Re: [tdf-discuss] OOo / LO Extensions

Hello Jomar,


With the exception of the quite good points highlighted by Drew (some
extensions might break or might not work in AOOo) , I think AOOo is free to
point to our own extensions and templates website. Do know, however, that
although we accept FOSS licences only (including Apache!) we do already have
a specific branding of the site and that the extensions are tested and
supposed to work for LibreOffice first. I would not expect too much
compatibility problems for most of the extensions, but the issues will rise
as the time will pass.

so a non-binding +1 to welcome AOOo using our extensions and templates
website.

best,
Charles.

2011/7/12 drew <drew@baseanswers.com>

> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:08 -0300, Jomar Silva wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is some discussion going on at the Apache OOo mail list
> > regarding the place to host extensions
> > (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/).
> >
> > It seems that the current hosting of extensions is facing some
> > problems, and it will be great if we find a new (and common) home for
> > the extensions, in a way that both Apache OOo and LibreOffice could
> > use as a shared extensions repository.
>
> Hi Jomar,
>
> hmmm - that is assuming that the two separate projects will maintain
> enough common code base that shared extensions are possible - that is a
> requirement that I for one would not want to see enforced. The fact that
> we can share extensions today is, IMO, a remnant of a past history and
> should not dictate decisions for going forward - so I would not be in
> favor our hosting Apache OpenOffice.org branded extensions on a
> TDF/LibreOffice service, nor would I be in favor or seeing
> TDF/Libreoffice continue to point back to Apache OpenOffice.org for any
> future end user services.
>
> One related item here - Templates I think are a totally different
> consideration. I can see the ability to share templates between all of
> the ODF capable applications as a reasonable goal, a very desirable
> goal.
>
> It is extensions that I am concerned with here - to put it simply, I do
> not consider LibreOffice a downstream product of OpenOffice.org code any
> longer as with this next release if I understand correctly there will be
> no merge of OO.o code, nor can I see how Apache OpenOffice can ever be a
> down stream of LibreOffice.
>
> Nor am not saying that the two separate projects must diverge for
> divergence sake, only that having a shared service would add resistance
> to diverging and that is something that I would strongly disagree with -
> our options are open as of today and I would prefer to see them stay
> that way.
>
> I understand that many people still hope that OO.o and LibreOffice will
> somehow blend back into a single project - I can only say that I am not
> one of those people.
>
> This idea that there is some finite set of resources is one I take
> exception with. In my best judgment the resources assembled here under
> TDF/LibreOffice are sufficient to take this project and product
> forward.
>
> I wish the folks forming up under Apache to resurrect the OpenOffice.org
> project all the best of luck on the project they have decided to
> undertake, but I truly believe that their actions should bear very
> little weight with the people working here when it comes to
> planing/building out our offerings to end users.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Drew Jensen
>
>
> > We could also do the same to host templates.
> >
> > Any thoughts about that ?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Jomar

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