Hello,

Simon and Jomar, feel free to pass the invite along to the AOOo lists unless
somebody else objects?

best
Charles.

2011/7/12 drew <d...@baseanswers.com>

> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:57 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Just to clarify my view here:
>
> TDF certainly made use of the OO.o extension service to date - which is
> to say our users have.
>
> I am in favor of our communities working together, as equals.
>
> Right now populating the new LibO extension site with those current
> extensions from the OO.o site that comply with our license model helps
> everyone it would seem - mostly users as they get a stable service in
> likely the shortest possible time.
>
> So - as an interim solution I would say +1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> //drew
>
> >
> > 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
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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