Kevin Kofler wrote:
* What benefit does this package have over LibreOffice, to justify carrying
2 packages doing essentially the same thing?
They are indeed two productivity suites, but they are evolving in
different directions. There's a "Features" link in the proposal
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice
that lists unique features of OpenOffice 4.0, including the new user
interface (sidebar), the new accessibility support (a key factor for
adoption by institutions), interoperability enhancements and performance
improvements. Again, the proposal is not saying or implying in any way
which of the two is better, and this might vary by user, or even by
single task.
* OpenOffice is a huge package and a big strain on our build system (Koji);
IMHO, having 2 versions of it would be a gigantic waste of resources.
This might be a legitimate technical concern. Honestly I didn't think
that OpenOffice could be too big for Fedora, but I didn't see any
limitations in the Fedora guidelines.
* [...] Apache OpenOffice is the fork Oracle created to remove control
over the project from the community
These are opinions and belong to the past anyway. Again, this is not an
educational thread about Apache OpenOffice; but a quick look at the
current OpenOffice website http://www.openoffice.org/, blog
http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ and mailing lists
http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html is enough to understand
that OpenOffice is an actively developed product managed by an active
community (and also that the community is open, welcoming and very
collaborative with other projects, even though these factors may count
less in the current discussion).
PS: I wonder if there's any connection between this feature and the MariaDB
feature (or rather, Oracle's negative response to it).
No connection at all. But anybody who can even think of this possibility
should really get some up-to-date information about OpenOffice: the
Apache graduation process isn't easy, and there is a huge difference
between the project that graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project in
October 2012 and the project that started incubation at Apache in June
2011. Is it totally unconceivable that Oracle or the MariaDB feature can
influence the OpenOffice project as it is today: actually, I wasn't even
aware of the MariaDB discussions on this list when I posted the
OpenOffice proposal.
Regards,
Andrea.
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