On 26/05/2011 Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > I don't wish to be misunderstood. My point is not that having a good > discussion about OpenOffice.org is out of the question here, on OOo > lists. I find that fine, and the location quite proper. But such a > discussion ought to be—must be—about OOo, its NLCs, its contributors, > its goals, its options.
OK, let's stick to these topics then. The last information we had from Oracle dates from more than one month ago, and was about turning OpenOffice.org into a "purely community-based project": vague at least, since it said nothing about what Oracle's commitment in terms of workforce would be in future. Since then, the only things I can see are a noticeable slowdown (albeit not a complete stop) in development and a general lack of response to community requests. Dozens of Italian translators are still waiting for the l10n build scheduled for May 5th and postponed to May 12th on May 9th, see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease34 and I'd like to reassure them that their work won't be lost. Everybody would like to know if, after releasing a very impressive, solid, innovative 3.4 beta release, the OpenOffice.org projects is going to release 3.4 stable, and if there is a timeframe for it. > Naturally, I also believe that any discussion in which we begin to lay > out approaches to the future of OOo development—and there is a future— > really needs to be done carefully Sure, but we can't have a proper discussion unless we get to know what Oracle means by "purely community-based project" and especially about its involvement and investments in the project: the experienced StarDivision/Sun/Oracle developers cannot be replaced without a huge technical loss for the project, and knowing whether we can still count on them affects the whole discussion. Regards, Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@native-lang.openoffice.org with Subject: help
