Re: [board-discuss] Work On Update LOOL (was Re: LOOL is about to be archived)

Hi Paolo, all,

my work on this topic is an offer to the LibreOffice community. I had to
put some work in the update of the source code because a commercial free
software company made some name changes in the source code of their fork
to make it more difficult for the LibreOffice community.
That is a behavior I'd not expect from a good citizen of a free software
community. And if I look over the fence into another open source
community they work more collaboratively and don't raise such barrier.
But the difference may be that there is not only one big player in the
room and more diversity in the development community (and among the free
software companies).

I'm curious if other want join me in my efforts and like to share some
ideas how to proceed LOOL further.
In my opinion the online version with collaboration features is a
necessary development line for the future of LibreOffice and its
community. If TDF drop this line it will decline the importance of
LibreOffice and its community further (with appropriate consequences
e.g. in donations).

Regards,
Andreas
 
Am 23.06.22 um 17:09 schrieb Paolo Vecchi:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> thank you for letting us know that you are working on it.
>
> Ideally it would be great to have a few developers working on it,
> especially to fix known security issues, and sufficient activity to
> make it viable.
>
> It is true that LOOL has been in a kind of limbo. The repository has
> been frozen "temporarily" but it kind of became a permanent situation.
>
> In your opinion, would reopening the repository for 12 months provide
> enough time for a community to form around it?
>
> It would require warnings until all the security bugs have been fixed
> and that it might not be well maintained until we see constant and
> sufficient activity but it could be an option to make it up for the
> longer than expected temporary freeze of the repository.
>
> If after 12 months we don't see much activity then we could be certain
> that the community is not really interested in working on LOOL.
>
> It would be great to know if others have other
> takes/options/alternatives on this subject.
>
> (...)
> > -- 
> > ## Free Software Advocate
> > ## Plone add-on developer
> > ## My blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog

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