On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote:
> On 27/02/2014 Rob Weir wrote:
>
>> Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430
>> users and picked out the top ones.
>>
>
> I don't see very interesting questions in this top 10. Indeed, some are
> misplaced and some can only be answered in a generic way. I'm commenting on
> some of them below.
>
>
> 1) How can it be Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of Apache when
>> OpenOffice is competing with MS Office?
>> Rob: This is an odd question to ask us, but I suppose we can explain
>> how the ASF is a foundation that supports many (100+) open source
>> projects and that a sponsor of AOO does not necessarily participate or
>> endorse every project at Apache. But again, this is an odd question
>> for us. Maybe we can pass it off to Ross Gardler for a better answer?
>>
>
> It would also be important to point out the Apache policy of not paying
> for developers, just to put in context that donations do not necessarily
> result in possibilities to influence the product development. Of course, we
> should also add that it is possible to sponsor individual developers to get
> a particular feature developed for OpenOffice, and possibly integrated in
> the official sources.
>
> 2) A series of questions on proposed features and how we decide on
>> new features, including: ...
>>
>> Rob: I thought we'd lump these all together and give an in-depth
>> response about how features and bug fixes are prioritized in a
>> volunteer-led open source project at Apache.
>>
>
> I agree, even though some features, for examples the upcoming .docx
> export, might be worth some specific coverage.
>
> 4) What are some of the most interesting features in OpenOffice that
>> most users don't know even exist?
>> But maybe we can nominate 4 or 5 "hidden features" or "underused
>> features" that users might not know about?
>>
>
> File - Versions is a good candidate.
>
>
> 6) Are there backdoors or spyware in Apache OpenOffice?
>> Rob: Like we'd tell you if there were? ;-) But seriously, this
>> could be a topic of a standalone blog post, and maybe we should do
>> that. We could discuss open source security, how we handle
>> vulnerability reports and the advantage of open source transparency
>> for preventing back doors.
>>
>
> And we should also point out that, even though it is difficult, we try to
> protect users by enforcing our trademarks with search engines.
>
>
> 9) What is being done to have openoffice return to be the default
>> suite in linux distributions?
>> Rob: Anyone have an answer for this one?
>>
>
> It's good that this gets interest. I must say that efforts are mostly
> stalled, but that an easier alternative is much more feasible, i.e.,
> maintaining repositories that make it easy for Linux users to install
> OpenOffice on their system, without the need to use the terminal.
>
There are some uncoordinated efforts at the moment and it is much easier to
> consolidate them and start with this approach rather than comply with the
> different distribution policies. Basically, we can address users first and
> distributions later.
>
Maybe we could start a separate thread on just this issue -- Linux
installs without the need for terminal. By his I think you mean complete
command line installation but I'm not sure. I agree wholeheartedly with
your objective here.
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
>
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