OOo Folks,
by now OOo has been regarded as the only real alternative office suite,
sometimes hard to build, often admired for its feature completeness,
somewhat beaten because of the memory footprint, understood to have one
of the most classical graphical user interfaces ever, loved to recover
MS documents, and so on ...
Many words may be used for OOo, though small is not with them :-)
OOo is a huge project, with lots of code and a more or less monolithic
architecture. (Even :-) the ESC understands that size does not only has
advantages (though it sometimes matters :-).
(see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC_dashboard)
It seems a hero (or five) is needed ... we (Cynthia, Xiuzhi, LiuTao,
Ingo and I) want to move out to fill this position and therefore need
your (mental) support ...
... we are not (yet) many copies, but we also have a plan, and we do
look human etc. :-)
The Goals are:
- Adapt the OOo source to enable (more) custom-tailor products.
- Support custom-tailor products in the build system by
- checking out what is needed only,
- building what is needed only,
- re-using intermediate or final deliverables.
- Enable pre-build intermediates and their usage.
And this is what we want to do first:
- Create a "build helper", responsible for
- getting the source,
- getting prerequisites and pre-builds,
- configuring the sources, taking care of dependencies ...,
- and (optionally) building it.
- Add missing/useful configuration switches (e.g. for headless support).
- Re-factor according to needs (e.g. writer only etc.).
This "build helper" may be compared to the Linux kernels menuconfig /
xconfig, first configure it extensively, ideally in a graphical way,
than build it.
Later on we may
- rework SCP to configure the sources more dynamically,
- provide pre-build intermediates to reduce build times for many,
- disentangle the OOo applications, and
- do even more ...
We would like to create a(nother) (incubator) project as the umbrella
for our enterprise, which we would like to call
"Modularization"
See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Modularization for a first
sketch.
It may be important to mention, that we want to keep things SIMPLE.
Please give feedback or show interest!, this is needed according to our
rules.
May the force be with you ... argh - wrong movie :-)
Kay
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