Le 10 juin 2022 11:51:49 GMT+02:00, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@collabora.com> a écrit : >Hi there, > >Paolo Vecchi wrote on 31.05.22 at 21:03: >> TDF to publish LibreOffice in the app stores, especially Apple and >> Microsoft. TDF will work to prepare LibreOffice for the app stores >> as soon as possible > > As this era ends, I'd like to say how pleased we are at >Collabora to have been able to lead here - to have fronted the >significant initial investment needed to get LibreOffice into the Mac >sandbox, and app-store and to have got it done. > > We made it easier for a large number of users to get >LibreOffice. Later on we charged for the convenience and re-invested >that into improving the Mac version up-stream, and also are pleased to >have donated a significant sum to TDF. We've also explored the >market-demand-curve for convenience, updated the board from time to >time & will of course complete that (as time permits) when the >situation settles. > > I'd like to thank many for their great work here: Tor >Lillqvist in particular, but also Tomaz Vajngerl, Lubos Lunak, Andras >Timar & Miklos Vajna. > > It is also important to give credit and thanks to CIB & >Allotropia for their work on getting a high quality LibreOffice into >the Windows app-store to make it more accessible to people too. I'm >not sure that I have the exact list right here but I'd like to call >out Marina Latini, Vasily Melenchuk, Samuel Mehrbrodt and Thorsten >Behrens for making the goodness happen. > > Looking back at this app-store journey, we have a debt of >gratitude particularly to Simon Phipps, Nicholas Christener, Uwe >Altmann and Marina Latini for their hard work around building better >ways to structure the app-store provision. There are many views on >that - but it is unarguable that they put in a lot of hard work and >love to try to improve LibreOffice which is much appreciated. > > I'd like also to give credit to the PortableApps team for >making LibreOffice available in their app-store. They have done great >work promoting us from early in the LibreOffice project: >https://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable-versions/ > >Paolo Vecchi wrote on 31.05.22 at 21:03: >> TDF to publish LibreOffice in the app stores ... > > Which leads us to other app-stores. Traditionally packaging >has been a great provider of diversity and excellence around >contribution to LibreOffice - starting IIRC with Frederic Crozat's >amazing work to make OpenOffice.org into the first Mandrake Linux >packages waaay back in the day - which much of our Linux packaging is >ultimately built on. > > Anyhow - it was wonderful to have lots of work from Stephan >Bergman and Caolan McNamara at RedHat with help from Robert McQueen at >Endless to get LibreOffice into: https://flathub.org/ "Flathub - An >app store and build service for Linux". As always getting LibreOffice >into a different kind of sand-box sounds trivial, and yet often takes >quite some work. > > Then of course we have the team started by Bjoern Michaelsen >who massaged LibreOffice into the nattily named "Snap Store" - >https://snapcraft.io "the app store for Linux with an audience of >millions." thanks for making that happen Bjoern! And thanks too to >Olivier Tilloy, Heather Ellsworth, Rico Tzschichholz, Marcus Tomlinson >for their patient tending and improvement of the snap app! > > I should mention William Gathoye for his great work making >LibreOffice available in Chocolatey - though at some stage I start to >get fuzzy as to what is, and is not an app-store. Going wider we've >been blessed by many sympathizers mutually promoting LibreOffice and >their brands in software catalogs left and right. > > Anyhow. Lots of good work, much of it already working and >build-able on without immediate bit-rot I hope. > > If the TDF board want to have a bigger packaging team, so be >it. Hopefully it will not negatively impact those who previously did >the work. > > I am somewhat curious as to the budget impact here, and the >real scope of "app-store". In particularly how much time is this >expected to take away from areas such as CTL/RTL, CJK as well as other >things that we are hoping to address with targeted developers ? > > I'm also curious if the plan is for TDF to sell LibreOffice >(in app-stores or elsewhere) and to become a for-pay vendor. Presumably >there is no need to decide immediately on that but I look forward to >the conclusions and rationale over the next month. > > Apologies to those that my memory inevitably missed out, and >go LibreOffice! > > All the best, > > Michael. > >-- >michael.me...@collabora.com <><, GM Collabora Productivity >Hangout: mejme...@gmail.com, Skype: mmeeks >(M) +44 7795 666 147 - timezone usually UK / Europe > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org >Problems? >https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ >Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy >
Hi Michael, Thank you to all the companies that contribute to the development of LibreOffice. I sincerely hope that each of them will be able to continue to develop a profitable economic activity around our favorite office suite and that new companies will come to expand its ecosystem. Best regards JBF -- Seuls les formats ouverts garantissent la pérennité de vos documents.
