread James Hogarth
On 4 February 2013 12:39, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: * What benefit does this package have over LibreOffice, to justify carrying 2 packages doing essentially the same thing? They are indeed two productivity suites, but they are evolving in different

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread James Hogarth
Apologies for the accidental send before... On 4 February 2013 12:39, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: * What benefit does this package have over LibreOffice, to justify carrying 2 packages doing essentially the same thing? They are indeed two

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 30/01/13 05:22 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Given that OpenOffice and LibreOffice share a common history (and not that far back), are there going to be any efforts made to allow them to be parallel-installable on the system, or will they be fully-fledged

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: My issue with Apache OpenOffice can be seen on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/ [...] The Apache Software Foundation releases code under the Apache license; they are, indeed, rather firm on that point. The Symphony repository, though [...] It's an outdated article

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:31:11 + James Hogarth wrote: Might I suggest focusing on packaging 3.4.1 for rawhide and dealing with the issues surrounding conflicts and if that gies well consider the 4.0 release (or whatever lines up then) for F20? That's mostly how I understand the proposal. The

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 07:47 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Sourada wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:31:11 + James Hogarth wrote: Might I suggest focusing on packaging 3.4.1 for rawhide and dealing with the issues surrounding conflicts and if that gies well consider the 4.0 release (or whatever lines up then) for F20? That's mostly how I

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Martin Sourada wrote: That's mostly how I understand the proposal. The goal for F19 is to get it in and solve (potential) conflicts. It should probably either drop the mentions of 4.0 or clearly state that 4.0 is going Actually, the feedback I got at FOSDEM was to focus on packaging trunk for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Pavel Alexeev
01.02.2013 00:17, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:20 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote: I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be dominant and you can't provide both of them on a live image for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Pavel Alexeev
01.02.2013 17:38, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2013-01-31, 22:07 GMT, Chris Adams wrote: I'm not saying having both is a bad thing, but I would like to think that there's some thought given to does Fedora gain from having both, since there is a cost involved. We don’t (unfortunately?) have policy to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Peter Boy
Hi Martin, Am Donnerstag, den 31.01.2013, 13:28 +0100 schrieb Martin Sourada: Also, since Apache took over OpenOffice.org and put it out of incubation, it seems the development has been progressing rather well and in a different direction than LibreOffice. While both started from the same

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:15:43AM +0400, Pavel Alexeev wrote: 01.02.2013 00:17, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:20 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote: I think that's not the point, one

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3 February 2013 19:04, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: I think it should be approved first if it really required. alternatives is the wrong technology for end user facing applications. Why can't our apache openoffice package rename /usr/bin/soffice? My understanding is that

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:15:43AM +0400, Pavel Alexeev wrote: 01.02.2013 00:17, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com said: My understanding is that /usr/bin/soffice is a symlink in order to keep backwards maintainability. Personally I say both packages drop it because star office is s 1999. :) There's more than just soffice: $ rpm -ql

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: Because the current mysql maintainers are keeping it around for f19 as an option and others have expressed interest in taking over maintaining it. Do we really have to do this? Having 2 conflicting packages which are drop- in replacements of each other in the repository is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Sourada wrote: and supposedly AOO is rather popular, though I don't have any hard numbers, just a hearsay Apache OpenOffice is popular because some people missed the LibreOffice rename and don't realize they're actually using an inferior fork when they download OpenOffice.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread David Tardon
Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com said: My understanding is that /usr/bin/soffice is a symlink in order to keep backwards maintainability. Personally I say both packages drop it because star office is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matej Cepl wrote: We don’t (unfortunately?) have policy to stop somebody from packaging whatever they want (if it satisfies Fedora packaging policy). FESCo can explicitly veto a package or category of packages, see kernel modules. Why would it not be possible to ban forks of LibreOffice by

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora. A big -1 to this feature, and in fact I'd urge FESCo to veto

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
David Tardon wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com said: My understanding is that /usr/bin/soffice is a symlink in order to keep backwards maintainability. Personally I say both packages drop it

