Bonjour,
C'est une bonne nouvelle pour le projet OpenOffice : collaborer au code ce
n'est pas uniquement faire du marketing pour un produit.
@+, Stéphane.
Le 14 juil. 2011 à 13:39, eric b a écrit :
> Bonjour,
>
> Ci-dessous, le mail initial de Rob Weir (IBM). L'entreprise IBM, qui n'a pas
> toujours été un bon citoyen d'OpenOffice.org, semble vouloir elle aussi
> améliorer son image auprès de la communauté OpenOffice.org.
>
> Depuis, et pour compléter cette information importante, dans un échange entre
> Malte Timmermann et Yong Lin ma (IBM aussi), celui-ci a confirmé que ce
> serait TOUT Symphony qui serait contribué en retour à apache OpenOffice.org,
> sous licence Apache (!!).
>
>
> Je cite l'échange (partiel) entre Malte et Yong Lin Ma :
>
> "... On 14.07.2011 05:09, Yong Lin Ma wrote:
>
>> ...
>> We are willing to contribute the whole Symphony to community. The code
>> would be available to the community. (The C++ part of Symphony, also
>> the counterpart of OO.o in Symphony).
>>
>
> ..."
>
>
> Même s'il faudra quelques mois pour se relever, et produire à nouveau,
> OpenOffice.org a encore de beau jours :-)
>
>
> Cordialement,
> Eric Bachard
>
>
> Début du message réexpédié :
>
>> De : Rob Weir
>> Date : 14 juillet 2011 00:00:57 HAEC
>> À : [email protected]
>> Objet : Symphony contribution
>>
>> I'm sending this with my IBM "hat".
>>
>> I'm going to be speaking at the ODF Plugfest in Berlin Friday afternoon, and
>> will be making some announcements. I wanted you to hear this first, before
>> anyone else knows.
>>
>> You know about IBM Lotus Symphony, our free (as in beer) product which is
>> based on OOo. We're doing well with it, I think. Along with various
>> numerous interop, performance enhancements and functional/bug fixes, we've
>> done some significant work in the accessibility and user interface in
>> general. If you saw recently, PC Magazine gave Symphony
>> 3.0 its "Editors' Choice Award" [1]. In the review they praised the
>> "interface that's been tweaked by IBM to make it by far the
>> user-friendliest no-cost productivity suite, and one's that's friendly
>> enough to rival the spacious and informative interface that Microsoft
>> created for Office 2010 and that Apple created for iWork '09." So the UI
>> enhancements are getting some notice.
>>
>> However, we at IBM have not been exemplary community members when it came to
>> OpenOffice.org. This wasn't necessarily by design, but for various reasons,
>> that was the effect. Yes, we participated in various community councils,
>> and sponsored conferences and worked together on standards. But when it
>> came down to the code, we maintained Symphony essentially as a fork, and
>> although we occasionally contributed code back, we did not do this well, or
>> often.
>>
>> We'd like to make some changes in how we do things, and the fresh start at
>> Apache is a good opportunity for this.
>>
>> We will be doing the following:
>>
>> First, we're going to contribute the standalone version of Lotus Symphony to
>> the Apache OpenOffice.org project, under the Apache 2.0 license. We'll
>> also work with project members to prioritize which pieces make sense to
>> integrate into OpenOffice. For example, we'vecalready done a lot of work
>> with replacing GPL/LPGL dependencies. Using the Symphony code could help
>> accelerate that work and get us to an AOOo release faster. We've already
>> converted the help files to DITA, which could help accelerate that work, if
>> we chose to go in that direction.
>>
>> Aside from the work that would help accelerate getting AOOo to our first
>> release, we've also added other features that I think we should consider
>> merging in. For example, the IAccessible2 work which helps Symphony work
>> better with assistive technology.I know an older version of this work
>> sits in an OOo CWS someplace, but it will be
>> easier to integrate that work if we start with our latest code. We've also
>> added VBA macro support, which is great for MS Office interop.
>>
>> Also, as the PC Magazine review notes, we've done some really good UI work.
>> I invite you to download Symphony [2] and take a closer look at
>> this. Yes, it is different from what OOo has today. And a move of that
>> magnitude has an impact on documentation and translations as well. But the
>> feedback we've received from customers and reviewers is very positive. Do
>> we integrate parts of the Symphony UI? That is something for the project to
>> discuss and decide on.
>>
>> Finally, we will be proposing [3] a new incubation project at Apache, for
>> the ODF Toolkit. These Java libraries enable new kinds of lightweight
>> document processing applications. We think this would work well as an
>> Apache project, and we look forward to moving that into incubation and
>> developing that complementary project forward.
>>
>> So that's essentially what I
