Hi, On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:40:21PM +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > To relay some stories from real life - there's _so_ much integration > with especially OpenOffice out there, coming from legacy systems, tons > of macro-ized applications, sometimes bespoke development with the > company simply selling, not developing anymore - that by the time > those deployments 'see' our unpublished API (and subsequent changes > thereof), it's gonna be much, much, much too late to do anything about > it.
As said in my reply to Michael already, this has little to do with the actual decision making except for us to get a better information base. Your statement and Michaels statement display the antipodes of these arguments and I assume we will continue to have these discussion on the ESC on a case-by-case base -- possibly just somewhat better informed now and then. > Orthogonally to the above, that's a really worthwhile idea. I was once > already kicking the idea of an API forum / mailing list / whatever > around; perhaps -- if properly seeded & tended -- the dev askbot > instance could be that? see draft at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development%2FBudget2017&diff=140532&oldid=140527 (also mentions askbot already) Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice