Hello Jomar,
With the exception of the quite good points highlighted by Drew (some extensions might break or might not work in AOOo) , I think AOOo is free to point to our own extensions and templates website. Do know, however, that although we accept FOSS licences only (including Apache!) we do already have a specific branding of the site and that the extensions are tested and supposed to work for LibreOffice first. I would not expect too much compatibility problems for most of the extensions, but the issues will rise as the time will pass. so a non-binding +1 to welcome AOOo using our extensions and templates website. best, Charles. 2011/7/12 drew <d...@baseanswers.com> > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:08 -0300, Jomar Silva wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is some discussion going on at the Apache OOo mail list > > regarding the place to host extensions > > (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/). > > > > It seems that the current hosting of extensions is facing some > > problems, and it will be great if we find a new (and common) home for > > the extensions, in a way that both Apache OOo and LibreOffice could > > use as a shared extensions repository. > > Hi Jomar, > > hmmm - that is assuming that the two separate projects will maintain > enough common code base that shared extensions are possible - that is a > requirement that I for one would not want to see enforced. The fact that > we can share extensions today is, IMO, a remnant of a past history and > should not dictate decisions for going forward - so I would not be in > favor our hosting Apache OpenOffice.org branded extensions on a > TDF/LibreOffice service, nor would I be in favor or seeing > TDF/Libreoffice continue to point back to Apache OpenOffice.org for any > future end user services. > > One related item here - Templates I think are a totally different > consideration. I can see the ability to share templates between all of > the ODF capable applications as a reasonable goal, a very desirable > goal. > > It is extensions that I am concerned with here - to put it simply, I do > not consider LibreOffice a downstream product of OpenOffice.org code any > longer as with this next release if I understand correctly there will be > no merge of OO.o code, nor can I see how Apache OpenOffice can ever be a > down stream of LibreOffice. > > Nor am not saying that the two separate projects must diverge for > divergence sake, only that having a shared service would add resistance > to diverging and that is something that I would strongly disagree with - > our options are open as of today and I would prefer to see them stay > that way. > > I understand that many people still hope that OO.o and LibreOffice will > somehow blend back into a single project - I can only say that I am not > one of those people. > > This idea that there is some finite set of resources is one I take > exception with. In my best judgment the resources assembled here under > TDF/LibreOffice are sufficient to take this project and product > forward. > > I wish the folks forming up under Apache to resurrect the OpenOffice.org > project all the best of luck on the project they have decided to > undertake, but I truly believe that their actions should bear very > little weight with the people working here when it comes to > planing/building out our offerings to end users. > > Sincerely, > > Drew Jensen > > > > > > We could also do the same to host templates. > > > > Any thoughts about that ? > > > > Best, > > > > Jomar > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
