On 7 Jul 2011, at 17:10, IngridvdM wrote: > Am 07.07.2011 17:26, schrieb Simon Phipps: >> >> On 7 Jul 2011, at 16:03, IngridvdM wrote: >> >>> Am 07.07.2011 12:56, schrieb Donald Harbison: >>> [...] >>>> The end of a corporate controlled project, and the beginning of two new >>>> open >>>> source projects >>> [...] >>> >>> I would like to change this part of the description. I think it should be >>> made absolute clear to the public that the split of the community has >>> happened before and completely independent from the donation of >>> OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation. The creation of >>> LibreOffice/TDF has happend already last year in 2010. >> >> While I understand why you believe this, I think it's unhelpful "framing" >> that's likely to perpetuate division. I prefer Don's approach, which takes a >> higher-level view of what has happened. >> > > Not being precise on the historic facts here and creating or only allowing > the wrong impression that the Apache OpenOffice has caused the split of the > community will do harm to this project. It will also hinder the healing > process between the communities. So if you are interested in the welfare of > both communities and the healing between them, help to handle this with more > care.
The original OpenOffice.org project is no more and that there are now two projects taking the code forward. Seems easy enough to understand and gives no scope for arguing about who is to blame for what. And uses neither the word "split" or "fork" :-) S.
