If I look at https://openoffice.apache.org/ (at the end of the page) FreeBSD is mentioned, OS/2 is not.
So I think it is just a matter of updating and synchronizing the two pages... Regards, Matthias Am 24.01.2017 um 23:02 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> Our README states that currently supported platforms include: Windows, >> MacOS X, Linux variants and OS/2. I would like to add FreeBSD to the >> list. I have no idea if such status requires some formal procedure > > I don't think there is a formal procedure. OS/2 and FreeBSD should > have the same status in the README. > >> This would not imply the ASF doing binary releases > > I see some risk of confusion here. I mean, there is surely a set of > "privileged" platforms that are those for which we build and make > available releases from our download page: Windows, MacOS X, and Linux > variants. Then there is a set of "semi-privileged" platforms where we > as a project do not build releases, but that are aligned, submit > patches upstream and so on (and these would be OS/2 and FreeBSD). > > I don't know which group should be considered "supported" and I don't > think that reading policy or sending tons of links would help much > here. For sure if OS/2 is supported then FreeBSD is too. But if a user > expects that "supported" means "available in binary form from the > official site for this platform" then neither is supported. > > Personally, I don't have a strong opinion on this and I would be in > favor of adding FreeBSD to the "supported" list with the understanding > that this doesn't automatically imply that we will build a FreeBSD > release and make it available from the official site (we don't do that > for OS/2 either). > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
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