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
PPS: Oh, and this: The /usr/bin/soffice alias is still a problem since (in the Fedora packages) it would conflict between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice: it is recommended to fix it in the LibreOffice packages too, at least using the Alternatives system. is just not acceptable. Alternatives

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-01 Thread Robert Mayr
2013/2/1 Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com Yes, defaults needs to be sensible and usable and for many people that's what they end up with. I'm not saying we should go and have AOO installed by default, but available in repos in a state that does not conflict with LO (and other office

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-01 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 09:34 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote: 2013/2/1 Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com Yes, defaults needs to be sensible and usable and for many people that's what they end up with. I'm not saying we should go and have AOO

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-01 Thread Martin Sourada
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:38:19 +0100 Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 09:34 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote: 2013/2/1 Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com Yes, defaults needs to be sensible and usable and for many people that's what

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-01 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 11:41 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:38:19 +0100 Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 09:34 +0100, Robert Mayr wrote: 2013/2/1 Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com Yes, defaults needs to be sensible

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-01 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-01-31, 22:07 GMT, Chris Adams wrote: I'm not saying having both is a bad thing, but I would like to think that there's some thought given to does Fedora gain from having both, since there is a cost involved. We don’t (unfortunately?) have policy to stop somebody from packaging

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-01 Thread Fernando Nasser
Message - From: Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 8:38:59 AM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice On 2013-01-31, 22:07 GMT, Chris Adams wrote: I'm not saying having both is a bad thing, but I would like to think

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/01/2013 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti Thank you everybody for your feedback so far. It has now been incorporated in the wiki page: - Tentative release date for OpenOffice 4

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/31/2013 04:00 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: If somebody is attending FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend and can help with technical suggestions on packaging/integration, please let me know (or just visit the OpenOffice devroom on Saturday or the OpenOffice stand on Saturday/Sunday). I am

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 31 of January 2013 10:00:13 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 30/01/2013 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti Thank you everybody for your feedback so far. It has now been

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Marina Latini
Hi all, I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between users, not freedom of choice. LibreOffice is under big development, the suite is fresh, updated, full of new features,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi Marina, On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 Marina Latini wrote: Hi all, I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between users, not freedom of choice. The confusion

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/30/2013 12:44 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora. == Detailed description == Apache

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/31/2013 12:28 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi Marina, On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 Marina Latini wrote: Hi all, I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:43:58 + Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/31/2013 12:28 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi Marina, On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 Marina Latini wrote: Hi all, I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. We have LibreOffice in our repositories;

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Marina Latini
On 31 January 2013 13:28, Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com wrote: The confusion is already there in Windows world, linux user should be more capable of treating it as freedom of choice instead of confusion. Also, since Apache took over OpenOffice.org and put it out of incubation, it

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 12:43 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Why now? This might give some background: https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Robert Mayr
2013/1/31 Martin Sourada martin.sour...@gmail.com Hi Marina, On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 Marina Latini wrote: Hi all, I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back Apache OpenOffice generates only

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Marina Latini
On 31 January 2013 14:13, Mark Wielaard m...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 12:43 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Why now? This might give some background: https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/ Are you talking about the donation of Symphony's source code? Please, take a look here:

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-01-31, 12:14 GMT, Marina Latini wrote: We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between users, not freedom of choice. Nobody stops anybody to package anything which doesn't fail Fedora rules. Of course, I cannot

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-01-31, 13:06 GMT, Marina Latini wrote: We adopted LibreOffice as the other GNU/Linux distributions and now we want reintroduce Apache OpenOffice. *WE* don't want anything. Somebody wants to package AOO. It seems to me to be silly, but why not. Wish him a luck (and keep away from it as

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 31 janvier 2013 à 14:20 +0100, Robert Mayr a écrit : I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be dominant and you can't provide both of them on a live image for example. LibreOffice was introduced to our live images and we hit target 1GB, do you really think it could

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 31 of January 2013 14:02:44 Martin Sourada wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:43:58 + Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/31/2013 12:28 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi Marina, On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 Marina Latini wrote: Hi all, I'm an Ambassador and

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