2013/1/11 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Rob Weir wrote: > >> > >> I'm reading FUD, from the usual misinformed suspects ... I > >> > >> can certainly sympathize with leaders of communities that can only be > >> held together by irrational fears. It is not easy to maintain that > >> peak level of paranoia. > > > > > > Your personal opinions on the people involved (I admit I have very little > > context, I only had the time to read the discussion here but nothing > else so > > far) are best kept separated from the important fact, that is that > > apparently incorrect information is being circulated about the benefits > that > > the Symphony donation is bringing to OpenOffice and to the > free/open-source > > software world in general. > > > > > >> Anyone who cares to look can > >> see that we've actually integrated quite a but of Symphony code into > >> the AOO trunk already. For example, the following 167 bug fixes > > > > > > People don't care to look, unfortunately... But I definitely agree that > this > > listing is impressive, as it is this page: > > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Fidelity_Improvement_Since_AOO341 > > > > If you manage to co-author a blog post with Shenfeng Liu (or someone else > > from the former Symphony team) about the integrated fixes/features, this > > will be an important service to the OpenOffice users. But please, let's > do > > it because it's important in itself and because it's clearly overdue > (aside > > from a brief mention in the "top 10 questions" posts), not because > someone > > feels the need to address some particular wrong or misleading claim. > > > > Clarifying the facts where misinformation is being spread is part of > the necessary communications that any project needs to engage in. We > saw that as a podling, when the ASF itself addressed misinformation > regarding this project. Now this is our responsibility. > > Of course, misinformation about insubstantial matters is best ignored. > But where misinformation is propagated about substantial project > operations, then that is sufficient motivation for the contents and > timing of a post to correct such misinformation. > > In any case, pointing out the lie on this list already gives 90% of > the benefit, since such FUD cannot survive the light of day. A blog > post is unnecessary. >
IMHO, we can consider a blog post about our progress on the 4.0 release, including the contents we are working on, e.g. fidelity, performance&reliability, accessibility, usability, enhanced platform support... Symphony's contribution is part of this story. If we decided to post it, I'd like to be the co-author. Thanks! - Shenfeng (Simon) > > -Rob > > > Regards, > > Andrea. >
