On 10/25/13 11:30 AM, janI wrote: > On 25 October 2013 11:15, Vladislav Stevanovic < > stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2013/10/25 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> >> >>> >>> we can simply define a rule that unmaintained extension will be removed >>> when the owner doesn't reply on mail requests. >>> >>> That means we can send a mail to the owner and if he doesn't reply at >>> all or is not willing to add these information, we remove the extensions >>> completely. >>> >> >> That is my opinion too, but you have people who still using previous >> version of AOO or Ooo. We must have solution and for those people. Maybe we >> can do this in a few stages: >> 1) We can marked all old extensions as incompatible for AOO4.0. In the same >> time, we will sent meil to the authors of this extensions with request to >> make changes for compatibility for AOO 4.0. in next 6 months. After that >> period, if job is not done, we will remove this extensions. >> > +1
why should we make more noise than necessary, we should mark only extensions where we know that they don't work Juergen > >> 2) Inside this period of 6 months, we will improved filter option for >> searching by version of Oo. On every page on this site there will be notice >> that old extension will be completely removed in the end of 6 month. >> (second option will be: removed in other place, something like backstage; >> it will not be visible in the regular pages like it is now). >> > > Can we not do something so that user will normally only "see" 4.0 > compatible packages ? > > maybe put non-compatible extensions in a archive section, just an idea. > > If we just filter people searching might not see an extension if the name > changed (like pdf). > > >> 3) After 6 months, we will sent mail to the authors of extension again that >> we can offer another 7 days to do this changes, if not, we will remove (or >> move in some other place) this extension. In the mail, we can also say that >> we will be happy to see this changes, to keep this known extension in live. >> But, if that not happens, we will calling our community to make new version >> for AOO4.0. because it is our obligations to ensure the availability of all >> existing features. >> > I would do the move (not remove) without any further delay. > > rgds > jan I. > > >> >> Comment, please? >> Regards, >> Wlada >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
